I'm Shane Perish. My new book Clear Thinking shares everything I've learned. I draw on conversations with the world's most remarkable thinkers to explore the secrets of good decision-making.

I introduce the simple tools and mental models that will help you make better calls day to day.

And I make a simple but transformative argument that if you can clear your head, you can change your life.

I've been humbled by the response to this book so far. James Clear called it indispensable. Ryan Holiday, a master worth.

Clear Thinking is out now in hard back under audiobook.

You've been an underdog in your relationships. If you've been an underdog in the weight room, if you've been an underdog in life, if you've been an underdog financially, I'm talking to that person who grew up without a father.

I'm talking to that person who grew up without a mother. I'm talking to that person who didn't grow up with handouts.

I'm talking to that person who maybe if you did grew up with a little bit of handouts, but maybe you were misunderstood and you were overlooked and you were undervalued and you were mishandled and misguided.

You got a dream to buy a house. You got a dream for better relationships. You got a dream to win a fight. You got a dream to get your family out of the good.

You got a dream to lose weight. I mean, whatever that dream is, whatever you have, that goal, that improbable feat.

Once you get it set, once you smell that, once you get a feel for it, taste that.

An underdog is an individual who refuses to live in the dark.

They refuse to remain in obscurity. They refuse to live in stress and overwhelm and anxiety.

There is somebody who is tired. Like when you come to the end of yourself, you got to get tired. Like you have to get tired.

Tired. Something side of you has to snap. You got to get tired of being broke.

When you get tired of being coined, the loser being coined not enough being overlooked and undervalued and underpaid, you got to get tired of that. When you get tired, that's when you win.

The underdog is a person that comes out on the playing field and says, okay, I've been in this place of paying my whole life.

I've gone without for so long. This is the day you make up in your mind where I will take the throne.

I'm talking to that person that is acquainted with pain. I'm talking to that person that knows what it's like to come from nothing.

And so you literally have nothing to lose. And the only thing that's in your head is a dream.

The only thing that's in your head is I have one intent to get to the top of that hill because I am not the wolf on the hill.

I am the wolf climbing the hill. I have nothing to lose.

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