The Blueprint of Achieving Dreams: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Unveiled Secrets

Ready to unlock the secrets of success from an unlikely mentor? Get set to be immersed in a rich exploration of Arnold Schwarzenegger's life, his iconic graduation speech at the University of Southern California and his six rules for success. From actor to governor, Schwarzenegger's journey is peppered with unique insights and powerful life lessons that could potentially rewrite your own roadmap to success.

Schwarzenegger's life is a blueprint of hard work, resilience, and sheer determination. His journey from Austria to America, his rise to fame, and his foray into politics are all testament to what can be achieved when you trust yourself and are relentless in your pursuit of happiness. As we analyze his rules for success, we marvel at how he moulded his unique accent and body into assets and ignored the naysayers to chart his path. His journey is not just a testament to personal achievement, but a beacon of hope for anyone with big dreams.

Finally, we delve into the secret sauce that is often overlooked when discussing success - the balance between work, rest and the importance of giving back. Schwarzenegger's life is a testament to the importance of time management, stepping out of comfort zones, and the power of continuous self-improvement. From functioning on six hours of sleep to constructing a legacy through community contributions, Schwarzenegger's story is a masterclass in blending personal growth with societal contribution. Tune in to this episode and get ready to redefine your perceptions of success.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:28

Hi guys, my name is Fabio from the Fabio podcast and welcome to this new episode. Today we're gonna talk about Arnosvatsnagar, but we're gonna talk about his, not about his story. I think I would like to do one day, but in this episode I like to go more deep on something regarding a speech he had in the University of Southern of California, and I'm sure most of you know the speech, but I would like to analyze better the speech and understand better his intention and what he was actually communicating with the people around him, with the students around him. So let's start. I have this beautiful website today. The name is bestgraduationspeachescom, so I suggest to have a look and he named this blog, this post, as Arnosvatsnagar actor and politician and six rules on how to be successful. Okay, so we have six rules here, and the first rule is trust yourself, break some rules, don't be afraid to fail, ignore the naysayers, work like hell and give something back. Of course, these are all the rules. The blogger took it from his speech and here we have the full transcript. So let's see, let's do it. He said well, thank you very much. So there is an applause. Hello everybody, what a great introduction, what a wonderful thing, what a great, great welcome I'm getting here. So thank you very much. So the fact that he's said to the people thanks isn't directly putting himself in a second place, so that's very beautiful. I mean, I haven't hear applause like that since I announced that I was going to stop acting. This is very beautiful, this is very important. This, truly this is a real good strategy of him.

Speaker 1: 3:02

He likes to use irony about certain situations, heavy situations or situations he cannot handle, or just a situation where he can already have a control about it. Another example that I would like to mention is when he was running as governor of California and Sawantro on his face or shoulder and neck and he said this guy on my back because now they're a member of Full Centers. He said this guy go on my back because he doesn't know that I do it ex without back on. So such powerful arm, the fact you know to use this irony so easy and go out from certain certain important and the stronger heavy situations like that and this is very good about him. So we should learn more about it, especially politicians in this case. So, but anyway, he says, he says or he said it is really terrific to see here so many graduate students and the undergraduate students graduating here today. I hear that there are 4,500 graduating here today undergraduate students, so this is fantastic. There are 2,200 men, 2,300 women and five have listed yourself as undecided Also here. It's very nice how he mentioned you know men and women. That's very, very delicate If we consider in which kind of age we are living right now, where you really have to be you know, careful to talk about men and women, as it should be, and make a decision about it. Then he said so this is really a great, great bunch of people here. I love it.

