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This episode is/was in early access for members from Tue, 5 Aug 2025 until Tue, 19 Aug 2025. Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — In a world of instant gratification and easier access to everything than ever before, people have never been lazier than they are right now. That gives you an opportunity every day to outwork, out-perform, and out-think everybody you're up against, and win even more. Push yourself on a daily basis, and you will dominate. Spoken by: Andy Frisella instagram.com/andyfrisella…
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The real battleground is in your mind. You got people betting against you. They’re like, he ain’t going to do it. I bet there’s a person inside of you that says, nah, you’re not going to do this. You’re going to have to fight that. You know who my own worst enemy is? Freaking me. This battle has no opponent. It is only you versus you. The only motherf*cking thing that beats you is you. The only thing that can stop you is you. You guys got a person inside of you and that’s the old you.
Dude, I got a person right here that’s standing back here in this mirror waiting for me to back-pedal and go back to my old life. I see that son of a b*tch every day. I’m going to keep outgrowing. I’m going to keep moving. Ain’t no way in hell I’m going back there. And those little things, those little menial tasks that add up, you have to execute them. And when your brain tells you that you got a great reason today not to do it, and you want to listen to your brain, ’cause your brain doesn’t want you to be a big success.
Your brain just wants to keep you alive. Your brain doesn’t give a f*ck about your little dreams. It’s gonna lie to you, it’s gonna trick you. And you know what it sounds like. "Train smarter, not harder." No actually. Keep training hard. If you’re totally committed, what do you do? I always tell people, if you want to take the island, burn the boats. Because as long as there’s a way out, our brains will take it. I gave myself no way out and my mind realized that.
It said, okay. We’re going to adapt and overcome now. Because he is not going to stop. You need to win battles in order to win the war. You need to get out of bed. You need to run. You need to work out. You need to read and study and practice and you need to do things that you don’t necessarily want to do. And I know that can be hard, that’s why people lose the war. Your feelings will never cooperate with your dream. You have to reserve your feelings and do it anyway.
The daily fight is a challenge. That’s right. It’s gonna suck. Doesn’t matter. Work harder. When something sucks, good. It’s going to make me tougher. It’s going to give me a good story to tell. It’s going to toughen my mind. I don’t negotiate with weakness. I’m not trying to convince myself. I’m not trying to negotiate with myself. I’m not debating what I should do. I am executing the plan. And I recommend that you do the same. Don’t talk. Go execute.
Easy choices lead to a hard life. Hard choices lead to an easy life. You may not want to fight that battle, but you need to. You need to know your strategic goals and you need to know why they are important, and then you need to get up, get out of your damn bed, get off your phone, and get to work. Hard work works. And you know what’s great about our culture, y’all? The world’s lazy. It’s a good thing for you and me. Nobody wants to do it. Everybody will talk about it.
Everybody will post about it. But nobody wants to roll up their sleeves and just go get it. You can change you. You’d be surprised how good you’d be if you just decide to win. Be number one in your office. Number one in your region. It takes a want to become a number one. Number ones never cut corners. Number ones never take breaks. Number ones don’t drop the f*cking ball. They are on it. They have a sense of urgency, they f*cking care, and they’re going to get everything done that they need to get done to win.
Your success is going to be predicated more than anything on your hunger and desperation level and your ability to get laser focused and eliminate the distractions in your life. We think if we f*cking got up early for four days, we’ve earned something. You gotta drop your entire mindset. It’s not acceptable. You need to f*cking work harder. You need to f*cking discipline your mind better. ABD, you always be developing. If you’re not developing, you’re losing.
Study yourself the way the best hedge fund managers study stocks and look how quickly you’ll start changing many of your bad habits with good ones. Work harder on you. Go invest in you. That’s the best investment. Develop your skills. If you’re the best doctor or lawyer or salesperson or whatever, it doesn’t matter what happens to the economy, you’re going to do well. And it gets better with time. Most people work the hardest when trying to reach the top.
Once they can get to that hundred thousand dollars, once they get to that million dollars, they worked as hard as they can work. The great ones work even harder after they get to the hundred thousand, harder after they get to the million, harder after they’re famous. Harder after they’ve got a big following. Harder after they get that promotion. The great ones work even harder after they get what they want. You already know what works. You know what to put in your body.
You know how to treat your body. you know what to put in your brain. You know how you should be using the hours that you have. It’s just getting yourself to actually f*cking do it. That is how successful people become successful people. They pay the price other people aren’t willing to pay. They understand what they have to do. That they’re going to have to do sh*t that they f*cking hate. But what they also understand is they’re not willing to settle for anything less than what they want.
If you want to dictate the life on your terms, if you want to dictate the success that you’re going to create, and if you’re ambitious to the point where you’re not satisfied with living the status quo bullsh*t, you’ve got to learn to master the sh*t that everybody else thinks is irrelevant. When you start working nonstop and pushing yourself every single day, your life is going to get better. There is no question.
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