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  • 669: The Piggyback Principle: The “Lazy” Way to Build a Successful Side Hustle

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    0:00:05 The piggyback principle, the lazy way to build a successful side hustle.
    0:00:09 My kids will tell you, it’s easier to get a piggyback ride than climbing the mountain
    0:00:09 by yourself.
    0:00:15 And you’ve heard the metaphor that a rising tide lifts all boats, but the secret is those
    0:00:20 tides are all around us and you can take advantage of them in just about every area of your business.
    0:00:25 I’m tackling three of those areas today, starting with idea generation, then we’ll cover the
    0:00:29 startup or creation phase and close with the growth and marketing segment.
    0:00:33 For all of those, I’m going to show you how to get a piggyback ride.
    0:00:35 In the world of cycling, it would be drafting.
    0:00:39 If it was swimming, it’s like, how do I swim downstream instead of against the current?
    0:00:42 And I believe there is a way to do that.
    0:00:45 And that’s why I want to propose the piggyback principle in this episode.
    0:00:50 It’s a concept I first wrote about probably 10 years ago on the Cyan Hustle Nation site.
    0:00:53 But at that time, I took a pretty narrow view of it.
    0:00:56 Really, it was just about taking advantage of marketplace trends.
    0:01:01 At that time, it was things like the rise of WordPress or the popularity of the paleo diet.
    0:01:04 And of course, those trends shift over time.
    0:01:08 But all else being equal, I’d like to be in a business where there’s going to be more customers
    0:01:10 tomorrow than there are today.
    0:01:14 We may have talked about this recently, but I remember a guy from Philip Morris coming to
    0:01:16 talk to our group in a business school.
    0:01:19 And we were like, isn’t cigarettes a dying industry?
    0:01:24 And he had to admit that it was, but it was slowly declining around 3% a year, he told us.
    0:01:27 That’s the opposite of a piggyback principle business.
    0:01:31 Make life easier for yourself by setting up shop where demand is increasing.
    0:01:34 So how do you find those kinds of ideas?
    0:01:35 Lots of different ways to go about it.
    0:01:39 One interesting place to start is explodingtopics.com.
    0:01:44 I really like this site because it just shows you on the homepage, it’s a random feed of things
    0:01:48 that have increased in search volume over the last several months or several years.
    0:01:50 I’m going to go through a few of these.
    0:01:56 One that came up, there’s all things AI, of course, AI logo generator, AI image enhancer.
    0:01:58 There’s one for lash clusters.
    0:02:01 I assume this is eyelashes or like a physical product thing.
    0:02:04 Interesting one around a fractional CTO.
    0:02:09 In the trends episode with Spencer, we talked about the rise of fractional job roles from
    0:02:11 the freelancing or consulting side.
    0:02:15 You know, maybe elevates your status a little bit to call yourself a fractional CTO rather
    0:02:21 than a freelance web developer or freelance, you know, technical expert, whatever your expertise
    0:02:22 may be.
    0:02:25 There is an exploding topic around beef tallow.
    0:02:26 I don’t know what that is.
    0:02:28 Remineralizing gum.
    0:02:32 I don’t know what that is either, but if you do, or if you could find it someplace, somebody
    0:02:33 help manufacture that, maybe.
    0:02:35 A trend around cold plunge tub.
    0:02:37 We were just talking about this with the neighbors the other day.
    0:02:41 An increase of interest in cold plunge tubs.
    0:02:45 Maybe there’s a way to bring something like that to market or sell something into that audience.
    0:02:50 Now, exploding topics and sites like that are good if you’re idea agnostic.
    0:02:52 You’re just looking for broad patterns and trends.
    0:02:57 If you have an idea already, and maybe a hint would be to ask yourself the usual questions
    0:03:00 of, well, what do people already ask me for help with?
    0:03:02 What do I spend my spare time on?
    0:03:04 What do I spend my money on?
    0:03:06 What am I curious to learn more about?
    0:03:08 What do I know more about than the average person?
    0:03:14 Those types of questions can help guide or steer your idea generating session in one direction
    0:03:15 or another.
    0:03:20 But if you have something in mind, you might punch it into Google Trends to see whether interest
    0:03:23 in that topic is increasing or decreasing.
    0:03:27 If it’s decreasing, it doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t build a business around it.
    0:03:30 It just means it might be harder than picking an increasing topic, right?
    0:03:33 Going back to the cigarette use declining 3% a year.
    0:03:35 All else being equal, pick the one that’s increasing.
    0:03:39 Now, I want to be upfront and say I did none of this when I was starting Side Hustle Nation,
    0:03:46 but I did have kind of this innate sense that more people would be interested in entrepreneurship
    0:03:52 given all the opportunities opened up by different online platforms and reasoned that, you know,
    0:03:54 making extra money never really goes out of style.
    0:04:00 So sometimes we get fixated on trying to fit the proverbial round peg into the square hole
    0:04:04 so much so that we don’t pay much attention to what’s working in the marketplace or how other
    0:04:09 people are making money or even what other people might happily pay us for.
    0:04:13 This is one of my favorite lines from the Side Hustle Show, all-time favorite lines,
    0:04:18 and it comes from Austin Church in episode 417, where he says,
    0:04:21 pay attention to what wants to happen.
    0:04:24 Pay attention to what wants to happen.
    0:04:29 When you first get into freelancing, it seems like the wild, wild west,
    0:04:33 and you may have a lot of opportunities, and then you think,
    0:04:35 well, I’m going to go after this one.
    0:04:43 But oftentimes the second or third project or opportunity or client or whatever
    0:04:48 is the thing that’s more scalable, the thing that will be more sustainable and satisfying.
    0:04:55 So just keep your eyes open, and maybe another way to put it is look for the,
    0:04:58 the easiest money you can make in freelancing.
    0:05:00 What’s the path of least resistance?
    0:05:02 How can you swim downstream?
    0:05:05 What would it look like if it were easy to borrow a line from Tim Ferriss?
    0:05:08 Pay attention to what wants to happen.
    0:05:10 Thanks to Austin Church from that one, from episode 417.
    0:05:16 In my case, it took longer than I care to admit to notice how other quote-unquote personal finance blogs made money,
    0:05:21 or how other podcasts had switched to dynamic ad insertion and left me behind.
    0:05:26 But the subtle art of coming up for air and looking around is an underrated entrepreneurial skill.
    0:05:32 Another resource you can use to identify trending areas or topics that are growing in interest is Reddit,
    0:05:36 and specifically looking for subreddit growth.
    0:05:40 I found one site called RedStats, R-E-D-D-Stats.com.
    0:05:44 There are several of these, which highlight some of the fastest growing subreddits,
    0:05:48 both in terms of raw new members and percentage growth.
    0:05:52 So, I was just scrolling through and found some interesting hobby-related ones.
    0:05:56 We just did the coin collecting episode, or if not, maybe it’s about to air soon.
    0:05:59 So, the coin collecting subreddit has made this list.
    0:06:02 Fantasy football advice made this list.
    0:06:06 We had Hefger Lackon about his Australian fantasy football podcast.
    0:06:11 There was a growing subreddit on body language, if you happen to be a body language expert.
    0:06:15 And then the other one that stood out to me here was fine hair.
    0:06:17 Fine hair as a subreddit.
    0:06:19 Now, I have no hair, so maybe there’s a no hair subreddit.
    0:06:22 But we’ve got episodes on Delilah Orpey.
    0:06:25 She built a curly hair blog, curly hair online business.
    0:06:33 Katie Emery has katiegoesplatinum.com, a website and YouTube channel dedicated to going gray, gray hair.
    0:06:37 So, maybe there is room to build an online business around fine hair.
    0:06:42 And it appears to be growing in interest based on some of these subreddit stats.
    0:06:46 Now, the question comes up, what if there’s somebody already doing that?
    0:06:48 Or what if somebody else is already playing in that space?
    0:06:53 There are already coin collecting influencers or body language experts.
    0:06:56 And I get that that can be discouraging.
    0:06:58 But it might actually be a good sign.
    0:07:03 If somebody else has carved out a following and possibly is making some money in a niche you’re
    0:07:10 considering, that’s at least a signal that you might be able to do the same, especially if it’s in an area of increasing demand.
    0:07:15 Here’s Nick Huber from episode 373 on how he evaluates potential ideas.
    0:07:17 I’m passionate about building something.
    0:07:18 I’m passionate about entrepreneurship.
    0:07:21 And I’m passionate about taking steps forward every single day.
    0:07:24 And I want to do what I want to do in my free time, right away from work.
    0:07:28 And the goal here for me is have a five-year plan so that I don’t have to work a whole lot.
    0:07:32 And I can do what I’m passionate about and not be stressed out about earning money doing those things.
    0:07:32 All right.
    0:07:32 What else?
    0:07:34 So I look at a rising demand.
    0:07:36 Like I said, people are outsourcing more.
    0:07:38 The pie is getting bigger every single day.
    0:07:41 20 years ago, 5% of people paid someone to come mow their lawn.
    0:07:43 And today, 40% of people do.
    0:07:46 I’m guessing 10 years from now, that number will be well over 50%.
    0:07:53 So there’s more and more and more customers coming on the market every single day that are using these local services.
    0:07:55 And the big one is competition.
    0:07:56 We already touched on it a little bit.
    0:08:00 But if you’re looking at who you’re competing with and what kind of models they’re using,
    0:08:08 it’s pretty easy to choose a local service business based on how they do business than try to compete with the tech entrepreneurs,
    0:08:13 the online entrepreneurs who are not necessarily location-independent and really, really good at what they do.
    0:08:15 Where is the pie getting bigger?
    0:08:21 How does that intersect with something you’re already interested in or curious about or something you already have some expertise in?
    0:08:26 Again, that’s Nick Huber from Sweaty Startup in episode 373 on The Side Hustle Show.
    0:08:32 And he makes this point that writing a trend, finding a growing industry is one thing, but it’s not the only thing.
    0:08:35 Here’s how Noah Kagan explained it in episode 595.
    0:08:41 There’s all these different trends.co and meetglimpse.com and a few other ways to get business trends.
    0:08:46 I think the best trends to find are just reverse looking at the things that you’re spending your time doing.
    0:08:49 I’m spending a lot of time lately looking at parenting stuff.
    0:08:50 I’m about to be a parent in the next few months.
    0:08:52 It’s like, okay, what are my frustrations around that?
    0:08:54 Or what are the things I’m asking or curious about?
    0:09:00 And then the other kind of thing besides shrimp breeding, which I’m not as into, it was just kind of an observation of research.
    0:09:03 And I do like shrimp, but I do like a lot of shrimp taco.
    0:09:06 For me, it’s just looking at my credit card bill.
    0:09:07 It’s a lot of where AppSumo came from.
    0:09:09 It’s just like, oh, I want this stuff.
    0:09:10 How do I get a deal on it?
    0:09:16 One of the ideas as well that we’re talking about doing ideas instead of shrimp breeding, I hate paying for HelloSign and DocuSign.
    0:09:19 And I just looked up DocuSign’s at $11 billion company.
    0:09:19 Wow.
    0:09:22 I think I could probably kick their butt creating an alternative to that.
    0:09:33 But again, coming to these trends, it’s trying to see where the trend is based on my own interests, looking at Google Trends to just see if it’s something that’s even starting to get bigger or if it’s growing or declining.
    0:09:36 And then considering, one, if you don’t even want to do any of the work, just go make content about it.
    0:09:46 So for Noah, he is looking for ideas that piggyback on his own areas of interest or curiosity, his own pain points or frustrations, and then marrying that to a broader role.
    0:09:54 And going back to Nick Huber, you may not even have to start the lawn mowing service to take advantage of the sweaty startup trend he’s talking about.
    0:10:05 We had Ryan Golgoski on the show, episode 550, I want to say, who built an incredible recurring revenue business doing web design, hosting, and maintenance for pressure washing companies.
    0:10:07 More people were starting these power washing businesses.
    0:10:09 That was the frontline trend.
    0:10:16 But that caused this domino effect, this subsequent trend of those businesses needing websites to improve their online presence and digital marketing.
    0:10:20 So Ryan swooped in to help out with a creative pricing model that was a win-win.
    0:10:24 So how do you know when you’ve hit upon the right idea?
    0:10:26 One clue is, it just won’t go away.
    0:10:30 Yeah, well, first I tried to make the idea go away because it just felt crazy.
    0:10:31 You know, I have two young kids.
    0:10:32 I’m running a photography business.
    0:10:34 I was the breadwinner for my family.
    0:10:38 It felt crazy to, you know, divide my attention and try to start a whole other business.
    0:10:42 So I really tried to ignore it for a while, but I got to where I couldn’t sleep.
    0:10:45 Like, the idea would not leave me alone.
    0:10:49 And so a couple months later, I just decided, you know what, I’m going to go for this.
    0:10:52 And that night, I found our software that we could use.
    0:10:57 I had a friend who gave me the name that day, who named it Statement.
    0:11:01 And then I stayed up all night building a website on Squarespace.
    0:11:04 And I just thought, you know what, this idea will not leave me alone.
    0:11:05 I have to do it.
    0:11:06 Like, I had no other choice.
    0:11:12 That’s Sarah McCaffrey from episode 640, describing the inspiration for her clothing consignment
    0:11:16 business statement consignment in Knoxville, I want to say.
    0:11:18 The idea wouldn’t leave her alone.
    0:11:21 If you get an idea like that, take fast action.
    0:11:24 Because as she said later in that episode, inspiration can be temporary.
    0:11:28 So that’s how I’m thinking of the piggyback principle in the idea phase.
    0:11:32 Looking for rising trends that you can tap into with some of the resources that we mentioned
    0:11:35 related to subreddit growth or Google trends or exploding topics.
    0:11:40 And looking at those trends either as a frontline participant or a support participant, a shovel
    0:11:45 seller into that particular gold rush, and then paying attention to what wants to happen.
    0:11:49 Swimming downstream, following the simplest and most direct path, recognizing that choosing
    0:11:54 what’s next doesn’t have to mean choosing what’s forever, but looking for what comes easy to
    0:11:57 you that other people ask you for help with or have a hard time with.
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    0:14:23 I remember reading this book, That’ll Never Work is about the early days of Netflix and
    0:14:27 specifically the part that stood out to me was having to go out and raise $2 million to
    0:14:33 hire developers to build a shopping cart checkout system and payment processing system before
    0:14:34 they could even really open up for business.
    0:14:36 There was no Stripe.
    0:14:36 There was no Shopify.
    0:14:37 There was no Squarespace.
    0:14:38 No WordPress.
    0:14:44 It was really eye-opening how much easier it’s become over the last 25 years to be open for
    0:14:49 business online, sometimes in a matter of hours for a whole lot less than $2 million.
    0:14:55 We talked about the piggyback principle as it comes to ideas, looking to pair market trends with what
    0:15:00 wants to happen, what feels easy, those businesses where you can swim downstream instead of fighting
    0:15:01 against the current.
    0:15:06 In this section, I want to highlight what happens next, the creation or startup phase of your
    0:15:07 side hustle.
    0:15:12 An easy example for me to point to is simply the huge library of WordPress themes out there,
    0:15:13 many of them completely free.
    0:15:18 One of my most successful side hustles was my virtual assistant directory and review site,
    0:15:22 which would kind of have been an intimidating project to start from scratch.
    0:15:29 So instead, what I did was copy the exact WordPress theme from a review site that I found in another
    0:15:29 niche.
    0:15:31 It’s a free WordPress theme.
    0:15:36 Anybody could have done that and then pivoted the content to be about virtual assistants instead
    0:15:39 of about wine clubs was the one that I took inspiration from.
    0:15:44 That way, the only thing I had to worry about was the content, which was still a lot of work to
    0:15:49 create, but it was a lot easier than worrying about the content and building out a website
    0:15:50 template from scratch.
    0:15:52 Same thing with the star ratings on the site.
    0:15:54 How do I get those to show up on the posts?
    0:15:55 I didn’t know.
    0:15:56 I’d never done it before.
    0:16:02 Turns out there’s lots of free or low cost review plugins for WordPress that would accomplish
    0:16:02 that.
    0:16:03 Didn’t have to start from scratch.
    0:16:04 You don’t either.
    0:16:10 A few weeks ago, Cody Berman gave the example of using Canva templates to accelerate digital
    0:16:14 product creation, many of which are free or even the paid version of Canva is super affordable,
    0:16:18 way more affordable than hiring a graphic designer to build all this out for you from scratch.
    0:16:24 He even talked about repeating a template for the Etsy product listings themselves so he’s
    0:16:28 not staring at a blank screen every time it comes to upload a product.
    0:16:31 So I’ll start with templates because we did talk about product templates.
    0:16:33 Like you just take the base template.
    0:16:35 Let’s use a thank you card, for example.
    0:16:38 And then you can go create a million different variations of thank you card.
    0:16:39 We mentioned that before.
    0:16:43 What I didn’t mention, though, is that you can actually have the entire Etsy listing as a
    0:16:44 quote unquote template.
    0:16:51 So if I’m going to create, let’s say I already have a Father’s Day card in my Etsy shop and
    0:16:55 I want to create a Mother’s Day card, I can literally duplicate the listing and then I just
    0:16:56 go back into Canva.
    0:16:58 I just like change the listing images.
    0:16:59 I change the actual product itself.
    0:17:01 I change some of the tags.
    0:17:06 I slightly altered the description, but I can actually use a lot of the same features from
    0:17:07 that initial listing.
    0:17:12 So for me now, if I were to actually do that using this real example, like if I were to have
