Be Delusional.

why would you not go for it why would you not take a chance at one point in time you got to take a chance on you if I was to quit rapping and I say I want to go to the NBA I would be in the NBA no you wouldn't yes no you wouldn't yes I would no you wouldn't yes I would why would you think you could make it to the NBA cuz I think I can do anything there's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have you have to believe that

something different can happen honestly as I can say it to you I truly believe that I could be the president if I wanted to 400 trillion to one when you understand that math how can't you live your life that's how rare it is to be a human being you've been given this ridiculous triple Miracle like you're literally more likely to win the lotto 10 times in your life than actually have a life I'm asking you I'm promising you please take this swing you've got one that 400 trillion to one please do something about it guys

one day you got to graduate life you can't always be the pupil you got to be the master you got to be the guy that's creating the material for others to try to study from mentally you must believe it before you physically start it stop sitting back saying yeah man that'd be cool that'd be cool I want to be this I want to be that grab your dogs and be it you know what's crazy you know you could be the one if you really wanted to right you know that right but see you keep playing

a what if game what if it don't work out this what if it don't work out that what if it do what if it do work out then what you going to be happy right you can't say you want to win but then you scared to lose what kind of sense does that make if you put your head down and lock it on the vision how could you not win only thing that's going to cause you to lose is your mentality that's between you and you though you're always afraid to take the first step because

all you see is every negative thing 10 Mi down the road but you can do anything you want you are bound by nothing what are you passionate about what do you want it's not a bad thing to be unique it's not a bad thing to be different it's not a bad thing to be comfortable with yourself regardless of what everybody else around you is doing you are a phenomenon you are unique your DNA has never occurred in the history of the universe it will never occur in the future you are one of a kind so

that is your source of power to waste that is just the worst thing you can do in your life and what what the power is is finding that uniqueness anything in life that you put your mind to you can do the world the world is your oyster that's all I tell people it's this and it's Heaven why you're on Earth you got to take advantage of this and and that that doesn't mean for everybody to be a rapper for everybody to be a producer do what you do to the fullest and live your life find

something find a thing that you genuinely enjoy because getting good at things you genuinely enjoy is extremely beneficial for young people everybody thinks they're a loser every young person thinks they're a loser at Le at least a young person in the situation I was at I I didn't know I wasn't a loser until I started winning they say well I don't know what to do it's like that's okay nobody does go do something do the best thing that you can think of put the best plan you have into practice it's not going to be perfect

and it will change along the way but it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path and as you become disciplined you become wiser and as you become wiser you become able to formulate better and better plans you eventually you are going to have to jump you cannot just exist in this life you have got to try to live if you are waking up thinking that it's got to be more to your life than it is man believe that it is but to get to that life you going to have to jump everybody

has that voice in their head that says hey could you really do this if you really believe that you could be something if you have that little voice in your head saying Hey You Got Talent you could do this then follow that voice when you ask be like why do you do it it's it's because there's a possibility that you can and that's enough like I think I can do this and so why would I not if I know I can be something then that's what's moving me that the fact just the sheer point that

I might be be able to do it everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it you can influence it you can mold it the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side that's maybe the most important thing and the other thing that's so interesting about being alive is that you're all in no matter what you do you're all in this is going to kill you so I think you might as well

play the most magnificent game you can while you're waiting because do you have anything better to do really why not pick the best thing possible that you could do don't be afraid to dream big you know the saying is if your dreams don't scare you to death they're not big enough your dream needs to be bigger than you are right now and you will only succeed to the level of your dreams one time my mom said uh you need to get a job I said I already have a job I'm just not getting paid yet

