Happy Wisdom Wednesday, every one.
So this week's book of the week is,
I said,
take off your clothes.
Total Recall my unbelievably true
life story by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Now.
I've been meaning to get around to
reading this amazing autobiography.
I've heard so many good things
about it, but I never did.
I finally did, and I absolutely loved it.
And you're going to, you
know, really love it as well.
If you give it a chance.
I actually recommend for many
people to get the audio book.
Arnold Schwarzenegger actually narrates
the first couple chapters, which
is fantastic, but when it comes to
autobiographies, I think that's a great
way to digest them is of course, get the
book, but more importantly, having it.
You know, listen to the stories.
For example, I would listen to
them when I would go on walks
for a little break in between my
meetings or even when I work out.
But just to give you a quick synopsis of
Arnold's amazing story, and I'm gonna give
you three keys to his formula of success.
Let's think of it like this.
He came from a poor family,
from a war torn country in
Austria after world war II.
Right.
Dirt poor found a way to envision and set
asides on coming to America to make it.
He makes it to America.
Then starts working out at
Gold's gym at Venice beach.
Uh, Joe Wieder, the founder of Gold's
gym, decides to invest in them.
Uh, and along the way, Arno becomes
a six time mr Olympia champion,
something that he'd always dreams about.
Then.
He decides that he's going
to learn about business.
So while he's doing that,
he starts learning as an
immigrant new to this country.
He sets up his own business.
He sets up like a mail order
business to, uh, send, uh, books
and workout tips to people.
Then decides he's going to learn a
little about a real estate, teaches
himself real estate again, as an
immigrant in his comp countries.
It's not even his first language.
Then after getting success
there, he says, you know what?
I'm going to be an actor.
I'm going to be an actor.
And he was told that he has no talent.
He has a funny last name that people
won't be able to pronounce, and
he's going to have to change it.
He barely speaks English.
He had no way he becomes an actor, right?
A world famous actor.
Then he decides, you know, I think I'm
going to run for the second highest
position you can have in the state
of, uh, in the, in the country, in the
United States, which is a governor.
Right?
He runs for governor of
California, the largest state in
our country, and now only wins.
He won as a Republican.
Right?
It's unbelievable.
And along the way, he decides that he
also had a goal and a dream of marrying a
Kennedy, and he gets married to a Kennedy.
It was an unbelievable story.
And.
There were some keys and very
specific things I found in a story
that kept repeating that I would
like to share with you to show you
how Arnold achieved his dreams.
And I think if you apply these to
your life, you'll be able to achieve,
of course, your dreams, but more
importantly, you know the goals,
even if it's small goals at work.
I think the big part of all
these things I'm about to show
you these three keys isn't.
That all starts with being able
to really deeply visualize and see
yourself accomplishing these things.
Arnold, for a very young age.
He saw himself winning mr Olympia
becoming an actor, coming to an America
and Mike, me personally, I can tell
you that the biggest things that I've
accomplished in my, my life, whether
it was getting into medical school, I'm
moving out South, a Silicon Valley here
in California to work for tech companies.
A lot of big things that happened
from my life that I didn't
know how to accomplish it.
I deep down inside was able to
visualize and see myself doing it.
So without further ado, let me show
you these three keys that Arnold
used as a formula of success.
God.
I love internet magic.
Now, the first key success that
Arnold has as part of his formula
started from a very young age.
You see, his father instilled a strategy
in his brother and him that work.
Equals reward.
So before even they could eat their
breakfast, they had to go milk the cows,
they had to fetch supplies, and they
even had to do pushups before they're
even allowed to sit and eat at the table.
And so reps and mileage, Arnold felt
that no matter what it is in life,
you have to do a lot of reps and
you have to do it for a long time.
But more importantly, it can
start with small steps, right?
You don't have to go.
Do you do anything in a
very large amount of time?
And of course in many reps, you should
do things in bite size, bite size steps.
So if you're going to start working
out, you shouldn't go to the gym
and try and bench press 300 pounds.
Start by just maybe doing a few
pushups a day and then build
your mileage and reps over time.
