Speaker 1: When you're mine. This is this whole forty percent rule that.
Speaker 2: I talk about all the time that I made up
Speaker 2: a long time ago. I started making it up through pain.
Speaker 2: So basically forty percent rule is I am a strong
Speaker 2: believer that we quit because why how the two or
Speaker 2: ninety seven pounds cockroach guy who quit on everything is
Speaker 2: now considered one of the best man's the planet.
Speaker 1: How is that possible?
Speaker 3: It means I had to change one thing my mindset.
Speaker 3: So there's no way in hell that that was in
Speaker 3: But that was that guy was in me. One that
Speaker 3: God came down here and said, hey.
Speaker 2: Guess what, man, you're a fat ass, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: now make your badass.
Speaker 1: I want a miracle to be a badass. No, it
Speaker 1: was in me.
Speaker 3: I had to believe to make that belief work, and
Speaker 3: through hard work, I did that.
Speaker 1: So the forty percent rules, like we have like a car.
Speaker 2: Some cars have a governor on it, and when you
Speaker 2: get to like ninety two miles an hour, that cars
Speaker 2: start doing this because it can't faster those cars that
Speaker 2: don't have governors on like a fast ass whatever, purse whatever,
Speaker 2: I'm a burier gone. We have that ability is but
Speaker 2: we have put this governor on our minds, and you
Speaker 2: have to the factory that put the governor on that car.
Speaker 1: The factory is now you that put this on your mind.
Speaker 1: You got taped up off.
Speaker 2: Until you take it off, You're gonna constantly get to
Speaker 2: ninety two miles an hour and do this because you
Speaker 2: can go faster.
Speaker 1: In matter of fact, you might even go slower.
Speaker 2: So basically I started realizing this through my life.
Speaker 1: You're going through all these times.
Speaker 2: Our culture has become hooked on the quick fix, the
Speaker 2: life hack efficiency. Everyone is on the hunt for that
Speaker 2: simple action algorithm that nets maximum profit with the least
Speaker 2: amount of effort. There's no denying this attitude may get
Speaker 2: you some of the trappings of success if you're lucky,
Speaker 2: but it will not lead to a callous mind or
Speaker 2: self mastering. If you want to master the mind and
Speaker 2: remove your governor, you'll have to become addicted to hard work,
Speaker 2: because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools
Speaker 2: if you have the work ethic to back them up.
Speaker 2: My work ethic is the single most important factor in
Speaker 2: all of my accomplishments. Everything else is secondary. And when
Speaker 2: it comes to hard work, whether in the gym or
Speaker 2: on the job. The forty rule applies to me. A
Speaker 2: forty hour work week is a forty percent effort. It
Speaker 2: may be satisfactory, but that's another word for mediocrity. Don't
Speaker 2: settle for a forty hour work week. There are one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty eight hours in a week. That means
Speaker 2: you have the hours to put in that extra time
Speaker 2: at work without skipping on your exercise. It means streamlining
Speaker 2: your nutrition, spending quality time with your wife and kids.
Speaker 2: It means scheduling your life like you're on a twenty
Speaker 2: four hour mission every single day. The number one excuse
Speaker 2: I hear from people as to why they don't work
Speaker 2: out as much as.
Speaker 1: They want to is that they don't have time. Look,
Speaker 1: we all have work obligations.
Speaker 2: None of us want to lose sleep, and you'll need
Speaker 2: time with the family or they'll trip the out.
Speaker 1: I get it, and if that's your situation, you must win.
Speaker 1: The morning when.
Speaker 2: I was full time with the Seals, I maximized the
Speaker 2: dark hours before dawn, when my wife was sleeping.
Speaker 1: I would bang out a six to ten mile run.
Speaker 2: My gear was all laid out the night before, my
Speaker 2: lunch was packed, and my work clothes were in my
Speaker 2: locker at work, where I shower before my.
Speaker 1: Day started at seven thirty am. On a typical day,
Speaker 1: i'd be out the door for my run just after
Speaker 1: four am and.
Speaker 2: Back by five point fifteen am. Since that wasn't enough
Speaker 2: for me, and because we only owned one car, I
Speaker 2: rode my bike. I finally got my own twenty five
Speaker 2: miles to work. I'd work from seven to thirty am
Speaker 2: to noon and eat at my desk before or after
Speaker 2: my lunch break. During the lunch hour, i'd hit the
Speaker 2: gym or do a four to six mile beach run.
Speaker 2: Work the afternoon shift, and hop on my bike for
Speaker 2: the twenty five mile ride home. By the time I
Speaker 2: was home at seven pm, i'd have run about fifteen miles,
Speaker 2: rock fifty miles on the bike, and put in a
Speaker 2: full day at the office. I was always home for
Speaker 2: dinner and in bed by ten pm, so I could
Speaker 2: do it all over again the next day. On Saturdays,
Speaker 2: i'd sleep in until seven am at a three hour
Speaker 2: workout and spend the rest of the weekend with Kate.
