March 3, 2025 • 25 mins
A conversation centered on the necessity of mental resilience when facing life’s challenges begins with an examination of how individuals often hope for ideal conditions while neglecting to prepare when they feel unmotivated or ill. We emphasize training your mind to persist even in discomfort, pointing out that this conditioning is crucial for long-term resilience.
• Understanding the significance of training mental resiliency
• Discussing exercises to build strength during tough times
• Importance of preparing for the unexpected challenges of life
• How discomfort is an opportunity for growth and preparation
• Conditioning your mind to rise above adversity
• Conclusion on the necessity of consistent resilience training
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
And in case you ever wondered fat chance.
But just in case you everwondered fat chance, but just in
(00:47):
case you ever wondered, what doI do when I'm waiting on guests
?
Hold on here just a minute.
What do I do when I'm waitingon a guest for a podcast?
That's usually what I do Holdon just a sec.
(01:09):
As it turns out, today I don'thave a guest and I'm going to
try to keep this pretty shortand it's going to be an
extension of something that Iposted about, I think maybe two
or three, posted about, I thinkmaybe two or three evenings ago
as a strategy less a strategy asan exercise for conditioning
(01:35):
your mental resilience, and it'san exercise that you can do
anytime, but that you reallywant to capitalize on when
things aren't going so good inyour life or when you don't
really feel very well.
(01:55):
And, in fact, the worse youfeel there we go, the worse you
feel, the more effective thisexercise will be in the long run
for you.
So what am I talking about?
You know, a lot of people thesedays are really trying, really
(02:18):
grasping, trying to find ways tobecome more resilient, to
become more focused and havemore grit and determination to
get through not only what'shappening but what they
anticipate or fear happening.
And one of the things that wehave a tendency to do we like to
(02:38):
work on things, whatever it maybe, whether maybe getting
better at our tennis game, golfgame, you name it we like to
work on refining the mental andpsychological aspect of those
games or, in some cases, notgames at all very real parts of
(03:02):
life.
When we feel good Think aboutit who doesn't like to do things
?
When you feel good, as a rule,when we feel not so good or even
just shitty, that's when weback off and that's when we just
(03:23):
kind of go into shutdown mode.
And from a biological andphysiological standpoint that
makes sense because when we,especially when we are ill or
fighting an infection orsomething, our body gears down
to enable us to survive, becausethat's when our resources are
(03:48):
really being drained and needall the extra sleep and rest and
fluids that we can get.
So if we push it physically,when we feel like that, we're
just asking for trouble.
We're just asking for trouble.
(04:09):
And I think where this happensmore than probably any place
else is when it comes to sleep.
You know especially the realtype A people are like look, I
like to get things done.
There's still.
You know, if I go to bed now,yeah, but I've got two more
hours to work if I stay up, soI'll stay up.
You always pay for that and thedebt is agonizingly painful.
(04:32):
It gets you eventually Never.
Never negotiate on your sleep,and I know, I know there's
always somebody who says I haveno choice.
I've yet to find very manyexamples of where somebody truly
(04:56):
legitimately had no choiceDifficult, sure, hard to manage,
sure, have a bunch of kids,absolutely, but can't do it,
impossible.
That's almost never the case.
Guard your sleep like it's gold, because in truth it's worth
(05:17):
more than gold.
But let's come back to this ideaof liking to do things when we
feel good.
When it comes to mentalresilience and psychological,
emotional resilience, I want youto think about something the
(05:38):
times that you are trainingyourself for the experiences
that you are attempting tocondition your resilience and
your grit and your tenacity tobe able to be there for you when
they happen those things, whenthey happen, you aren't going to
be feeling very good, I canalmost promise you.
(06:03):
I can almost promise you and infact, just because that's kind
of the way that life seems towant to work a lot of the times
when you really are going tohave to call on your grit and
your tenacity and yourpsychological resolve.
Those things are going tohappen when you have the flu.
