Speaker A argues you must own your outcomes, even when surprised or treated unfairly. Being responsible now prepares you for the future. The speaker uses a gladiator metaphor to frame responsibility as the path to greatness and success.
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Handle the future by being responsible for the present. You go in there as a gladiator in that coliseum, okay? And you don't figure out how you lost that last fight, you're gonna die in the next one. Take responsibility. Even if the other guy cheated, he surprised you, he shocked you. He pulled out some other weapon you didn't know about. Be prepared for the future by taking responsibility for the present. So be responsible. Be the cause, not the effect. Be responsible. Even when you're not responsible. Be responsible. Bad things happen to good. Good things, by the way, happen to good people and blame no one. Be responsible. And remember this. You want to be great. You want to be super successful. Take responsibility for everything, even the things that you could have no responsibility for.