THE BASICS
Today’s guest is James ‘The Beast’ Wilson, who is a heavyweight professional boxer and MMA competitor. At a young age he faced homelessness, juvenile delinquency and ultimately becoming a child of the foster care system. Using his own personal philosophy, he changed his life around to become a multi-sport high school and college sports standout. As a result, he was offered a full sports scholarship to college. He went on to become the 2011 California MMA Heavyweight Champion title with a background in Kempo Karate, Muay Thai, Kickboxing & Wrestling. “The Beast” has quickly been noted as one of the top U.S. Professional MMA Heavyweights and Kickboxers. Currently, ranked in the top 15 heavyweight kick boxers in the world. However, it is not just the amazing skill he shows in the ring that has made him such a huge fan favorite. His passion, intensity and drive are on show daily, as he drives himself forward to complete everything with 100%, using his famed ‘Beast Mode or No Mode’ philosopy. Away from the ring, the dedicated father spends his time giving back and helping others going down the wrong road a chance to find their passions and go Beast mode in the chase for their dreams.
In this interview, we discuss his story,combat sports, Beast Mode, mental toughness, how you can use you demons as motivation, how to truly get what you want from life and so much more.
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WHAT WE COVER
In this interview, we discuss gems like:
- Who he is
- How he used sport as a way to avoid trouble during childhood
- How did he manage to stop his criminal actions and negative path and follow the path of development to be the man he wanted to be
- How did he avoid slipping back into trouble
- What drew him towards combat sports initially?
- Where does the Beast mentality, that drive that makes him work 110%
- How does he work on his resilience and mental toughness
- How does he train to be a beast in the ring?
- How does he develop his fighting skills and how did shorten his learning curve to improve so much so quickly
- How make your own salad with your skills! How does he setup his training? How does he recover
- The type of ‘Beast Mode’ philosophy
- How did becoming a father change him?
- Why excuses = failure
- How he dealt with the loss of his brother
- How does he deal with the comparison to Tyson
- How can we follow his upcoming fights
SOME THINGS TO REFLECT ON
In this interview, a lot of jewels of self-improvement are discussed. Some of these and their associated thoughts include:
- You can be a victim of your circumstance or the controller of your destiny. You can decide what and who you are going to be.
- “The only way to be successful is to give it 100% effort”
- Use what happened to you as fuel to drive you towards where you want to go in life.
- “To succeed you need to find your passion … the drive and stay focused on it”
- “Once you train your mind to never quit, the body will follow”
- Mix up your training to reap the mass training boosts from cross-training
- Stop trying to escape what you dislike in your life with gadgets. Simply turn it off and work to improve your life. Short term efforts will bring amazing returns.
- “The whole point is to help out others”
- If you are scared of doing something, take baby steps, walk into the water one step at a time, move an inch at a time. You are not racing anybody, work your own pace and path.
- “Anger makes you sloppy”
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