(06:31):
They're going to happen whenyou just stumbled in the
backyard when you were mowing ordoing some yard work and broke
your ankle.
They're going to happen whenyou've worked an exhausting work
week.
You've had the grandkids one ofthem was sick, you were up half
the night three nights in a rowand you are ragged, been
(07:16):
conditioning yourself to be ableto be more resilient,
psychologically stable and rocksolid.
For is can't, I'm wiped out, Ican't do this, I'm sick, I just
(07:37):
broke my ankle.
I haven't slept for threenights.
I can't, I just can't, I can't,I just can't.
And the point that a lot ofpeople miss when they are trying
to gear up and really shore uptheir inner resources and their
psychological strength is thatif we only do those exercises,
(08:02):
if we only strategize, if weonly put ourselves in those
situations and kind of role playand do some future projection,
if we only do that when we feelgood, then what happens is we've
set up an association in ourbrain that says is we've set up
(08:26):
an association in our brain thatsays I'm okay and have all
kinds of energy and tenacity andgrit to fight and have
resilience as long as I feelgood.
And we've conditioned our brainto think that way because the
only time we did those exercises, the only times that we
(08:49):
role-played, the only times thatwe projected future situations
and inserted ourselves into themand saw ourselves behaving and
responding and engagingresourcefully, is when we felt
good.
And again that happens becausewe only like to do exercises
(09:13):
like that or strategize orrole-play or think about future
situations when we feel good.
Do you see the problem there?
If you want to get rock solidon being able to have that
(09:36):
knuckle-down, ass-kicking grit,don't fuck with me.
You cannot stop me.
I will fight to the bloody end.
And if you want that, when theshit hits the fan and when you
are tired and ragged, you betterbe doing some of these
(10:00):
exercises and future projectionswhen you are tired and when you
are ragged, when you haven'thad enough sleep and when
everything about you isscreaming.
Not now.
Not now, god damn it.
I'm tired.
I've been up three fuckingnights.
(10:22):
I'll do this tomorrow when Ifeel better.
I've got a clearer head, and soon and on it goes.
And so what happens then is youwind up with individuals who
have put in the time, they'vethought about this in a very
(10:45):
cerebral way and in what theythink to be a very logical way
and laid out a progression ofhow they can get better at being
psychologically, mentally andemotionally a more resilient
person, and they put in the time, they do the things.
Mentally and emotionally a moreresilient person, and they put
(11:07):
in the time, they do the things,but they do them only when they
feel good.
And then one day they're homefrom work sick.
Excuse me, they're home fromwork sick.
They're on the couch.
(11:27):
They've got 101, maybe 102fever.
They feel like ass.
They're nauseous.
Maybe they've already been uptwice and puked.
They don't feel good, they feelrotten.
They don't feel good, they feelrotten.
(11:51):
Nobody's there to get themsomething to drink or help clean
up the puke or do any of thosereally nasty things that come
with being sick, with somethinglike influenza.
They're just there feeling likeass, all by themselves and not
wanting to move off that couch.
In fact, if you've really gotlegitimate influenza, you
(12:13):
probably knocked down so hardthat it takes everything you've
got to get up off of that couch,go to the restroom or whatever
it is that you need to do to getthrough your day.
And those are the times whenthings still happen, are the
(12:50):
times when you still get thecall of hey, your child just
fell down and hit his or herhead really hard.
We've called the ambulance.
They are on their way to the ER.
Now, if you've got legitimateinfluenza, they don't want you
in the er hacking all around.
But my point is there are goingto be times when you are going
(13:14):
to be called upon to have to dothings that will require
resilience, tenacity, grit andthat kick-ass attitude that is
able to flip a switch and say,you know what, okay, fuck it.
Yes, I've been feeling like assthis morning.
I flip a switch because forright now, for this moment, for
(13:36):
this task, I have to push thataside.
I have to act, I have to engageanyway.
