On today's Real Talk, Andy talks about how greatness can never be achieved by doing “just enough” or what’s expected of you, and the best ways to exceed expectations of the normal external standards to break through mediocrity.
Chapter 1: Who is Andy Frisella and what is this show about?
What is up, guys? It's Andy Frisella, and this is the show for the realists. Say goodbye to the lies, the fakeness, and delusions of modern society, and welcome to Motherfreakin' Reality. That's the new rules. I can't say the F word. Isn't that right? That's right. All right. Today, as promised... We have a real talk. Before we get into that, though, I do want to address something.
Chapter 2: Why has the MFCEO project been delayed and what can we expect?
I witnessed a comment on Monday's episode that talked about how the MFCEO project has been massively delayed. It's actually pretty funny because whoever made the comment said, we don't know what's going to come first, GTA 6 or the MFCEO. And I just want to let you guys know that I recognize that that is true.
But I will also tell you that when you see what we've created, you are going to be blown away. All right? And the truth of the matter is, is if we started this project... Probably three or four times from scratch over to deliver what we feel is going to be the greatest personal development podcast ever So while I know you guys are
excited and i know some of you are getting a little frustrated just know that we are delivering something to you that is uh it's going to be amazing all right so just want to reassure you guys uh this isn't something that we're taking lightly you know this is
Chapter 3: What does 'personal excellence being the ultimate rebellion' mean?
something that i truly care about is something that is important to me um when we talk about personal excellence being the ultimate rebellion i want to make sure that we were doing everything that we could properly to make sure that we are helping people become the best version of themselves not just for themselves but for the culture all right for your household for your community uh
for your state and for the country man we can't fix things if we don't fix ourselves and there's a way to do that right and then there's a way to deliver it kind of right and if you know anything about me kind of right it's just not going to be the way that i'm going to launch it so i do apologize for taking a while but trust me when it launches you're going to be very excited so uh and and you know that's pretty consistent with gta 6 too i think right so it's an accurate comment
But guys, today I wanted to give you a real talk, all right? I've been promising you guys real talks. I've been promising you that we were going to get more into that. And I've got one for you today that I think is very important, especially for you young guys who are out there listening. who need to understand a few things.
Chapter 4: Why is mediocrity promoted and how does it affect us?
One, we are coming out of an era where mediocrity has been promoted very heavily. And we have to understand that the reason that mediocrity has been promoted very heavily is because they want you to be a victim. They want you to be helpless. They want you to think that the standard at which you are held in your external environment is excellence and it's not, okay?
No great person that ever existed on the face of this earth ever became great by just living to the standard of the external environment of which they were required, all right? And what does this mean? This means when you go to your job or you go to your sports practice or you do whatever it is you're trying to do, the standards that are expected of you are not the standards that create greatness.
Chapter 5: How do high performers exceed external standards to achieve greatness?
High performers hold themselves to a higher standard than the one that they are given. All right. That's the separator between great people and average people. That's the separator between earning a living and becoming wealthy. That's the separator between nobody knowing who you are and every single motherfucker on the planet knowing that. who you are. It's about exceeding the external standards.
Okay. And when we think about great people and we think about greatness, some of the people that I admire are people like Kobe Bryant. All right. Michael Jordan, Tom Brady. And none of those people lived up to the expectations, okay? Kobe Bryant worked exponentially harder than what the Lakers expected of him. Tom Brady, he worked exponentially harder than what the Patriots expected of him, okay?
Michael Jordan, the same way. He's famous. for being the first guy at practice and starting with chest passes, all right? Think about this.
This guy's so obsessed with being great that he starts and perfects every single practice, no matter how great he's been, no matter how many championships he's won, no matter how many MVPs, he starts with the basics to become great at the basics and builds from there.
Chapter 6: What examples of greatness can we learn from athletes like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and Tom Brady?
okay these people are legendary because they understood something that a lot of people don't they understand that what is expected of you from the outside world is the price of admission to the game this is not exceptional and we live in a culture where we are being taught that just doing what is basic, showing up, getting it done, showing up on time.
We have people brag about these things and we've all heard this, right? I show up on time. I work hard. I do what I'm supposed to do. Yeah, bro. That's why it's called what you're supposed to do. That does not create wealth. That doesn't create achievement. That doesn't create greatness. And we have been propagated
over the last 15 or 20 years to believe that just because we show up, we are owed the results of greatness without living to the standards of greatness, all right? So we have to set that expectation in ourselves.
People who become great understand very clearly that they have to exceed the framework of expectations that are put upon them at their job, in their relationships, in their community, at their sport, at whatever it is that they do. You will never become great doing what's expected of you. You will only become great by holding yourself to a much higher standard than that, okay?
