Tate Speech - Andrew Tate - Tate on Success Secrets
Aired: 2022-07-10
Duration: 06:23


=== Motivation Beyond Bragging Rights (06:23) ===

[00:00:00]  Right.
[00:00:08]  So I get asked a lot about motivation and people say, take what motivates you.
[00:00:13]  And I find that extremely... I think that's a stupid question.
[00:00:17]  What motivates me?
[00:00:17]  Because I don't want to be a loser.
[00:00:20]  Like, who wants to be a loser?
[00:00:22]  I've always wanted to be rich, because I know I deserve to be rich, because I see how many stupid people are rich.
[00:00:26]  Look at any rapper, and look at any of their interviews, and see how low their IQ is, and these people are millionaires.
[00:00:33]  We got a special guest in the building, Tekashi69!
[00:00:36]  I'm the hottest artist in the city.
[00:00:38]  No, you're not.
[00:00:46]  So if they're a millionaire, I definitely deserve to be a millionaire.
[00:00:49]  So I've always had motivation for the same reason I want to be big and strong and rich and I want to be all these things because I'm me.
[00:00:54]  So I was talking to someone the other day and they said, why are you motivated?
[00:00:57]  And I said, because I don't want to be a loser.
[00:00:58]  And they said, yeah, I understand that.
[00:00:59]  But why are you so uncomfortable with the idea of being average loser?
[00:01:06]  And you have to push so hard.
[00:01:08]  So I guess my typical response wasn't enough for him.
[00:01:12]  Why are you so motivated?
[00:01:13]  Don't want to be a loser?
[00:01:14]  Okay, but why don't you want to be a loser?
[00:01:16]  So I sat there for a little bit and I thought and I thought what is the reason I have always been so driven my entire life?
[00:01:24]  And it's obviously to do with my upbringing, but it's like, what element of my upbringing made me into such a militant individual?
[00:01:29]  What made me so brilliant?
[00:01:31]  From a young age, I was a professional chess player, and then I became a professional kickboxer, and then I became a multimillionaire businessman, blah, blah, blah.
[00:01:37]  Why have I always pushed so hard?
[00:01:38]  And I think one of the key elements to it is because I was always extremely proud of my last name, Tate.
[00:01:47]  And the reason for that is, in the environment I grew up around, whenever the name Tate was said, people put respect on the name.
[00:01:55]  So when I used to go to professional chess tournaments with my father, who was one of the best chess players in the world, people would say, oh shit, Tate's here.
[00:02:03]  Oh man, Tate's here.
[00:02:04]  Oh, who's got Tate?
[00:02:04]  Who's playing Tate?
[00:02:05]  Everyone was scared.
[00:02:08]  The name invoked fear.
[00:02:10]  The name invoked respect.
[00:02:12]  Automatically, just the name, Tate.
[00:02:14]  Every time something was happening to me that was difficult or I had a challenge ahead of me, etc, etc, I was motivated with my own last name.
[00:02:22]  So it's like, oh, dad, I'm worried about this, or mom, I'm scared about this.
[00:02:25]  And they say, yeah, but you're a Tate.
[00:02:26]  It's like, oh, yeah, I am scared, but I am a Tate.
[00:02:29]  So it's okay, because I'm a Tate.
[00:02:31]  Even now, even as successful as I am, most people would look and go, oh, look at my child, they've done this, they've done this, they've done this.
[00:02:39]  I guarantee as a child, I outperformed any of you as children.
[00:02:42]  And I guarantee if you have children, I outperformed your child.
[00:02:44]  This is the reality of it.
[00:02:45]  I was moved up three grades in school.
[00:02:46]  I had one of the highest SAT scores in history.
[00:02:48]  I was a chess champion age five, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[00:02:50]  I was the state chess champion.
[00:02:52]  In the under 16 year olds at age 5.
[00:02:54]  The youngest in history.
[00:02:56]  In fact, I remember being 5 years old and playing a whole bunch of 10 year olds.
[00:02:59]  There was 4 of them on a team against me.
[00:03:01]  I remember sitting there and whooping them all.
[00:03:03]  So, uh, I was a genius.
[00:03:05]  Child genius.
[00:03:06]  Adult genius.
[00:03:06]  Whatever, whatever.
[00:03:07]  But I was never told, oh wow, you're so smart.
