Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - The Mindset That Makes You Unstoppable || Powerful Motivational Speeches
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If you remember nothing else
Remember this
You have the ability to be stronger
than you can even imagine
And this is an enormous
and you have the ability to do that when life is at its worst,
when things are hitting the hardest.
When you most want to cower and retreat into yourself,
that's when you have the opportunity and the ability to shock yourself,
to be greater than you've ever been.
There are certain things I do in my life to reinforce this point.
That's how important I think it is.
Why?
Well, not to sound tough.
Not for Instagram.
In fact, most of the time I don't share it or post it or any of that stuff.
I do it for me because it's an axe that has to be sharpened, reinforced.
You know, it's been some time since I've gone on a run.
Like I've said recently, for those of you following along on YouTube in the podcast, you know, I've taken you along on my fitness journey.
focused on picking heavy things up and putting them down, right?
The gym, gaining some weight, putting on some muscle.
And it's been effective.
But the other day, I'm like, I just need it.
I need to run.
I need to do it for me, so I put on the old running shoes
and did about seven miles.
And look, I knew I'd be rusty.
I knew I'd be slower than I was, you know, a year ago, obviously,
but that's not the point.
The only point here was negative splits.
It was to be faster every mile than the one before it.
So right out of the gate, very slow, relaxing, nine-ish minute miles,
then high-eighth, then low-eighth, then high-sevents, then low-sevents,
and ended in the sixes.
And it's an exercise that solely reinforces, hey,
when you get tired, when things become more difficult,
when emotionally, you know, you become fatigued,
That doesn't mean you slow down or you give in.
In fact, you can wire your brain to say, okay, this is exhausting, so I need to be better.
And that's all it was.
Reigniting that flame, turning that switch on.
Because the same thing, running that seven and change mile loop is true in life.
when we're most tempted to sort of retreat back into ourselves
is when we must be bigger, and we can be bigger.
Let's further drill this home.
From the running thing, let's move to a different metaphor.
Imagine with me a bridge.
And this old wooden bridge is connecting two mountains, right?
Moving right through a little town nestled in between them.
And for years, that bridge had carried travelers
and business folks and families across the deep valley,
It was sturdy, reliable.
But the reality is it had never truly been tested.
That is, until one year a storm came.
And the wind howled through the valley,
and the river below became turbulent and rough,
and the rain beat down like war drums.
All the people below, they looked up and they feared
that bridge wouldn't last, that it wouldn't make it.
They watched from their homes expecting any second to see it,
buckle to snap under the pressure.
But something remarkable happened.
The weight of the storm did not break the bridge.
Instead, what it did was reveal the bridge's strength.
The wood groaned, but it held firm.
And the rope stretched, but they did not snap.
It stood.
Not because it had never faced hardship before,
but because it had been built.
for this exact moment.
And when the storm finally passed
and those people from the town below looked up at it,
they didn't see a bridge anymore.
They saw an entity that had truly proven itself,
that had endured.
And that's what we are.
It's who we are and it's what we're capable of, right?
The challenge that we don't know we can endure
until we've weathered the storm.
We don't understand our ability to maintain
until we've held strong,
against the winds
until we've allowed ourselves to rise
when it feels like the world's pulling us down.
The storm doesn't make us weak.
It reveals how strong we've been.
And so understand this when times are great.
You know, yeah, why not?
Put yourself through the manufactured stress,
duress and discomfort I mentioned above,
you know, when things are smooth sailing.
Absolutely.
But if you're in it, and I mean truly in the thick of things, right, moving through the storm,
the darkness of night surrounding you, I want you to remember how much of you lives beneath the surface,
waiting to be shown, to be let out, to be freed.
Remember that the greatest parts of you need your permission to shine and emerge, but that when they do,
nothing.
And I mean nothing life throws your way
is too much to endure.
Will there be turbulence and chaos around you?
Absolutely, you can bet on that.
But the calm and resilience within you
conquers all.
Always remember that.
You are stronger than you think you are.
You, now and always.
When you lose your job and have no idea
what you're going to do next,
yes, you are stronger than you think you are.
You know, when you're forever person, quote unquote,
ends up not being so forever, you're stronger than you think you are.
When your world's tipped upside down,
you're stronger than you think you are.
When health issues arise.
It was once, you know, very simple, now becomes complex
and chaotic and exhausting.
You are stronger than you think you are,
strong enough to endure, strong enough to make it through.
Again, the storm does not exist
to break you. It exists to remind you how strong you've always been. So you look outside, right?
And the first thing you see through the window is that the running conditions are terrible.
