Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - BECOME A SAVAGE

Episode Date: August 3, 2026

Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — Learn to bring that savage mentality out of yourself. Spoken by: Eric Thomas instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher David Goggins instagram.com/davidgoggins Steve Harvey instagram.com/iamsteveharveytv Music: 2WEI - BURN Ninja Tracks - Lines of Infinity Ninja Tracks twitter.com/ninjatracks

You listen to the messaging nowadays of the world. Everyone says you should be nice. You should be soft. You should be passive. You should take it easy. The world wants to pacify you into a state of complacency. You know what I say? Nah.

Screw that. Do not allow that. You don't always need to be nice. You get trampled when you're. carry yourself like that. Sometimes you gotta get aggressive, sometimes you gotta be fierce, sometimes you gotta bring the heat. You should become a monster, you should become a savage, you should become an absolute beast and control it. The people who no one can mess with, they've learned to become a disciplined savage, where they use that

dark side energy in a managed way to get through the grind, the challenges, the struggle. I watch most people, they can't get up in the morning. They ain't got no energy. You can't smart everything. You can't outthink everything. Some stuff is just you got to be powerful. Sometimes you got to go to the dark side to get the momentum, to get the rocket off the ground, all the energies in the first couple of feet. Do whatever it takes to get the rocket off the ground to start the new business, to shift the story. If it's pain that'll drive you, then use the Paint. Amplified the pain. So that when you do stumble because you're gonna and when you do make mistakes because you're gonna, then everybody's going to laugh at you and they will, you're able to be like,

hey, fuck you man. I'm going to show you motherfuckers what the fuck I'm capable of and you continue to go. You take that pissed off energy and put it into productive action. Use the pain. Use the hardship. Use the negativity. Use it for productive action. Don't give you. in. Don't be like everybody else. Don't give up. Don't settle because things are hard. Become stronger. Become better. Become faster. Become smarter. Become more productive. And you know what? You will build a life that says, I told you so without having to say a fucking word. When you go out there, I need you to have that dog. When you get out there, I need you kill to be killed when you get out there. We ain't playing no more. We ain't

taking no prisoners no more. When you get out there, whatever you can get, go get it. Because they're going to get it before you get it, and they ain't going to give it to you. So you go out there and give it was yours. You got to kill. You got to take that thing out. You got to take the breath out. Go after it. Go get it. Don't run from it no more. You got to go get it. See, it was a challenge. Look at you like, ha, ha, ha, ha, I'm about to kill it. We got this. It does not mean you're the best. It doesn't mean you the brightest. It doesn't mean you the smartest. It doesn't mean you the fast. It doesn't mean you the fastest. It means that you've made up in your mind that whatever your goal is, you're going to go after it, and you're not going to stop until you get it.

What most of us are looking for is this special feeling of, oh, I feel great this morning. I'm going to get out of bed and get a quick five miles in or go to the gym. If you're looking for that feeling, it ain't going to come. You have to learn to do when you don't want to do. Learn to bring that savage mentality on yourself. The animalistic, motherfucker. You think a savage gets a fuck about how he feels? or how she feels, they just do it.

Learn to be your best self when you're least motivated. Stop looking for a feeling to control what goes on in your life. You can't just have energy when you got energy. If you run in a business and it's 365, then 365, you gotta wake up every day and you gotta go get it. Why? Because if you don't hunt, you don't eat. Ain't nobody who ought to give you your personal freedom. If you're going to get your personal freedom, you gotta go get it.

You gotta go earn it. They ain't giving it away. You gotta embody beast modes. Everything about you has to say, I ain't playing. If it's to have, I'm gonna get it. And I ain't leaving none of it behind. It's mine, beat's modes. This ain't for the week and the uncommitted.

Success is going to hurt. It's going to be painful. Sometimes when I'm running on that treadmill, I don't feel as good as I normally feel. My leg hurts. Sometimes I'm sick, but the process is weeding out the week. And if you want it, you got to go back. Get it, you gotta play hard for it.

The real beast is when their legs get out. The real beast, when they're tired. The real beast find a way to pull something out when nobody else ain't got nothing. Look, I love to sugarcoat this thing for you. I love to tell you, look, you can go out here and get rich, do a couple of things, they're happening. You gotta get real doggish.

You gotta get downright funky if you wanna make it. If you wanna be ordinary, you ain't even gotta listen to me. But if you have extraordinary aspirations, then you're gonna have to do extra. You put extra on top of ordinary and you come up with extraordinary. It's no other way. But here's the fact. All of you have extraordinary capabilities.

All of you. You have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category. Their standards are life. Everyone in this room has 20,000 new levels. I don't want to die until I hit the top. I'm obsessed with improvement. Every day I'm getting better. There are those of you with phones.

And every new phone that comes out, you get it. Every upgrade you get it. Every piece of software, you get it. You are upgrading your technology, and you not upgraded yourself. How bad do you want it? How bad do you want it? Everybody wants to be a beast until it's time to do what real beasts do. Everybody gets excited, but nobody wants to get up at 3 o'clock.

For real, you walk out of here, pumped up, signed up. You get some new information. You're ready, but you can't just say you want it. It's true to say it. But when it's showtime, when the sun comes up, now it's time to hunt. And what separates you from everybody else is that when it's time to hunt, you're ready to hunt. You can feel when somebody's not committed, when they're not dedicated. And there's another level you get to when you go all in.

When I tell you that you got to make sacrifices and you got to get up at 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock, and you got to grind. Why are you telling me that? Because people don't need help sleeping in. Overindulgy. making excuses. People need help making sacrifices. I'm not telling you it's going to be easy to sacrifice. I'm not telling you it's going to be easy to grind. I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, but I can tell you this. It will be worth the sacrifice if you can grind your way through it.

What's your why? What motivates you? What pushes you? What drives you? And if that thing is internal, if nobody has to call you, if nobody has to pride you, if nobody has to pride you, if nobody has to to reward you. If nobody has to give you anything, if you are self-motivated and self-regulated, you can have it, you can be it, you can do it. If you want more and you can't seem to get more, I want you to stop crying, I want you to stop begging, I want you to stop complaining, and I want you to look at the man in the mirror, the woman in the mirror, I want you to say if ain't nobody else giving more, you give more, you give more effort, You give more time, you give more dedication, you get more commitment. No matter how hard you work, there is somebody inside of you that works even hard.

No matter how dedicated you are, there was somebody inside of you that's more dedicated. No matter how committed you are, there is somebody inside of you that's more committed. You should be pissed at yourself. Because if you're only giving 70%, then you're only getting 70%. If you're only getting 80%, you're only getting 80%. You reap what you thought. What could you be if you worked as hard as you could? What could you be if you were able to be?

imposed real discipline in your life. What could you be? I thought it being a master of my mind. I had to build this callous mind through suffering. I built it through downright crushing myself. If it was raining outside at 3 o'clock in the morning, it was snowing. My instinct was we got to go out there. Anything that was horrible in my life that I would normally say no, I had to go do it. If you do what is easy, your life will be hard. But if you do what is hard, your life will be easy. You have to force yourself to get up in the morning and go do physical activity so you don't become weak. You have to force yourself to put away the donuts and eat something healthy. You have to impose your will. That is where the leader's will comes into play every single day. It's in your own head. Make yourself move. Make yourself sweat.

Make yourself stronger, faster, healthier. Make yourself better. Take the hard path. Take the discipline path. Take the world. The more path, the path of getting after it.