334 Get an Elite Perspective

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  This is Five Minute Friday, episode number 334, and it's time to tap into some elite perspectives.

• 0:08Lewis Howes?

  There's so many young entrepreneurs, you know this through your coaching, that have been following what their parents want them to do, or following what their siblings have done, or following what their friends are doing, as opposed to actually like looking inside and saying, "What is it that I want to do?" And I'll tell you what, it's scary doing things differently than all your friends and parents. You know, I've lost so many friends from college along the way because I didn't stick around with them and do the same things that they were doing. I went and did my own thing, and I'd still try to reach out and be in touch with them, and they did just stop talking to me. And I was like, "Why do my friends not want to hang out with me or talk to me anymore?" And I realized it because I was leaving the pack. So I think that fear of like losing relationships is a big one, because we were born to connect.

• 0:53Lewis Howes?

  And when we've built relationships and vulnerable with people that we are friends with and family, and when they leave us, you know, or when they start to distance themselves from us because we're not doing what they want us to do, it is freaking scary, man. No one wants to be alone. No one wants to be not accepted. We didn't show up here to be like, "Okay, I'm gonna create something so people don't accept me." Connect with the people who you will please and serve them in a bigger way, and always give your best. But, you know, the biggest leaders in the world either have half the world for them or half the world against them. I think of Martin Luther King, it's like, yeah, half the world hating him, like more so than everyone else, and then half the world like supporting him and loving him. The more clear we are in our dreams and our passion and our mission,

• 1:38Lewis Howes?

  the more we're going to be separating people that love us and hate us.

• 1:46Speaker 02

  I decided, dude, I'm gonna change my game, and that meant I had to get an education, I had to get, I'm a real education, not a school education. And I had to get around hitters and players and guys who were making moves and not just my old friends. I don't want to grow up in the average. And it was, I think there was this, at that moment, there's, and I think everybody has this, you know how much potential you have, every individual knows, it's what gets you up in the morning, it's like, man, it's what inspires you when you watch some film and you see some great, you see LeBron flying through the air, you know, a- and dunking the ball, you're like, oh my god, I think it's not that you want to be a basketball player, but that you see greatness, we recognize greatness in others, and it, and it's a spark

• 2:27Speaker 02

  or a moment or a reflection of, oh wow, man, I have some greatness in me too, and, and, and that grading, grinding, kinda, reminder, you know, you, you either surrender to it and say, okay, I'm just gonna sit by the, I'm gonna be a spectator, or, for those of you listening today, you're probably those guys and gals that are like, okay, I, I can't sit on the sidelines, I have to be in the game.

• 2:53Speaker 03

  So if it's task completion, let's say you have a series of tasks that you need to do, and all tasks can be ordered by priority, this one task is more important, this second task is second more important, our conversation right now is my number one concern in life, all right, I have lots of other things to do, but there are two, three, and four, so, then what you do is, if task completion is the most important thing, then the most important task is the most important thing to complete, this by the way, has been a secret for success, for becoming wealthy, going back more than a hundred years, is just starting, is identifying your most important task and completing that task. Positive addiction to endorphins, and endorphins are, are, are, are drugs produced by the brain

• 3:36Speaker 03

  that make you feel happy, and they make you feel positive, and they make you feel genial and personable, and they give you energy and they strengthen your immune system, and you can only get endorphins when you do something that is life enhancing, and completing important tasks is one of the most life enhancing things you can do, so you can actually addict, get yourself addicted to success, and this is the way that top people do it, they get themselves addicted to this feeling of productivity from the first thing in the morning, and they don't let themselves off the hook, and they don't waste time checking email and sending messages until they're on top of their major task.

• 4:14Speaker 04

  Society has a preordained script and you're supposed to follow the script. The script says you're supposed to go to school. The script says this, the script says that, and people blindly follow the script without actually asking, why are they following it? And why are they doing it this way? And, you know, I don't want to be sound like conspiracy theorists here, but there is an agenda working here to get kids into college, to get them saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and get them into the system that emburdens them to a job and a consumptuous lifestyle where you're always consuming something. And it's really a part of the game.

• 4:57Speaker 04

  It's part of the game is realizing that there is a game afoot. And it's not that you want to play the game. You want to learn how to serve the game.

• 5:18Speaker 00

  I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. My man Peter from AmbitionMixtape.com produced this and put it together. He had a part of me on there, and I thought it would be great to share with you some other inspiration from some crazy, amazing entrepreneurs out there for this Five Minute Friday. So make sure to check out all of Peter's work on all the mixtapes he does. He does a lot of these different, inspiring mixtape episodes at AmbitionMixtape.com. I appreciate you guys. If you enjoyed this, make sure to share it out, LewisHowes.com/334. And you know what time it is. It's time to go out there and do something great.