How to Build an Unbreakable Mind | What Greatness Really Takes

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Every day, the first person there before the sun would be Jordan, and he was there because he wasn't good. He would work with a batting instructor and and work all day long and be the last person to leave every night also. I asked him what it was like for him in the morning, and Jordan said, I get up before the sun comes up and I make myself some breakfast by myself. He was down there alone. And I get in the car and I'm driving to spring training and there's no one really out on the roads yet. And I look at the seat next to me and I see my dad. And I talked to him. I think to myself, Pops, we're doing this. We're doing this together. And the day would end and he would say to the batting instructor, can we do a little more? I think I'm getting this. I think I'm learning this. I think I'm getting this. And that's when Sports Illustrated put him on the COVID saying that Michael Jordan has embarrassed baseball. And as I would watch him there every night as the sun was going down and the other ballplayers had left, and I would see this guy working to get better, Michael Jordan working to get better, I couldn't help thinking that if you ever have children, you ought to pray that they grow up someday to embarrass you like this. What in this whole world turns you on?

Challenge.

I really just, I, I just love, I love it, you know. I love being told no. It just means yes.

To you?

Yeah.

What turns you off?

Lack of enthusiasm really turns me off.

Hey, I want to talk to you today about success. Success, duty, obligation, responsibility. If you approach it any other way, which most people are, most people think, well, I'll be successful if the economy works. I'll be successful if something happens. I'll be successful if I win the lottery ticket. Look, you're not going to be successful if you don't demand it If you literally don't stake a claim to it and say, this is mine, it's in part— you're not gonna have it, I promise you. I know. I'm telling you from experience. I spent the first 25 years of my life like, like a spectator watching other people get successful and then wondering why I wasn't.

Success is your duty.

It is your obligation and your responsibility.

For longevity, if you want longevity, you gotta be picky with the roles you choose, and it's all about It has to be on the page, you know. If it's not written properly, then you have nothing. So if you get a script sent your way that they're interested in you and it's really solid on the page, then you have something to work with. But other than that, then no.

You see, actually, I do not teach, you know, karate because I do not believe in styles anymore. I mean, I do not believe that there is such thing as like Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting or whatever way of fighting, because unless human being have 3 arms and 4 legs, we will have a different form of fighting. But basically, we have only 2 hands and 2 feet. So, styles tends to not only separate man, you know, because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth, you know, that you cannot change, you know. And but if you do not have styles, if you just say, well, here, here I am, you know, as, as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization, you know. I mean, that way it's a process of continuing growth.

I played professional basketball for the Chicago Bulls.

32 seconds to go.

A 1-point lead for Georgetown.

Gordy, the block.

The tie, 18.

Shot!

Jordan! Michael Jordan!

If I had to trace my evolution, um, the Michael Jordan evolution, it always has to start back in college, hitting a shot against Georgetown in 1982 when I really didn't know exactly what I was doing.

North Carolina has won the 1982 NCAA Championship.

It awakened a person inside of me to excel, to to compete, to excel, to be one of the best, or be the best. That drove me.

And I guess with that shot, it kind of ignited a fire inside of me that nothing was going to stop me.

Jordan down the middle, all the way! Jordan to the hoop! Whoa! Jordan down the lane, all the way! Who has it on the break, driving all the way in! Oh my God, an unbelievable move! He put it in and it counts!

My point is I'm pursuing something and nobody looks too happy about it.

But we're just looking out for your interests.

I appreciate that, but maybe you're looking out for your interests just a little bit more. I mean, you shouldn't be asking people to come down here and pay the freight on something they paid. It still ain't good enough.

I mean, you think that's right?

I mean, maybe you're doing your job, but why you gotta stop me from doing mine? 'Cause if you're willing to go through all the battling you gotta go through to get to where you wanna get, who's got the right to stop you? I mean, maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to somebody, something. And you're told no, even after you pay your dues. Who's got the right to tell you that?

