Transform Your LIFE with Discipline

Hard work is your ticket in. It doesn't guarantee your success, but without it, you don't stand a chance.

I remember asking my dad, I wanted new basketball shoes because I was a basketball junkie back then. He's like, well, your shoes work. If you want a new pair of tennis shoes, you have to go out there and get a job.

And so the one thing my father gave me which was really key was that work ethic, that ability to get myself up in the morning no matter how tired I was, to push myself through those pain barriers. Being sent out to work at 10, I mean, starting work at 5 o'clock in the morning to do the milk round, being dropped off at 8:45 at school in the milk van, you know, that work ethic. So that combination of those two— work ethic and great insecurity— was what got me to where I went to.

I realized that I have to be very hardworking because I don't have kind of the ease of talent. And I come from that. I think it, in a lot of ways, it served me very well in that I am as kind of hardworking as I've ever been, completely without confidence. And I have none. I don't, I don't want any because I think you you turn your back on the thing and that's when you get gored, is when you think, "I got this." I never think, "I got this." I think, "Oh man, don't screw this up." I'm trying to be fully engaged.

There's nothing in life that you can't, you can't put enough work in every single day and not get better at. You know what I mean? Like, if you want to be good at something, you know what I mean? You can't just like not like do it every day and not get better. It's the same shit with music, it's the same shit as learning how to play an instrument or something.

It's always green though.

It's understanding what your skill set is, finding the right place to use those skills, and then going for it. But whatever industry you pick, if you outwork everybody, if you try to be a little smarter than everybody, if you try to be a better salesperson than everybody, if you try to be better prepared than everybody, you've got your best chance. Because if you don't do it and somebody else does, you know, I have the same work, like someone's trying to take it all away from you, you know, work, actually work like someone's spending 24 hours working, 24 hours to take it all away from you. And, and that's kind of the way I look at it.

Hello, job, television job. You're still thinking, but your ratio of thinking to acting is very different, you know, you're At the beginning, I was thinking about it this much, you know, in my cognitive brain, and then there was this much, just whatever thin reed of talent you have is there, and then you're thinking about the rest. And then over the years, I think, you know, they always say the reptile brain, the reptile portion of your brain is where you, you know, respiration, heartbeat, right? That's the stuff that even if you're knocked unconscious, it's still working. I really believe a lot of my talk show or comedy instincts are now in my reptile brain.

It's 4:45 AM, it's still dark outside. Look at that, the lights just went out and I'm getting ready to kill this AM cardio. You can't even see me, but it's gonna be so good, it's bad. I get up at crazy hours, so whatever time my call time is, and I tell this to studios and directors and our producers, whatever time my call time is, so my call time is at 7, then you back your clock up 4 hours and then that's when I get up and I train twice. I'll get my cardio in and breakfast and then I'll go Hit the weights. Clangin' and bangin', we call it. Jackin' iron.

But like, what time do you go to bed? I mean, you might shoot really late at night.

I'm averaging— on a movie, I average probably about 5 hours of sleep.

I'm excited to be hosting a talk show on Hollywood Boulevard. I've always dreamed of working 3 doors down from a Wetzel's Pretzels. I used to stay out of it. I don't care. I don't want to. I ain't an artist. I don't need it, you know. And but this is my business now, and it's my, you know, it is important. If my agent— that my agent always says I'm, I'm his only client that ever calls him back as soon as he— because it's my business and I respect my business.

Your agent says you're the only client that calls him back to say—

immediately.

Yeah, I return emails, I return phone calls. I've I've worked really hard to build this and I want to continue building it and it's my business, my personal business. So I don't understand how people do slack.

I have a disease. I'm a workaholic and it's like being an alcoholic. I just can't give it up. You know, my wife and my children keep telling me, "You know, you work 20 years round the clock. Why are you doing this?" I don't think I need the money. I don't think I'm greedy for more fame. I'm doing okay. I can do one film in two years and be happy with it, but I'm just not happy. I don't know if it's a curse or a blessing. I have this fear that you have very few days in life and you need to cram it up with a lot of things. You need to fit it, fit it in so many things in it that you don't have space for life.

You know, hard work pays. I put in a hell of a lot of work all throughout this buildup in the fight. I pumped out more content than anybody. More content than Fox, more content than ESPN, more content than BT Sport, more content than everybody on the mag live. My own channels, you know what I mean? I'm a fucking workhorse from all angles, not just in the gym. I'm building this media empire now myself. We pumped out the content. I'm very proud of how it went. We consistently daily movies I was releasing, you know, from like a month ago, every single day, you know what I mean? Nobody's doing that. That's why I'm sitting at the top. I put it all on the line. I show up, I perform, and I get the results from that.

It doesn't sound sexy. It doesn't sound cool. Work ethic, you know, and just how badly do you want it? And there have been, you know, many times in the, you know, throughout the years of doing my show where I've thought, you could shoot me in the chest before I walk out there and I'll still walk out there and do that show. And then I'll come backstage and die. But we're doing that show.

Every damn person who said I wouldn't be anything, I'm crushing them every day. Everybody I had to endure in any band I was in every day into a powder. Yeah, thank you. And I wish them no ill. I just wish to shine brighter, and if it burns my body to a crisp, I'm happy to go right now.

I have to be half dead, uh, not to not go to work. Uh, it's kind of a work ethic that's built into me. Friday night, as you got back from the office or from the work or from the factory or whatever, it doesn't matter what was buzzing around in my head, it was off like a light switch. Monday morning, bang, back on it again as if you flick the switch on again. So I think that was a bit of discipline in that respect.

Yeah, the last boss I ever had was my boss at Häagen-Dazs, my ice cream shop, and to this day he still comes to my shows. And whenever I see Steve, who got me my first apartment, who believed— I was living in my car. He believed in me. Whenever I see him, I get all weepy. I always tell him, it's good to see you, sir. Henry, you can call me Steve. I can't do that, sir. Because he trusted me with his money. And I said, let me run your store. I know how to do this. I can do this. He's like, well, if you screw up, you're out of here. I said, I won't screw up. I fired his staff and rehired a bunch of people who can really work. And it was out of anger. Like, I'll be back. Back in 4 hours to run this $3.75 an hour job into the ground.

I'm unsocial. I'm very odd with people. I have replaced loneliness, depression, and people with work, because when I'm working, I'm with a lot of people, and there are people I can interact with because somewhere there is a wall that I'm not interacting with them socially. I'm interacting them through this common, uh, you know, goal that is the work. Many of my My filmmaking colleagues complain that after the film is over, you don't talk to us. I can't explain to them. I don't have anything else to say. I love you. I miss you, but I miss you through the work.

I was 16, I think, when I started a stamp company and started going to stamp shows and trade shows and just working a little bit harder than other people and trading up from one stamp to the next. I remember one time I started with a quarter and bought a stamp and left with $50 thinking, hey, if I could do this, I could do anything. And it's not that everything worked. I failed a lot, but I never ever felt like I wouldn't be able to work hard enough to succeed.

Then I joined Black Flag, and I thought I was a hardworking person. Then you meet the guys in Black Flag who are so driven. You see Greg Ginn work 23-hour days. Like, Greg, you're still on the phone. I know. "Greg, when did you eat?" "I don't know." "Greg, when was the last time you showered?" "Uh, do we have a shower?" Like, the guy was— we were not gonna be stopped. And I kind of go at that intensity, kind of anything I do.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

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