Listen, life is not about feeling good. It is about doing good. And raw action is the only answer.
Everything else is an illusion. I have always understood that the solution to every problem is direct, forceful action. The answer has consistently been nothing but raw action.
My father even tweeted about this idea, stating that straightforward action resolves all issues. He often used this example. If you are a farmer whose crops need rain and no rain comes, you have two choices.
You can either sit passively and declare that the lack of rain means everyone will starve, or you can get up and perform a rain dance. Will your dance definitely make it rain? Maybe not.
Perhaps the rain still will not arrive. But I firmly argue that you are in a far better position standing up and doing that dance than simply sitting there passively waiting for ruin. So you absolutely must do something because raw action solves everything.
So back when I was completely broke, I never just sat around moaning, "Oh, I am poor. I am poor. What can I possibly do?
" My mindset was always, "I am poor. So what specific action must I take right now? " I simply had to do something.
If I found myself without money, I would go out for a run. And that intense drive is a key reason I became such a successful fighter. So if I was broke, I would acknowledge, okay, I am genuinely poor right now.
How do I earn money? And if I did not know, I would think, where can I get some cash? And if answers did not come, I would just decide, all right, let me just go for a run, then.
And I would go out for a three-mile run. The point is, you absolutely have to tell yourself, I must take some action. I cannot just sit motionless and wait to fail.
But many people seem content to just sit still and let things fall apart. Or perhaps they just go to sleep and take a nap. So, if that is your chosen path, well, then you can accept being a loser.
That is perfectly fine with me. I am actually glad that losers exist because if everyone owned Lamborghinis, my Lamborghini would not be nearly as enjoyable to display. I genuinely need you to look at it and feel that profound ache in your soul, the sting of regret and personal failure.
That is the entire purpose of owning it. I need to drive my Bugatti and have everyone stare at it thinking I will never possess one of those. Then I can absorb all their energy, feel it all, and it makes me incredibly happy.
So, you can certainly choose to stay home and accomplish nothing. But when I was poor, I absolutely had to go for a run. I could not remain idle.
I had to lift weights or engage in some other productive activity. And I often could not even sleep due to my drive. So the principle that raw unfiltered action resolves every issue is something I grasped from a very young age.
However, as you grow older, you get the opportunity to look back and piece together your entire life story, seeing how the whole pattern fits. I always knew I would not remain poor forever. Did I ever imagine I would become this incredibly wealthy?
Well, I never explicitly said I would not. But did I truly believe it would happen at this extreme level? Probably not.
But it is truly amazing how the cumulative effect of compounding interest of simply engaging in endless raw action ultimately adds up to massive results. I have genuinely never experienced a lazy day in my life. I have never skipped a day of work, never failed to address an email, and never ever taken a single day off ever.
And if you were to meticulously examine the last 3 years of my life, you would clearly see that there has not been a single day where I was not doing precisely what I was supposed to be doing. And all of that consistent effort simply accumulates and then truly monumental success arrives. So at that point, you get to look down and laugh at everyone else and life becomes truly great.
Well, I believe that especially at the beginning, fighting is always the absolute best pursuit you can ever engage in. It is particularly the most effective way to spend your 20s because during that period, your body heals at a superhuman rate, almost like Wolverine. I honestly cannot think of a more valuable use for that incredible healing ability than dedicating yourself to fighting.
Furthermore, it will teach you everything truly essential about personal accountability, the necessity of hard work, the process of overcoming fear, and the importance of dedication and discipline. There are so many vital lessons embedded within the practice of fighting. Plus, it stands as the most respected sport on the entire planet.
And I genuinely think that you will learn more about yourself, more about life, and more about the stark realities of how the world truly operates if you become a fighter. And I believe that is what makes it all so remarkable. All of my supposed wisdom and all the insights I share do not originate from reading books, but instead they come directly from real life experience.
And a significant portion of my life experience is rooted in the harsh, brutal realities of physical violence. So when people say, "Oh, Andrew is so intelligent or Andrew is so wise or Andrew seems to know so many things. " I have acquired all of that knowledge simply through the crucible of fighting.