Speaker 1: 5:15

But seriously, president, sample trust is faculty, family, friends and graduate. It is a tremendous privilege to stand before you this morning. There is nothing that enjoy more than celebrating great achievements, and I don't just mean your parents celebrating never having to pay another tuition bill. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about just celebrating the great accomplishment. So let me congratulate the Trojan class of 2009 on your graduation from one of the finest universities in the world. Let's give our graduates a tremendous round of applause for a special day. What a great accomplishment. Now this is an equally special day, of course, for the parents, for the grandparents, siblings and other family members who support made all of this today possible. And let's not forget, of course, the professors, so those dedicated individuals who taught you, who came up with exciting ways to share their vast wisdom, knowledge and experience with you. And I must also say thank you to president sample for honoring me with this fantastic degree. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1: 6:22

Wow, arn Schwarzneger, doctor of human letters. I love it, but of course I noticed that it wasn't doctorate in film, or in cinema or in acting. I wonder why. But anyway, that's okay, I take whatever I can get. But maybe now, since I'm the doctor, I can go back up to Sacramento and maybe now the legislator will finally listen to me. But anyway, I stand before you today not just as Tutor Schwarzneger or as governor of Schwarzneger, or as a determinator, or as a conventer, barbina, but also as a brand new member of the Australian family. He just congratulates a lot of people around him the students of course as well and indirectly he also gives some credit, as it should be, and he's right to do, because he accomplished a lot. It's just a reminder, like hey, before to talk, just you know, I have been this, this, this and this. I've been an actor, I've been a politician. I've been that, and I'm right to say something to you. I'm right to teach you something in my way Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pocket.

Speaker 1: 7:46

Now, some of you may know that my daughter just completed her freshman year right here. One of the most exciting things for me has been to learn about the great traditions that make this university so wonderful and so special. Okay, my daughter told me all about, for instance, the victory bell. She sat me down and she told me it weights to 295 pounds and how the winner of the annual football game between the USC and the UCLA takes this bell and gets to paint it in the school colors. And I stopped her in the middle of talking. I say what a minute, catherine, back up a little bit. Uscla as a football team, okay. Now, of course, my daughter Jornie. Okay, I would say to go forward about the daughter thing, but I have to tell you something. This is a bunch of nonsense because, after all this material, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, I don't know, maybe had a point. Let's continue Now, of course, my daughter's journey here at USC is just beginning and yours is ending.

Speaker 1: 9:28

I know that you are a little bit stressed out right now as you start this exciting new chapter in your lives. Some people say it's scary to leave the comfort of university and to go out into the cold, hard world. For me, it wasn't like that. For me, it was like I just couldn't wait to finish any school, if I have to be honest. But I have to tell you something he said. I think this is a bunch of nonsense because, after all, this is America. This is the greatest country on earth with the greatest opportunities. It is one thing if you were born in Afghanistan or in Swat Valley in Pakistan, where you'd be forced to join the Taliban or be killed. Now Then I would say, yes, that is a little bit scary, sensitive topic here. Okay, okay, okay. America. America was the country of you know to realize any dream. Is it like that now? I don't know. I don't know. There is so much internal war right now between people and politicians. I don't know if it's the same country as it was, but maybe at the time you know, we're talking about 10 years ago.

Speaker 1: 10:52

Now, 2010, I think, is about this speech. So maybe at the time it's possible, okay, but this is going to be a piece of cake for you, trust me. You live in America and you are prepared for the future with this tremendous education you have gotten here. It's one of the greatest universities in the world. It is going to be exciting, it is a great adventure and this is a new phase in your life. It is going to be awesome. Now, of course, this journey is not going to be without any setbacks, failures or disappointments. That's just the way life is. But you are ready and you are able, and you will not be here today with your degrees and with your honours if you wouldn't be ready.

Speaker 1: 11:34

So now, of course, to help you along the way, I thought that the best Schwarz-Schnerigift I could give you today is to give you a few of my own personal ideas on how to be successful and, parents, I just want you to know maybe you should close your ears or you should plug your ears, because maybe there are a few things that you maybe won't like and what I have to say. But anyway, I can explain how I became successful and who I am today by going through what I call the Torz-Watzneger Six Rules of Success. Now, of course, people ask me all the time. They say to me, what is the secret to success? And I give them always the short version. I say number one come to America. Number two work your butt off. And number three marry Kennedy. Okay, that's funny. Anyway, those are the short rules. Now, today I'm going to give you the six rules of success, but before I start I just want to say these are my rules. I think that they can apply to anyone, but that is for you to decide, because not everyone is the same.