[00:03:11]  For me, it was just normal.
[00:03:12]  They're like, yeah, you're a Tate.
[00:03:14]  Oh, they moved me up three grades in school.
[00:03:16]  Well, duh, you're a Tate.
[00:03:17]  Of course.
[00:03:17]  What the fuck else are they gonna do?
[00:03:19]  So for me, achieving things was always very, very normal.
[00:03:21]  And it was always very, very easy in my mind.
[00:03:23]  It was always just like, well, duh, of course, I achieve things.
[00:03:26]  Of course, I'll be world champion.
[00:03:27]  Of course, I'll be a millionaire.
[00:03:28]  Of course, I can do anything I want.
[00:03:30]  And I've always believed I can do anything I want because I'm a Tate.
[00:03:32]  And for me, achieving things is very, very easy.
[00:03:35]  And I was never overtly praised.
[00:03:37]  And my parents were never surprised by my success.
[00:03:39]  A lot of parents are very, very surprised by the success of their children.
[00:03:42]  I'll see it.
[00:03:43]  They go, he's one of the best in his class.
[00:03:44]  And I'm like, so?
[00:03:48]  He's one of the best, so he's not even the best, of a group of 30 random average losers.
[00:03:54]  He's not top 1% in the world at anything.
[00:03:57]  And you're so proud of him, and you're going to sit there and go, wow, great job, great job.
[00:04:00]  And that's why he's never going to become shit.
[00:04:02]  I'd be embarrassed to have a child which wasn't top 1% in the country.
[00:04:08]  Let alone his shitty class.
[00:04:10]  I'd be embarrassed to brag about the things you brag about.
[00:04:13]  They're bare minimum acceptable standard.
[00:04:16]  If I had a child and he wasn't one of the best in his class...
[00:04:20]  You're getting an ass kicking.
[00:04:21]  That's the bare minimum acceptable standard and you're proud of it?
[00:04:25]  So, one of the main reasons, I guess, I've always been so motivated, one of the reasons my life is so fantastic, because the truth is, I am one of those individuals that have all.
[00:04:35]  I was born with a genetic gift.
[00:04:36]  I'm tall, caramel, sexy as fuck, rich, I can fight, I'm a genius, I've got it all.
[00:04:44]  And one of the reasons I've taken Such marvelous advantage of my genetic gifts, and used them so beautifully, and exploited them, is because I was always, always understanding that 1.
[00:04:56]  My name means something, and I have to live up to my name, and I have to succeed, because when people say the name Tate, it needs to mean something.
[00:05:02]  So just like in the chess halls, when the name Tate was said, now in the kickboxing world, if the name Tate is said, people know it means something.
[00:05:09]  You guys are here, if you follow me, and you watch my whole life, etc.
[00:05:11]  etc.
[00:05:11]  etc.
[00:05:12]  If anyone else knows who I am, and you say the name Tate, people know.
[00:05:15]  They know it means something, and I've made it mean something. 1.
[00:05:18]  And two, because my successors were always seen as absolutely not really normal.
[00:05:23]  And it was absolutely not really normal for me to succeed beyond all measurable doubt, beyond any expectations.
[00:05:29]  The average expectations put on the average child, or the average person, or the average man, I have always blown out of the water without even trying.
[00:05:36]  It's just been easy for me, because this is how I've always been as an individual.
[00:05:40]  So, I guess the moral of the story is, I was raised for success.
[00:05:44]  And if you're sitting there and you're thinking, oh, I want to be more motivated, I want to be more motivated, you have two things to do.
[00:05:48]  One, stop being proud of your achievements which are extremely minor.
[00:05:53]  Oh, look what I did today!
[00:05:54]  What'd you do?
[00:05:56]  Is it actually impressive?
[00:05:57]  Genuinely?
[00:05:58]  The answer is no.
[00:05:59]  One.
[00:05:59]  And I'm saying that as, I mean like, because even me in my life, If I win a kickboxing world title, okay, I'll be proud of myself.
[00:06:07]  Outside of that, well, I bought a new car, who cares?
[00:06:10]  All the things you're so happy about, all the things you brag about, it's bullshit things.
[00:06:13]  It's things everyone does every day and it's not important.
[00:06:15]  One.
[00:06:16]  And two, you need to make your name important.
[00:06:19]  You need to make your name important, you have to find a way to invoke a level of respect on your name.