REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 480. Q&AF: Biggest Strength In Business, Risking Financial Stability & Taking Pride In Skills

Episode Date: March 2, 2023

In today's episode, Andy answers your questions on the biggest strength young entrepreneurs can take advantage of early on their business journey, when's the right time to risk financial stability for your ultimate goals, and why seeking recognition for your skills is a recipe for disaster.

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like if we're shitty don't share it that's pretty very rare though yeah yeah yeah of course because we're good yeah we just won't post it what's going on man oh not much yeah dude uh somebody wrote in this question i wanted to get your thoughts, because I know you and I have talked about this off air a few times. What's your take on the whole idea of dreaming, right? In which regard? Do you think dreams have deeper meanings? The person, I think the gist of the question was, he's having this constant dream.

He's had it, I think, 15 times in the last 100 days or something like that. Do you think they have like more meaning? Like, do you think what are your thoughts on that? Like, because I know we're very into like, you know, the visualization aspect and how the universe works. Do you think that dreams are tied into that at all? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know, man. I think, you know, I've had recurring dreams in my life where that made no sense. You know, I, I, the recurring dreams that I've had in my life have always resulted of some sort of like traumatic change, not dramatic, traumatic change in my life. Like I had dreams about me getting stabbed um i had dreams when i quit playing football that

was a massive part of my life yeah um i don't know dude i really don't i know everybody has theories on that um but here's what i do believe i do believe that there's a lot of our brain that we do not we the peasant humans that's us um do not understand because they don't tell us what it actually does it's been pulled out of it yeah i think they are well aware of what humans are capable of i think the people that make the rules and make the laws and tax us and fucking own the media and fuck with us and all this shit yeah i think those people know exactly what humans are capable of but i think that we just see glimmers and hints of it sometimes. And I think like some of the work that's been done by Dr. Joe Dispenza or people that have

done work in quantum physics and metaphysics, you know, a lot of these people get dismissed as quackery. But the reality is, is that like when you start practicing the techniques that these people talk about, they work yeah and so i i truly believe that like these governments in the world exist for the most part to protect the most elite people on the planet and to suppress us humans from understanding our own true potential i don't know how dreams work into that, but I'm sure they know. Yeah. Well, and I think about,

I mean, when you speak on the untapped potential, right? Like you look at civilizations in the past, like you look at the Egyptians that were building pyramids and shit, right? Like, I think it's safe to say, and we still don't know how the fuck, like with all of our technology and all of our advancements that we have in our current civilization you know i thought about the

pyramids dude yeah i thought about this i mean i always fucking rack my brain about how they built these fuckers and nobody knows no i thought about it i thought about how you could how humans could have built it they could have excavated all the way around it and built it from the top down yeah okay now that wouldn't make any sense because you have to remove like all the deserts a decent amount of fucking land move yeah it's possible it's like what's not possible is living a 400 ton brick 400 feet in the fucking sky well that's what i'm saying but like if if if their potential was not suppressed back then how do we know what they were actually?

I don't even believe that we're the same species of human. I don't, I don't even like, bro, listen, I'm so far off the fucking reservation in terms of what I actually believe is true. I don't believe,

I believe that there was a prior civilization to humanity that inhabited this planet that were either alien or they had super they had better abilities better technology that we had yeah and and i believe that's known and i believe that that's that's known by the people who know what the the truth is uh i believe we deserve to know yeah but i believe it's known and like dude if you go back um there's a show on on netflix right now i can't recall the name of it but there's a show where what is it ancient civilizations is that what it is i was on rogan i think yeah yeah he talked about oh rogan talked about it no he had that guy on oh he did well dude i mean like look if you if you look into this stuff in an outside the narrative viewpoint, there's a lot of things that make no sense.

Like, dude, human history goes back 12,000 years, right? And then they have a dinosaur. That's what they say. Hold on. And then they have the dinosaurs that are millions of years. But they don't tell you shit about what happened in between. Right, right. Okay, but there's all these elements and architecture and symbolism bro why is it that there's hieroglyphs on pyramids

on every major continent in the entire earth that match like that doesn't make sense until similar stories that's what i'm saying like bro we're sold a lie and like people people will hear me say this and they'll be like fuck fuck, dude, this guy's insane. I'm not insane. You explain it to me. Explain it to me. Explain to me how that's true. Well, let me play the devil's advocate.