Speaker 1: 12:38

There are some people that just like to kick back and cause true life, and others want to be very intense and want to be number one and want to be successful. And that's like me. I always want to be very intense, I always want to be number one. I took it very seriously in my career. So this was the same when I started with bodybuilding. I didn't want to just be a bodybuilding champion, I want to be the best bodybuilder of all time. The same was in the movies. I didn't want to just be a movie star, I want to be a great movie star that is, the highest paid movie star, and have above the title billing. And so this intensity always paid off for me, this commitment always paid off for me. So here are some of the rules. The first rule is trust yourself, okay, before to start. Finally, we are going to start properly.

Speaker 1: 13:27

This was a full introduction from him. I would like to note something I love, I truly love Arnold Schwarzenegger. I love him, but we can say also that has not been the best politician, because of course he wasn't the politician, has not been the best actor, because he wasn't the best actor, but still he run as a governor for like eight years and people were happy with him and he truly had one of the best, highest paid movie star and I mean, how did he do that? So let's be honest, he comes from Austria. He came from Austria and he went to America and he achieved everything from scratch and, of course, something that he used to say every time he had people around him who helped him, and he is always thankful, and I believe it's true, I believe it's right to say that. But at the same time, guys, I mean, let's be honest, he came from Austria. He worked hard, maybe double triple hard than a medium, average American person who was already born there. So just a compliment to him and let's move forward.

Speaker 1: 15:21

The first rule is trust yourself. What I mean by that is so many young people are getting so much advice from their parents and from their teachers and from everyone, but what is most important is that you have to dig deep down. Dig deep down and ask yourself who do you want to be, know what, but who? And I'm talking about know what your parents and teachers want you to be by you. I'm talking about figuring out for yourself what makes you happy, no matter how crazy it may sound to other people.

Speaker 1: 15:55

I was lucky growing up, because I did not have a television or did I have a telephone. I did have the computers and the boats and, of course, twitter was then something that birds it outside the window. So now we fell on mask. I really hope it's going better. Anyway, I didn't have all these distractions and all this.

Speaker 1: 16:19

I spent a lot of time by myself so I could figure out and listen to what is inside my heart and inside my head, and I recognized very quickly that inside my head and heart were burning desire to live in my small village in Austria. Not that there was something wrong with Austria it's a beautiful country but I wanted to live the little place and I want to be part of something big, the United States of America, a powerful nation, the place where dreams can come true. Who knows if America was the country where any dream can come true? Who knows if it's right now, but it doesn't matter. You know it's in his head. A world like that. That's the most important thing about this situation. Also, in my case, now I'm in the Netherlands. I've been in Ireland, but I'm Italian. I left Italy maybe more than 10 years ago now kind of around 10 years ago, maybe something less and thinking that any country was better than Italy. Right? Maybe it's true, maybe yes, maybe no, it doesn't matter, it's what you think that gives you the right energy to make the right step and achieve a certain success. So let's go forward.

Speaker 1: 18:02

I knew when I came over here I could realize my dreams and I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew there was a ticket to the East and that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, reg Park. It was Mr Universe. It was a staring-nercless movie. He looked strong and powerful. He was so confident. So when I found out how it got the way. I became obsessed and I went home and I said to my family I want to be a bodybuilding champion.

Speaker 1: 18:30

Now you can imagine how that went over my home in Austria. My parents. They couldn't believe it. They would have been just happy if I would have become a police officer, like my father, or married someone, like ID at a bunch of kids and run around like the Von Trapp family in sounds of music. Sorry, I'm not going to cut this, it's fine. So that's what my family had in mind for me.

Speaker 1: 19:00

But something else burned inside me. Something burned inside me. I want to be different. I was determined to be unique. I was driving to think big and to dream big. Everyone else thought that I was crazy. My friends say if you want to be a champion in a sport, why don't you go and become a bicycle champion or a sky champion or a soccer champion? Those are the outstair sport. But I didn't care. I want to be a bodybuilding champion and they use that to come to America and use that to go into the movies and make millions of dollars.

