Lionel Nation - Rational Motivation and Inspiration
Aired: 2023-01-30
Duration: 13:44


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[00:01:30]  I happen to catch on YouTube one of those classic moments of inspiration from a high school or football coach telling people, you can do it!
[00:01:44]  Success is made by inches and clawing and you've got to believe and the only way you're going to lose is if you quit and all this stuff.
[00:01:58]  We're just like, yeah, yeah.
[00:02:00]  I think that's correct.
[00:02:02]  Kind of makes sense.
[00:02:03]  And I was thinking to myself, would I really tell young people that today?
[00:02:09]  If I were really telling them the truth.
[00:02:11]  I mean, what I tell them is, yes, I mean, I think I would.

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[00:02:15]  Look, if you quit, you're not going to succeed.
[00:02:18]  But can you do anything?
[00:02:21]  No.
[00:02:23]  Can you do anything you put your mind to?
[00:02:26]  No.
[00:02:28]  No.
[00:02:29]  Is there a meritocracy?
[00:02:32]  No.
[00:02:33]  Sometimes.
[00:02:34]  Not always.
[00:02:36]  The best advice you can possibly give people...
[00:02:41]  It's to accept failure when it is inevitable and to understand that not everything is the way it should be.
[00:02:52]  Now, that's not exactly motivational, but it's true.
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[00:04:41]  I love when people have told me throughout life you can do whatever you want if you put your mind to it.
[00:04:49]  That's not true.
[00:04:50]  That's not even remotely true.
[00:04:52]  Not even close to being true.
[00:04:57]  Not even...
[00:04:58]  I mean, you cannot...
[00:05:01]  I cannot be a center for The New York Knickerbockers.