Right. So like they always say that, like, you know, part of the reason is like, you know, well, we could like it's like the what's that movie? The Gentleman. You can't handle handle the truth. Oh, yeah. Do you think that like do you think there's anything to that like i mean maybe we we can't know that because we've destroyed our previous civilization i mean there there is a conspiracy theory that giants were alive back then

they broke they've listened there have been skeletal remains that are found abnormally large smithsonian keeps them yes yeah like these are things that exist that most people don't know exist there's been giant human skulls discovered that are fucking three feet across like these things have happened and like they're brushed away from the public knowledge like bro most people think fucking you know they think about fucking kardashians and fucking aoc and like that's what they're fucking like they don't look at anything and like dude the cool thing about the internet is allows us access to see all this stuff but dude you gotta look for it yeah so i you know like look dude i'm not the authority on what the

fuck was or wasn't but i know this i know there's a whole bunch of shit we don't know and i know there's a whole bunch of people keeping us from knowing it that's what the fuck i know that's a fact man well let's increase some uh some people's potentials today yeah and i think there's a lot of things for example like the law of attraction which i talked i talk about consistently do you guys really think i come on here and talk about this shit if i thought it was bullshit like do you think i'd really come on here like you know i'm saying yeah like i don't like this is real shit and like sometimes sometimes you have to have faith that things actually work before you understand that they work.

Now, you don't necessarily need to know how. Bro, like, look, dude. Why? When I started implementing the law of attraction into my life and visualization in my life, I thought it was total bullshit. I just did it because I was so i was in such a fucking bad spot i'm like well fuck it can't hurt right and it turns out that shit works it does work i don't care what anybody says it fucking works so you know like you might hear this

and you might say like you know fuck that sounds crazy but dude I've had some crazy things. I thought were crazy to redefine my entire existence as a human. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, bro. Yeah. Well, let's, uh, let's increase some people's potentials today, man. Let's do that. And that's what, that's what the whole point of this show is. So let's get into it, man. Andy, question number one, Andy, 24 years ago in business, when you were just getting started, what would you say at that time was your biggest strength during those early days in your business? And then how would you tell somebody today to kind of build and improve and develop on that skill? What was your biggest skill 24 years ago? No one's going to like this answer. No one's going to like this answer.

It's ignorance my biggest strength was what i didn't fucking know because if i knew if i would fucking have known what i was signing up for and how hard it was going to be i wouldn't have fucking done it man yeah nobody likes that answer okay so i thought i was smart i thought i was capable i thought i was all this shit and i had just enough cockiness not not confidence, arrogance to believe that I could do it. And, and I, you know, I had an attitude of fuck you. I don't really care what you say, which I still have today. Um, and I think those that my ignorance to the reality of the situation and my ability to like, look at people right in the face and say, fuck off or probably my two biggest strengths. Wow. You know, but I don't know how you develop

ignorance. You know what I mean? Like, because as you because as you develop, it's the Dunning-Kruger effect. You know, like, dude, like, I see these people, they're a year in their business or they're a year into their social media or whatever they do. And they think they got it all figured out they think that they're a genius and and it's like bro the longer you go and anything the more you realize how much you really don't know but but when you start to realize that you don't know things the whole the whole time you're starting you're developing real skills what act which actually makes you credible yeah you know so it's like you know i i think that i think there's a strong i think there's a very strong advantage to being a little bit ignorant to what the reality is of what you're capable

uh in terms of how fast you know i was always someone who wanted things fast. They never went fast. But because I wanted them fast, I worked hard to make them happen fast. Right. So this is where like selective urgency concept comes into play. I was always urgent. So like, even though I, I wanted to be where I wanted to be three years into my business and then three years into my business, I still wasn't getting paid. I was still pushing as hard as I could to get to that point. I didn't let that deter me, right? The way I looked at it at that point in time was, all right, it didn't happen yet and I still can't see it happening but i got three years in now so that's three years i'm closer to it happening than i was three years ago yeah and that's how i yeah so you know i think i think you know people want to have it all figured out and they want to have

all the skills and they want to have all the answers they want to have all the information and then they want to go and that doesn't work it. It's not, that's not how it works. You have to go before you know anything. You have to go when you're, when you, you're unqualified, when you don't feel like you're ready. Like that's when you're supposed to go. Because dude, the truth is nobody really figures anything out until they're fucking doing it. That's the truth. And reality mirrors that like in the corporate world and shit like, yeah, you know, they got us all tricked. You have to have this degree and you got to have That's the truth. And reality mirrors that like in the corporate world and shit. Like, yeah, you know, they got us all tricked. You have to have this degree and you got to have this and you got to have that. You got to have this and this and this.

But once you get the fucking job, they just teach you on the job. Yeah. That's every fucking job out there, whether it's it doesn't matter. Yeah. Law enforcement. Yeah. It doesn't matter. That's one of the first things we were told.

Whatever you learn, forget about it. So people have this idea that they have to be like credible. Yeah. And because they have this idea, especially in entrepreneurship, that they have to be credible, they wait around for someone who is credible, okay? Like someone like me to come and say, hey, dude, I believe in you. You could do this. I fell into that trap.