My child needs me and if I canwalk, if I can breathe, if I can
talk, I need to engage becausethere's no one else here right
now to do so.
(13:59):
And what I'm telling you is ifthe only time you've ever
conditioned your mind to be ableto persevere and act in the
face of stiff challenges and notfeeling well and having all
kinds of obstacles thrown inyour way, either real or
(14:21):
imagined.
If the only time you'veprepared for that is when you
feel good, you will fail.
You will fail to meet themoment.
And the reason you will failagain is because you've never
prepared while you felt like ass.
(14:43):
You've never prepared when youcould barely keep your eyes open
because you are so tired.
You've never prepared when youare so stressed out and pissed
off because you just got homeafter your boss told you you're
going to get canned a month fromnow and you better be looking
for a new job.
You've only prepared when youfelt good.
(15:05):
And if the only time you'veever prepared is when you felt
good, the first time life comesalong and knocks you dead on
your ass while you feel bad,it's goodnight, nurse, it's show
(15:29):
over, it's.
I throw in the towel, I'm sick,I'm tired, I can't.
I quit Now.
You might think that what I'mtelling you is not true.
Although I've been doing thisfor a while, I would imagine
(15:52):
there is a greater chance thannot that you're listening to me
going fuck man, that's exactlyright.
I know myself and I know bydefault most people are looking
(16:16):
for a reason to quit.
Most people are looking for anexcuse to be able to throw in
the towel and bow out and beable to say, well, you know, I
would have, but I was sick, Iwould have, but I was tired, I
would have, but I'd been up allnight with the kids and not have
anybody look at me like I didsomething horrible.
Yeah, jack is right about that.
(16:40):
If you do happen to be somebodywho's sitting there going
that's bullshit.
When the shit hit the fan, ifit really called on me to get up
, goddammit, I would do it.
(17:02):
If you are quoting that frompast experience, meaning if you
have had many of thoseexperiences like I described,
where you were knocked down,where you were tired, where you
were sick, where you had aplethora of excuses, so to speak
, and the moment called for youto act and you did it, even
(17:30):
though you felt that way, thenokay, if you don't have those
reference experiences and youare just kind of willy-nilly
saying oh nope, if it happens,I'll rise to the moment, saying
oh nope, if it happens, I'llrise to the moment, I'm telling
(17:52):
you that is likely not how itwill happen, it's just not.
We don't rise to the level ofour expectations, we fall to the
level of our highest and mosteffective training or
conditioning or planning.
And this is one area where, ifyou haven't planned, if you
(18:16):
haven't trained, if you haven'tconditioned yourself adequately
mentally, emotionally,psychologically you will almost
certainly fail.
I wish I had better news foryou in that regard, so we could
(18:38):
just be the lazy human beingsthat we have a tendency to be
and then have things work outthe way we need them to when we
need them to.
But again, I've been doing thisa while and I'm a realist about
human behavior.
I understand human behavior and, as such, I'm telling you, if
(19:01):
you want to be that person, thata resilient and a gritty,
hell-bent-for-election mannerwith no quit in you, you have to
(19:22):
condition yourself to do so.
You have to train yourself, youhave to prepare yourself
mentally, emotionally,physically even, to be able to
do that.
And the most effective way todo that is to use every moment
(19:46):
in your life rather, I got aheadof myself there To use every
moment in your life where youfeel bad, where you are pissed
off, where you are sick, whereyou are tired, where shit just
is not going your way and youare not at your best and you
(20:07):
feel like your ass has beenkicked up the road and back and
you don't want to do anything.
You don't feel like doinganything, you believe you can't
do anything.
Right, then, those are themoments you need to be imagining
yourself feeling exactly likethat in the future, when
(20:29):
something wallops you rightbetween the eyes, when something
wallops you right between theeyes, and persevering, pushing
forward, doing what you need tobe done, even feeling and
thinking like that.