And if you approach life as a warrior, the specific arena might change over time, but the fundamental battle itself never truly ends. It is just a never-ending struggle. And you absolutely have to become accustomed to fighting.
You must get used to being under constant pressure and continuous stress all the time and to being the kind of individual who can still perform effectively and even smile despite it all. And I am immensely glad I dedicated my 20s to training because I cannot imagine a better way to have spent that time. So I find it truly astounding when I talk to people who are my age.
I will say to them during my 20s I spent roughly let us estimate about 3 hours every single day in the gym. Now what does a decade of 3 hours a day amount to? Let's say it is around 10,000 hours.
I dedicated 10,000 hours specifically to physical training. You are the same age as me. I ask them.
So what exactly did you do with those same 10,000 hours? And frequently they cannot even tell me what they did with that time. What were you doing?
Were you watching television, going out to pubs, just sitting around sleeping, taking naps, or chasing women? What did you actually accomplish? We both had the exact same number of waking hours in the same number of minutes.
I know precisely where 10,000 hours of my minutes went and that is the reason I am the champion. That is why I have four championship belts hanging above my bed. That is how I invested my 10,000 hours.
Now you tell me what you did with your 10,000 hours. that is equal to comparable to or superior to how I spent my time. And most of them cannot even name a single significant thing they did with any of their time.
They just say I do not know. So if you are currently 16 years old, you absolutely need to be using every single moment you are awake working towards things that you are actually going to remember and things that will build you. You will definitely remember training hard.
You will remember putting in serious work. You will remember your efforts to make money. But if you are spending your life and wasting your precious time doing things you will not even be able to recall in a few years, you are eventually going to wonder why you have fallen so far behind the people who do not waste their time.
Because time is the ultimate form of currency. Time equals money. Time also equals strength, power, valuable networks and important connections.
Time is literally everything. Time is malleable like play-doh. You can shape it into anything you desire.
You can turn it into physical muscles if you consistently go to the gym. But most people have all this valuable time and they just waste it. And then later they wonder, "Oh, I do not know why I am failing.
I wish I were successful. " Because when you are living that kind of aimless life and you inevitably start looking for some meaning, you frequently end up going down the path of pure pleasure seeking because the perceived meaning becomes I just want to have as much fun as possible. But fun by itself is problematic.
I was discussing this with another girl and she said to me, "You know what, Andrew? All you ever do is work. you never really seem to have any fun.
And I explained to her that most forms of what people call fun are actually detrimental. She questioned if fun is really harmful. And I clarified that it is not that all fun is bad.
But to please understand my deeper point, what I am trying to communicate is that when you closely examine what most people do for what they consider fun, things like going to clubs, drinking, running around aimlessly, laughing like a child, all these activities, essentially all the negative forbidden things in life can be accessed through this misguided obsession with fun. If you observe a man who is genuinely obsessed with his work, you see someone who thinks I have important things I need to accomplish and I feel a deep sense of satisfaction inside when I complete them. And that sense of accomplishment is my fun.
My fun involves clearing all my emails, perhaps making $2 million in a single day, buying another investment property that I do not even strictly need, then going to bed after training hard and eating correctly. You can call me boring if you want, but that is what I genuinely enjoy. So, when you aren't talking about that pleasure- seeeking lifestyle and what you ultimately end up searching for when that pursuit of pure enjoyment, you just find yourself constantly chasing after more and more extremes, right?
to have supposedly more fun. You want to get more intoxicated, go to more clubs, and it just becomes a bottomless pit. It never truly ends, and you eventually end up destroying yourself.
We absolutely need discipline. We need a clear purpose, and we need to have definite parameters set for ourselves. And truthfully, as a human being, you are generally happier living that structured way.
That is the actual reason I stopped drinking. People often assume I quit drinking alcohol because I converted to Islam, but that is not the correct reason. I had actually stopped drinking a full 2 months before that and I was extremely effective and productive even when I was consuming alcohol.
I would drink probably four or five times a week simply because I am incredibly wealthy. I have a very good life and when I am in my mansion and drinking, I was still globally famous. I was still making millions of dollars and I was still in absolutely fantastic physical condition.
