Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - OUTWORK EVERYONE

Episode Date: August 22, 2026

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Effort, effort is isolated. The reason why effort is isolated, because nobody can dictate it. Effort is 100% in the mind. No coach, no player, nobody else can make you run to the ball. Nobody else can make you finish a tackle. Nobody else can do it. That's why it's the most isolated things in this earth right now, is effort. Because that's all about you.

Where's the loss is coming down with dust? But effort, nobody can judge it. Because everyone is between you and you. And what's got nothing to do with nobody else. They'll be the hardest workers in the room. The masters make the hardest things in the world look easiest. And in the moments where you push yourself, when no one else is around, those moments have a tendency to lead to success.

And not only that, but in what world do we not work every day? You got work every fucking day. It doesn't end. Takes every second of your fucking life. Anybody says balance? Yeah, balance is important for a lot of people. It is. But if you want to go to that edge

When people do not like you, don't understand you, question everything you fucking do You've arrived Damn man, how many movies you're going to make her? How much shit are you going to do? Like you do a lot of shit I say yes It's my ambition.

Of course, why not? I love what I do. When people are quit the f***er off Because wrong with this guy, I mean, they're right fucking spot Of obsession and drive. That's the difference Of when you say,

I want to be something And I don't have no choice when I want to be something, then you're going to present a lot of broken dreams. When you are destined to do something, the conversation is totally different. Because it's a lifestyle. At some point, you've got to be

tired of not being number one. You have to be, and you've got to fucking play angry, and I play angry. Because I'll piss off for greatness. Listen, you didn't piss off for greatness. That means you're okay with being mediocre. That's why it's important for you to work on. on yourself, listening to tapes, building yourself up, talking to yourself with power, feeling,

and conviction, day in and day out, you've got to focus on you. And as you convince you, as you sell yourself every day, every day, every day, every day, you will begin to see a difference in the things that you're doing. Selling yourself on your ability to perform a job, to achieve a certain objective, telling yourself every day, here I go again, and I got what it takes. This is my day, and nothing out here is going to stop me. I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail, and I will succeed. Just get me against me, period.

I'm going to make myself good enough. I'm driven. I'm obsessed. I want to prove people wrong. And you've got to learn how to tune out the critics outside and the critic inside. And since I'm going to do this, I'm going to honest my will, and I'm not going to let anything stop me. Stay on that basketball court. Stay on that football field.

Go all the homies texting and calling it and trying to make you feel bad about being so focused. It's grind season, homie. It's not about today. It's about the future. Do the work now. And all of this shit that you could ever want to do for your family, your kids, your loved ones, it's all going to be on a whole other stratosphere. It's you if it's going to happen.

Not about the failures. Not about your disappointments. Not about the defeats. Not about your mistakes. Not about what you don't have. Not about who doesn't approve of you, who doesn't like you. All that's insignificant. Your life is in your hands.

You have a power to turn your life around. You've got the power to snatch victory from the trails of defeat. You've got the power to be daring. And it's on you to be that decisive about your life. I don't know what the secret of success is, but here's what I know with the secret of failures, trying to please everybody. You can be world class, you can fit in with the world, you don't get to do both. If you want to have the results only 5% of the population has, you've got to be willing to think and behave like only 5% of the population.

And if you do these kinds of things, the world will call you eccentric. This is where you got to develop the interior core, where it doesn't matter if people call you crazy. One of the things limiting you from your inner. income, your impact, a world-class life. You care too much about what people think about you. Sounds really obvious. Everyone has an opinion. Why let the opinions of other people deny you from a life that will make history? Why are you so anti-social because I'm trying to get it? Why are you staying on the basketball

court so much because I'm trying to get it? Why are you out there practicing a a hot sun when ain't nobody else out there because I'm trying to get it. Why are you not clubbing? Like every time I text you and invites you to go do something fun and cool, you always study it because I'm trying to get it. You ain't doing nothing. And for those of us who get up and go, oh, you got something to say about how we do what we do it. Stop talking to us who perform it. Stop telling us what to do or how to do it. You keep gossiping and I'll keep working. You keep talking smack and I'll keep working. You keep focusing on every, everyone else and I'll keep working.

And when you finally look around at where you are and where I'm at, you realize that you have nothing left to talk smack about and you will lose and I will win. It's what I did in the dark that blew me up. It is in practicing. It is in lifting weights. It is in resting. It is an eating right. It is in making good decisions that you look a certain way.