I thought that I needed to earn the trust and the respect and the approval of other people who are more credible to me as an entrepreneur. But the only problem with that is, is that doesn't exist. That's not a real thing. Okay. to approve them when there is no system or game or operation or, uh, cultural norm of a successful person going to a, a beginner and say, Hey, I, you know, that might happen. Like I try to do that. Like when I see people that I believe in, I try to let them know I believe in them, but I also let them know that it's going to take everything they fucking got.

Yeah. Cause the belief part of somebody else is kind of irrelevant guys like it doesn't matter and we search so much for external approval especially the way society is built now right like you guys you guys look for approval on instagram you look for approval on facebook you look for approval on tick tock you look for approval you look for approval you look for approval well if you condition yourself to look for fucking approval to be successful. And there is no person or success theory or any system. The people that you're wanting that approval from are so busy doing their own shit, they don't notice that you've even started. And so it's very lonely.

It's counterintuitive. But you have to go before you're ready, bro. You just got to fucking start. Yeah. Let me ask you this. I listen to that, right? And then think about like a lot of these young entrepreneurs and i'm i look at them like well fuck it appears like they have the ignorance right like you know i think that's a that's something a lot of older you know more older in the game entrepreneurs i

guess would say right like you don't really know shit you just don't know you don't know shit that's exactly right i feel like it's like checkbox okay like a lot of these young i see it like they have it so what what exactly are they missing are they missing that conversion no no i think a lot of people just wait they're waiting they're waiting they're waiting for that approval like they're waiting to get qualified like people like bro they're when i went to college bro i took entrepreneurship as like my sub major um i remember going into my entrepreneurship course and i remember i at this time remember i owned a business like i came from my business got my book bag to go to class right and then i went and sit in a class listen to this guy right and this guy sounded very knowledgeable and i was i was like well

this guy knows his right so i raised my hand one day in class i said you know mr professor like well what businesses have you run he's like well i've never actually ran a business but this is what i'm certified to teach and i know all i've interviewed these people and i did it and blah blah blah so like that kind of i was like well fuck i'm taking time out of my day from actually running a business to learn about running a business from someone who's never ran a business right all right that didn't sit well with me so i decided to follow him out one day after class and watch what he drove home and he got in this little easter egg rusted out shit box with a muffler hanging on the fucking ground i'm not joking either it was like sparking up. Drove home.

And I'm like, I'm not fucking paying to learn business from someone who never ran a business, who drives home in a piece of shit. That's not what the fuck my goals are. And like at that point in time, dude, I get like on that day, I gave up on formal education. I went to the bookstore. I started reading books. Yeah. I put myself around every successful person I could.

Like we didn't have things like Arte Syndicate then, right? Like that didn't exist because of social media and the internet and that shit didn't exist. Um, I wish it had because I would have been able to get so much more guidance from people who were actually doing and in the game. Right. Uh, but it didn't. And so like I went to work trying to learn everything i could and i just i guess that's when i realized also that no one's gonna come tell me i'm like good enough to do this i'm just gonna have to do it yeah and i made it my mission bro and i took it personal and like

you know like you guys hear me i i'll chirp sometimes about the people used to talk to me about and you know get a real job you know when you're going to grow up when i took that shit personal and i fucking poured it in i said you know what i'm going to show you motherfuckers and that's what the fuck i did and um i suggest that when you're young and you're in the beginning uh you should adopt a similar mentality that you're going to show every motherfucker that ever doubted you uh in your entire life what the fuck you're made of and what you're you're going to create and and i think that's a healthy attitude you know society now they're so fucking soft they try to like say oh that's that's not a healthy thing what difference does it make if you fucking get there doesn't fucking make a difference because if you get there now you've created a life

for yourself and you've created all kinds of different jobs for the people all kinds of different people like like there's a lot of people out there that don't know shit, giving advice about shit that they shouldn't be. That's basically the bottom line. So the biggest asset that you have is to be ignorant, not listening to those motherfuckers and just fucking go. I love it, man. I love it. Andy, question number two, moving right along. Andy, I am 34 years old. I've been working in the tech industry for a long time. I know this isn't what I want for the rest of my life. It pays great, supports my family. However, I'm unhappy. My passion is in fitness. And that's what I love. I love helping people and getting better every single day. I'm

not a coach, just something I have a passion for. I'm just worried about my financial situation if I go for it. Should I go for it and risk the financial stability or stay put since I'm easily able to support my family where I'm at? What are your thoughts on this? Well, I don't know, man. Cause like, dude, you're, you're not, you're only giving me part of the thought process. Let me give you another part that you need to think about. Um, just because when you're, when your passion is, let's just say fitness and it becomes your career, you lose the passion for it the way you had it before okay nobody talks about that nobody does talk about that because now it becomes a

career and now like while you may still enjoy it that you you because there's things about work that none of us fucking like every single person that has to work has to do shit that they don't fucking like that's the reality there's parts of my job that i have to to do shit that they don't fucking like that's the reality there's parts of my job that i have to do even today that i don't enjoy and i'm not passionate about right but i do them because it's important to myself it's important to the brands it's important to people that i employ so i fucking do them and i do them well all right so we have to understand there's always going to be things that we don't want to do that we have to fucking do that's the reality and because people talk about passion so much in this day and age people think that they're going to walk into a

career in their passion in this case fitness And it's going to be fucking beautiful. This is going to be like fucking people playing harps and like, really want to check the factory. Yeah. Like, and that's not reality. It's not even close to reality because at the end of the day, it's a fucking business. Now it's not just something you're enjoying.