Speaker 1: 19:34

So of course, for extra motivation, I read books on strongman and on bodybuilding and look at the magazine and one of the things I did was I decorated my bedroom wall and next to my bed was this big wall that I decorated all with picture. I hung up pictures of strongman and bodybuilders and wrestler and boxer and so on, and I was so excited about this great decoration that took my mother to the bathroom and to show her and she shook her head. She was absolutely shocked and tears started running down her eyes. Yeah Well, evidently she thought it was almost sex At this time. It's not so much impactful, maybe, except for certain cities, certain villages, but you know we're talking about now. Schwarzenegger is maybe 24, 25 years old. So, yeah, we're talking about maybe 50 years ago, so maybe more.

Speaker 1: 20:43

So this makes totally sense. It's beautiful how he visioned himself. You know, he visioned himself putting these figures on the wall and he truly was doing this daily low attraction way to become one of that people. He didn't directly, he didn't know, I don't think he knew something about it At the time, but it's funny, right. This reminds me also just a small note about Jim Carrey that he used to write a fake check at the end of his show and he was literally nothing. It was just a comedian in a small, not even a theater, I guess, and after I don't know after how many weeks or months or whatever then he received for real, exactly the same check. He used a similar of the one he used to write for himself in a fake way. So this strategy works. It worked very well. But in this case it was just I don't know, it was just, yeah, it was just putting the figures of his best people and vision. You know, vision himself as one as of the same people were on the wall.

Speaker 1: 22:28

And anyway, the mother, say, and she called the doctor, she called our house doctor, she brought him in and she explained to him there's something wrong here. She looked at the wall with the doctor. She said where did I go wrong? I mean, all of Arnold's friends have a picture on the wall of girls and I don't know how all these men but it's not just men they are half naked and they're oiled up with baby oil. What is going here? What did I go wrong? So you can imagine, the doctor shook his hand and he said there's nothing wrong.

Speaker 1: 22:58

At this age you have an idol, say you go and have those. They're just quite normal. So I'm very forward. I mean very, very good doctor. So this is rule number one. I want to become a champion.

Speaker 1: 23:11

I was on a mission, so rule number one is, of course, trust yourself, no matter how and what anyone else thinks Nice. Rule number two is break the rules. We have so many rules in life about everything. I say break the rules. Not the law, but break the rules. My wife has a t-shirt that says well behave. Woman rarely make history. Well, you know, I don't want to burst their bubble, but the same is true with men. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you are too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You had to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on his heart if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble? The only way that I ever got any place was by breaking some of the rules.

Speaker 1: 24:10

After all, I remember that after I was finished with my bodybuilding career, I want to get into acting. I want to be a star in films. You can imagine what the agent said when I went to meet all those agents. Everyone had the same line that it can be done. The rules are different here. They say look at your body. You have this huge, monstrous body over the life developed. That doesn't fit into the movies you don't understand. This was 20 years ago, the Hercules movie. Now the little guys are in Dustin Hoffman, woody Allen, jack Nicholson, before he gained weight. Of course there is, but anyway, those are the guys that were in.

Speaker 1: 24:48

And the agents also complained about my accent. They say no one ever became a star with an accent like that, especially not with a German accent. Yeah, it's true, a German accent. German United States okay, we're talking about Austria. So I know that for the America and maybe America, I'm talking also about Asia or full Africa. Maybe there is not so much distinction between Austrian and German, but I talk about myself, that I'm from Europe and I'm Italian. I tell you there is a big difference between Austria and Germany. But it is so true that for someone who is not European, that accent can be misunderstood. It may be German for someone. And guys, we all know the relationship between Germany and the United States. And, yes, I can imagine, with your name, arnold Schubert's Nitzel over on an MAs on a billboard. Yeah, that's going to draw a lot of tickets and sell a lot of tickets, yeah, right. So this is the kind of negative attitude they had.

Speaker 1: 26:16

But I didn't listen to those roles, even though they were very nice, and they say, look, we can get you some big part, we can get you to be playing wrestler or a bouncer, or maybe, with your German accent, we can get you to be a Nazi officer in organ seers or something like that. But I really listened to all this. Those were their roles, not my roles. I was convinced I could do it if I worked as an artist. I did in bodybuilding, five hours a day and I started getting to work. I started acting classes. I took English classes, took speech classes, dialogue classes, extra removal classes I even took. Well, it didn't work so well, but it's okay, we don't care, because we love you for your accent and I cannot say anything either. You know, my Italian accent sometimes is so marked.