    0:17:15 a Father’s Day card that I want to make into a Mother’s Day card, it would probably take
    0:17:17 me like 15 to 20 minutes total.
    0:17:20 I might on the actual design change the colors from blue to pink.
    0:17:24 And I’m obviously going to change the word father to mother and some other changes like
    0:17:27 the tags where you can use 13 tags per Etsy listing.
    0:17:30 I would change some of those to be specific to the holiday.
    0:17:36 But using the entirety of your Etsy listing as a template is something not many people do.
    0:17:38 Like even the listing images you were just asking about, Nick.
    0:17:42 Yeah, I have eight listing images that I’m using for all my products and it’s just
    0:17:43 drag and drop.
    0:17:45 Like I’m using Canva templates using like the frames feature.
    0:17:50 And so when I create the new product, I’m just like dragging and dropping back into those
    0:17:50 same templates.
    0:17:54 So I’m not having to recreate the wheel every single time with my listing images.
    0:17:57 I’ll do the same thing when it comes to a new article for the website.
    0:18:00 You can look at the best ranking topics on that topic.
    0:18:05 Look at what those already include and then fill in the blanks with your own take on that
    0:18:05 subject.
    0:18:10 And even if you have no idea what Cody’s talking about with, you know, Etsy, Canva and
    0:18:15 template, the important thing is you probably don’t have to start from scratch with any project.
    0:18:18 And to me, that’s really empowering and motivating.
    0:18:22 Remember looking at the blank screen of a new book project, for example, like, how am I ever
    0:18:23 going to do this?
    0:18:27 It’s like, oh, I already have kind of an outline and I already have some content related
    0:18:31 to, you know, a few of those outline topics.
    0:18:34 And if I can paste that in, I’m going to have to massage it later.
    0:18:34 I know that.
    0:18:37 But all of a sudden I can take my word count from zero to 7,000.
    0:18:40 I feel really, really motivated by that.
    0:18:44 It feels like you’re making quite a bit of progress right out of the gate, taking advantage
    0:18:49 of what’s already been built to stand on the shoulders to speak of those who’ve gone before
    0:18:52 you and to minimize the reinventing of any wheels.
    0:18:56 Now, you still got to do the work, but the common thread is to use what’s already out
    0:19:00 there and then personalize it, customize it to your needs and your niche.
    0:19:04 If you’re not sure what you need, you might even enlist AI to help.
    0:19:10 It can save you a lot of headache down the road if you kind of prompt an AI for the big
    0:19:11 picture first.
    0:19:13 Number one, have an idea in some way.
    0:19:20 I think the second big step is asking AI, ChatTPT, Claude, Google, doesn’t matter, asking
    0:19:21 for the big picture.
    0:19:25 Say, I want to create a WordPress plugin that does this and does this and does this.
    0:19:30 What are the big steps to implementation and what tools should I use?
    0:19:34 And AI is going to give you a lot of things you can kind of choose from and be like, oh,
    0:19:35 Firebase.
    0:19:36 That’s free.
    0:19:37 It’s made by Google.
    0:19:37 Okay.
    0:19:41 I can use Firebase for my backend, my database.
    0:19:47 I’m not a backend developer at all, but I know I need to store information somewhere in a spreadsheet
    0:19:48 or database or something.
    0:19:53 So I use Firebase and I found it from AI that was like, oh, you could use Firebase for this
    0:19:54 because it’s free.
    0:19:56 It has a database.
    0:20:01 It has authentication where people can log in to your app and creates a cookie and this
    0:20:02 sort of stuff.
    0:20:05 Again, I don’t even know how all of these things work, but start with the big picture.
    0:20:08 Start by kind of choosing some tools.
    0:20:12 Even if you don’t know what tools you need yet, no one does, right?
    0:20:13 Ask AI.
    0:20:14 Ask the big picture.
    0:20:18 We were talking in the context of using AI to help build software apps and tools.
    0:20:24 This was episode 659, just a recent one, but I think this exercise will be helpful in just
    0:20:29 about any project, help build out an outline and then start chipping away and filling in
    0:20:32 the gaps because it’ll probably come up with things that you didn’t even consider that might
    0:20:33 be important.
    0:20:40 Now, later on in that episode, episode 659, again, Pete talked about the abundance of off
    0:20:47 the shelf and often free tools that are available to aspiring developers, especially those that help
    0:20:52 with the behind the scenes technical parts of your project and how the coding tools now
    0:20:53 have AI built in.
    0:20:56 So you can just prompt it in plain English to start building your thing.
    0:21:01 And if you know your niche or the target customer you’re trying to serve, you can even take one
    0:21:04 step back and ask for product or content suggestions.
    0:21:09 You can actually ask ChatGPT to give you product suggestions based on your niche.
    0:21:14 So you can do a prompt, which could be, please give me, like I’m really polite to ChatGPT.
    0:21:19 So all of a sudden, like, please give me like 10 product ideas in the money-saving niche for
    0:21:22 printables or digital products or just whatever.
    0:21:23 And it will spit it out.
    0:21:26 It will give you like 10 different product ideas or you can even ask it for 20 ideas or
    0:21:28 just any amount you would want.
    0:21:30 And it gives you all these ideas.
    0:21:35 But then you can also take that data it gave you and actually go on and research for yourself
    0:21:39 to see if it’s trending on Google, if any of it is doing well on Etsy.
    0:21:41 Are people on Etsy getting sales with this topic?
    0:21:42 Yeah.
    0:21:45 Have they come up with any good ones that you hadn’t considered before?
    0:21:49 I really, really like the checklist idea that you were saying about the routine checklist.
    0:21:51 Like, I think that would be better than a planner.
    0:21:52 So I want to do that.
    0:21:54 But you helped me come up with that idea.
    0:21:54 So I don’t know.
    0:21:59 Yeah, so I typed in, this is probably not the best prompt in the world.
    0:22:04 Please give me some digital product ideas for printables in the side hustle niche.
    0:22:10 And it came back with business planner, budget tracker, social media content calendar, productivity
    0:22:15 worksheets, Etsy shop optimization checklist, which could easily be repurposed to a website
    0:22:17 optimization checklist.
    0:22:21 Actually, I have a whole book on like the small business website checklist from like 2013 or
    0:22:22 something.
    0:22:24 Business card templates, market research worksheets.
    0:22:26 I think that’s a really interesting one.
    0:22:29 Like if you’re evaluating a different niche, like, okay, here’s how you ought to go about
    0:22:31 thinking about that.
    0:22:34 I think that’s really creative inventory management sheets.
    0:22:39 If you’ve got a physical product expense deduction worksheets, like if you’re in the finance
    0:22:41 accounting space, that’s really interesting one.
    0:22:43 Client management templates.
    0:22:48 If you’re in a service-based business logo and branding templates, content creation templates,
    0:22:50 that’s an interesting one.
    0:22:53 Like, oh, we’re creating product reviews as part of our side hustle.
    0:22:55 Like, you know, here’s kind of like a fill in the blank.
    0:23:00 Template that is proven based on some level of SEO metrics or something.
    0:23:01 That’s interesting.
    0:23:04 Self-care and work-life balance planners.
    0:23:06 The product launch checklist.
    0:23:08 I think I have a book launch checklist.
    0:23:09 Like, that’s an interesting one.
    0:23:11 I think I just have as a freebie right now.
    0:23:14 But that could be a paid product in certain spaces.
    0:23:18 Customer feedback, surveys, printable coupons and promotions.
    0:23:19 Affiliate marketing planner.
    0:23:23 If you’re going out to recruit affiliates to sell your product, here’s how you’re going
    0:23:25 to plan out your affiliate campaigns.
    0:23:28 And the skill development tracker.
    0:23:29 Man, chat GPT.
    0:23:33 I think these are pretty solid suggestions that it came up with just for that.
    0:23:38 So, you might try that prompt or a variation of it to see what comes back in your space.
    0:23:40 Yeah, it just gives you so many really good product ideas.
    0:23:42 Like, I like the launch checklist the best.
    0:23:45 Like, that launch one, you know, that show people how they could launch a product.
    0:23:47 Like, that’s a really solid idea right there.
    0:23:50 That’s Becky Beach from episode 582.
    0:23:55 And she went on to share how you can keep working with AI and existing product templates to build
    0:24:00 something that’s both unique to you, it’s got your personal insights, and faster than starting
    0:24:01 with that blank slate.
    0:24:05 So, we talked about the piggyback principle when it comes to taking advantage of existing tools
    0:24:08 and templates and leaning on technology to help accelerate things.
    0:24:13 But there’s another area in the creation and startup phase that’s ripe for piggybacking.
    0:24:15 And that’s what I call expertise piggybacking.
    0:24:18 This could come in the form of hiring help.
    0:24:22 It could take the form of investing in a course or coaching.
    0:24:28 And I might even lump in process automation into this category as well in the name of systemizing
    0:24:31 and streamlining an ongoing thing in your business.
    0:24:33 But first up, I want to talk about expertise piggybacking.
    0:24:37 And the reality is you can’t expect to know how to do everything that you need to know how
    0:24:38 to do in your business.
    0:24:44 Or if you do, it’s a recipe for frustration or really slow progress.
    0:24:46 You’re trying to figure it all out on your own.
    0:24:47 I’ll give the example.
    0:24:51 Last year, I was testing out a new plugin on SideHustleNation.
    0:24:54 The early results seemed positive.
    0:24:57 I was getting more clicks, better engagement, higher affiliate earnings.
    0:25:03 The only problem was it broke my old affiliate tracking system and Google Analytics that I’ve
    0:25:08 been using for years, and I relied on that for performance reporting to go back and forth.
    0:25:12 And this was going on for months with the plugin support team, just trying to get this thing
    0:25:13 sorted out.
    0:25:14 Hey, why did it break my analytics?
    0:25:16 Oh, give us the access.
    0:25:17 Give us the login.
    0:25:18 We’ll troubleshoot it.
    0:25:24 I would open up the source code of the website like some kind of Sherlock Holmes HTML detective
    0:25:27 with no idea what I was looking for.
    0:25:30 I was deep inside analytics.
    0:25:31 Had no business doing that.
    0:25:32 The thing was still broken.
    0:25:37 I was frustrated, and then it kind of hit me who, not how.
    0:25:41 Somebody, somewhere, even if it’s not the creator of the plugin, somebody knows how to
    0:25:42 solve this problem.
    0:25:47 In that case, it was a freelancer on Upwork, a Google Analytics Pro who I had actually worked
    0:25:48 with before from Upwork.
    0:25:50 20 minutes, 100 bucks.
    0:25:52 He solves the problem off to the races.
    0:25:54 Why did I wait months to send him a message?
    0:25:57 I don’t know, but that was on me.
    0:26:04 I still think the skill of figuring things out is a super important one for entrepreneurs.
    0:26:05 Everything is figureoutable.
    0:26:08 That’s kind of your job is to figure out the next step, the next thing.
    0:26:13 But sometimes the fastest way to figure is to just get some trusted guidance.
    0:26:16 One way to do that is to hire some expert help.
    0:26:21 Another way to get that trusted guidance and to shortcut your launch learning curve is to
    0:26:23 get some coaching from people who’ve been there and done that.
    0:26:28 Now, it’s not for everyone because it increases your startup costs, but a little bit of education
    0:26:30 and mentorship can go a long way.
    0:26:33 And this works for high-tech businesses or low-tech ones.
    0:26:38 Like, one of the lowest tech ones, I can recall, is Brian Winch’s parking lot cleanup business.
    0:26:42 And he sells a little guide for other people to start something similar in their area.
    0:26:48 I actually connected with a student of Brian’s who said that extra bit of insight and guidance
    0:26:50 made a big difference in his confidence.
    0:26:54 I actually started looking at the article and it was basically saying,
    0:26:59 hey, you can make money picking up litter on commercial properties.
    0:27:04 So at that time, I was like, hey, this is something that I felt comfortable with that I could do.
    0:27:11 I wound up seeing, his name was Brian, and I wound up reaching out to Brian from Clean Lots.
    0:27:15 And I was like, hey, Brian, hey, by any chance, do you think that service will work in my area?
    0:27:19 And he got back to me, he says, anywhere where it’s parking lot.
    0:27:20 And I was like, wow, okay.
    0:27:27 Yeah, so you’re thinking, hey, this is a low startup costs, no specialized skills required.
    0:27:28 Is it going to work in my area?
    0:27:30 Well, yeah, I got parking lots around me.
    0:27:36 This is Brian Winch, you mentioned, from Clean Lots in episode 266 of the Side Hustle Show.
    0:27:38 So he kind of gives you the green light.
    0:27:41 It’s like, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.
    0:27:42 Right, right.
    0:27:47 He had a book that he had on his site that he was like selling.
    0:27:50 And then I brought the book and I read it in like in two days.
    0:27:56 And then at the end of the book, after I finished reading it, it had a phone number there.
    0:27:59 And it was like, whoa, it said, if you have any questions, please call me.
    0:28:00 Brian did.
    0:28:03 And I was like, actually, I picked up the phone.
    0:28:04 I gave him a call.
    0:28:08 And I was like, you know, I started asking him questions.
    0:28:10 And Brian was, you know, he was such a nice guy.
    0:28:13 You know, he was straightforward to me.
    0:28:17 He was telling me how basically he says, you want to make sure you get started right away
    0:28:19 and don’t waste any time.
    0:28:21 And I was like, wow.
    0:28:25 With that little talk I had with him, I felt like so much confidence.
    0:28:28 I felt like, oh, it’s something I could do, you know, in my area.
    0:28:34 That’s Vladimir Hernandez from episode 522, who, when we spoke, was doing six figures on the
    0:28:37 side from his New York area parking lot sweeping business.
    0:28:40 So it was an investment in coaching that paid off.
    0:28:45 And we’ve heard from other side hustle show guests like Anthony in episode 662, who joined
    0:28:47 Mike Hoffman’s vendingpreneur community.
    0:28:52 Skyler in episode 645 mentioned Johnny Robinson’s Home Services Academy.
    0:28:58 Going way back, Brian Schooley mentioned Mark Wills’ loan signing system to learn the mobile
    0:28:59 notary business.
    0:29:01 And I want to make one thing clear, though.
    0:29:06 Investing in a side hustle, quote unquote, program or course, definitely not a requirement.
    0:29:12 But like Vladimir described, it can be a confidence booster to be following a known playbook versus
    0:29:17 trying to figure it out all on your own, which is definitely in alignment with the piggyback
    0:29:18 principle.
    0:29:25 I go back to the book Smart Cuts by Shane Snow, I think, and he outlines outlier cases.
    0:29:30 He kind of calls them people who achieved uncommon success at an early age or earlier than normal.
    0:29:32 And one of the common factors was mentorship.
    0:29:37 In other words, they definitely worked for it, but they had help.
    0:29:38 They piggybacked.
    0:29:43 So to use the piggyback principle in the startup and creation phase, you most likely don’t have
    0:29:45 to start completely from scratch.
    0:29:49 Take advantage of prebuilt templates from website themes and off the shelf software.
    0:29:53 Ask AI for the big picture outline of what you’re going to need and start filling in those
    0:29:54 gaps.
    0:29:59 And don’t discount the advantage of piggybacking on other people’s expertise, either in the form
    0:30:00 of hired help or education.
    0:30:05 The piggyback principle continues in just a moment with the marketing and growth piece of
    0:30:06 your side hustle puzzle.
    0:30:11 Thankfully, there are several specific ways you can piggyback in this area, and I’ll break
    0:30:14 those down with real life examples right after this.
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    0:30:40 With dozens of ready-to-use templates, Shopify helps you build a beautiful online store and start
    0:30:41 selling.
    0:30:46 Plus, their built-in AI tools help you write product descriptions, page headlines, and even
    0:30:49 enhance your product photography so you can make the most of your limited hours.
    0:30:52 But it’s a lot more than just pretty pictures and great design.
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    0:32:33 So far in this episode, we’ve explored how to use the piggyback principle to make your
    0:32:38 life easier in the idea generation and startup creation phase of your business.
    0:32:42 Now we get to talk about the fun part, how to actually get customers and make some money.
    0:32:47 When I was outlining this episode, the first thing that came to mind for the piggyback principle
    0:32:51 in marketing was to tap into pre-existing marketplaces.
    0:32:54 I wrote a whole book about this with hundreds of examples in 2016.
    0:33:00 It was called Buy Buttons, which as a meta example, taps into the Amazon marketplace as
    0:33:01 a way of finding customers.
    0:33:03 Hey, where do people buy books?
    0:33:03 They buy them on Amazon.
    0:33:06 I might as well put it up for sale there.
    0:33:08 That’s the thesis of Buy Buttons.
    0:33:13 Put your product or service up for sale where people are already searching for what you have
    0:33:13 to sell.
    0:33:18 Not particularly earth shattering advice and maybe not a strategy you want to rely on forever
    0:33:20 because all those platforms have fees.
    0:33:25 But when you’re trying to get some visibility and awareness, it makes sense to get in front
    0:33:27 of customers where they might already be looking.
    0:33:31 I see a lot of entrepreneurs intentionally or unintentionally avoiding these marketplaces
    0:33:34 and trying to attract customers all on their own.
    0:33:36 Say, for example, you wanted to start a takeout delivery service.
    0:33:42 You would need to find a reliable way for customers to order and partner with hundreds of different
    0:33:44 restaurants so people could order what they want.
    0:33:49 Or you could sign up for DoorDash because they’ve already solved those problems and have
    0:33:52 a critical mass of buyers already using the app.
    0:33:57 And maybe that’s a simplified example, but there’s a niche marketplace for just about everything
    0:33:58 these days.
    0:34:04 I bought this podcast mic off a secondhand marketplace that specializes just in audio equipment.
    0:34:05 Reverb, I want to say.
    0:34:06 I’m not sure if they’re still around.