So my first question to this person would be, do you want to give up your main sense of enjoyment to make it part of your job? Because there's going to be parts of that job, even though you're passionate about it, that you don't like. That's something to ask yourself. Then something to ask yourself is this, what's the long-term outlook economically for myself going down the furthest possible path in both areas? Okay. Then there's the question of this. How happy will I be? Will I be more happy with the path that makes more money or will I be more happy with the path that makes less money? But also understanding the path that makes less money may also be just as unenjoyable as the thing

I'm doing now. Okay. So like there's a lot of things to evaluate for sure. Now here's what I'll say about passion. And this is where it's important. It's not important for the reason that most of these gurus on the internet say it's important. It's that's they're, they're full of shit. Okay. And let me tell you why it's important. It's important because there is a time. All right. When I started in business on day one, and it took me three years to get a fuck, start getting a fucking paycheck. Okay. What do you think carried me through those three years when I wasn't getting paid? It was my passion for training and lifting and working out and athletics and sports and sharing that passion with my customers. Okay.

That passion is important, not because everything's going to be great, but because when you have passion for something that you're doing, you're more likely to endure the hard times and, and, and go through them where other people who are not passionate, they will quit at that time. So it gives you an advantage over people who aren't passionate. Does that make sense? Absolutely. All right. So that's where passion is passion is valuable now a lot of people like to paint this butterfly happy bullshit story around passion but if you notice those same people will go from thing to thing to thing and then when it doesn't work what do they say i'm not passionate about that anymore well what you're really not passionate about is the hard work it takes to be fucking great at that thing that you're trying to do. So let's not talk about it as passion. Let's talk about it as work. Work is hard. There's going to

be hard things that have to be done. When you go to a gourmet restaurant and you sit down and you have the finest fucking meal that you've ever had, 30 feet away from you, there's a whole bunch of people sweating their fucking asses off, working their asses off to make that happen for you to deliver that and there's no difference in anything that you choose whether it be your uh what did he say he did uh he's in tech yeah whether it be tech whether it be fitness whether it be becoming a restaurateur whether it be becoming a race car driver it doesn't fucking matter there's a shit ton of work that goes involved that people don't understand. Right. And so like,

you have to fucking understand that, like, just because, and by the way, this is the truth. Grass always does look greener from the other side of the fence. All right. Especially in your career,

you know, Oh dude, like dude, we get this shit at first form, dude. Like people think that we're running around all day with our fucking phones out, you know, doing jumping jacks in the fucking gym. running around all day with our fucking phones out, you know,

doing jumping jacks in the fucking gym. Yeah. All day long. Yeah. Having a fucking great. Dude, look, do we have fun here? Fuck yeah. But do we work hard here?

Fuck yeah, we work hard. That fucking slogan that we use, we do the work. That's not from the gym. That's from life. Okay. So like, you know, we have to be realistic about things. We have to set realistic expectations. And just because you're passionate about the, in this case, it happens to be fitness doesn't mean that you're going to enjoy making that your entire life. So like, these are questions to evaluate. So I can't really tell you what to do, but you should think it

through. Yeah, absolutely. Kai, I want to ask ask you this and if you can dispel this myth because i feel like it's a common one i think people tend to tend to kind of lump together passion and the financial success part of it right like if you're passionate like it automatically is going to equal money do you think that is true no no not at all not Not at all. Can it be true? It can be true, but it's not, it's not fucking, it's not binary true. Like you have this, you have that. Like, it's not like that. Like it's, it can be true. I am passionate about fitness.

I am like, bro, I am passionate about working out and training. Changing lives, yeah. Dude, I am passionate about seeing people change their lives because I've changed my life and I know how fucking amazing it is after doing that work all right what i tell you the other day bro if we could create a product dude dj and i'm talking on saturday and actually nate and i were talking about this uh nate and jim uh bro if you if you could create a product, this is a product.