It is how you practice. It is what you do that makes you look like you look. It is the process of the grind that shapes you and forms you. The real ground is in the dark when nobody sees you. When nobody knows what you're doing. When you put it in those extra reps, when you're watching those videos and you're getting in the spot, when you change your music, it's the process that makes you sweet. I'm talking about the commitment that says,

I am going to stay true to what I said I would do long after the mood that I've set it in his left. You got to begin with the end in mind. So whatever your dream where your goal is, you gotta wake up every day to it. You gotta go to bed with it. You gotta read stuff. The music you listen to, everything you do gotta pour into that dream. I understand it isn't a process that you get better. I am not phenomenally skilled, but I'm phenomenally will.

My IQ may never change, but my will changes every year. I get stronger and stronger and more determined. Why? Because it's in my DNA. When you dedicate your life, you don't change. anything about the odds. When the dream is big enough, the arts don't matter. Given you all, it can be confusing to mediocre people. When they talk, you keep grinding, work hard in silence, and let your success speak for you. You keep talking, smack, and I'll keep working. You keep focusing

on everything and everyone else, and I'll keep working. Instead of killing them with kindness, tors you a fucking success. Build the kind of life that says I told you so without having to say a fucking word. While most people stop when you're tired, I stop when I'm done. The only thing limiting your horizons is you. They say an alligator is so perrocious that a killer lion, but I can kill an alligator with my bare hands. When you want to kill an alligator, you kill it right after it eats. Because right after it eats, he gets satisfied, and it goes to a state like it's almost paralyzed. Some of you in this room, were you paralyzed? You had a little success, You've done with nobody else in your family is done and now you chill?

Come on, you ain't home eating that's got you satisfied. What have you done? What have you accomplished that got you so full? You should still be hungry. Pavaradi, the famous opera singer, everyone talked about his incredible discipline for his craft. He said, you know, everyone thinks it's discipline. It's not discipline. He said it's devotion.

He was so devoted to his crap. It drove his discipline. You've heard the cliche because it's true, the harder I work, the love. luckier I get. I'm here today. I'm an ordinary person, but I focused on my craft. I had burning desire to be excellent. I love what I do. Sharing in my books and speaking is my oxygen, is my DNA. Four in the morning I get up and I'm working in my craft because I love it. I love it. When you love something and you're devoted to it, discipline is easy, am I right? So bring that love and devotion to what you do. It will drive your discipline. No one has to tell Tom Brady,

to go work out. He has a love and devotion to getting better. And your love and devotion will drive your discipline. That means you have to show up every day. You've got to put the effort in. You've got to be willing to do it when you're tired, when you're hurt, when it's not cool. And you've got to be willing to do that way longer than anybody else is willing to do it. I had to start looking at my life differently. I started going to work earlier. I started being the last one to leave it. I started working, harder than anybody else. The other guys could not. Why would you work so hard, Les?

I don't understand. You don't have to. I deserve better than this. This is something I have got to do because I've made a different kind of commitment with my life. My life deserves my developing this is what I do well.

And becoming the best at it and mastering myself and seeing what I have within me. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, do it with everything that you have. Develop the habit of giving more What you're paying for. There are no shortcuts to greatness.

To be great, you gotta be all in. To be great, you gotta get 120. To be great, you gotta put forth back with every single time, every single doubt, to be greats. There are no gains on. Your problem is, if the conditions are great, you grates. When everything is favorable, you're obese. But when the conditions ain't right, you get smacked in the face.

You gotta grow up. Let me tell you something about the greats, we find a way to make it happen. The hard life is the one that. is the one that pays. You just gotta quit being so weak. You gotta be a moody person, afternoon person, night person. You gotta be when you feel good person,

when you're sick person, when you're tired person. Can you give me 120 to despite everything that's going on? Greatness is in you. But the problem is, somebody's gotta push you. Somebody's got to give me a reward. Somebody's got to fodder. You're not self-motivated. You have to stay in peace mode.

You don't get here by quitting when you tired. You get here by quitting when you're tired. When you're done, you don't stop when you're tired. You stop when you're done. You stop when you completed it when you executed. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. Every single day, if you do what you say, you're going to do,

you're going to get what you dream to get. You got to execute. You got to execute. Execution is worship. If you want 120% results, then in every single area you're looking for this dream or this goal to become a reality, from a reality you got up before the app. I didn't get here being lazy.

I didn't get here on bench watching TV. I didn't get here taking days off. I didn't get here off being smart. I didn't get here being talented. I got here off that dog. I never quit. I never stopped. I never gave up.