    0:34:09 Another example came from Summer Fisher in episode 652.
    0:34:13 Summer had a unique rental business in that she was renting out dresses.
    0:34:16 But she actually didn’t invent that idea.
    0:34:21 Instead, she tapped into a couple marketplaces that already existed and already had customers.
    0:34:24 And I just thought they were going to rent them on, I don’t know, Facebook Marketplace
    0:34:26 or Depop or something like that.
    0:34:32 And I looked into it and I realized there’s this whole industry around dress rentals.
    0:34:33 I put up two dresses.
    0:34:40 One day I was just sitting in my car at my daughter’s cheer practice and one of them rented and I got
    0:34:43 a notification that it had rented and I was like, oh my God, I just rented a dress.
    0:34:45 But now what do I do?
    0:34:48 I didn’t really understand it and I just kind of went all in.
    0:34:53 So I kind of worked it out as I went along and then I ended up putting all the dresses up
    0:34:57 then that I had been flipping and it kind of grew from there.
    0:35:00 And then I started buying dresses specifically to rent.
    0:35:04 There’s online sites where you can rent dresses basically.
    0:35:06 So they’re different in every country.
    0:35:09 So for us in Australia, there’s a site called The Vault.
    0:35:13 A big one in the US and the UK is By Rotation.
    0:35:17 So there’s several of these type of websites and they’re kind of peer-to-peer lending.
    0:35:23 So basically you can put up your own wardrobe or like I do, run it as a business and rent to
    0:35:23 other people.
    0:35:27 And that’s Summer Fisher in episode 652.
    0:35:29 Bet you never thought of dresses as an asset class.
    0:35:30 I know I definitely didn’t.
    0:35:32 But she built a great business renting them out.
    0:35:37 And importantly, she wasn’t trying to create demand from scratch or build an audience.
    0:35:42 There was already demand and already an audience and a place to get in front of them in the form
    0:35:45 of those niche rental marketplaces.
    0:35:50 We talked about Amazon and Etsy and Rover and TaskRabbit and Udemy and Teachers Pay Teachers
    0:35:55 and Fiverr and Upwork and even sites like Cloud of Goods for mobility scooter rentals.
    0:36:01 Generally speaking, the more niche the marketplace, the better when you’re starting out or the more
    0:36:03 niche your service needs to be to stand out.
    0:36:08 Because obviously platforms like Amazon and Etsy and Fiverr are more crowded than they were
    0:36:09 a decade ago.
    0:36:14 But it’s important to remember that the buyer population is a lot larger than it was too.
    0:36:19 And if you can create a listing that is exactly what somebody is looking for, they’re likely
    0:36:19 to give you a shot.
    0:36:21 So that’s marketplaces.
    0:36:24 That’s the buy buttons component of the piggyback principle.
    0:36:28 Make it easy for somebody to click your buy button by putting it on one of these pre-existing
    0:36:30 marketplaces.
    0:36:32 But we’re just getting started with the marketing stuff.
    0:36:38 One of my all-time favorite piggyback principle strategies is intentionally going after strategic
    0:36:39 referral partnerships.
    0:36:45 This is how you can piggyback on someone else’s audience who serves a complimentary, but not
    0:36:47 necessarily competitive niche.
    0:36:53 And this can work in a lot of different ways from the handshake referral agreement to traditional
    0:36:58 affiliate marketing where you pay a predefined commission or percentage for sending new customers
    0:36:58 your way.
    0:37:03 The question to ask is, who are your target customers already doing business with?
    0:37:09 And this tactic dates back to some of the earliest episodes of the show with Ryan Cote describing
    0:37:13 getting referral business for his SEO agency from a local web designer.
    0:37:15 Hey, this website is built.
    0:37:16 It’s only natural.
    0:37:18 You’re going to need help with the marketing stuff, right?
    0:37:20 So here’s my friend Ryan.
    0:37:21 He can help you with that.
    0:37:27 And Daniel DiPiazza, he described, this is like episode 35, like really low, really long
    0:37:27 time ago episodes.
    0:37:32 He described getting clients for his tutoring operation by targeting, I want to say high school
    0:37:33 guidance counselors.
    0:37:35 Now, this is 12 years ago.
    0:37:37 Forgive me if my memory doesn’t serve.
    0:37:40 But who are your target customers already doing business with?
    0:37:42 Or who are they already paying attention to?
    0:37:47 In episode 480, Johnny Robinson described it this way for his window washing service.
    0:37:48 It can work online, it can work offline.
    0:37:54 I was sitting in my car and I see a van pass by me and it’s a Hardee’s Windows.
    0:37:56 It’s a window contractor, a big window contractor here in Orange County.
    0:38:00 And I was like, huh, I wonder if after they install windows, they need someone to clean them.
    0:38:01 I’ll just call.
    0:38:01 And so I call them.
    0:38:05 I’m like, hey, do you guys need window cleaning for the stuff you guys install?
    0:38:07 And they’re like, no, we do that in-house.
    0:38:08 And I was like, oh, damn.
    0:38:13 So I thought I was like some mastermind sitting in my car that I was about to get so much work.
    0:38:13 And then that happened.
    0:38:17 And I was like, okay, who else could refer me to residential houses?
    0:38:20 And so I’m like, oh, probably maid services.
    0:38:24 I know maid services don’t carry the right equipment to clean residential windows, especially
    0:38:26 two stories up on the exterior.
    0:38:27 So let me call the maid services.
    0:38:30 So I called the first three on Yelp, the top three.
    0:38:33 And they’re like, yeah, I’ll pass you some window cleaning work.
    0:38:34 Just give me a little kickback.
    0:38:35 So it’s like, all right, perfect.
    0:38:41 The first two I called of the three, we structured a deal where they would refer us and we’d give
    0:38:42 them 15% of the job.
    0:38:45 So that’s how we started to get our first residential work coming in.
    0:38:46 That’s the key.
    0:38:51 Not just finding one-off leads, but potential lead fountains that can become a steady source
    0:38:52 of new business.
    0:38:55 And it’s one of the most effective marketing strategies ever.
    0:38:56 One of my all-time faves.
    0:39:00 And that’s why it’s come up so many times over the past 10 plus years.
    0:39:04 Who are your target customers already doing business with or paying attention to?
    0:39:06 And let’s say your business is purely online.
    0:39:12 We did an episode on this fast track strategy to grow in your email list and your sales with
    0:39:15 Dustin Lean in episode 464.
    0:39:17 We called it the partner workshop strategy.
    0:39:19 And here’s how he described it.
    0:39:23 So you kind of find yourself in this situation where you have an expertise and you can actually
    0:39:27 help a lot of brands, but they don’t know you exist.
    0:39:34 And so when going through that process of how do I grow, how do I find places to market that
    0:39:38 will actually get me real clients that isn’t going to be a waste of time, this strategy of
    0:39:44 just getting in front of someone else’s established audience that already has an audience full of people who are
    0:39:50 potential clients for you and they have trust built with that other brand you’re partnering with.
    0:39:57 So you can kind of borrow that trust and get it placed on you when they bring you in to teach a workshop to other people.
    0:40:01 And it really helps establish trust with you a lot faster between you and their customers.
    0:40:09 How this strategy works was established brands or creators bringing you in to teach an educational workshop.
    0:40:11 Let’s say they’ve got 10,000 people on their email list.
    0:40:16 They serve the same audience you want to reach, but in a different way, a complimentary way.
    0:40:19 They invite those 10,000 people to your workshop.
    0:40:22 And let’s say you get 200 people to sign up.
    0:40:26 I don’t know what a typical conversion rate might be, but you just grew your list by 200 people in one day.
    0:40:33 And you’ve jumped the line in their minds as the go-to person for whatever problem it is that you solve.
    0:40:41 Dustin’s partner workshop strategy is super powerful and one I think that can be replicated in a ton of different niches and industries.
    0:40:45 Again, highly recommend checking out that full episode to learn how we did it.
    0:40:47 Episode 464.
    0:40:55 Another unique way to apply the piggyback principle to your marketing is to find influencers in your space and get them to talk about your product.
    0:41:00 One of my favorite examples comes from Lou Rice in her simple Strapsicle device.
    0:41:04 This is a little silicone strap that lets you read your Kindle with one hand.
    0:41:11 And this is how she described the influencer piggyback strategy that led to tens of thousands of dollars in sales.
    0:41:15 But then I very quickly discovered BookTok on TikTok.
    0:41:18 And that really changed the game for us as well.
    0:41:19 Tell me about BookTok.
    0:41:21 Yeah, I don’t know if you know BookTok.
    0:41:31 I mean, BookTok is a huge subculture on TikTok of people who absolutely love, they have their book accounts, love their books, and then they love Kindles as well.
    0:41:34 So I learned to have an affiliate strategy.
    0:41:36 Go and find some micro-influencers.
    0:41:38 Give them a free code.
    0:41:39 That’s what I did.
    0:41:41 I spent hours.
    0:41:45 I researched all of these kind of, I wouldn’t even call them influencers.
    0:41:48 They were just people that had 2,000 or 3,000 followers, maybe a bit more.
    0:41:54 I reached out to them, told them a bit about our story, and offered them a sample to try.
    0:41:58 And I knew they loved Kindles because I’d searched all the Kindle hashtags to find them.
    0:41:58 Okay.
    0:42:01 So I sent the product out.
    0:42:02 Absolutely loved it.
    0:42:05 And the bonus of that is I gave them a code to share with their followers.
    0:42:10 So then they were actively promoting for me sometimes daily, weekly.
    0:42:15 And then I was also gathering all this UGC content that I could then use for my own marketing.
    0:42:22 So that actually, in the first three months of business, really helped grow the word about Stripe School.
    0:42:23 Wow.
    0:42:25 Were you like native to the TikTok platform?
    0:42:27 Like it’s still a black box mystery to me.
    0:42:29 Oh, is it?
    0:42:30 Oh, yeah.
    0:42:32 But you’re like, oh, shoot, I’m going to reach out to these micro-influencers.
    0:42:33 I’m going to send them my stuff.
    0:42:35 I’m going to get them an affiliate code.
    0:42:39 It sounds like super premeditated, super intentional, like super strategic.
    0:42:40 It wasn’t at all.
    0:42:45 But I would say, Nick, you need to get on the TikTok.
    0:42:46 Apparently so.
    0:42:46 But it is.
    0:42:47 Yeah.
    0:42:51 I mean, the organic growth opportunities from TikTok are still so strong.
    0:42:54 And I think, look, I was just on this.
    0:42:55 I was still on that leave.
    0:42:56 I had this time.
    0:42:57 Archie was in daycare.
    0:42:59 And I was like, I’m just going to run at this.
    0:43:01 I’ve got two more months before I go back to work.
    0:43:06 So doing this and then seeing the traction, this strategy brought, this tactic brought,
    0:43:08 I was like, keep going, keep going.
    0:43:13 I don’t know if you’ve heard the quote from, I think it was at Paul Graham, early on, do
    0:43:14 the things that don’t scale.
    0:43:16 And for me, that really stuck.
    0:43:20 It’s like, spend the time, just reach out to people.
    0:43:23 People with relatively small followings love to hear from you.
    0:43:25 They probably haven’t had many brands reach out.
    0:43:26 Yeah.
    0:43:29 Especially in like the book category, it’s something, it would stand out.
    0:43:31 He’s like, well, maybe you probably get lots of offers.
    0:43:36 Well, read my next book from authors or something, but like, oh, a physical product that’s going
    0:43:40 to make my reading more ergonomic or something like, okay, that definitely stands out from
    0:43:41 the clutter there.
    0:43:47 Again, that’s Lou Rice from episode 589, describing a micro-influencer strategy that’s been echoed
    0:43:52 by other guests as well, including Mike Ettenberg and his sunglasses for first responders business.
    0:43:57 He talked about sending out over a thousand pairs of sunglasses to first responder creators,
    0:44:01 the people who were already speaking to the audience he was trying to serve.
    0:44:06 The last piggyback principle strategy I want to share on the marketing side of things is related
    0:44:08 to capturing search traffic.
    0:44:13 And while SEO has been a complicated and challenging game of late, to say the least, it’s still quite
    0:44:14 a bit simpler on YouTube.
    0:44:18 I think that’s a big opportunity for side hustlers to create content that answers a specific question
    0:44:21 that your target customer might type in.
    0:44:25 If you’ve got the answer, you build up a lot of trust really fast in the eye of that viewer.
    0:44:26 It doesn’t take a lot of views.
    0:44:29 You don’t have to go viral to make a big dent in your business.
    0:44:34 Here’s how Christy DeSilva from DeSilva Life described this strategy in episode 627.
    0:44:42 We decided to launch a YouTube channel and that was a huge turning point for DL because YouTube
    0:44:47 is obviously long form video content and people are extremely problem aware.
    0:44:49 They’re like, how do I do this with ClickUp?
    0:44:50 How do I do this with HoneyBook?
    0:44:55 And so our first YouTube video that ever took off, that’s still one of our highest ranking,
    0:44:59 is five ClickUp dashboards that will change your business.
    0:45:04 It was cool to see like, because the first few videos were like, here’s how we can help you.
    0:45:08 What’s the difference between a CRM and a project management tool?
    0:45:13 Beginner’s Guide to HoneyBook and ClickUp, which those still do well as well.
    0:45:18 But then the more specific we started to get with it, like, okay, these five ClickUp dashboards
    0:45:24 that will change your business, even ones like specific ClickUp automations or how to create
    0:45:27 a content calendar in ClickUp or things like that.
    0:45:30 How to run your agency in HoneyBook.
    0:45:35 Those are things that perform really well because people are searching for that exact thing.
    0:45:36 Did you catch it?
    0:45:40 Christy’s actually using two piggyback principle strategies at once here.
    0:45:45 Yes, she’s targeting specific search phrases she knows she can answer, like how to create
    0:45:46 a content calendar in ClickUp.
    0:45:51 But she’s also piggybacking on the built-in user base of those software tools.
    0:45:56 It can be a really effective strategy to become the go-to expert on a specific software.
    0:46:02 And we’ve seen examples on the show of people doing that with FreshBooks, Shopify, Asana, Salesforce,
    0:46:08 Microsoft Excel, Infusionsoft, and Optimized Press back in the day, and yes, HoneyBook and
    0:46:09 ClickUp in Christy’s case.
    0:46:14 If that’s a path that makes sense for your business, episode 627 with Christy is worth a listen.
    0:46:20 Now, in my mind, it would be way harder to offer a generic project management optimization
    0:46:21 service.
    0:46:22 I don’t even know what that is.
    0:46:26 But if you’re the expert in ClickUp, and that’s what you do all day long, and you’re providing
    0:46:31 me helpful content for free, it makes it such an easier decision to hire you if that’s what
    0:46:32 I need help with.
    0:46:34 Piggyback, piggyback, piggyback.
    0:46:34 There’s no shame in it.
    0:46:36 It’s working smarter, not harder.
    0:46:39 And it can help you in every stage of your business.
    0:46:44 Whatever challenge you’re facing, how can I get a piggyback ride over this mountain?
    0:46:45 The toddlers have got it figured out.
    0:46:51 To recap, we covered how to apply the piggyback principle in three different phases of your
    0:46:51 business.
    0:46:57 The idea generation phase, the startup and creation phase, and then the marketing and growth phase.
    0:47:01 The questions to keep in mind are, what would it look like if it were easy?
    0:47:02 Remember Austin Church.
    0:47:05 Pay attention to what wants to happen.
    0:47:08 What trends are happening in the marketplace that I could take advantage of?
    0:47:12 Or at the very least, is the idea that I’m considering at least increasing in demand in
    0:47:13 the startup phase.
    0:47:17 It feels like you’re starting from scratch, but I can almost guarantee there is a template
    0:47:20 or playbook of some sort you can adapt to your own needs.
    0:47:24 You can get ChatGPT to give you the big picture outline of what it’s going to take to build.
    0:47:29 You might even be able to piggyback on the expertise of others in the form of freelance help, mentorship,
    0:47:32 education, coaching, stuff like that.
    0:47:36 And when it comes to growing your side hustle, ask who are your target customers already doing
    0:47:38 business with or paying attention to?
    0:47:43 How can you be of service to those business owners or creators in a win-win way?
    0:47:47 What are the pre-existing niche marketplaces you can put your product or service up for
    0:47:48 sale?
    0:47:52 And can you answer people’s questions with evergreen content to showcase your expertise?
    0:47:57 Armed with these strategies, you’re going to be an expert piggybacker in no time, and I’m
    0:47:58 excited for you.
    0:48:02 I know we referenced a lot of archive episodes in this one, and I’ll be sure to link all of
    0:48:08 those up in the show notes for this episode at SideHustleNation.com slash piggyback.
    0:48:12 While you’re there, you’ll be able to check out the full text summary of this episode.
    0:48:16 And if you’re so inclined, build yourself your own personalized Side Hustle Show playlist.
    0:48:19 Maybe e-commerce is your jam.
    0:48:21 Maybe you’re a reseller at heart.
    0:48:25 Maybe you’re destined to become a content creator or make money freelancing.
    0:48:30 No matter which path is for you, I’ve got a short little quiz at hustle.show to help
    0:48:32 you find out which direction to go.
    0:48:37 It’ll give you 8 to 10 of our all-time greatest hits episode to listen to next based on your
    0:48:38 answers.
    0:48:43 Again, that’s at hustle.show for that short quiz to build your own custom curated Side Hustle
    0:48:44 Show playlist.
    0:48:47 Big thanks to all our amazing guests that made this episode possible.
    0:48:51 Big thanks to our sponsors for helping make this content free for everyone.
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    0:48:57 in one place.
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    0:49:01 That is it for me.
    0:49:03 Thank you so much for tuning in.
    0:49:06 If you find a value in the show, please help spread the word.
    0:49:10 Fire off that text to a friend who could benefit from a little piggyback ride up that entrepreneurial
    0:49:11 mountain.
    0:49:14 Until next time, let’s go out there and make something happen.
    0:49:17 And I’ll catch you in the next edition of the Side Hustle Show.

