Arnold Schwarzenegger: Life's 6 Rules

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Arnold Schwarzenegger shares his six rules to a very successful life. The legendary bodybuilder reveals the motivation which drove him to success in each of four different careers over the past five decades in this short inspirational speech.

A little known fact about Arnold Schwarzenegger is that, upon arriving in the USA to compete in professional bodybuilding, he professed to coach Joe Weider that he would one day like to move from bodybuidling into acting, then property and finally politics. While many could have forgiven Weider for not paying too much attention to those pipe dreams, Arnold then went onto accomplish every single one in the exact order he planned to.

Whether you plan to use these 6 rules in your gym training, perhaps for bodybuilding motivation, or maybe to help you focus more at work on getting that promotion you've always aimed for, what we would suggest is to actually begin applying them to your overall life. The impact and sense of freedom it will have on your everyday life is incredibly positive.

NOTE: Turn up the volume, the speech is quite soft


This is the original version from his 2009 USC Commencement Address (speech starts at 2:50).​
 

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Rule 2: Break the rules.

Case in point,
Schwarzenegger served in the Austrian Army in 1965 to fulfill the one year of service required at the time of all 18-year-old Austrian males. During his army service, he won the Junior Mr. Europe contest. He went AWOL during basic training so he could take part in the competition and spent a week in military prison: "Participating in the competition meant so much to me that I didn't carefully think through the consequences." He won another bodybuilding contest in Graz, at Steirer Hof Hotel (where he had placed second). He was voted best built man of Europe, which made him famous.
quoted from: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 

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Well i guess arnold didn't really mean it that way. But since it was "breaking the rules", i thought i would share that little snippet of info.

Anyway, pretty good speech from the champ :)
 

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break the rules - NOT THE LAW - but break the rules

politically correct :D
 

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was reading arnold's quotes off his IMDB profile (Arnold Schwarzenegger - Biography) and found them seriously entertaining...
I love the Hong Kong style of action movies, but that only looks good for small guys. The reason why the whole style was developed over there was because those guys were very puny guys - they're not powerful-looking guys, they're also not powerful guys. There's no weightlifting champion coming out of Hong Kong - maybe in the bantam division or the lightweight division or something like that, but normally you don't have really strong men coming out of there . . . they had to learn a technique that small people can do that are as effective as the big guy's strength. So that's where the martial arts came from.
I know that if you leave dishes in the sink, they get sticky and hard to wash the next day.
You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
 
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I love the Hong Kong style of action movies, but that only looks good for small guys. The reason why the whole style was developed over there was because those guys were very puny guys - they're not powerful-looking guys, they're also not powerful guys. There's no weightlifting champion coming out of Hong Kong - maybe in the bantam division or the lightweight division or something like that, but normally you don't have really strong men coming out of there . . . they had to learn a technique that small people can do that are as effective as the big guy's strength. So that's where the martial arts came from.
I take this as an insult to the Asian people. kungfu is not a technique to be "as effective as the big guy's strength".....