Speaker 2: If I didn't have a race, Sundays were my active
Speaker 2: recovery days, I'd do an easy ride at a low
Speaker 2: heart rate, keeping my pulse below one hundred and ten
Speaker 2: beats per minute to stimulate healthy blood float. Maybe you
Speaker 2: think I'm a special case or an obsessive maniac. Fine,
Speaker 2: I won't argue with you. But what about my friend Mike.
Speaker 2: He's a big.
Speaker 1: Time financial advisor in New York City.
Speaker 2: His job is high pressure and his work day is
Speaker 2: a hell of a lot longer than eight hours. He
Speaker 2: has a wife and two kids, and he's an ultra runner.
Speaker 2: Here's how he does it. He wakes up at four
Speaker 2: am every weekday, runs sixty to ninety minutes each morning
Speaker 2: while his family is still snoozing, rides a bike to
Speaker 2: working back and does a quick thirty minute treadmill run
Speaker 2: after he gets home.
Speaker 1: He goes out for.
Speaker 2: Longer runs on weekends, but he minimizes its impact on
Speaker 2: his family obligation. He's high powered, wealthy as and could
Speaker 2: easily maintain his status quo with less effort and enjoy
Speaker 2: the sweet fruits of his labors. But he finds a
Speaker 2: way to stay hard because his labors are his sweetest fruits,
Speaker 2: and he makes time to get it all in by
Speaker 2: minimizing the amount of bullsh clogging his schedule, his priorities
Speaker 2: are clear, and he remains dedicated to his priorities.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about general priorities here either.
Speaker 2: Each hour of his week is dedicated to a particular task,
Speaker 2: and when that hour shows up in real time, he
Speaker 2: focuses one on that task. That's how I do it too,
Speaker 2: because that is the only way to minimize wasted hours.
Speaker 2: Evaluate your life and its totality. We al waste so
Speaker 2: much time doing meaningless. Both we burn hours on social
Speaker 2: media and watching television, which by the end of the
Speaker 2: year would add up to entire days and weeks. If
Speaker 2: you tabulated time like you do your taxes, you should
Speaker 2: because if you knew the truth, you deactivate your Facebook accounts,
Speaker 2: stat and cut your cable. When you find yourself having
Speaker 2: frivolous conversations or becoming ensnared in activities that don't better
Speaker 2: you in any way, move the gone. It's more important
Speaker 2: to own your weaknesses. You have to really triple down
Speaker 2: on those, man, because why you want to become a
Speaker 2: full human being, I to run away from weaknesses. Like
Speaker 2: for instance, if you're good.
Speaker 1: At running, all you want to do is run. If
Speaker 1: you're great at reading.
Speaker 2: You have several books, but we don't do those things
Speaker 2: that we're not good at. So for me, I realized,
Speaker 2: I keep on running away from these things I'm not
Speaker 2: good at.
Speaker 1: I have to dive into these things. I have to
Speaker 1: become one with these things. And that's what happened. And
Speaker 1: so I own them both and I talk very openly
Speaker 1: about them both. For years, I've lived like a monk.
Speaker 2: I don't see or spend time with a lot of people.
Speaker 2: My circle is very tight. I post on social media
Speaker 2: once or twice a week, and I never check anybody
Speaker 2: else's feeds because I don't follow anyone.
Speaker 1: That's just me.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you need to be that unforgiving because
Speaker 2: you and I probably don't share the same goals.
Speaker 1: But I know you have goals too, and room for improvement.
Speaker 1: And I guarantee that if you audited.
Speaker 2: Your schedule, you find time for more work and less bullshit.
Speaker 2: It's up to you to ways to eviscerate your bullet.
Speaker 2: How much time do you spend at the dinner table
Speaker 2: talking about nothing after.
Speaker 1: The meal is done.
Speaker 2: How many calls and text do you send for no
Speaker 2: reason at all? Look at your whole life, list your
Speaker 2: obligations and tasks.
Speaker 1: Put a time stamp on you.
Speaker 2: How many hours are required to shop, eat, and clean?
Speaker 2: What's your commute like? Can you make it there under
Speaker 2: your own power? Block everything into windows of time, and
Speaker 2: once your day is scheduled out, you'll know how much
Speaker 2: flexibility you have to exercise on a given day and
Speaker 2: how to maximize it. Perhaps you aren't looking to get fit,
Speaker 2: but have been dreaming of starting a business of your own,
Speaker 2: or have always wanted to learn a language or an
Speaker 2: instrument you're obsessed with.
Speaker 1: Find the same rule applies.
Speaker 2: Analyze your schedule, kill your empty habits, burn out the bullet,
Speaker 2: and see what's left.
Speaker 1: Is it one hour per day? Three? Now maximize that.