    The Piggyback Principle is a business idea framework that looks at popular market trends or “ecosystems” and seeks ways to support or supplement those trends.

    It’s a faster way to start a business because you can capitalize on what’s already hot with an additional or complementary product or service.

    Basically, your side hustle can ride piggyback on a larger business or trend. You could even say that my now-retired shoe-business was a piggyback business on the e-commerce trend and the comparison shopping trend.

    It’s a concept I first wrote about 10 years ago, but at that time, I took a pretty narrow view by just talking about marketplace trends.

    At that time, it was things like the rise of WordPress, or the popularity of the Paleo diet.

    Now, I’ve broken this principle into three stages:

    1. Idea generation
    2. Startup creation
    3. Marketing/growth

    And to make this practical, I’m bringing in real-world examples from fellow entrepreneurs who’ve used this approach to build real businesses.

    Here are the new and updated trends for the Piggyback Principle in 2025.

    Full Show Notes: The Piggyback Principle: The “Lazy” Way to Build a Successful Side Hustle

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  • Why Women Still Struggle for Real Power — with Melinda French Gates

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    0:00:06 if you’re feeling bummed about the future of climate change under our new administration
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    0:00:40 episode 345 345 is the area code belonging to the cayman islands in 1945 the first microwave oven
    0:00:46 was invented i like my girlfriends like my microwaves cool on the outside hot on the inside
    0:00:57 and kills every baby i put in them oh that was wrong that was so wrong go go go
    0:01:10 welcome to the 345th episode of the prop juke pod everyone is freaking out at that joke is this
    0:01:16 the end if we’re gonna go down let’s go down with all guns blazing all right what’s happening i am
    0:01:24 back in london and it feels alien because the sun is out it hits 62 degrees today um we’ve have a
    0:01:29 fantastic episode today we speak with melinda french gates a philanthropist businesswoman and global
    0:01:35 advocate for women and girls probably the wrong joke for that anyway as we discuss with melinda her new
    0:01:41 book the next day transitions change and moving forward we also get into her philanthropic efforts
    0:01:46 what she learned from raising a son and why women still face barriers to claiming real power today
    0:01:49 so with that here’s our conversation with melinda french gates
    0:02:12 melinda where does this podcast find you in seattle seattle that would make sense yeah home for me
    0:02:17 home for you what percentage of your time do you spend there and where what’s your second favorite
    0:02:22 place i’m probably half the time in seattle and my second favorite place is being with my
    0:02:27 granddaughters somewhere on the east coast new york or florida that’s nice where in florida
    0:02:33 uh they’re down in this sort of palm beach area but inland from that yeah i have a home in uh delray
    0:02:39 beach i really enjoy it down there and i miss it uh so let’s bust right into it in the opening of your
    0:02:45 new book the next day you write that you’ve organized a book around transitions that were formative in your
    0:02:51 life you mentioned leaving home becoming a parent losing a friend ending your marriage and leaving the
    0:02:57 gates foundation walk us through if you can each of these pivotal moments and highlight some of the key
    0:03:03 insights well i wrote this book because i think you know we all go through transitions in life and i’m
    0:03:08 very honest in the book that i’ve turned 60 and so by now i’ve gone through lots of transitions as you
    0:03:15 said leaving home for me that one was really exciting to go to college but then i got there and as i
    0:03:20 described in the book i felt like a fish out of water as a woman in computer science and i had to
    0:03:26 adjust to that i talk about joining microsoft that was again a very exciting time in the computer
    0:03:32 industry i loved it but again i was there weren’t very many technical women i leave my career to start
    0:03:38 raising my children uh knowing i would go back but that was an enormous transition for me to leave the
    0:03:44 workforce and raise children and then you know we started the gates foundation and i chose to leave
    0:03:50 that last year and strike out on my own in philanthropy so big big transitions some exhilarating
    0:03:56 some scary but i think they’re things we learn and we gain resilience by going through lots of
    0:04:02 transitions so obviously you’re playing at an entirely different altitude but my family is
    0:04:05 blessed with a certain level of economic security and i constantly get questions around how do you
    0:04:13 maintain your children’s grit and the answer is i’m not sure we have um you obviously your kids i would
    0:04:19 imagine this is an issue that that you face how do you try and instill a certain level of values
    0:04:25 and grit and an appreciation for work in in your kids given obviously the extraordinary opportunities
    0:04:34 and privilege they have sure and my three children are all now adults ages 22 25 and 28 but what i would
    0:04:43 say is i was incredibly purposeful about it from the day they were born and i knew they were being born into
    0:04:50 a life of incredible privilege but i grew up in a middle-class family and i knew that if i could instill
    0:04:59 those values and make our life as normal as i could for them and constantly live out my values in the home and through
    0:05:04 the work we were doing in the world and bring the work home and talk about it around the dinner table
    0:05:09 as well as i took them out on age-appropriate field trips even when they were very young
    0:05:15 we went and visited places around seattle that they could give their time and eventually when they were
    0:05:21 old enough i took them to pretty rough places in africa because so they could see that seattle was one
    0:05:28 pinprick on the globe and that if you have some level of wealth and privilege there is something
    0:05:34 you can do with your life to give back and i believe that’s true for everybody who’s born in the united
    0:05:41 states no matter what their wealth income you have time and energy and talents and sometimes even money
    0:05:47 to give back so in addition to taking them and exposing them to people aren’t less fortunate did you have
    0:05:57 any more pedestrian tactics like chores or athletics anything like that absolutely first of all i felt
    0:06:02 like my kids should not be homeschooled they should be in a school environment so that we were working
    0:06:06 through all the issues the kids work through with their peers and that i needed to work through with
    0:06:14 other parents we absolutely had chores they had an allowance and we had an agreement about their
    0:06:20 allowance they got it weekly it wasn’t for specific chores it was for it was an allowance but they were
    0:06:26 expected to do their chores and the agreement i had with them is that became their budget for buying
    0:06:32 clothing uh for buying things they wanted anything else went on their christmas wish list or their
    0:06:38 birthday wish list from our extended family um and the other agreement i had with them is because of who
    0:06:45 we were neither they nor i were ever allowed to tell how much it was per week because everybody would
    0:06:51 have an opinion oh that’s all the gates kids gets or oh my gosh that’s so much money that they get
    0:06:59 but it turned that it i think it taught them to budget early and learn the value of money one of the
    0:07:04 things or i think one of the reasons are common themes through the accolades or the positive reception
    0:07:10 your book is that you are pretty strikingly vulnerable and raw and out there with pretty sensitive topics i
    0:07:16 you know when you read memoirs quite frankly you’re usually reading kind of the starched version of their
    0:07:21 life written by someone else that they’re the hero in everything and everything’s for the better and ends
    0:07:27 well and there’s some life lesson in it and you seem pretty vulnerable in it you talk a lot about
    0:07:34 dealing with panic attacks and anxiety and we are raising a generation of people who are
    0:07:40 suffering more from anxiety or greater levels of anxiety than any previous generation you have kids
    0:07:46 you struggled or been open about your struggles with anxiety what advice can you give to young people
    0:07:53 who might be struggling with anxiety pretty much every human being has anxiety at some level
    0:08:01 and i know many business leaders that i have been around i’ll say many of them male or even prime
    0:08:07 ministers i was i was uh practicing backstage for something and i saw this prime minister going into
    0:08:13 q a session and he was practicing with his team because he knew there were going to be anxiety provoking
    0:08:21 questions and the only reason i even say that is because i think we have to realize all of us deal with it
    0:08:29 and the more we can be honest about it and bring it forward and name it and then reach for support
    0:08:37 and other people and resources the more we can overcome it and partly you do have to lean forward
    0:08:43 into it i often say to myself in the back of my mind and i’ve said this to my three children both when
    0:08:48 they were in middle school high school and now adults just when anxiety makes you feel like you want to
    0:08:55 fall backwards as soon as you start to feel that falling backwards you have to push yourself to lean
    0:09:01 forward and say what can i do in this moment who can i reach out to on text how do i reach you know a
    0:09:09 trusted friend a parent a therapist a counselor and that the more you practice going through those anxious
    0:09:14 times the more you’re going to get better at it and push through even some of the bigger ones
    0:09:21 yeah i love the statement of dan harris that action absorbs anxiety and something that gives me
    0:09:27 anxiety i don’t know if you’ve ever felt this way as a parent i have huge fears that i have sons 14 and
    0:09:34 17 that they’re going through something and don’t tell me or anybody that’s my fear that they’re in the
    0:09:40 room and if i felt the same way when i had problems at school i wasn’t going to talk to my mom about it i was
    0:09:45 a single mother i just wasn’t going to come to her and that’s always been my biggest fear is that
    0:09:53 um well anybody doesn’t reach out but especially with my kids like how do i create some level of
    0:09:59 comfort or fluidity around communication because i i do worry that you know i would bet the majority of
    0:10:05 the stuff they’ve dealt with i never knew about and anyway any more of a statement than a question but
    0:10:10 any thoughts on trying to make sure that people close in your life reach out when they’re struggling
    0:10:16 well i would say you know scott you and i grew up in a different generation right and luckily this
    0:10:22 generation is talking much more about anxiety depression mental health disorders so that’s fantastic
    0:10:31 and all i can say is what i tried to do as a parent i definitely had times when i worried substantially
    0:10:36 about two of my three children the third one not so much because she was so verbal i kind of always knew
    0:10:43 what was on her mind but the older two and what i learned over that time was the more i could be
    0:10:50 venerable and name what i was afraid of or what i dealt with at their age i think the more it caused an
    0:10:58 opening for a conversation i will say i hear from more parents of boys or i did when my girls and my son
    0:11:04 were in middle school high school that boys tend to not be in general um as verbal about naming their
    0:11:09 emotions especially because they’re maturing a bit later than girls and so i think in those cases you
    0:11:15 have to create more openings and opportunities so i learned with two of my three that they would talk
    0:11:20 over a dinner alone with me and we just made a regular routine of dinners alone another one talked to
    0:11:26 me more when we would go out walking so we made a regular routine of going out walking and guess what
    0:11:31 i still employ those tactics now that they’re adults we’ll be right back after a quick break
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    0:15:09 you’re raising a son i’m writing a book on masculinity and i have two sons so i can’t compare and contrast
    0:15:16 what it’s like to raise girls versus boys but what have you been your observations and how or if and
    0:15:22 how you’ve changed your approach to parenting between your son and your daughters well first of all for
    0:15:29 me at least it was more about personality i mean kids come into the world with a good chunk of their
    0:15:34 personality i think developed and we can only i think affect what my mom used to say were the two ends of the
    0:15:41 spectrum help them you know raise up their good sides and try and keep the low sides down so my kids all
    0:15:47 three were quite different personalities but i will say you know i that my son and he and i were just
    0:15:53 recently talking about this he matured a bit later than the girls did you know at those ages and so i did
    0:16:00 have to talk with him more about his friends even later than i talked to my girls like you want to make sure
    0:16:06 your kids are surrounded by a good community and good friends and if you see a bad one you you know
    0:16:11 in middle school you get to help them more on that in high school you know it gets trickier right
    0:16:17 and so um i did have to have more conversations with my son about you know what are you noticing about
    0:16:22 this friend what do you like about this friend or what don’t you like about that friend so he could
    0:16:27 compare and contrast good friendships to be able to really see who was true in his life
    0:16:37 so you also talk a lot about how difficult it is still for women to get real power what do you mean
    0:16:44 by real power and what still gets in the way i mean there’s a lot of data showing that women are doing
    0:16:49 quite frankly just really well right women under the more college attendance from women women under the
    0:16:52 age of 30 and urban centers are making more money more single women own
    0:16:59 homes the graduate schools are chock full of women now more women seeking tertiary education than men
    0:17:06 but you say that or that women still have a difficult time seizing real power define real power and what
    0:17:13 you think uh are still some of the obstacles facing women sure i think we all have power inside of us
    0:17:21 boys and men women and girls you’re absolutely right at the statistics you’ve talked about where women are
    0:17:29 starting to thrive at those levels but when we send them out into society into their careers there’s a
    0:17:37 noticeable shift and you are not seeing women at the very top of professions they’re starting to make it in
    0:17:44 middle management you’re seeing more female cfos and and chief legal officers or head of hr but you know
    0:17:54 how many ceos in the fortune 500 are women how many entrepreneurs are women how many at the top of the
    0:18:02 medical profession how many of those are women and so what i’m seeing is that women are stalling at certain
    0:18:07 levels for all kinds of reasons and partly though there are barriers in society that are holding
    0:18:13 women back and we need to break down those barriers because to me real power is when a woman can use
    0:18:20 her voice and advocate exactly the way she wants she has full decision making authority authority over her
    0:18:29 resources and she’s setting direction so when i look at who creates our public policy i still don’t see
    0:18:35 enough women at the head of the senate or the u.s house of of representatives i don’t see enough women
    0:18:42 in state legislatures that’s where we’re making policy when i look at who are the heads of studios and what
    0:18:49 movies are being made those tell our stories how many female directors do you see so we’re still stalling
    0:18:55 out in society and that’s why i feel at least for me my work is how do we make sure we continue to break
    0:19:03 down the barriers and lift women up all the way as we also bring along boys because you have great
    0:19:09 statistics which i’ve read and i see and i see it anecdotally of boys now struggling more at the sort
    0:19:16 of middle and high school level and college level right so we actually need to do both so there’s there’s
    0:19:22 no getting around it you know the data i’ve seen is that while young women are thriving where women
    0:19:27 really take a hit professionally quite frankly is when they have kids and that is the corporate world
    0:19:32 still hasn’t figured out a way to maintain a woman’s trajectory and the corporate world is very
    0:19:39 unforgiving of people who leave for even a year so i guess moving to and also i think it’s like 80 or 85
    0:19:45 of the fortune 500 at one point i think there were more ceos named john than women like not that long
    0:19:50 ago three or four years ago so there’s clearly i mean there’s clearly some nuance here clearly there’s
    0:19:57 still really big obstacles for women around as you put it seizing real power i i believe that the
    0:20:02 quality of opportunity doesn’t always mean a quality of outcome i’m not sure there will ever be 250 women
    0:20:07 uh fortune 500 ceos uh and that’s a longer conversation as to why but there should definitely
    0:20:16 be more than 80 but what can we do because is it laws is it a different approach is it it doesn’t
    0:20:20 appear i mean is it is it going to be a naturally occurring phenomena because there’s more women in
    0:20:25 college and college is a strong predictor of senior leadership is it that young women aren’t as risk
    0:20:30 aggressive for whatever reason and they need different upbringing about risk and entrepreneurship like
    0:20:36 if you had a magic wand you have a lot of resources you have a big voice you’ve identified the problem
    0:20:40 what do you think of the two or three things we can do as a society to try and help
    0:20:46 women at those senior levels get over the hump okay so one of the biggest barriers for women in the
    0:20:55 workplace is caregiving even in the private sector less than 27 percent of women have access to paid
    0:21:04 family medical leave we are the only the only high income country in the world that doesn’t have a
    0:21:11 federal paid family medical leave policy and i don’t believe it should be maternity leave i believe it
    0:21:17 should be paid family medical leave because if you look at societies take the nordic countries where
    0:21:26 they’ve had paid family medical leave for a long time say 30 years what happens both the women and the men
    0:21:34 take it and what it does is the man participates longer in the rearing of the children he appreciates
    0:21:40 his wife’s role more and you break down the norm in society that oh the woman should go take care of the
    0:21:46 kid and and then there’s not also a career penalty for her taking that time off because the man’s doing
    0:21:53 it as well when we get to that point of really waking up to having a paid family medical leave
    0:22:00 policy at the federal level we will change society and so one of the things i am doing with many many
    0:22:06 partners is pushing on this we got very close in the last administration we missed it at the federal
    0:22:12 level by one vote it was a senator a male senator but we have it in 13 states and the district of
    0:22:18 columbia now and so we’ve got to keep that’s one barrier we have to break down and keep pushing forward
    0:22:25 again i believe if you have more women in state houses and you have more women in on the hill in the
    0:22:31 in dc we’ll get that policy passed but we’ll get it passed even before that because we do have to have
    0:22:37 like-minded men and boys who believe in these things in terms of women just take i’ll take one example
    0:22:43 risk which you brought up i don’t believe women are less risk averse i really just don’t we talk about
    0:22:49 that a lot but when you look at the statistics if you want to start a new business as a female
    0:22:58 entrepreneur four percent four percent of venture capital funding goes to women and so when you talk
    0:23:04 about when you actually do the surveys of the women who’ve run run the gauntlet take it on sandhill road
    0:23:10 in silicon valley they hear they’re too risk they won’t take enough risk they’re not taking enough
    0:23:15 risk they’re taking too much risk they haven’t thought of their business plan when you put a male next to
    0:23:21 them they run the gauntlet and they do much better so to me it’s a bias we have in society that men
    0:23:28 and women have so what do we need to do we need to make sure more limited partners are looking at
    0:23:35 women-led businesses and quite frankly people of color businesses because i believe women have a
    0:23:41 different lens on society than men it’s not good or better it just is different and i believe they have
    0:23:47 good business ideas and we shouldn’t as as an investor and i am moving money in this direction i don’t
    0:23:50 believe we should leave money on the table i think those are good businesses that will help us get
    0:23:57 through some of these caregiving struggles that we are facing now as a nation especially with an aging
    0:24:06 population yeah i would say the greatest exposure to inequality i registered or witnessed was in the
    0:24:11 90s i came of age the dawn of the internet i graduated in business school in 92 and i raised a bunch of
    0:24:17 money i lived in san francisco starting internet companies and i i’m embarrassed to admit this
    0:24:23 i never dawned on me that every one of us that was raising tens of millions of dollars in venture capital
    0:24:30 we were all white dudes you weren’t even allowed to be gay i mean you couldn’t be or outwardly gay
    0:24:40 you couldn’t it was all the same person it was all uh white men typically in their 30s
    0:24:48 who had great credentials stanford or berkeley i went to berkeley and all of that risk capital was
    0:24:54 crowded into what is that you know 11 percent of the population you know that’s fragment and it just
    0:25:01 never dawned on me that why aren’t you know non-whites getting funded why aren’t women getting
    0:25:07 funded and things have gotten better i remember katherine dylan i mean granted it started from a
    0:25:11 terrible place but katherine dylan who’s my business partner here i remember we raised money from general
    0:25:18 catalyst to kind of arguably one of the better venture capitalists east of the mississippi and we
    0:25:22 went in there for the last round and it was part of the last round of funding we raised i think 17 million
    0:25:26 bucks or something in a a round for one of my companies and we had to meet with all the partners
    0:25:32 and all 27 of the partners granted this was 15 13 years ago all 27 of the partners were men
    0:25:39 and it didn’t even dawn on me and katherine and maureen basically they said to me what the fuck i’m like
    0:25:44 what’s wrong and they’re like they couldn’t find one woman but i do think it’s gotten a lot better
    0:25:50 but where do you see the the friction we know the problems where do you see the friction and how do we
    0:25:58 address it yeah so in addition to my philanthropic dollars i also have a large investment fund because
    0:26:06 i believe it’s so important to put my money where my mouth is and to role model what’s right do i expect
    0:26:13 and so it is it’s going that funding is going to limited partners who are over indexing on women
    0:26:20 and people of color businesses because i believe if i can prove that i can get a good return from that
    0:26:25 then people won’t leave you won’t you’ll have men saying oh wait a minute i want to crowd in on that
    0:26:30 business i don’t want to leave funding on the table right there’s a great opportunity now with female
    0:26:36 sports you’re seeing those sports teams finally coming up and doing better billy jean king has been on
