REAL AF with Andy Frisella - Power is YOUR Obligation, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO226
Episode Date: March 29, 2018Do you consider yourself a good person? Do you seek power? If you answered “yes” to both questions, great. If you answered “yes” to the first but “no” to the second, what the f*ck is wrong... with you? You’re what’s wrong with society. You’re the reason the world isn’t a better place. What do I mean? Listen to this episode and find out.
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I can stack them hundreds to the roof. I ain't stopping till they stack to the moon.
Without me, my family wouldn't have food. Anybody go against me, gotta lose.
What is up, guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I'm Andy. I'm your host,
and I am the motherfucking CEO. If this is your first time listening,
this is a entrepreneurship slash personal development
podcast. Welcome. We are going to take your face and smack the shit out of it,
probably punch it a few times and make you cry. And then you're going to go home and think about
who the fuck you are and you're going to make adjustments. And my goal, my hope,
my wish for you is that you make adjustments to become the motherfucking CEO of you. And what is
a motherfucking CEO? Realize that you don't have to be a stuffy, weird nerd to be a CEO. And you
are the CEO of you, whether you realize it or not. Most people never even realize that. Most people go through life looking to take direction, looking to take orders, looking to be a responder to other people's inputs. They look to live in a reactionary state. And that's just not
the way to live. The way to live is to understand that you're in control of your decisions and your
decisions will create certain outcomes. And if you do that with a little bit of confidence,
with a little bit of swagger, you will become a motherfucking CEO as well.
And what I'm going to talk about today, oh, and by the way,
Tuesdays, we do our longer podcast. Thursdays, we do shorter podcasts. You know, this is going to
be five to 10 minutes or something like that. So what I want to talk about today, guys, is this,
all right? We are taught our entire lives that people who seek influence, that people who seek power are
somehow wrong. Look at what anybody tells us growing up. They'll say, oh, that guy's the
leader of this, or that guy's the leader of that. And they'll say, well, he's an egomaniac
or he's got something wrong with them or he's a narcissist or he's this or he's that.
They always follow it up with something negative to insinuate that it's wrong and
morally misaligned to seek power. But I want to ask you a couple questions. Number one, do you consider yourself a good person?
And number two, do you seek power?
If you answer yes to both those questions, great.
You've already got it figured out.
But if you answer yes to the first and no to the second, you are what's wrong with this society.
You're the reason that the world isn't a better place.
Let me explain.
I know I talked about the Greek shit the other day in the RTA podcast, but I'm going to talk
about it again.
Have you ever seen the movie Troy?
It's based on the Greek epic story, the Iliad.
All right.
It's not the greatest movie of its kind.
If you've seen it, you know that it's's a lot of cheese but it has good moments and in the movie Brad Pitt plays Achilles and Eric
Banner plays the Prince Hector all right Achilles is like the undisputed badass warrior of his day
no one even comes close he's a fucking legend and even though the movie portrays him in a slightly
positive light in the real story he's
not a good guy he's the bad guy he's self-centered he's egotistical and for lack of better terms he's
a douchebag all right now Prince Hector is different he's he's valiant he's respectable
he's a loving husband and father he genuinely loves the people of his kingdom that he leads
all right he's a really good dude. And at one
point in the story, Achilles and Hector fight. And guess what? Hector gets in a few good licks.
All right. But at the end of the day, Achilles embarrasses him and kicks his ass and fucking
kills him. And then to insult his entire community, he straps Hector's dead body on the chariot and
drags him around on the battlefield
to show off just so he can rub it in. And I was watching this movie with my wife and she was
shocked. She was like, wait, so Achilles just kills Hector. That's not like the way it's supposed to
go. Hector's the good guy. He's supposed to win. The good guy always wins wrong. The good guy always wins. Wrong. The good guy doesn't always win.
Here's the reality.
Whatever our teachers taught us in elementary school,
whatever stories they used to read us
to make us feel good and nice and fluffy
like they love to do,
the good guys definitely don't always win.
You know those 300 Spartans everybody loves to talk about
and get tattoos of and talk about, you know, and get
tattoos of and talk about how they're a fucking Spartan too. Well, guess what? If you're a fucking
Spartan, you're a fucking loser because they fought hard and they were badasses. But in the end,
guess what? Xerxes won. That's the reality. All right. In 1939, the noble people of Poland fought valiantly against the invading Germans.
But in 18 days, 18 days, they got completely fucking destroyed by the Nazis.
Good guys don't always win.
If you listen to my podcast I did with my good friend Randall Pitch, his mom escaped
Cambodia when it was being ruled by the communist leader Pol Pot.
He and his regime
successfully killed almost 3 million of his fellow countrymen. And sure, he died in a jail cell at age
73. But does that mean the good guys won? Absolutely not. So this idea that good people
always win because they're good is complete fucking bullshit. All right. Homer, the dude
that wrote the Iliad, not Homer Simpson from Springfield. All right. Was Greek. And the Greeks
knew that the good guy doesn't always win. They knew the person who always win is the person who
is the best, the biggest, the strongest, the fastest, and bottom line, the most powerful.
And yeah, it sucks, but it's true. Sometimes the most powerful person is selfish. Sometimes the
most powerful person is a douchebag. Sometimes the most powerful person is the bad guy. They are evil. Which brings me back to my original questions. Are you a good
person? Do you always try to do the right thing? Do you always treat people with kindness and
respect? Do you tell them the truth? Do you give more than you take? Do you do what you can to
help people? Are you committed to making the world a better place? Good.
Those are all great qualities to have.
I don't think anybody would argue that.
But do you seek power?
Do you work hard to become physically, emotionally, and mentally stronger?
Do you try to become the best at everything you do and to perfect your mindset, your habits, and your skills so that you
can lead other people on the same path that you're on? Do you try to position yourself as the
decision maker and influencer, not just in your own home and in your own life, but in every square
inch of this earth and in every life in the whole world because that's your obligation if you're
morally aligned that's your obligation if you're morally correct that's your obligation if you come
from integrity and you have a good heart and you're doing the right thing by others I get it
power can be abused it can be used for, but it doesn't need to be.
And we don't have enough people who are cut from the right cloth, who are cast from the right mold out there seeking positions of power and influence.
We need people like you.
We need people like you to infect and instill the proper morals into the next generations. You
cannot sit there and be quote unquote good and think that you're living a moral life because
that's not enough. We need your influence. We need your voice. We need your power.
And all the people who told you it was wrong to seek power
it was egotistical to seek power it was selfish to seek power are people who don't understand
what it can do for good if good people won't exert power if good people won't seek power
if good people won't spread the message of what it means,
bad people will.
And when that happens,
the good guys definitely aren't going to win.
And I want you to think about that. Outro Music