Who?

Nobody.

It's your right to listen to your gut. It ain't nobody's right to say no after you earn the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do. You know, the older I get, the more things I got to leave behind. That's life. The only thing I'm asking you guys to leave on the table is what's right.

Almost 90% of sales managers say they don't have time, you know. And again, it goes back to, look, if you knew it was going to bank you money today, would you make time for it? So they would, they would make time for it because they make time for the things that make them money. If you, if you have a customer, hopefully if you have a customer, uh, and you're working a deal with that customer and you got a hamburger in front of you, hopefully you're going to push the hamburger aside and work that deal because the priority is to make money. In the same conversation, that sales manager does not believe that sales training converts to ROI or money, so he doesn't make the time for it. When you say you don't have time, the truth is you're saying, I'm not making it a priority because I don't think it makes me money.

I had so many ups and downs, so many struggles, so much rejection, but to me, I never saw myself going home. And to be honest, the first time I ever asked my parents for any sort of financial help, which was so hard for me to ask them for, because this is my dream, it's not their dream. Of course they want their, you know, they want to see their son succeed in their dreams, but first time I asked them for any sort of help was right before booking Breaking Bad. I was like, could you help me with my rent? And they paid my rent 3 months in a row, which was so hard for me to allow them to do. So, and it was so hard for them to do it, you know, they had nothing. And then I booked Breaking Bad, and, you know, the rest is history.

When I look around, I always learn something, and that is to be always yourself and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate him. Now, that seems to me that that is the prevalent thing happening in Hong Kong. Like, they always copy mannerisms, but they never start from the very root of his being, and that is, how can I be me?

I wanted to excel my game and isolate my game from everybody else, that I was more than just, you know, a few-dimensional— even when it came to Magic Johnson. And I mean, Magic Johnson was a crowd pleaser. He was a good offensive player. He was a great motivator, you know, average defensive player. You know, I wanted to change that. I wanted to take another step. I wanted to do all those things, you know, that could separate me from Magic Johnson. You know, I'm not saying he wasn't great. He still is great. But we're great in our own different way, you know. And that was motivational for me, you know. And to this day, it still is.

We were running behind schedule and I had to shoot a montage. I go, oh my God, this montage would have taken like 5 days. So what I did is I came in there, brought everyone into one big room, all the dancers, and had 3 cameras. I took one camera and just stayed with John Travolta and I worked with him. And the rest, I said to everyone, just dance and do whatever you want. Cartwheels. I said, catch it all, whatever. And then I sent a camera down when they're making the stage. I mean, just with regular light. I said, and just shoot what you can, just no sound, nothing. And we put it all together and saved 4 days of filming. But none of that, absolutely zero, was choreographed.

Wow.

Isn't it funny?

I said, okay, John, just do this.

Yeah, cut.

Do this, cut.

And then, and I swear to God, and then the other dancers were just over there in the corner. They'd be scratching, doing Somersaults, stretching, and you put it all together. Isn't that amazing? It's the magic of the myth. Yeah, it's like, so there are no rules. It's crazy.

Yeah. So look, you want to get your work ethic so high that people actually admire you. I'm going to ask you a question right now. Do people know you because of your unbelievable work ethic? If you can't answer yes to that, man, you're not going to get in that top 10%. You got to get to the top. You people have to know you not because, oh, he's a good salesman.

Oh, he's a good this.

Oh, he's an artist. Oh, he's a good pianist.

Oh, he's a—

He writes a great, you know, story. No, dude, people need to know you for one major thing first. He works. He produces. The guy's there every day. The guy's pushing and shoving. Because the truth is, no matter how good your ideas are, how good your art is, or how good your skill set is, if you're not working, man, if you're not vibrating at a frequency that people say, my God, how does that guy do all that? If you're not vibrating at that rate, 10x levels, massive action, tremendous work ethic that's just a muscle now, and it's just a discipline in your life, and it's a way, it's a normal way that other people think is abnormal. Ryan Seacrest, Tom Cruise, Oprah, Steven Spielberg, Donald Trump still pumping and working as a billionaire. Look, if you're not working at that level, you're not going to make it. Get your work ethic in, man. It's the American way. Work ethic. Check it out.

