Joe Rogan - "I'm Entirely Too Successful"

It's to do sports, you know, they've been involved in athletics in some form, whether it's martial arts or gymnastics, since they were little. They do things that are difficult. We do stuff as a family that are difficult. We do like escape rooms. We play games. We do things that are hard. I don't let them win. Good. Yeah. I mean, my little one, I let her win sometimes and stuff. Like we play carnival games against each other or something like that. I'll let her. Carnival games? Yeah. Like we go to like circus, circus. I was in Vegas, I was in Vegas for this thing that my daughter was doing. So I took my youngest daughter, circus, circus, playing these carnival games. Okay. I let her beat me a bunch of times. Shh. Don't tell her. But that's, we're having fun. Yeah. Just laughing and being silly, talking trash to each other too. Yes. She high fives me and stuff. It's fun. But I think there's value in learning that it sucks to lose. Yes. Because that makes you reassess like what you did, that the other person did better, and how do I beat them? Yeah. I mean, I'm not a weed, but weed making you nervous and makes you paranoid. Like, I like that. What I like is, look, I'm entirely too successful. I like to feel vulnerable. I think there's a lot of good to that. Like legitimately, I like that feeling because it makes me more connected. It makes me more humble. What do you mean you're too successful? Well, you can only have so much success in this life before you start thinking that you're different than other people. You're thinking that you're something special. No, it's... Look, if you're on a path, right? If everybody's on a path and you start off here and then X amount of years later, you're way away, you can start thinking, oh, I'm better than all those motherfuckers. But you're not. You just have been on this path longer and you haven't fallen off of it. You've figured out what you need to do to stay on that path. We know a lot of people that were on the path at one time in their career and then something happened, and they lost their enthusiasm or their body wasn't as healthy or whatever the fuck happened, and they dropped off. I'm still on that path. Why? Because I figured it out. What is it? Keep going. Keep going. Don't be a pussy. Keep working. Improve. Objectively analyze your performance. Look at what you're doing wrong. Treat everything with respect. Treat all of your endeavors with focus and intensity and intention. Look at what you're doing and pay attention and do the work. Do the goddamn work. Do the writing. Do the performing. You'll see me. I'll do four or five sets a night in LA. I'm doing 15, 20 minutes, half hour. I'll do an hour here. I'll go down to the ice house. I'll do an hour at the ice house. I'm doing two shows at the ice house tomorrow night. I go. I go. There's no excuses. I go. To me, the way I've got it set up, it's great. My kids go to bed. By the time my kids are in bed, I leave. You're out. I say goodnight. I tuck them in. I'm out the door. I'm headed to the club. I'm home in four hours. When I'm done, I get in front of the computer and I write. I write. I get up in the morning. I see them off to school, go back to sleep, or I go to the gym. Get things done. Keep moving. You got to keep moving. You're a shark. My job is the task.