If you motherfuckers create this, dude, you're going to be a billionaire. All right? I'm going to give you a free one. You figure it the fuck out. But if you could create a day in the life of your ideal life, okay? Like, if I could take fucking loser fat fucking stupid dickhead andy all right and then like let him live a day that andy now lives like you know take 19 year old andy all right 20 25 year old andy 30 year old andy who was all all the same because i didn't

really grow that during that time and let him walk a fucking, a fucking day with me now, dude, I would have worked a hundred times harder. I would have fucking done anything, you know? And it's like, you could take a person and show them for 24 hours, what it was like to live in a healthy fit body, what it was like to earn the money you want to earn, what it was like to have the life that you want to have, bro,uckers would you you would work a thousand times harder because the real problem is that most people have never experienced any semblance of this at all so they have no idea how much better it is and what the fuck they have or they think it's too far away yeah bro but like dude if you could create what that felt like for people and just give them one day, it would change their whole fucking lives.

This is why it's important for you to be in proximity to people that are successful. Absolutely. Absolutely. But anyhow, I don't, what were you talking about? No,

just combining passion and financial gain. Oh yeah. No, I think, I think passion can help dude. Yeah. Passion will make you great. All right.

You will never be great without passion. Nobody's great. Michael Jordan would not exist if Michael Jordan was not fucking passionate about the game of basketball. will make you great all right you will never be great without passion nobody's great michael jordan would not exist if michael jordan was not fucking passionate about the game of basketball same for lebron james you can say whatever you want about him i don't care he's the fucking all-time point sleep look dude i'm not a big personal fan of like some of the shit that he says and does yeah but you got to respect what the motherfucker does he's a fucking he's he works it's un-fucking deniable he couldn't be that good if he wasn't passionate about it yeah you see what i'm saying

so like passion is a prerequisite in my opinion to becoming like one of the greatest at what you do um but not everybody's wired that way bro most people are wired for balance most people are wired for you know for for for a certain amount of time at home a day a certain amount of time at work that's how their fucking brain is wired up two vacations a year yeah and dude that's not listen i'm not shitting on that because that's the majority of people i'm just saying like if you want to be great passion is a requirement of that in my opinion and i don't think there's anybody who's uh the wright brothers were passionate about fucking creating the fucking human flight they they spent

their entire lives creating it you see what i'm saying absolutely like the best creations and the best things in in business come from people who are passionate but that's not everybody so like you have to like evaluate what's for you right like like i don't know this person like dude yes you you if i stand in a fucking theater full of people and i raise your raise your hand if you want to be great every motherfucker's gonna raise their hand and say yeah i want to be great but if i say okay now do you here's what you got to do to do it are you willing to do that? Right.

Who's willing to suffer for the next 10 years? Who's willing? But like, bro, like there's a disconnect there. Everybody wants the fucking steak, but nobody wants to fucking butcher the cow. You see what I'm saying? And like, bro, that's a real, that's a real disconnect in society because like, dude, we look around on the internet and everybody's rich and everybody's famous and everybody's Full of steaks. Yeah. Nobody's showing the butcher process.

It's full of fucking lab grown steaks. You know, there's very few real steaks on the internet. You know what I'm saying? But like we have this disconnect in the reality of what the situation is. And you know, I just try to tell you guys the truth about what it's going to take. Like if you, if you want, you can be very successful. You can make seven figure income without passion. You can do it by just being skilled, but you ain't going to make a nine figure income. You ain't going to build multi-billion dollar company. You ain't going to be considered one of the greatest to ever do what it is that you do without that passion. So you have to consider like, are you at 34 years old? Are you willing to fucking

start at zero and rebuild to have this? Or are you willing to just understand that you have this career that can do very well? It's going to provide for you and your family and you're going to remain passionate about this it's a real decision yeah for sure yeah absolutely man guys andy like bro i'm passionate about cars right fucking love cars bro i don't make cars my business you know why i don't make cars my business because every motherfucking friend i know that has made cars their business ends up hating cars I don't want to hate cars yeah like I like cars when I walk in my garage and I look around I'm like fuck this is sweet you know what I'm saying like it's like real life Hot Wheels in here yeah you know right right and uh yeah but like I like that and I would never want to start a business in the car industry because I don't want to lose that fucking feeling I have about that passion

which is one of the only few passions I have in life that's what i'm saying absolutely man thinking about it though it actually it sounds i think it would be pretty fucking sweet if you came out and manufactured your own fucking car with none of the i'm gonna buy lamborghini i am i'm gonna buy lamborghini i'm gonna fire the motherfuckers to give me that car a couple years ago i love that oh we gotta we're gonna have to talk about that we never told the story we're gonna have to talk about that that's a that's a great race team sponsor factory race team sponsor win the world championship of their fucking race team can't get a fucking allocation from them yeah i sold all my lambos in one day. People don't know that story. It's a great story.

I sold them all in one day. Yeah. And then I shipped in. I bought, at that time I had three Lambos. I sold them all three. I bought two Ferraris, which I'd never owned a Ferrari in my life. You go back and listen, back in the day, bro, I used to shit on Ferraris. Here's the coolest thing about it, is that I took a video of the cars leaving,

and the Ferrari's coming and I sent it to those motherfuckers. A Lamborghini. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great fucking story. And I tell, one day I'll tell the whole story.

