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2008 was brutal.

Yeah, 2008 we had the third consecutive failure of the Falcon rocket for SpaceX. Tesla almost went bankrupt. We closed our financing round 6pm Christmas Eve. Why is no one else doing these things? What's your pain threshold? What if it's real high?

Imagine if you could use pain as a fuel. Imagine if you could use the pain as a passport. Imagine if you could use the pain to push you, to condition you, to prepare you for the stages and the rooms you've got to walk into and the tables you've got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on. What if the pain could make you better? What if the pain could cause you to retire, to leap further, to run faster? What if the pain could help you?

What if all pain isn't hurt, but it's help? It's like going to work. Like you go to work, you put your suit and tie on, I go into suffering every day. Every day suffering, being broken, duct tape my feet up, stress fractures, shin splints, being broken. This is my new norm. And your mind says, if we're not broken, this ain't normal. We gotta be broken. So then your mind starts to get tougher and tougher. Pain is temporary.

It may last for a minute or an hour or a day or even a year. But eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit however, it will last forever. It really hurts doesn't it? You're in a lot of pain. Your spirit, it feels broken. You feel like you don't have anything left to give. Oh yeah, I know it hurts. You feel so empty. You feel lost.

You have so much to spare, but I'm here to let you know, ladies and gentlemen, that hurt that you're feeling right now is only temporary, but it's absolutely necessary. Every success in life, guys, is masked by temporary pain. Everything in life that's worthwhile, every present that's worthwhile to you in life is wrapped in pain. Give me more. Give me more opposition. Give me more pain.

Because that's the stuff that turns us into champions. The only way you're going to get strength in your life is if you go through that hard moment, that tough moment. I wouldn't have a story if it wasn't for the sucky times in my life. I wouldn't have a story if it wasn't for me going through my depressed moments. So realize this, just because it's a chapter doesn't

It doesn't mean it's your whole story. So for me, I just understand that it's very important to embrace pain, to go through it because I believe the foundation of all strength is pain. See the pain as a stage. See the pain as a plane. See the pain as an opportunity.

Pick up your damn cross and stumble up the hill. That's your job, right? The

And the cross is the X where everyone is located. You're right at the center of reality. You're suffering and dying and being reborn all the time at the center of reality as you transform. And you have to accept that and embrace it. Embrace loneliness. A lot of individuals are surrounded by losers that are dragging them down because they don't understand how to be alone. And it's usually because they are terrified of themselves. They don't like the thoughts in their head.

They don't understand how to be with themselves. They don't understand how to be with their own company. So they surround themselves with people that are toxic for the situation. If I would have just embraced that loneliness even more, I would have seen success even faster. The next time you want to just give in to that desire for comfort, remember that your future self is going to be the one to suffer the consequences. It's so easy to just put it off and act like it doesn't exist.

But that future self that you're passing all these burdens to will one day be yourself of the present and you'll wish you chose to do otherwise. I know you think it's painful to work this hard, but let me tell you something, it's painful to fail. I know you think it's painful to have to study this long, but it's also painful to not graduate. And you got to decide today.

that I want the pain of success more than I want the pain of failure. Come on, did you hear what I just said? You gotta decide. When the excuses all go away and people can actually confront the fact that this is all because of me and this is, it hurts, but it's also unbelievably empowering because if these problems are because of me, then I'm capable.

of fixing these problems. So even though extreme ownership hurts and is painful, it's also liberating because now you have control over your fate and over your destiny and that is a glorious thing. Do you know what separates those who achieve their dreams from those who don't? It's not always talent. It's not always time. And it's not luck. It's resilience, persistence, and the courage to keep showing up, especially

when it's easier to quit. The amount of pleasure that you will eventually experience is directly related to how much pain you experience. A good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure and includes pleasure through motivation and hard work. And understanding this pain-pleasure balance whereby if you experience pain and you can continue to be in that friction and exert effort, the rewards are that much greater when they arrive. I gotta look myself in the mirror every single day

I'm not talking about the pain that's going to make you feel like you're dying.

I'm talking about the pain that's going to make you feel alive, that you have meaning, that you have purpose. Get out there and embrace the pain. I started feeling victory just by putting myself in the battle. It wasn't about going to Navy SEAL training. It wasn't about being the 23rd guy in that chair. I started realizing, man, just by going to war with myself every day,

and putting these challenges and these goals and these obstacles, these insurmountable obstacles. Your pain is your power. You suffer so you can be much stronger tomorrow. You suffer to remind yourself that you have to go through something to get to the next level. You have to find a way. You must find a way to get back up. This is not the end for you. You will not quit.

Behind that pain is a understanding that I don't have this skill or is an understanding of I didn't try hard enough or is an understanding of, oh, maybe there's just another option. Because guess what? Sometimes you may have done the best pitch in the world.

And you just had an executive that didn't like your vibe. Keep going. Keep asking different people. Yeah, keep going. You've just got to realize that there's one... You have to engage that pain in discovery. And that eases it. Pain is inevitable. And it is unavoidable. You cannot live without pain. How you navigate that pain will determine...

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