Life Lessons Learned from Hollywood (and Drag Racing) with Ali Ashfar
Knowledge For Men
Andrew Ferebee
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🗓️ 10 October 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Alex Dodd is also known as Ali Afshar and is an actor and producer, known for Three Kings (1999), Godzilla (1998) and The Siege (1998) and is also the founder/president of the world record holding auto racing team Easy Street Motorsports (ESX).
He is the creator of the exclusive ESX Super Vantage Aston Martin and ESX STI Subaru vehicles. Alex and his company ESX raced for Subaru of America for 7 years from 2001 through 2007 and won two NHRA National Championships in 2006 & 2007.
Favorite Success Quote
“You can sleep when you are dead”
Key Points
1. Always be Hustling
You can sleep when you are dead, or as Newton put it “A body in motion tends to stay in motion.” Once you gain momentum, it is imperative that you keep hustling and keep grinding to ensure continued success.
While there is plenty of debate about the effects of sleep and success, if you want to be successful, you will lose sleep to achieve your goals. If you want to achieve great things, you have to be willing to lose sleep, put in the effort, and work ungodly hours for a certain amount of time. But it will be worth it.
2. Do What You Love
As cliche as it may sound, a life spent doing anything other than things you love, is a life of drudgery and pain. Why would you willingly subject yourself to daily work that you find dull and uninspiring just for an added 0 on your paycheck?
Do what you love and the money will follow (given that what you love is more than playing xbox). If you live your life doing things that light you up with a passion, you will never work a day in your life, and money and impact will be a natural byproduct.
Don’t waste your life with things you don’t love. Follow the advice of your middle school teacher and do what you love.
3. Use Your Passions Instead of Drugs and Alcohol
"Stuff" happens. Welcome to the real world. When it does, many men are tempted to fall into drugs and alcohol to escape their problems instead of facing them head on. Instead of falling for this trap, dive headfirst into your passions and create a life centered around the things you love to help yourself heal and get through the hard times.
Bad things will happen, it’s up to you whether you allow them to destroy you and ruin your life with addiction, or whether you use it as a catalyst to create your best self.
4. Change the World with Kindness
The world is full of bad people. It’s full of wannabes and windbags trying to seem important and putting others down in the process. Don’t be like them.
Life is short, love others, be kind and leave nothing on the table because you never know when it is your time. You will never regret a life of passion, love, and kindness. Period
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Knowledge for Men's Show. Your life will never be the same. Your level of success will |
| 0:05.1 | seldom exceed your level of personal development. I want to die empty of regret. I want to die |
| 0:10.2 | empty of my best work. We don't understand who we are. Instead, we're living out somebody else's narrative. |
| 0:15.8 | But one man can do, another man can do. If it's been done, it can be done again. |
| 0:20.1 | Being yourself and being your truest, most authentic self in every do. If it's been done, it can be done again. Being yourself and being your |
| 0:21.4 | truest, most authentic self in every moment, if it scares you or makes you a little afraid, do it, |
| 0:27.7 | follow your heart and your gut. The first stage, I think, is finding you, like finding out who I am |
| 0:32.8 | today. Stuff will not work. You will have things that fail. Success is when you're a happy, |
| 0:37.8 | fulfilled person. How do you define success? It's your life and you are the creator of the movie script |
| 0:44.0 | that is your life story. Attention. If you are a frustrated man who feels like he's not getting |
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| 1:26.0 | All right, guys, welcome to the show. |
| 1:27.8 | I'm here with Ali Afshar. |
| 1:29.1 | He's an actor and producer known for Three Kings with George Clooney, Godzilla, |
| 1:34.1 | and The Siege with Denzel Washington. |
| 1:36.3 | He's a world record holder as a race car driver, |
| 1:39.3 | and he's currently working on an exciting drama |
| 1:41.8 | called Running Wild alongside Sharon Stone. All right, All right, |
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