If you condition, if you train,if you educate your brain to
(20:50):
think, even when I feel likethis, I can still, if I have to,
I can reach down, flip that,get up and kick ass switch and I
can perform, I can engage, Ican do anyway.
(21:11):
And if, while you are feelinglike ass, those are the things
you are telling yourself andthose are the scenarios that you
are imagining, placing yourselfin and responding resourcefully
(21:31):
, responding with grit, tenacity, determination and resolve, and
doing so while you feel like abucket of assholes, then when
the time comes, your mind willhave already been trained, it
will already have been educatedand programmed, if you will, to
(21:57):
understand that.
Yes, because I've felt like assand thought about these
situations so many times before.
While I felt like ass, then thefact that I feel like ass right
now, in this moment, does notprohibit me from being able to
rise to the occasion.
It does not.
(22:17):
But that only happens if youeducate your brain, and you do
so because you've made thedecision.
This is how I want my mind, mybody, my emotions and my
(22:41):
psychological makeup.
This is how I want it to work.
This is how I want to be ableto perform.
This is where and when I wantto be able to perform, and I
want to be able to do it even ifI feel at the shittiest I ever
feel.
And when you are there, you area resilient, a gritty and a
(23:09):
resourceful human being who canand will respond and never quit.
And never quit, always pushforward, always see another day,
always see another day.
And when you hear somebody sayit's too late, your brain will
(23:31):
scream what the fuck are you?
Too late, too late.
I'm still breathing, I'm stillalive, I can still get up, I
have both arms, I have both legs, I have a brain.
Too late, too late?
For what?
Should we just throw in thetowel right now, while we are
(23:53):
still strong and vibrant andcapable Too late.
You need to educate your brain,because that's just not
computing with me.
I don't understand that kind ofthinking Too late.
(24:13):
It's never too late if I'mstill breathing, it is not.
This is Jack Hopkins.
And now, now that you know whatI do while I am waiting on
(24:36):
guests and that is fiddle aroundplaying a little guitar and
you've been able to listen tothe far, far, far, far more
important aspect of this podcastepisode, which is how to
(24:59):
condition yourself appropriatelyand adequately to respond
resourcefully and with grit anddetermination when the shit hits
the fan and when you feel likehell or are tired or have no
energy, because chances aregreat that when the shit does
hit the fan, that is exactly howyou will feel, and if you're
(25:25):
not ready to perform when youfeel like that, you won't.
This is Jack Hopkins, and Iwill talk to you again soon.
And in case you ever wondered fat chance.
But just in case you everwondered fat chance, but just in
(00:47):
case you ever wondered, what doI do when I'm waiting on guests
?
Hold on here just a minute.
What do I do when I'm waitingon a guest for a podcast?
That's usually what I do Holdon just a sec.
(01:09):
As it turns out, today I don'thave a guest and I'm going to
try to keep this pretty shortand it's going to be an
extension of something that Iposted about, I think maybe two
or three, posted about, I thinkmaybe two or three evenings ago
as a strategy less a strategy asan exercise for conditioning
(01:35):
your mental resilience, and it'san exercise that you can do
anytime, but that you reallywant to capitalize on when
things aren't going so good inyour life or when you don't
really feel very well.
(01:55):
And, in fact, the worse youfeel there we go, the worse you
feel, the more effective thisexercise will be in the long run
for you.
So what am I talking about?
You know, a lot of people thesedays are really trying, really
(02:18):
grasping, trying to find ways tobecome more resilient, to
become more focused and havemore grit and determination to
get through not only what'shappening but what they
anticipate or fear happening.
And one of the things that wehave a tendency to do we like to
(02:38):
work on things, whatever it maybe, whether maybe getting
better at our tennis game, golfgame, you name it we like to
work on refining the mental andpsychological aspect of those
games or, in some cases, notgames at all very real parts of
(03:02):
life.
When we feel good Think aboutit who doesn't like to do things
?
When you feel good, as a rule,when we feel not so good or even
just shitty, that's when weback off and that's when we just
(03:23):
kind of go into shutdown mode.