    0:26:42 this you know forever but now you’re seeing people like serena williams has a great investment fund
    0:26:48 there’s monarch collective so you’re seeing the rise of women’s nba and i believe you’re going to start to
    0:26:54 see the rise in more other sports for women that is a fantastic place to put money down just as one
    0:27:01 example there are many more types of businesses so i’m funding limited partners who are funding many
    0:27:08 others again with this thesis that i have and we’ll see if it proves out to be right so you’ve um
    0:27:11 speaking of philanthropy you’ve committed a billion dollars towards women’s health
    0:27:21 and uh so just first off uh i i just want to say thank you and uh and that is i i talk a lot about
    0:27:26 and i’m very passionate about the struggles that young men face in our society and the inspiration
    0:27:33 for me focusing on this area was data i started getting from this um brooking scholar named richard
    0:27:38 reeves he’s literally my he’s literally my yoda on the topic and he called me and he said i’m going to
    0:27:45 start my own institute and despite the fact that your billion dollars is geared towards women’s health
    0:27:51 the american institute for boys and men headed by this this person that’s literally changed my life
    0:28:00 uh richard reeves you gave him uh or pledged 20 million dollars and well so first thank you and
    0:28:04 and and the second is why did you decide given that the billion dollars is focused on women’s health
    0:28:10 to give 20 million dollars to the american institute for boys and men okay so yeah just to clarify a
    0:28:20 little bit i put down a billion dollars on behalf of lifting up women and others in society 250 million
    0:28:26 of that is going to women’s health we have a something called the action for women’s health so 250 million
    0:28:35 a quarter of the billion then i took 12 global leaders and gave each of them 20 million they can spend a
    0:28:41 small portion of it on their own organization but the goal is really for them to find other organizations
    0:28:48 doing like-minded work so richard reeves was one of those 12 global leaders because i absolutely believe
    0:28:56 that boys need to be doing better and men in society we have to have good role models for them as he talks
    0:29:04 about teachers coaches men need good places to say hey i can fit in society even though society is
    0:29:10 changing and so to me he’s on the forefront of that with his men and boys institute and i wanted to fund
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    0:31:58 so this is a loaded question but i’ll ask it anyways uh i believe that the biggest problems in our society
    0:32:03 can be somewhat reverse engineered to income inequality you’re one of the wealthiest i would imagine one of
    0:32:07 the wealthiest women in america what are your thoughts on income inequality and how we address it
    0:32:15 i absolutely see the income inequality in the united states and i do not think it’s good for us
    0:32:22 as a nation and i think you have too many people low-income people who are really struggling and
    0:32:30 struggling in their communities you know my dad grew up at a time that his dad ran a small machine shop
    0:32:35 in new orleans got turned over to the war effort after that it got turned back into a machine shop
    0:32:44 but my dad grew up in a family where there were not a lot of resources and yet because of georgia tech
    0:32:49 he was able to do a work study program and still become an engineer and then he got a scholarship
    0:32:56 to stanford right but you’ve pointed out which i think is true it is far harder to get into university
    0:33:04 these days than when i grew up or you grew up or my dad grew up and it’s far harder to find a good
    0:33:12 living wage to be able to purchase your first house so i don’t have all the policy solutions for that but
    0:33:17 i do think there are some policy solutions for that and i particularly my heart goes out to black people
    0:33:24 the redlining that we did in our country made homes unaffordable to them and they couldn’t even live in
    0:33:29 certain neighbors neighborhoods that absolutely those disparities need to be reversed
    0:33:35 when i look at you and your ex-husband’s approach right extraordinarily successful extraordinary
    0:33:44 beneficiaries of a capitalist economy you know unprecedented wealth but my sense is like and
    0:33:50 like a lot of your colleagues of your generation i’ll say our generation you do take civic responsibility
    0:33:57 seriously you know trying to advance women’s health trying to cure malaria i mean these are
    0:34:05 you know for lack of a better these are good things and i worry or what i witness is this new generation
    0:34:12 of tech leaders who are even aggregating arguably more wealth and in my view have more have a bigger debt
    0:34:20 to america and the world i don’t see that same level of like a comity of man it seems as if what they want
    0:34:27 is to get tax credits or subsidies from the government or reduce regulation once they’re kind of over the
    0:34:33 hump they want to be protected by the law but not bound by it and i get the sense they just don’t have
    0:34:40 the same even in the gilded age the you know the carnies of the rockefellers you know full body contact
    0:34:47 violence to get to that point of wealth but once they got to that point of wealth really took you wanted
    0:34:52 to build big beautiful works and give back and kind of cement their legacy as people who were seen as
    0:34:59 patriots and i don’t get that sense from this next level of tech leadership one do you agree with that and
    0:35:08 why do you think that is i don’t think tech leadership is a monolith i think you’re seeing
    0:35:16 certain ones being held up in society right now all i can say is that i believe if you are wealthy
    0:35:23 you know this extreme level of wealth anybody who has you know 500 million dollars my gosh you have
    0:35:30 more than enough wealth you you have a moral obligation to give it back and you have benefited
    0:35:36 if you started a business in this country you have absolutely benefited from this country i’ve traveled
    0:35:41 the world where people say my gosh you know i couldn’t begin to start a business like that in my
    0:35:49 country so you have something to give back and all i can say is that you know warren and my ex-husband
    0:35:56 bill and i set out with this giving pledge to really try and role model for society that if you
    0:36:02 have gotten great wealth you should be giving it back have has everybody started to give back
    0:36:10 absolutely not but do we have a group of them who are yes for sure and um what i can say is that the
    0:36:15 community that of that that are giving back they’re talking to one another they’re learning they’re trying
    0:36:20 to figure out how to do it well they’re trying to figure out how even with their kids we now have a
    0:36:26 whole next generation of the giving pledge of their adult children and adult grandchildren who are giving
    0:36:32 back so i think we have to role model that this is what’s right for society and that hopefully over time
    0:36:39 will put pressure on those who are not it even goes beyond that though i’ve just been so disappointed i see
    0:36:44 these some of these tech bros or some of those i don’t call it right wing i don’t even know how to
    0:36:51 but they attack someone like mackenzie bezos i’ve seen them attack you i’ve seen them as if your
    0:36:59 your philanthropy and your efforts are somewhat you know that there’s something mendacious or malicious
    0:37:05 there and it’s sort of like you you might be wrong but your heart’s in the right place i think that’s
    0:37:11 the worst thing you could say and yet they take it to this and some of these people have really big
    0:37:20 platforms and they want to create this sort of conspiracy that you’re up to harm and i don’t know
    0:37:24 it’s interesting they seem to have really centered in on mckenzie for some reason which it just makes no
    0:37:33 sense to me at all isn’t that incredibly upsetting for you i don’t get it i ignore it so i can you
    0:37:39 really can you really ignore yes yes i know who i am and i know what i’m doing and i know what my
    0:37:46 values are and why i’m giving back i mean sure i’m not sitting on the sidelines i mean to me it’s like
    0:37:51 it’s so easy to sit on the sidelines and as roosevelt used to say you know criticize from the
    0:38:00 sidelines i’m in the arena doing the work i’ve have visited my gosh probably more low-income countries
    0:38:06 certainly than i ever thought i would in my lifetime i see the difference that you know these health
    0:38:13 tools make in low-income countries i see the difference when a woman has access to a good paid
    0:38:20 family medical leave policy it changes society so you know i think when you’re not doing the work and
    0:38:26 you’re not in the arena it’s easier to criticize others and to project onto others or make them
    0:38:32 look bad because you don’t want to go do that work that’s you know that’s up to them if that’s how they
    0:38:38 want to act fine but it doesn’t bother me my work goes ahead so we’re pretty much exactly the same age
    0:38:44 and turning 60 was sort of maybe it’s because i’m a man i’m going through a midlife crisis but
    0:38:53 i have the last few years especially my 60th was like pretty seminal for me and has changed a lot of
    0:38:59 my perspective and the way i think i approach life you know we’re sort of on the back nine and i don’t i
    0:39:02 don’t know if you’re religious i’m not i think at some point i’m going to look into my kids eyes and
    0:39:08 know our relationship is coming to an end and i’m and that end is barreling faster than i’d like
    0:39:14 it’s weird that time is just i mean decades are becoming years years are becoming months you know
    0:39:21 and i’m curious if you’ve registered any difference in your approach to life or your perspective as you
    0:39:27 know now that you have a six handle on your on your birthday cake absolutely and i actually think
    0:39:33 i crossed this when i turned 50 i said to myself outright i’m on the back half of life now at 50
    0:39:41 and i knew it hopefully and i yeah and i so i said to myself is at 60 if i’m not living my life the way
    0:39:47 i want to live it now something is wrong like i am fortunate enough that i don’t have to work right
    0:39:54 that’s an enormous privilege and that look i get to organize my time and somebody once said to me you
    0:40:00 have to paint on the canvas of your own life and i thought isn’t that true no one else can paint on my
    0:40:06 canvas so if i’m not organizing my life in the way i want to see my parents or to see my children or my
    0:40:14 two now granddaughters and do the work that i believe in in the world that’s on me and um i you know you
    0:40:21 enter a point where i think you i hope i hope i’m in this generative stage of life right and really
    0:40:27 thinking about my adult children what have i passed on to them what would i like to continue to pass on
    0:40:32 are there words i haven’t sent to them or things regrets i have that i’d like to go back and tell
    0:40:38 them i’m sorry that on that particular day i wasn’t my best self with you but look if we don’t do it now
    0:40:46 we could be gone easily tomorrow so easily so you’ve checked a lot of boxes right you’re professionally
    0:40:52 hugely successful you’ve aggregated huge wealth it sounds as if you have nice kids and a good
    0:40:59 relationship with them it sounds as if you have good friends but go five years out what does success
    0:41:04 look like for you in five years and what boxes that aren’t checked are you looking to check
    0:41:11 well i really set my horizons on a 10-year horizon because look we are taking i’m trying to take big
    0:41:19 swings at what warren buffett would say are the hard problems society has left behind for better or for
    0:41:25 worse and so those will take 10 years to play out but i certainly in the five-year horizon hope to see
    0:41:31 far more states with a paid family medical leave policy i we are beginning to turn the crank on that
    0:41:38 and change the momentum on that i hope we are doing far more basic science on women’s health
    0:41:46 so that we can come out with more drugs that help women over time both in the u.s and globally and i do
    0:41:53 hope that we can see more women in state legislatures in five years because that will signal that we’re on
    0:41:59 our way to getting more women up on capitol hill if i could accomplish those three big things and see
    0:42:06 progress on those i will feel like wow we’re on the right track in a superficial question but i’m curious
    0:42:13 so i assume some of my listeners might be curious when you have the type of wealth you i’ve always
    0:42:17 said that there’s people that spending you can be good at money or you can be bad at spending money
    0:42:22 and then i know a lot of people who don’t have a ton of money but are better at spending it and i know
    0:42:25 a lot of people that have a crazy amount of money and i just don’t think they’re very good at spending it
    0:42:31 what do you spend a lot of money on what do you spend less money on than people would expect
    0:42:41 um that’s funny question let me think i probably spend more money on travel i learned through travel
    0:42:49 um i was just in southeast asia gosh i learned so much in a place i’d never been and then i would say
    0:42:54 i also travel to see my loved ones because my loved ones are across the country right and so it’s the
    0:43:00 experience of being there and the joy of those moments so i’d say that’s something i spend more
    0:43:08 money on what do i spend less money on um i don’t know probably groceries because i’m a terrible
    0:43:14 terrible cook i just got an air fryer and my brothers were like why you eat out so much
    0:43:19 so i probably spend less money on groceries all right just as we wrap up here i want to do just
    0:43:24 a quick uh kind of rapid fire so last piece of media you consumed that sort of moved you
    0:43:32 a book by tim snyder called on tierney that’s too deep last piece of streaming media you really enjoyed
    0:43:39 oh streaming media um i went back well i’m watching you may think this is too deep too i’m i’m watching
    0:43:46 pachinko i love cultural fiction and it’s about the korean and japanese and the cultural tension there
    0:43:56 after world war ii i love it uh biggest fear or phobia biggest phobia is claustrophobia um biggest fear
    0:44:00 and it plays out when i’m scuba diving put it that way so that’s where it still comes up but i’m
    0:44:06 working on it one place you could vacation the rest of your life what would it be australia
    0:44:13 oh no kidding best piece of advice you’ve received set your own agenda or someone else will
    0:44:19 that’s for my mom biggest influence on your life up until say the age of 25
    0:44:29 my father he really believed in me i write about this in the book and he saw me that i could be good
    0:44:36 in math and science and he made sure at every step of the way i knew that three words on your tombstone
    0:44:44 what would you want them to be loved by family and friends made a difference in the world had a big
    0:44:50 heart i like that melinda french gates is a philanthropist businesswoman and global advocate
    0:44:55 for women and girls she’s the founder of pivotal an organization committed to accelerating women’s
    0:45:00 power and influence worldwide and previously co-chaired the gates foundation melinda is also
    0:45:07 a best-selling author whose latest book the next day is out now she joins us from her home in
    0:45:12 seattle melinda thanks so much for your good work especially your support of the american institute
    0:45:17 and boys and men it makes a huge difference and i’ve really enjoyed the conversation
    0:45:20 thank you scott thanks for having me
    0:45:39 positive of happiness what will mark my trip to london what will be the thing i want to remember when
    0:45:45 i’m at the end and i say all right let’s dial up the heroin and i play apple memories on large screen tvs
    0:45:51 one of the things i want to remember i want to come through my head is what will be the iconic moment for
    0:45:59 me um that happened on when was it i think it was saturday sunday night and that was at the royal albert hall
    0:46:03 which is arguably one of the most beautiful venues in the world and one of the things i love about it
    0:46:10 is that you can only play there once so instead of just rolling through a city and then the lead
    0:46:15 guitarist has to have a cheat note saying where the fuck are we now oh it’s great to be here at you know
    0:46:20 the great western forum in los angeles by the way that was from the 70s it’s been rebranded several times
    0:46:25 they say this is it i’m playing one of the most beautiful venues in the world and this is the first
    0:46:30 and last i’m ever going to play this venue so they show up and they practice and they’re given access
    0:46:37 to the royal albert hall orchestra which is incredible unbelievable venue stagehands and uh the last thing
    0:46:41 i saw there was surfe de soleil and they just did an amazing job with it anyways i went and saw one of
    0:46:45 my favorite artists and an album that sort of changed my life i just thought it was so beautiful and gives
    0:46:51 me so much peace when i listened to it i went and saw beck and the album is morning phase and uh when
    0:46:58 i first moved to florida i moved there because i was escaping new york in the sense that it was 2008
    0:47:05 i had lost everything i was i had that point from all exterior metrics that had a quote-unquote successful
    0:47:10 career and yet i woke up because i was so concentrated in tech specifically in a company called red envelope
    0:47:17 which went chapter 11 in the great financial recession i kind of woke up and had very little
    0:47:21 money and kind of negative net worth and it was really humiliating to have taken all this risk and
    0:47:25 had all this curb success and end up uh in a financially strained environment and of course about that
    0:47:31 moment mild son decided to come marching out of my partner at exactly the wrong moment and then
    0:47:37 uh fast forward three years we’re applying to get him into preschool in manhattan and we applied to
    0:47:40 seven schools and we got into zero because it was speech delay and i thought fucking i’m out of here
    0:47:45 i’m i’ve been an entrepreneur and single my most of my life i’m used to rejection but i’m not used to it
    0:47:52 for my three-year-old and so we decided to move to florida and when we were in florida i thought okay it’s time
    0:47:59 to buy a house we got a second kid just had our second son and i thought need a home need to stop renting
    0:48:05 and found a great home that we could fix up exactly what we wanted in this lovely little hamlet called
    0:48:12 gulfstream and bought a home on the water just perfect brought in a general contractor that we
    0:48:17 knew and we were going to make it into our dream home and uh goldman sachs had this group that would
    0:48:21 manage the money of small business people hoping that someday our company will get bought for a lot
    0:48:25 of money and that we’d someday be rich such that they would have a built-in network of wealthy
    0:48:29 high net worth people even though i didn’t have a lot of money i was running with goldman and i said
    0:48:33 okay i have this home i think it was two and a half million dollars and i said i have the down which is
    0:48:39 about half a million and i need a mortgage for two million and i said no problem and then we’re getting
    0:48:43 towards closing where i’m supposed to show up with the two million dollars the two and a half million
    0:48:47 dollars and goldman calls me and says we can’t give you a mortgage and i said well why is that and
    0:48:54 i said well you own 40 of your company l2 and l2 last year lost three million dollars so we have to
    0:49:00 take 1.2 million dollars away from your annual income and you have negative income and we can’t
    0:49:05 get you a mortgage i’m like well it’s great to work with goldman who allocates the losses of my company
    0:49:09 which you’re supposed to do on a venture-backed company to grow and by the way we ended up selling
    0:49:14 the company i don’t know six years later for 160 million bucks but i couldn’t get a fucking
    0:49:20 mortgage and i couldn’t buy this home that my family had my partner had just fallen in love with
    0:49:25 and that made for a really uncomfortable ugly conversation going home and saying i’m not only
    0:49:30 not a provider but i can’t get a fucking mortgage for our dream home and then called the real estate
    0:49:36 agent and the sellers and say we lost our financing i can’t afford this home and then finally we got
    0:49:41 another home uh about a year two years later built a beautiful home in delray what was beautiful for us
    0:49:47 on a quarter acre small piece of land but we said we have boys we have to have a pool and we used to
    0:49:56 get up in the morning and we would turn on my favorite album morning face and we had a dog most
    0:50:00 beautiful dog in the world sweetest dog in the world a vishla named zoe and she would we would try
    0:50:05 and throw the tennis ball into the pool to try to get her to go in the pool because our youngest would only
    0:50:10 go in the pool the dog was in the pool and we kept throwing balls in there and she wouldn’t go in
    0:50:14 and our youngest nolan would see that and then finally he would just jump in the pool
    0:50:20 uh to get zoe to jump in anyways it became this pavlovian reaction where on weekends when we turn
    0:50:25 on morning phase our youngest would come bounding down the stairs and jump in the pool and then the
    0:50:30 dog would jump in after him and it was just such a nice moment of joy anyways the royal albert hall
    0:50:34 orchestra opens and then beck comes out and he’s playing the kind of the opening song for morning
    0:50:40 phase and my partner just starts weeping and i know why she’s weeping we go back and music can
    0:50:42 do this like nothing else we go back to this moment
    0:50:53 when our our little boy who could barely walk would jump in the pool when hearing that song on weekend
    0:50:59 mornings and get the dog to jump in behind him and i believe like what gloria vanderbilt said that the
    0:51:03 happiest moments in your life or the happiest period in your life will be when you look back
    0:51:08 on when you had little kids and that’s definitely true for me those are the moments i really miss and
    0:51:13 a lot of it is not just because they were wonderful moments but because they’re gone forever because that
    0:51:18 little boy is no longer around he’s now on you know on tick tock all day and you know talking about
    0:51:26 girls and starting to smell funny and he’s got underarm odor jesus christ that’s a thrill anyways this was such a
    0:51:31 wonderful moment for us uh that uh to be at such a beautiful venue and to be thinking about
    0:51:37 you know that wonderful time with our with our boys uh also are not okay but wonderful to lean in
    0:51:44 to when things move you what is it about something that inspires you or makes you emotional because you need
    0:51:51 to register these things to inform your life what’s important to you what has registered what have you
    0:51:55 noticed in your life what are you going to miss what are the things you’re going to think about
    0:52:03 at the end and to not really lean into these things it is a tragedy and it’s also not a given you need
    0:52:09 to learn how to lean into these things you need to practice you need to laugh out loud you need to register
    0:52:27 your sadness when something moves you stop and let it move you feel it lean into those emotions
    0:52:57 this episode was produced by jennifer sanchez our intern is dan shallon drew burrows is our technical
    0:53:02 director thank you for listening to the property pod from the box media podcast network we will catch you on
    0:53:08 it’s saturday for no mercy no malice as read by george hahn and please follow our property markets pod
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  • Essentials: Protocols to Improve Vision & Eyesight