I'm working on my dream that's my job if I'm going to pay attention to my nightmare I should be able to work on my dream well some some one of them is going to take my energy I would rather give my energy to my dream than my nightmare if you think trying is risky wait till they hand you the bill for not trying if you think investing is risky wait till you get the tab for not investing see it's all risky getting married is risky having children is risky going into business is risky investing your

money money is risky it's all risky I'll tell you how risky life is you're not going to get out alive and that's where delusion comes in because delusion is only delusional when you don't accomplish the goals of making your delusions a reality right that's what it's delusional to allow those delusions to be the reality of your um accessment it don't matter how much it feel like it ain't going to work you got to believe the delusion because it's only delusional until it works so is it really delusion and then once the world see it there's

nothing delusional about it now your delusion becomes oh he was a genius the world belongs to optimists because if you're going to do anything big you have to believe that it can happen otherwise it never will the cynics get to be right the optimists get to be rich before you can ever reach anything you have to believe it you don't just mistakenly become great at something you probably at one point at one time or another believe that you can be great at that and then you work to get great at that and you reach that

greatness but you don't mistakenly become great greatness is not this wonderful esoteric elusive Godlike feature that only the special Among Us are will ever taste you know it's something that truly exists in all of us it's very simple this is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it period if you want to be great want to be bad motherucker ever at what you do you going be misunderstood by everybody because you're going to be so obsessed and so driven to get there that's what it takes when people don't understand you anymore you're in

that spot of obsession and drive where people like what the wrong with this guy I don't want to talk to you man cuz you're not going to get it you will never understand what is wrong with me I'm so glad you don't I've always figured that why go to a tournament if you're not going there to try and win there's really no point in even going um that's the attitude I've had my entire life and that's attitude I will always have and second sucks and third's even worse I want to win that's just my nature

in my mind I'm always the best I don't care what the people thinking what they say in my mind not just this year but always I'm always the best if you don't have the mindset that you're the best ever you failed already and that's been my mindset since I can remember that will be my mindset as long as I can remember anything that I am the best ever at what I do and every day that I step on the basketball floor I will strive to be that but my mindset will always be as such as

I am the best and that'll give me a shot at being the best you probably don't want to be normal because if you take take what normal means and put it across all aspects of life it means that you're going to die at 74 you're probably going to be overweight you're going to you know be divorced uh you're going to not really achieve anything that you want like that's normal and so it makes sense that you would be the odd man out because most people live that life and so like that was something that gave

me a lot of permission to like be me which was not normal and you know it's a human condition to be average it it's not to be as good as you can be you know it's a Human Condition to survive just get along be average lots of people think that way that's normal it's special to get somebody to be the best that they can be to understand the work ethic and how important it is to earn it and you reap what you s that's not normal cuz we don't want to be normal normality is what

we people call living I call death and you know what I'm selling myself too short I'm capable of more hry I always feel like I could do anything that's the main thing people are controlled by thoughts their perception of themselves they're slowed down by their perception of themselves if you're taught you can't do anything you won't do anything I was taught I could do everything courage is the key to life itself there are a lot of people who are born in situation and they said I just I'll never get out of this so they won't

I say to to people who say well I I would like to have done so and so and so and so well you could have done it so well I couldn't get out of here man the bus runs every day I really want to say to to children out there and to to people who are watching confucious said one time he who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right if you decide to be rich today who going to stop you who if you decide you want to be rich all

you got to do is St why not who going to stop you unless you tell it to the wrong person if they don't have what you want don't listen to what they say there's no greater waste of time than justifying your actions to people who have a life you don't want I've been listening to laugh through all my career yeah I've been listening to them laugh my whole career what an Irish man win a win a cage Warriors World title hell no you serious an Irish man an Irish man win a fight at the UFC

hell no laugh laughs all around an Irish okay you got to win now he wants to win a world title hell no he's all talk he's all hype he's a joke laughter all around at the Joker then the Joker Goes and wins the world title every he wants to win a second world title more laughter the sound of laughter and the sound of Doubt motivates me after 17 years in this league what fuels you Kevin the competition then n say us the owner you talk too much you know the people who don't think a 36

