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- Here are seven things that will make you unstoppable.

Number one, change your inputs to change your outputs.

So a lot of us go throughout life completely unaware

of why we do certain things or why we think certain thoughts

or why we say things the way that we say them,

with the tone in which we say them.

Or we can't figure out why we're tired all the time.

Our behavior is like a mystery to us.

Something completely out of our control, like the weather

or some foreign government EMPing you

while you're in a plane on the way to Europe.

But maybe things aren't so complicated or mysterious.

Maybe we're putting out exactly what we're putting in.

Your mother and your grandmother have said it

since you were a child,

"You are what you eat."

But it goes way deeper than that.

You are what you eat, what you smell, what you see.

Your senses are soaking in inputs all the time,

99.9% of which are synthesized and understood

and processed by your subconscious.

And what that means is that

you're not conscious of it.

You're not consciously aware of the fact

that all these calculations are being made.

Your conscious mind is super efficient at no longer noticing

the filth in your bedroom,

the moldy spaghetti behind your monitor.

But your subconscious smells that every second of the day.

What you are inputting into your subconscious is information

that is making you feel a certain way,

that's making you behave a certain way.

Become conscious of what you are feeding your subconscious

on a regular basis.

When was the last time you saw a tree?

Number two, you have to stretch in order to grow.

So in order to be successful in life, you probably need

to have habits that benefit you.

So maybe you don't have those (laughs)

and maybe you want to be a person that has those.

But I think there are two main ways that people fail

to implement beneficial habits for the long term.

The first way is they think it's going to be too easy.

They think that habit change is this really fun thing.

People want to go to the gym every day,

so they shop for new supplements and new workout clothes,

and they get all infatuated with this idea

of being this healthy, gym going person.

And then obviously you know the story.

You show up to the gym

and it's way harder than you thought it was gonna be.

It feels nothing like thinking about going to the gym.

Lifting weights is hard.

You have to sweat and then you feel like,

"Eh, this isn't fun."

So you stop doing it.

The second way I see people fail

is they think it's going to be really hard

and miserable, treacherous, not worth it.

Maybe they've tried a bunch of times

and they've burned away their naivety

and they say things like, "I would start going to the gym,

but I just don't feel like putting in all of that effort.

It's not worth it."

You probably can identify that there are truths

and falsehoods to both of these approaches.

Yeah, it's not easy to implement a new habit.

Yes, it's not going to feel natural

and it's going to be kind of unpleasant for a lot of it,

but also, it is worth it

because every single time you implement something

that is genuinely good for you,

when you can manage to have these small wins,

when you actually show up to the gym,

you put in a workout, it is difficult.

But when you leave the gym

and you're sitting there on your couch

after a great workout, chugging back a protein shake,

you get this quiet feeling of victory.

Like, "Damn, a lot of bad things could happen to me today,

but at least I went to the gym."

And that might seem subtle,

but if you compound that feeling over a very long time,

you feel like a completely different person.

You have inputted into your mind repeatedly

that you have won, you've done something worthwhile.

You're growing, you're getting stronger.

And when you have that narrative in your subconscious,

the way you walk changes,

the way you make eye contact with people changes,

the way you treat yourself changes.

That's the power of burning away this lesser self,

of voluntarily subjecting yourself to pain,

because what that tells yourself is that I'm willing

to go through this to better myself because I'm worth it.

I'm shouldering so much suffering

so that I can be the best version of myself,

so that I can be stronger,

so I can treat myself with respect.

And that narrative, treating yourself that way,

completely transforms your existence.

That is absolutely worth it.

And suffering viewed in this proper context

is a wonderful thing.

It is joyous, even.

So remember that, yes, it's painful,

but hell yeah, it's worth it.

Number three, guard your eyes.

The more we look at something,

the more we are telling our brain

that this thing is valuable, this thing is important to us.

Even when looking at something as a reflex,

you hear a pen drop next to you and you're home alone,

you're gonna look at that right away

because you value that information.

It could be a predator.

It could be somebody climbing through your windows,

ready to stab your dog.

I find that the more I scroll Instagram,

the more I scan my environment kind of aimlessly looking

for something to sort of peak my interest.

You know, there's sort of this aimlessness

to my field of vision where I'm just kinda looking

for things to stimulate me,

to give me a little brain tickle.

If you really need to focus on something in particular,

try looking at it for 30 seconds.

Try controlling your eyes, guarding it from distraction,

and literally just looking at the thing

that you're supposed to do

and not directing your vision anywhere else but that thing.

And when your eyes are focusing on something,

your entire being tends to focus on it.

So you don't have to overthink things.

Just look at what you're supposed to do.

Don't allow yourself to look anywhere else.

Treat your eyes like a laser beam.

Have a reason to be looking where you're looking.

Number four, figure it out.

So if you wanna get into power lifting really badly

and you've never lifted a dumbbell, a barbell in your life,

then obviously a really dumb thing to do

would be to go onto YouTube

and watch a bunch of videos of people who can power lift

or deadlift 600 pounds or more.