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    0:00:02 Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials,
    0:00:04 where we revisit past episodes
    0:00:07 for the most potent and actionable science-based tools
    0:00:09 for mental health, physical health, and performance.
    0:00:12 I’m Andrew Huberman,
    0:00:15 and I’m a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology
    0:00:16 at Stanford School of Medicine.
    0:00:19 This podcast is separate from my teaching
    0:00:20 and research roles at Stanford.
    0:00:23 It is, however, part of my desire and effort
    0:00:25 to bring zero cost to consumer information
    0:00:27 about science and science-related tools
    0:00:28 to the general public.
    0:00:32 Today’s episode is going to be all about vision and eyesight,
    0:00:34 a topic that’s very near and dear to my heart
    0:00:36 because it’s the one that I’ve been focusing on
    0:00:38 for well over 25 years of my career.
    0:00:40 When we hear the word vision,
    0:00:42 we most often think about eyesight
    0:00:46 or our ability to perceive shapes and objects
    0:00:47 and faces and colors.
    0:00:52 However, our eyes are responsible for much more than that,
    0:00:56 including our mood, our level of alertness,
    0:01:00 and all of that is included in what we call vision.
    0:01:02 What is vision?
    0:01:04 Well, vision starts with the eyes.
    0:01:09 We have no what’s called extraocular light perception.
    0:01:11 While it feels good to have light on our skin,
    0:01:14 while it feels good to be outside in the sunlight
    0:01:15 for most people,
    0:01:18 the only way that light information
    0:01:19 can get to the cells of your body
    0:01:21 is through these two little goodies
    0:01:22 on the front of your face.
    0:01:23 And for those of you listening,
    0:01:25 I’m just pointing to my eyes.
    0:01:27 As many of you have heard me say before
    0:01:29 on this and other podcasts,
    0:01:30 your eyes, in particular,
    0:01:33 your neural retinas are part of your central nervous system.
    0:01:34 They are part of your brain.
    0:01:37 They’re the only part of your brain
    0:01:39 that sits outside the cranial vault.
    0:01:39 In other words,
    0:01:41 you have two pieces of your brain
    0:01:44 that deliberately got squeezed out of the skull
    0:01:45 during development
    0:01:47 and placed in these things we call eye sockets.
    0:01:49 Now, the eyes have a lot of other goodies in them
    0:01:50 that are very important.
    0:01:51 And those are the goodies
    0:01:54 that we’re going to focus on a lot today.
    0:01:58 There’s a lens to focus light precisely to the retina.
    0:02:00 There are also other pieces of the eye
    0:02:02 that are designed to keep the eye lubricated.
    0:02:05 You also have these things that we call eyelashes.
    0:02:06 Most people don’t know this,
    0:02:10 but eyelashes are there to trigger the blink reflex.
    0:02:12 They aren’t just aesthetically nice.
    0:02:13 Eyelashes are there
    0:02:15 so that if a piece of dust or something
    0:02:17 starts to head towards the cornea,
    0:02:18 the eye blinks very, very fast.
    0:02:20 It’s the fastest reflex you own.
    0:02:23 We also have these things called eyelids.
    0:02:26 Now, eyelids might seem like the most boring topic of all,
    0:02:27 but they are incredibly fascinating.
    0:02:29 Today, we’re going to talk about
    0:02:32 how you can actually use your visual system
    0:02:34 to increase your levels of alertness
    0:02:36 based on the neural circuits
    0:02:39 that link your brainstem with your eyelids.
    0:02:44 So let’s talk about what the eyes do for vision.
    0:02:47 Basically, the entire job of the eyes
    0:02:49 is to collect light information
    0:02:52 and send it off to the rest of the brain
    0:02:54 in a form that the brain can understand.
    0:02:58 Remember, no light actually gets in past those neural retinas.
    0:02:59 It gets to the neural retina
    0:03:04 and we have specific cells in the eye called photoreceptors.
    0:03:06 They come in two different types, rods and cones.
    0:03:11 Cones are mainly responsible for daytime vision
    0:03:15 and the rods are mainly responsible for vision at night
    0:03:18 or under low light conditions, generally speaking.
    0:03:21 These photoreceptors, the rods and cones,
    0:03:24 have chemical reactions inside them
    0:03:26 that involve things like vitamin A
    0:03:32 and that chemical reaction converts the light into electricity.
    0:03:35 Within the eye, within the retina,
    0:03:38 there are then a series of stages of processing
    0:03:42 and that information eventually gets sent into the brain
    0:03:44 by a very specific class of neurons.
    0:03:47 They’re called retinal ganglion cells.
    0:03:49 Now, here’s what’s incredible.
    0:03:51 I just want you to ponder this for a second.
    0:03:52 This still blows my mind.
    0:03:55 Everything you see around you,
    0:03:59 you’re not actually seeing those objects directly.
    0:04:03 What you’re doing is you’re making a best guess
    0:04:05 about what’s there based on the pattern of electricity
    0:04:07 that arrives in your brain.
    0:04:10 Now, that might just seem totally wild
    0:04:11 and hard to wrap your head around,
    0:04:14 but think about it this way,
    0:04:15 because this is the way it actually works.
    0:04:20 Let’s take an example of a color like green or blue.
    0:04:24 You have cones in your eye
    0:04:27 that respond best to the wavelength of light
    0:04:31 that is reflected off, say, a green apple.
    0:04:33 So you don’t actually see the green apple.
    0:04:35 What you see is the light bouncing off that green apple
    0:04:38 and it goes into your eye
    0:04:42 and you see it and perceive it as round and green,
    0:04:45 but not because you see anything green.
    0:04:47 No green light arrives in your brain.
    0:04:51 What happens is your brain actually compares
    0:04:55 the amount of green reflection coming off that apple
    0:04:59 to the amount of red and blue around it.
    0:05:01 What the brain is receiving
    0:05:03 is a series of signals, electrical signals,
    0:05:06 and it’s comparing electrical signals
    0:05:08 in order to come up with what we call these perceptions.
    0:05:11 Like I see something green, a green apple, or I see red.
    0:05:13 So that’s what I’d like you to understand
    0:05:15 about the way the eye communicates with the brain.
    0:05:18 I would also like you to understand
    0:05:22 that the brain itself is making these guesses
    0:05:26 and that those guesses are largely right.
    0:05:27 How do I know that?
    0:05:30 Well, they’re right because when you reach out
    0:05:32 to grab a glass, most of the time you grab the glass
    0:05:34 and you don’t miss, right?
    0:05:36 Most of the time when you make judgments
    0:05:37 about the world around you
    0:05:40 based on your visual impression of them,
    0:05:42 it allows you to move functionally through the world.
    0:05:46 So the brain is doing these incredible things.
    0:05:48 It’s also creating depth, a sense of depth,
    0:05:51 even though what arrives from the retina
    0:05:54 is essentially a readout of a two-dimensional flat image.
    0:05:56 Your eyes are slightly offset from one another
    0:05:59 so that, for instance, if I look at you,
    0:06:00 if you’re standing right in front of me right now
    0:06:01 and I were to look at you,
    0:06:03 the image of your face,
    0:06:06 the light bouncing off your face, to be more precise,
    0:06:09 lands on one eye in a slightly different location
    0:06:10 than it does in the other eye.
    0:06:13 And then the brain does math.
    0:06:16 It basically does the equivalent of geometry
    0:06:19 and trigonometry and essentially figures out
    0:06:22 how far away you are from me,
    0:06:24 which is just incredible.
    0:06:26 So the brain does all this very, very fast.
    0:06:30 And the brain uses about 40 to 50%
    0:06:32 of its total real estate for vision.
    0:06:34 That’s how important vision is.
    0:06:38 Now I want to talk about the other aspect of vision,
    0:06:41 which is the stuff that you don’t perceive,
    0:06:42 the subconscious stuff.
    0:06:45 And then we’ll transition directly
    0:06:47 into how you can use light and eyesight
    0:06:49 to control this other stuff,
    0:06:51 because it’s very important.
    0:06:55 And that other stuff is mood, sleep, and appetite.
    0:06:58 And there are ways in which you can use
    0:07:00 these same protocols that I will describe
    0:07:04 in order to preserve and even enhance your vision,
    0:07:07 your ability to see things and consciously perceive them.
    0:07:10 So the protocols we will describe
    0:07:13 have a lot of carryover to both conscious eyesight
    0:07:16 and to these subconscious aspects of vision.
    0:07:19 And I just want you to understand a little bit more
    0:07:22 about the science of seeing, of eyesight, and vision,
    0:07:25 and then all the protocols will make perfect sense.
    0:07:27 I’d like to take a quick break
    0:07:28 and acknowledge our sponsor, Eight Sleep.
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    0:07:35 Now I’ve spoken before on this podcast
    0:07:37 about the critical need for us to get adequate amounts
    0:07:39 of quality sleep each and every night.
    0:07:42 Now, one of the best ways to ensure a great night’s sleep
    0:07:43 is to ensure that the temperature
    0:07:45 of your sleeping environment is correct.
    0:07:47 And that’s because in order to fall
    0:07:48 and stay deeply asleep,
    0:07:50 your body temperature actually has to drop
    0:07:51 about one to three degrees.
    0:07:54 And in order to wake up feeling refreshed and energized,
    0:07:56 your body temperature actually has to increase
    0:07:58 by about one to three degrees.
    0:08:00 Eight Sleep automatically regulates the temperature
    0:08:02 of your bed throughout the night
    0:08:03 according to your unique needs.
    0:08:05 Now, I find that extremely useful
    0:08:07 because I like to make the bed really cool
    0:08:08 at the beginning of the night,
    0:08:10 even colder in the middle of the night,
    0:08:12 and warm as I wake up.
    0:08:14 That’s what gives me the most slow wave sleep
    0:08:15 and rapid eye movement sleep.
    0:08:17 And I know that because Eight Sleep has a great sleep tracker
    0:08:19 that tells me how well I’ve slept
    0:08:22 and the types of sleep that I’m getting throughout the night.
    0:08:24 I’ve been sleeping on an Eight Sleep mattress cover
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    0:09:03 So as amazing as eyesight is,
    0:09:07 it actually did not evolve for us to see shapes
    0:09:08 and colors and motion and form.
    0:09:13 The most ancient cells in our eyes
    0:09:15 and the reason we have eyes
    0:09:19 is to communicate information about time of day
    0:09:20 to the rest of the brain and body.
    0:09:23 Remember, there’s no extraocular photoreception.
    0:09:25 There’s no way for light information
    0:09:27 to get to all the cells of your body,
    0:09:30 but every cell in your body needs to know
    0:09:31 if it’s night or day.
    0:09:33 Now, I talked a little bit about this
    0:09:35 in the episodes on sleep,
    0:09:38 and this episode is not about sleep,
    0:09:39 but I want to emphasize
    0:09:41 that there is a particular category
    0:09:43 of retinal ganglion cell.
    0:09:45 Remember the neurons that connect
    0:09:46 the retina to the brain.
    0:09:51 These are so-called melanopsin retinal ganglion cells
    0:09:54 named after the opsin that they contain within them.
    0:09:56 They are essentially photoreceptors.
    0:09:58 Remember before I said there are photoreceptors
    0:09:58 and then these ganglion cells?
    0:10:00 Well, these melanopsin cells,
    0:10:03 as the name suggests, melanopsin,
    0:10:06 have their own photoreceptor built inside them.
    0:10:09 These cells, retinal ganglion cells,
    0:10:11 communicate to areas of the brain
    0:10:15 when particular qualities of light
    0:10:16 are present in your environment
    0:10:19 and signal to the brain, therefore,
    0:10:23 that it’s early day or late in the day.
    0:10:25 They regulate when you’ll get sleepy,
    0:10:26 when you’ll feel awake,
    0:10:29 how fast your metabolism is,
    0:10:30 excuse me,
    0:10:31 your blood sugar levels,
    0:10:32 your dopamine levels,
    0:10:35 and your pain threshold.
    0:10:37 These melanopsin ganglion cells
    0:10:39 have been shown
    0:10:41 to set the circadian clock
    0:10:43 and to respond best
    0:10:46 to the contrast between blue
    0:10:47 and yellow light
    0:10:48 of the sort
    0:10:49 that lands
    0:10:51 on these cells
    0:10:52 when you view
    0:10:53 the sun
    0:10:54 when it’s at so-called
    0:10:55 low solar angle,
    0:10:57 when it’s low in the sky,
    0:10:57 either in the morning
    0:10:59 or in the evening.
    0:11:00 What does all this mean?
    0:11:02 The most central
    0:11:03 and important aspect
    0:11:04 of our biology
    0:11:06 and perhaps our psychology as well
    0:11:07 is to anchor
    0:11:10 ourselves in time,
    0:11:13 to know when we exist.
    0:11:14 We know time
    0:11:15 at a biological level
    0:11:18 based on where the sun is.
    0:11:18 What does this mean
    0:11:19 for a protocol?
    0:11:20 It means see,
    0:11:22 get that light in your eyes
    0:11:22 early in the day
    0:11:25 and anytime you want to be awake.
    0:11:26 So try and get as much sunlight
    0:11:27 in your eyes during the day
    0:11:28 as you safely can.
    0:11:29 You need a lot of this light
    0:11:30 in order to trigger
    0:11:31 these melanopsin cells,
    0:11:32 which will then trigger
    0:11:33 your circadian clock,
    0:11:34 which sits above the roof
    0:11:35 of your mouth,
    0:11:35 which will signal
    0:11:36 every cell in your body,
    0:11:38 including temperature rhythms,
    0:11:39 et cetera.
    0:11:40 So first things first,
    0:11:41 your visual system
    0:11:44 was not foreseeing faces,
    0:11:45 motion, et cetera.
    0:11:47 The most ancient cells
    0:11:48 in your eye,
    0:11:50 which are there right now
    0:11:50 as we speak,
    0:11:52 are there to inform
    0:11:54 your body and brain
    0:11:56 about time of day.
    0:11:57 So you want to get
    0:11:58 that bright light
    0:11:58 early in the day.
    0:11:59 Absolutely essential.
    0:12:00 Two to 10 minutes.
    0:12:02 Now, here’s another reason
    0:12:02 to do this.
    0:12:04 Getting two hours a day
    0:12:06 of outdoor time
    0:12:07 without sunglasses
    0:12:09 has a significant effect
    0:12:10 on reducing
    0:12:12 the probability
    0:12:13 that you will get myopia.
    0:12:15 Now, myopia
    0:12:16 or nearsightedness
    0:12:17 has to do with
    0:12:18 the way that the lens
    0:12:20 focuses light
    0:12:21 onto the retina.
    0:12:23 So remember,
    0:12:24 your eye is an optical device.
    0:12:25 You have lenses
    0:12:26 in your eyes
    0:12:27 and those lenses
    0:12:28 need to move.
    0:12:29 It’s not a rigid lens
    0:12:30 like a glass lens.
    0:12:32 It’s a dynamic lens.
    0:12:34 The eye can dynamically
    0:12:36 adjust where light lands
    0:12:37 by moving the lens
    0:12:38 and changing the shape
    0:12:39 of the lens in your eye
    0:12:40 through a process
    0:12:41 called accommodation.
    0:12:43 And if you understand
    0:12:44 this process of accommodation,
    0:12:46 you not only
    0:12:48 can enhance the health
    0:12:48 of your eyes
    0:12:49 in the immediate
    0:12:50 and long-term,
    0:12:52 but you also can work better.
    0:12:54 You’ll be able to focus better
    0:12:55 on physical and mental work.
    0:12:56 You will be able
    0:12:57 to concentrate for longer.
    0:13:00 So much of our mental focus,
    0:13:00 whether or not
    0:13:02 it’s for cognitive endeavors
    0:13:03 or physical endeavors
    0:13:05 is grounded
    0:13:06 in where we place
    0:13:07 our visual focus.
    0:13:09 Okay, what we look at
    0:13:10 and our ability
    0:13:11 to hold our concentration there
    0:13:14 is critically determining
    0:13:16 how we think.
    0:13:18 Now, accommodation
    0:13:20 is our ability
    0:13:20 to accommodate
    0:13:22 to things that are up close here
    0:13:23 or further away.
    0:13:26 And the way this works
    0:13:26 is that the iris
    0:13:28 and the musculature
    0:13:28 and a structure
    0:13:30 called the ciliary body
    0:13:31 move the lens.
    0:13:32 So when you look
    0:13:32 far away,
    0:13:33 okay,
    0:13:34 when you see things
    0:13:34 far away,
    0:13:36 your lens
    0:13:38 actually relaxes.
    0:13:39 It can flatten out
    0:13:40 and you’ll notice
    0:13:41 that it actually
    0:13:42 is relaxing
    0:13:43 to look at a horizon.
    0:13:44 Whereas if I look
    0:13:45 at something up close
    0:13:45 to me,
    0:13:46 like this pen
    0:13:47 or my phone
    0:13:48 or a computer screen
    0:13:49 or this microphone,
    0:13:51 it takes effort.
    0:13:52 You’ll sense the effort.
    0:13:53 Now,
    0:13:54 some of that effort
    0:13:55 is actually eye movements
    0:13:56 because you have muscles
    0:13:57 that can move your eyes
    0:13:58 within their sockets.
    0:13:59 but a lot
    0:14:00 of the work
    0:14:01 quote-unquote
    0:14:02 is neural work
    0:14:02 of the muscles
    0:14:04 having to move
    0:14:06 and contract
    0:14:07 such that the lens
    0:14:08 actually gets thicker
    0:14:10 in order to bring
    0:14:10 the light
    0:14:12 to the retina
    0:14:13 and not to a location
    0:14:13 in front of it
    0:14:14 or behind it.
    0:14:16 So-called accommodation.
    0:14:17 Now,
    0:14:18 you might say,
    0:14:19 why are you telling me
    0:14:20 about accommodation?
    0:14:20 Well,
    0:14:22 these days
    0:14:22 we’re spending
    0:14:23 a lot of time
    0:14:24 looking at things,
    0:14:25 mainly our phones
    0:14:26 up close
    0:14:27 and computers up close
    0:14:27 and we are indoors.
    0:14:28 In other words,
    0:14:29 you are not giving
    0:14:30 your lens
    0:14:31 the opportunity
    0:14:32 to flatten out
    0:14:32 and for these muscles
    0:14:34 to relieve themselves
    0:14:35 of this work,
    0:14:37 but you are also
    0:14:40 training your eyes
    0:14:43 to be good
    0:14:44 at looking at things
    0:14:44 up close
    0:14:45 and not far away.
    0:14:46 and as a consequence,
    0:14:48 you are reshaping
    0:14:49 the neural circuitry
    0:14:50 in your brain
    0:14:51 and it is not good.
    0:14:53 You want to get outside,
    0:14:54 not just
    0:14:56 to lighten the load
    0:14:56 on your mind
    0:14:57 or to think about
    0:14:58 other things,
    0:14:59 but to maintain
    0:14:59 the health
    0:15:01 of your visual system.
    0:15:03 In other words,
    0:15:04 you want
    0:15:05 to exercise
    0:15:06 these muscles
    0:15:07 and that involves
    0:15:08 both
    0:15:10 the lens moving
    0:15:10 and getting
    0:15:12 kind of thicker
    0:15:13 and relaxing that lens
    0:15:14 and the relaxation
    0:15:15 of the lens
    0:15:15 is actually
    0:15:16 one of the best
    0:15:16 things you can do
    0:15:17 for the musculature
    0:15:18 of the inner eye.
    0:15:20 So what’s the protocol?
    0:15:22 You might be surprised,
    0:15:23 but for every 30 minutes
    0:15:24 of focused work,
    0:15:26 you probably want
    0:15:26 to look up
    0:15:27 every once in a while
    0:15:28 and just try
    0:15:29 and relax your face
    0:15:29 and eye muscles,
    0:15:30 including your jaw muscles,
    0:15:31 because all these things
    0:15:32 are closely linked
    0:15:33 in the brainstem
    0:15:35 and allow your eyes
    0:15:35 to go into
    0:15:37 a so-called panoramic vision
    0:15:37 where you’re just
    0:15:38 not really focusing
    0:15:38 on anything
    0:15:39 and then refocus
    0:15:40 on your work.
    0:15:42 If you are feeling tired,
    0:15:45 it actually can be
    0:15:46 beneficial to the
    0:15:46 wakefulness systems
    0:15:47 of the brain,
    0:15:48 including the locus
    0:15:48 coeruleus
    0:15:49 and these areas
    0:15:50 that release norepinephrine
    0:15:52 to actually look up,
    0:15:53 to actually look up
    0:15:54 toward the ceiling.
    0:15:55 You don’t want
    0:15:56 your chin all the way back,
    0:15:57 but to look up
    0:15:58 and to raise your eyes
    0:15:59 toward the ceiling
    0:16:00 and to look up
    0:16:01 and try and hold that
    0:16:02 for 10 to 15 seconds.
    0:16:03 It actually triggers
    0:16:04 some of the areas
    0:16:05 of the brain
    0:16:05 that are involved
    0:16:06 in wakefulness.
    0:16:07 So if you’re somebody
    0:16:08 who’s falling asleep
    0:16:08 at your work,
    0:16:10 this can be very beneficial.
    0:16:11 When things are up,
    0:16:12 we tend to be alert.
    0:16:13 when everything’s
    0:16:13 focused down,
    0:16:14 including our eyes,
    0:16:15 it tends to have
    0:16:16 a more suppressive
    0:16:17 or sedative type signaling
    0:16:18 to the deeper centers
    0:16:19 of the brain.
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    0:18:15 How can you improve
    0:18:16 your vision?
    0:18:18 How can you get better
    0:18:19 at seeing things?
    0:18:19 Well,
    0:18:21 one way is to make sure
    0:18:22 that you spend
    0:18:24 at least 10 minutes a day
    0:18:24 total,
    0:18:25 at least,
    0:18:27 viewing things off
    0:18:27 in the distance.
    0:18:28 So that would be
    0:18:30 well over half a mile
    0:18:30 or more.
    0:18:32 Try and see a horizon.
    0:18:33 Try and get your vision
    0:18:35 out to a location
    0:18:36 that’s beyond
    0:18:37 the four walls
    0:18:37 of your house
    0:18:38 or apartment
    0:18:40 or the doors
    0:18:40 of your car
    0:18:41 and the windshield
    0:18:41 of your car.
    0:18:43 I know that can be hard
    0:18:43 to do,
    0:18:44 but it’s very valuable.
    0:18:45 So try and see
    0:18:46 at a distance
    0:18:46 because it’s good
    0:18:47 for your eyesight.
    0:18:49 It’ll keep this lens
    0:18:50 nice and elastic
    0:18:51 and the muscles
    0:18:52 nice and strong
    0:18:52 that move the lens
    0:18:54 and it has this
    0:18:55 relaxing component
    0:18:56 to it.
    0:18:57 Now,
    0:18:58 our visual system
    0:18:59 is exquisitely
    0:19:00 tuned to motion,
    0:19:02 not just our
    0:19:03 self-generated motion,
    0:19:03 but the motion
    0:19:04 of things around us.
    0:19:06 and one of the things
    0:19:07 that it does
    0:19:08 is something called
    0:19:09 smooth pursuit.
    0:19:10 Smooth pursuit
    0:19:12 is our ability
    0:19:13 to track
    0:19:15 individual objects
    0:19:15 moving,
    0:19:16 as the name suggests,
    0:19:17 smoothly through space
    0:19:20 in various trajectories.
    0:19:22 You can actually
    0:19:24 train or improve
    0:19:25 your vision
    0:19:27 by looking
    0:19:28 at smooth pursuit
    0:19:29 stimuli,
    0:19:29 and that sounds
    0:19:30 really boring.
    0:19:30 Remember,
    0:19:31 the brain follows
    0:19:32 the eye.
    0:19:33 It follows the movements
    0:19:34 of the eye.
    0:19:35 It has to deal
    0:19:35 with that
    0:19:36 and the neural
    0:19:37 circuits within
    0:19:37 the brain
    0:19:38 have to cope
    0:19:39 with changes
    0:19:40 in smooth pursuit.
    0:19:40 So if you’re doing
    0:19:41 a lot of reading
    0:19:42 up close,
    0:19:42 you’re not viewing
    0:19:43 horizons,
    0:19:44 you’re not getting
    0:19:44 a lot of smooth
    0:19:45 pursuit type
    0:19:45 stimulation
    0:19:47 from your life
    0:19:49 or you’re just
    0:19:50 getting it
    0:19:50 within the confines
    0:19:51 of a little box
    0:19:52 on your phone,
    0:19:52 your vision
    0:19:53 will get worse.
    0:19:54 The idea
    0:19:55 is that
    0:19:56 you want to use
    0:19:57 the visual system
    0:19:57 regularly
    0:19:58 for what it was
    0:19:58 designed for
    0:19:59 and smooth pursuit