When I first moved here, they're like, listen, all you got to know is the strong survive. And if you're strong enough, you'll survive. And so I've always remembered that.

A good martial artist does not become tense but ready. Not thinking yet, not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit. It hits all by itself.

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.

I first met Bob Shartoff and Irwin Winkler, and I believe I was there on, on a casting call. So we're talking a little bit, and I guess I really wasn't right for the acting part. And on the way out, I said, oh, I don't know if it matters, but I do a little bit of writing. He goes, really? I said, yeah, I'm writing this story, this, uh, I have this thing about wrestlers and I might do something about boxing. Well, he says, well, bring it around. And I thought, if I hadn't stopped on the way out, you know, that's why I tell all actors or writers, don't give up, keep talking.

Eventually you might hit a nerve somewhere and they go, ah, come on back.

And if they didn't say, come on back or bring it later and let's see what you've developed, I wouldn't be sitting here.

The biggest struggle, man, was just getting around other people that would say I could do it. I mean, that's the biggest struggle. Just you get around one guy says, yeah, you can do it. And then you talk to him tomorrow and he's like, no, dude, it's friggin— you can't do this shit. You know, there's so few people telling you to do it. You know what? There is a lot of save your money. Protect yourself, conserve, don't spend, don't take risk. Taking risk is the new way to be risk adverse. So we're— the biggest struggle for me was my family, man. The people closest to me was the biggest struggle. Every time I went out to do another deal, everybody told me, you don't need to do that, man. The only person that was encouraging me was my twin brother because I would see how he was doing it, dude. He was making his swings. And so every time I'd get around other people— so I'll tell you a little trick I did. On weekends, I would always go see homes I couldn't afford. That has always inspired me. I would go look, I would go drive neighborhoods. Literally, I've done this my entire life until I finally got to the point where they wouldn't even let me in the neighborhood. There's neighborhoods in Miami, dude, you can't even go see. You can't— they won't even let you in the gates. Most of them you can get in if you know some of my tricks. So the point that Shovita is writing on the board right now is you got fuel in your tank, it wants to be accelerated on, and then you got somebody in the back seat saying, hey, be careful. Nobody likes a backseat driver, okay? So they're sitting there, they're putting, they're putting mental pressure on the brakes when you're trying to accelerate.

There's been times where I was like, wow, this is really hard, you know, this is really hard. I mean, just the ups and downs and where I'm like, wow, I'll get back-to-back jobs, and my career is really taking off, and then there'll just be a standstill. And it's just like, you know, just roll with the punches and just deal with the rejection. And it took a minute to understand that that's such a huge part of this business, and now I just don't take it personally. I just like, you know what, there was someone better for the role, and there's another job out there.

Oftentimes people come up and say, hey Bruce, are you really that good?

I said, well, if I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting.

But if I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying.

I never feel that I'm at my best. I feel I still have room to improve. I still set goals for myself to strive for. I'm never complacent with what I've achieved, even though it's been very successful for me. I still feel I have a lot to prove, not just as a player, but as a person, as a father, to some extent as a role model, uh, in all aspects. Um, so I'm never really too complacent with myself or with what I've achieved. When I get to a point where I feel I can't improve as a player, I walk away from the game. I still feel that I have a plateau that I hadn't reached yet in terms of my skills or my expectations of myself. I'm always going to expect myself to do certain things or surpass certain things. As long as I believe that, then my road to success can continue to expand.