Speaker 1: 27:14

I remember running around saying fine wine grows on the wine on the vine, you see, because Germans have difficulties with the F and the W and the V. So if I'm, wine grows on the vine, I know what some of you are now saying is I hope that Arno got his money back. But let me tell you something I had a good time doing those things and it really helped me and finally I broke through. I broke through and I started getting the first parts into the streets of San Francisco. You see, bolaire me, I made pumping Arno stay hungry. And then I got the big break in Conan, the perparion that was. It was yeah, it was. It was literally the first time people finally knew him and they're the direct to say if we wouldn't have a SWAT Snager, we would have to build one, and this phrase is very famous. Now, think about that. And then when I did terminator I'll be back. Also very famous phrase became one of the most famous line in movie history. Is true, all because of my crazy accent.

Speaker 1: 28:24

Now, think about it. The thing that the agent say would be totally the treatment and would make them possible for me to get a job, all of a sudden became an asset for me. All of those things, my accent, my body and everything. And I want to to put a pause here for a while. I mean, think about it, guys. If someone say to you to act as a person one person, two, person, three I mean where is the particularity? You will get? Pay as per one per two per three, you will get treat as per one per two per three.

Speaker 1: 29:07

You're not going to be special. You know, and that's the the problem about communities, about politicians, who, who lead the people to think in a certain way, but also religions, for for you know, I don't want to go there, honestly, I'm also Catholic, so I I'm, I'm not against of religions, if that religions teach peace, but is also true that, talking about religions, right, they teach you to to think in the same way as the politicians, as the universities, as the college. So, as he said, as he said before, on this rule, it's, it's important to be in the law, but you know, if you want to be special, you have to break some rule, you have to think a little bit out of the box, otherwise you're not going to be special. And it's funny because he said also you know, if it wasn't for his accent and for his maestro's body you know there are so two unique things then he would have never became the AnoŽvacnega we know today. So it's a it's. It just shows to you never listen to that you can't do something and you have to work your way up.

Speaker 1: 30:43

Of course, run for something else first. I mean, it was the same when I run for governor as the same lines that you have to work your way up. It can't be done. And then, of course, I ran for governor, ran for governor and the rest, of course, is history. They say you have to start with a small job and as mayor, and then assemblyman, and then as a lieutenant governor and then as governor. And they say that the way it works in a political career. I said I'm not interested in a political career, I want to be a public servant, I want to fix California's problem and bring people together, bring the parties together. So, like I say, I decided to run, I didn't pay attention to the rules and I made it, and the rest is history. Which of course brings me to rule number three don't be afraid to fail. Don't be afraid to fail, okay, okay.

Speaker 1: 31:38

Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail in the movies business, and remember that you pick scripts many times you think this is a winning script, but then of course you find out later on when you do the movie, the deal work and the movie goes in the toilet. Now we have seen my movies. I mean Red Sonja, hercules in New York Last Action Hero. Last Action Hero, I think, was one of my favorite movies at the time. No, no, no, no, no, I I don't remember if I no, it wasn't that the movie. No, guys, it was another movie. It was another movie. It was about him. It was dressing as the, the favorite toy of his child. I don't remember now the title of the of the movie. The next action hero was one of the underrated movie, as I recall.

Speaker 1: 32:42

The time, for political reasons, didn't go so well, but but yeah, I don't remember. If I watched it I have to see. Anyway, he said those movies went in the toilet but that's okay, because at the same time I made movies like Terminator and Conan and true lies beautiful movie and Predator and twins are love it. That went through the roof, yeah, yeah, yeah. Twins was with oh my God, what is his name? Now I know I have to search. Come on, I have to search for that word. Sorry, guys, I'm just. Oh, yeah, I was standing in the video, alright, okay, okay. So those movies went in the toilet, okay, at the same time I went, I made movies like like Terminator, troncone, trilite, predator and Twins. That went through the roof.

Speaker 1: 33:52

So you can't always win, but don't afraid of making decisions. You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and your vision and you know that is the right thing to do and success will come. So don't be afraid to fail. Rule number 4.

