Everyone says, well, you should be harmless, virtuous.

You shouldn't do anyone any harm.

You should sheath your competitive instinct.

You shouldn't try to win.

You know, you don't want to be too aggressive.

You don't want to be too assertive.

If you want to take a back seat and all of that, it's like, no, wrong.

You should be a monster, an absolute monster, and then you should learn how to control it.

It's impossible to respect yourself until you grow those mental teeth. And when you grow those

teeth, you realize that you're dangerous. You begin to demand success for yourself. You're no longer wishing or hoping things work out.

You're going to make it happen no matter what. So you start carrying yourself with a different

level of confidence and conviction that says to the world, I will not stop. I am going to assess

the situation. I am going to come up with a plan and I am going to execute.

I'm going to go get it because I'm built for it. If you set out and you say you're going to do

something, do yourself a favor and don't lie to yourself. That is the worst thing that an individual

can ever do. The people in life that win play offense, not defense. Stop backing into everything. Stand up. Bow your

back a little bit. Start to walk a little different. Start to be that best version of you. You can do it

in your quiet way. You can do it the way you do it, but somehow they got to look at you and go, okay,

I won't monkey with that one. I need you to put the type of effort forward that the world knows don't come from you.

You have to develop a doggedness. You gotta have some toughness in you.

And the only way to develop toughness is you gotta practice being tough.

And you cannot practice being tough by quitting every time you get tired,

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