1:24

That's

2:00

the beauty of us. That's the beauty

2:02

of me. I'm jacked up,

2:05

but I figured out my own little process on how

2:07

to get unjacked up and how to... I'm

2:10

not going to get the same way you're going to get there. You

2:12

may get there by going point A to point B. I'm

2:15

going to get point C to D to E to F. I'm

2:17

going to be there the same way you are. Just a little

2:19

harder. That's how I train my brain. So

2:22

it's just different. I'm just a different thinker.

2:26

My part-time savage is

2:28

me running like 50 miles a week. What

2:31

I used to do, am I do now, is

2:32

I got to a point I'd be running and I was

2:35

like, okay, man, we could do 10

2:37

miles today.

2:38

I get to 10 miles like, oh no.

2:41

That's a demon that I let out every morning that

2:43

walks the streets at night. He comes

2:46

in, oh, a bit. Not today, man.

2:49

There's somebody out there that you don't know, have never

2:51

met in your entire life that

2:53

is doing 12, 13, 14. You

2:55

got to do another one. And when

2:57

you meet them,

2:59

you ain't getting ready. So the

3:02

guy just kept on running.

3:04

So that's where the 40 percent thing comes in. It

3:06

comes in when you're in suffer

3:09

mode and you say, I'm not going to quit. You're

3:11

forcing your brain now to operate

3:14

on a level it's not used to. But

3:16

then it becomes used to it. In

3:19

times of need,

3:20

even the hardest person forgets how badass

3:23

they are. So I've

3:25

been through a lot of my life. When you're

3:27

going through a hard time right now, you

3:30

forget all the hard time you endured.

3:33

So the cookie jar is a reminder

3:36

that, oh, I can get through this

3:38

hard time right now, but you got to take a second

3:41

or two to reach into the mental

3:43

cookie jar. You got to open up and

3:45

say, OK, man, I was in three hell weeks

3:49

and I got through two of them. You know,

3:51

I was in Ranger School. I saw these beatings.

3:53

My mom's soon to be husband got murdered.

3:57

All these things I endured alone. I had

3:59

to remind myself. of the strength and the power

4:01

that I have that is in me. It's

4:03

just a reminder of how badass

4:05

you are in hard times because we just

4:07

forget that bad time consumes

4:10

our mind.

4:11

I see where I'm at today,

4:13

but I know where I come from.

4:16

I'm amazed at what a human being can actually

4:18

do. So when I start talking to myself in

4:20

the third person, it's trippy because

4:22

I know that I literally made this

4:25

human being out of a

4:27

whole bunch of scraps. I wasn't

4:30

a mechanic. I wasn't a carpenter.

4:32

So I didn't know how to do any of this. I wasn't trained

4:34

in how to build a human being from nothing. My

4:37

mom didn't train me. My dad didn't train me. Life didn't

4:39

train me. Well, life did train me. Correction.

4:42

And I started putting this scrap mill together. I

4:45

wonder what's going to happen. And

4:48

after a while, I started learning more and more and more through

4:50

pain and suffering. I started learning so

4:53

much about stuff. Before I knew it,

4:55

man, I built this beautiful car. And I'm like, how did I

4:57

do that?

4:58

I know how to do it because I have all the tools.

5:01

Through

5:02

all the failure I went through trying to build this person

5:05

who's baggage.

5:07

It's called raw accountability.

5:09

Not just accountability, where we find that

5:11

nice, happy word. If you're fat,

5:14

you look in the mirror, you say, wow, I eat a

5:16

little too much. No, you're fat. You cannot

5:18

say that to yourself. You have to make a list

5:21

of the things that you don't like to do. This

5:23

list should be very long. If you don't

5:26

like making calls, the very first thing

5:28

you should do is start making

5:30

a ton of calls. Because

5:31

why? That begins to own

5:33

you.

5:34

You start to drive yourself this way

5:36

versus this way.