And if you watch videos of me from a year and a half ago, I still look like a bodybuilder. I still outperformed virtually everybody. I did not have a drinking problem.
I could have easily quit at any time. In fact, most of the time I did not even particularly want to drink. It was just that a party happened to be going on.
I was still monumentally successful while regularly consuming alcohol. And I could have easily continued to drink alcohol for the rest of my life. But I made the conscious decision to stop because I started to wonder, would I possibly enjoy having less of what is typically called fun?
Could it actually be enjoyable to experience less of that kind of fun? Because that conventional idea of enjoyment is one thing, but could it be perversely enjoyable to have less of it? And I thought maybe instead of spending all of our money engaging in those kinds of activities, we should instead allocate all of our resources towards becoming exceptionally organized and disciplined.
So, I decided that we should have numerous staff members and we should be awake at exactly 7:46 a. m. We should have coffee prepared and hot at precisely 7:47 a.
m. and at 8:01 a. m.
we should go into the gym and that we should complete our workout by 8:27 a. m. We should have every single aspect of our lives strictly regimented.
And through this, we should aim to produce more content than ever before and become wealthier than ever before, but consciously remove the typical fun and instead find enjoyment in not having that kind of fun. while focusing only on being supremely competent and effective. So I decided I would try it.
I would attempt for 6 months to give up all conventional forms of fun and just be relentlessly productive, essentially boring. And then I learned some truly fascinating things during that period of intense focus. Firstly, I came to understand that the entire notion of drinking alcohol for social purposes is now completely outdated.
And I believe we are at an age where perhaps if you were 21 and did not drink, you might have felt like you did not have a social life. But now there is absolutely no compelling reason to drink for the sake of socializing because virtually everything happens online anyway. You meet everyone through applications.
Nobody genuinely cares about drinking as a social lubricant anymore. That was the first significant thing I realized. The second crucial thing I discovered is that being exceptionally disciplined and regimented is in itself profoundly enjoyable.
I genuinely find great pleasure in it. I enjoy it just as much as I used to enjoy what I previously considered fun. Because what would happen before is that I would complete all my work.
I would train hard and I was always a highly effective individual. Still a thousand times more effective than the average man. And then after all that, I would allocate six or seven hours to drinking, smoking, having fun, and supposedly enjoying all the rewards of my efforts.
I became extremely wealthy, so why not get on a private jet and engage in leisurely activities? But now instead of dedicating those 6 hours to conventional fun, I invest those same 6 hours in continuing to work. And I find that I enjoy this current approach just as much.
So now I am in a position where I think well I enjoy this equally and I am not damaging my health. I enjoy this equally and I am making even more money. Consequently, it genuinely disrupts my day when one of my side chicks suggest can I see you?
My internal response is I have important things I need to do. I have work commitments. I am regimented.
I need to sit here and focus on typing. I do not want to talk to you and have fun and go to a party. I have no desire to do any of that.
I want to work on my emails and make as much money as humanly possible. You probably do not understand it. I know that to you it makes absolutely no sense.
You might think, "But you already have all this money. Why do you still want to do emails? " It is because that focus, that regimen is my fun now.
So, I made the conscious decision to dedicate six full months to being what most would consider boring. And by the conclusion of those 6 months, I was deriving so much genuine enjoyment from being boring and hyperproductive that now I will probably never consume alcohol again. I have absolutely zero temptation to drink ever again.
I have zero temptation for what most people define as fun. So when someone suggests we are going to go to this place and it is going to be fun, my internal reaction is no, you go have your fun. I will focus on my emails.
I have no desire to go to clubs. I have no desire to attend some random party. I am not interested in traveling aimlessly.
I am not interested in seeing random sites. I have seen them all anyway. I have been everywhere.
Who really cares? I feel I am above all of that. I am over it.
I want to manage my empire. I want to spend quality time with the people I genuinely love and that is essentially it. I do not want to do anything else.
Perhaps I have become boring. Maybe I have leaned too heavily into this boring persona. But I genuinely enjoy just being focused, regimented, and I like accomplishing as much work as humanly possible.