And from a biological andphysiological standpoint that
makes sense because when we,especially when we are ill or
fighting an infection orsomething, our body gears down
to enable us to survive, becausethat's when our resources are
(03:48):
really being drained and needall the extra sleep and rest and
fluids that we can get.
So if we push it physically,when we feel like that, we're
just asking for trouble.
We're just asking for trouble.
(04:09):
And I think where this happensmore than probably any place
else is when it comes to sleep.
You know especially the realtype A people are like look, I
like to get things done.
There's still.
You know, if I go to bed now,yeah, but I've got two more
hours to work if I stay up, soI'll stay up.
You always pay for that and thedebt is agonizingly painful.
(04:32):
It gets you eventually Never.
Never negotiate on your sleep,and I know, I know there's
always somebody who says I haveno choice.
I've yet to find very manyexamples of where somebody truly
(04:56):
legitimately had no choiceDifficult, sure, hard to manage,
sure, have a bunch of kids,absolutely, but can't do it,
impossible.
That's almost never the case.
Guard your sleep like it's gold, because in truth it's worth
(05:17):
more than gold.
But let's come back to this ideaof liking to do things when we
feel good.
When it comes to mentalresilience and psychological,
emotional resilience, I want youto think about something the
(05:38):
times that you are trainingyourself for the experiences
that you are attempting tocondition your resilience and
your grit and your tenacity tobe able to be there for you when
they happen those things, whenthey happen, you aren't going to
be feeling very good, I canalmost promise you.
(06:03):
I can almost promise you and infact, just because that's kind
of the way that life seems towant to work a lot of the times
when you really are going tohave to call on your grit and
your tenacity and yourpsychological resolve.
Those things are going tohappen when you have the flu.
(06:31):
They're going to happen whenyou just stumbled in the
backyard when you were mowing ordoing some yard work and broke
your ankle.
They're going to happen whenyou've worked an exhausting work
week.
You've had the grandkids one ofthem was sick, you were up half
the night three nights in a rowand you are ragged, been
(07:16):
conditioning yourself to be ableto be more resilient,
psychologically stable and rocksolid.
For is can't, I'm wiped out, Ican't do this, I'm sick, I just
(07:37):
broke my ankle.
I haven't slept for threenights.
I can't, I just can't, I can't,I just can't.
And the point that a lot ofpeople miss when they are trying
to gear up and really shore uptheir inner resources and their
psychological strength is thatif we only do those exercises,
(08:02):
if we only strategize, if weonly put ourselves in those
situations and kind of role playand do some future projection,
if we only do that when we feelgood, then what happens is we've
set up an association in ourbrain that says is we've set up
(08:26):
an association in our brain thatsays I'm okay and have all
kinds of energy and tenacity andgrit to fight and have
resilience as long as I feelgood.
And we've conditioned our brainto think that way because the
only time we did those exercises, the only times that we
(08:49):
role-played, the only times thatwe projected future situations
and inserted ourselves into themand saw ourselves behaving and
responding and engagingresourcefully, is when we felt
good.
And again that happens becausewe only like to do exercises
(09:13):
like that or strategize orrole-play or think about future
situations when we feel good.
Do you see the problem there?
If you want to get rock solidon being able to have that
(09:36):
knuckle-down, ass-kicking grit,don't fuck with me.
You cannot stop me.
I will fight to the bloody end.
And if you want that, when theshit hits the fan and when you
are tired and ragged, you betterbe doing some of these
(10:00):
exercises and future projectionswhen you are tired and when you
are ragged, when you haven'thad enough sleep and when
everything about you isscreaming.
Not now.
Not now, god damn it.
I'm tired.
I've been up three fuckingnights.
(10:22):
I'll do this tomorrow when Ifeel better.
I've got a clearer head, and soon and on it goes.
