I think so many people are keyboard activists right everybody's good at
sending a tweet about how the world should be and nobody's doing anything
about it and that just that is just very much human nature we've gotten soft as a
culture yes you know I mean of course we've gotten soft as a culture in the
u.s. because the US has had an incredible two hundred year run right
like this is just what happens you know so as a culture you know I can't speak
for you know people that live in the Amazon River and I can't speak for you
know people that still live in Belarus but the American culture is soft and
that's a great thing that means there's been enormous amounts of prosperity but
let's not be naive I mean people literally complain when
somebody gives them the wrong amount of like extra cream in a Starbucks $6
coffee
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my lack of interest in complaining is so high and when I watch what people
complain about it breaks my heart because they completely lack perspective
and i genuinely believe my happiness and optimism comes from my perspective even
in political unrest times like right now a lot of people very bent out of shape
but the reality is is that it just never been better to be a human being it's
that's just the truth that's just data that's that's reality
and yeah I mean it's just a very fun time to be alive
and I think the way people look at the world right now because it's such an
incredible time is actually the quickest tell to who they are if you think it
sucks but it's bad you have losing pessimistic DNA and if
you think it's awesome and phenomenal you have optimistic winning DNA and I
believe that to be true and so that's where we're at we're beating ourselves
up like everybody sucks that's something right like we all have shortcomings and
we all have strengths and for me it's like why don't we just audit that like
why don't we just look at it that way and be like alright well I'm good at
this but I'm not gonna dad like and then and then and then I only focus what I'm
good at right like I don't dwell that I can't fix shit around the house I call
somebody to fix him like I'm not like I'm not a man I don't give a fuck like
you know like like you know like I don't I don't get it like we all like I also
think it's awesome that I'm so emotionally stable and I'm the emotional
backbone of everybody is that what a dude's supposed to do like like these
cliches these stereotypes they're so silly I'm fully in love with myself but
I'm also fully in love with everybody else too right it's not like like it
goes both ways like I tell people to buy in to be that work for me it's cuz I buy
into them first like I don't need anybody to gain trust with me I it's
they're like I believe that the human race is so grossly underrated we are
good of course we have some bad there's fucking 7 billion of us but like when
you look at our net score it's bonkers shit like you know what you damage we
can be doing to each other on a hourly basis and we don't like we're still here
like we won were the Alpha being and we've figured out how to stay together
this is insane when you think about it and yet everybody wants to dwell on like
somebody said something mean
if you want to be an anomaly you have to act like one like people want all these
special things to happen but then they're acting like everybody else and
that gets into this Saturdays on in your 20s like or or just like taking risks or
things of that nature like there's anything they take away it's like look
like you're gonna only be so pretty you're only gonna be so smart like you
like there's there's things that are gonna be natural and there's things that
you can actually control I do believe and I don't know if I'm right or wrong I
don't but I do believe that work ethic is a taught behavior it's something you
do have more control over and you know what really sealed a deal for me getting
healthier I was 38 years old and didn't come natural to me like it didn't come
natural to me at all I hate the gym I hate him out I hate it I don't like it I
don't want to do it but I but I knew it was important and somewhere around
midway through being 38 years old I got serious I figured out my system I made
the financial commitment and I've won right and I'll never lose again because
the system was I needed to be accountable to another human being so it
was about Mike and now Jordan and whoever else is my trainer I'm doing it
almost weirdly more to not let them down I feel like there's a shift that can
make people work harder the big one that I push is you're gonna die like like if
your complaint like to me life is broken down into complaining and not so if
you're not complaining well then I've never I have no advice for you I'm
pumped like you did it like like I've friends who make $42,000 a year work
9:00 to 4:00 with an hour to have lunch and 45
minutes of YouTube and ten minutes of bullshitting and an hour of complete
waste of time in a meeting so the kind of working like 6:00 you know hours a
week right but they're pumped and-and-and they text
me these are highschool friends and they'll text me like how happy they are
to be the coach of their kids baseball team and you know like that's amazing
like that that seems very obvious to me like that's like that's right you know
which is super weird I'm actually nearly any yes you know like I it sounds cool
like in theory right grass is always greener right like far less pressure you
know like like all that time with my kids
booth that would be cool like there's just like all these things that I can
justify so to me but I have friends who have a hundred million dollars in the
bank because of Facebook's IPO who complain who are still hungry who want
to do even more who will complain to me because they
know I work a lot about no work-life balance and they don't get to spend
enough time with their family and I'm like you have a hundred million dollars
like you could stay home like you're in control like you don't complain about it
you've made that choice don't bullshit me
like you want to spend more time with your family spend more time with your
family
I'm trying to be very careful about what I'm saying versus what I'm doing because
that's how you get exposed and I don't mean like people calling you out and
being like you suck I mean to yourself I don't want to be exposed by myself it's
it's it's looking at yourself in the mirror and saying like am I doing this
right so to me there's so many people they're talking shit about how big of an
entrepreneur they're gonna be and how much they're gonna achieve and they
don't work on weekends you know I worked every Saturday of my 20s like and I talk
to 20 year old entrepreneurs every single day lately I've been saying to
them this Saturday you're gonna have more time off than I've had in my entire
20s on a Saturday so like before you tell me how you're gonna be bigger than
me start thinking about what you're actually doing
I'm careful to not give advice that I know is uniquely something that I was
