ONE OF THE BEST MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH BY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER EVER
ONE OF THE BEST MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH BY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER EVER
WHAT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER SAID -
The first rule of success is to have a vision is even if you don't have a vision of where you go and if you don't have a goal where you go, you drift around and you never end up anywhere.
I mean, as you know I was born in 1947 in Austria. After the Second World War. So I was very fortunate that I stamped on my vision.
And I didn't really like Austria when I grew up. I couldn't wait to get out of there. I couldn't see myself becoming a farmer, or working in a factory, or anything like that. Even though my parents wanted me to stay there and have a normal life. But that was their vision, not mine. My vision was totally different. I felt that that was one for something special for something unique for something big. Then one day I went to school, I remember I was 11 years old.
And they show the documentary about America, showed this documentary The huge skyscrapers. The high rises, the huge bridges. The six-lane freeways,
it off the surface MSF, that's where I want to be. I don't want to be around to instill farmhouses in these little buildings. I want to be in America. One day after school has walked by a store in crowds. So went inside and looked around and then also magazine boggling magazine that had the rich park on the cover. Rich Park was then a three-time Mr. Universe, and I saw him on the big screen. A Circulus.
I read that and I said to myself, Wow, this is the blueprint for my life. This is exactly what I want to do. I want to become a bodybuilding champion just like rich Park. I want to get into movies just like rich Park. And I want to make millions of dollars and be rich and famous, just like rich Park. Do you know how great it felt that I knew where I was going? Imagine the majority of people don't know where they're going.
I knew where I was going, that I'm going to become this bodybuilding champion, just like him. So it was just a question of how do you do it. I was so relieved because when you have a goal when you have a vision, everything becomes easy. So people always ask me, when there's only in the gym and the pumping on days. This is why is it that you're working out so hot. Five hours a day, six hours a day and you have always a smile on your face, and the told people all the time is because, to me, I'm shooting for gold in front of Mr. Universe's title.
So every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal to make this vision journey a reality. Every single set that I do every repetition every way to the left will get missed and close to John this quarter. So I couldn't wait to do another 500-pound squat. I couldn't wait to do another 500-pound bench press, I couldn't wait to do another 2000 steps of setups, I couldn't wait for the next exercise. At the age of 20, I went to London and the one that is the universe Congress as the youngest district. And it was because I had a goal. Let me tell you something visualized before and going after it makes it fun.
You've got to have a purpose, a bit of what you do in life, you got to have a purpose. 74% hate the job in America is much different than in Europe. The majority of people don't like what they're doing, because they're really not doing it because they didn't have a board and didn't follow this goal. They just aimlessly drift around and then all of a sudden, there's a job opening so they get the job, because you have to work. But then when you grow, it's a chore. It's well, it's not fun. So if you think about only a quarter of the people really enjoy what they're doing in life.
That is unbelievable. If you think about it so I felt so blessed that I knew what I was doing. It's like a medical student that studies and knows he wants to become a doctor you know where to go. The same thing is also politics. I remember that in politics, I don't have a vision that I will be the leader of California. This is as far as I could go because I was not born in America so I could run for president. So being the governor of the fifth-largest state of the largest economy in the world was for me really the ultimate title, the ultimate accomplishment in politics. So even though people came up to me says why don't you go and run for something smaller, you're never gonna make it.
I ran for governor, then two months later you can come out of the state of California, again because I had a very clear vision, what I'm gonna do with California. So that's rule number one, have a vision. Rule number two is, don't listen to the naysayers. Don't listen to the naysayers. Everything I ever did. The thing that they heard out of people's mouths was, that's impossible, that can't be done, or know that exactly what I heard and of course I proved to the people that it can't be done. So whenever someone said to me, it can be done either it can be done, but he said no, I heard Yes. You're meant to say that's impossible. I heard it is possible.
I'm unbelievable Nelson Mandela said that everything is always impossible until someone does it. Well, I'm going to be the one to set them as Oh, I'm going to do it and I'm going to show you the demo, maybe that's never been done before. That's perfectly fine with me. But I'm going to do it. And I did not listen to the naysayers. It's all about the hard work that you put in. I said recipe bodybuilding I worked out, five, six hours a day, I'm going to do the same thing now for acting. And of course, I went to college to study English. I studied the accent removal acting classes and all this stuff all day long.
I worked in Iraq, in the abrupt epidemic a short period of time I made one movie called Hercules in New York, which of course went right into the toilet. But it didn't discourage me. I still had the same vision. And then all of a sudden I did Streets of San Francisco. I did stay hungry thumping on the bill and then all of a sudden, I was asked by Dino De limiters Universal Studio to star in Conan the Barbarian. And after they told him, again, the director of the press to press the director was John Miller. He said that the press if it wouldn't have had honored, would have had to build one. The think about that, the very body that they said, can never be sold because the time is wrong. A few years later, I think Conan the Barbarian was the number one hit at the box office when they came out in the summer of 82. Think about that and the director says, If he would have had his body, we would have had to build one. So all of a sudden, My body became an asset, not a liability. And the same thing goes with terminate after we were finished filming Terminator, Jim Cameron said to the press. If honored wouldn't have had that accent and talk like a machine. I think the movie wouldn't have broke.
So think about that, the body and the accent that they attacked were an asset. But I didn't listen to those losers. I didn't listen to them at all. The reality of it is that you cannot listen to the naysayers, so this is a very important lesson for all of you. So when someone says no, this is a stupid idea you in your mind you don't have to say but in your mind just say this have you saw, Or do you know.
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