And what I'll try to do is I write longhand it. So on a legal pad, I'll go, goes here, sees his mother. Goes to the store. So I'll have like 10 things of beats where he's going. Gets on a horse, goes swimming, bum bum bum. And I do that, and I know in my heart 80% of it will be no good, but you're getting through the screenplay. You're getting it done because the rewrite is always more fun and much more enjoyable. I don't believe people should look for perfection or even 50% perfection in the first draft. It's always going to be kind of this, like a child scribbling, but you did it. And the main thing for me is to, once you have that accomplishment, let's say in 2, you could do it in 2 weeks, 3 weeks. Again, maybe 10% will be good, but you now have this sense of accomplishment. You did it, and the rewriting process starts, and that's when the fun begins.

The negativity is just negative, and there's no money in it. There's no future in being negative. Where's the solution? You know, I can't do that, we can't do that, that can't happen, this is wrong, that's wrong, oh my gosh, taxes are too high, taxes are too— dude, it's negative, it is negative, it is negative. Look, there's so much abundance of negativity, that by itself tells you why there's no value in it.

I was doing like church plays since I was like literally baby, I was the baby Jesus. I don't know if I knew then, but I think around like 8 or 9 when I was doing like kind of like the leading roles, I was obsessed with it and I kind of just ran with it.

I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Sports is a tool that teaches, you know, and it teaches you bad things. It can also teach you good things. It's how you perceive those things. I've looked at every experience that I've had, negative and positive, and taken that as a positive. You know, if I wouldn't change anything because I think it would alter some of the other things that happened. You know, so when I look back, I can't say that I've had any bad things happen. Sure, I mean, you don't want bad things to happen, but you deal with bad things. You can't have good without bad.

Originally, when I brought the script to them, they were fairly enthusiastic about it. The one thing they were not enthusiastic about was me playing the part, and I really can't blame them. At the time, Ryan O'Neal was a candidate, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Jimmy Caan, and they all, you know, were at the top of their game. And so I could see it, but there was something inside of me that said, you know, this opportunity is never going to come around. And I really wasn't used to money, and I had no idea of what I would be missing. But the temptation started to come forward. First it was $25,000, then $100,000. I never heard of $100,000 because I had like $106 in the bank. And like I said, I had to sell my dog, and things were not looking very, very good. My $40 car had just blown up, so I was taking a bus to work. And still, it didn't matter. I wanted to stick with it. Then it went up to $150,000, $175,000, then it went up to $250,000. Now my head was starting to spin. And it went up to $330,000, and probably I heard it went up to $360,000. And I thought, all right, you know, you've really managed poverty very well. You've got this down to a science. You really don't need much to live on. I had like sort of figured it out. So I was not in any way used to the good life. So I thought, you know what, if I know in the back of my mind, if I sell this script and it does very, very well, I'm going to jump off a building if I'm not in it. There's no doubt about it. I'm going to leap in front of a train.

I'm going to be very, very upset.

So this is one One of those things where you just roll the dice and you fly by the proverbial seat of your pants. Hey, all right, I gotta try it. I gotta just do it. I may be totally wrong and I'm gonna be taking a lot of people down with me, but I just believe in it.

You gotta make a commitment to service. You gotta make a commitment to like, hey, I have a target. I know that when we don't achieve targets here in my office, the first thing I ask, regardless of the internet department, uh, if it's my accounting department on collections or it's my sales department, I'm gonna ask a question. What is the target? No target results in no sales. So if you're in parts, if you're in service, look, have a target. Measure that target, uh, hourly. If you really want to get results, measure your target every hour to see what did we get in the last 60 minutes. I promise you, do those two simple things. Don't even learn anything about how to sell anybody anything. Have a target, measure it every hour, and I guarantee your sales will come up.

When I get the script, I just kind of dissect, uh, I read it just front to back, and then I start really dissecting each scene and kind of understanding why he's in this particular situation, why he's feeling these sort of things. It's all so much on the page, and so I just— how I dive into a particular scene, I just try and live those moments as if I were Jesse. I don't try and have certain triggers or think about some sort of torture that I personally have went through, you know, in my past. I just try and really live and breathe through this particular person's skin. And with Jesse, he's— it's a constant, it's a constant struggle. And so it's, uh, it's a little rough at times, but, um, it's such a blast.

