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And it's amazing how you can speak things into existence I cannot become depressed because I don't believe in it So how about chemical imbalances in the brain Bullshit that's all been disproved anyway Really It's all been disproved Firstly that's all been disproved And secondly even if that was true even if I had a chemical imbalance in my brain I do not believe in depression That's just who I am as a person I don't believe in it I do not believe in things that take power away from me So and people sit there and they try very hard to convince me it's real which is actually quite interesting because it's always usually depressed people who sit there and try very hard to defend this idea If depression is so terrible why are you sticking up for it Why are you fighting so hard to convince me it's such a powerful force Why shouldn't you be doing the opposite Shouldn't you be listening to me Whose team are you on Like do you want to be depressed Like it's insanity these people who are so desperate to push this idea Then you add in the pharmaceutical element and the fact that everyone's taking these fucking drugs messing with their brain chemistry It's garbage I think that you feel depressed sometimes because you're human So you felt depressed at times Would you say We're all human Yeah because I felt depressed I mean I had some major it might not sound big but some major dental surgery done and it really got me down for a while But my businesses and running those to be honest pick me up because it was like I can't be like this get in there do some business Well completely And also let's look at it Let's pretend I'm completely wrong right We can look at situational depression like you just described We can talk about brain imbalance and chemical imbalance We can talk about clinical depression that you get and it's chronic and there's nothing you do about it whatever Let's pretend all these things are completely true The best option the best thing to do is still to get up be an adult control your emotions be stoic and do the things you're supposed to do day after day

This is what's crazy All these people who talk about toxic masculinity and how bad it is for men to be traditionally masculine A traditionally masculine man does things he doesn't feel like doing because it is his duty to do them He charges into the burning building because it is his duty not because he feels like it but because it is his duty We're now teaching the new generation of men that they don't have duty and they can just act on their feelings and act how they feel and they don't have to act as a man should Do you know what happens when you get men who just act how they feel You get school shooters you get violence you get rapists Men who do not control their emotions are dangerous If you find a man who is stoic he's not going to hurt people He's going to sit and think about his actions very carefully and he's going to be a good man who protects and provides for his family You find a man who just acts out on impulse and does whatever he feels like You're going to find a dangerous man sitting here telling men to cry more and act with their feelings And it's okay to feel this way that way etc and have no self-control That is why we have the problems we have in the world Absolutely not really wrong So when they talk about toxic masculinity they have it completely inversed on its head Completely not really wrong We need to be teaching stoicism We need to be teaching young men to understand that the world is very very difficult It's hard to be a man You're going to feel bad sometimes You just suck it up and perform anyway Not to sit there and cry your eyes out or blame other people A lot of the problem with people especially in the world today is they misunderstand the difference between a dream and a plan And nothing good in your life is ever going to happen by accident If you see a guy in fantastic shape you don't say how'd you get in great shape He goes oops oops I just fell No he ate a specific way He trained a specific time He did specific things for a specific outcome And it's the same with finances And most people who are broke if you say do you want to be rich You want to be rich How are you going to get rich One day I'll win the lottery Yeah dumb shit You have no plan You have no plan whatsoever No actual steps No you're not doing things daily You're just hoping At some point in the future God's going to just dump it on your doorstep Guess what It ain't going to fucking happen And unless you have a plan a specific plan I'm sure you guys had a very you had a plan and you worked hard to get to your points I had a plan Everything was like OK today we have to do day after day after day until you get there And this is what most people don't have because they're too arrogant or too lazy I don't think it's stupid I think most people if you laid out a plan and they tried their very best and they were willing to learn could do it I don't think people are too stupid to make money They're just too lazy or too arrogant to make money That's the problem with people OK so the days of easy money are gone

