A speaker recounts breaking free from self-sabotaging habits: daily weed, alcohol, toxic friendships, and limiting beliefs. He argues you can't negotiate with your old self—you have to destroy it. The discomfort of abandoning these patterns, especially in familiar environments, is what accelerates real progress.
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You will achieve everything that you've ever dreamed of and more the second you stop negotiating with terrorists. Now, I'm not talking about all these entities that you see on the news. I'm talking about you. Let me tell you an example. The previous version of myself, we're going to call him a terrorist. He used to smoke weed every single day. He used to drink. He had a bad group of friends around him. They weren't at the same level. They weren't willing to make the same sacrifices or take the risk or change their old ways. Right? He was disrespectful to people. He was closed-minded. He had limiting beliefs. He wasn't willing to invest in himself. He was lying to himself every single day about the things that he knew he was supposed to do. Therefore, I had the results that I had back then. I didn't want those results anymore. I was miserable with the life that I was living. I wanted to be a completely different person. If you want to change, if you want to break a plateau, if you want to reach a new level, if you want to level up. You have to stop negotiating with that version of yourself that is currently where he's at. If you somewhat relate to that version 1 of myself, you have to stop negotiating with that person. And for a lot of people, that person is home, right? Think about when you come home, you have these mannerisms, right? You have these behaviors, you have these patterns of when you come home. If you want to change the way you live your life, you have to stop going towards those patterns. You have to get away from home, and it's going to feel uncomfortable in the beginning, but your goals will come way faster, and you will get more than what you're asking for if you stop negotiating with the terrorist that is the previous version