You watch all these videos

of these strong dudes showing you the best possible way

to deadlift 600 pounds.

Like that's such a waste of time.

If you've never deadlifted a thing in your life,

then watching any of these videos

is the biggest waste of your time

you could possibly imagine.

Go to the gym first,

and then when you're at the gym, take out your phone

and watch a video on basic form

so that you don't hurt yourself while you're deadlifting,

but deadlift!

Take all the energy you would use to try

to figure out the perfect way to do something

and use it to do the thing repeatedly and terribly

so that you can get good at it faster

than you ever would by watching videos about it.

There is no amount of videos you could watch.

You could watch 7,000 power lifting videos

and you would not be able to deadlift one more pound,

maybe like two more pounds, but it ain't gonna be 600.

Most people's problem nowadays is they forgot

what it feels like to just figure things out.

Start doing the thing. Obviously, don't hurt yourself.

Don't be dumb, but figure it out.

"Oh no, Joey's telling me

to start doing free solo climbing on the side of a cliff

and not watch a video or get a mentor."

No, I'm not.

Figure it out.

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Number five, use leverage.

This sounds (laughs)

this sounds like the most technical one,

it sounds like, I don't know what it sounds like,

it sounds (duck quacks) stupid,

that's what it sounds.

Not all productive things are created equal.

There are things that you really should be doing,

or maybe there's literally one thing

that you always avoid doing,

and it is by far the most important thing

you could possibly do.

In my own life, that's making videos.

From a strictly monetary, ROI perspective,

making videos from start to finish and hitting upload

is, by far, the best use of my time I can possibly do.

So whenever I am hanging out and you know,

I'm painting my window sill black in my theater room,

that is a productive thing.

I'm painting my window sill, I'm doing something.

But when I have a deadline for a sponsor

and I need to make a video and I have something on my mind

and I should just sit here and talk about it,

what the hell am I doing painting a window?

So many things in life are like that where yeah,

it's technically productive, but it's not the thing.

It's not the thing that is on your mind

that's plaguing your existence,

that is making you feel like you need to escape.

Everybody has that thing.

You need to find a way to do whatever that thing is

as often as possible for as long as possible

with as much intensity as possible.

There's a dirty joke in here somewhere.

And on the exact same wavelength, there's something

that is the absolute worst use of your time

that you could possibly do.

It has the absolute worst ROI out of any activity

that you do on a daily or weekly basis.

If you thought about it for even three seconds,

there's no reason to do it.

You need to find a way to do that thing

as little as possible.

So that's what it looks like to maximize leverage.

Make that one thing that you need to do

as enjoyable as possible, as frictionless as possible.

Make it just so easy to do all the time,

for a long period of time.

Spend money and time to help you make that thing

as good as possible.

Increase the quality and enjoyability

of that most important thing.

And on the exact same token, make doing the worst thing

that you can possibly do as unenjoyable as possible.

Straight out miserable, right? Make it inconvenient.

Make it as hard as possible to do what you don't want to do,

and as easy as possible

to do the best thing you could possibly do.

Number six, stop running from yourself.

Desiring to be a better version

of yourself should not be confused with wanting

to run away from who you are.

That might sound cheesy, but believe me, I've been there.

I've wanted to just not be who I am.

And instead of just resenting my situation, I confused it

with resenting myself,

for punishing myself for failing,

or thinking it's somehow unacceptable

to be in the state that I'm in

or to have the lifestyle that I have.

And it's very important to realize

that once you start attacking yourself,

instead of just being proactive about

leaving your undesirable situation,

as soon as you start attacking yourself, all progress stops,

because even if you manage to get yourself out

of your situation, you're not gonna be happy.

It's not gonna be good enough.

You will feel like you always need

to justify your own existence.

The narrative inside your head

when you don't like yourself very much is,

"Okay, I don't like who I am and where I am.

So if I just do this thing and get this thing,

then that will make me worth something,

that will justify my existence."

But there's no way to justify your own existence

through achievement or accumulating objects.

There's no point to any of this if you don't believe

that you have inherent dignity.

And if you don't treat yourself

like you have inherent dignity from the get go,

there's nothing you can do to earn that.

So look at yourself in the mirror,

take a deep breath, and say, "I got you, buddy.

I might not like every single thing about how I behave

or what I've done, but I accept it as the truth.

I accept it as what has happened.

It is what it is. This is the reality.

Now, where do we go from here?"

Number seven, do what you want.

And I really mean this in the deepest possible sense.

Do whatever the hell you want.

Now before you go and tear open a package of Tim Tams

and start gobbling your life away, hear me out.

I think we only ever do what we want.

We only ever do what we think we want to do

in any given moment.

Even when we do something that we don't want to do,

something that we regret doing,

something that we're morally opposed to doing.

