This is Jocko Podcast number 427 with Eco Charles and me Jocker Willink.

Good evening.

I bet you and I have a lot in common.

We're not the strongest, smartest, or richest people we know.

We're not the fastest or most connected.

We're not the best looking or most talented.

We don't have the best genetics.

But what we do have is something a lot of those other people will never have the

will to work.

If there's one unavoidable truth in this world, it's that there is no substitute for putting in the work.

There is no shortcut or growth hack or magic pill that can get you around the hard work of doing

your job well of winning something you care about or of making your dreams come true.

People have tried to cut corners and skip steps in this process for as long as hard work has been hard.

Eventually those people either fall behind or get left in the dust because working your ass off is the only thing that works 100% of the time

for 100% of the things worth achieving.

Work works.

That is the bottom line. No matter what you do, no matter who you are, my entire life has

been shaped by that single idea.

And that right there is an excerpt from a book called Be Useful, Seven Tools for life by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

And if you don't know anything about Arnold Schwarzenegger,

well, he won Mr. Universe bodybuilding competition at age 20, then won Mr. Olympia seven times.

He brought bodybuilding to the masses through his victories and through his film pumping iron he then took over

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