{"id":19022,"date":"2023-06-28T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=19022"},"modified":"2023-06-28T08:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:55:37","slug":"the-extreme-mindset-of-a-young-arnold-schwarzenegger-by-david-senra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/the-extreme-mindset-of-a-young-arnold-schwarzenegger-by-david-senra\/","title":{"rendered":"The extreme mindset of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger by David Senra"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The extreme mindset of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger:<\/div>\n
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1. You are a winner, Arnold. I wrote this down and put it where I would see it. I repeated it a dozen times a day.<\/div>\n
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2. My drive was unusual, I talked differently than my friends; I was hungrier for success than anyone I knew.<\/div>\n
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3. I had this insatiable drive to get there sooner. Whereas most people were satisfied to train two or three times a week, I quickly escalated my program to six workouts a week.<\/div>\n
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4. I’d always been impressed by stories of greatness and power. Caesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon were names I knew and remembered. I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the best.<\/div>\n
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5. I was literally addicted.<\/div>\n
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6. I didn’t care what I had to go through to get it.<\/div>\n
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7. My mind was totally locked into working out and I was annoyed if anything took me away from it.<\/div>\n
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8. My weight room was not heated, so naturally in cold weather it was freezing. I didn’t care. I trained without heat, even on days when the temperature went below zero.<\/div>\n
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9. I had a photographer take pictures at least once a month. I studied each shot with a magnifying glass.<\/div>\n
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10. I sacrificed a lot of things most bodybuilders didn\u2019t want to give up. I just didn’t care, I wanted to win more than anything. And whatever it took to do it, I did.<\/div>\n
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11. Every day I hear someone say, “I’m too fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can’t. I never seem to improve.” I’d hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak.<\/div>\n
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12. I listened only to my inner voice, my instincts.<\/div>\n
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13. People’s ideas were small. There was too much contentment, too much acceptance of things as they’d always been.<\/div>\n
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14. My own thinking was tuned in to only one thing: becoming Mr. Universe. In my own mind, I was Mr. Universe; I had this absolutely clear vision of myself up on the dais with the trophy. It was only a matter of time before the whole world would be able to see it too. And it made no difference to me how much I had to struggle to get there.<\/div>\n
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15. Once I was over the initial disappointment of losing, I began trying to understand exactly why I had lost. I tried to be honest, to analyze it fairly. I still had some serious weaknesses. For me, that was a real turning point.<\/div>\n
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16. I was relying on one thing. What I had more than anyone else was drive. I was hungrier than anybody. I wanted it so badly it hurt. I knew there could be no one else in the world who wanted this title as much as I did.<\/div>\n
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17. I had thought perhaps he had some special exercises, but that wasn\u2019t true. He concentrated on the standard exercises. That was his “secret” \u2014concentration.<\/div>\n
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18. I started training in an area where there were no distractions. <\/div>\n
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19. I had lists and charts of the things I needed to concentrate on pasted all over. I looked at them every day before I began working out. It became a twenty-four-hour-a-day job; I had to think about it all the time.<\/div>\n
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20. I continued doing precisely what I knew I needed to do. In my mind, there was only one possibility for me and that was to go to the top, to be the best.<\/div>\n
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21. I remember certain people trying to put negative thoughts into my mind, trying to persuade me to slow down. But I had found the thing to which I wanted to devote my total energies and there was no stopping me.<\/div>\n
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22. They weren’t mentally prepared for intensive championship training; they weren’t thinking about it. I knew the secret: Concentrate while you’re training. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind.<\/div>\n
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23. When I went to the gym I got rid of every alien thought in my mind.<\/div>\n
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24. I wanted to create an empire.<\/div>\n

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