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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Speaking of being better, what about, what about when you're working with somebody who's really resistant to change? Do you have a process where you can just shake somebody out of Ruining their life?
A Um, yeah, I mean, the thing I like to, to think about is like, what the future could be if somebody hasn't changed, you know, and so it's like, if we go back to the whole idea of like, the only time somebody will make a change is when the pain of staying the same is more painful than the pain of change. Like, I had a guy one time that came up to me after a speech that I gave like five years ago, and he was pretty overweight, and he's like, Rob, I want to lose weight, I don't know how to lose weight, what should I do? And I was like, okay, well, tell me about it. What have you tried? I was like, what's your, what's your fear that if you don't lose weight? He's like, well, I'm just afraid that like, you know, I won't be healthy later on in life. I'm like, okay, that's not really good. Like, what, what are you actually afraid of? And after talking to this guy for a few minutes, he's like, I was like, okay, what's your biggest fear? If you don't lose the weight that you want to lose, what's your biggest fear is going to happen? He was my biggest fear. His daughter was like 10 at the time. He was my biggest fear is that I won't be around to walk my daughter down the aisle. And I was like, That's it. I was like, okay, so walk through this with me real quick. Let's say, you know, say his name's John. John, let's say that you decide not to change. You decide not to lose weight. You dec…
AI assessment note: “the only time somebody will make a change is when the pain of staying the same”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Wow, that's bizarre. We are weird little hairless apes running around trying to figure life out. I've heard you and also Jordan Peterson say you have, if you want to have an incredible life, you have to go through a ton of pain. Do you think you have to go through massive pain to learn anything?
A I think that you can't really go through life without some sort of pain. Um, but there's also a difference between pain and suffering. So pain is something that happens to you. Suffering is something that happened to you that you continue to bring with you every single day, and Kind of have it take the energy from you, so my biggest pain was my father passed away when I was 15 from being an alcoholic, and growing up with an alcoholic father and all that comes with it, um, would I be where I am now if I didn't have that happen to me? I don't think so, because the reason why I do what I do now is because I went through all the things I went through, and so I found my, myself in a lot of suffering because of my mindset, and I know that my dad was in a lot of suffering because of his mindset, Because his father killed himself when he was 12 years old, and he never overcame it, and so I saw, like, what happened when you don't overcome your pain, and then I also saw, like, other people in my life that were better examples of, like, they overcame their pain, and so I was like, oh, I'm gonna be the type of person who overcomes it, so then I started working myself, and as I started working myself, I got addicted to, like, I want to teach this to people. I think that everybody has to go through something hard in order to become better, and so it can be that something that the universe th…
AI assessment note: “everybody has to go through something hard in order to become better”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q winning or losing. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what is a negative person? Who is the negative person? Like, and what's the degree that's allowable before you're 50% less happy and 38% fatter and all of this. Do you have a way that you think about, okay, if this happens in this many situations or instances, this is a negative person, or is it the same as the vacuum?
A I mean, I think, I think the easiest way, I saw a video on it years ago, is like, if, if you have to question whether that person's truly happy for you when you succeed at something, They're probably not the best person to spend time with. Like if you bring, if you're, if you're hesitant to go tell them about something that you just succeeded with, or you're hesitant to tell them about your dreams because they want to shit on them, they're probably not the most positive person to be around. I loved watching the Olympics because as soon as somebody succeeds, they look into the crowd to find the person that they love the most, right? Like success is not fun when you're by yourself. Like, we want people to succeed with and to celebrate with us, and so many people that I have found are not surrounded by anybody. If you're really questioning whether somebody would be happy for you if you brought some sort of win to them, or they would question, you know, your, your dreams, then they're probably someone who's not the, not really looking out for your best interest.
AI assessment note: “if you have to question whether that person's truly happy for you when you succeed”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Why do you think most people don't achieve their goals?
A Cause I don't think they actually care enough. Like, so, so my very first mentor used to always say to me, he would always say, if your why is strong enough, your how will reveal itself. And so what he always meant by that is that whenever you set a goal towards something, you need to figure out what the why is behind it. Like, why do you actually want to do it? I think the other thing that really holds a lot of people back is who they think they are. You know, it's, it's like, um, I have a friend that, uh, has become Pretty successful. And, uh, he grew up really, really poor in the ghetto, and he said, basically, when you, you grow up really poor, and you see people that are successful, make a lot of money, it's like a different language. Like, you just don't speak that language. And so, when you grow up, and a lot of people think, well, oh, I have an alcoholic father, so I can't be successful, and my mom said I was worthless, or, you know, this person broke my heart because I'm unlovable, and so they have this identity of who they think they are, and when you have an identity of who you think you are, you always take actions that line up with that identity. And so one of the biggest reasons why people don't hit their goals is cause they're not taking the action towards their goals cause they don't actually think that they're the type of person that can do it. And so one of th…
AI assessment note: “Cause I don't think they actually care enough.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q That's what I think it was. I think if I tried Skittles with my My employees here, they'd tell me to fucking go. Is that going to work, Levi? It might work, actually. Maybe I'm underestimating it.
A It might. And so, like, for me, that was, that drove me to go take the calls, and so I think it's just that little thing of, like, how can I have, like, a little bit of, like, the, the prize at the end of doing the thing I want to do, right? Instead of, and that's for today, not, like, when I hit my goal in three months. It's like, what do I need to do today? Because most of the time what we do is we, we do The thing in our business that we need to do, and there's no revenue coming in today from what we just did, and we're like, damn it, like, I'm still so far, like, I've got to figure out how to pay the damn bills, versus being like, I did what I needed to do to get me one step further, I'm going to celebrate that thing, which is the difference between, like, action-based goals, which is taking the action versus only celebrating on results-based goals.
AI assessment note: “It might. And so, like, for me, that was, that drove me”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q relationship, and how psychological stability in a partner is incredibly important. So, you know, these days, we're, we're marrying later than ever, we're having less sex, we're having less relationships, um, we're not jumping so easily into partnership. And I don't know if that's fear, or, you know, searching, or what the case is, but when it comes to picking a partner, What do you think is the most important?
A I think the highest version of a, of a relationship is somebody who doesn't try to change you, and somebody who is there for you to work through your own shit. So, I'll explain this, because I have a story behind it. So, my wife, we've been together for, ah, next month will be 11 years we've been together. And, um, we were talking about somebody that we know, and she's married But doesn't really want to be married to this guy, and she hasn't wanted to be married for a while, but she feels bad. So there's this whole thing, we're talking about it. And she said, yeah, but she loves him. And I was like, okay, but is she in love with him? And she's like, well, I don't know. Like, what do you consider being in love? Well, actually first what she did was she asked me the most women question ever. She goes, well, are you in love with me?
AI assessment note: “somebody who doesn't try to change you, and somebody who is there for you”