They're far from ideal. Your first inclination is to go back to bed, wait until it warms up,
maybe hang tight until the rain or snow stops. Which the majority of us,
would find completely reasonable, by the way.
But let me explain the scenario from a different angle.
Because this is the exact situation when it's most important
to get out of bed, to put your running shoes on,
and to head out the front door.
There is an undervalued benefit that comes
from putting yourself in an uncomfortable situation,
from forcing yourself to be just a little bit irrational.
When you look at those who have been successful,
What separates them is that they do things and they make sacrifices that others would not.
They're the people that study until 4 a.m. or wake up when it's dark outside to practice free throws.
Whatever the specific skill set may be, the pattern is always the same.
They were willing to pay a price that most wouldn't.
They wanted it just a little bit more.
So what could this possibly have to do with running in the rain?
with running in the rain. It has everything to do with it. Why is it that when you run outside on a cold,
rainy day, no one's out there? It's not because you're doing anything that in itself is greater
heroic. You're running alone because it sucks. It sucks to run in the rain, right? To have cold
wind blowing in your face. That's not relaxing or enjoyable. It's uncomfortable. But you're out
there when everyone else is warm inside and there's value to that.
Training yourself to follow through with your ambitions regardless of hurdles, because life will not always be comfortable.
What are you going to do when things get bad?
You lose a client at work, your girlfriend leaves you, you're going to stay in bed?
Because there will always be a reason to wait for later, to hope for smoother waters ahead.
The best though, they achieve in spite of undesirable conditions.
Then, suddenly, meeting your goals to become a habit.
Not something left up for chance.
You don't even look at the weather, right?
The forecast becomes very little significance to you.
So it's cold, great.
You'll wear two sweatshirts, but you'll figure out how to get it done.
And I'll tell you, when you take those shoes off
and head to work or practice or wherever your day takes you,
that mentality does not leave.
You look at things differently.
You know, you'll realize that 99% of the reasons we give for not doing it,
we give for not doing things, they're excuses. They're meaningless. If you want something, do it.
And guys, that's not a cliche. That's the key to success. Find a way to get it done. And the best part,
when it's finally 72 and sunny and the world is outside ready to run, you'll have lapped that
place so many times that you're not even on the same level. You have been to Helen back,
and your performance will make that apparent.
That's how you become the best.
So is it just a run in the rain?
You tell me.
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forward. Come along with me for a little journey.
I just finished running 100 miles from Key Largo to Key West with some friends, and while there's
plenty to unpack here, and I'll certainly be doing so in upcoming episodes, I want to talk
specifically about a man and fellow runner named Austin. Because while everyone along for the
journey was beyond impressive, after all, we didn't need to be there, while every one of us found
within ourselves the courage to push harder and dig deeper than we previously had.
While every single one of us did something challenging that most people wouldn't do,
the reality is only one other person besides myself completed all 100 miles.
And in a results-driven world, that matters.
It just does.
And so I want to talk about that person, Austin, who certainly has overcome a lot.
It was telling me about his journey through some of the adversity that has made him who he is today.
Powerful is an understatement here.
While he's clearly an athlete, has some boxing matches under his belt,
could probably curl my body weight at the gym.
He was no distance or ultra runner, at least not until last week in the Keys.
And so, you know, the first 20 miles goes by,
and I consider the first 20 miles.
It's like fun.
It's exciting.
You have the whole race ahead of you.
Nothing's hurting yet.
Your lower body isn't kicking or screaming.
There's no blisters or cramps or rash or fatigue.
It is smooth sailing.
But then you know how the game goes.
20 becomes 30, becomes 40, becomes 50,
and then life steps in.
And sometimes, you know, it's a blown out knee or it's, you know, your heart acting up.
Those are things that you can't do anything about.
You've been dealt a rough hand.
You tip your cap to fate.
You say, this time you got me, but I'll be back.
And that certainly happens.
But in my mind, that's the exception.
Most of the battles in an endeavor like this,
are of the mind.
It's warfare of mindset.
It's will.
It's resilience.
And watching, you know,
this probably 200-pound dude
continually pushed towards that finish line,
running when he could,
walking when he had to,
it was a courage that's hard to articulate.
You know, particularly evident,
and this stands out to me
or stood out to me on the water breaks,
where we all would sit,
sometimes in quiet,
sometimes talking about the road ahead,
you know, having some snacks,
the breeze hitting our faces.
But these pauses, these moments of rest,
I've come to find here,
as well as other physical challenges I've done,
these moments in time are what capture most souls,
because it's like people don't quit while they're moving.