=== Understanding Limits (08:41) ===

[00:05:08]  And the reason for it is height restrictions, talent, ability, no experience.
[00:05:14]  But given all those things, I cannot.
[00:05:18]  Man may not be able to break certain records.
[00:05:22]  We might not be able to run 60 miles an hour.
[00:05:26]  Now you can say to yourself, well that doesn't count.
[00:05:29]  Those are just limitations.
[00:05:30]  But there are limitations.
[00:05:33]  And it's critical to understand them.
[00:05:36]  It's important to tell people that when you do something, make sure you do it based upon the reasonable belief, the reasonable expectation of success, based upon a system of competition that is, well, understandable.
[00:05:54]  Is there a meritocracy?
[00:05:56]  No, because I can't even understand it.
[00:05:58]  Look.
[00:05:59]  We can talk about things like sports.
[00:06:01]  Sports are wonderful because sports gives you exactly numbers.
[00:06:05]  You ran this fast, you scored these many points, and I mean, you can have variations within it because the referees might be wrong or inept, and that could affect certain things.
[00:06:17]  But for the most part, sports is pretty much points and time limits, and you ran out of time and all this sort of stuff.
[00:06:24]  And that happens, okay?
[00:06:28]  Life's not like that.
[00:06:31]  There's this subjective thing that most of us have to go through.
[00:06:34]  There's this subjective thing.
[00:06:37]  I was listening or watching a movie about somebody trying to court somebody.
[00:06:44]  This was the days, I guess, when we had movies like that where somebody tried to catch the fancy of a young lady.
[00:06:54]  Is there anything you can do about that?
[00:06:55]  No.
[00:06:56]  This is completely Out of your realm of reference, I mean, to an extent, you can avoid doing something untoward, but it's up to somebody just liking you.
[00:07:08]  Were the Beatles the greatest musical band of all time?
[00:07:12]  I don't know.
[00:07:13]  How do you even measure that?
[00:07:15]  I don't know.
[00:07:16]  Were there better bands at the time?
[00:07:19]  Probably.
[00:07:20]  Why aren't they the Beatles?
[00:07:22]  I don't know.
[00:07:23]  I don't know.
[00:07:26]  Yeah, but didn't they try hard?
[00:07:29]  Didn't they follow all of the rules?
[00:07:32]  Yes, they did.
[00:07:33]  Well, shouldn't they have been awarded Beatle status?
[00:07:38]  Well, maybe in the perfect world, but they took your advice.
[00:07:44]  They practiced.
[00:07:45]  They did everything right.
[00:07:46]  I know.
[00:07:47]  I don't know why.
[00:07:49]  I don't know.
[00:07:52]  Kids have to understand this.
[00:07:54]  Because it's very unfair to tell people, you can overcome everything if you work hard.
[00:08:00]  That's not true.
[00:08:03]  To accept life is to accept limitations.
[00:08:07]  That's not to be a defeatist.
[00:08:09]  You can do tremendous changes, tremendous things.
[00:08:14]  You can do so much.
[00:08:15]  You can do so, so much.
[00:08:18]  If you put your mind to it, if you try, if you do a lot of things.
[00:08:20]  But the idea that everything is subject to success and victory is wrong.
[00:08:28]  It's not fair to do that.
[00:08:29]  It's unfair to give people the impression that everything is there for you.
[00:08:36]  Now, I know that what I just said would never be acceptable in a commencement exercise.
[00:08:48]  In a locker room speech?
[00:08:53]  No!
[00:08:54]  And I understand that because you almost need to create almost this pathological frenzy that's a part of this.
[00:09:07]  I understand.
[00:09:10]  Kind of like the berserker mentality.
[00:09:14]  But reality is a very, very unfair thing.
[00:09:17]  And it's a very, very tough thing for people to grasp in terms of the reality of it.
[00:09:33]  You know, I understand that perception is a wonderful thing.
[00:09:42]  And my answer to everybody is, it is balance.
[00:09:45]  It is balance.
[00:09:46]  You are constantly on that.
[00:09:48]  Have you seen that little balance board at gyms where you stand on it and you try to do arm curls and maintain?
[00:09:56]  They always say, it's about the core.
[00:09:59]  You've got to build your core.
[00:10:00]  Everybody was talking about the core.
[00:10:02]  All of a sudden, overnight, everybody was talking about the core.
[00:10:06]  But there was this balance.
[00:10:08]  And that's life.
[00:10:10]  Don't go to this side too much.
[00:10:12]  Don't be too optimistic.
[00:10:13]  Don't be too pessimistic.
[00:10:15]  Just balance it.
[00:10:18]  Balance it.
[00:10:20]  And there's also something that is the most important to tell people, but you can't.
[00:10:26]  And that is create your own reality.
[00:10:29]  What do I mean by that?
[00:10:30]  One of the abilities that successful people have is this thing called get over it.
[00:10:37]  Especially failure.
[00:10:38]  Remember, success needs no encouragement, no instruction.
[00:10:43]  You know, how do I handle this?
[00:10:45]  No, no, you'll do just fine.
[00:10:46]  But failure, dejection, loss.
[00:10:51]  These are the things which are so critical.
[00:10:55]  And these are the things because, unfortunately, there's more of that than the other one, which is true, by definition.
[00:11:04]  And one of the tricks is to be able to create your own reality.
[00:11:08]  To be able to say, you know what?
[00:11:09]  This doesn't even matter.
[00:11:13]  This isn't that important.
[00:11:16]  This will come and go.
[00:11:18]  This is no big deal.
[00:11:20]  So what?
[00:11:21]  Time to move on.
[00:11:22]  So what?
[00:11:24]  Big deal.
[00:11:25]  It happened.
[00:11:26]  Didn't really matter to me that much in the first place.
[00:11:28]  What was I thinking?
[00:11:30]  So what?
[00:11:31]  Come to think of it.
[00:11:33]  I didn't really want that in the first place.
[00:11:34]  Is that delusion?
[00:11:36]  Is it?
[00:11:37]  Might be.
[00:11:40]  But it's very defense mechanistic.
[00:11:43]  You will go farther, not farther, further in life by being able to adjust reality and re-evaluate, re-equate yourself with, quote, failure by looking at things differently.
[00:11:58]  If something went wrong, You can either lament, cry, be dejected, or maybe convince yourself that it really wasn't that important in the first place.
[00:12:11]  Is that delusional?
[00:12:13]  I don't think so.
[00:12:15]  Not if it gets you through the day.
[00:12:17]  Not only that, it doesn't matter.
[00:12:19]  It's already over.
[00:12:20]  See, nobody will tell you this.
[00:12:22]  Read these.
[00:12:23]  There's so much...
[00:12:25]  In our world today where people are always giving you advice and do this and do this, but nobody ever tells you advice, real advice.
[00:12:33]  It's almost like, you know, when you're bitten by something, they'll tell you, no, that other stuff, don't use a tourniquet, don't run around, don't do this, that can actually increase the poison or whatever it is.
[00:12:46]  Sometimes old wives tales and mythology will actually hurt us more than the reality of things.
[00:12:52]  And that's what this is about.
[00:12:56]  Change your reality.
[00:12:58]  Change your perception.
[00:13:01]  Again, not being delusional, not being wacky, but alter the way you appreciate things and alter the way you adapt or the amount of significance you give to failure.
[00:13:14]  Think about what I'm saying very carefully.
[00:13:16]  Think about it.
[00:13:16]  It's the best advice anybody's ever given you in quite a long time.
[00:13:21]  Now, if you'd like, I would appreciate you liking this video, subscribing to the channel, hitting that little bell, and I want to see your comments.
[00:13:30]  I want to see, what do you think?
[00:13:32]  Does this make sense to you?
[00:13:34]  Have I opened up a new level of consciousness, a new appreciation, a new level of awareness?
[00:13:42]  Or am I all wet, as they say?