5:37

But you'll figure out, you

5:39

start making a whole bunch of calls. If you like calling,

5:42

call a lot. Guess what happens? You

5:44

get over it. So what we do

5:46

a lot is, I heard a lot of people say, triple

5:48

down on this, triple down on most of your strength. No,

5:51

no, no, no, no. That works for a lot of things.

5:54

But when you're afraid and you

5:56

don't have the courage, you have

5:58

to triple down on your weakness. and

6:01

make that become where you start

6:03

to guide yourself. Okay, I'm not calling,

6:06

today I'm making 100 calls. I'm

6:08

gonna dial 100 times. What

6:10

happens is, when I was younger, life

6:13

in society made this big

6:15

world with all these endless possibilities.

6:18

My life made my possibilities this big,

6:21

because it made me afraid of all these

6:23

different things. So, all

6:26

this stuff trapped my mind, it shackled

6:28

my brain, it made me a prisoner within my

6:30

own self, saying, this is all I can

6:32

do. Because why? I'm afraid of this,

6:35

I'm insecure over here, I got stuck down

6:37

over here, back behind me, good lord. Who

6:39

knows what's behind me? I'm not gonna look behind me. So, your

6:41

life is this big,

6:43

versus it being like, I can do all this shot here,

6:45

if I start to break down these walls and barriers.

6:48

And that's when I started realizing, I

6:50

could become a Navy SEAL. I could

6:52

become this, but I was afraid

6:54

of the water. Think about this. Why

6:57

are you gonna go be a Navy SEAL, when

6:59

all you do is play in the water?

7:01

And we don't play, we're in

7:03

it, and we're living in it. So, my mind is,

7:06

I'm gonna go be a Navy SEAL.

7:09

If I didn't face that fear, no

7:12

one would ever know me. I was number three

7:14

behind myself Obama for a long time. He said my book

7:16

sold out,

7:17

and I was a guy just 21 years ago,

7:21

who was 300 pounds,

7:23

could barely read and write, and now the book,

7:26

just

7:27

two spots behind Michelle Obama. Just

7:29

because I was afraid. But you overcome

7:32

those fears, guess what happens? The whole world,

7:34

you unlock this door, and everything

7:36

opens back up again.

7:38

I once had that mentality, that

7:40

no one understands what the I'm going through. And

7:42

if you keep that mentality, you're

7:45

gonna stay in the same exact spot that

7:47

you're in. Everybody's going through. So,

7:50

when people get this mentality, like, you

7:52

understand me, you can throw a lock

7:55

to someone that can understand you, if they're

7:57

willing to break themselves down and stop hiding. A

8:00

lot of people understand you, but you've got to stop hiding.

8:02

And then this guy was in my mind. We

8:04

suffer, we suffer every day. What

8:07

we do, we do stuff that sucks every

8:09

day. So then when the suck stuff comes, you're

8:11

ready for it. And that's how I started coming up.

8:13

You know, I just started being very uncomfortable. And now I'm just

8:16

like a way of life.

8:18

What I realized is

8:20

for me to become the man I wanted to become, I

8:23

saw myself as the weakest person God ever

8:25

created. But I never

8:27

blamed God for anything he did to me. So

8:29

I wanted to change

8:31

that to be the hardest man ever

8:33

created. Am I that? I don't know, but

8:35

you had to have a goal.

8:39

I always fixed the things on the surface.

8:42

If I couldn't read them right, I wouldn't read them right.

8:44

I would always fix these things on the surface

8:47

level. And so whenever something hard

8:50

was like Ray's ugly head, I

8:52

didn't have any kind of tools to handle it. I

8:54

mean, I thought I fixed this already, man. But

8:57

no, I didn't go deep into the dungeon

8:59

of my soul to say, okay, what is making

9:01

you a quitter? What is making

9:03

you a weak man? What is making you afraid?