I feel like 99% of the time,

it's only because it's what we thought we wanted to do

at the time, or there's something in it that we want.

Maybe we don't want all of it, but there's something there.

There was something about it

that we thought we wanted at the time.

And it turns out we didn't want it, but we thought we did.

And I think this is important to consider.

Try to ask yourself on the deepest possible level,

what do you want?

What kind of life do you want to live?

What kind of relationships do you want to have?

What do you ideally want to do on a day-to-day basis?

And why do you want those things?

How would it make you feel to live this way?

And now contrast that with what you currently do.

Think about all the things that you don't like that you do,

and ask yourself,

what in these things do I actually want?

And a lot of the time when we have things that we do

that are bad for us, there's still something in it

that we want.

And it's not the thing itself that we want.

It's usually a feeling it gives us.

Try to figure out what that feeling is.

And it's probably a feeling that everybody wants, right?

It's just the thing itself or the activity

or the behavior isn't the best possible way

to achieve that feeling.

Once you start going through this process,

a lot of the time you realize

that even doing what you don't want to do,

but you think it's something that you want to do,

but you shouldn't do,

it's like even that thing isn't doing what you want

in the best possible way.

Like obviously the easiest possible example is, you know,

going on YouTube,

scrolling through YouTube Shorts or whatever, right?

If you stop to ask yourself,

what about this do I actually like?

What do I want here?

Why do I do this?

What feeling am I looking for?

What do I have to gain from this

that I can take with me into life?

Like will I ever feel satisfied?

Like, man, I have arrived. That was so worth it.

I feel so good now.

It's like, probably not.

Don't you want to feel that way?

Isn't that what you want?

Probably.

And a lot of the time, these dopamine traps,

things that promise you something and promise you something

and promise you something,

there is no feeling of, "Ah, I have arrived,

that was so worth it.

I feel so good about myself now."

No, it's always some fake promise.

Find what that thing is promising,

and then find the best possible way

to give yourself that feeling.

And a lot of the time what you'll find is giving yourself

the best possible feeling

usually aligns with your moral compass.

It usually makes your life better.

It usually, you know,

everything about it is just better

than doing the worst thing.

We always think that by giving up the worst thing,

our life is gonna be less enjoyable.

We're giving up something that's actually good.

But it's like, that thing actually isn't that good.

You know, the best possible way to get the feeling

that you want in life and to be the person you want

to be in life is by being the person you want to be in life.

Unless you actually think about these things

and reflect on the feelings all these activities give you,

you'll be blind to it.

You'll fall for false promises.

Does that make sense?

If that doesn't make sense, comment below.

Say "Joey, that makes no sense."

The bottom line is,

you are a living, breathing human being.

You affect the world around you.

You can decide right now to pick up the glass

that's closest to you and throw it against the wall

and shatter it.

You can do that.

You can move through space and time

and affect the world around you.

You can affect people around you.

But most importantly, you can affect your life.

You can affect the habits you have.

You can change your life,

and you can live the life that you want to live,

truly want to live.

And it will be what you want.

Like it's the most basic possible thing and it's exciting.

So help yourself give yourself what you want,

and not just moment to moment, right,

because that's shortsighted,

but what your soul is screaming for.

And I hope that by doing so, you'll find more peace

and fulfillment and enjoyment

every single day of your life.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
change /tʃeɪndʒ/ A2	verb - to make or become different noun - an act or process of becoming different
input /ˈɪnpʊt/ A2	noun - information or resources that are put into something
subconscious /ˌsʌbˈkɒnʃəs/ B1	noun - the part of the mind that is not conscious adjective - working or existing without being noticed by the conscious mind
habit /ˈhæbɪt/ A2	noun - a regular tendency or practice
stretch /stretʃ/ B1	verb - to make something longer or wider by pulling verb - to extend one's muscles or one's body
grow /ɡroʊ/ A2	verb - to become larger in size or amount
gym /dʒɪm/ A1	noun - a building or club for exercise and sports
feel /fiːl/ A1	verb - to be aware of something by using your sense of touch verb - to experience an emotion
focus /ˈfoʊkəs/ A2	verb - to pay attention to something noun - the center of attention
figure /ˈfɪɡjər/ B1	verb - to understand or solve something noun - a number representing an amount
leverage /ˈliːvərɪdʒ/ C1	noun - power or influence verb - to use something to maximum effect
run /rʌn/ A1	verb - to move quickly on foot verb - to operate or manage
want /wɒnt/ A1	verb - to desire or wish for something noun - a desire or need for something
worth /wɜːrθ/ A2	adjective - equal to the value or price of something noun - the value or importance of something
hard /hɑːrd/ A1	adjective - firm or solid and difficult to break adjective - difficult or requiring effort
avoid /əˈvɔɪd/ A2	verb - to stay away from someone or something
valuable /ˈvæljuəbl/ B1	adjective - worth a lot of money or important
productive /prəˈdʌktɪv/ B1	adjective - achieving a lot or useful