35 year old can do what I do I take a lot of take a lot of Pride on my craft I work really hard on my craft every day and I'm a true professional whenever someone said to me it can't be done I heard it can be done when they said no I heard yes and when they said it's impossible I heard it is possible I'm a strong believer what Nelson Mandela said that everything is always impossible until some some one does it well I'm going to be the one I said to myself I'm going

to do it and I'm going to show it to them maybe it has never been done before that's perfectly fine with me but I'm going to do it nobody's going to believe in you until you've already done it nobody's going to come and celebrate with you until you've already done it all right the work is going to come before the belief which means you're going to have to work for a long time by yourself with no applause with no Awards with nobody tell sing you good job and then once you start to build something and

people start to see the momentum and they start to see the result and you start doing some things then you're going to get a little belief and that's what's that's what's painful is that it takes more effort to start in the beginning and more people are right about the fact they're like hey you're not going to hit it big and guess what a month in you're not but they're only measuring on months and at 6 months you're also not going to hit a big and they're going to be like I'm stilling right and in a

year you're still not going to hit a big and they'll still be [ __ ] right and every day that you haven't hit it they're going to feel like they were right but they're wrong because they're measuring in days and you're measuring in decades so let them all talk [ __ ] let them all make their noise because at the end of the day you are the only one who has the guts we have the guts to go to work and show up every single day day in and day out putting in the work hardest

workers in the room it's not just some cool saying that we say or a cool hashtag uh it's a lifestyle and it comes from in here that's how we eat never stop fighting no matter what anyone says no matter how they try to compromise you compromise your vision if it's in your gut if it's in your soul there's no worldly possessions that should come between you and your expression human beings we a blip in existence death is Promised so what do you do with your life how do you make the most of it how do

you make your voice the loudest I thought it was impossible you know everyone would tell me it was impossible like my I came from one printed t-shirt in New York City and I was like one day I'm going to figure it out rule number one is people will tell you that it's stressful you don't want to do it and don't believe that that's not true you know that's that's the older generation scaring you to think that you you rather rather just be in your small atier and and let's be honest it's fun you think of

an idea and it's possible focus on your light be creative none of this matters if you're not doing something that is really interesting and striking focus on that if you're really talented somebody will find you somebody will get behind you it's really your time it's your time like Nothing is Stopping You nothing I had this fire that I'm going to be some body and it has to be there because on all those bad days on all those days you don't want to do you have to be your own motivator your own coach your own your

own trainer your own everything so to do that you have to come into work ready to go you may have failed miserably yesterday people like man you just lost everything how the hell are you this damn motivated cuz this is what it takes the winners always show up they're willing to lose in order to gain this body as great as you are as sharp as you make the Arsenal it can't do anything if you don't have confidence in yourself We All Fall Down in life the question is who gets back up you go after and

you give it all you have if you lose at least you try man I failed it's 10 times more of a man than someone said what if cuz what if never went to the arena when you guys find a fear that fear will either create you or destroy you behind every fear is the person you want to be everything is hard before it's easy and everything at the beginning is difficult but later it becomes easy and automatic you have to force yourself to discipline yourself at the beginning but after that it becomes easier and easier

and you actually feel happy people don't see that people will never understand that to be success you know all they think about well he bet at 202 you know and struck out certain number of times yeah okay you know but the effort was there and the learning curve and the passion was there that has transcended not just to me but to other people who are afraid to do things because they're worried about the perception that may come from other places to me that's more gratifying than anything you know um so that's the things that my

father and my mother instilled in me take a negative and turn it into a positive don't be afraid to fail I wanted to feel something besides defeat I wanted to just go to distance I was a 36 African-American seal in history so I was like man what story would it be if my fat dumb insecure ass can overcome this [ __ ] I want to be the guy that people looked at but said this mother is going to keep coming after whatever the is in front of him you can't just pout and scream and kick