Speaker 1: 34:13

Don't listen to the naysayers. How many times have you heard that you can't do this and you can't do that? It's never been done before. Just imagine if Bill Gates had quit. When people say it can be done I hear this all the time. As a matter of fact, I love it when someone says that no one has ever done this before, because then when I do it, that means that I'm the first one that has done it. So pay no attention to the people that say it can be done. I remember my mother Lo and Eunice Kennedy's river when she started Special Olympics in 1968.

Speaker 1: 34:49

People say they would not work. The experts, the doctors that specialize in mental disabilities and mental retardation, said it can't be done. You can't bring people out of their institutions. You can't make them participate in sports, in jumping and swimming and running. They will hurt themselves, they will hurt each other, they will join the pool. Well, let me tell you something Now, 40 years later, special Olympics is one of the greatest organizations in 164 countries dedicated to people with mental disability and that are intellectual challenges.

Speaker 1: 35:22

Of course there was an applause and she did not take no for an answer. And the same is when you look at Barack Obama. I mean imagine if he would have listened, if he would have listened to the NACA or he would have never run for president. People say it couldn't be done, they couldn't get elected, he couldn't beat Hillary Clinton, he would never win the general election. Here I was very delicate because he say, barack Obama, I mean imagine if he would have listened, if he would have listened to the NACA or he would have never run for president. I mean he didn't say he didn't go, didn't go deep, he didn't mention anything about, you know, anything about the color and everything related around. So also here it's very, it was very, very good, smart script. Of course I imagine that at the time he had a bunch of people around him who studied this script for him, but at the same time you can also notice there is a lot from him as well. So yeah, but maybe not this part, this small part, but generally we noticed there is a lot of hard notes in this pitch, but if follow is on our heart, he didn't listen to the you can't and he changed the course of American history.

Speaker 1: 37:00

So over over you see that if I would have listened to the NACA years, I would still be in the Austrian Alps. You're the link. You're the link. I would never have come to America, I would have never met my wonderful wife Maria Striver, I would have never had the wonderful four kids. I would have never done Terminator and I wouldn't be standing here in front of you today as governor of the greatest states of the greatest country in the world. So I never listened that you can't. I always listened to myself and say, yes, you can. Then that brings me to rule number five, which is the most important rule of all work your butt off. You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough. I never want to lose a competition or lose an election because I didn't work hard enough. I always believe living no stone unturned.

Speaker 1: 37:53

Muhammad Ali, one of my great heroes, had a great line in the seventies. When he was asked how many sit ups do you do, he said I don't count my sit ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting, when I feel pain. That's when I start counting, because that's when it really counts. That's what makes you a champion. Andres Vatsneger in kindergarten cop, and that's the way. That's the way, sorry, it is with everything, no pain, no gain. So many of those lessons that I play in life have learned from sport. Let me tell you especially that one. Let me tell you it is more to have fun in life, of course, but when you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time you're working, is working hard. I just would like to stop a little bit. So he said something so powerful, so important, something that I think as well. Let me tell you it is important to have fun in life. Of course it is important to have fun in life. It is important, when you achieve success, when you want to achieve something in your life, to enjoy. Okay, enjoy, enjoy.

Speaker 1: 39:07

If during your way, during the journey to success, so you are reaching a point where it's not fun anymore, whatever you are doing, it means there is something that you have to change. It's not necessary change the entire project Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's also important to understand when to abandon your project for something else. But before to do you have to understand if it's. You have to think like 10,000 times to understand if it's true. But you can also, before to abandon something to start a new project. It's actually important to understand how you can enjoy better in the same current project. And, you know, have a fun in whatever you do is like a petrol. It's like some energy you get for free and it's very important because then you will never get tired and you are also stimulated about what you are doing to achieve a certain success. So have a fun, it's very important. Anyway, let's go back.

Speaker 1: 40:42

But when you're out there partying, horsing around someone out there at the same time in working hard, so of course you know it's a run sometimes, so maybe always, even if we don't want to admit. But at the same moment you are stopping to, you know, to have a party every weekend. That's the moment where every weekend, someone else is working hard for his stream. Maybe you are better than him, maybe you are, maybe potentially you are better than than it was, than what he's doing right now. Right, but it doesn't matter, because he's working hard, even if it's not that good as you and you are doing party. Okay, someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that now, if you want to cause true life, don't pay attention to any of those rules. But if you want to win, there is absolutely no way around. Hard, hard work. None of my rules, by the way of success will work unless you do.