In case you have missed the recent news, Jeet Kune Do, of which I am the founder, has been elected and accepted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame in America. This marks the first time a recently developed form of martial art is nationally accepted. No, Jeet Kune Do is not thousands or even hundreds of years old. It started in around 1965 by a dedicated and intensified man Bruce Lee, and my martial art is something that no serious martial artist can ignore.

It's not about the shoes. It's about knowing where you're going, not forgetting where you started. It's about having the courage to fail. Not breaking when you're broken. Taking everything you've been given and making something better. It's about work before glory. And what's inside of you is doing what they say you can't. It's not about the shoes. It's about what you do in them. It's about being who you were born to be.

Writing, I almost approach it like exercise. I get up maybe at 4:30 in the morning, takes an hour to get going, and then I'll start to write about maybe 3 hours, and then it becomes repetitive. And the next day I get up And even if I don't feel inspired, I'll sit there for those 3 hours until I get— the brain says, okay, you must start to produce something. So I try to write quickly, and I follow a pattern just the way you would be if you were in the Army or whatever. And then that gets me through it quickly. Some writers will take a year, 2 years. Everyone has a different process, but that's what I do. You write better in the morning, like most great writers. I used to write at night. I used to write at night all the time when I was— but I found that everything, everyone died. It was dark, it was creepy. It was really horrible. It was like very depressing. Then I realized Edgar Allan Poe used to write at night. Now I figure out why.

Within any company I have, I own, I have 4 and 5 flows in every company. I don't have one flow. I'm not going to depend on one product. Once I get those 4 streams coming in from one company, okay? For instance, at this company, it's an online project called Cardone University. Then there's speaking gigs, then there's books, then there's audios, there's MP3s. Those are flows coming in for one company. At some point I'm like, okay, let's do a second deal. So I'm gonna then have a company that runs parallel like a skier, right? I don't want the skis crossing over. I want them to be parallel so that anything that maybe I can't do any longer in this company, Maybe I'm going to outsource to a partner and build a second company. Then once these two are skiing along and happy, maybe I'm going to go do a third company out here that I have a passion for that has nothing to do with these first two. That is not diversification. That's multiple strong flows. And when I make a bet on this third company, dude, I want to take it. I want to take all the money from these first two flows. And I want to say, hey, if it's a good deal, go all in. If you're not sure, don't put any money in it at all, folks.

I always tend to gravitate towards, um, the more complex side of things, uh, just complicated characters, uh, just because for me that's just— it's just more interesting to play.

I have no fear of opponent in front of me, that I am very self-sufficient. That they do not bother me, and that should I fight, should I do anything, I have made up my mind, and that's it, baby. You better kill me before—

We are old, and sure, we're tired. It's been a long season, but mentally we have a vision. We have a finish that we have to attain, you know, and sometimes you have to do it when when you're old and you're tired, you know. And I think it's the test of your will to succeed when you have to deal with, you know, some of these negatives. And I'm pretty sure, you know, by the end of this playoffs, you'll see the old and the tired people were very, very young and strong mentally.

If you've never had anything like today, I would go, okay, I'm selling. I can't give up the house, right? You know, But if you don't have the house and you don't have anything and you're just sitting there, you go, okay, I wrote this for myself and I don't even know if it's that good. But if it— if obviously someone likes it, I'll regret it. I know I'll regret it. And I bet I say it once a week. I walk around and I say, thank God.

Really?

All the time.

All the time. It's like you did one thing right in life. You can do 1,000 things wrong. You just do one one thing right, it makes up for the other 999 mistakes.