Speaker 2: That means listing your prioritized task every hour of the day.
Speaker 2: You can even narrow it down to fifteen minute windows.
Speaker 2: And don't forget to include backstops in your day to
Speaker 2: day schedule. Remember how I forgot to include backstops in
Speaker 2: my race plan at Ultraman. You need backstops in your
Speaker 2: day to day schedule.
Speaker 1: Two. If one task bleeds into overtime, make sure you know.
Speaker 2: It and begin to transition into your next prioritized tasks
Speaker 2: straight away. Use your smartphone for productivity hacks, not click bait.
Speaker 1: Turn on your calendar alerts, have those alarms set.
Speaker 2: If you audit your life, skip the bok and use backstops.
Speaker 2: You'll find time to do everything you need and want
Speaker 2: to do. But remember that you also need rest, so
Speaker 2: schedule that in. Listen to your body, Sneak in those
Speaker 2: ten to twenty men power naps when necessary, and take
Speaker 2: one full rest day per week. If it's a rest day,
Speaker 2: truly allow your mind and body to relax, turn your
Speaker 2: phone off, keep the computer shut down. A rest day
Speaker 2: means you should be relaxed, hanging with friends or family,
Speaker 2: and eating and drinking well so you can recharge and
Speaker 2: get back at it. It's not a day to lose
Speaker 2: yourself in technology or stay hunched at your desk in
Speaker 2: the form of a damn question mark. The whole point
Speaker 2: of the twenty four hour mission is to keep up
Speaker 2: a championship pace, not for a season or a year,
Speaker 2: but for your entire life. That requires quality rest and
Speaker 2: recovery time. Because there is no finish line, there is
Speaker 2: always more to learn, and you will always have weaknesses
Speaker 2: to strengthen. If you want to become as hard as woodpecker,
Speaker 2: lips hard enough to hammer countless miles and finish that
Speaker 2: strong would you say you've built It's so much like
Speaker 2: sadistic quality where you almost enjoy the pint.
Speaker 1: I don't enjoy it. It's necessary, Yeah, it's necessary. So
Speaker 1: every morning I wake up.
Speaker 2: It's not just about working out, But for me, working
Speaker 2: out has been a very big part of my mental growth.
Speaker 2: So for me, if I am not challenging myself every day,
Speaker 2: and that's where to God, people will not believe it.
Speaker 1: I was over almost three hundred pounds twice in my life.
Speaker 1: A person that does that twice in his life does
Speaker 1: not enjoy cardiovascular take.
Speaker 2: Okay, So people can put anything they want to in
Speaker 2: their head. I did realize one thing. The things I
Speaker 2: don't enjoy that I still do. That's where growth is at.
Speaker 2: And that's for me. The only place growth is at
Speaker 2: is in that very uncomfortable you know, in that uncomfortable zone,
Speaker 2: so I have to visit it every single day. The
Speaker 2: main objective here is to slowly start to remove the
Speaker 2: governor from your brains. First, a quick reminder of how
Speaker 2: this process works. In nineteen ninety nine, when I weighed
Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety seven pounds.
Speaker 1: My first run was a quarter mile. Fast forward to
Speaker 1: two thousand.
Speaker 2: And seven, I ran two hundred five miles and thirty
Speaker 2: nine hours non stop. I didn't get there overnight, and
Speaker 2: I don't expect you to either. Your job is to
Speaker 2: push past your normal stopping point, whether you are running
Speaker 2: on a treadmill or doing a set of push ups.
Speaker 2: Get to the point where you are so tired and
Speaker 2: in pain that your mind.
Speaker 1: Is begging you to stop. Then push just five to
Speaker 1: ten percent further.
Speaker 2: If the most push ups you have ever done is
Speaker 2: one hundred in a workout, do one hundred and five
Speaker 2: or one hundred and ten. If you normally run thirty
Speaker 2: miles each week, run ten.
Speaker 1: Percent more next week.
Speaker 2: This gradual ramp up will help prevent injury and allow
Speaker 2: you your body and mind to slowly adapt.
Speaker 1: To your new workload.
Speaker 2: It also resets your baseline, which is important because you're
Speaker 2: about to increase your workload another five to ten percent
Speaker 2: the following week and the week after that. There is
Speaker 2: so much pain and suffering involved in physical challenges that
Speaker 2: it is the best training to take command of your
Speaker 2: inner dialogue and the new found mental strength and confidence
Speaker 2: you gain by continuing to push yourself physically will carry
Speaker 2: over to other aspects in your life. You will realize
Speaker 2: that if you were underperforming in your physical challenges, there
Speaker 2: is a good chance you are underperforming at school.
Speaker 1: And work too.
Speaker 2: The bottom line is that life is one big mind game.
Speaker 2: The only person you are playing against is yourself. Stick
Speaker 2: with this process, and soon what you thought was impossible
Speaker 2: will be something you do every day of your life.