Here’s a key idea I want you to really think about. You will never produce anything higher than the quality of your private standards. At all costs protect your absolute world-class standards. Sometimes you’re going to question them, because
when you stand for world-class standards, excellence, best in world, great energy, making your mark on the world, releasing your magic, continuing when times are
tough, turning the stones critics throw at you into monuments of mastery, when you live by these kinds of standards, even being the most loving person in every room that you’re in, even helping people and being generous and not worrying about the little things, well what starts to happen is because you’re so different from the 95%, you’re considered a freak. Because you’re different from the majority, you’re considered strange or weird, and people misunderstand you and then they come up with stories about you, and then they might become your critics and they might laugh at you.
So all I’m saying is the very act of committing yourself to being the best that you can possibly be and materializing your primal genius, it’s a dangerous route. It’s not an easy path, but it is the single best path you could ever live. It’s the path of authenticity. It’s the path of materializing who you are. It’s the path of honoring your greatness. It’s the path of doing something amazing in the world. It’s a path of respecting your gifts and your talents. So protect your absolute world-class standards at all costs, and if people laugh, well just remember, they always laugh at all the great ones.