Yeah. They've actually made it, they've actually done some efforts to try and make it right since then. I just never really got back into one. Um, but yeah, I mean, yeah. One day I'm gonna be the boss of that motherfucker. Yeah. We walk it through and they're gonna be like, i'm like yeah you're the you give me that thing fire yeah dj take them out nah real talk though i'd rather own the cardinals oh god no that would be dope

like legitimately yeah it'd be st louis cardinals not arizona oh yeah that's not the other cardinals that don't count no that's not even a real team who yeah where right era what guys andy our third and final question no offense you guys from the cardinals just teasing you uh andy question number three andy what are your thoughts on taking pride in your abilities or skills? I found it increasingly more difficult for people to respect my craft or the work that I do. And I take so much pride in and so much time on building. Am I putting too much emphasis on the idea of pride? How do you look at it? I think people spend far too much time worrying about how other people judge their work and far less time learning how to be great at what they do.

I think people spend far too much time trying to be famous or pretend like they're good instead of just putting their head down and becoming highly skilled and undeniably good. And I do not care if people recognize me or my skill. I do not fucking care. The real world results recognize me enough. I do not need other people's recognition. I don't care. Most people think I'm a fucking idiot. They're like, oh, you ever heard this guy talk? He fucking cursed. Yeah, you know what? I do curse. You're an idiot if you think that is something to do with someone's intelligence you know what i'm saying i'm sorry i don't speak eloquently yeah right you know for your fucking fancy dinner motherfucker right you know but i'm pretty good at a couple other things pass the motherfucking bread yeah that's right in fact i'll take the check too bitch you see what i'm

saying so like i don't i don't fucking care. And like, you shouldn't either. I think these are distractions. I think worrying about how much recognition we get. And there's a saying, right? And if you're a leader, it's important to give recognition. But if you're a leader, I think it's also important to not care about recognition personally. Yeah. But there's a saying people, people will work for money, but they'll kill for recognition. And that shows in my opinion that people are far too worried about things that really don't matter when in reality if you're fucking great at what you do and you're undeniable what you do people have to recognize that you put them in a place where they have to recognize that you're

fucking great like when the real world evidence is so overwhelming that you're that great, like you, you're, you're not really concerned if people think you're great or not great. Like you're just, you just are. And you're, you're who you are. And I feel like young people, especially get so caught up in this game of like respect and recognition. Oh, they're not respecting my work. Well, motherfucker, you've only been doing it for two fucking years you know how many people there are better than you in fact you don't even recognize that you have the amazing opportunity to even be sitting in that fucking chair that you're fucking sitting in you see what i'm saying so there's there's perspectives of

respect and recognition and i feel like young people and I was like this when I was younger too. So I'm not talking shit. I wasted a lot of time thinking about like, like, I want to make this clear. I'm not shitting on you guys that are young. I was the same way. I'm trying to tell you that I wasted a lot of time thinking the same way that you fucking think. When had I just put my head down and develop the skills necessary, I would have been where I was, like where I'm at now, literally probably maybe 10 years ago. And it would have been an undeniable, like ridiculous success story of fuck. You know what I'm saying? It's not going to matter to you. Like when you are great, like when you are great at what you do,

you're not going to care if people think you're great. You're not going to fucking care because you're going to know you're great and you're producing real results. And dude, the open market, and this is why capitalism, ethical capitalism is such a great thing, recognizes that. Like if you're not getting, if you're great at what you do and you're producing undeniable work and you're not getting what the money you need or whatever it is, somebody else going to give it to you. That's the benefit. And I think, you you know we as young people uh when we're young we start to you know we get caught up in this it's culture like dude oh you fucking put some respect to my name you're disrespecting me well fuck bro like real talk what have you done to earn respect what skills you see what i'm saying absolutely so like dude absolutely concern

yourself less with trying to get the approval of a bunch of people and concern yourself more with becoming undeniably great. And the recognition that you're looking for will automatically come. Yeah. See what I'm saying? Like, dude, like don't try to manufacture the recognition or the respect. Manufacture the result and the recognition, the respect come with that. That make sense? I would say that's people's biggest issue because that's how fucking works they try to give themselves

way more credit than they actually yeah but dude you're not fooling anybody right because there's motherfuckers like me to been in the game for a fucking quarter century dude like i look at a motherfucker like oh you're not respect bro i've seen you do this like you've been doing this for a year and a half like you're really not that good in fact i'm giving you a tremendous opportunity to fucking develop and and i'm giving true you see what i'm saying absolutely like there's perspective to this and like so we have to recognize that even though we may think we're so great like there's people out here that are gonna look at your and be like you ain't there yet you know the greatest the people who actually are great they still don't think