I do not like to hang around with men who suffer from a lack of women because in my experience any man who can't get women will eventually sell you out for women If you're completely sex deprived all the time sooner or later you're going to sell your boys out for sex whether it's his ex or some girl talking bad about her boy but you really want to pussy so you let her slide You're not good with girls Second thing is money You have not be rich rich but if you're starving you're going to try and sneak some money out of somebody Right If you can't eat you'll do anything for food You can't pay the bills or do anything for money That means whether it's a plea bargain whether it's trying to rob me whether it's money sitting around my house I don't want to talk to extremely sex deprived people for the same reason I wouldn't have a whole bunch of food around of hungry person Same reason The next thing is loyalty And I know that's super hard to judge but I really like to believe that the few people I hang around with if you were all in separate police interviews and they were to come and say Hey your boy turned You better come with a new story Go away and think about it and come back We can talk but don't try that one So loyalty is very very important Next is bravery because camp fight is fine but won't fight is not If I'm with my five friends and I'm going toilet in the club and I come back and I see a someone punch one of my friends I am annihilating anybody in that guy's group We'll find out why later My guy could have been wrong My guy could have been It could have been my guy's fault I'm just hitting him him him him him I'm just knocking everyone

Who gets to decide where the line is and where the people like Andrew T Cross it Is that guy unapologetically troll-like I'm from a council state in Luton I'm now a billionaire I think that a lot of people don't understand that it's all of the challenges and struggles that's going to make them it's either going to make or break them I read I don't read studies very often but I was sent a study about stress from somebody It's probably the best study I ever read and it's talked about the placebo effect of stress And it said that they took some of the most stressed people in the world CEOs etc and the ones who believed that stress was really bad for them were dying earlier because of the cortisol inside of their blood And they said stress would be bad for them they're having heart attacks But the ones who believed that stress was good for them and it made them perform I perform under pressure stress was good for me they were living longer So the same drug inside of their blood how they framed it inside of their mind had different effects on their body So from that point onwards even though I already thought this way I knew I was the right way I knew it was the right way to think innately because I've done pretty good in life that way But this confirmed it Every time I feel stressed or under pressure I get excited

So I don't like the idea when someone explains to me the idea of one day waking up and being miserable and not wanting to live anymore and it's nothing to do with my circumstances and I have no power over it and no matter how good my life is I'm still going to feel terrible and I'm going to want to die That's not an idea I subscribe to That's not a reality I'm ever going to want But that's a reactive depression isn't it You can be reactive depressed for the day for example for a while Even chronically yeah Feeling depressed is real Yeah Depression as a disease I do not subscribe to The idea I believe that if you feel depressed something is depressing you and you should try your best to fix it You should take control of your life and do your best to fix it The idea but they don't say that They don't talk that They say depression like it's this magic thing that comes out of the sky and it gets in your brain you're sad no matter what And there's nothing you can do about it and you need to only take pills And I think that's a very bad way to look at the world and that's a bad idea to subscribe to And if you start to feel depressed let's say your girl leaves you and you start to feel depressed but you believe in the idea of depression you're now going to start diagnosing yourself as clinically depressed Self-hip nosing yourself and hypnotizing yourself into being clinically depressed

So there's certain things that I I create a very very particular reality And it's actually interesting because to me these things are all normal But when you have these kind of standards you pretty hard to find friends When you have six men in one place who are personatious who are paying attention who do have their things right who don't lose things who do do The whole room can smell When me and my crew walk in a room even if it's it's almost like an energy Some guy can be eating his dinner not even see us walk in and go six predators It's like the rabbit when the fox comes Like you can smell when the guy like the guys turn up And also nobody's overly sloppy and allows a way for us to be infiltrated and destroyed I say that life as a man is exceptionally difficult I say the most beautiful and the most terrifying thing about being a man is you're born without value Society doesn't care about you You're only going to be cared about based on how useful you are You have the chance to build yourself up and become a superhero if you're prepared to do the hard work and be indifatigable enough to never quit But if you're going to stand around and wait for a handout nobody's going to ever respect you And I think that a lot of people have forgotten about how difficult and how competitive it is as a man We're always in constant competition with each other And it's your duty as a man to stand up and say I want to be as important and strong and good hearted and God fearing as possible And I need to work hard to achieve those things Dame Sheila Hancock says we've become too over-emotional as a society crying too much about everything