We just kept doing what we doing. You got skill and you got will. Two total different things. You were born with certain things, but to get to the next level, to stay at the next level, you gotta have will. You have will. compete. Every single game, you can give the same effort every day. This has everything to do is

top. You gotta take pride in it. Your level of urgency and effort will dictate the level of changes you'll see. Each level of hustle, of will, of action, of work is going to get you to a certain level, and then you're going to require more. It's going to take you evolving. You're going to have to expand. You're going to have to think differently. You're going to have to think differently. You're You're going to have to do different things. You're going to have to put in more work. You're going to have to read more. You're going to have to educate yourself more.

You're going to have to do things that are going to help you create a new you. See, it's easy to be on the bottom. It doesn't take any effort to be a loser, doesn't take any motivation, any drive in order to stay down there on a low level. But it calls on everything in you, ladies and gentlemen. You have to harness your will to say, I'm going to challenge myself. I just want you to go a little harder, put off a little bit more energy, give me a little bit more effort. You keep going.

You keep studying. You keep writing. You keep singing. You keep rapping. You keep boxing. You keep dribbling. You just keep on keeping off. It's your life.

You are the captain of your shit. You are the master of your life. You can have it. You can do it. You can be it. Make a list. Execute the fucking list. Do that every single day.

10 years and you will be where you want to be. I guarantee it. With success, many will love you. The majority will despise you. And why is that? Because your success is shining down their misopportunates. When they did it, but all those thousands of hours in the lag with no one watching, so when the opportunity they come to show off what they'd nationally trained, they weren't ready for it. They're on self-drowned state and they watched it go live, hoping it comes again. Howell milk it comes again? What do you do about the negative person talking behind your back and trying to bring you down? Ignore and outperform. Use it for fuel. Use them for energy. You got to block out them hate us, man. You got to block out their naysail. Instead of killing them with kindness,

tors you with fucking success. Use everything this word has to give you for fuel. So I want some action. That means when you wake up in the morning, There's 24 hours of the day after you finish sleeping. I'm telling you to spend the rest of that time in action. And you're going to separate yourself from everybody. Why? Because most people, all they're doing is talk, talk, talk, talk. You don't get to be number one by doing just enough.

You've got to have a level of dedication that no one else is willing to have. And you got to want it more than anyone else does. If a person leaves at 6, you leave at 8. If a person makes 100 calls a day, you make 200 calls a day. If somebody practice three hours, you practice five hours. If somebody practice six hours, you practice eight hours. If someone reads two books, you read four books. Just do a little bit more.

You are going against the cultural norm of average. The cultural norm of sitting on your ass. The cultural norm of all of this average shit. When you go against that, you are going to naturally have resistance. We have 80 more percent that we're not tapping into because in this other 80 percent is suffering, pain, failure, darkness. and then a whole bunch of light. But to get to this light, you got to go through all of this shit.

If you really want your dream to become a reality, you need to give it up and go all in. And you are not here because you are still not all in. When you give effort, don't give no 70% or 80, you give 120% extreme effort. Why? Because I'm counting on me. My wife's counting on me.

I don't have days to wait. You're not giving one 20. You're giving 60. You're giving 50. And you won't with these people who've given sweats, who's giving blood, who's given tears, you want what they pay for and it ain't free. When I put forth for 120% effort, can't nobody stop me. You can't be good and be a legend. You can't be great and be a legend.

You got to be phenomenal. I want you to push for legend. All men are created equal. Some just work harder. Some of us just grind. Some of us don't make excuses. Some of us don't surrender, some of us don't give up and give in. What we do with the pressures, we say, I got to take it, and I got to take it to another level.

Elite achievers will perform and succeed and win and dominate no matter what. We all live life. Some of us, we get more out of it. You might have to work a little harder, you might have to start at the bottom, but I'm telling you, you can have whatever you like. You just gotta work a little harder. You just got to press a little deeper. When other folk are having no good time, you've got to have the strength of character

to concentrate, to read, to digest information. Good intentions have kept people great. Good intentions and stop people for reaching their goals. Good intentions won't cut it. No more good intentions. No more. Only execution. No more I meant to.