that they're there no and when you are great, people are like fighting to get you. Like, that's the reality. Like if your shit was, if you were really as great as what you think you are, there would be a line out the door waiting for people to fucking pick you up, pay you, hire you fucking all that shit. That, that like, like a lot lot of these i see a lot of these dudes trying to become speakers and shit right and then they they think that because they've been doing it for a while that they're good at it no bro here's how you know you're great at it

you know how you know how you know you're great at speaking how many people stopped us on their fucking walk today about five five. Five fucking people in public. Normally, we walk a private route. Today, we rocked a public route. There was cars that stopped while we were walking down the road. There was four of them. Yeah, four. Four cars that stopped while we were walking on the road to thank us for the content. Thank us for fucking, like, bro, people, you'll know.

You'll know. You'll know. People will be begging to hire you. People will be begging, that people, you'll know, you'll know, you'll know. People will be begging to hire you. People will be begging to pay you. You'll know. And that's when you'll get the recognition. But most people want the recognition of a highly skilled individual with medium skills. And that doesn't work like that, bro.

You're never going to get it. I love that analogy. It's like, you know, when you walk out your door and you got people lining up to fucking shake your hand and say, thank you, you made it. So when you open your door and it's not there, get back to use. It's like, you know, when you walk out your door and you got people lining up to fucking shake your hand and say thank you, you made it. So when you open your door and it's not there, get back to work. That's it. I like that. It's that simple, dude.

The real world will tell you. Like, it'll let you know. I love that, man. Well, guys, Andy, that was three. You know what's funny, too, dude, is the best people at whatever they do, they don't believe they're that good. That's right. Yeah. Like, bro, and people are, like, confused by that. at whatever they do. They don't believe they're that good. That's right. Yeah. That's like, like bro. And you, and people are like confused by that.

Well, let me explain this to you. This is also the same reason why the people that you see who are the most successful, who don't have to work are also the hardest working people. Okay. You're not connecting the dots. The reason they are who they are is because of the hard work that they've been doing that you witnessed now now but they've been doing their whole life and you're looking at them and you're saying well you know you're you like you don't have to fucking do that work and you're not connecting the dot that the whole reason that you're looking at them in amazement like holy shit here's this human in front of me that's this person the whole reason they're there is because of that work ethic that you think they don't have to do that makes sense it makes sense so like dude when you see like the

truly great people like when you talk to them because i've had the privilege to be around some of the best people in the world at what they do like the very very very fucking best the biggest names in the fucking world i've been around them they don't even think they're that great dude like they're they are way more humble than the average joe walking down the street motherfucker ain't this shit yeah like you talk to some of these guys and you're like bro what was it like they're like you know like i talked to steve wozniak this motherfucker invented technology pretty much dude okay like go go look at the rolodex of technology steve was talking to this dude and i'm like well what was this like he's like oh that was it was cool you know we did our best it worked out okay you know like it wasn't like like he's still he's like we

could have done this and this and this better you see what i'm saying like it's a difference in thinking like and and the people in the middle are the most cocky they're the most arrogant they're the most fucking they're the most they're the people that raise the flag for recognition and shit and like people like this you know like fucking dude i got to interview pate manning one time like at fucking arte live like this dude is one of like the greatest fucking players ever and he's also like the nicest dude ever and the coolest shit and like no ego whatsoever but you know he's got one on the inside or he wouldn't be able to do what he fucking does right you see what i'm saying but he's but like dude this dude this dude is looking to get better and whatever like dude after the talk he's like andy what'd

you think like i thought it was fucking awesome dude like you know and but like he's like thinking like all right well what can i you know like here's this dude asking me, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, these people are always trying to get better at everything they do. They're not worried about, they know that if they're better, that the fucking shit will come with it. The money, the fame, the claps, the recognition, the respect. That all comes from skill. So concentrate on the fucking skill, dude, because the skill will pay the motherfucking bills. I like that.

I like that. Can I ask you one more follow-up on that because like listen to this i feel like there's a there's a pattern here and i feel like it has to come to a time where like your maturity reaches that for you to actually understand that and would you say the only reason you don't think you you know like you have that outlook on the credit and all of that is because you actually have it and it's something you don of that is because you actually have it and it's something you don't really appreciate until you actually have it. You understand what I'm saying? That could be.

Like, it's just like money, right? Like, money did not become a thing until you actually already had it. Like, you're chasing money. Well, I'm trying to think back of how I was before. Yeah. You know, like, I think that's a fair, I think that's a pretty fair assessment because I think even if you go back and listen to me, you know, in the beginning of my show, I think that's a pretty fair assessment because I think even if you go back and listen to me, you know in the beginning of My show I think I was I think I was a little more cocky than I even am now, you know Now it's more like maturity and I feel confident in what I'm saying

We're back then I still felt like I was proving shit now I don't feel like I have to prove shit like bro. I can lose you proved it I mean, we got a long way to go But like what we've done what we've done is pretty exceptional in the short amount of time we've been doing it. So, yeah, that's a fair statement. I just think it's hard to tell somebody who's never had a million dollars that a million dollars isn't a lot of money. Well, it is a lot of money to anybody, even if you have a billion dollars. But you understand what I'm saying?

