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"Hard work beats talent when talent refuses to work hard.". One of my favorite quotes in the realm of combat sports.

You are the very embodiment of coach, no bullshit and dream-selling, no cliche motivational stuff, just real-talks everytimes: your kids, family and surrounding are very lucky having you around. Jazakallah khair coach.

I've learned so much from you. You have played a key role in my development as a man. Thank you for sharing all your wisdom with those who want to hear it.🙌

This video inspired me to fulfil my dream of being a competitive croissant eater. Thanks coach!

This is the most realistic, on point, honest, real take on success ever uttered out loud. It´s ridiculous how some people claim everybody can be world champions, it´s just not possible for people who were born on the wrong side of the bell curve. Everybody at the top trains hard so talent becomes the dividing line. Find what you are good at naturally then go all out with that.

I’m currently playing semi professional soccer on the border line of professional. This is real. Someone I know was elite but they didn’t work hard and now don’t play soccer anymore. Whilst me on the other hand sacrifice party life in order to be whiskers away from the professional level. If he had the same work ethic, he would dust me for good and take my spot of possibly be professional. Bell curve is real, man.

Beautiful video Coach, thank you for this. I believe I have a gift for engineering and just learnt today that I must resit a module. Thanks for the morale boost.

Firas, you’re so much more than an MMA coach. That’s only scratching the surface of the kind of person you are. I’ve learned so much from watching your videos. May God keep blessing you inshallah 🙏🏼

I think the book you're talking about is "Managing Oneself" by Peter Drucker. You've mentioned it many times before. Very short book but it goes straight to the point.

The difficult thing is finding the talent. Ironically enough, when we try to find it we don't, but it is other people that notice what our talent is

Thanks so much for answering in such a profound way ❤

Appreciate you man, keep sharing your knowledge and guiding as you do!

Firaz is a very intelligent and insightful person, please keep sharing your thoughts , it really inspires a lot of people

I really enjoyed listening to this episode. Thank you Coach

Thank you very much coach I needed this

Thank you your streams and videos help me a lot

Love Firas's positivity!!

Love your philosophical approach to self-development - looking at things on a deeper level unlike most self-help gurus that do it superficially, for the most part.

i’m 15 right now, i started training martial arts since i was 4 but only started grappling and wrestling this year. everyone always says i have great ambition and drive and my goal is 3x state champion in wrestling, at least for now. this was the first video i watched and i liked this a lot! thank you

Inspired by this: “I want you to pursue it to the end: pull the plug, pull the pin, there’s no turning back, we’ll never look back, we’ll never change course, we’re going to take this course to the end.” Now that’s how a world-class coach inspires you. Please remember the book title you referenced. I would love to read it. Btw, you’re reminding me of my favourite quote, “We’ll find a way, or make one.” -Hannibal

“Achieve Believe Conceive” - Luke Rockhold

Bobby Fisher was a kid who liked to play chess, then a miracle happened by becoming a very good player during his adolescence, after winning the World Chess Championship he said "I consider myself a genius who happened to play chess" and when he was old, retired and kinda crazy, he said "I hate chess" lol

Thank you for this video brother

Just when I thought I couldn't like you any further, you drop Bell Curve knowledge. Immense amount of respect for you

Great advice Firas. I wish these kind of things were taught in your teens.

Am 21 years old and from my bottom of my heart thank you so much ❤

We need to speak again in person. Please. I appreciate your vision and drive and love for combat sports. I need to move beside Tristar and start work. Hopefully sooner rather than later

Much respect to you, good sir. Thank you!!!!!

I was always good at everything I did fast…fighting, sports, computer programming, stock trader, guitar playing, wrestling but cold never get over that plateau to great or elite. So my gift is that I can learn something fast but can’t get to great no matter how much I work at it.

Powerful!! All about mindset

Powerfull . Thanks Coach

Damn great insight and knowledge brother. I appreciate it.

Thank you for this

This is why it is so important to surround oneself around attentive and insightful people who will recognize your natural abilities and encourage you to "pursue it to the end". And for the opposite reason it is important to avoid haters and naysayers. Also YES you should be training all these massively rich tech nerds!

Well said!!

Inspirational. Firas is the hell of a genious.

Dude, it's a huge dream of mine to go to TriStar one day. Much love mr. Zahabi

The good thing about talent is that you cannot discover if you have it unless you try your best. It's a thing i love about sports and every activity in general, you discover how good you are at it during your journey.

I'm 51 so becoming elite at anything passed me by, but I'm still gonna try anyway

This is exactly what I needed, I'm in a slump rn lol

I believe the book you're referring to, coach, was - Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker.

Awesome chat, thx

Happy I came across this.