No more I should have. No more I wanted to. No more. Execution. up. Act like you playing basketball. I like you playing football. Go on that dog on classroom. Competits. Many of you have lost your competitive end. Get your competitive edge back. Compete! You don't stop when you're tired. You'll stop when you're done. You'll stop when you complete it when you execute it. Successful people love the experience of not feeling like doing

but then going and kicking ass anyway. They understand that those are the real victories in life. that it's easy to do when you feel like doing shit, but they also understand that the real glory is earned when your heart is not into something, but your mind tells you, I'm going to do this anyway and does it. That's where people separate themselves from the pact. That's where people earn the right to success. They earn the money. They earn the life. They earn the relationship. They earn the body in those little moments where they don't want to do what they need to do, but move forward regardless of how they feel. That's what champions know, champions understand, and champions thrive on.

Everybody wants the prize, but nobody loves the process. Everybody wants to be a champion, but nobody's willing to put in the work that it takes to be a champion. Everybody wants to hold up the trophy and say, man, I did it, but nobody's willing to put in the work. that it takes to do it. I love the process. I love the thought of working for what I want. And I firmly believe you never supposed to wish for it more than you're willing to work for.

But a lot of people they wish, and they're not willing to work. A real man in the dark, when nobody's watching, he putting in work. Because he loves the process. Because real lions like the hunt. They love the process just as much as they love the prize. And some of y'all just want to do.

You don't like the process. Championships aren't won in the theater of the arena. They're won in the thousands of hours in the training room, the labs, and the 5 a.m. runs, and then it's raining, whenever else is sleeping. That's when it's won. I'm here today. I'm the ordinary person, but I focused on my craft. I have burning desire to be excellent.

I love what I do. It's my oxygen, it's my DNA. Four in the morning I get up and I'm working in my craft, because I love it. It's the hidden work And look at it as like a rock And that rock is you And every day you fight Not wanting to get up

And you do anyway You chipping another piece off that fucking rock And every day you go to train You train harder and harder And you get up earlier And all these things you do To start forming yourself You're chipping another piece

Of that rock up Before you know it That rock It becomes the masterpiece In which you fucking create it The horror champion It's a light switch That's always on

It doesn't go on and off And off When someone's watching It's constant. It's how you look at something. If your name's attached to it, and you do it right, the best of your ability every single time.

Do the job right or don't do it at all. That's the same person who has his hand raised on the podium one day. Same motherfuckers. Champions aren't found on the podium with their hand up. No. Champions are found in the lab studies.

The thousands of hours of hard work when no one's watching. That's what makes the wheel unstoppable. When you're in here are no one else's and you're pushing yourself harder than anybody with no one around. Forced to suffer the discipline today. So you never suffer the foreign regret tomorrow. That right there, guys, is a spark that catches flames.

Let's say you started a business. You decide, hey, I'm going at 10 years. You understand, at the end of one year, if 100 people started at the same time as you, 75 have already quit. After three years, 95 of them have quit. After eight, nine years? One or two of you are left. Just lasting long term and sticking around long enough gives you a chance of winning.

You'd be amazed at how many people eventually give in because it just gets tougher and tougher. So eventually the price tag gets too high for most people and they'll sell out their dream. But someone who really wants it bad, who's going to win, none of that stuff gets them off their dream. You might not win today, but your effort's done today, even the failure felt today are all measures that can create the moment later. And if you fell on the way back and got there, and you got knocked down, found the intentional for you to give back up, try that same endeavor.

Then you find yourself victorious in that endeavor. That's the sweetest victory at all. That feels like confidence. That's unbreakable. Most people work the hardest when they're trying to reach the top. Once they can get to that $100,000, once they get to that million dollars, they've worked as hard as they can work.

The great ones work even harder after they get to the $100,000, 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. But most people work hard as hard as, to get them and once they have them they don't work as hard to keep them or to grow it. The great ones work even harder after they get what they want.

You have to have the mindset that you are not going to think like everybody else. It doesn't make a difference how smart you are. It doesn't make a difference where you were born. It doesn't make a difference what you have. If you are willing to outwept everybody else, you can be and have and do whatever you want to do. You can fucking achieve the absolute impossible. You'll need great parents. You don't need a private school.

You don't need to have this humongous GPA and all sorts of those are what you need, the straight up brutal work ethic. You have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world. For the next two years, all I'm going to do is get a good grades. I didn't date, I didn't party, I didn't drink, I literally didn't leave my dorm. I worked. I put my head down for two years and I just worked. It is not enough to go out and execute. You have to start thinking on a different level. You have to set your standard on domination.

Whatever the fucking job is that you're doing right now, your job should be to dominate every other motherfucker that you work with. It will never go your way, guys, if you're saying today is good enough. If you never say good enough today, I promise you tomorrow will always be enough. Whenever good enough isn't enough, you can bet tomorrow you'll have enough.