What's going on, guys? Welcome back to the Dreamy Scott Fitness podcast and radio show.

Coming to real quick tonight on a heavily requested topic, how to deal with the doubters or how to deal with haters and people who are dragging you down and are visceral in your life.

And I think you guys already know my answer and I could answer it in literally one sentence and I could go about this podcast in 87 different ways.

But I stumbled upon a letter here from a friend of mine who actually wrote me this, and I think

he titled it like motivational venting, but it very much so is about doubters and haters in your

life and how to overcome them in a story that I think you guys can roll with.

And his name is Jan Orstrom, one of the most badass fucking dudes I've ever met and known.

And these are his words.

And so it's kind of his little motivational event or rant I wanted to share on the podcast.

So understand these are his words, you guys, not mine.

I'll put them in quotes here to start.

And then I'll give you my little two cents at the very end.

But I think most of you guys are going to dig it.

And I quote in the words of Jan Orstrom, Daniel Tosh said it best, haters going to hate.

That is a mantra that's been driving me since I was a little kid, but I never realized it until recently.

Allow me to elaborate.

No matter what you're going to do or want to do in life, there's going to be someone ranging from random strangers to your best friend who's going to tell you you can't do it.

And if you're me, you hear it all the goddamn time.

At the ups and downs in, well, at least my life, the haters have always been there.

When I was telling my friends and family at six years old, I wanted to be in the WWF, all I heard was, why, or that's dumb, or you can't do it. And then, when I enlisted in the army, all of my friends said, you won't last six months, and so on and so on. Now, I'm not without fault here. I'll be the first to admit I let strangers get to me

I let them get me to missing one workout which turned into missing four or five workouts

I went from drinking water into drinking soda into crushing energy drinks and I went from

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