Sometimes there's so many mistakes salespeople make, I think you need to get down to like the, the main ones. But, um, you're not selling the solution. I mean, even before that though, I would say, Corrine, is the biggest mistake— people are not excited, they're not alive, they're not, they're not showing interest in the cycle, and they lose interest. I was in, um, uh, Barcelona recently, and I was looking at a watch and the cycle didn't close, I could have bought the watch. I was qualified to buy the watch. I'm the one that walked myself in the shop on my vacation to look at the watch. I knew exactly the watch I was looking for. And when I left, my wife said, what could he have done to close the sale? I said, well, he could have kept life in the cycle. He could have kept the cycle open. So what I mean by that is, look, if you're not interested, if you don't believe the cycle can be closed, it will not close. So the number one mistake I think salespeople, managers, and the store makes is they assume a close can't be had that day. I go into every cycle, every sales cycle with every prospect, every phone call, every, no matter how complex the sale is or how simple it is, with the belief that I can sell that product that day, this time, now.

A lot of roles are coming my way where I'm playing like the lovable drug addict, but what I want to do is do something completely opposite. Just do something that is different than something I've ever done, something that's kind of terrifying and scary to me, but that's what it's about.

I gravitate towards just such different kind of roles, you know, like I try to do stuff that's always terrifying, you know, not terrifying as a story, but that just terrifies me as an actor.

To play.

What was that? An exhibition? We need emotional content.

Try again.

That's it.

How did it feel to you?

Let me think. Don't think.

Feel.

It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all the that heavenly glory.

Maybe it's my fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn't. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line and not in the gym. Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner, that my game was built on flash and not fire. Maybe it's my fault that you didn't see that failure gave me strength, that my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God-given gift and not something I worked for every single day of my life. Maybe I destroyed the game. Or maybe you're just making excuses.

Give up something to get something. And I thought I didn't have any money, so I had no phone. I painted my windows black, so I didn't know if the sun was up, the sun was down. All I knew is I had to write. And I wrote and I wrote. It was very bad. It wasn't good at all, but every day it was getting better and better, like a machine, like a muscle, until finally the idea for Rocky came. So the idea is you must fail 100 times to succeed once. It's— that's part of it. No one succeeds the first time. It's learning how to not get disappointed with failure, to understand failure. You only learn when you fail. You don't learn when you succeed. You know, you're too—

sometimes—

but when you fail, that's when you learn. So that's how I learned, by— lucky I was a failure in New York, and that is the reason I started writing, which made me successful. I had to teach myself early on: expect to fail. Expect it, covet it, welcome it. It's going to happen, but don't— it's not a permanent state.

Hey, work to your potential, not your quota. If you want to stay really motivated, if you want to answer the question to why people that have already made it keep pushing, it is because they don't operate on quotas. They operate off potential. They're driven to reach their potential. This is also tied to their ethical obligation. They know what they're capable of. Nobody can tell you what you're capable of. You're the only one that knows. Okay? So work to your potential, not your quota. Quotas are numbers. Who made them up? Some guy says, okay, your quota is blah, blah. Okay. Based on what? How did he come up with that quota? He only picked that quota, that number, because he thinks it's significant or compared to other people maybe in your industry. Look, don't operate on quotas. You want them, clearly you want them, but you want to be driven to reach your potential, not just some numbers, some mechanics. Hey, my potential, I know. Nobody else knows it. I know what it is. You know yours. Work to your potential, not just a quota, and I promise you, you will be on fire day and night.

Embrace every moment, you know, because it flies by. Just embrace everything. And I really taken that to heart and I've embraced everything.

Well, you know, everyone talks to me about Bruce Lee because Bruce Lee and I were very good friends and we trained together for like 3 years before he left for Hong Kong to pursue his movie career. And I didn't hear anything from Bruce for like 2 years. Then out of the blue, Bruce calls me. He says, I've done 2 movies in Hong Kong and they're really successful. I want to do a movie now with a fight scene that everyone will remember. And I want to do the fight scene in the Colosseum in Rome, and I want you to be my opponent. At that time I held the world title, and kiddingly I say to Bruce, I said, well, who wins, Bruce? And he said, I win. I'm the star of this movie. And I said, oh, I see. You want to beat the world champion. He says, no, I don't. I want to kill the world champion.

