Die versteckten Kosten des Trinkens

0:00The thing that no one recognizes is that drinking costs you two days, the day you drink and the day you recover, and sometimes the weeks afterwards for the stupid thing you did while you were drunk that everyone else saw. It reminds me of this quote from Muhammad Ali, and I asked my team to pull it up cuz I think it's so good, also cuz he was the greatest of all time and just a cool dude. What's the the central part of your training? Is it running? Is it sparing or What's important is >> [music]

0:24>> dodging the nightclubs and the parties and the girls. You want the truth? And being in the bed by yourself 9:00 at night. Another thing? Drink. If you can get by that, you'll make it. Hey Muhammad. That's the truth. Now, I tell you the truth. You talk about that running and hitting the bags and jogging and vitamin you want. >> It's morality. >> Dodging ladies is the main thing. Morality. Especially when you're pretty like me.

0:51And I'll speak to myself personally, when I had my intense periods of work, I would take off for a long, long time. So, the longest that I took off was 2 years while I was scaling Gym Launch from, you know, the 20 months we went from zero to 4 and 1/2 million a month, 4.4 to be technical. I didn't drink that whole period. And once things settled out, I was like, all right, I'm willing to drink again. And right now, acquisition.com is scaling like crazy, and so Leila and I both said, let's just stop drinking for the foreseeable. And same thing now. So, that was when I was in my 20s, this is now when I'm in my 30s, and I'll probably continue this until I feel like I'm at a place where things feel chill again, and then like maybe I'll I'll partake again. But, the thing is is like if you are hungry, argue me the opposite, which is me drinking more will make it more likely for me to hit my goals. I think you'd have a tough time making that argument.

1:40And so right now, everything's compounding is amplified, right? The stuff you do now amplifies throughout your career in your life. And so, I would want to stack as many advantages I can to my favorite, which is like I'm going to go to sleep on time. I'm going to not drink, right? I'm going to get in shape, right? I'm going to do as many repetitions I can. I'm going to humble myself with people who are more experienced than I am, even if I think I'm smarter than them. They still know more, and there's a big difference and this is what I think is really tough for younger guys is that your brain at 25 to, you know, like 25-ish, 25 to 30 is like peak processing power.

2:19But, I'm way [ __ ] smarter now than I was then, because I've still learned more. And that's the thing is is that you may be smarter than someone in sheer processing power, but they still might know more than you. And so, you can't live their life. And especially if somebody is further ahead, then they it still means that they have knowledge that you don't. And so, list and humbling yourself to somebody even if you think you are smarter, will teach you more. Cuz again, argue the opposite.

2:49I will learn nothing from no one. How does that help you? It helps you if your ego feel good, but at some point your ego's going to have to rectify its good feeling with reality, which is that you're broke as [ __ ] and no one cares. And so, I would rather humble myself rather than have the world humble me. This is a Bible quote that I just really like a lot. It's Matthew 23:12. He said, "Those who are humble will be exalted, and whoever exalts himself will be humbled." I actually told that to one of our our team the other day cuz I felt like his ego was getting a little bit bigger than it probably should have been. And I said, "Listen, man." I was like, "If you want to get humbled, keep doing what you're doing."

3:24I was like, "But if you want people to talk you up," I was like, "Humble yourself. Let your work work for you, and then everyone else will exalt you." And so, I think most men want to be respected. They don't have respect, and so they compensate by exalting themselves because it makes them feel better in the short term, but you look like an idiot in the long term. And think about it like this. Like, for some reason, I don't know why we're wired this way, but we say nice things about ourselves and we feel good, but everyone else feels bad, right? If everyone else says nice things about you, it doesn't make them feel bad to say it, but it makes you feel good.

3:55Think about those people in your life who always like talk themselves up. It's like, what do you see? You're like, this guy's so insecure. It's obvious. And you look that way. You don't feel that way, but you look that way. And some of the things that you develop as you get older is the separation between how I look and how I feel, which is like, oh, even though this feels good, I look dumb doing this. Your feelings can lie to you in terms of how well this behavior is serving you with your goals in the long term. And while we're talking about your friends exalting you and your friends saying you're cool, how much do their opinions of you really matter? Cuz now this is going to take a completely different direction than you expected, which is you being humble is a description that other people would give to you. But it relies on you caring a lot of what they think, which is a double-edged sword.

4:40And the younger you are, actually at all points, it hurts you. It's kind of like the stock market. One person, two person, one day or two days in the stock market, it's just about sentiment. But how big the stock goes over a decade is about how good the intrinsic stock is. And so, if a few people say you're an [ __ ] no big deal. If everyone says you're an [ __ ] probably a problem, right? And so, it's understanding the nuance between that. But your friend group has a disproportionate sway over your behavior.

5:08And so, your reference group is one of the number one correlations with how big your life gets, or rather, the goals you achieve. Now, they've done the studies in terms of finance cuz these are easy to quantify, but your reference group, the five people you compare yourself to, not necessarily spend the most time with, but compare yourself to, are the ones that determine your future. And so, sometimes you have to like your goals more than you like your friends.

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