Get It Done: Joe Rogan’s Powerful Motivation

0:00your mind has to seek discomfort it has to seek these difficult tasks you have to enjoy it and you have to figure out a way to make your mind enjoy those things and some people come easy and some people who doesn't some people who takes a long time I always tell people the best thing you could ever do is force yourself to a schedule just write it down like today I have to do an hour on the treadmill after doing an hour no matter what even if you've been walking on it you're doing an hour in a treadmill the next time you're doing to do it just make me okay you did an hour and this is the amount of miles you got in next time you're gonna you know add three miles put an extra three miles in that one hour and just keep doing things like that right down today I'm gonna do a hundred push-ups and I'm doing hundred sit-ups and I'm gonna do a hundred chin ups that's today and then force yourself force yourself to adhere to a schedule make a Monday Wednesday Friday workout schedule give yourself some time off you know like don't even crush yourself to the point where you can't do it make it

1:02so that you really appreciate those Tuesdays and Thursdays but on Monday Wednesday and Friday you're gonna get after it and this is what you're gonna do most people just try to go workout and you're kind of aimless and you show up and like really pick up the jump rope and you jump a little rope maybe you hit the heavy bag a little bit maybe you do some curls but you don't really have an aim that's why people like to hire trainers because a trainer will tell you what to do well you can tell yourself what to do if you don't have money for a trainer you don't even have to have equipment you know with bodyweight squats sit-ups chin ups push-ups you could give yourself a brutal full bodyweight workout and you can find these for free on YouTube there's a ton of them there's a ton of these bodyweight workouts you can do just force yourself right it down Monday Wednesday and Friday I'm gonna do 100 push-ups I'm gonna do 100 chin ups I'm gonna do 100 sit-ups even if it takes me off in debt even if I have to do 10 and 10 and 10 and keep going all day just that's what you do 10 push-ups

2:02take a break for 20 minutes do another 10 but get those hundred in I don't believe in half-acting things I'm this life is short you know if you get into something get into it and if you're not into it don't be into it and I think that insanity and greatness are next door neighbors and they borrow each other shutter that's that's my that's what I've always said there's there's something about mastery like true mastery that requires you to shut off massive areas of your life there's a lot of people that are scared of their ability to do something that's difficult I don't know if I could force myself to be disciplined I don't know if I could force myself to take that kind of action well if you do force yourself to take that kind of action you don't have that question anymore that question I don't know if I can do it what you're doing it so you obviously do it can you do it tomorrow you did it today or can you do it tomorrow just do it you get so much more benefit out of a struggle that you choose to embark in versus a struggle that life throws apart get out there

3:07and go and do something just just go and then in the middle of doing it it'll become easy even if it's not easy even if it's hard it's easier than not doing it and wishing that you had done it oftentimes people confuse discipline with focus and this is what why that's important there are things that some people can excel at because they're focused on them and because they're drawn to it and they have an incredible passion for it versus like you tell a guy like hey you know you're going to study to be an electrical engineering it's like I don't want to be a electrical engineer well you got to have discipline and so they don't have the drive and they don't they don't get excited about it and they don't do but if you tell that guy whatever you're gonna be a golfer and he loves golf and he's practicing every day and he becomes a professional golfer and you say well I thought that guy didn't have any discipline well it's not that he

4:10didn't have any discipline he's just not interested in that other thing I was never a disciplined kid but I was about find things that I loved and I was obsessed and I was felt embarrassed by it because people would say oh your son like to my mom your son is so disciplined and she'd be like my son's been crazy like he's not disciplined and he finds these things and that's all he does all day long like it's not really disciplined because he doesn't clean his room he's he's lazy there's all sorts of things he's supposed to do and I never did my homework there's all but if I had a thing that I was into I was obsessed but I would it would bother me that I didn't really have discipline like if I had jobs that I had to do I didn't do a good job with them like construction jobs that I had but when it kind of do find those things though how did you find those things you stumbled on lucky just got luck martial arts I just got lucky and it clicked with me like almost immediately I became obsessed you know and I wanted to be I wanted to excel at it and so I was just doing it all day long and I think the more you choose to embark in these

5:16struggles these especially physical and mental struggles because I consider both martial arts yoga and actually even trail running I consider the mental struggles as much as physical struggles like because I could stop anytime I want I'm halfway up the hill I can go this to walk in the rest of the way call my dog over put them on the leash like we're walking buddy but or you could say no this is what I'm doing today I have a I have a very clear plan in front of me my plan is we're doing four miles today this is where we start this is where we end this is what we're doing sometimes when things are really hard to do you think oh my god I got to stop doing this but once you do it and you complete it you have a satisfaction this sense of satisfaction that you did something really difficult that is irreplaceable some kids never get that and they just stay fat and stupid their whole life and some kids they get these little lessons and then they realize like you can push yourself and you can get somewhere you know some kids get real lucky and they get involved in sports or

6:17martial arts early and one of the best benefits of sports is you realize that through hard work you get improvement through improvement you get success through success you get that big dopamine rush you get that good feeling you get confidence you get this knowledge yeah you get sometimes I didn't but you get this knowledge that you can do something that's difficult and you can overcome even though it feels like you can't you're gonna have days where you suck but those days are so motivational I mean that's the bright side of tragedy so when you come through it you really will have an appreciation for the moments without tragedy you don't really feel it unless you you get less life burns you don't really feel it it's one of the things that I tell people all the time because a lot of people have a hard time defining themselves they define themselves by failure because they failed but I'm like you're not your failures you're you okay your life is a series of lessons you've learned now if you just dwell on the failures like that's not that's not healthy it's not

7:20smart and it's not empowering what you got to do is look at those failures you go well now you know what not to do but you're not that you're you you know you could have done the stupidest ever but it's not you it's not you you're you're a different thing you're the the being that's experiencing all these failures and if you know that they're fuck ups then you've learned okay if you repeat them over and over again well then I can't talk to you you know if you keep going back and doing the same stupid get over and over again well you got a deeper issue you you know I don't know what it is but I don't have the time building up that ability to endure things that's also a very important mechanism that you could apply to everyday life like that the mechanism of understanding how to endure like Jaco Wilkes perfect example you know he has that thing on us if you go to his Instagram page almost every other photo is a watch and so watch says 430 in the morning because that's when he gets up and he works out and he earns the sunset and he does that he's so disciplined and

8:25he's got this saying that's a great saying discipline equals freedom and it's true because he's able to force himself to do that every single time there's no excuses there's no breaks there's no days off it doesn't happen so because of that you're like you're not scared you know that you can keep doing it you know that you can continue to perform there's a lot of people just running from discomfort they're running from it they're just avoiding it so easy to and like if you get distracted for a second you're like yeah I'm gonna check my phone you just start going through your phone and looking at both and you're just distracting yourself from the tiniest frustration of boredom just the little we don't get bored anymore or if we get bored we get bored for these tiny amounts of time then you get distracted so your distraction is eliminating your boredom but the problem with that is like there's certain thoughts that only come to you when you're thinking when you're you don't have any input coming in when

9:27we're constantly looking at our phones the only input you're getting is input from other people and sometimes that's good sometimes you get good stuff out of that but it's like a diet of only fruit don't think that you're that person that made those mistakes you're the person who's learned you know and that to have that attitude is a really important thing and to not say why am I doing this now I could have been doing this my whole life well you you weren't so the fuck is that gonna help yeah you know you gotta just gotta not think like that you just gotta be happier doing it now