9:07

That's why I kept on quitting and going

9:09

back to start or not knowing how to

9:11

get through hard times. And that's

9:13

why I always tell people, I'm not a theorist. I

9:16

didn't study, like, you know, I didn't study a book.

9:19

I literally put myself in a fire, repeatedly

9:22

like a sword. You put a sword in a fire,

9:24

repeatedly and repeatedly. If you keep on doing that,

9:27

you're gonna get a nice sword and then you keep on beating it. You

9:29

gotta beat this shit out of it. And that's what I

9:31

am. I became

9:33

that, I said, okay, we can't quit.

9:36

We gotta figure out what is wrong with you? What's going on here?

9:38

So I kept on putting the sword back in the deck on fire.

9:41

And I just beat it harder. And I beat

9:43

it harder. Before I knew it, I started realizing,

9:45

hmm,

9:47

all right, man. The brain is starting

9:50

to get hard. The

9:52

brain is starting to get hard. I'm

9:55

waking up and I'm giving myself all

9:58

this armor. So when I... come out in the world,

10:01

look at that phone, I'm ready. I'm

10:04

not waking up late, I'm not rushing around, I'm

10:06

not disorganized, because

10:08

I know I'm going to get hit in the mouth. There's an art

10:10

to getting hit in the mouth, and that is why

10:12

these things are important.

10:13

You have to wake up and

10:15

you have to give yourself belief. You have

10:18

to give yourself confidence. It starts with that

10:20

run. Anywhere from about an hour 30 to

10:22

two hours, I run everything. So

10:24

that's it. We get fasted on the morning. Yes. Straight

10:27

out. Straight out. You start running back, eat.

10:30

Eat, and I'm in the gym. And then

10:32

after that, whoever's

10:35

on the plan for the day, that's how that works every day. That's

10:38

your day. There is no room for anything

10:40

else. Yeah, there is. A lot of room. So

10:42

there's 24 hours and I use it all pretty

10:45

well. That's why I got a cap success,

10:47

because I can't put that in. And that's my

10:50

growth factor. So, that's

10:53

my human growth factor. And some of these motivational

10:56

people out here, it's the funniest thing in

10:58

the world to me. They'll go and say, when you

11:00

wake up in the morning, pound your chest.

11:03

Look at yourself in the mirror and do all this ... I

11:05

hope it works. What works for me is

11:08

that everyday resume. The

11:10

things I know of accomplish, the things I know I've done, real

11:13

hard work, the real calluses on

11:15

my mind, the real calluses on my hands. That's

11:18

it. You don't need to pound your chest

11:21

in the mirror anymore if you have that. A

11:25

lot of it is limited horizons. Limited

11:28

horizons are like, I use me as

11:30

an example always. I came

11:33

from a small town

11:35

in Indiana where there

11:37

was a handful of black families. And

11:40

a lot of people in that town,

11:43

when

11:43

you come from a town of 8,000 people,

11:46

it's like

11:47

we had a local plant, Great

11:50

Dane. You're like, you know what? I

11:53

want to work at Great Dane and get a house

11:55

next to my mom. That's what you

11:57

know. So many of us ... come

12:00

from these small places in our mind

12:03

that we're not willing to think outside

12:06

of only what

12:08

we've seen. Our mind

12:10

works in such a small compartment

12:13

and one thing I was able to do was to dream.

12:16

Many people but don't make dreams your

12:18

master. But

12:21

I was able to dream outside

12:23

those four walls of that small town. And

12:27

until you're able to really put

12:29

yourself into that dream but

12:32

don't make dreams your master, that's

12:34

where you truly become

12:37

what you're destined to become. A

12:39

lot of people sit back and they dream about

12:41

being a sports

12:44

figure or dream about being a SEAL

12:46

or dream about being an astronaut. And

12:49

all it is is a dream. They

12:51

don't put the work behind the dream. That

12:53

dream has become their master.