And that is the precise reason I will never ever drink alcohol again. So the entire mainstream concept of fun now feels foreign to me. That kind of fun is not genuinely fulfilling.
But achieving significant things in my work, that is truly fun. The only activity I suppose I could say I do for what might be considered fun is driving very fast cars. But then again, I need to earn $800,000 to purchase a Ferrari.
So, it still fundamentally involves work. There is still a significant amount of effort and achievement tied to it. But I genuinely believe that God has granted me one of the best possible lives and I truly cannot complain about anything negative that has occurred.
It has all ultimately been fantastic and I am profoundly thankful for all of it. And I think if a couple of bad things happen to you, you should be intelligent enough to recognize that eventually you will overcome them and you will learn an important lesson from the experience. It will inevitably change you and guide you in the correct direction.
And Allah is the most perfect of planners. He knows precisely what lessons you need to learn. And I believe that as human beings, especially as men, we generally only learn lessons the hard way.
Anyway, there are essentially two ways to learn any lesson. The hard way and the even harder way. There is truly no easy path to acquiring wisdom.
You absolutely have to learn things through difficulty. So God provides us with lessons by way of challenging circumstances. He determines that you need to learn a specific thing about yourself or about other people.
So he will arrange a difficult period for you so that you can effectively learn your lesson. Because if I simply told you, if I just said, "Hey, Andrew, this is how the world actually works. " You might respond with a casual, "Yeah, yeah, I get it.
" But when I actually show you, when you personally feel it, my fight coach used to say, "You have to feel it to believe it. " That is why if he was teaching low kicks, he would literally kick your leg hard because you do not truly believe in the devastating power of a low kick. You do not believe a low kick can be so effective unless you have personally experienced impact.
You absolutely have to feel it to truly believe it. So God will present you with a challenging period so that you learn your necessary lessons. And these lessons are critically important for you to become the person you are truly meant to be in this life.
He is the most skilled of planners and I am deeply thankful for all the lessons he has provided for me. He has bestowed knowledge upon me. How could I possibly not be grateful to God for making me so intelligent and wise and for granting me the ability to look into matters so deeply, arrive at the correct decisions and essentially predict the future with accuracy.
So you absolutely need to have difficulties occurring in your life consistently. So when you sit there and say I just want an easy life, what you are effectively saying is that you are a fool and you want to remain a fool. I want an easy life and I do not want anything bad to ever happen to me means even though adversity will teach me valuable lessons.
I am too much of a coward. I cannot handle the emotional pain. I cannot handle the stress.
I however do not want to be a fool. I want to be smart. If I want to be smart, hardship does not truly hurt me.
I just know that I become a more formidable, more competitive version of myself after every single negative thing that has ever happened to me. It is one less thing to fear, one less thing to be worried about because I have experienced it before. Because it is also very interesting when you talk about wisdom.
But I personally do not read books. I never read books because I simply do not have the time. All of the wisdom I possess, all of this knowledge I articulate, all of these things I say have been learned primarily through the difficulties of life, through professional fighting, through experiencing poverty, and through all the bad things that have happened to me in the constant struggle.
All of my most important lessons have come from negative experiences, bad events, bad scenarios, difficult situations, pain, suffering, anger, and resentment. All of these challenging emotions are how I have learned everything I know. So, I thank God for giving them to me.
And anyone who desires an easy life essentially wants to remain ignorant. What do you truly learn if you just get money easily? You buy a cryptocurrency, it explodes in value, you get some money, you go to some nice restaurants.
What do you actually learn about anything important from that? Absolutely nothing. And then the thing that is so fascinating is that the people who are consistently choosing what they believe to be the safe option are in reality choosing the absolute most risky option available.
So you are not actually taking a safe path. You are taking a coward's way out and it inevitably leads exactly where a coward's path should lead. Cowards in the end do not get to enjoy the rewards of bravery.
Because unless you have fought in the arena, unless you have been a true gladiator, you will never experience the profound peace of mind and peace of heart that is afforded only through acts of bravery. So if you consistently choose the supposedly safe options in life, thinking, "Oh, I am just going to take the easy route. " You will not end up anywhere truly safe.