I've I've I've developed a habit where I punish myself for the smallest in professional actions If I misplace my keys or misplace my phone and it takes me more than 10 minutes to find it I'll punish myself for that Regardless whether it's I don't spend money this week or I don't go here or I'm canceling that or I'm going to defer buying something I want to buy I punish myself religiously so that next time I put my phone down I know where I put my phone Next time I put it down I know where I put it all the time When I put it down I know where my phone is So when I'm around people like Hey I lost my keys All right bro I forgot that when I'm around sloppy people I don't like it I like people who have their lives in order When I when I detect sloppiness I don't really want them too close because gaps are where people things sneak in Other things are basic offset really basic offset I like that If I'm around my friends if I'm ever sitting with my back to a room this is an enclosed environment In a normal restaurant I never sit with my back to the room If I have to do it I like that my I never do it If I have to do it the people I roll with they'll literally give me a gnaw They'll sit down at dinner and I have to sit here They'll go and they'll pay extra attention for me because I can't see behind I like that level of professionals I like that I like people like I said don't we get we no hangovers no crying their eyes out no cowardice It's infectious

Also I think especially in the West a lot of people's problems are all in their mind and I'm not saying that mental conditions aren't real because absolutely some are but I try and explain to people look if you the only thing on the planet you have genuine control over is your state of mind Like you can't even control your health You might get hit by lightning You can't control other people You can't control the weather You can't control anything The only thing you can affect in genuine real time is how you feel in your head If someone comes to me and goes oh I get really shy and anxious I'll say so Right Not not oh okay That must be horrible No so do anyway Yeah but I'm shy I don't care I don't no one cares The whole world doesn't care Nobody cares Go If you could drop dead tomorrow the world wouldn't care The sun's still going to rise People are still going to go to work So you're going to sit around and worry about speaking When people come to me and say I'm not happy I say why should you be happy You're and and and we're all adults here This infantile mindset that we're all supposed to be like we were when we were three years old and oh something shiny Laugh all the time Run around in circles We're grown-ups and we have responsibilities and we have problems and we have pressure and you don't necessarily have to be happy to perform especially if you're a man Like like women have this I will I guess to a degree they're born lucky Women have this mindset where they can people expect women to be happy Women need to be happy But as a man you have a burden of performance

So I'm sitting there and I understand what I need So these are the things you need to be a high value man Your mentality is heavily linked to your reality And the fact that most people have such weak mindsets comes from the fact that they have a weak life a weak body a weak social circle a weak network a weak bank account a weak relationship And then their mind is weak So if someone comes to me and goes I doubt myself I usually look at them and go yeah I understand why you're a little fat piece of s*** you're stupid Hey Andrew so how do I get like a six pack quick What's the best fastest way to get a six pack Why does it have to be quick Why does it have to be easy Why do you think life is all quick and easy Why can't it be hard and difficult Why can't you suffer Because suffering is what gives it value If everyone had a six pack and it was quick and easy then it wouldn't be valuable would it If everyone walked around with a quick the six pack and they got it easily then no one would give a s*** The whole point is that it's difficult to get Value is linked to difficulty If you want something that is valuable you need something which is difficult to obtain The fact that you just said you wanted it quick and easily shows that your whole mental model is f***ed You shouldn't be thinking about quick and easy You should be thinking about hard suffering pain going through it That's what you should be thinking about This is going to be hard but I'm going to do it anyway Because when it is done then everyone's going to know that I went through something difficult Why do you want it to be quick and easy

But if your number one goal is a man if your number one uh mission in life is just to be happy that's it could be extremely vapious existence and you're not going to be a man of substance The men of substance out there are not necessarily happy people You you Mike Tyson wasn't happy when he was smashing people's faces in That's not how you get there You don't get there being happy It's not it's it's just a complete the whole mindset the whole idea that oh we all need to be happy all the time is the reason you have men on the streets taking drugs looking for a quick fix because they don't want to do any real work to get any genuine fulfillment So they end up shooting drugs running around being fools And that's what happens Motivation isn't real Everyone says this Motivation is not real Discipline is real I do not feel like training but I still train because I'm a disciplined individual You don't get to go through life only doing the things you feel like doing Do you know who gets to do that Women beautiful women beautiful women get to do what they feel like doing as a man You have to do the things you're supposed to do because what we said earlier is absolutely true It's player versus player my friend And I wake up and I decide even though I don't feel like working I'm going to work my ass off and you wake up way down there peon and you can't be bothered to work What chance do you have against men like us You don't stand a chance