For some reason, they quit while they're sitting down,
while they're taking a breather, enjoying the calm,
a bag of chips, while they're reminded what absence of pain feels like.
And that alarm sounds, hey, let's go, boys, it's time.
That's when the, nah, I'm good.
The, nah, no thank you, or I'm done,
that's when those emerge.
But I'll tell you every time that alarm went off,
He'd shut his brain off and he'd stand up.
His feet looked so destroyed that I won't even share images of them.
It didn't matter.
He'd limp over to the road where we would continue on.
The same way, if you think about a feather, right,
really has no say if one were to drop it off a bridge.
It's like the second the hand releases it,
now it's at the mercy of gravity.
It's going to float down to the world below.
doing what it has to do.
And, uh, you know, I'll be real.
It wasn't always pretty.
It was ugly at times.
There were times where it was, you know, faster than I thought it would be.
There were times where it was excruciatingly slow.
There were times where it was through the heat of a South Florida, you know, sunny day.
And there were times where it was, you know,
chillingly cold in the middle of the night.
But either way, all 100 miles, every single step of them were covered.
And see, me, I've been doing this for years.
I love it.
Well, hate it during the middle, of course, but that's the game.
I'm built for this through years of repetition.
It wouldn't be fair for, you know, us to compare our perception.
suits. I imagine it'd be relatively similar to me walking into a boxing ring with him, right? That
would be a bad day for me. Well, in a way, distance running like that is my boxing ring, which is why,
you know, I felt like him stepping into it. He wasn't just doing it for himself. It felt like he was
carrying a burden for all of us, a gift for us to hold on too tightly, as we said. He wasn't just doing it for himself. It felt like he was carrying a burden for us.
goodbye to our friends and hopped back onto a plane to normalcy.
Some questions gift-wrapped for me to take back to the desert.
One, are you putting yourself through something completely foreign, new challenges?
Not, oh, this is kind of annoying type adversity, but I'm in so far over my head here that I'm drowning type adversity,
because that's where change happens.
And two, are you, even when walking through the flames of hell,
trusting your ability to put one foot in front of the other,
to step back out onto the sidewalk,
regardless of externalities,
because the vast majority of our battles happen,
not out in the world, but in our minds.
The stories we tell ourselves are everything.
And that's not a nice little cliche for an Instagram quote.
That's the difference between reaching Mile 100
and looking up wishing you had.
It's the difference between evolving into your potential
and staying where you are.
In many ways, it's the difference
between the person you currently are
and the person you can become.
And so, most likely, you're not on mile 80 of 100-mile run,
but you do have your equivalent.
And maybe your feet aren't torn up and your legs aren't sore,
but you do have your source of discomfort and duress.
And what I need you to remember is that getting there requires when that alarm goes off,
you stand up, you step out onto the battlefield,
and you continuously push forward.
Through the heat, through the cold, beyond the pain,
and doubt in uncertainty and questions about what it'll all mean?
What if this goes wrong or this happens right through the center of all of it?
Because the journey may seem long, but the journey is never your responsibility.
One more step is your responsibility.
Trusting that little things will culminate into big things is your responsibility.
Understanding that when the world bows down,
you can be the one who stands up, says no, and carries on.
That is your responsibility.
The funny thing about running 100 miles is it seems so over the top and outlandish
that we forget.
It's just one step many times.
Show me someone who can't take one more step.
Show me the man or woman who can't figure out how to move.
12 inches further into the abyss.
For creatures blessed with an ability to think
that supersedes all other living things on earth,
it's amazing to me that some of our greatest achievements,
our strengths, our superpower,
requires that we cut the thinking off
and simply stand up and rise to the occasion
over and over again,
not when we want to,
or when it feels right, but when we are called to.
If you think like that, if you can rewire your mind to make that your reality,
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Yes, the very monsters in your world that bring you pain and frustration. The ones that appear
out of nowhere and create chaos, as well as the ones you've seen coming for miles. They are in
but I'll tell you what, that may just be the best news you've heard all day.
Nietzsche once warned, when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back.
And here he's implying that when one focuses too much on negative destructive forces,
they can consume or corrupt.
His warning implies that the more time you spend entangled in those streets,
the more they change you.
I agree.
But I want to, for the sake of practicality, add some nuance.
I say, good.
And so, I want to talk about engaging those monsters.
And while doing so, not being consumed by the darkness,
but rather learning from it.
Transforming through it,
becoming who you were meant to become by confronting it.
It is because of the fire that the iron is forged,
through the unknown that reality is mapped out.