And so what happens then is youwind up with individuals who
have put in the time, they'vethought about this in a very
(10:45):
cerebral way and in what theythink to be a very logical way
and laid out a progression ofhow they can get better at being
psychologically, mentally andemotionally a more resilient
person, and they put in the time, they do the things.
Mentally and emotionally a moreresilient person, and they put
(11:07):
in the time, they do the things,but they do them only when they
feel good.
And then one day they're homefrom work sick.
Excuse me, they're home fromwork sick.
They're on the couch.
(11:27):
They've got 101, maybe 102fever.
They feel like ass.
They're nauseous.
Maybe they've already been uptwice and puked.
They don't feel good, they feelrotten.
They don't feel good, they feelrotten.
(11:51):
Nobody's there to get themsomething to drink or help clean
up the puke or do any of thosereally nasty things that come
with being sick, with somethinglike influenza.
They're just there feeling likeass, all by themselves and not
wanting to move off that couch.
In fact, if you've really gotlegitimate influenza, you
(12:13):
probably knocked down so hardthat it takes everything you've
got to get up off of that couch,go to the restroom or whatever
it is that you need to do to getthrough your day.
And those are the times whenthings still happen, are the
(12:50):
times when you still get thecall of hey, your child just
fell down and hit his or herhead really hard.
We've called the ambulance.
They are on their way to the ER.
Now, if you've got legitimateinfluenza, they don't want you
in the er hacking all around.
But my point is there are goingto be times when you are going
(13:14):
to be called upon to have to dothings that will require
resilience, tenacity, grit andthat kick-ass attitude that is
able to flip a switch and say,you know what, okay, fuck it.
Yes, I've been feeling like assthis morning.
I flip a switch because forright now, for this moment, for
(13:36):
this task, I have to push thataside.
I have to act, I have to engageanyway.
My child needs me and if I canwalk, if I can breathe, if I can
talk, I need to engage becausethere's no one else here right
now to do so.
(13:59):
And what I'm telling you is ifthe only time you've ever
conditioned your mind to be ableto persevere and act in the
face of stiff challenges and notfeeling well and having all
kinds of obstacles thrown inyour way, either real or
(14:21):
imagined.
If the only time you'veprepared for that is when you
feel good, you will fail.
You will fail to meet themoment.
And the reason you will failagain is because you've never
prepared while you felt like ass.
(14:43):
You've never prepared when youcould barely keep your eyes open
because you are so tired.
You've never prepared when youare so stressed out and pissed
off because you just got homeafter your boss told you you're
going to get canned a month fromnow and you better be looking
for a new job.
You've only prepared when youfelt good.
(15:05):
And if the only time you'veever prepared is when you felt
good, the first time life comesalong and knocks you dead on
your ass while you feel bad,it's goodnight, nurse, it's show
(15:29):
over, it's.
I throw in the towel, I'm sick,I'm tired, I can't.
I quit Now.
You might think that what I'mtelling you is not true.
Although I've been doing thisfor a while, I would imagine
(15:52):
there is a greater chance thannot that you're listening to me
going fuck man, that's exactlyright.
I know myself and I know bydefault most people are looking
(16:16):
for a reason to quit.
Most people are looking for anexcuse to be able to throw in
the towel and bow out and beable to say, well, you know, I
would have, but I was sick, Iwould have, but I was tired, I
would have, but I'd been up allnight with the kids and not have
anybody look at me like I didsomething horrible.
Yeah, jack is right about that.
(16:40):
If you do happen to be somebodywho's sitting there going
that's bullshit.
When the shit hit the fan, ifit really called on me to get up
, goddammit, I would do it.
(17:02):
If you are quoting that frompast experience, meaning if you
have had many of thoseexperiences like I described,
where you were knocked down,where you were tired, where you
were sick, where you had aplethora of excuses, so to speak
, and the moment called for youto act and you did it, even
(17:30):
though you felt that way, thenokay, if you don't have those
reference experiences and youare just kind of willy-nilly
saying oh nope, if it happens,I'll rise to the moment, saying
oh nope, if it happens, I'llrise to the moment, I'm telling
(17:52):
you that is likely not how itwill happen, it's just not.