    0:20:01 is a great way
    0:20:02 to keep the
    0:20:03 visual and motion
    0:20:04 tracking systems
    0:20:04 of the brain
    0:20:05 and the eye
    0:20:05 and the extraocular
    0:20:07 muscles working
    0:20:08 in a really nice
    0:20:08 coordinate fashion.
    0:20:10 So what does this mean?
    0:20:10 The tool is
    0:20:13 spend two to three minutes
    0:20:14 doing smooth pursuit.
    0:20:15 There’s some programs
    0:20:16 on YouTube.
    0:20:17 You can just look up
    0:20:18 smooth pursuit stimulus.
    0:20:19 Practice accommodation
    0:20:20 for a few minutes
    0:20:21 maybe every other day.
    0:20:23 Just bring something
    0:20:23 in close.
    0:20:24 You’ll feel the strain
    0:20:25 of your eyes doing that.
    0:20:26 Move it out.
    0:20:28 You’ll feel a relaxation point.
    0:20:30 Move it past that relaxation point
    0:20:31 where you will have to do
    0:20:31 what’s called
    0:20:32 a virgin side movement
    0:20:33 to maintain focus
    0:20:33 on that location
    0:20:34 as it moves out.
    0:20:35 Bring it back in.
    0:20:36 Practice that.
    0:20:37 Practice accommodation
    0:20:38 and then be sure
    0:20:38 to give your eyes
    0:20:39 some rest.
    0:20:40 Get outside.
    0:20:41 Look at a horizon
    0:20:42 or do nothing.
    0:20:43 Just kind of let
    0:20:44 your eyes go soft.
    0:20:45 I guess what the yogis
    0:20:46 would call soft gaze.
    0:20:47 Practice a little bit
    0:20:47 of smooth pursuit.
    0:20:49 You don’t have to be neurotic
    0:20:49 about this
    0:20:50 but if you do this
    0:20:51 often enough
    0:20:53 meaning every other day
    0:20:54 every third day
    0:20:54 or so
    0:20:55 you can be the strange
    0:20:56 person on the plane
    0:20:57 or in the classroom
    0:20:57 doing this
    0:20:59 that people might chuckle
    0:21:00 or look at you funny
    0:21:01 or tease you
    0:21:02 but that’s okay
    0:21:03 because you’ll be able
    0:21:04 to see when they are
    0:21:05 losing their vision
    0:21:07 so you’ll get the last laugh.
    0:21:08 Let’s talk about
    0:21:09 binocular vision
    0:21:10 and lazy eye.
    0:21:12 The young brain
    0:21:13 up until about age seven
    0:21:16 but maybe even extending out
    0:21:17 until about age 12
    0:21:20 is extremely vulnerable
    0:21:21 to differences
    0:21:22 in ocular input
    0:21:23 between the two eyes.
    0:21:25 My scientific great-grandparents
    0:21:26 won the Nobel Prize
    0:21:27 for discovering
    0:21:28 so-called critical periods
    0:21:29 periods of time
    0:21:30 in which the brain
    0:21:31 is more plastic
    0:21:32 more able to change.
    0:21:33 Those two guys
    0:21:34 David Hubel
    0:21:35 and Torsten Weasel
    0:21:36 thank you David and Torsten
    0:21:37 forever changed
    0:21:38 the face of visual neuroscience
    0:21:39 and forever changed
    0:21:40 the way we think about
    0:21:43 treatment of the young brain.
    0:21:44 It used to be thought
    0:21:45 that you wouldn’t want
    0:21:45 to do a surgery
    0:21:47 on a young kid
    0:21:49 because of risk of anesthesia
    0:21:50 in young individuals
    0:21:51 but we now know
    0:21:52 that you need to repair
    0:21:53 these imbalances
    0:21:55 that even a few hours
    0:21:57 of occluding one eye
    0:21:57 early in life
    0:21:59 can lead to permanent
    0:22:01 unless something’s done
    0:22:02 permanent changes
    0:22:03 in the way that the brain
    0:22:04 perceives the outside world
    0:22:06 such that when that eye
    0:22:07 is opened up again
    0:22:08 the brain actually
    0:22:09 can’t make sense
    0:22:09 of anything
    0:22:10 that’s coming through it.
    0:22:10 It shuts down
    0:22:12 that visual pathway somehow.
    0:22:13 So what does this all mean
    0:22:14 in terms of protocols?
    0:22:15 If you’re a young person
    0:22:15 do your best
    0:22:17 to get really good
    0:22:18 binocular vision
    0:22:19 not just at level
    0:22:20 of your phone
    0:22:20 or your tablet
    0:22:22 but also at distance
    0:22:23 you will build
    0:22:24 strong binocular
    0:22:25 visual machinery
    0:22:26 in the brain
    0:22:27 and at the level
    0:22:28 of the eyes
    0:22:29 and the eye musculature.
    0:22:31 Now if you’re somebody
    0:22:32 who did have an occlusion
    0:22:33 what’s needed
    0:22:34 is to cover up
    0:22:35 the other eye
    0:22:36 to create an imbalance
    0:22:37 so that the weak eye
    0:22:38 the so-called lazy eye
    0:22:38 that’s sometimes referred
    0:22:39 to as amblyopia
    0:22:42 that eye has to work harder.
    0:22:43 Now you might ask
    0:22:44 what happens
    0:22:45 if you cover both eyes
    0:22:46 early in life?
    0:22:47 There are some
    0:22:48 like retreats
    0:22:48 and stuff
    0:22:49 where people go
    0:22:49 into caves
    0:22:50 with absolutely no vision
    0:22:52 creates hallucinations.
    0:22:53 We’ll talk about
    0:22:54 why that is
    0:22:54 in just a moment
    0:22:56 but here’s my suggestion
    0:22:57 try and get balanced
    0:22:58 visual input
    0:22:59 through the two eyes.
    0:22:59 Almost everybody
    0:23:01 has a dominant eye.
    0:23:02 It usually doesn’t relate
    0:23:03 to your dominant hand
    0:23:04 although it can
    0:23:06 and so for me
    0:23:06 if I cover up
    0:23:07 my right eye
    0:23:09 I see much less well
    0:23:10 much more poorly
    0:23:11 it’s a little bit fuzzy
    0:23:13 and I have to work harder
    0:23:13 in order to see
    0:23:14 the camera for instance
    0:23:16 than if I cover up
    0:23:16 my left eye
    0:23:17 and if you do have
    0:23:18 strong imbalances
    0:23:19 between the two eyes
    0:23:21 which can be caused
    0:23:22 by cataract
    0:23:23 and lens issues
    0:23:25 can be caused
    0:23:26 by neuromuscular issues
    0:23:26 etc.
    0:23:27 to try and get
    0:23:28 those dealt with
    0:23:29 as early as possible
    0:23:30 by contacting
    0:23:30 a really good
    0:23:31 ophthalmologist
    0:23:32 and ideally
    0:23:33 a neuro-ophthalmologist.
    0:23:35 It’s very common
    0:23:36 for young children
    0:23:37 babies
    0:23:38 to have an eye
    0:23:39 that with strabismus
    0:23:41 that either deviates out
    0:23:42 or that deviates in.
    0:23:43 It is important
    0:23:44 to correct that
    0:23:46 if you would like
    0:23:46 to have
    0:23:47 balanced vision
    0:23:48 between the two eyes
    0:23:49 and for the brain
    0:23:49 to respond
    0:23:51 equally to the two eyes
    0:23:52 and to have
    0:23:53 I would say
    0:23:54 high fidelity
    0:23:55 quality vision.
    0:23:56 Hallucinations
    0:23:57 are a property
    0:23:58 of the visual system
    0:24:00 and it was always thought
    0:24:01 that hallucinations
    0:24:02 arise
    0:24:03 because of over activation
    0:24:04 or activation
    0:24:05 of certain aspects
    0:24:06 of the visual system.
    0:24:07 I just briefly
    0:24:07 want to mention
    0:24:08 a paper that was published
    0:24:09 by my good friend
    0:24:10 and phenomenal
    0:24:11 scientist
    0:24:12 and physicist
    0:24:12 for that matter
    0:24:14 Chris Neal
    0:24:14 who’s up
    0:24:14 at the University
    0:24:15 of Oregon
    0:24:16 in Eugene
    0:24:18 they studied
    0:24:19 LSD-like compounds
    0:24:20 and discovered
    0:24:21 that hallucinations
    0:24:22 actually occur
    0:24:24 because portions
    0:24:25 of your brain
    0:24:26 become underactive.
    0:24:27 The visual portions
    0:24:27 of your brain
    0:24:29 are under-stimulated.
    0:24:30 This is probably
    0:24:31 why when people
    0:24:32 go into these
    0:24:33 cave retreats
    0:24:34 something I’ve never done
    0:24:34 I don’t think
    0:24:35 I ever will do
    0:24:36 where it’s completely black
    0:24:37 pretty soon
    0:24:39 they start hallucinating.
    0:24:40 They start seeing things
    0:24:41 even though there’s
    0:24:42 nothing there.
    0:24:43 The visual system
    0:24:44 is desperate
    0:24:45 to make guesses
    0:24:46 about what’s out
    0:24:46 in the world.
    0:24:47 It’s like the eager
    0:24:48 beaver of your brain.
    0:24:48 It’s like what’s out there?
    0:24:49 What’s out there?
    0:24:49 What’s out there?
    0:24:52 So it turns out
    0:24:52 that hallucinations
    0:24:54 are an under-activation
    0:24:55 of the visual system
    0:24:56 and then a compensatory
    0:24:57 a compensation
    0:24:59 by which the visual system
    0:25:00 creates activity
    0:25:02 and hallucinations.
    0:25:03 So if you’re in the dark
    0:25:03 long enough
    0:25:04 you start to hallucinate
    0:25:05 and see things.
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    0:25:13 Roka makes eyeglasses
    0:25:14 and sunglasses
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    0:25:17 I’ve been wearing
    0:25:18 Roka readers and sunglasses
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    0:25:21 and I absolutely love them.
    0:25:22 They’re lightweight
    0:25:23 they have superb optics
    0:25:24 and they have lots
    0:25:25 of frames to choose from.
    0:25:26 Roka and I recently
    0:25:27 teamed up to create
    0:25:27 a new pair
    0:25:29 of red lens glasses.
    0:25:30 These red lens glasses
    0:25:31 are meant to be worn
    0:25:32 in the evening
    0:25:33 after the sun goes down.
    0:25:34 They filter out
    0:25:35 short wavelength light
    0:25:36 that comes from screens
    0:25:37 and from LED lights
    0:25:38 which are the most
    0:25:39 common indoor lighting
    0:25:39 nowadays.
    0:25:41 I want to emphasize
    0:25:42 Roka red lens glasses
    0:25:43 are not traditional
    0:25:44 blue blockers.
    0:25:45 They do filter out
    0:25:45 blue light
    0:25:46 but they filter out
    0:25:47 a lot more
    0:25:48 than just blue light.
    0:25:48 In fact
    0:25:49 they filter out
    0:25:50 the full range
    0:25:51 of short wavelength light
    0:25:52 that suppresses
    0:25:53 the hormone melatonin.
    0:25:53 By the way
    0:25:54 you want melatonin
    0:25:55 high in the evening
    0:25:55 and at night
    0:25:56 makes it easy
    0:25:57 to fall and stay asleep
    0:25:59 and those short wavelengths
    0:26:00 trigger increases
    0:26:01 in cortisol.
    0:26:03 Increases in cortisol
    0:26:03 are great
    0:26:04 in the early part
    0:26:04 of the day
    0:26:05 but you do not want
    0:26:06 increases in cortisol
    0:26:07 in the evening
    0:26:08 and at night.
    0:26:09 These Roka red lens glasses
    0:26:11 ensure normal healthy
    0:26:12 increases in melatonin
    0:26:13 and that your cortisol
    0:26:14 levels stay low
    0:26:15 which is again
    0:26:16 what you want
    0:26:16 in the evening
    0:26:17 and at night.
    0:26:18 In doing so
    0:26:19 these Roka red lens glasses
    0:26:21 really help you calm down
    0:26:22 and improve your transition
    0:26:23 to sleep.
    0:26:24 Roka red lens glasses
    0:26:25 also look great.
    0:26:25 They have a ton
    0:26:26 of different frames
    0:26:27 to select from
    0:26:28 and you can wear them
    0:26:28 out to dinner
    0:26:29 or concerts
    0:26:30 and you can still see things.
    0:26:31 I don’t recommend
    0:26:31 you wear them
    0:26:32 while driving
    0:26:33 just for safety purposes
    0:26:34 but if you’re out
    0:26:34 to dinner
    0:26:35 you’re at a concert
    0:26:36 you’re at a friend’s house
    0:26:37 or you’re just at home
    0:26:39 pop those Roka red lens glasses on
    0:26:39 and you’ll really notice
    0:26:40 the difference
    0:26:41 in terms of your levels
    0:26:41 of calm
    0:26:42 and all the sleep stuff
    0:26:43 I mentioned earlier.
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    0:26:55 and enter the code Huberman
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    0:26:57 One of the things
    0:26:57 that you can do
    0:26:58 to improve your vision
    0:27:00 and it’s also kind of fun
    0:27:02 is to put a Snellen chart
    0:27:03 in your home.
    0:27:04 A Snellen chart
    0:27:06 is that list of letters
    0:27:07 if you go to the dreaded
    0:27:08 Department of Motor Vehicles
    0:27:10 have you cover up an eye
    0:27:12 read the letters on the chart
    0:27:14 the letters of course
    0:27:15 get smaller and smaller
    0:27:16 they’re trying to figure out
    0:27:17 roughly what your vision is
    0:27:18 cover up the other eye
    0:27:19 you’ll do that.
    0:27:20 This is something
    0:27:21 that’s not often mentioned
    0:27:22 but your performance
    0:27:23 on the Snellen chart
    0:27:24 will vary
    0:27:26 depending on time of day
    0:27:28 because your level of fatigue
    0:27:29 and your ability
    0:27:30 to control that accommodation
    0:27:31 and other mechanisms
    0:27:32 of the eye muscles
    0:27:32 will vary
    0:27:33 so you can take it
    0:27:34 as an average.
    0:27:37 It’s also a good thing
    0:27:37 if you’re going to get
    0:27:38 your vision tested
    0:27:40 for corrective lenses
    0:27:41 or maybe you’re going
    0:27:42 to do laser surgery
    0:27:42 or something of that sort
    0:27:43 if you’re thinking
    0:27:44 about any of that
    0:27:45 to really get it measured
    0:27:46 by a professional
    0:27:47 get your vision tested
    0:27:47 by somebody
    0:27:49 who really understands vision
    0:27:50 like an ophthalmologist
    0:27:51 or a really good optometrist.
    0:27:54 If you put a Snellen chart
    0:27:55 in your home
    0:27:56 you know
    0:27:57 you can do that
    0:27:58 as part of your visual training.
    0:27:59 Now this might seem
    0:28:00 excessively nerdy
    0:28:02 but what is more important
    0:28:03 than your eyesight?
    0:28:04 Right?
    0:28:05 Eyesight is so vital
    0:28:06 it’s right up there
    0:28:06 with movement
    0:28:07 and our ability
    0:28:08 to move
    0:28:08 to generate
    0:28:09 to get up out of chairs
    0:28:10 and to walk
    0:28:10 and to run
    0:28:12 and to take care of ourselves.
    0:28:13 Eyesight and movement
    0:28:15 are the main ways
    0:28:16 that we are able
    0:28:17 to take care of ourselves
    0:28:19 and take care of others.
    0:28:19 When you start
    0:28:21 having compromised eyesight
    0:28:22 or compromised movement
    0:28:24 people need to take care of us
    0:28:26 and we become much more challenged
    0:28:27 in moving through our daily life.
    0:28:28 So while it might seem nerdy
    0:28:29 to have a Snellen chart
    0:28:30 in your home
    0:28:33 or to do a smooth pursuit exercise
    0:28:33 a couple times a week
    0:28:34 or to get outside
    0:28:35 for a few hours a day
    0:28:36 and do your reading
    0:28:37 or your laptop work there
    0:28:39 preserving your eyesight
    0:28:40 and preserving your vision
    0:28:41 is one of the most
    0:28:42 life enhancing
    0:28:44 or quality of life enhancing
    0:28:45 things that you can do.
    0:28:45 Now of course
    0:28:46 there are genetic factors
    0:28:48 and there are injury
    0:28:49 related factors
    0:28:50 that can compromise eyesight
    0:28:51 and our ability to see
    0:28:53 and of course
    0:28:55 this is the things
    0:28:55 I’m talking about today
    0:28:56 aren’t going to solve
    0:28:57 all those issues
    0:28:58 but they can have
    0:29:00 a tremendous positive impact
    0:29:01 if you’re willing to do
    0:29:03 just a little bit of work.
    0:29:04 So I do want to talk
    0:29:05 about a few other things
    0:29:08 that can perhaps improve vision.
    0:29:09 I want to dispel a few myths
    0:29:11 about stuff to take
    0:29:12 to improve vision.
    0:29:14 So now you understand a lot
    0:29:15 about the biology of vision.
    0:29:17 You understand that light
    0:29:18 has to arrive at the retina
    0:29:18 and get converted
    0:29:19 into electrical signals.
    0:29:22 that process requires
    0:29:24 things like vitamin A
    0:29:26 a fat soluble vitamin.
    0:29:28 It requires things
    0:29:29 like the carotenoids.
    0:29:32 That metabolic cascade
    0:29:33 that biochemical cascade
    0:29:36 is essential for vision
    0:29:37 and this is why
    0:29:37 you’ve been told
    0:29:39 that carrots help you see better
    0:29:39 because they’re high
    0:29:40 in vitamin A.
    0:29:43 There are a few simple things
    0:29:43 you can do
    0:29:44 to support your vision.
    0:29:46 first of all
    0:29:47 it is true
    0:29:50 that eating vegetables
    0:29:52 the dark leafy vegetables
    0:29:53 and things like carrots
    0:29:54 that have vitamin A
    0:29:55 in abundance
    0:29:57 and eating them
    0:29:59 in close to their raw form
    0:30:01 so naturally occurring foods
    0:30:03 that contain a lot of vitamin A
    0:30:05 in their raw form
    0:30:07 can help support vision.
    0:30:08 Now does that mean
    0:30:09 that if you ingest
    0:30:11 super physiological amounts
    0:30:12 of that stuff
    0:30:12 that it’s going to make
    0:30:13 your vision
    0:30:14 that much better?
    0:30:14 No
    0:30:16 but you do need
    0:30:16 a threshold level
    0:30:18 of vitamin A
    0:30:19 in order to see
    0:30:21 and in order to see well.
    0:30:22 Now
    0:30:24 there’s a lot of excitement
    0:30:24 nowadays
    0:30:26 about supplementation
    0:30:27 to help support
    0:30:28 the health
    0:30:29 of the visual system
    0:30:30 but I want to talk
    0:30:30 about
    0:30:32 a molecule
    0:30:33 that’s in a lot
    0:30:34 of supplements
    0:30:35 to support vision
    0:30:36 and there are
    0:30:37 some really good data
    0:30:37 on
    0:30:38 and that’s lutein.
    0:30:40 What is this lutein stuff?
    0:30:42 Well lutein is in the pathway
    0:30:44 that relates to vitamin A
    0:30:45 and the formation
    0:30:48 of the opsin
    0:30:49 the photopigment
    0:30:50 that captures light
    0:30:51 in the back of your eye
    0:30:52 literally absorbs light
    0:30:53 pigment
    0:30:54 in your eye
    0:30:55 and converts that
    0:30:56 into electrical signals
    0:30:57 and allows you to see
    0:30:59 and there is some evidence
    0:31:00 I spoke to
    0:31:01 our chair of ophthalmology
    0:31:03 there is some evidence
    0:31:04 through quality
    0:31:05 peer-reviewed studies
    0:31:06 that supplementing
    0:31:07 with lutein
    0:31:10 can help offset
    0:31:12 some of the
    0:31:13 detrimental effects
    0:31:14 of age-related
    0:31:15 macular degeneration
    0:31:16 but
    0:31:18 I want to emphasize
    0:31:18 but
    0:31:20 or emphasize however
    0:31:23 only for individuals
    0:31:24 with moderate
    0:31:25 to severe
    0:31:26 macular degeneration
    0:31:27 for people
    0:31:28 that have normal vision
    0:31:29 or with
    0:31:30 a
    0:31:31 just a
    0:31:32 low degree
    0:31:33 of macular degeneration
    0:31:34 these studies
    0:31:35 did not see
    0:31:36 a significant
    0:31:37 improvement of vision
    0:31:38 from supplementing
    0:31:38 with lutein
    0:31:40 and the other one
    0:31:43 is A-S-T-A-X-A-N-T-H-I-N
    0:31:44 what is
    0:31:45 aztex saxton
    0:31:47 it’s a really interesting
    0:31:48 compound
    0:31:50 it’s the red pink pigment
    0:31:51 found in various
    0:31:52 seafoods
    0:31:53 I’m not a big seafood fan
    0:31:55 but like certain fish
    0:31:55 like the
    0:31:57 you’ll see at the fish market
    0:31:58 will have that red pink pigment
    0:32:00 and it’s also in the feathers
    0:32:01 of flamingos
    0:32:02 it’s structurally similar
    0:32:03 to beta carotene
    0:32:05 so it’s very pro-vitamin A
    0:32:07 but it has some chemical differences
    0:32:09 which may make it safer
    0:32:10 than vitamin A
    0:32:11 remember vitamin A
    0:32:12 is a lipid soluble
    0:32:13 vitamin
    0:32:14 so it can be stored
    0:32:15 in our body
    0:32:16 for long periods of time
    0:32:17 what is the deal
    0:32:18 with this
    0:32:19 aztexin
    0:32:20 you know
    0:32:20 what are its drawbacks
    0:32:21 well
    0:32:22 it has a number
    0:32:23 of different effects
    0:32:24 but the most notable
    0:32:25 for sake of this episode
    0:32:26 is the one
    0:32:27 on ocular blood flow
    0:32:28 it does seem
    0:32:29 to increase
    0:32:29 the amount
    0:32:30 of ocular blood flow
    0:32:31 so the blood supply
    0:32:32 to the eyes
    0:32:33 so that makes
    0:32:33 it an interesting
    0:32:34 compound
    0:32:36 it’s also been shown
    0:32:38 to have positive effects
    0:32:38 on things like
    0:32:39 skin elasticity
    0:32:40 skin moisture
    0:32:41 skin quality
    0:32:41 etc
    0:32:43 probably due to its effects
    0:32:44 on blood flow
    0:32:46 so lutein
    0:32:47 aztexin
    0:32:49 A-S-T-A-X-A-N-T-H-I-N
    0:32:52 so everything I’ve talked about today
    0:32:53 relates to studies
    0:32:54 that were done
    0:32:55 and published
    0:32:55 in quality
    0:32:56 peer-reviewed journals
    0:32:57 that doesn’t necessarily mean
    0:32:58 you want to run out
    0:32:59 and start taking the stuff
    0:33:00 that I’ve described
    0:33:01 or even doing the protocols
    0:33:02 I’ve described
    0:33:03 I’ve given you an array
    0:33:04 a palette
    0:33:05 a buffet if you will
    0:33:06 of things that you could do
    0:33:07 to try and enhance
    0:33:08 or support your vision
    0:33:09 depending on
    0:33:10 how good your vision is
    0:33:12 your family history
    0:33:13 of vision and vision loss
    0:33:15 your occupational hazards
    0:33:16 you know
    0:33:17 people that work
    0:33:18 with metal filings
    0:33:19 that are flying
    0:33:19 out of machines
    0:33:20 are going to have
    0:33:22 a higher degree
    0:33:23 of vision
    0:33:24 you know
    0:33:25 risk to their visual system
    0:33:26 than will people
    0:33:27 who just do office work
    0:33:28 although if you’re doing
    0:33:29 a lot of office work
    0:33:30 chances are
    0:33:30 you’re not getting
    0:33:32 a lot of long view vision
    0:33:33 your accommodation
    0:33:34 mechanisms are going to
    0:33:35 start to suffer over time
    0:33:36 I think we can reliably
    0:33:37 predict that
    0:33:38 so I’ve tried to give you
    0:33:39 an array of behavioral tools
    0:33:41 and we did touch upon
    0:33:43 some supplementation tools
    0:33:44 I’d be remiss if I didn’t
    0:33:45 say that
    0:33:46 because blood flow
    0:33:47 is so critical
    0:33:48 for the neurons of the eye
    0:33:49 remember these are the
    0:33:50 most metabolically active
    0:33:51 cells in your entire body
    0:33:53 the cells within your retina
    0:33:54 because blood flow
    0:33:55 is required to get them
    0:33:56 the energy and nutrients
    0:33:56 they need
    0:33:57 having a healthy
    0:33:59 cardiovascular system
    0:34:00 right
    0:34:01 doing endurance work
    0:34:01 doing strength
    0:34:02 training work
    0:34:03 regularly
    0:34:05 is going to support
    0:34:05 your eyes
    0:34:06 and your brain
    0:34:07 and your vision
    0:34:07 it’s indirect
    0:34:08 but it’s essential
    0:34:09 right
    0:34:10 it’s necessary
    0:34:11 but it’s not going to be
    0:34:12 sufficient
    0:34:13 you’re going to have to do
    0:34:14 other things to support
    0:34:15 your eyesight as well
    0:34:16 but having a healthy
    0:34:17 cardiovascular system
    0:34:18 because it’s going to
    0:34:19 deliver blood
    0:34:20 and oxygen
    0:34:20 and nutrients
    0:34:21 to this incredible
    0:34:22 apparati
    0:34:24 on the front of your face
    0:34:26 it’s two pieces of brain
    0:34:27 is going to support
    0:34:29 your overall brain health
    0:34:29 and vision
    0:34:30 over time
    0:34:31 last but not least
    0:34:32 I want to thank you
    0:34:33 for your time
    0:34:33 and attention today
    0:34:34 your willingness
    0:34:35 to learn about vision
    0:34:36 and the visual system
    0:34:37 and the various things
    0:34:37 that you can do
    0:34:38 to help support
    0:34:39 the health and functioning
    0:34:40 of your visual system
    0:34:41 and of course
    0:34:42 I want to thank you
    0:34:43 for your interest
    0:34:43 in science

