# Three Questions About What You Want and the Price of Success

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121724859868995646
- Source account: [@WayOfMenn](https://x.com/WayOfMenn)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:57
- Published: 2026-11-15
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success) My three questions are, what do you want?

[0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=2) How badly do you want it? And how much are you willing to suffer?

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=7) And very often, everything revolves around the first question, what do you want?

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=13) Because a lot of people are unclear what they want from life.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=17) They don't sit down and think through. We, we are writing our own life story every day, and yet we don't think about it.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=24) What, what-- Who do we want to be? Where do we want to live?

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=28) What life do we want to lead? When we've finished our life, come to the end of our life and look back, what do we want to say?

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=34) "I want to be the best," Bill. Fine. How badly do you want it?

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=39) Because it's going to-- You've got to pay a price to be the best.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=43) The best pay a big price. You've got to work harder, you've got to commit more, you've got to take more responsibility, you've got to deal with more ups and downs.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vp9L3GzWbMjk/en/three-questions-about-what-you-want-and-the-price-of-success?t=52) And if there's-- If we can deal with that question, how much are you willing to suffer?