#82: The Work Never Stops

Arnold's Pump Club

Health & Fitness, Fitness

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The final chapter of Arnold's book is all about giving back because none of us are self-made, and once we realize that -- at some point -- we got some help, no matter how small, we can acknowledge our duty to help others. If you've ever hoped to leave the world better than you found it, Arnold has a message for you.

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0:00.0	welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club. This weekend was the 20th anniversary of
0:07.2	my election as governor of the great state of California. October 7, 2003 was a day that changed my
0:14.5	life. I have no problem admitting that I got choked up as I was putting in a tie to head to the
0:22.8	victory party and I heard we can now project that the governor will be recalled and the new governor
0:29.5	will be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Imagine the feeling. This country in this state gave me everything.
0:36.7	I spent the campaign ignoring nasaers who said Schnitzel becoming governor was a joke.
0:42.6	And now I heard that the people of California, the greatest state in the greatest nation in the
0:49.4	world, the fifth largest economy on earth had put their faith in me. Just imagine the responsibility.
0:56.8	I knew the tremendous duty of public service. Before that night, my life had already shifted over
1:03.6	the past few decades from being about me to about we. I started giving back by helping special
1:10.3	Olympics athletes find their power and confidence. After that, I was addicted and I found myself
1:16.5	traveling to all 50 states on my own dime after I was appointed by President George H. W. Bush
1:23.5	to be the chairman of the president's council on physical fitness and sports
1:29.2	to help kids all over America learn the importance of exercise and to lobby. Educators and
1:35.3	administrators to stop cutting funding for physical education, which they were cutting left and
1:41.9	right back then. When I visited all those schools, I saw that kids had nowhere to go after school.
1:48.4	So I found that after school, all stars to give 100,000 students in 13 states a safe place to
1:56.2	continue learning and growing after school. And studies showed that kids fall into drugs,
2:01.3	gangs, teenage pregnancy, juvenile crime, and all of the problems that derailed their lives.
2:08.7	And then I spent my own money to campaign for a ballot initiative in 2002,
2:15.0	Proposition 49 to ensure that California spent $500 million a year on after school programs,
2:23.2	which was more than the other 49 states combined. So by 2003, public service was in my blood.
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