#350: Relentless Pursuit; The Will to Win

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Chapters

• 0:00 The Need for Confidence vs. Arrogance
• 27:15 The Champion's Mindset: Will to Win
• 1:12:19 Personal Sacrifices for Success

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

You know, maybe what I'm going to say sounds arrogant or conceited, but realistically, I feel like that's something that's needed. I feel like those traits that people call other people when they're trying to be something bigger than themselves or trying to be a world champion or the best in the world at something you know, and always trying to achieve higher. I think I think I'm just guessing right, but I think it's fair to say that other people might consider them arrogant, but if you're a championship boxer, right, and you believe you're the best in the entire world, right, and you want to go out and fight, you need to have that sort of persona mentality in order to carry that confidence. Everyone else will say, oh, he's arrogant, he's conceited. Maybe, or maybe that's just part of the mindset that other people think when you live and work as a champion. You know the reason that I'm saying that is because sometimes I ask myself different questions and they motivate me right Over and over again, such as just thinking about the will to win. Do you have the will to win? What are you willing to? Maybe not sacrifice, but in a different way, give up or do less of, to do something more of in a different way give up or do less of to do something more of Right. I'm working so hard always to be the best comedian Hands down, right.

Speaker 1: 1:34

But what do I do, in addition to maybe everybody else? Tell you one thing I start my morning at four o'clock in the morning and after I kind of get washed up and I stretch and maybe even go to the gym. You know I do that too. I write and I perform and I write and I perform. Why do I do that? Because I want more hours in the day. I need an edge. I need an edge on everyone else that's ahead of me, and then one day I'm a little bit closer to them, and the one day I surpass them and me. And then one day I'm a little bit closer to them, and the one day I surpass them, and now I'm getting booked all the time. Right, what? What are you willing to do? What are you, the listener? If there is something that you want to be the best at, what could you be doing more of to get to that next level? Cause I'm telling you right now if you can think of anybody else that's doing something more.

Speaker 1: 2:22

If this was a race, you got to do equal and then surpass them. The only way you're going to, the only way we're going to catch up to somebody okay, is by working harder than uh, than them, right? And then if you continue to progress in that um, in that work ethic and stuff, you're going to go from catching up to them to passing them. And stuff you're going to go from catching up to them to passing them. That's my biggest goal. My biggest goal, every single day, is to be better than everybody, and that's one of the things that I always really liked about, uh, conor McGregor.

Speaker 1: 2:55

He says I don't want to take part, I want to take over, that's it. It's so funny because there's the phrase meteoric rise, meaning a meteor, right? It's a strange concept to think that you know, everybody knew who Connor was. You know when everybody started to, he started to blow up, 10 years before that, nobody knew who he was Right. And I feel like every single day I go from being less known to more known. Sorry, sometimes I I get paid extra money to uh help cars in front of me when lights are green to remind them they have to drive. At that point I apologize, idiots. But anyway, back to what I was saying. Please forgive me audience.

Speaker 1: 3:54

But, yeah, one of the things that he said is I don't want to take part, I want to take over, and everybody kept saying how conceited he was and how arrogant he was. But think about it, you have to carry that mentality, okay, not the mentality of telling yourself I'm conceited, not the mentality of telling yourself that I'm arrogant, but having the will to win, to do so much, to be the best and to build that confidence internally. If people are saying you're arrogant, conceited, okay, they could be haters, right, but more than likely, someone that's a champion isn't going to use that word. You ever thought about that? You ever thought about the ways that people describe others? What do their peers say? Right, I don't mean their competitors, I mean like the people, I mean maybe, maybe it's like a different league or maybe a different weight class or something like that, but they all share the commonality of the championship mindset. And that's another great, awesome, amazing, cool thing about psychology, okay, is you can go in so many different directions, but asking yourself, just looking at the will to win, if you just Look at that phrase Will to win, the will to win, right, ask yourself what if there is something you could be doing to catch up to the person who's ahead of you and then not just that, surpass them All right Again, just like a car.

Speaker 1: 5:31

You can only catch up to them. You're not going to catch up to them by going equal speed. You've got to be doing more, you've got to catch up to them. You're not going to catch up to them by going equal speed. You've got to be doing more, you've got to catch up. And if you want to pass by them, you've got to continue that percentage increase of that evolution. You've got to continue to blaze past that full. You hear me, so you know that was just a phrase. The will to win.

Speaker 1: 5:51

It's been circling in my head lately a lot and I've been thinking a lot lately and I'm proud to say that I have the will to win and I display it every single day when I get out of bed four o'clock in the morning and then I work on what I'm most passionate about, which is comedy, and I still manage to have a day job, and then, after that job, work on more writing, do more shows and continue to make that, that dream, into a reality every single day.

Speaker 1: 6:25

So maybe something that I said will take you the next year. Maybe it pumped you up a little bit, but the very least, as I always say, same thing is out loud. It's the only opportunity maybe, if you have a podcast or if you don't, to instill something that is already a part of you and to get one more mental repetition, because otherwise, if you're just thinking it in your own mind, you don't really hear it, right, but when you say it, you think through those thoughts, you hear it too. That's like you're hitting that on multiple ways, your consciousness. So anyway, y'all, the best day be better.