I love jiujitsu more than anything. But I am definitely average at best. I’m OK with that. I’m actually pretty average at everything I do, but I’m having a good time, and I really enjoy life. I don’t think everyone is destined to find that one thing at which they excel and pursue it relentlessly. Some of us are content to live simple lives. But I certainly have a great deal of admiration for people who achieve high levels of success in their fields.

hey man i agree with this completely i use to be pretty quick and fast but sometimes you have to experience stuff and stick with it for abit to see how much talent you have for that thing for example i thought i wasnt a fast puncher but main reason was was because i was always super anxious and extremely stiff as soon as i loosend up a bit boom i realized that for speed in boxing i do have talent now im looking to pursue boxing and see how it goes and if it ends up not working somehow then ill find something that i am gifted with and pursue it but mainly boxing is key for me

There is one guy in our boxing gym whose great grandfather was an olympic champion boxer, in combined he trained like 3 years at best. (even that training was kind of low commitment). But ocasionally when he comes down to the gym he whoops everyones ass easily. I used to get upset about it but its just what it is.

Always appreciate your perspective on all things. Cheers from Australia, where as of late, we have the No 1 pound for pound, Alex the Great. Love to get your opinion on what makes him so great, so tough and so talented. My theory is, his Rugby league training has a lot to do with it.

good talk firas

Solid video ❤❤❤

We will never Look Back.... Push to The The Limit!

I promise u Middle Eastern brothers are the best when it comes to oratory skills they entice u so well

when it comes to drawing, i was the only one he drew things. that was a sign of sadness and emotion, not a fact that i was better than others in my school. performance sports, have talent and consistency going on in with it. its really sad when people say that talent is everything. the ronaldo story is no joke. hardwork and force of nature does break things.

And remember folks, no croissants!

Not everyone can be the best, but everyone can be great. Worst case scenario, you can get pretty good. Just remember that you don’t have to be the best to love something and give it your all.

Man I liked this video so much.

Great video

GREAT video

Hey coach great video and also would be really appreciated if you remembered the name of the book you were about to recommend

My talent is the complete obsession of greatness and the act in between it all

I am great at drilling holes in concrete and filling holes in concrete, and from that I found the passion to Make Walls Great Again

my talent is persistent and stubborn it's blessing and curse in one i have nothing more just never give up.

Not even interested in MMA but great video either way. This applies to soccer and career/work

Allahomabarik bro

Thank you for sharing information I would like to know does talent beat the hard work or the Hardwork beats talent and how you make super elite, sportsman and thank you again

I had to watch this twice because all I could think the first time is "I need one of those Galton Boards!"

I think it depends on V02max. Nobody talk about that but VO2max is the absolute parameters that determines your success. The problem is V02max is a genetic predisposition you can improve but the improvement is limited.

Coach Firaz. Is it possible to enroll in Tristar Gym to train MMA as a complete beginner? ( I did 10 months of amateur boxing)

You can be anything But nothing is free

Forgot how awesome Faras is

Okay so I’m a washed up old guy now but I played college football, WR, I’m 5’11 with a 78 inch reach and have short, stocky legs, 28.5 inch inseam. I love the body type discussions. I remember hearing about Michael Phelps and how he was “born to swim” because of his unique build. So I’ve always wondered if I just grew up in the wrong place, a small town in the upper Midwest, and wasn’t exposed to the right sport. In the town I’m from it’s basically Football and Wrestling. And wrestling was like it’s own world. You had to have started young or come from a wrestling family. I was a poor kid from a trailer park, so football/basketball was it. Sports I’m naturally good at: Football, sprinting, swimming, deadlifting, got into boxing and Muay Thai a little, loved the drills but I’ve already taken enough hits to the head, tennis is the sport I really wonder if I could have been good at. But where I’m from nobody plays it. Sports I suck at: anything throwing lol. I don’t have much of an arm. I wasn’t awful at discus. Distance running. I’m trying to qualify for the Boston marathon and it’s damn hard when you have short heavy legs lol. I bring this up because now everyone is talking about Volk and how his body type, long reach, short powerful legs, is such an advantage. This is contrary to what most people talk about when discussing “athletic” builds. You generally want a taller guy with long legs to generate more power. Longer levers have potential for more power. Anyway I just it’s interesting that when you have a great athlete, they’ll say it’s his body type that his a huge factor in his greatness but they’ll say the same thing when another athlete who has a totally different body type becomes great. You just gotta learn your strengths and learn how to apply them to the fight, the game, the race etc

This questions always haunted me and turn my life so that would be cool to know the answer because I saw a lot of talented gifted people, but they are not champion and I saw on gifted people, but they are very hard worker so this is always haunting me

Coach, please get Cole Robinson aka The Snake Diet Wizard on your podcast. I think you both could have a great conversation.