Speaker 1: 41:55

I've always figured out that there are 24 hours a day. You sleep six hours and have 18 hours left. Now I know there are some of you out there that say well, wait a minute, I sleep eight hours or nine hours. Well then, just sleep faster. I would recommend Okay, this is very I would like to go. I would like to analyze this. Anyway. It says also because you only need to sleep six hours and then you have 18 hours left and there are a lot of things you can accomplish. As a matter of fact, ed Turner used to say always early to bed, early to rise, work, life, health and the advertised. And of course, all of you know already those things because otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here today. Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pocket and then you have to.

Speaker 1: 42:50

About sleeping I have a weird relationship with sleeping Because I okay, when I have in my brain to study and to have to accomplish a certain project, the truth is that I can also sleep four hours. I won't four hours, no, but I don't know. There are times that I used to wake up also at five o'clock in the morning. That's the reality. And so, also, when you know, when you you work hard for something and you don't know yet what what you are doing to achieve a certain project, but you still want to do, you have to dedicate a lot of hours. As I say that in another episode, after a while, when you know how to work hard and you reach a point where you also understand how to work smart, and when you understand when to work smart, and then, yes, you know you can sleep more, but to reach that point that you have to work hard, to have to dedicate more hours.

Speaker 1: 44:05

Now, what is the problem about this? It's there is not right or wrong about it but we have to balance also our life. I always, I was also always thinking that sleep less hours to achieve a certain project is important, but is also important to not have a day, so to be healthy and Because in this way you have more oxygen in your brain and you, you have more rest, you have more energy, you can figure out better how to achieve a certain project, a certain success. So you have to balance a little bit. It's important to not sleep I mean nine hours, maybe it is too much, especially when you are in the middle of a project, but at the same time it's also important to not sleep for hours, you know, because then you have just a headache and you're not energy can and maybe you are gonna get to overwhelm. And Just a little bit of balance. That's what I understood in the last years, because I was the.

Speaker 1: 45:21

I was one of the people who used to wake up very, very early and I sometimes do as well when I, when I think I need to do. But let's say, has not to be always like that, okay, has to be an enjoyment. Your, your journey to success has to be an enjoyment, all right. So let's say also, if you do five, six hours and you, you have the energy to wake up so early, you have the energy to do few hours per night and you don't get sick about it because you know that's the right thing to do, well then let's do it, no worries, but at the same time, if you think these sleeping not so many hours is Actually defeating you, so then don't do it. So you have to understand your body, you have to listen your body, ah. So. And of course, all of you, all of you know, ready those things, because otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here today. Just remember, you can't climb the this very beautiful place, you can't climb the ladder, ladder of success, with your hands in your pocket. And that takes me to rule number six, which is very important rule.

Speaker 1: 46:39

It's about giving back. Whatever path that you take your lives, you must always find time to keep something back, something back to your community, keep something back to your state or to your country. Very important, well, of course, in his case is his country, because you know America gave a lot to him. So he is, in his case, he's, you know, it's more like, yes, I have to give something back, but well, something back to your community, something back to the people around you, people who support you. That's very important. You always have to give value.

Speaker 1: 47:18

Something about success, something that people make mistakes they make a bunch of mistakes about it is that they think that success is a journey where you have always to think about yourself, you have always to Dedicate time for yourself. And the thing about how to achieve Success for yourself, it's not true. This is so individualist, individualistic concept and is so wrong. Also, in a money way, you know, like, hey, maybe I'm gonna build the course, was also my mistake. I'm gonna build a course and I'm gonna sell this course of this book for 10, 15 or per hour. A suicide 10 15 year old per book or 10, 50 euro per week or per month. And, yes, I give value to the people in this way, but I get this most important thing I get money from it. And blah, blah, blah. This is not the right mindset.