The safe option simply does not work anymore in today's world. You absolutely need to take calculated risks. You need to try and start your own business.
You need to go allin on things that matter. You need to operate with boldness. You need to be the kind of man who is not afraid to stand up and think, "All right, this is all on my shoulders and I am going to find a way to make this happen.
" Because any other approach, any other option in the world today only leads to a negative outcome. The safest things you can possibly do now are actually the riskiest things. That is the current reality we are in.
Every single gamble I have ever taken which was perceived by others as risky has paid off massively for me because I dedicate myself completely to the endeavor. So how do you find true happiness? Well, happiness is inherently found in struggle.
The struggle itself and the magnitude of the struggle you are currently facing along with how genuinely important you feel that struggle is deep in your heart is directly linked to how successful and how happy you are going to feel consistently. Struggle is extremely important for a man. You should be actively looking for ways to inject constructive struggle into your life permanently.
We have discussed this previously because if you are consistently engaging in struggle and resolving those challenges leads to a positive outcome once you become accustomed to that cycle, you are going to transform into a machine of truly monumental achievement. There are some very simple basic things you can incorporate into your life. weight training, playing chess, engaging in debates, trying your absolute best to take care of your mother and retire her, making sure that the people you love are well taken care of.
You absolutely need goals. You need resistance. And you need something to constantly fight against in order to live a truly fulfilling life.
Because the distance between experiencing pain and experiencing joy is essentially what we perceive as life. If you only experience joy all of the time and never encounter any pain, you are not going to be genuinely happy. You do not need drugs.
You do not need alcohol. You do not need constant parties or festivals. You do not need what most people call fun.
Fun, as it is commonly pursued, is often the channel through which negativity operates. Because every time you examine something that is labeled as fun, it is almost always just hedonistic. There is no real money to be made.
You do not help retire your mother. You do not contribute positively to the world. You do not give to charity.
You do not become stronger. You do not become wiser. You do not learn anything of actual value.
So the next time you are thinking about what constitutes fun and someone suggests, "Guys, come on, this will be fun. " Just pause for a moment and critically ask yourself, wait, will this experience truly be unique or beneficial? Even being in jail was a unique experience, though certainly not fun.
And life for a man is not primarily about seeking fun. But life is about doing the right thing simply because it absolutely must be done. Now, there are certainly some things that can be enjoyable, which are earned, and there are some activities that might be considered fun that you could engage in, which perhaps involves skill.
Drving a supercar around a racetrack is enjoyable. It involves a high level of skill, and you have to be good at what you do. But a lot of this so-called fun that is easily accessible to everyone.
Well, not everybody can get a Ferrari on a closed racetrack. So, you do not genuinely need fun until you have already achieved the absolute highest possible level of success and competence. So this whole widespread idea that you require fun in your life is fundamentally flawed.
What you actually need is a clear purpose. You need unwavering discipline. You need to engage in hard work.
You need important things to do which are going to benefit you and the others around you. You need to embrace duty. You need to fulfill obligations.
And you need clear performance metrics. You need people around you who are going to hold you accountable for your actions and your progress. You do not need to be waking up every day thinking about how to have fun.
You are currently a nobody. You are not important. Nobody significant knows who you are.
You are not physically strong and you are not financially wealthy. You have much bigger and more pressing concerns than chasing fleeting amusement. You are utterly obsessed with this notion of fun.
Hey, what are we going to do this weekend? We absolutely need to have some fun. Do you though?
Do you genuinely need fun? More importantly, do you truly deserve it at this point? Really?
Have you actually gone out there into the universe and made a mark significant enough that you are now entitled to some time off just to have fun? You do not deserve any fun. You do not need any fun.
You have critical work to do. Your constant obsession with finding fun is precisely what is holding you back. These activities you mistakenly think are fun are not genuinely fulfilling.
But checking your bank balance from your own house, not needing to go out to a club, and seeing 20 million in liquid assets, now that is very enjoyable. That is far more satisfying than anything you could possibly ever do in pursuit of common fun. So although it was not always fun in the conventional sense to sit around and meticulously accumulate that level of wealth, possessing it is in a way the most enjoyable thing in the universe for a man.