your fist and say it's not fair cuz guess what it isn't fair it's never going to be fair it's never been fair and you screaming and throwing a tantrum about it is irrelevant no one cares the the world doesn't care God doesn't care your family doesn't care it's not [ __ ] Fair [ __ ] get that through your brain okay now take all of the negative [ __ ] all the [ __ ] your parents said all the your cousin said all your friends and family said all the laughter all the doubts all the

eye rolls all the [ __ ] girlfriend said and start to remember that [ __ ] don't memory hole it in some place and forget about it and say oh my trauma no say Hey [ __ ] you for not believing me now I'm going to go out I'm going to use this energy to become so big so successful so powerful so undeniable that when I walk in the room you look at the floor that's what you want to be it's not glamorous it's lonely as you start changing everything around you starts changing it's not

even fun in the beginning and so you'd either have to have an incredible amount of Hope or a ridiculous amount of inspiration and delusion it is tedious it is painful it is lonely because it is a game of just moving the ball down the field Inch by Inch by Inch his life is Relentless you better keep coming back with all your failures all your doubts all your you better keep fighting keep getting up never lay down for that's one thing we should all agree on if you've been broken once you know how that feels that

[Music] means try and break me again one thing in life suffering has no expiration date it don't give if you're black white poor Rich where you come from how you were raised it will keep coming after you some of y'all don't want it that's why you ain't got it excuses sound best to the person that's making them up stop feeling sorry for yourself get off the pity potty wake your ass up awaken the Beast inside it's time to take to another level it's game on it's Focus it's goost season you got a problem with your

life you got a problem with your environment do something about it excuses sound best [Music] to the person that's making them up if you want it go get it develop the quality of being Unstoppable say in yourself that no matter what life throws at me it'll never stop me no matter how rough it gets I will never quit make the decision that you can be tired you can be worn out but nothing is ever going to stop you if you want something bad enough you can't let anybody tell you you can't do something not even

yourself people doubted me I doubted myself sometimes too you know what that's that's what it takes to do anything successfully in life you've got to want it as bad as you want to breathe and if you want it that bad if you're willing to give it that much you get a big piece of what you want and I say that not from something I read it's from something I lived there's times when you don't feel like doing what needs to be done but you got to say feelings has nothing to do with it this is

my dream this is what I'm going to do and I'm going to do the things that I don't feel like doing I'm going to do the things I don't want to do I'm going to do the things that don't come easy to me that do not come natural to me um I'm going to get up and do it um you can't live your life on feelings you're going to have feelings okay but you cannot let your feelings dictate what you are or are not going to do if you can get a mental image of the

person you would most like to become begin now to act as that person would act in everything you do gradually imperceptibly you will actually become that person it goes back to what the great German poet and philosopher Gerta once said before you can do something you must first be something before you can do what you would most like to do you must first become the person who can do it a woman cooking dinner has only to act like a great chef to turn out a better meal the student would begin begin to act like a

top student who begin to get better grades the secret is to get and hold fast in your mind the mental image of the person you would most like to be let's say that every time you invited a friend out for lunch they turned up late or didn't turn up at all they didn't text back they just kept not holding to their word after a while you wouldn't believe in them you wouldn't be friends with them and you'd stop inviting them out to lunch you are that friend to yourself how on Earth do you think that

you're going to be able to move mountains and get out of that relationship that you don't like and move countries or change career when you can't not hit snooze even though last night you promised yourself that you weren't going to hit snooze and it's how people that are able to do extraordinary things have been able to get there that they've just started off unbelievably small right I'm just not going to hit the snooze button I'm just not going to use my phone before 9:00 a.m. Mark Manson quote here is the person you have to spend

the most time listening to in your life is yourself try not to lose their respect self-respect and self-esteem I think largely comes from having faith in your own word like if you want to do something that most people can't do literally just extend the time Horizon on the things that most people can't weather like there's so much opportunity on the other side of being willing to persist for an extended period of time on the correct path without getting positive reinforcement from your environment and the longer you can stick with something without that positive feedback loop