We don't rise to the level ofour expectations, we fall to the
level of our highest and mosteffective training or
conditioning or planning.
And this is one area where, ifyou haven't planned, if you
(18:16):
haven't trained, if you haven'tconditioned yourself adequately
mentally, emotionally,psychologically you will almost
certainly fail.
I wish I had better news foryou in that regard, so we could
(18:38):
just be the lazy human beingsthat we have a tendency to be
and then have things work outthe way we need them to when we
need them to.
But again, I've been doing thisa while and I'm a realist about
human behavior.
I understand human behavior and, as such, I'm telling you, if
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you want to be that person, thata resilient and a gritty,
hell-bent-for-election mannerwith no quit in you, you have to
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condition yourself to do so.
You have to train yourself, youhave to prepare yourself
mentally, emotionally,physically even, to be able to
do that.
And the most effective way todo that is to use every moment
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in your life rather, I got aheadof myself there To use every
moment in your life where youfeel bad, where you are pissed
off, where you are sick, whereyou are tired, where shit just
is not going your way and youare not at your best and you
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feel like your ass has beenkicked up the road and back and
you don't want to do anything.
You don't feel like doinganything, you believe you can't
do anything.
Right, then, those are themoments you need to be imagining
yourself feeling exactly likethat in the future, when
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something wallops you rightbetween the eyes, when something
wallops you right between theeyes, and persevering, pushing
forward, doing what you need tobe done, even feeling and
thinking like that.
If you condition, if you train,if you educate your brain to
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think, even when I feel likethis, I can still, if I have to,
I can reach down, flip that,get up and kick ass switch and I
can perform, I can engage, Ican do anyway.
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And if, while you are feelinglike ass, those are the things
you are telling yourself andthose are the scenarios that you
are imagining, placing yourselfin and responding resourcefully
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, responding with grit, tenacity, determination and resolve, and
doing so while you feel like abucket of assholes, then when
the time comes, your mind willhave already been trained, it
will already have been educatedand programmed, if you will, to
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understand that.
Yes, because I've felt like assand thought about these
situations so many times before.
While I felt like ass, then thefact that I feel like ass right
now, in this moment, does notprohibit me from being able to
rise to the occasion.
It does not.
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But that only happens if youeducate your brain, and you do
so because you've made thedecision.
This is how I want my mind, mybody, my emotions and my
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psychological makeup.
This is how I want it to work.
This is how I want to be ableto perform.
This is where and when I wantto be able to perform, and I
want to be able to do it even ifI feel at the shittiest I ever
feel.
And when you are there, you area resilient, a gritty and a
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resourceful human being who canand will respond and never quit.
And never quit, always pushforward, always see another day,
always see another day.
And when you hear somebody sayit's too late, your brain will
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scream what the fuck are you?
Too late, too late.
I'm still breathing, I'm stillalive, I can still get up, I
have both arms, I have both legs, I have a brain.
Too late, too late?
For what?
Should we just throw in thetowel right now, while we are
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still strong and vibrant andcapable Too late.
You need to educate your brain,because that's just not
computing with me.
I don't understand that kind ofthinking Too late.
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It's never too late if I'mstill breathing, it is not.
This is Jack Hopkins.
And now, now that you know whatI do while I am waiting on
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guests and that is fiddle aroundplaying a little guitar and
you've been able to listen tothe far, far, far, far more
important aspect of this podcastepisode, which is how to
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condition yourself appropriatelyand adequately to respond
resourcefully and with grit anddetermination when the shit hits
the fan and when you feel likehell or are tired or have no
energy, because chances aregreat that when the shit does
hit the fan, that is exactly howyou will feel, and if you're
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not ready to perform when youfeel like that, you won't.
This is Jack Hopkins, and Iwill talk to you again soon.
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