Success for a man actually comes in many realms It's actually nothing to do with being good at your job Having money yeah You don't have to be good at your job Depression is the ultimate motivation Oh so you're depressed Okay So you come along to me and you tell me you're depressed I expect to see a huge list of what you're achieving per day If you're unhappy with your life and you're depressed I don't expect you to be popping pills and sitting in the lane in bed I expect you to give me a huge list of everything you're achieving per day Depression is a fantastic motivation You know but people are told the opposite No you should feel depressed

I'm not gonna sit here and be sympathetic for people who say they're too sad to try hard and be their best Guess what Perhaps I was sad every time I did exactly what I was supposed to do and trained anyway Perhaps I was afraid when I fought anyway Perhaps I was tired when I worked anyway This is how you get ahead in life I don't have a fucking ounce of sympathy for these people who sit here and say well I feel this way so I can't then don't do it Stay down there The winners are at the top and the winners at the top don't give a shit about how they feel

And as a man you have to out-compete the other men who are prepared to get up and do it anyway If you want to be important as a man you have shit to do You have duties If I feel sad it does not change how I act And it does not change the things I do If I don't feel like going to the gym I go to the gym If I don't feel like working I will still work But I had to fight anyway If I wake up in a happy mood and I have a business to run and females to cater for and things to do if I wake up in a sad mood I have the same shit to do

We wake up when we perform regardless of how we feel day after day So if I'm gonna ignore my own feelings I'm certainly not gonna take into consideration anybody else's Why am I gonna ignore how I feel and make sure I'm constantly performing regardless flawlessly and then sit and go oh but he doesn't feel good So he's allowed to fuck up No you are not You're not allowed to fuck up to your ancestors or to God or to yourself You have to perform This is how it this is what being a man is about The baseline of masculinity is doing things you don't feel like doing I can't comment on being a woman because I'm not one

Right I'm saying you can't sit as a man and afford the luxury of saying I have a mental health issue today I'm sad today I'm stressed today I'm emotional today I can't work because you will lose against a man who don't do

The problem about this success is people always making judgments I did this I did that maybe this didn't work maybe that's a mistake that's a mistake There's no such thing in life See at one time you were a monkey all right This is not me this is that Englishman you know Charles Darwin said you were all monkeys At one time you were a monkey just a brief while ago Was it a mistake that you committed that you were a monkey or was it just a certain stage of evolution Was it a mistake or was it just a certain stage of evolution Similarly since you were born because as a human being you're born largely unformed unlike other creatures

So our commitment to success should not weaken because there is social drama going on or physiological drama or psychological drama whatever happens your commitment to success should not weaken You must understand those who made any significant achievements in their life they did not you know.. But those who have been very successful either in music sport art business spiritual process doesn't matter what those people never know when they ate when they slept when they got afternoon rest I've not seen such a thing in my life

Right now it's about ensuring that there is profoundness of experience and there is impactfulness of activity Because if they had given you a limitless amount of time you could do all those things nothing wrong I'm not against them But they gave you such a little time with such tremendous potential of being human that's the problem If creation had made you like an earthworm I'm not saying there's anything wrong with an earthworm it is just that it's a unipolar potential it can only do that much An earthworm is not thinking of climbing a tree because it knows it'll be picked up by the birds it never has such aspirations it just wants to recycle the earth You know it is beneficial to so many other lives including us but its objective is very clear to eat and to reproduce and to die

