Tom Cruise reveals why he stopped sharing his dreams
"I just had dreams and I would write these goals down and I didn't share them with people"
"I remember as a kid I told people what I wanted to do and then it was just somehow kind of too much for some people"
"They're like you know, what are you talking about kid?"
"And so I stop telling people and now kind of over the years you just kind of reflect on what those decisions were and what the dreams were"
"And just kind of I wanted to be here for the rest of my life and make movies"
Tiger Woods on what it takes to be a savage.
"It's do all the nitty gritty details that are ugly, hard, and mundane...Quite frankly, a lot of times you don't see the results for maybe years to come, but it's the little details that it takes each and everyday to be successful."
Excellence filters people out through boredom, discomfort, and delayed rewards. It lives in the details that most people don't have the discipline or patience to honor every day.
📹: Skratch
delusional optimism is the only way out. most people lose before they even start because deep down they already convinced themselves it probably won’t work. they look at the odds and the competition and they try to be more practical and slowly talk themselves out of their own potential. but the people who end up doing insane things usually have one thing in common. they were delusional enough to believe they could actually pull it off before there was any proof. that’s the weird power of delusional optimism. it makes you keep going long enough for reality to eventually catch up to your vision.
i just can’t understand why you all are this realistic with your dreams. why you only allow yourself to want things that feel achievable from where you currently stand. every massive success story ever sounded delusional in the beginning. every athlete, artist, entrepreneur, creator, all of them had moments where nobody around them understood the vision. people laughed at them. doubted them. told them to be practical. but they kept going anyway because they were obsessed enough to trust something nobody else could see yet.
i mean just think about it. you are alive and here in this world. the odds were already impossibly slim. you exist on a planet floating in infinite darkness where trees communicate underground, where dead stars became the atoms in your body, where creatures glow in the ocean without sunlight ever touching them. your own brain is made of electricity and somehow produces dreams, memories, ideas, emotions. everything about existence sounds insane if you really think about it deeply enough. so why do people suddenly become “realistic” or “practical”the moment it comes to their own potential? there is nothing realistic about being alive in the first place. so be delusional, that’s the only way out.
RECOVER FASTER THAN EVERYONE
Lose the day. Come back at night. Miss the gym. Go tomorrow. Waste a week. Win the next one. Get embarrassed. Stay visible. Get rejected. Try again. Fall behind. Move anyway. Stop turning every mistake into a new identity. Stop making failure mean more than it does. Stop disappearing every time life proves you’re still human. The men who win aren’t perfect. They just don’t stay gone.
The cheat code is simple.
Become impossible to keep down.
you life will change the moment you stop abandoning yourself every time things get hard. most people don’t fail because they aren’t talented enough, smart enough or lucky enough. they fail because somewhere along the way they stopped believing they were capable of becoming the person they dreamed about. let me remind you, “every beautiful thing waiting for you requires a version of you that refuses to quit.”
you choose this path for a reason don’t forget that. you knew it wasn’t going to be easy, you knew people were goona say things about you, you knew the most of the world is too scared to pursue the path that you’re now pursuing but you choose to keep walking anyway. so embrace it, hold the vision a little longer my friend. one day you’ll look back and realize the hardest seasons of your life were creating the strongest version of you.