The Bulls can win it right here! The Bulls can win it! Unbelievable! 13 seconds left. Jordan left side.

I practice as if I'm playing a game, so when the moment comes in the game it's not new to me. That's the beauty of the game of basketball. That's the reason why you practice. That's the effort. So when you get to that moment, you don't have to think. Instinctively, things happen.

Jordan to drive, hangs, fires, yes!

The Bulls lead 87-86.

Michael Jordan with 45 points.

You know, it's—

yeah, I think it was a very defining moment of what my career was in Chicago.

The Chicago Bulls have won their 6th NBA championship.

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan, how magnificent is it?

But somewhere along the line You changed. You stopped being you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you're no good. And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow. Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, now go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him or her. Or anybody. Cowards do that, and that ain't you. You're better than that.

Hey, Grant Cardone, I just want to give you a little encouragement here on Thursday afternoon. This week I have been in Detroit, Buffalo, New York City. I was on my way to Hartford. It got canceled because of some situations.

Whoa, I just dropped my bag.

Why am I telling you all this?

Okay.

Now I came to the wrong terminal, having to walk back to 2. I'm not asking you to feel sorry for me. I'm doing this as an encouragement video. When things don't go right, you got to push harder. You got to spend money that you didn't think you were going to spend.

Hang in there.

Don't quit. Do not quit.

Push.

Okay, I know how hard it is.

I know it's hard.

I know there's moments where everybody thinks, oh my God, what am I doing? Just keep pushing. Your family needs you to do it. Your community needs you to do it. God bless America, it definitely needs you to do it. So hang in there, keep pushing. When you think about quitting, just understand that everybody you compete with is having the very same thought. Last man standing, baby.

Man or woman.

Most of us have recovered enough to go on, Rod. Who's our next player? Well, let's see what we can do for Aaron Sturtevant.

Come on down, Erin.

You're the next contestant on The Price Is Right.

You're the man, Bob! Oh my God, you're my idol!

I have the horrible feeling I have another one. Here's the next item for bid. An elegant flat-top desk. Aaron, what do you bid on that?

$1,200. $1,200.

Michelle?

$775, Bob.

$775.

Charletta? $800.

$800.

Tracy?

$850.

Her bid is $850. Actual retail price $17,997.

Aaron wins! Aaron is the winner.

Let's get him over here. Right here, Aaron.

Congratulations. I got the ballparker!

Aaron.

Yes?

Aaron, believe it or not, I have another one of these.

A new car!

All right, we're going to play the dice game. Light up the first number in the price of the car, please. Here are the dice. Now remember, there are no zeros in the price of the car. There are no numbers higher than 6. Roll, and let's hope it's the second number in the price. The first number is 1. Now you've rolled a 1. Is that the second number?

No.

Is the second number higher or lower than— higher, higher, of course it has to be. Okay, next number in the price of the car. Is it 6?

No.

Is it higher, lower than 6? Roll, Aaron, we're on a hot streak.

Is it 3?

No.

Is it higher or lower than 3?

Higher.

Higher than 3. All right, roll that last number. Is it 4? No. Is it higher or lower than 4? Lower than 4. Let's find out. Does Erin win the car? Light up the second number, please. Light up the third number, please. Give us a number higher than 3.

Yes.

Give us a number lower than 4.

Oh, Erin, I'm sorry.

Oh, I gotta spin the wheel, right?

That's right, he'll spin the wheel. We'll be back after this.

Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed. I'd love to know what you think if you want to leave a comment below. I appreciate it. Continue to believe, continue to achieve great things, and I'll see you soon.