12:58

When you become the master of your dream is when

13:01

you say I want to go be a Navy SEAL and you say

13:03

okay, I'm going to lose 106 pounds

13:05

in less than three months. The

13:12

dream was the one thing I thought about

13:15

and the dream was now gone. Now when

13:17

it comes in, the dream goes away and

13:20

the laundry list of details and tasks

13:22

come up. Got

13:28

to do this, got to do this, got to do this, got to do this. That's

13:30

when you become the master of your dream. So

13:34

a lot of people out there dreaming. But

13:36

guess what happens? That long clock goes off at 4 a.m.

13:39

to train. You

13:41

take off the first one. I want to be smarter. For

13:44

me, that was my thing. I have to become

13:46

more intelligent. I have such a severe

13:48

learning disability.

13:50

I had to now get that one thing and

13:53

then strategize in that one problem. How

13:56

can I do this? I'm not going to learn like you.

13:59

I'm not going to learn like anybody.

15:59

I've been eating like all of them for a long time. It's

16:02

gonna haunt you. When you start seeing

16:05

that my guy hasn't eaten that much,

16:07

he can't even sleep like that. It's gonna

16:09

be one of those things to take you

16:10

off. I'm very aware

16:13

of my eating, my

16:15

sleeping, my discipline

16:18

of life. And I started to get too

16:20

far away from them.

16:22

It's a hard stop. And

16:24

the one thing that only gets me mad nowadays is

16:27

that so many people die with untapped

16:29

potential because they think that someone else has come

16:31

better than them. And they were born

16:33

not with the greatest

16:36

tools. You need the ability

16:38

to grind your ass into the fine powder.

16:41

And when you're in that fine powder, find a way to build

16:43

that motherfucker back up repeatedly. That's

16:45

possible. And this is one thing

16:48

about life. This is why you, if that's your biggest

16:50

thing, that's how your mindset

16:52

needs to go into everything. So I don't look

16:54

at it as, failure is a big word that

16:56

gets people down. We give so much power

16:58

to words. I don't. I

17:01

take the power right away. I didn't feel. The mind

17:04

always has a tactical advantage over

17:06

you. Why is that? It

17:08

knows your fears. It knows your insecurities.

17:10

It knows where they're hiding.

17:12

You're alone. You're alone. You

17:14

may have a shrink you're going to. You may have a best friend

17:17

you're going to. But there's 24

17:18

hours in a day where

17:20

you're alone in this brain. And

17:23

your brain is talking to you in all kinds of ways.

17:25

And it wants to control you and pull you in these different

17:27

pockets.

17:29

If you can't control your own brain

17:31

and your brain controls

17:32

you, you

17:34

got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want

17:36

to go and how you want to get there.

17:38

You got to control it.

17:40

If not, it's over.

17:43

We have a lot more, a lot more

17:45

than we think we have. And

17:48

all I did was I picked up that shovel

17:51

and that shovel, I made my own path. And

17:53

you may have big boulders and they may be

17:55

getting 200 miles up the road faster than you. But

17:58

going through this path of life, this journey.

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I found myself, had no self-esteem. So

20:36

I knew through working out and through

20:39

learning, it took a lot for me to learn

20:41

also. I started finding self-esteem. Once

20:43

I found that, that's when doors

20:45

started opening up. I started, I stopped caring about

20:47

people. That what they thought, being

20:50

judged, wow, if I say this, if I started right now, are

20:52

you gonna make fun of me? I stopped caring

20:54

about that. And that's when my life started really changing

20:56

for me, slowly but surely. I could barely

20:58

read and write when I was in a junior high school.

21:01

I wasn't going anywhere. I was a character.

21:04

I was trying to find myself through a character. I was

21:06

making different hairstyles and sagging my pants

21:09

and I was off. I

21:11

was off, man. I was a clown. I was

21:13

a clown. And

21:15

I was like, this is not, this is not where you're

21:17

supposed to be in life, man.