Name: Demetrious Johnson on Letting Go of Trying to Be Perfect
Uploaded: 2022-10-27T18:41:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Demetrious Johnson on Letting Go of Trying to Be Perfect' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Demetrious Johnson on Letting Go of Trying to Be Perfect' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-27. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience that right hand was so perfect to the timing of that
And then knee on the fucking cheekbone. Yeah, it's good fight
It was beautiful fight and how satisfying was that for you to come back from
the first fight that you guys had it was good
it was good, but
That guy's facing the right
I think it's the matchmaker Rick is hilarious
for me
after the after the first fight I had with him I went through
Like I think 2019 I think it was 2019 2020 was a huge
like shift and
My life, you know that affected me differently and my mindset and so when I
lost that first fight to him. I was so
Wasn't mad about losing. I was mad about I put so much pressure on myself
about being perfect and
It just drove me insane like everything I want to do is perfect. I still had
that in me, but
In what way? What do you mean? So I don't know like I felt like I remember
being in a hotel room
And I rewatched the fight and then I felt like it was just have to cope so my
my sister passed during
I was getting ready for a fight
All right, this is where it kind of stemmed from so I was getting ready for a
fight
My sister she she died and then seeing her pass and then seeing basically the
end game of life
Right like being here and seeing her just like she's there and then
Seeing her go through the trauma and then her being gone and then seeing the
traumatic how it affected my mom and after
You know, I remember when everything happened. I was in the hospital. I was
like
You guys need help clean up all this blood because I can I can I can help and
she goes honey. That's okay. Just just go home. I was like
All right, mom. I love you. Let me know if you need me. I go home started balling
my wife's there
I mean
That was a huge movement in my life where I was like that's fucking in-game
like doesn't matter what you've done before
That's you can either go peaceful you go, you know traumatic, right?
So that happened and I was and then it was pointing me
I was like damn like I called Matt. I was like, hey, I'm not gonna be in I was
like, hey
I'm not gonna be in training today. I gotta go bury my sister, right? And I
took a step back and I was like fuck man
I'm always training for a fight always waiting for a fight and my sister just
died and I'm I can't go train because I gotta go bury her
But there was like weird shit to my mind
I was like, I'm always getting ready for a fight always give me for a fight
And then I went and fought won the World Grand Prix fast-forward getting ready
to fight Adriano
We go through kobe 19, right? All the gyms are shut down our gym kind of like
we got
Relocated so there's only three of us training
And then I fight Adriano and I was the game plan was there, but I just felt
like I wasn't
Maddie me said he as I came back from the knockout. He was like, you know when
you left
I wasn't comfortable where you're at like when you left
I was like you're just gonna have to fight through this
You're gonna have to just to get through it and then sitting in the hotel room
and I was like
Why am I why am I putting the stress on myself why for what and then?
That was like kind of like a snapping period then when I fought rod tang, I was
like
Everybody's so worried about winning and losing why
Why because you're gonna die someday you're gonna die someday, right?
So why the fuck you worry about winning lose are you having fun? Yeah, okay,
perfect who cares going to lose?
So I went there fight him. I was like, all right
You know I said I told that I said I'm not gonna fucking run like I'm gonna
exchange like I don't care if he has a
Archan, I'm gonna go out there and give him my best and then there's a ASAP
Rocky said when has it ever been cool to knock somebody down?
It's never been cool
Whoever made it cool to you belittle somebody or whatever is not cool, right?
So that's always in the back of my head. So when I fought rod tang and then I I
felt that success not success
But I felt like I won the fight never said although you did good job. I was
like, thanks, man
Appreciate it
You know go back home take care of the wife and kids and then when I fight
Adrian on the second time
I was like you do the training camp. It was probably the toughest training camp,
but I started doing things different
Right like before I'm like, I gotta be perfect. I can't I can't have any beer.
I can't go watch a concert
I gotta be strict and I was like I think the last sparring session after the
Adrian fight
I was like went to a concert had two beers had a fucking chicken sandwich and i'm
like
I need to enjoy my life because eventually i'm going to die, right?
And I don't want to be in my death bed. I was like man. I was so strict and all
that stuff
Like I want to enjoy my life. And so that right there from that
traumatic
Thing in my life
It's just shifted my my whole perspective like on my birthday august 13th
I was my wife was like, oh, we didn't get you any alcohol. We just got, you
know, all water
And I was like, no, give me a fucking glass of champagne. Like i'm 30. I'm 36
years old
Like I i've been doing this for fucking if I if I train eight weeks and I can
have one fucking beer
And it's going to change my outcome of winning this fight then I don't deserve
to win the fight
I guess so it is what it is
So I feel like that that whole mindset is just
Made me a better a better athlete better fighter because it's released some
pressure from you pressure of being perfect
Right, and that's how it is like I remember one day. I was like I just grappled
that new wave right and I was grappling a kid
Who was 18 years old and he was fucking working me and someone who has an ego
we'd be like
I'm the best fighter in the world like that should never happen for me
I'm like dude, you're fucking good. Good job
I'm so excited to see i'm so excited to see what you've been able to achieve
and in nine years
You've been grappling under john denner hand like i'm so happy for you. So
proud of you
I want to follow you. I'm going to follow your career, right?
Like just my whole mindset has just shipped and
Yeah, I don't know what it is. I mean, I know what it is. It's that but for me
That's how I like to look at my fights now
And yeah, it's been making me randy couture said that once to me. Yeah, he was
talking about
Fighting and winning. He's like so many people put so much pressure on winning.
He's like
He goes you do your best. Yeah, because you're trying to win
And if you lose the same people who love you, they're still gonna love you. You're
still gonna have your friends. Yep. It's you're gonna be okay
Yeah, and that's that's that's like taking my games in a whole new level
Like I truly believe that like but I believe that believe that like just that
mindset of it's like
I don't give a fuck what happens like like they're like who are you gonna fight?
Yeah, so i'm like I don't care doesn't change doesn't change my pay does it
change my outlook on life doesn't
Doesn't change me from my end game, which is financial freedom, right? So doesn't
care. I don't care
Who it is you know when it is I just want to make sure that I never lose focus
of my end game and
Yeah, that's
Helped me a lot
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