You can’t have strong character and an easy life – the tradeoff of big goals

0:00If you want to achieve a goal, you're either going to have to accept boredom or pain. And the bigger the goal, the more of both you'll get. [music] And when I started my gym, I actually lived with six other people in one house. So there this is like off a beach town. And so think like sand everywhere, people everywhere, dirty dishes everywhere, like not enough room in refrigerator for food, cooking was an absolute mess, and I [music] would sleep with a fan on my face I couldn't hear anything. That was my secret. And um

0:30>> [music] >> The thing is is like I was doing that when I was making like 20 grand a month take home. And so like there's always trade-offs, right? [snorts] And the trade-off for me of living in that condition [music] was that I could invest in the dream and build the business that I had at the time. And [music] now I could look back cuz I ended up losing everything, um you know, a few years later. And so I try you know, you get this negative cycle of like all of that suffering was for nothing.

0:56But it wasn't for nothing because I learned all these skills along the way. And so you also can't operate from the perspective of like I might lose it all in the future, which means everything I do today is not worth anything because like you're going to lose 100% of everything the moment you die. >> [music] >> So trying to say that you might lose something in the future is a reason not to do something is ridiculous. You're going to lose everything at some point. And so you cannot wish for both strong character and an easy life because the price of one is the other.