And again, it's reps and mileage.
Repetition is the mother of wisdom.
And if you want to get
anywhere, you have to do that.
If you think about.
Some of the most famous people in
the world when it comes to success.
Look at Kobe Bryant and his
book, the mob mentality.
Kobe was known for just spending
hours and hours and hours in
the gym, shooting free throws.
Even in one time, one competitor
said he came and saw Coby shooting,
so he started practicing, left the
gym for a little bit, came back
three, four hours later and saw Coby.
They're still training.
And he went up to Coby and said,
Hey, did you leave the gym?
And Coby said, no, I didn't because
the moment I saw you coming to the
gym, I wanted to let you know that
no matter how hard you worked, I
was going to work harder than you.
Right?
So that's number one.
Number two, be the one on sourcing.
You're coming to America.
Realize that he was as young.
Kid.
He was an immigrant with a funny accent,
funny name, and so he needed people
to believe in him, to invest in him.
So he decided to focus on being the one,
the one person in a room where everybody
looks and says, I want to be like that
guy, or I want to invest in that person.
And as a result of that type of mentality,
Joe weeder, who was the founder of
Gold's gym, saw this an Arno and said.
I'm going to invest in this guy.
And of course he invested in him.
And that gave Arnold a big
platform to launch his career
into a variety of different areas.
And the last one is expose your flaws.
Now, Arnold Schwarzenegger had this
quote where he said, in order for
us to be successful, in order for us
to achieve our dreams, we have to be
the most brutal with ourselves and
knowing our weaknesses and our flaws.
So when it came to bodybuilding.
Arnold knew he had the best arms in
the world, the great big chest, but
the thing that he lacked was that he
had a lot of problems with his legs.
His legs were very small.
I even wrote that no matter how much
you worked on it, how big his body
upper body was, he always struggled
his legs, specifically his calves.
So in order to fix that, he teamed
up with another, a, a bodybuilder.
He had a lot of respect for
and looked up to named park.
Rec park had the biggest cats
in the world, and Aurel learned
that would read, was doing.
Was, he worked out the cast a lot
longer and a lot harder than Arnold did.
Again, back to reps and mileage.
And then Reggie actually came up with
certain ways to add more weight to
the machine so you can increase that.
So aside from recognizing that fall, what
Arnold would do is that he forced himself
to start wearing shorts so that his legs,
his calves, the things that he though that
were his weakness, whose most embarrassed
about, we're exposed to motivate him.
To work on it even harder.
And then at some point when you started
winning mr Olympia, people actually
thought that he had surgery on his calves
because they're so big and massive.
And I think there's a big value
in that because many of us, when
it comes to our weaknesses and
flaws, we like to cover them up.
We don't want to show that.
But I think true courage, true power
comes from being able to admit that
you have a weakness and a flaw.
And by doing that, by publicly
putting that out there, you
learned how to overcome it.
I'll give you one great
example with myself.
Many of you have given me great
compliments about my ability to speak and
do these videos and do public speaking.
Believe it or not, I actually,
uh, for a long time as a
child has speech impediment.
I, I had a lot of prompts, pronouncing
words, I had a lot of problems,
uh, speaking in long sentences.
And one thing that I found was that, and
this of course, continuing to adulthood,
that I decided that if I learned to push
myself and do reps and mileage in terms
of speaking and, and annunciating and
putting myself in situations where I
will get embarrassed, but that's okay.
I have to expose my philosophy.
I work on that more.
And of course that's how I realized
that over the years, that by exposing
myself in terms of my speech impediment,
that's how I would be able to improve
on it and really own and not be
ashamed of the flaw and know that I
can start mastering and controlling.
So that's the book that
we definitely get it.
And if anything, I highly
recommend for a autobiographies
to listen to them on audible.
It's a great way to start digesting
autobiographies because there's
a lot of stories and you can
really appreciate them when you're
doing things like taking a walk.
So as always, I hope all is
going well with yourself.
Quarantine.
We'll be end with this
ending with the soon.
So just hang in there as always.
Happy Wisdom Wednesday and
I'll see you next week.
