Firas Zahabi’s 5 Tips to Beat Defeat
1) TEACHING TOUGHNESS
I think because we’re in such a great position, our generation and other generations are getting softer and softer because their lives are better and better. You didn’t have to struggle to eat. You didn’t have to struggle to find a warm bed. You were given all these things. Life is pretty easy, so what happens is the mind starts to become softer. You’re used to living a more cushy life. If you look at the Spartans or the Romans they had to wrestle. When they were born, they had to wrestle. If you didn’t know how to wrestle, you were weak. You got nothing. You couldn’t earn anything in life. You had to either be a farmer or a soldier, one of the two. So being tough was such an important thing and wrestling was the key. I don’t think you should teach kids boxing, but wrestling, there’s no blows to the head and it’ll teach you that toughness, that physicality and that once you have that mindset and that toughness, everything else is easy.
2) APPRECIATE CATASTROPHIC LESSONS
Mental toughness for me is you see only good in everything, even if something catastrophic happens you only see the good. Because there is good in all bad events. If tomorrow a doctor tells you you’re going to die of cancer in 6 month you’ve got to tell yourself I’m going to live at another level in these 6 months because I know these days are numbered. So every day for me is going to be like a year. Every second is going to be like hours for me because I’m going to appreciate it that much. There’s got to be something positive in whatever happens.
3) DECISIONS ARE POWER
A proactive person will go out there and make things happen. He’s not going to wait for somebody else to come and save him. He doesn’t give power to other people. The power is in your decisions — that’s where all your power is. This is the root of all power. Habit number 1 is be proactive. There are no excuses. There are no excuses. And you will find success one way or another.
4) THE COMPUTER IN YOUR MIND IS THE SAME AS LEONARDO DA VINCI’S
You can learn to do anything. The computer in your mind is the same as Leonardo da Vinci’s, it’s the same as Einstein’s. You have the world’s most powerful computer sitting in between your ears. Program it any which way you want. Teach yourself how to do something over and over again and then it will do it on its own. You can program your mind for anything.
5) EMBRACE ENTHUSIASM
A life well lived is what makes you enthusiastic? Find enthusiasm and you’re at the highest level of the human experience. Enthusiasm. The path to happiness is enthusiasm.
Find Firas Zahabi’s full interview below.
Originally posted on InsideQuest.com.