gifted with like I'd how do I tell you that
oh here's how it actually works and it almost started happening it didn't
happen like I actually get goosebumps like actually like real heavy goosebumps
when I hear something that I know feels right what's the advice there hey Johnny
start getting goosebumps like I can't there's certain things that I can't talk
about because I know they're not practical they're intuitive to me
I plan to instill kindness until Achatz I plan on instilling perspective into my
kids I plan in instilling just being a good human being
I plan on making sure they don't use their parents wealth and micro fame and
leverage to impose them on any other person I was petrified of that if my
kids try to Punk their friends on my shit I'm gonna get the fuck out of them
like that just loser DNA you didn't do that we right like so like I'm not
obsessed with tactics I'm obsessed with religion so I have a lot of wealthy
friends at this point who think it's smart for them to sit first class but
the kids in coach it's a tactic they send their kids to Africa to build a
school for a week it's a tactic it's like my friends that love the
environment the number two sector in the world that is hurting the environment is
the fashion industry when you run the math of what's doing bad to the earth
it's the number two industry behind Gaza i I don't even want to say it cuz I'm
not sure if it's gas in oil the number two industry the sign of the fact is the
fashion industry so all my fancy friends who love the environment are they
willing to give up their fucking Louie bags let's say right so like I think
people talk shit so you let them sit coach and you went first class but you
went to you know Hawaii and eat it all the best pluck you can't pick and choose
to me it's binary so I don't wanna be a hypocrite so my big thing is like look
you need to be kind like mean mean is just non-negotiable in our family right
and then you just need to not be full of shit if you want to look at daddy's
mountain and you want to say what I did to my dad's and that was a big mountain
for an immigrant like wow dad did it right if you want to say I'm gonna climb
that and I'm gonna climb bigger awesome like I'm pumped I'm weirdly not cheering
for you cuz I'm I'm just a weirdly competitive dude this is actually
something I'm not proud of I'm comfortable saying this and I believe
this is a flaw but I don't want my kids to beat me I don't like I don't I
saying it I know this is where I get in trouble people will take one little clip
from one video interview and they're like you're a bad eye it's just my truth
I don't want to bullshit you guys like I'm that competitive
I just want them to be all in on them right like I don't need them to be an
entrepreneur I don't need them to make me proud they don't need to go to
Harvard they don't need to give shit they need to be themselves all in and
they need to be kind and I'm good
like everybody thinks their stuff is so good like everyday Gary my instagrams so
on fire soda awesome why is nobody like why am I not gaining
followers cuz it's not awesome
think we all think our stuff is the best and like I get that but yeah that would
be my advice only because that also is liberating me everything's about
breathing right like to me everything is about like take full ownership for
everything and then everything gets easy cuz then you're in control and then
learn how to love to lose I think that's how that's how entrepreneurship that's
how life is we all have losses and so I like losses I love adversity
I like the climb I like the chip on my shoulder I like when people like all I
knew and he's not that good that is like like I'm even weirdly scared as I
continue to ascend and I'm getting popular and wouldn't you say the
marketing leaning like if people start putting these words in front of my name
I'm like am I gonna sabotage myself to like recorrect this like I like
adversity so yeah all on me you know I enjoy losses now all of a sudden like
what you become completely invincible I feel invincible I really genuinely
outside of the health of myself and 20 people feel 100% invincible as a person
I know what my intent is I want to do good at nobody else's expense I'm far
from perfect we all are and so just easy it feels very light to
live life I'm just in a good mood
them home and I think modern-day parents and most parents do not do that
I think they focus on dumb shit like grades because they are insecure and
they want to put the bumper sticker that their kid went to you know Stanford like
it's real fucked up when you really think about what's actually happening so
much of it is misery loves company or people reflecting of what's inside of
them
is the impact that you want to have on the world same thing that attracts so
many of millions of people to people that are selling bullshit those same
people are attracted to me and what I want to do is suffocate out all those
other people and become the Alpha of that entire world of people that are are
hoping and are desperate to look at me and what I want to do is inspire two 14
year old girls in Kansas City right now to build a billion dollar company on
having a bunch of employees hugging each other in a house I think that Steve Jobs
came along became an icon but the sad part of that narrative was he did not
treat his employees well he became an icon and the narrative became and he got
the most out of people by being a jerk and that became romanticized and a lot
of people in Silicon Valley today run companies worth their mean because they
think that's the right thing to do because they put Steve Jobs on a
pedestal I want my pedestal moment I want to
become that big and what I want to come from that is that kids that aren't even
born think that they can build a five billion
dollar company and be a great guy or great gal I want to build the biggest
building in town ever by just building the biggest building in town while I
think most people try to tear down everybody else's building so I think
positivity and good is practical advice to building an empire and I want to be
the poster child of the person that don't biggest baddest empire and did it
by being a good dude along the way and not everybody's gonna be happy about
everything I did but if it's 97% of people talking good behind your back
that's a real legacy and I want to do it in a pop culture way I'm gonna do it
anyway people have done that before just so you know there's plenty of people
Warren Buffett's a really good dude like there's plenty of people that have done
that there's a difference I want to do it and I want to be a rock star right
like and that's where you influence people like you know like I want to do
it but I also want to be the most popular and so then that person's like
oh I want to be him so I guess I'll be nice like I want to literally take
people who have DNA that's kind of nice and make them more nice because they
think that's how I became big so I basically want to trick the business
world into becoming kinder
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