Bell Curves are real, whether you like it or not - play the hand you’re dealt the best you can. Great based video here.

Please brother, figure out the book name you were trying to remember about discovering your hidden talent. It sounds fascinating ty.

The point about training is vital. I was very good at art for a kid. But two years of terrible art teachers in school put me off. I often wonder if I would still be creating art to this day if I had some good teachers.

Firas, salaams. I love you man. I’m a middle-aged Chinese, American Muslim in California, I’ve been training jujitsu on and off for many years and I still suck and that is fine, I’m driving there right now and listening to your great RU-vid messages while driving. I do a lot of mentoring and lead a youth group of teenage young men. Allow me to give you some food for thought. Most of success is not from natural talent or propensity, but from Hardwork. I’m sure you read Malcolm Gladwell‘s outliers, where he specifically, in an academic setting, sought to find, natural genius or natural ability among the highest performers in a given field, say music or hockey. While there is no doubt that some people are born with that natural advantage to varying degrees, his research shows that the actual determining factor of the vast vast majority of those who are at the highest levels in their field directly correlates with the number of hours they put in to training. So when we tell young people, and our children, that they are so good at math or so good at wrestling, we are actually praising the wrong thing. Because in reality, it is their hard work, commitment, consistency, and grit that will determine their success in anything, and that effort is what we need to be praising. So that was my first thought, that the emphasis on finding natural ability might be miss placed, because as things actually occur in society and nature, our success in anything as humans does not truly depend on natural ability, but rather the qualities I mentioned above surrounding hard work and consistency, and grit. My second point is for you to consider whether we should be bound by our biological and predetermined abilities. Do those natural abilities form the best basis for where we focus our efforts in life? Consider the argument that the answer is no. I might be best, biologically, at holding my breath, underwater, and being a sort of diver. Does that mean my mission in life should be to be the best diver? It’s certainly helpful to consider that, but what if I want to be a physician or a scholar or a veterinarian? My position is that we have a choice, and if we can work hard, something, we can achieve reasonable success in whatever we wish. I might have been good at math and high school and everyone might have said wow you should be a mathematician or professor or an accountant. Great. But I don’t want to do that. I want to be some thing that may be, biologically, I am only at the 25th percentile in terms of natural ability, but with Hardwork, I can be among the best physicians in the world, and even that comparison, that relative achievement, may not even matter. So long as I become a physician who is doing a good job for their patients, does it matter if I am at the 85th percentile or 99th percentile? I would say that it doesn’t matter. The struggle to become an elite MMA fighter has a set of principles that do not actually apply well to most things in life where we can achieve great success in many areas, regardless of our inherent abilities. Thanks again for all your wisdom and stimulating videos on RU-vid, Allah bless you and your family.

i have a question have you read Laplace's (Essay on the Philosophy of Probability)?If so i would like to hear your take on it.

Now we need some firaz pitmaster content

Believe…and you are. It’s as simple as that

What was the book you were thinking of

whats the inherent thing/features about a person that makes you think 'Wow he's in that top 0.01% of the good side', Like what specifically about a person (physically and mentally) makes you say 'I could make him into the world champion with ease'. I really hope that you see this comment, this type of thing is what I'm super interested in.

I was always told I have a voice for radio ever since a kid

Coach, I have a question, how many talents does it take to be a UFC champion? Or is fighting itself a uniform talent, or can it be divided into several talents?

The coach of the greatest alien in the world

so whats the name of the book?)

Coach - where did you buy that bell curve object?

The man you describe that out smarts the system is Sean Strickland

1:01 I am sure that if you run it infinite amount of times you will get same results. The particles and the positions that they can obtain is limited.

COACCCH. WHAT IS THE BOOK?!!!!

Thats very good, but how can we discover our talent.

I often wonder what the highest belt is that everybody can achieve in BJJ, i've been thinking about this question for years. You can't really ask black belts this question, because they always think that because they've done it, everybody should be able to do it. My instinct is that even with enough hard work and dedication that its not the black belt, because i think there is a certain amount of natural talent/physical ability required to progress past your peers in the middle stages. My impression has always been that its purple, or maybe early stage brown.

What was the book

I started watching this video, Saw the galton board, watched too many vsauce videos, somehow ended up learning about amicable pairs, wrote a Python program to find amicable pairs, ran it and then came back to this video and let the program run in the background.

Anybody know what that book was on self examination he mentioned?

Soo Simple ✅

problem is (is this an excuse?) cost of living is so high, one thing I want to do.people told me i was talented with, doesnt pay the bills so my best hours of the day are lost working a job i dont care about, i feel trapped!

Whats the Name of book

Love this video, this is exactly what I tell my clients

What was the book your forgot to mention that you said you liked to read in the video?

The unfortunate truth. Good genetics are a blessing.