in terms of the big external thing the the the easier the opportunities are because so few people can pursue them a lot of people say I just want to sort of they got they're kind of dabbling in the idea of improving themselves and the real way to do it is you got to write down what the you want and then go after it cuz otherwise you live in sort of a wishy-washy world you know if you decide I'm going to get down to bang I'm going to do this I'm going to run a marathon in

less than 5 hours I'm going to you know whatever the it is you got to write that down and go for it it's the best advice I've ever heard it's the best advice I ever came up with is that live your life like you're the hero in your movie live your life like there's a documentary crew following you around and you are analyzing your own behavior do what you would want to do so that your kids one day would look back at it and look on it with pride like wow my dad was a bad

mother he really did what he had to do ask yourself why do you wake up in the morning and do what you do why is it that you pursue the goals and the dreams that you pursue have these conversations be comfortable in your own skin if you're uncomfortable ask yourself why is it that you're experiencing these things ask why is it that you are in a situation where you don't like to be by yourself because if you are with yourself it doesn't mean you have to be lonely you don't need other people because when you're

on your deathbed route nobody's going to be there it's just you yourself figuring out did I live a successful life did I do what I say I was going to do you can't point fingers you can't say oh because this person said this or this person said that no no no no you're fully accountable for your life and when it's all said and done it's all up to you a friendly reminder that in three generations everyone who knew us will be dead including the people whose opinions stopped you from doing what you wanted all along

imagine that someone you know achieves every dream and hits every goal they have years later they get old and die 2 years after that how much do you care about as much as everyone else will if you accomplish your goals and dreams do it for you 50% of the people don't care about your problems the other 50% glad you got them so in other words nobody cares about you but you nobody can make you successful but you if you don't believe in you why should I if you're not going to invest in you why should

I you are with you every single day you know you better than anybody else but you want someone to invest in you that hasn't spent one moment with you if you're not willing to do that of course you wouldn't you believe in you take the advice the hard work the discipline and the dedication and go be successful you might you don't need to be an NFL player you don't need to be an Entertainer you can be successful in your own right if you believe you can I believe I was going to go be an NFL

player and I set that course of action now do you believe that you can go be the best Salman that you possibly can be it's not about that's all it's about you is you versus you so the day don't think about it don't talk about it don't wish for for It Go For It Die move start act trust me it's the only way to get there I say chase your dreams man do that thing man that keeps you up at night that thing that bothers you man that makes you trip you can't quit thinking about

it that that that thing man that you wake up in the middle of the night you got a new idea that's what you got to chase cuz anything else it's going to disappoint you so don't be afraid to go outside the box don't be afraid to think outside the box don't be afraid to fail big to dream big but remember dreams without goals are just dreams you have to be delusional France kfka once said by believing passionately in something that still does not exist we create it the non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired

embrace the power of your dreams for they have the potential to shape your reality let your desires guide you fuel your actions and manifest the life you envision I don't care what you're going to do but go out there and make something of yourself for God's sake be an honest person and work and get to the top of whatever it is that you want to get to the top of you know and and and and and then stand up for yourself like a respectable human being and be a bit of a light on the world

instead of a blight you you get your act together bit discipline yourself see if you can learn to tell the truth concentrate on something for a year or two you could be a bloody World beater they think really that's possible wow that would be that would be interesting that might make life life worth living it's like yeah it might so why did you go do it if you're going to try go all the way otherwise don't even start if you're going to try go all the way this could mean losing girlfriends wives relatives jobs and

maybe your mind go all the way it can mean not eating for 3 or 4 days it can mean freezing at a park bench it can mean jail it can mean derision mockery isolation if you're going to try go all the way there's no other feeling like that you'll be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire all the way all the way you will ride life straight to perfect laughter it's the only good fight there is don't ever worry about what other people think who cares let it go be unique be

memorable be confident be proud but mainly be you work hard be somebody and be something more than what you see in the mirror let the world be your Mir don't let them judge you because the mirror can't judge you you judge what you see in the mirror [Music]