You can't win any other way. And it doesn't matter what your teachers say. It doesn't matter what your parents say. It doesn't matter what your friends say.
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Chapter 7: Why is just doing what's expected not enough to create wealth or achievement?
I'm telling you right now, if you want to live a great life, if you want the world to recognize you as great, if you want to make a lot of money, if you want to make an impact, you have to hold yourself to a standard that is far beyond what everybody else holds of you, okay? And that's going to come with criticism. That's going to come with people saying, hey, man, you know, why you work so hard?
Hey, you know, you don't have to do that. Hey, you know, you need to take a break. Yeah, motherfucker. If I want to be like you, that's what I need to do. But the reality is, is that's not you. And I know that's not you because you wouldn't be listening to this podcast if it was. OK, so we have to understand the external standard keeps us average.
The internal one is the one that makes us elite, all right? It's the bare minimum to live up to what other people expect of you. And you will look crazy. You will look obsessed. You will look like you're doing things that are beyond the reasonable expectation. And that's because you are. Because greatness is rare.
And when you're living to these other standards that people put on you, you have to understand that that's their ceiling. They're trying to get you to operate in a way that produces the result that they want. And you will never find someone
will hold you to the standard of greatness the way that you can they don't have your own interests in mind they have their interests in mind and the sad truth is is that most people care about themselves and they don't care about you they want you to function in a way that gets their job done without actually creating greatness in you okay so you have to understand dude if you let their standards
become your bar for success you can never be great you'll never find out what you're actually capable of you will live an average life with an average income with an average everything and that might be okay for you that might be what you want but that's not going to create greatness all right if you keep looking for someone to tell you to do more
or to do extra or to hold you to a standard, you're not gonna become great, dude. It's gonna have to come from inside you. You have to understand that this is really what you're about and it's really what you want because nobody else is gonna hold you to this, all right? The ones that win, they do the shit that nobody asks them to do. All right.
And they don't do it because they're trying to produce a result for the person that's asking them to do things. They do it because they have an internal drive, an ambition, a hunger to be fucking great. to be better than everybody else. That is okay. It is okay to want to be better than everybody else around you. Society teaches us that, oh, well, you know, what are you trying to do?
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Chapter 8: How can holding yourself to a higher internal standard lead to a great life and success?
You're trying to forget where you came from? Or, you know, hey, you know, I noticed you changed. Yeah, motherfucker, that's the fucking point. The point is to change. The point is to become better. The point is to live the life that you want, not the bare minimum of what somebody else wants. Okay? So your standard has to live inside of you. It has to be in your heart. It has to be in your blood.
And it has to be in your fucking soul. And it has to be the way that you live. You cannot live any other way if you want to be great. It's about how you move when no one's watching. It's about how you work when you're not going to get applause. It's not about what you do on Instagram. It's about what you do in reality, okay?
When the lights are off and everybody else has gone home and everybody else is taking a break and everybody else is just doing whatever they are going to do. What are you doing then? because that's going to determine what your life outcome is.
And the reason I say this, because to a lot of you, this is obvious, but the reason I point this out is because a lot of you younger people under the age of 25, you've been taught that it is just about showing up on time and doing the job and Going home five minutes after the clock and saying, I stayed late. No, dude.
If you want to be great, if you want to get paid, if you want to build something that matters, create something that impacts people, to live a life that you're proud of and fulfilled of, you have to understand you're not working for the approval of others. You are honoring the internal identity of the badass motherfucker that lives inside of you that you are too afraid to let the world see.
okay the real ones out here they don't wait to be pushed all right they push themselves all right you can't build power you know on borrowed discipline and borrowed expectations and the standards of others you have to decide what is it that i want and then you have to set the bar so high that the world's expectations feel like a nap All right. So that's it, guys.
You have to understand greatness does not come from doing what you're supposed to do. It also doesn't come from being like everybody else. It doesn't come from, you know, living the life that everybody else wants you to live.
It comes from you deciding what you actually want and you saying, I am willing to do whatever the fuck it takes to create that no matter how hard, no matter how long, no matter how What I have to go through, I will fucking get there. And then on your day-to-day standard, you have to live to that in your actions. It's not enough to visualize. It's not enough to talk about it.
It's not enough to post about it. You have to live it. It has to come from your heart. It has to come from your soul. And you can't worry about what everybody else is going to think about it. Because if everybody else is your... barometer for approval, you're going to end up living just like they live, which is the whole fucking thing you're trying to avoid. All right.
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