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Our whole lives, we are taught about success as if it can be predicted with math. If we just work hard enough. If we just know enough. If we are just good enough. We can guarantee victory. That lie governs most of the behaviors I see in modern people.

We've known for centuries that this isn't true. But, with a media industry run by get-rich-quick cowards who also know that the human animal is addicted to listening to storytellers....

And here we are...

In a world where everyone is chasing success. But only a few people ever find it because most people chasing it and talking about it wouldn't know what it was if it bit them on the nose. 
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Tom Brady retired today. I had recorded this podcast hoping to upload it next year while Tom was playing. I thought it may provide him and listeners with an empathetic ear from a man who's been a few tough places. 

I pray this helps you develop as humans and as leaders in your world!

#KeepKilling

Abbreviated Transcript from the show

I think the best way I can illustrate this is with a short story about an experience I had talking to a a soldier at the end of his like illustrious career. So this guy is a ranger, you know, tabbed out, you know, a bad mofo...

So I had an instructor at the ranger school reach out to me a couple of years ago and he just asked me, he's like, can I just ask you a couple questions about civilian life? I said, always if I have time to give to a veteran or a military service member who needs my help, you have, what can I do for you? And he's like, I just want to know, you know, he was in the seven, he was getting ready to process out of the army is getting ready to retire. And so he asks me be like, I dipped my toe in the pool of the civilian world and these were his words and I'm paraphrasing, but he said something to the effect of is it is bad out there as it seems or as it smells to me. And my response was, it's 1000 times worse jump in. It's 1000 times worse than you think it is jump in.

Let me qualify the statement. What is he asking me? I've had some interactions with civilians. I didn't really like those interactions much because I saw very quickly that my values and their values professionally are not the same thing doesn't make them bad people and be a good person or vice versa, just different. And I can see there's going to be conflict down the road and he sees correctly what tom brady is going to find as much like my ranger instructor buddy from the army is that tom brady is not only crazy. Crazily talented, he's also crazily driven and he has an off the planet work ethic. What does that sound like to you? Every single soldier who's ever been able to wear the uniform has to be that person to succeed, especially if you're a soldier who lasts long enough to retire. You have to be a tom brady character to do that. It's hard. Army life is not easy. 

Military life is not easy, right? And so what I'm telling him is worse is not, oh civilians are evil, You're gonna hate them all. No, you're gonna be used to working at a level that no civilians do because they don't have to in their job. Nobody dies at the end of the day if they screw up, right? 

And and and what a lot of people seem to think is veterans. We come to think we're better than other people because we've been through harder stuff. No, we signed up to do that hard stuff that doesn't make us better people. That makes us we kept our word and we did. That makes us, if anything, just people of integrity that keep our word, just because I've been through something harder than you, doesn't make me a better person. 

Because if I don't turn my hardship into something positive for another human, my hardship was worthless, right? 

So don't get it in your head that we think we're better than you. We just understand that we have a different work ethic and a different value ethic. And the way that we approach work, stereotypically, there are civilians that operate exactly like soldiers

It is Darwinian in the army. You either lead progress and become more awesome or we put you out on the street, there's no job like that.

Most people I know are looking for shortcuts not like and what I teach my people in my spartan says there is no easy life. So if you're looking for that, don't call me looking for mentorship because there isn't one right? 
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Show Script:

I think today's Podcast is gonna be titled pity I think today's Podcast is going to be titled pity is the cowards I think the title for today's Podcast is gonna be something like pity is the coward's version of love I want to unpack that a little bit before you let you know a little bit about where I've been and what's going on where the podcasts been were about a week off by the time you're listening to thi'm you're listening to this and the truth is I made the deliberate decision to take some time away from pretty much everything on the Internet to square away and in really reinforce a lot of the mental and emotional health work I've been doing over the years There's you get to a point where you spend the bulk of your life in it those who listen to the Podcast only see probably 3% of my life because what I do online is such a small percentage of what I do in the world but when you you dedicate your life to pouring another people and trying to be of service and help you eventually get to the bottom of that well afforded turn you gotta go back and fill it up so I decided to do that I've taken time away from pretty much everything I was doing online that wasn't directly working with my men's teeth so I'm not going to take any time away from people that I've committed to to helping them but I'm taking time away from basically everything else I haven't been streaming Add a really done to your Podcast in about things been about 2 weeks since I've given you one but I had to stop while I was late in bed last night and I wanted to express it and because I thought it would be helpful for you to think about love in a different way and to think about pity and in much a different more way and to think I about pity don't and want in to a say negative light but I want to say in a much less useful ligit's useful light what I see a lot of people doing in the world it's rolled is trying to get pity because it's an easier form of love it's easier to get I don't want to kind of squash that because this whole show Podcast where you want to call it's really just a narcissistic rant of a man who was frustrated with the world and wants to help make some positive change in the areas that I think aren't right and maybe I'm wrong maybe 500 years from now they'll play this Podcast and say this guy was an idiot and that's OK I will accept the judgment Of you know the future 500 years from now if they find out that there was a better way I'm all for it but the way I see the world right now I'm seeing a lot of people who are underdeveloped emotionally and mentally weaker than they should be and by no fault of their own and in not blaming the system or some conspiracy are really blaming our parents for not being better equipped in knowing how to raise men women and others to be prepared for the real world where no one gives a shit about you and nobody really has a lot of sympathy for your problems but your problems right and I don't mean that in an evil way like the world just doesn't care about you not because they're evil because they've got their own problems and whatever thing you think should be pity about your life believe me everybody has a thing you're not special And that's coming from a person and I would say those same exact words to me a person who was abandoned abused sexually assaulted all the above I'm I'd not special know people with to me I don't like to compare stories like who's better who's worse because 
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