Their commitment to success is weak They want to succeed they will take three steps then something little interesting happens here they will go away here they will go away there they will go away there Their commitment to success is weak Many times it happens to everyone but when this happens people weaken their commitment for their success Maybe physically they'll feel little weak they will weaken their commitment to success Maybe their emotions lost around a little bit they will weaken their commitment to success This is very important right now However long it takes this virus you must come out of this successfully That means you must stay alive that's an important part

Yeah so you have a $500 NOI or net operating income So why is that important Well the banker looks at that number because that's the number that they see to be able to pay back any debt you might want Correct So they're going to look here and they're going to say OK this person has $500 in NOI Therefore we can give them a loan say up to say $350 $250 or something like that So what they're going to do is they're going to look at the NOI and say how much can we loan you So when Kenny calls me says I have this property

It's in horrible condition There's no income There's expenses all over the place You get excited right A lot of people get hung up here because they don't have a financial statement any way to go to a banker let's say But sometimes a banker will look at the property itself So they'll say this has a bad NOI on it Why would we give you money You know what I mean And then so that's when the financial education comes in and you say well this is what I plan to do with it Correct What Kenny is saying we've had I'm keeping the numbers simple He's had income of zero Yeah And this is a thousand Yeah So you'd have a negative NOI And the banker goes tell me why I can't lend on that right Because it's a higher risk of being able to be paid back The NOI or the net operating income determines the value

Sometimes you see them get converted into clubs or whatever Well there's value there Somebody spent a lot of money on it Well one time somebody owns it too It could be a bank It could be whatever So taking that and creating value sticking a restaurant in it a gym in it a club in it It doesn't really matter who's in it What does Because you want them to pay you But now you're creating the income And then that's how you create value So in that example let's say you buy a building for a million bucks on a block With a tenant in it it could be worth $3 $4 $5 million So if it's a tenant in it the value is up Yeah Right Because then what you do is you put all that together and then you can actually sell it Got it And so even if the NOI is negative if you create a plan that creates value for the property and shows the increase that you're going to give the property's value the bank will give you the loan Oftentimes yeah And not always

And I know another thing that you always mention in all your books in the ABCs of real estate investing is that property management is very important Poor property management equals poor profits right And so I wanted you to kind of explain the importance of the property management Well essentially all property management is is taking care of the property in every way So taking care of the people that might be inside of this building you know for the various things that come up from day to day collecting the rent and paying all the expenses That's really all it is And so the property manager's job is to make sure the place is clean and that things are getting rented and all those things And so the owner of the building would hire a company like that or they can do it themselves and basically keep the place full So in our world you know we have a property management company that we have about 300 employees All we do is focus on this these two things How do we keep our expenses low and keep our income high Because we're always trying to grow our NOI So our NOI you know we have a budget for let's say 2017 or 2018 or 2019 The goal is to grow that NOI each year

And Kenny has done such things as the way he grew the income he put washing machines right Yeah In the in the in the washing machines And so when we put washing machines in the building this went up right Yeah so uh in my apartment houses um we would buy apartment houses that had washer and dryer hookups but no machines And so the people would walk down to the laundry mat or whatever and it was a bit of an inconvenience for the people and all that So I said well let's just buy for $650 we can buy a washer and dryer set and stick them in all there And we did that And so I probably bought uh three or 4,000 sets of washers and dryers um for a lot of our properties And so now all of a sudden we can charge $7500 or $100 more in rent This goes up

We're not parking our money in something and hoping it goes up This is very strategic Perfect So everybody's got their point of view Most people want to get rich quick That's why they never get rich Yeah This is not bad Yeah This this is financial education This is smart This is having your banker be your partner Yeah And these are long-term assets by the way These are these are this is like this is a business This is like managing a business We would not sell these So unlike the stock market or something you know we're not trying to time things We're trying to generate cash flow here and then move to the next one Okay So can I give you one last thing Because those guys always upset me So what Kenny does he increases this fixes this And then when this goes up he gives my money back So I might give Kenny a million dollars for five years let's say He increases this decreases this The bank says oh yeah NOI is up So he puts all this money in there I get my million dollars back I still own the property I still have the cash flow going in So all you guys want to get rich quick it's called an infinite return