A guest explains how he stays motivated by revisiting past failures and setbacks, like being fired or underestimated. He uses those low points as a benchmark to measure how far he's come, which fuels his drive today. The risk: dwelling in the past. The payoff: the emotional fire it creates.
What's one habit or ritual that you've implemented in your life that's allowed you to stay in a high-energy state and stay in that winning mindset?
It's something that is great, and it's something that I'm giving advice that could be really dangerous. Sometimes I live in the past. That is my benchmark of, hey, I got the shit kicked out of me. I thought I was here. I thought I was going here. I didn't get there, and now I'm here. That's my new benchmark. And every single time I've hit it, and I think of people, and I think of situations, bosses I had decades ago that fire me up, anything that drives me.
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