How To Find Pleasure In Suffering (The Most Important Lesson My $300k/Month Mentor Taught Me)

This post will cover the most important lesson my mentor who makes $300k/month ever taught me.

By the end of it, you’ll have a complete blueprint to mastering your mindset and you’ll literally be able to find pleasure and genuine joy in ALL the hard shit you do for the rest of your life.

I’m not going to waste your time. Below is a word-for-word conversation of what he told me.

He said “Andrew, your character is the single most important thing in your life”

I was a bit confused. So I asked “What is character?”

He said “Are you fundamentally a good man? Are you acting in accordance with virtue? Are you doing the right things day-to-day? Are you the same person you say you are, behind closed doors?”

He then went on to say “That’s character. In order to develop it, you must detach inputs from outputs. They must become completely separate”

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“You can’t directly control the output (the result). But you have full control over the inputs (the work) and how hard you work on something. Did you keep going when you wanted to quit? When you’re lying in bed at night, do you think ‘I made myself proud today’ or do you feel shameful because you didn’t put any real effort in?”

“Every time you push yourself, you level up. That’s why success is simply a by-product of discipline. You must become the character. Always aiming to be better than you were yesterday”

“The only things that matter are your character and the activities you’re doing (inputs). Push yourself past your limits. Regardless of the output or the reward. It’s about the person you’re becoming. YOU are the output of the work”

(And below is the most important lesson he ever taught me. Don’t let it go over your head)

“Because even if nothing else in your life changes, YOU do. YOU are the output. You become someone that is capable of reaching your goals, someone who’s respected, someone that you can look in the mirror and smile at. And that’s exactly why the goal of everything is to do everything you can. You need to completely change your definition of winning. Winning is not an accomplishment or a trophy, winning is giving your absolute best, even if you fall short and fail”

“Even outside of the business, I don’t care what you’re doing, whether you’re cooking or gardening or at the gym, even if it’s something you don’t want to be doing, actually, especially if it’s something you don’t want to be doing, this should always be your #1 thought: Am I pushing myself as hard as I can regardless of what I’m doing and regardless of the reward?”

“Every single day, you should hold these 2 objectives”

“1. Truly, have nothing left by the time you get into bed. Exhaustion is the reward, not the cost, of a hard day’s work. Be so tired, so exhausted that you just collapse into bed and get amazing sleep so you can wake up the next morning refreshed and do it again”

“2. Work harder than you did yesterday. Or at least do 1 thing better, I don’t care what it is. And don’t fall prey to thinking you can make up for a bad day tomorrow. You can’t give 110% tomorrow. That’s bullshit. And it doesn’t even make sense. You can only give 100% NOW. There’s no fucking such thing as “I’ll go harder tomorrow to catch up” - that’s bullshit. Go hard today”

“When your mind is telling you that you’re done for the day, that you’ve done enough, and you start justifying why you should stop doing the work, push yourself to say three words - “I DON’T STOP”. Be relentless”

That conversation was over a year ago, but I still hold these principles to the forefront of my mind DAILY. That’s how important they are.

Please, internalize them. Re-read this post if you have to.

I’ll leave this with a lesson I wrote a while back in an old journal.

If you’re not a person who hustles, who are you? Where does that leave all the people counting on you? It’s okay to fail, it’s okay to lose 10,000 times, but never lose a minute to sloth. Because when you kill time, you kill yourself. You have the present moment, and that’s it. How will you spend it? What will you make of it? What will it amount to? Now is the time. Because now is the only time that you have.

“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the true value of life”

Just win,

Andrew

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