Speaker 1: We wake up on the morning. It's cold, it's wet,
Speaker 1: it's dark. You've got no cottilage in your knave. You
Speaker 1: keep talking, You've got these problems, right I.
Speaker 2: Need you to keep talking about what you were just saying.
Speaker 1: It's warm on the couch, your missus say is staying bad.
Speaker 1: It's comfy, it's cozy. You've got work later on. You
Speaker 1: had an argument last night, you're slightly hungover.
Speaker 2: God, I know every motherfucker I ain't gonna do what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do. So this is how you level up.
Speaker 2: I know there's a whole bunch of people with that
Speaker 2: right there that fires me up, that makes me fing happy.
Speaker 2: What you just said that brings Jordan my life right there,
Speaker 2: because I know there's so many people that have the
Speaker 2: ability and just refuse to get off that couch, refuse
Speaker 2: to study a few more hours, refuse to go deeper.
Speaker 3: To go further.
Speaker 2: And that's where I gained the advantage.
Speaker 4: It's so easy to be.
Speaker 2: Great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most
Speaker 2: people don't want to go to that extra mile. Most
Speaker 2: people don't want to find that extra because it sucks,
Speaker 2: it's miserable, it's lonely. Now I've been thriving it. That's
Speaker 2: the only place to be.
Speaker 3: Some of you in the past, you've gotten momentum, you've
Speaker 3: gotten passionate, you've even made a decision. But a decision
Speaker 3: is the first step. Decision is like a war. I
Speaker 3: gotta do this or that. All right, I'm gonna make
Speaker 3: myself do this. But commitment is when you now, after
Speaker 3: you've decided, you commit to do this for the long term.
Speaker 3: Whether it's hard or easy doesn't matter. You're doing this.
Speaker 3: It takes it from this moment and it carries it
Speaker 3: into the future, even when things are difficult and the
Speaker 3: third state is resolved. Resolved means it's done. It's like
Speaker 3: it doesn't even if you took action, it's done inside you.
Speaker 3: So it's gone out there. There's no question whatsoever.
Speaker 5: That it's necessary for us to begin to look at
Speaker 5: the future. Know that it's possible that we can have
Speaker 5: our dream.
Speaker 3: Yes it is. Other people have.
Speaker 5: Done it, then we can do it.
Speaker 3: We fail a lot of times, we're a lot.
Speaker 5: Of other folks there, and eventually they came back.
Speaker 4: And they succeeded. So it's possible we can.
Speaker 5: Have what we want.
Speaker 4: And we know that we want to get it.
Speaker 5: It's necessary that we allow ourselves with people that think
Speaker 5: like we do.
Speaker 4: It's necessary we get negative.
Speaker 5: Do nothing people out of our lives. It's necessary we
Speaker 5: never stop learning and growing and developing ourselves. It's necessary
Speaker 5: that we never give up. We know that it's you,
Speaker 5: it's me. It's being responsible for our stuff and deciding
Speaker 5: that we're gonna keep on keeping on, that we're gonna
Speaker 5: find a way to win or find a way to
Speaker 5: make it happen.
Speaker 4: And we know it's hard. It's not gonna be a picnic. Yes,
Speaker 4: it's hard.
Speaker 3: It's hard, and we will.
Speaker 4: Do it hard.
Speaker 5: And once it's we do it hard, we go through,
Speaker 5: we realize it was worth it. And once you discover
Speaker 5: it was worth it, it.
Speaker 2: Is one big thing is a lot of people. It's
Speaker 2: hard to imagine, but you have to learn how to fail.
Speaker 2: I have big dreams. A lot of us have big dreams,
Speaker 2: big goals. And when you have goals that are maybe
Speaker 2: outside your reach, you have to know that getting to
Speaker 2: that goal, you can have a lot of bad days,
Speaker 2: a lot of setbacks. So like I was losing one
Speaker 2: hundred and six pounds in three months, the first two
Speaker 2: months or the first two weeks. It's like I was
Speaker 2: gaining weight. You know, I would lose a pound game two.
Speaker 2: So I was just failing. I kept failing and kept
Speaker 2: failing and kept failing. So I had to teach myself
Speaker 2: how to fail right. And what that means is when
Speaker 2: I fail, I can't spend much time in that fail zone.
Speaker 2: I have to be able to get up and get
Speaker 2: after the next day just as fast because my goals
Speaker 2: would you know, to be a Navy seal, I don't
Speaker 2: have time to stay here and feel back myself for
Speaker 2: weeks and months in years, because I'll lose that time.
Speaker 2: So the big thing is to know that if you
Speaker 2: have big goals and big dreams along the way, failure
Speaker 2: is going to happen. So how fast do you get
Speaker 2: up from that? And you got to teach yourself that.