It's only because of the things we fear
that we learn to rise and become more powerful than those things.
So yeah, the abyss, it stares back,
and yeah, for the sake,
of this conversation, that is a beautiful thing. Monsters, they are not the exception, they are the rule.
How do I know? Well, I can stand here before you and tell you in my life the things that brought
the most pain also handed me the most meaningful change. The pain of feeling smaller forces one to
become bigger. The pain of falling short forces one to start showing up,
better prepared. The pain of having insufficient or seemingly insufficient resources forces one to be resourceful.
If I had everything on day one, then I'd be standing before you now with nothing.
Nothing of substance, that is. None of the most meaningful things in my life as they currently exist.
Monsters are not the exception.
They are the rule.
Challenging us,
pushing us to find our strength
in our resilience
in the face of adversity.
Helping us realize
these challenges are not roadblocks
but stepping stones,
urging us forward.
These monsters are
choose your own ending stories.
I guess the same way
gasoline can be utilized
to burn down a house or propel forward a Ferrari.
The challenge is the answer, if you allow it to be.
Monsters are not the exception, they are the rule.
They become our teachers.
Revealing hidden truths and guiding us towards transformation,
each encounter with them is a lesson in disguise,
teaching us courage and patience and wisdom.
That shadowy figure you fear most also has more to show you, to teach you, to explain to you than anything or anyone else on the planet.
Just begin the curriculum.
Monsters are not the exception. They are the rule.
And in accepting them, we embrace our fears, we unlock our truest potential.
Through their acceptance, we find peace.
within ourselves.
Look, it's intuitive to want less monsters
because we fear them.
What we fear hurts.
And oh, how joyous it would be to live without hurt.
But conversely, there is freedom in acceptance.
See, life hurts.
It just does.
It's part of the human condition.
And that fork in the road,
you will perpetually find yourself standing at.
asks you an ever-important question.
Do you want to choose the hurt that lifts you up and pushes you forward?
Or the hurt that leaves you right where you are wishing you had more courage,
wishing you were more daring, wishing that you stepped into life.
Monsters are not the exception, they are the rule.
through them we transform
becoming more than we ever imagined
they are the crucibles in which we are forged
emerging stronger, wiser and more whole
there are no heroes
without monsters
none
so how about giving yourself the gift
of picking up the sword
the shield and the crown
at your feet
monsters are not
the exception, they are the rule.
Yes, the very monsters in your world that bring you pain and frustration,
the ones that appear out of nowhere,
and the ones that you've seen coming for miles.
But I'll tell you what,
that just may be the best news one could deliver.
Because today, those shadowy figures,
with their large, round, yellow eyes,
Peering through the darkness
become the reason
that you stepped into your highest self.
They and they alone are your invitation
to recreate reality,
to live life on your terms,
to turn the darkness
into the very path
you were meant to walk.
There will always be months.
Thank God.
Let's talk about escaping life's algorithm.
Because, yeah, YouTube has an algorithm.
And Spotify has an algorithm, and Instagram, and TikTok,
and all the social platforms we use have algorithms.
But guess what?
Life has an algorithm as well.
And it tends to be a lot more powerful.
It's the invisible force that rewards what's safe, predictable,
unexpected.
It nudges you towards the path most traveled,
steering you not towards what's best for you,
but towards what is most reinforced by this system in place.
After all, that's what an algorithm is.
And so on social media, we'll start there.
You tend to see this clearly.
Originally, content is made, let's say, out of curiosity
or genuine interest.
or maybe just a quick idea, spark of inspiration, whatever it is, right?
And so the creator makes it, uploads it, brings it into the world.
But then that piece of content garners some success.
It gets a lot of views.
The algorithm pushes it.
The question then becomes, oh, wow, what did I do right?
How do I replicate that?
How do I do more of that?
Which, there's nothing wrong with asking those questions, right?
That's the pragmatic thing to ask if you're trying to reach folks.
But it also becomes the trap.
I don't know if you guys have seen this,
but I always laugh at this story.
On TikTok, I saw this video where some dude goes up to a door
and hits the door with a hammer.
And I don't know what this says about humanity,
but the video goes viral, gets millions of views
because he hit the door with the hammer.
And so you go back to the account two months later,
and it's just hundreds of posts of this dude cracking doors with hammers.
No substance, right?
Does there need to be?
That's a different conversation.
And I look at that and I laugh and I think, well, you know, not me, right?
My stuff is, quote unquote, more substantive.
Well, maybe.