Make it a small one. I don't know, hundred thousand dollars it's hard to tell somebody like a hundred thousand dollars is not a lot of money until they've actually had a hundred thousand dollars yeah yeah i mean that's a it's a fair it's a fair comparison yeah you know i'm just trying to offer my perspective from where i'm at now for maybe the the me the andy that's out there that's 20 years old or 25 or 30 or 34 who's trying to get their shit together yeah and i can tell you this the younger andy worried a lot about respect and fucking uh recognition but the younger andy sucked at what the fuck he did so he didn't get the shit because

he sucked at it and i can comfortably say that you know what i mean absolutely bro so like let's you're probably right i mean it's easier for me to see that now i definitely didn't see that then because like if someone would have walked up to me and said hey you fucking suck which they did i get my feelings hurt i was crushed now if someone walks up to me and says hey you fucking suck i'll be like you know like like yeah yeah i think that's a fair i think that's fair perspective yeah all right well i love it man try to have try if you're young to have the perspective

try to hold the perspective that that you're that you got a long way to go yeah you know i'm saying i think that serves me you know when people when people come up to me and they say oh congratulations or they say something nice about whatever whatever project project it is or whatever, you know, like I usually always say, man, I got a long way to go. And the reason I say that is to keep myself fucking focused on, on moving forward and not get drunk off the fucking praise that I get from other people, which I truly appreciate from you guys. And I know sometimes you guys think I'm like brushing it under the rug, but the re the reason that I brush it off is because I don't want it to stick. Cause I don't want to lose that hunger and that drive to continue to press forward by thinking that I'm actually really good. Like if you could crack open my head right now and like, look at like how I rate myself, bro. Like I rate myself at like a fucking 30% of what I should be. You know what I mean? Like it's, I feel just like you guys fucking feel, you know what I mean? Absolutely. That's necessary. Yeah. And you want to keep it.

You want to keep it that way. That's the thing. Like people will say, well, that's not healthy. Andy, you don't give yourself enough credit. You don't go, I don't want the credit. I want to stay hungry. You know, I want to keep moving. I got obligations here. I got people to take care of. I got careers that I'm worried about. I got, I've got the opportunity to do something iconic in history. Like I want to do that, you know, and I don't want to lose my focus because I think I'm fucking,

you know, whatever the fuck made it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm never, you never make it. You never fucking make it. That's the thing.

I was thinking about that on a ruck this morning too, is like how many people fuck themselves because they, they, they decide at the beginning, I'm going to get to this point and then I'm done. And they never get to that point. But the reason they never get to that point is because to get to this point, you have to shoot like way over here because so much shit's going to go wrong during that time that you're going to end up here. Like it's that saying, right? Shoot for the moon and you'll land among the stars. There's a lot of truth to that. So like if you're a 20 and you say, when I'm 40, I want to have a hundred million dollars and I want to retire. Well, then you better plan on having like $10 billion by 40 and you better work like that to have your hundred million. You know what I'm saying? Especially because of inflation.

Yeah. No shit. But here's the thing. You you're gonna get to that 40 and you may have your 100 and you're gonna say fuck i got 20 years in this bro another three or four i could get to here yeah that's a constantly yeah that's real man you know it's listen the whole process is you have to constantly audit your own mentality during the whole process because if you don't it's easy when you when you rise slightly above where everybody else is uh financially success wise to for every for you to believe that you're like a fucking hero but dude what you what you what you are is you're just a little bit better than everybody else and that's that's nothing to really celebrate i don't think you know what would be really cool is to become totally exceptional

and then help pull these people up with you. I don't know, man. There's a lot, we could talk about this all day because it's like a lot of different ways to think about it. But I think, dude, focus on the skills. Don't worry about the recognition. Focus on getting better. When you have wins, acknowledge the wins.

Hey, that was great. Get back to work, keep moving. And realize that like you ain't shit like bro like we real talk like a lot of you guys you know you guys see me as like this very successful human being but like in my eyes i don't think that way because i'm i look at motherfuckers like elon musk and i'm like fuck that guy's 10 years older than me and look where he's at building fucking rockets i'm way behind I'm way behind. Right, right. You know, like, I don't know. Everybody's free to think about their life in their own way.

I'm just explaining how I think about it. Yeah. Well, guys, Andy, that was three. Yeah, go pay the fee. Yeah. Fuck a stove Counted millions In a cold Bad bitch Booted swole Got her on Bankroll Can't fold Just a no Headshot

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