Speaker 2: But the biggest key to success in anything you do
Speaker 2: is you got to have an unlimited supply of fucking
Speaker 2: you this drive and passion, and it may come from
Speaker 2: nothing Like for me, there was no passion, no drive,
Speaker 2: no nothing, But I had this fire that I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be somebody and it has to be there because on
Speaker 2: all those bad days and all those days you don't
Speaker 2: want to do. You have to be your own motivator,
Speaker 2: your own coach, you own your own trainer, your own everything.
Speaker 2: So to do that, you have to come into work,
Speaker 2: and work is whatever your work may be ready to go.
Speaker 2: And what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday,
Speaker 2: but you come to work like.
Speaker 3: People like man, you just lost everything.
Speaker 2: How the hell are you just sucking damn motivated? Because
Speaker 2: this is what it takes. This is what the fuck
Speaker 2: it takes, and you got to get it from wherever
Speaker 2: you can, whether you make up this illusion of your
Speaker 2: life or this false reality that gets you motivated, whatever
Speaker 2: gets you motivated, it's going to be here at the
Speaker 2: tip of your brain at all times, because in those
Speaker 2: dark moments, you got to pull it out. So that's
Speaker 2: the big thing for me, Man, I was always fired
Speaker 2: up at all times.
Speaker 6: Not just that every day more of our life is
Speaker 6: used up and less and less of it is left,
Speaker 6: but this too. If we live longer, can we be
Speaker 6: sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world,
Speaker 6: to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge.
Speaker 6: If our mind starts to wander, we'll still go on
Speaker 6: breathing go on, eating, imagine things, feeling urges, and so on,
Speaker 6: but getting the most out of ourselves, calculating where our
Speaker 6: duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether
Speaker 6: it's time to call it quits. All the things you
Speaker 6: need a healthy mind for. All those are gone. So
Speaker 6: we need to hurry, not just because we move daily
Speaker 6: closer to death, but also because our understanding, our grasp
Speaker 6: of the world, may be gone before we get there.
Speaker 6: Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about
Speaker 6: other people unless it affects the common good. It will
Speaker 6: keep you from doing anything useful. You'll be too preoccupied
Speaker 6: with what so and so is doing and why, and
Speaker 6: what they're saying, and what they're thinking and what they're
Speaker 6: up to, and all the other things that throw you
Speaker 6: off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.
Speaker 6: You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought,
Speaker 6: everything random, everything irrelevant, and certainly everything self important or malicious.
Speaker 6: You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts so
Speaker 6: that if someone says, what are you thinking about, you
Speaker 6: can respond at once and truthfully that you are thinking
Speaker 6: this or thinking that, and it would be obvious at
Speaker 6: once from your answer that your thoughts were straightforward and considerate.
Speaker 6: Once the thoughts of an unselfish person, one unconcerned with
Speaker 6: pleasure and with sensual indulgence, generally with squabbling, with slander
Speaker 6: and envy, or anything else, you'd be ashamed to be
Speaker 6: caught thinking someone like that. Someone who refuses to put
Speaker 6: off joining the elect is a kind of priest, a
Speaker 6: servant of the gods, in touch with what is within
Speaker 6: him and what can keeps a person undefiled by pleasures,
Speaker 6: invulnerable to any pain, untouched by arrogance, unaffected by meanness,
Speaker 6: an athlete in the greatest of all contests, the struggle
Speaker 6: not to be overwhelmed by anything that happens, with what
Speaker 6: leaves us died indelibly by justice, welcoming wholeheartedly whatever comes,
Speaker 6: whatever we're assigned, not worrying too often or with any
Speaker 6: selfish motive about what other people say, or do or think.
Speaker 6: He does only what is his to do, and considers
Speaker 6: constantly what the world has in store for him, doing
Speaker 6: his best and trusting that all is for the best,
Speaker 6: for we carry our fate with us, and it carries us.
Speaker 6: He keeps in mind that all rational things are related,
Speaker 6: and that to care for all human beings is part
Speaker 6: of being human, which doesn't mean we have to share
Speaker 6: their appearinions. We should listen only to those whose lives
Speaker 6: conform to nature and the others. He bears in mind
Speaker 6: what sort of people they are, both at home and
Speaker 6: abroad by night as well as day, and who they
Speaker 6: spend their time with, and he cares nothing for their
Speaker 6: praise men who can't even meet their own standards. How
Speaker 6: to act, never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought,
Speaker 6: with misgivings. Don't gussie up your thoughts, no surplus words
Speaker 6: or unnecessary actions. Let the spirit in you represent a man,
Speaker 6: an adult, a citizen, a roman, a ruler, taking up
Speaker 6: his post like a soldier and patiently awaiting his recall
Speaker 6: from life, needing no oath or witness, cheerfulness without requiring
Speaker 6: other people's help, or serenity supplied by others, to stand
Speaker 6: up straight, not straitened. Nothing is more pathetic than people
Speaker 6: who run around in circles, delving into the things that
Speaker 6: lie beneath and conducting investigations into the souls of the
Speaker 6: people around them, never realizing that all you have to
Speaker 6: do is to be attentive to the power inside you,
Speaker 6: and worship it sincerely. To worship it is to keep
Speaker 6: it from being muddied with turmoil and becoming aimless and
Speaker 6: dissatisfied with nature divine and human. What is divine deserves
Speaker 6: our respect because it is good. What is human deserves
Speaker 6: our affection because it is like us, and our pity too,
Speaker 6: sometimes for its inability to tell good from bad as
Speaker 6: terrible a blindness, as the kind that can't tell white
Speaker 6: from black. Even if you're going to live three thousand
Speaker 6: more years or ten times that, remember you cannot lose
Speaker 6: another life than the one you're living now, or live
Speaker 6: another one than the one you're losing. The longest amounts
Speaker 6: to the same as the shortest. The present is the
Speaker 6: same for everyone. Its loss is the same for everyone.
