YOU VS YOU - Powerful Motivational Speech | Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

and then I realized um the person I compete with most is just me it's you versus you really the two things I want to say are you got to be the hardest workers in the room and don't the opportunity out for me the drive just comes from wanting to do more everyone's my competition but a fundamental key that I've learned over the years is I'll share it with you my number one competition is me it's always you versus you you got to be the one to get up every morning be disciplined put in in the

consistent daily hard work because that gains success no coach no trainer no Mentor no boss can do it you versus you if it's worth something to you you got to put in the effort the thing that has worked for me is to remember the hard times social media may be the tip of the iceberg that you allow people to see but it's everything underneath the water that they don't see I always like to say it's the work we put in when nobody's watching that really matters the person who goes to the gym every single day

regardless of how they feel will always beat the person who goes to the gym when they feel like going to the gym it's just this anchoring philosophy of yes being the hardest workers in the room but also probably more importantly than that is just this idea of pushing past the fatigue and us doing the daily consistent that we don't feel like doing well I mean you you have to work hard my back is up against this motherucker every day it's against this wall but it's up against this cuz it's what I believe in and when

my back is against this motherucker then there's nowhere to go but that way that's it when I wake up in the morning I have got to be running towards the thing that I want to do I don't want to work out at midnight my babies are going to be up in 5 hours but I know when I don't want to work out at midnight well that's when I have to work out what I have found and I'm sure you guys will agree is that when you take that kind of action that kind of Step of

following your gut and your intuition taking that step whatever it is Universe has a funny way of meeting you halfway how hard do you actually work what meaning what the audience doesn't see how hard do you actually work DJ hard I mean it's easy I think when you go to work you got a lot of people around you Galvanize everybody you could feel the momentum and the energy start to go it's and not to oversimplify the work but it it leads to work begets work so if we're all together in a room we're going to

work but it's the stuff you do on your own away from everybody really that matters so you got to put in the work how hard do I work I I work hard everybody in this room knows um if it's worth something to you you got to put in the effort when I wake up in the morning I have got to be running towards the thing that I want to do and not walking towards it not I really don't feel like doing this or God why did I agree to do this or why did I get

into this business with somebody Etc I got to be running to it and I realize that if I'm able to do that get up in the morning and run to it then I'm in that place of joy and happiness uh doesn't mean that the work goes away the work ethic goes away you work even harder but so I got to run towards it so the second part to this to answer you directly is I don't know if there's anything that I could point to and say I've never done that therefore I want to do it

but I can tell you that what I do these days I run to I love so what I realized is now it has to be the thing that I do has to be the thing that I love to do and therefore almost like Hollywood conformed years ago I found that if it's the thing I'm running to and I love to do then everybody comes with me I know when I don't want to work out at midnight well that's when I have to work out at midnight I'm glad I did I came in here pushed myself

pushed past the fatigue uh but more importantly than the physicality part I think is just being able to come in here set the edge the psychological Edge and just recalibrate from a long day think about what I'm doing tomorrow what I want to do the next week month year Etc so I would highly recommend to you guys of doing the daily consisten that you don't want to do push past it because there's so many people who aren't willing to do it at all to become one of one and to go for as many years as

as you've gone and the highs and the lows and the losses and the injuries and the setbacks and all this other stuff that you go through what drives you I can trace back my um my work ethic to we were evicted out of our we had a little efficiency apartment in Hawaii um and we were evicted out of there couldn't pay the rent the rent was $280 a month we eventually got kicked out when we got kicked out I was 15 years old I'll never forget it I was standing there at the door there was

not the padlock but the notice in that moment I saw my mom crying and I just cuz I'm a mama's boy and that kind of pain really impacted me and I thought then I want to do everything that I can to make sure we never get evicted like this again and make sure that she is never this upset again I didn't even know what that meant at 15 years old it just meant I have to work I have to work I have to do something with my own two hands I love the competition I love

to win and I also love to I love to learn I don't say lose I say I love to learn reached this point in my career where I started to realize oh you know I've done pretty good and we're sitting up top on this mountain and I realized this happened probably it was a it was a big Revelation for me about a year ago where I thought okay I'm on top of this mountain a few things can happen from here I reach this point in my life we could either stay here and enjoy the view

and bask in it or we could go back down the mountain right off into the sunset and I thought well the first two don't seem like it's in my DNA I know what we should do let's go build more mountain not only let's go build more mountain but the difference is for me is now bringing everybody with us to build more mountain as well ultimately as we go along the road of life you become so uniquely focused myopic on the thing that you want to attract and compete for and accomplish how was your relationship with

Vince and what things did you pick up from him specifically with the relationship behind closed doors the relationship with Vince and I was a great relationship because it was based on I'm willing to work for every dollar I'll tell you a story about Vince too as well that really helped expand the aperture of my brain in terms of business uh but our relationship with Vince and I it was about the work willing to put in the work and I have a tremendous boundless respect for the business of pro wrestling that is so deeply important to

him that's his life it's his world it's his blood and I grew up in the business of pro wrestling my grandfather wrestled for Vince's dad in the 70s my dad wrestled for Vince in the 80s so I went into this with a tremendous amount of respect and reverence willing to put in the work let's get to work that that competitive nature that never goes away do you think do you think that is in you do you think that's maybe pops behind closed doors would say certain things to you that you remember do you think that's

somebody offending you that you said you're going to say that to me watch what do you think that comes from like is it duplicatable or is it you either have it in your DNA or you don't I think there's versions of it that are duplicatable and I think but we all go through our own journey and process so there's something I think that we all can um tap into that becomes our juice and our wiring for me you bring up my old man my dad was uh a a professional wrestler at a time when professional

wrestling I think wasn't as globally renowned as it is today my my dad was paycheck to paycheck kind of guy and when I decided to get into professional wrestling we had the biggest fight about it and ultimately he said look I I I'm not too sure if you have anything to offer I mean it got to that level how old are you at this time I was 22 years old 23 22 23 and and I understand what he meant in in his limited capacity to love he meant look I live in this little apartment in

Tampa right up the road I75 I don't want this life for you I think there's more for you out there and I said yeah but I got to follow my gut and my instinct along the road of life we always have these moments that are seminal moments where somebody sometimes it's a loved one like my old man sometimes it's a friend sometimes it's a boss some sometimes it's a stranger who says you can't do it you're not good enough don't even try pack your stuff and go home same thing happened to me in Hollywood the

most important thing is to be what I was and am and will be tomorrow and that's real and again that's when everything starts to conform Hollywood conformed and I find like and what I have found and I'm sure you guys will agree is that when you take that kind of action and that kind of Step of following your gut and your intuition taking that step whatever it is Universe has a funny way of meeting you halfway [Music]