Speaker 1: 48:35

Right mindset is that start your journey, give value, especially give value, give value, give value, give value and Indirectly, you get something from it. You know it's how he became Successful on what's next. So he gave a lot of value. Yes, at the start he was, he was thinking about himself, about his body, to become a bigger and better. But If he became so much bigger, so much strong, is because then he gave, he gave back some value with the movie, because he knew it, that he wasn't enough with his English. So then he improved himself and he had to be out of his comfort zone and the politician you know, when he was, when he was a politician, he used to go door by door to you know to, to make a connection with, with the people, and asking question about certain political stuff. I mean, this is so such important, giving value so much. And then, of course, indirectly, you are a governor for For for for eight years and you get paid a lot because you you did a lot as well for Decommuted for the people around you, so very nice.

Speaker 1: 50:07

My father-in-law, surgeon striver, was a great American, a truly great American, who started the peace corpse, the job, the job corpse, legality to poor. He said at Yale University to the student at Commencement speech tear down the mirror, tear down that mirror that makes you always look at yourself and you will be able to look beyond the mirror and you will see the millions of people that need your help. Let me tell you something Reaching out and help this. And let me tell you something it's so powerful phrase from from like 80, 90 percent of Motivational speaker around us, and let me tell you something. So, and let me tell you some this, and let me tell you something. You get the tension you know from, from the environment, from the people about you you make you you are say hey, whatever you're doing, stop, because this is very important for your future, for your present. So very powerful phrase. And let me tell you something Reaching out and helping people will bring you more satisfaction than anything else you have ever done. As a matter of fact, today, after having worked for Special Olympics and having started, after school programs are promoted fitness, and now, with my job as governor, I can tell you playing a game of chess with an eight year old kid in an inner city school is far more exciting for me than walking down another red carpet or a movie premiere. So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember those six rules Also. I really thought the six rules was the guy who wrote the script and then he put it the rules you know on the top of the article, but no, here we're talking about six rules for Martin Schwarzschweiznäger. So very, very, very nice, very important. So I just correct myself about what I said before Trust yourself, break some rules, don't be afraid to fail, ignore the naysayers, work like hell and give something back. Give something back during your journey, after before. But I always give value.

Speaker 1: 52:29

Now let me leave you with one final thought, and I will be brief, I promise. This university was conceived in 1880, back when Los Angeles was just a small frontier town. 125 classes of Trojans have gone before you. They've sat there exactly where you sit today, in good times and in bad, in times of war, in times of peace, in times of great promise, in times of great uncertainty, uncertainty Through at all. This great country, this great state, this great university, have stood tall and preserved. We are in tough times now and there is a lot of uncertainty in the world. But there is one thing certain will be back, of course.

Speaker 1: 53:19

Of course you have to say this phrase very, very Well. It's okay, it matches with the speech. I will back stronger, more prosperous than ever before, because that is what California and America have always done. Too much patriotic for a country, okay, I understand that California, america gave back, gave gave a lot to him, yeah. But I don't know, maybe it's just an American way to think about the fact that they are the top of the world. I just, I don't know. I just like to hear more like and will back stronger, more prosperous than ever before, because that was the words I've always done no, okay, no, I cannot say the word because it's not true but I mean I don't know, I don't know, california and America. California and America, well, also the world, right, I mean, okay, maybe, maybe not all the world, but, yeah, partly California and America only. I feel touch.

Speaker 1: 54:35

Anyway, the ancient Royans were known for their fighting spirit, the refusal to give up their ability to overcome great odds. So, as you graduate today, never lose that optimism and that fighting spirit, never lose the spirit of Troy, because, remember, this is America. You are, you as see Troyans, proud, strong, ready to soar. Congratulations and God bless all of you. Thank you very much. Thank you, very beautiful speech, very beautiful speech. I really hope you, you learned something from it. I did and I did, and and this is the end of the episode, guys, I enjoyed a lot of this episode. Yes, maybe a long introduction. Yes, maybe some parts could, could be cut, but I'm not going to do, I'm going to keep like that. I'm going to keep like that. And because his speeches is good, is very good and it's something we can learn a lot from it. Thank you so much for being here in the Fabio podcast. Journey to Success and see you next time. Cheers.