Your deep contentment will arise from your defined purpose. It will come from your demonstrated competence and it will stem from successfully achieving important objectives. It will come from completing exceptionally difficult tasks that other people simply cannot accomplish.
It will never ever come from the easily accessible, mindless pleasure seeking which you have mistakenly confused with genuine fun. If everybody can easily do it, you should not want to do it. If everybody can go to that particular concert, you should not desire to go.
If everybody can get into that club, you should not want to be there. You should only aspire to do things that others cannot achieve. The only kind of fun I engage in is doing things I know the average broki is not permitted to do.
things like putting my supercars on an A380 cargo plane and flying it around the world to a private racetrack which I have rented out exclusively for myself and my chosen friends to race our cars. You cannot do that but I can. And that to me is fun.
But if you say to me, Andrew, come to this party and I ask, well, who is going to be there? And you respond, everyone. My thought is if everyone is there, if it is supposedly the event of the century and everyone is there, then it is undoubtedly trash.
So you need to sit down and seriously consider all right I am being asked to participate in something supposedly fun. Who else can easily do this exact same thing? And if the honest answer is everybody then you should immediately stop and reconsider.
For me true satisfaction my kind of fun comes after I have cleared all my emails after I have trained intensely that day. After I have made a couple of million dollars. After I have finalized the specifications for a brand new car.
After I have checked on all the people I love and care about. after I have donated some money to charity, after I know my children are fed and their mothers are well taken care of, when everything is in complete order and everything is in its proper place, that to me is fun. So, if you were to suggest to me, Andrew, you should skip a portion of that essential organization and that high level of professionalism so that we can go and do something that literally everyone else can easily do, my answer to you will be a firm no.
That does not sound enjoyable to me at all. And the very fact that you even think that kind of activity is fun clearly indicates that you might have a severe mental deficiency. You are only going to discover genuine lasting fun through a clearly defined purpose.
And you are only going to find that purpose by striving for and achieving true exceptionalism. Therefore, you absolutely need to dedicate yourself to becoming the best possible version of yourself in all important areas of life. That is extremely important.
The core reason for your deep unhappiness is your relentless chase for fun. instead of dedicating yourself to becoming a person of genuine importance. These are fundamentally different goals and you will never achieve true inner satisfaction unless you strive for significance.
Picture this and I say it without arrogance. Imagine being the most searched man online, a world champion fighter with immense wealth and a powerful physique. That feeling of accomplishment looking at yourself then is unmatched and unbeatable by any fleeting pleasure.
That level of impact is true satisfaction. And as a man embracing significant struggle in your life is absolutely essential. I want you to seriously ask yourself this.
What real challenges are you facing and actively trying to overcome every single day? Make a concrete list. For me, daily physical training is a non-negotiable struggle, a painful but necessary start to each day.
Then comes the ongoing battle of maintaining my global empire, caring for my children, and supporting everyone who relies on me. My life is hard, yes, but difficult lives breed profound fulfillment, just as our ancestors found meaning through the hardship of survival. Comfortable, easy lives almost always lead to deep unhappiness.
You absolutely cannot passively entertain yourself into a state of true happiness. It must be earned through deliberate effort. You need to climb metaphorical mountains to actively struggle your way towards joy.
This is critically important. You require consistent physical, mental, social, creative or spiritual challenges in your life. The satisfaction you get from conquering these struggles is the real reward.
Like solving a complex equation to earn a bitcoin. Life works the same way. You undertake difficulties, you overcome them, and that victory brings genuine contentment.
The only other path to feeling good, hedenism through things like drugs and alcohol is a short-lived illusion that ultimately destroys you. And the addiction many young men have to video games stems from this very principle. Games offer a virtual simulation of the real world process they should be undertaking, investing effort to upgrade their character, becoming a better version of themselves to unlock new achievements and explore new territories on the map.
Think of billionaire meetings or exclusive events as advanced levels in the game of life. Cool areas you have not unlocked yet because your real world character is not sufficiently upgraded. You understand this in games, but you resist applying it to reality where the rewards are infinitely more meaningful and substantial.
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