(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Courage is not the absence of fear. It is moving forward in spite of it. I have to have the courage. And let me tell you something, most Americans don't have this kind of courage. I have to have the courage to stop making excuses. I can't, I'm too old, I'm too young, I'm too fat, I'm too thin. I can't, right? I can't. I hear this all the time, all the reasons that you can't do something. Don't tell me you can't.
Don't give me excuses. What's the reason you've given yourself why you can't be successful and you can't be better? Let me tell you something I've learned, it's way easier to blame someone else than to get honest with yourself. Anytime you start something new, anytime you set out on a new path, anytime you move out of your comfort zone, you're gonna go through what is basically, if you can imagine, a bell curve of frustration, all right?
Things are gonna get, you're gonna be excited, you're gonna be pumped, you're gonna have the momentum to carry you through the first two or three or four days. Maybe it's a week, maybe it's three weeks. It's different for everybody. But the point is, is that when you get excited about something, we have natural energy that pushes us through. But what happens when that energy fades? What happens when you start to get frustrated?
What happens when you start to feel like a grime and things get grueling and they get gritty and they get tough and it gets harder to move through the process every single day? What happens then? Most people fucking quit. You cannot erase the work ethic part. There is no getting around. Ain't no elevator to the top. You got to take the stairs. The elevator don't go to the top, man. Not in the world with success. You got to take the stairs. The key with me is no one will outwork me. No one.
I love and I respect you guys. Most people are not working. I'll start with this. Two hands, putting them to work. Stay in courage. Stay in courage. Keep your head up. Stick your chest out. Continue to walk the clock. And know if it was easy, everybody would do it. It's not gonna be easy, but we have for the taking. There's gonna be a lot of times y 'all about to fail. We are all a member of the power of you. You will change the world. You must get comfortable with fear and failure.
They must be your best friends. You're the only one that moves that needle of life. Every hero you guys had was called an idiot, crazy, a loser. You must break society's status quo. Safety, comfort zones, or dead zones. You have to continue to push yourself because your true potential will never be matched, guys. You got for one minute that you broke me. You got me twisted. I am not phenomenally skilled, but phenomenally real. I will not give up. I will not surrender. I will not quit.
Do that thing, man, that keeps you up at night. That thing that bothers you, man, that makes you trip. You can't quit thinking about it. You always, that thing, man, that you wake up in the middle of the night, you got a new idea. That's what you got to chase. Because anything else, it's gonna disappoint you. You're gonna forever be sad, man. If you don't chase that dream, you're gonna forever be miserable. I would hate to die and never do the thing I was born to do.
That's a sad thing, man, that people, like, they'd never chase because you've got jobs and stuff and you listening to other people. I would, man, if I hadn't chased my dream, I wouldn't be here. If I listened to my mother and father, I'd have been a construction worker, just like my brothers. Don't believe the crushing that you're in as if it is your final residence or place of abode. You may have to live there for a little while. Don't own that pain. Don't own that suffering.
Don't own that agony. Don't own that grave. Don't own that depression. Don't own that suicide. Don't own that loneliness. Rent it if you must, but don't own it. And it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's gonna happen. All that matters is that you got to get up. So it's gonna be a dogfight. I would love to tell you that on the road to success, everything is gonna work out. It's not. You can decide that you're going to change, that you're gonna stand up to life.
I got me here. I can get me out of this and I'm getting out. When the alarm clock goes off in the morning, get up. Don't wait. Don't hesitate. When the alarm clock goes off in the morning, get up. All of us have experienced some tragedy, and if we haven't, we will. And you can either let it destroy your life or you can build upon it. You can permit it to let it hold you down or you can decide, I'm not going to let that happen to me. I'm bigger than this. All we're thinking is the art.
It's an art. It is literally an art. It's an art that a lot of individuals here have mastered. It's the art of creating issues and problems that don't exist. There's enough issues in life that already exist. Fear is an instinct. Fear propels you. It wakes you up. It gets you going. Doubt you create. Everything you've doubted about yourself. Everything you've doubted about your buildings. Everything you've doubted about how far you can go. Everything you've doubted about how hard you should work.
Everything's doubted about where you should be. You created it. You're supposed to be scared. You're supposed to have fear. You're not supposed to have doubt. You have to know that this thing is going to work. Come down or high water, whatever it is that I set out to do, it may not happen in six months. It may not happen in a year, but at some point, my dream is going to become a reality. You have the power to do more than you could ever begin to imagine. Don't underestimate yourself.
You don't know enough about yourself to become a cynic, and so you've got to challenge yourself to access that power that you have within you. You're more than a conqueror. What crazy means? Crazy means that you have the ability to see things that other people can't. And if you're not crazy, you're never going to succeed at anything in life. Everybody has got to be a little bit off. Anybody that's done something great, they don't think like anybody else. They can't.
And the people that tell you you can't do it, you know what your response to them is? Watch. That's all you have to say. Watch.