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Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott

KEEP GRINDING

Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott

Ben Lionel Scott

Self-improvement, Education

4.8712 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Greatness is not found in wanting more, but in becoming so obsessed with the grind that pain, pressure, and exhaustion become the price you gladly pay to live above the standard everyone else accepts.

Spoken by:

Eric Thomas
instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher

Robin Sharma
instagram.com/robinsharma

Ed Mylett
instagram.com/edmylett

Andy Elliot
instagram.com/officialandyelliott

Andy Frisella
instagram.com/andyfrisella


Music:

Zack Hemsey - I Can Get It Back (Ben Lionel Scott Remix 2)

Zack Hemsey
facebook.com/zackhemseymusic

Transcript

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0:00.0

Some people, y'all start losing and you just stop playing.

0:07.0

You just like, I give up, I quit.

0:10.0

But there's some people, they just like, mm-mm.

0:14.0

Nah, I ain't going down like that.

0:17.0

They're committed.

0:19.0

And they get to places other people never get to.

0:21.6

Some of you are soft.

0:23.6

There's no better word for it. You're soft.

0:25.6

You want to be a champion but you don't want to work like a champion.

0:28.6

I don't hang with people who can only get up when they got something to motivate you.

0:32.6

That's not somebody I want to hang out with.

0:35.6

I want to hang with somebody. I don't care what the circumstances. I don't care what the situation. You keep grinding and you stay persistent and you locked in. And you just get up on Monday and gride and get up on Tuesday and gride and get up on Wednesday and gride and get up on Thursday and grind. And get up on Friday and grind. It's going to be a grind. It's also a grind not having the life you want. They're both going to be a grind. Choose the one you want. But I am addicted to the grind. If you're not going to be addicted to the grind, get out. Go sell your dream for a salary and give it up. But if you want to be great, you got gotta be addicted to what you do. You gotta be addicted to winning.

1:12.6

Interested is a hobby.

1:13.6

You can be interested in many things.

1:16.6

You can fall in and out of your interest, but your obsession stays with you all the time.

1:22.6

Kobe Bryant was not interested in winning championships.

1:25.6

He was obsessed.

1:26.6

An obsession comes in the small details

1:29.7

that nobody pays attention to. When you're obsessed with something, people think you're crazy.

1:36.2

When you're obsessed, they warn you. Because guess what? When you're obsessed about something,

1:40.5

almost no one else understands it. They're like, why do you care so much? Why are you

1:44.5

spending so much time on that? And they start judging you. They think you're weird for liking it.

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