Speaker 6: And it should be clear that a brief instant is
Speaker 6: all that is lost. For you can't lose either the
Speaker 6: past or the future. How could you lose what you
Speaker 6: don't have? Remember two things, that everything has always been
Speaker 6: the same and keeps recurring. And it makes no difference
Speaker 6: whether you see the same things recur in one hundred
Speaker 6: years or two hundred or in an infinite period. That
Speaker 6: the longest lived and those who will die soonest lose
Speaker 6: the same thing. The present is all that they can
Speaker 6: give up. Since that is all you have and what
Speaker 6: you do not have you cannot lose.
Speaker 7: Pick up your damn suffering and bear it and try
Speaker 7: to be a good person so you don't make it worse.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a truth, you know.
Speaker 7: I read a lot about the terrible things that people
Speaker 7: have done to each other. You just cannot even imagine
Speaker 7: it so awful. So you don't want to be someone
Speaker 7: like that. Now, do you have a reason to be Yes,
Speaker 7: you have lots.
Speaker 4: Of reasons to be.
Speaker 7: God, there's reasons to be resentful about your existence.
Speaker 4: Everyone you know is gonna die.
Speaker 7: You know you too, and there's gonna be a fair
Speaker 7: bit of pain along the way, and lots of it's
Speaker 7: gonna be unfair. It's like, yeah, no, wonder you're resentful.
Speaker 7: It's like act it out and see what happens. You
Speaker 7: make everything you're complaining about infinitely worse. There's this idea
Speaker 7: that hell is a bottomless pit, and that's because no
Speaker 7: matter how bad is some stupid son of it like
Speaker 7: you could figure out a way to make it a
Speaker 7: lot worse. So you think, well, what do you do
Speaker 7: about that, Well, you accept it. That's what life is like.
Speaker 7: It's suffering. That's what the religious people have always said.
Speaker 7: Life is suffering. Yes, well, who wants to admit that? Well,
Speaker 7: just think about it. Well, so what do you do
Speaker 7: in the face of that suffering? Try to reduce it?
Speaker 7: Start with yourself? What good are you? Get yourself together
Speaker 7: for Christ's sake? So that when your father dies you're
Speaker 7: not whining away in a corner, and you can help
Speaker 7: plan the funeral and you can stand up solidly so
Speaker 7: that people can rely on you.
Speaker 4: That's better. It will be a damn victim.
Speaker 7: Of course you're a victim Jesus obviously, put yourself together.
Speaker 4: And then maybe if you put yourself together, you know
Speaker 4: how to do that.
Speaker 7: You know what's wrong with you, if you'll admit it,
Speaker 7: you know there's a few things you could, like polish
Speaker 7: up a little bit that you might even be able
Speaker 7: to your insufficient present condition.
Speaker 4: How do you overcome the suffering of life is be
Speaker 4: a better person. That's how you do it. Well, that's hard.
Speaker 4: It takes responsibility.
Speaker 7: And I think you know, if you said to someone
Speaker 7: you want to have a meaningful life, everything you do
Speaker 7: matters that's the definition of a meaningful life. But everything
Speaker 7: you do matters. It's you gonna have to carry that
Speaker 7: with you or do you want to just forget about
Speaker 7: the whole meaning thing? And then you don't have any
Speaker 7: responsibility because who the hell cares? And you can wander
Speaker 7: through life doing whatever you want, gratifying impulsive desires for
Speaker 7: how well useful that's going to be, and you're stuck
Speaker 7: in meaninglessness, but you don't have any responsibility.
Speaker 4: Which one do you want? Well ask yourself which one
Speaker 4: are you pursuing?
Speaker 7: And you'll find very rapidly that it isn't the majority
Speaker 7: of your soul that's pursuing the whole meaning thing, because well,
Speaker 7: look what.
Speaker 4: You have to do. To do that.
Speaker 7: You have to take on the fact that life is suffering.
Speaker 4: You have to put yourself together in the face of that. Well,
Speaker 4: that's hard.