But maybe not, because you could make the argument that in our own world,
we're all hitting metaphorical doors with metaphorical hands.
hammers. We're all playing a game in a system without realizing it. We're all succumbing to an
algorithm, one way or another. And this is actually something that my team and I are usually trying
to balance, right, that tightrope of doing what will reach others, because if you're not playing
to win, why are you playing? But simultaneously never failing to do what inspires us. Of course, we
grow and help as many people as possible.
But your soul has to be lit doing it.
Otherwise, why are you here?
If I'm not posting what I find meaningful,
there's a dissonance in my head that makes it impossible for me to function.
I have to feel aligned.
I'm stubborn about that.
And sometimes I wish less so, but that's just how I'm wired.
You know, I talk a lot about inspiration in our lives, not being a luxury.
Well, that's because it sparks everything means.
And when there's no inspiration, when you're only playing within that box that a platform set up for you, are you a creator?
Or are you just another useful widget on a conveyor belt?
Suddenly, you're no longer chasing inspiration, you're chasing an algorithm.
It becomes about playing the game, not telling the truth.
It's about feeding the machine, not exploring your soul.
And so we're almost four minutes in here.
You're probably wondering what this or how this connects to the bigger picture.
Well, here's where it gets interesting.
It's not just a social media problem.
It is the problem.
The world's rewards conformity.
It praises stability.
It collapse when you take the well-lit path,
the one that's been walked a thousand times before.
Because it craves that predictability.
It wants to have your story, mission,
bio down to a T so it knows where it can group you in.
I mean, think about it.
You're nudged toward a degree that is practical, a job that's a cure, a way of being that
minimizes risk.
And little by little, you trade your unique vision for the comforting metrics of social
validation.
You stop asking, is this the game I want to play?
And you start asking, how do I win the game I'm already in?
But winning the wrong game is just a glorified version of losing.
A person can go their entire life climbing a corporate ladder,
only to realize it's leaning up against the wrong building.
They can spend decades chasing approval only to wake up one day
and realize they never truly were themselves.
And this is not me just sitting back,
critiquing the world or virtue signaling.
I mean, I lived this, right?
Which is why, one, it's so apparent to me as I'm going through it.
And two, why it means so much.
It's like, in my mid-20s, I looked around and I'm like,
I did everything right.
I did everything I was supposed to do.
You know, I got good grades to go to a good school,
to get a good job, to do all the things.
Like, why am I miserable?
Why do I feel like I am losing?
And the answer is, because I'm playing the wrong game.
I was in the wrong arena, right?
Me in an office sorting columns in Microsoft Excel
is as backwards as Michael Phelps playing nose tackle.
I sucked at it.
It's just not where I was supposed to be.
And this is the danger of life's algorithm.
It rewards you for compliance, not fulfillment.
It encourages repetition, not growth.
And if you don't take control,
if you don't step back and see it for what it is,
you'll mistake the road ahead for the only road.
So what's the source?
solution.
Well, it's the same lesson I had to learn with content.
The same lesson every creator learns that they last long enough on that wheel.
You have to disconnect from the algorithm and reconnect with you.
Small things first, from a content perspective.
I started implementing videos very recently on weekends that I know at least algorithmically
are going to lose in the short term.
But it feels different.
And it's nice to mix things up and not care.
about metrics or watch time,
it reinforces that without some push
into an unknown and challenging of a status quo,
I'd stay the same.
You know, these features that mean so much to me,
clearly, they reflect my life outlook.
And if I'm just going through the motions,
I'll never be at my best.
The snow globe has to consistently be shaken up.
And there's some selfishness here, right?
Necessarily.
It's not how do I get more views,
it's what do I want to say?
say. It's not how do I get promoted, it's what type of impact do I want to have. It's not what will
people think of me or how will they view me, but what makes me come alive. These are the questions
that we need to be asking ourselves in the digital realm and far beyond it. That is the shift.
That's how you escape the algorithm, not by beating it, but by stepping outside of it. I've come to
realize that, you know, this above all warrants my attention.
And hopefully, if you reflect and find yourself in a similar pattern, you'll join me.
Whether it's work, relationships, routine, art, whatever it may be.
You realize that the most meaningful things in life, the creativity and love and joy and purpose,
they'll never fit neatly into a formula.
It would be great.
It'd be a real treat if they did.
It would simplify a lot.
But that's not how the world works.
And so if you feel trapped,
if you feel like you're playing a game that doesn't feed your soul,
take a step back, breathe.
Look at the board in front of you and ask,
is this truly mine?
Because you don't know the algorithm, anything.
But you do owe yourself everything.
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