    In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I discuss the science of vision and share simple, effective tools to enhance eyesight and preserve eye health.

    I explain how the eyes and brain work together to process light, color and motion using specialized structures such as the retina and photoreceptors, and why conditions like nearsightedness, visual hallucinations and lazy eye occur. I also cover specific visual protocols to increase alertness and focus during work, improve sleep, and support visual health. Additionally, I highlight key vitamins essential for vision and discuss supplements such as lutein and astaxanthin for maintaining long-term eye health.

    Huberman Lab Essentials are short episodes—approximately 30 minutes—focused on essential science and protocol takeaways from past Huberman Lab episodes. Essentials will be released every Thursday, and full-length episodes will continue to be released every Monday.

    Read the episode show notes at hubermanlab.com.

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    Timestamps

    00:00:00 Huberman Lab Essentials; Improve Vision

    00:01:01 Eyes, Lens, Eyelashes

    00:02:40 Retina, Photoreceptors & Brain

    00:06:34 Eyesight & Subconscious Vision Effects

    00:07:25 Sponsor: Eight Sleep

    00:09:02 Time of Day & Retina, Tool: Morning Sunlight Exposure

    00:12:02 Tool: Reduce Nearsightedness & Outdoor Time

    00:12:33 Accommodation, Focus, Tools: Panoramic Vision; Upward Gaze

    00:16:20 Sponsor: AG1

    00:18:14 Improve Vision, Tools: View Distances; Smooth Pursuit; Accommodation

    00:21:08 Binocular Vision, Lazy Eye, Children

    00:23:57 Hallucinations & Visual System

    00:25:09 Sponsor: ROKA

    00:26:57 Improve & Test Vision, Tool: Snellen Chart

    00:29:03 Support Vision, Tool: Vitamin A & Vegetables

    00:30:23 Supplements, Lutein, Astaxanthin

    00:32:52 Recap & Key Takeaways; Cardiovascular System

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    0:00:06 You said to me, the key to breaking this brick isn’t strength necessarily, it’s the ability to really, really focus.
    0:00:09 So can you show me you smashing this brick?
    0:00:18 Master Xia Hongyi is the world’s most hardcore monk.
    0:00:23 He uses his decades of knowledge and techniques to help people control their minds and overcome society’s biggest problems.
    0:00:30 This world is filled with so much choice that it’s difficult to take a decision which direction to go, what is right to do.
    0:00:39 And so there is a lot of suffering with the skills that you are developing through Kung Fu training involves methods and practices that give you the ability to do this.
    0:00:44 But there are five hindrances that make it difficult for you to still keep your goal in the mind.
    0:00:48 There are sensory desires, ill will, dullness, restlessness and then self-doubt.
    0:00:52 And to overcome the five hindrances, you recommend the four-step RAIN method.
    0:00:54 Yes, and with this, I’ll make it super simple.
    0:00:59 So many of us live in the same cycles of unhappiness and suffering.
    0:01:03 I witnessed it in my life as well because I felt I was never enough.
    0:01:08 My father and mother put a lot of pressure in terms of you need to prove yourself.
    0:01:13 And so I did all these type of practices and methods that made it possible to be where I am right now.
    0:01:15 I wanted the recognition by my father, but it didn’t happen.
    0:01:18 Because your father passed away from cancer.
    0:01:18 Yeah.
    0:01:27 How does one let go of that and therefore break the pattern?
    0:01:28 I will show you some practices.
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    0:02:20 Based on everything that’s happening in the world right now and the work that you’ve committed
    0:02:27 your life to, what is the mission that you are on and why is it so important right now?
    0:02:36 I do think that in this world, there have always been different streams, different forces.
    0:02:43 one of them leading to the betterment of humanity, one of them leading to the destruction of humanity.
    0:02:52 And I do think that there are types of wisdom and knowledge existing out there that very easily,
    0:03:00 without any additional help for anything else, can be very useful for the people nowadays.
    0:03:03 You don’t need to go anywhere.
    0:03:10 The only thing you need to do is take a moment, contemplate about yourself, go into yourself
    0:03:18 and find the answers there and then decide for yourself which part and what type of contribution
    0:03:22 would you like to give to the world that you’re living in.
    0:03:25 I ultimately think this is what I’m doing.
    0:03:28 And what is it that you see people struggling with?
    0:03:32 Because so many people write to you, they send messages to you, they come and see you.
    0:03:35 What is it that you hear they’re struggling with at a fundamental level?
    0:03:38 I would say it’s diversity and choice.
    0:03:45 This world is filled with so much choice, meanwhile, that it’s difficult in a way to take a decision
    0:03:49 which direction to go, what is right to do, what is not right to do.
    0:04:00 But ultimately it’s only yourself who knows the answer, which means it comes to the essential point, learn more about yourself.
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    0:04:17 you base your decisions on is just not going to be placed in the right direction.
    0:04:23 And what are the other things that you hear people suffering with on a daily basis in the modern world,
    0:04:28 with the way that the world is now, it’s digitalized, we’re lonelier than ever, mental health seems to be surging.
    0:04:35 What are the fundamental things they say to you or that you infer through what they’re saying that they are actually struggling with?
    0:04:39 So choice, an overload of choice and an inability to make a clear decision is number one.
    0:04:52 So being perfectly honest, I usually do not very much rely on what the people tell me, what they think, what problem they have.
    0:04:57 It’s just that I look and I can see already what I think you need.
    0:05:05 And foremost, one of these, and it’s very simple, non-religious, nothing about believing.
    0:05:11 It simply is the fact you don’t use your body as it is intended to be.
    0:05:12 Very simple.
    0:05:18 Yeah, you sit, many people sit too much during the day.
    0:05:20 The body is not active at all.
    0:05:27 A lot of work, a lot of energy investment is done with the mind.
    0:05:31 Less energy investment is done really with the body.
    0:05:35 And that simply means, for me, I can see there’s a disbalance.
    0:05:45 Whoever created us, he did not create us to sit with our butt on one place and do thinking work the whole time.
    0:05:52 I do think a part of why we have been created is to get out on the field and just do something out there.
    0:05:59 And what is the cost of not utilizing our body in the way that it was meant to be utilized?
    0:06:14 Unbalanced energies that can translate into anxiety, that can translate into dissatisfaction, that can translate into continuously searching and never being satisfied.
    0:06:25 And the most common thing, not realizing how precious the moments are that you have.
    0:06:34 And instead of replacing them with illusions and dreams and assumptions, which are just not real.
    0:06:39 Meaning, everybody is not even Buddhist, it’s not Shaolin.
    0:06:41 It is common understanding.
    0:06:44 We don’t know if we wake up tomorrow.
    0:06:45 It is like this.
    0:06:50 Yeah, but our plans go, we have five years plans, 10 years plans.
    0:06:52 We have short-term, mid-term plans.
    0:06:55 Yeah, the truth is, we don’t know if we wake up tomorrow.
    0:07:00 So, of course, I don’t want to make it like sound negative.
    0:07:04 So just live in the present moment without planning.
    0:07:06 This is not what I’m saying.
    0:07:09 But this is the challenge nowadays.
    0:07:16 How do you balance out vision, vision with reality?
    0:07:18 Real.
    0:07:22 The only thing real right now is this.
    0:07:24 That’s real for us.
    0:07:25 I can feel it.
    0:07:27 You can hear it.
    0:07:28 You can sense it.
    0:07:29 This is real.
    0:07:31 You nearly broke my table.
    0:07:33 I was concerned.
    0:07:44 Because later on, you will be proving to me that you can break this brick using your mind and the physical preparation that you’ve done,
    0:07:45 which I find really, really interesting.
    0:07:48 Because I tried to smash this brick on the floor and I couldn’t.
    0:07:53 So all of the things you talk about, understanding one’s physical mind and mastering it,
    0:07:58 but also understanding one’s physical body, we’ll find out if you can smash through this brick.
    0:08:05 On this point, I wanted to talk about an adjacent subject, which is really like purpose, what to do with one’s life.
    0:08:13 And if we’re spending a little bit too much time thinking off into the future and not enough time thinking in the present moment,
    0:08:20 I’m wondering how purpose and having a big dream for one’s life fits into this equation and if we should have a purpose.
    0:08:23 And if so, how do we find our purpose?
    0:08:29 So absolutely, there is the field of becoming conscious.
    0:08:30 Consciousness is a big field.
    0:08:33 Then we have science.
    0:08:35 This is another very, very big field.
    0:08:45 So some say, okay, is it that consciousness creates matter or is it the other way around?
    0:08:48 Which one is, which one is the fundamental basis?
    0:08:52 What is the basis of our interaction?
    0:09:01 So the truth is, the fact right now is, regardless of science, no science, how our evolution developed, right now, we are here.
    0:09:03 Your body, my body, we are here.
    0:09:08 This is what we are having right now.
    0:09:16 At the same time, in the way of how this lifestyle at the moment is, we won’t have more than 50 more years to go in that body.
    0:09:19 So very simple.
    0:09:32 Without believing, without any religious aspect, once again, the truth is, the lifetime of what you carry right now and what I carry right now, it’s limited.
    0:09:39 And now just imagine, you would be, let’s say, the director of your own movie.
    0:09:43 Jump out of the body and watch yourself.
    0:09:49 Right now, you are sitting like with She Hung Yi, we sit on the same table, and you are writing your story.
    0:09:52 How do you want to write the story?
    0:10:07 You want to, afterwards, after this podcast, you want to, like, feel uncomfortable, feel unsafe, feel unloved, feel like being just unsatisfied with the whole life, cry or anything like this?
    0:10:15 Or how do you imagine what is a really nice way of living for you the next 50 years?
    0:10:20 So, and based on that, purpose can be different.
    0:10:24 You say, I do like the travel.
    0:10:37 I do like to invest this lifetime in this body to have the feeling, at least, that I can contribute something to all the fellow brothers and sisters that are around there.
    0:10:42 So, it makes me like, it makes me like, I wake up, I like to do it, it gives me purpose.
    0:10:44 So, it is something very, very personal.
    0:10:59 And which also means that, in a way, speaking in these terms right now, I do not believe that every human being has the same purpose when it comes to this type of purpose.
    0:11:16 But now, there is another type of purpose, which is more or less, personally for me, why do I think that in the first place, we have been put with all these possibilities?
    0:11:27 And, positively said, I do think it is a blessing, being able to just experience.
    0:11:45 It’s a blessing that we have been granted the possibility of simply experiencing what this existence is capable of creating, including everything.
    0:11:52 Including the joy, including the happiness, including the tears, including the heartbreaks, all of this.
    0:11:57 Without the separation, whether you prefer one area or not.
    0:12:01 The one, sometimes, the one goes with the other.
    0:12:07 But the purpose, in a way, is just be and experience.
    0:12:20 The only thing that happens, and which is a big part nowadays, is if you take your current existence too serious.
    0:12:30 If you completely base your identity, your being, on what you think you are.
    0:12:34 But like I said, it’s just a picture right now, yes?
    0:12:37 But just sometimes, make it very simple.
    0:12:39 Jump out of yourself.
    0:12:41 And be the director.
    0:12:43 Be the director of this avatar.
    0:12:48 And then it just opens another perspective.
    0:12:53 Because in that moment, you just realize it’s like a movie.
    0:12:57 Not everything is always positive.
    0:13:01 But in the moment where there are times of struggle, still.
    0:13:07 Not being caught inside your own creation.
    0:13:08 Identity.
    0:13:10 Identity.
    0:13:12 Illusion of the self.
    0:13:13 Different expressions for that.
    0:13:16 It’s a very helpful way of thinking.
    0:13:17 Let’s put it like this.
    0:13:23 Because there’s so many people that say they are struggling to find meaning in their life.
    0:13:23 Or they feel purposelessness.
    0:13:28 And, you know, I get so many messages from people all over the world saying that they,
    0:13:31 saying things like, is this it?
    0:13:33 Is this all my life is?
    0:13:41 So this is literally also one point that you just mentioned.
    0:13:42 Is that it?
    0:13:43 Isn’t there more?
    0:13:47 That has always been a part that followed me along the way.
    0:13:51 Especially now in the last three, four years.
    0:14:01 After social media, the algorithm of social media really started also pushing us quite out there.
    0:14:11 More requests were coming of doing workshops, of doing podcasts, of teaching here, of teaching there,
    0:14:15 of making television show, of participating in movies.
    0:14:22 And, of course, all together with this, doors start to open, different things start to come in.
    0:14:30 But at some point, I just couldn’t believe that this is supposed to be the purpose.
    0:14:37 Because it all still had to do, like, had to do with doing.
    0:14:41 The constant doing.
    0:14:42 Yeah.
    0:14:48 And there I felt in my life now, looking at this, this couldn’t be it.
    0:14:59 So I looked for alternatives always and always again, especially feeling that along the way of what you would say, achieving something, being recognized at something.
    0:15:00 Yeah.
    0:15:06 But there’s another side that goes hand in hand with it that the public doesn’t see.
    0:15:13 There were times I could simply be surrounded with, like, thousands, thousands of people, but still feel lonely.
    0:15:17 It’s not what you’re surrounded with.
    0:15:20 It’s with what you are connected.
    0:15:27 And there I felt like there is always, again, this type of force.
    0:15:28 What is it that drives you on?
    0:15:33 Going outwards, going outwards, going outwards, you lose yourself.
    0:15:39 But this self is the only thing that can give you connection in this life.
    0:15:42 And what do you need to be connected to then?
    0:15:46 You talked about being surrounded by thousands and being lonely.
    0:15:49 And it’s really about what you’re connected to.
    0:15:50 What does one need to be connected to?
    0:15:59 Maybe before I answer you this question, there’s one thing I maybe want to, like, mention beforehand.
    0:16:07 So when I went to elementary school and also during my school time, I actually, for example, joined Christian lesson.
    0:16:14 So, by my parents, I grew up with Buddhist tradition, let’s say.
    0:16:20 From the martial arts training, I also got introduced into so-called Zen Buddhism.
    0:16:26 Because my father always told me, look, son, we are here in a foreign country.
    0:16:27 You’re a foreigner.
    0:16:30 It’s always better to have friends than to have enemies.
    0:16:34 That’s why I made always friends with everyone.
    0:16:36 Meaning I had a lot of Russian friends.
    0:16:38 I had a lot of Arabic friends.
    0:16:40 I had a lot of Turkish friends.
    0:16:41 Multicultural.
    0:16:46 Also meaning, at some point, I also got, like, introduced into Islam.
    0:16:53 Bottom line is, taking all of this knowledge from the past into my mind.
    0:16:59 No matter from which angle I’m watching right now.
    0:17:06 I do believe that we all have a source.
    0:17:08 There is a source.
    0:17:14 So, whether you call that source, it’s the universe.
    0:17:18 Whether you call the source, it is the God.
    0:17:23 Whether this source is the infinite energy, I don’t know.
    0:17:26 There are so many different expressions to it.
    0:17:32 But when I look at all these teachings, all are always pointing at one and the same thing.
    0:17:36 Let’s just take the expression of yin and yang.
    0:17:37 Yes?
    0:17:40 The symbol everybody knows in the world.
    0:17:44 And there is that nice saying, yin and yang have a mother.
    0:17:50 The mother sometimes simply being illustrated as one circle.
    0:17:58 So, yin and yang is the expression from duality, polarity, existence of number two.
    0:18:00 Where do the two come from?
    0:18:02 They must come from one.
    0:18:09 So, simple like, in our way, you are there, I am here, one, two, where do we come from?
    0:18:14 There must be something that we have as a common denominator.
    0:18:18 And this source is the only thing that can connect us.
    0:18:22 Because it’s not your family.
    0:18:23 It’s not my family.
    0:18:24 They’re still different.
    0:18:26 That is not enough.
    0:18:29 Going, just looking at, we are humans.
    0:18:32 Animals same.
    0:18:40 Whatever and whoever gave us the possibility to be here.
    0:18:42 It’s the same who gave you the permission.
    0:18:46 It’s the same who gave me the permission and the blessing.
    0:18:50 And this is what I think, this is the level of mind.
    0:18:55 This is the level of connection that never leaves you lonely.
    0:19:00 This is the one that I mean.
    0:19:01 Being connected to the source.
    0:19:02 Yes.
    0:19:10 Now, for someone that is listening to this and is confused at this juncture and they’re asking themselves, what is that source?
    0:19:13 You’ve described it in many potential ways.
    0:19:19 But it’s the, my attempt at describing it is, it is ultimately where we came from.
    0:19:21 That is, that is the source.
    0:19:25 Is there a better way of describing it for people that might be unfamiliar with the concept?
    0:19:30 First of all, I cannot speak without it and it would make sense to everyone.
    0:19:34 That’s already the first very, very difficult part.
    0:19:39 That’s why my intention is never to say, what is it?
    0:19:43 The only thing I can do is to, to like, to like give pointers.
    0:19:49 But ultimately, there’s only one person who will be able to find it out.
    0:19:51 And it’s not me finding it out for somebody else.
    0:19:56 Everybody will find it out for himself or herself.
    0:20:07 So every human being, I do think, is at a different level of his, of his growth, of his development.
    0:20:13 And everybody gets what he needs exactly in the moment where he is in.
    0:20:24 Which is why I think everybody at this moment in time is exactly where he needs to be for the next elevation to take place.
    0:20:34 The only thing you need to do is look at yourself right now and just find out, what is it that makes you unhappy?
    0:20:44 What exactly is it that at this moment in your life is binding you and restricting you from moving on?
    0:20:47 And this is the same question for everyone.
    0:20:52 But the, what you ultimately need to tackle, it’s different.
    0:20:55 In the past, I sometimes played Super Mario and Luigi.
    0:20:58 And it’s the same.
    0:21:02 If you don’t, like, manage level number one, you won’t see level number two.
    0:21:04 The challenges from number two won’t come.
    0:21:07 The end boss from number two is not going to come.
    0:21:08 First, you finish level one.
    0:21:13 But once number one is finished, you won’t face the same stuff anymore.
    0:21:21 And there is something along this line where it sometimes is like a game at the same time.
    0:21:23 Don’t take it so serious.
    0:21:24 It helps.
    0:21:31 On that point of we’re all struggling with something based on the levels we’re at,
    0:21:38 if you had to try and summarize what the common answer is to what people are struggling with,
    0:21:39 what do you think that might be?
    0:21:44 I was thinking about my best friends, because sometimes it’s easier to step outside of oneself
    0:21:45 and look at others.
    0:21:48 And I was reflecting on the conversations I’ve had with them over the last couple of weeks
    0:21:50 about things they’re struggling with.
    0:21:53 And I would define a lot of it as wanting.
    0:22:02 So wanting to improve their businesses, wanting to improve maybe their romantic situations and find love.
    0:22:09 I would say the essence of it, the suffering seems to be striving for something that they’re unable to grab.
    0:22:12 But I wondered if you had a different perspective on that.
    0:22:15 Two things that right now would come to my mind.
    0:22:23 There is always the struggle between doing and being.
    0:22:29 Doing, I would ask, why are you doing?
    0:22:31 So why?
    0:22:33 Why do you want to go into action?
    0:22:37 Mostly, there is a goal.
    0:22:40 The goal.
    0:22:41 Why do you have that goal?
    0:22:49 Because you’re aiming at receiving something that in the moment where you have it, apparently you are lacking.
    0:22:58 So that means this type of goal setting, in my perspective, I would automatically refer to it already,
    0:23:03 that your goal setting already comes from a space of lack.
    0:23:07 You feel like you’re lacking something.
    0:23:08 That’s why you need to do.
    0:23:11 You feel like you’re lacking something.
    0:23:14 That’s why you need to educate yourself.
    0:23:15 Okay?
    0:23:17 So this is the one direction.
    0:23:21 Now, coming back, maybe sounds again too philosophical.
    0:23:24 Connected with the source.
    0:23:29 There’s nothing to add, and there’s nothing to take away from you.
    0:23:39 So, apparently, when somebody has this very, very high ambition of doing something, achieving something,
    0:23:47 then most likely, the chances are there, this is not coming from a connection to the source.
    0:23:55 It is coming from the idea of wanting to nourish or create an identity.
    0:24:03 An identity that represents something that you think you want to represent, yeah?
    0:24:05 So, this is the one area.
    0:24:07 The doing versus the being.
    0:24:21 And then the second thing is that ultimately goes hand in hand with this way of living your life is that one thing is being forgotten along the line.
    0:24:39 the truth of that whoever and whatever you are creating and are intending to create and are intending to gather now and starting to attain things.
    0:24:44 Your attainment maximum is going to last 100 years.
    0:24:47 That is the other truth.
    0:24:55 So, and I do believe people understand exactly what I said.
    0:24:58 But there comes the fight now again.
    0:25:02 The fight between, yes,
    0:25:09 between this very strong identity that wants to just maintain itself
    0:25:13 and the other side of just forget about your identity.
    0:25:17 Be as you are.
    0:25:17 That’s it.
    0:25:20 No matter what you’re going to attain,
    0:25:22 you have it for 100 years after what is gone.
    0:25:25 So, just be.
    0:25:29 Don’t stress yourself too much with what you don’t have.
    0:25:31 Well, unfortunately,
    0:25:36 and this is always going to continue like this.
    0:25:40 Unfortunately, there are always three ways how you’re going to learn this.
    0:25:45 Sometimes people just need to have the experience
    0:25:47 to realize,
    0:25:48 okay,
    0:25:50 I did it.
    0:25:51 I got it.
    0:25:52 Now I realize
    0:25:54 I don’t need it.
    0:25:55 But in the first place,
    0:25:56 you need to have it.
    0:25:57 First way of learning.
    0:25:59 Second way of learning.
    0:26:02 You do trust a certain teacher.
    0:26:05 You do trust a certain guide or a mentor.
    0:26:09 You just copy the way how he’s living his life.
    0:26:10 So,
    0:26:11 your approach is
    0:26:13 you just copy because you see
    0:26:15 apparently the person lives a good life.
    0:26:16 So,
    0:26:16 you just copy.
    0:26:18 Second way of learning.
    0:26:20 And the third way of learning is
    0:26:23 you maybe have like a teacher or a master.
    0:26:25 He tells you some wise words.
    0:26:27 You contemplate about it.
    0:26:28 You think about it.
    0:26:30 And because you were thinking about it,
    0:26:32 it already puts you
    0:26:34 on the alternative path
    0:26:36 without you needing to try it for yourself.
    0:26:37 So,
    0:26:39 and there will always be people in this world
    0:26:40 in these three categories.
    0:26:44 Because,
    0:26:44 you know,
    0:26:45 simply said,
    0:26:46 telling somebody,
    0:26:47 look,
    0:26:47 don’t,
    0:26:49 don’t put your hand in the fire.
    0:26:52 They’re still going to do it.
    0:26:54 But late is when they do it
    0:26:55 like two times,
    0:26:55 three times,
    0:26:56 then it’s done.
    0:26:58 But a lot of people never get the thing
    0:26:58 that they’re pursuing.
    0:27:00 So,
    0:27:00 you know,
    0:27:01 someone might say,
    0:27:02 I want to be a millionaire
    0:27:03 or I want to have a,
    0:27:05 this Lamborghini sports car.
    0:27:07 The majority of people
    0:27:08 who aspire to that
    0:27:10 statistically won’t ever reach it.
    0:27:10 So,
    0:27:11 they’ll spend their whole life
    0:27:13 just in pursuit.
    0:27:15 They’ll never get the lesson of
    0:27:15 path one
    0:27:16 where you try it
    0:27:17 and you realize that.
    0:27:21 but maybe
    0:27:22 that is also
    0:27:23 already
    0:27:24 the lesson
    0:27:25 involved
    0:27:26 in this person’s life.
    0:27:31 You have this goal
    0:27:31 in the mind.
    0:27:32 You,
    0:27:34 you put all your energy,
    0:27:36 all your effort
    0:27:37 into trying
    0:27:38 to achieve that.
    0:27:39 You’re 20 years old.
    0:27:40 You’re trying.
    0:27:42 You’re 30 years old.
    0:27:42 You’re trying.
    0:27:44 40 years already.
    0:27:45 You’re still trying.
    0:27:46 50 years.
    0:27:47 You still haven’t let go
    0:27:48 of the idea.
    0:27:49 Well,
    0:27:51 at some point,
    0:27:52 hopefully,
    0:27:55 you see exactly
    0:27:56 that,
    0:27:59 that senseless approach
    0:28:00 of how
    0:28:02 you personally
    0:28:02 already wasted
    0:28:03 30 years
    0:28:05 of following a goal
    0:28:06 with the conclusion
    0:28:06 of two things.
    0:28:07 Number one,
    0:28:08 you haven’t achieved it yet
    0:28:10 or number two,
    0:28:11 you didn’t have the right way
    0:28:12 of achieving it.
    0:28:15 But the bottom line is
    0:28:15 you have two ways
    0:28:16 now what to do.
    0:28:18 Let go of the idea
    0:28:19 that you needed
    0:28:21 and redirect
    0:28:22 your life
    0:28:23 or
    0:28:26 redirect your
    0:28:26 approach
    0:28:29 of how you still
    0:28:30 want to achieve
    0:28:30 that goal
    0:28:31 if you don’t want
    0:28:32 to let go of it.
    0:28:33 but apparently one
    0:28:34 of these two things
    0:28:35 is not right.
    0:28:38 And the more
    0:28:40 you want your life
    0:28:40 now,
    0:28:40 let’s say,
    0:28:42 in the future
    0:28:44 to be quite different
    0:28:46 than what you’re used
    0:28:46 to,
    0:28:48 the more you need
    0:28:48 to be able
    0:28:49 to let go.
    0:28:52 Let go of patterns,
    0:28:53 let go of the
    0:28:55 way of thoughts
    0:28:55 that you had
    0:28:57 in the last
    0:28:58 years and months.
    0:28:59 Now,
    0:28:59 if nothing
    0:29:00 changes about that,
    0:29:01 there will not
    0:29:02 come a new life.
    0:29:05 So many of us
    0:29:07 live in patterns,
    0:29:09 the same cycles.
    0:29:10 We end up getting
    0:29:11 the same results
    0:29:11 and those results
    0:29:12 result in
    0:29:13 unhappiness
    0:29:14 and suffering.
    0:29:14 And I was speaking
    0:29:15 to a friend
    0:29:15 over the weekend
    0:29:17 about how
    0:29:18 one of our other
    0:29:18 friends
    0:29:19 has lived
    0:29:20 in a bit
    0:29:20 of a pattern
    0:29:21 and they’ve
    0:29:22 been unable
    0:29:23 to find
    0:29:25 love and companionship
    0:29:26 because of some
    0:29:27 things that happened
    0:29:27 when they were younger.
    0:29:29 I think they were
    0:29:29 bullied.
    0:29:30 So they have
    0:29:31 this sort of
    0:29:31 deeper sense
    0:29:32 of having to
    0:29:33 prove themselves
    0:29:34 and insecurity.
    0:29:35 And this shows up
    0:29:36 all the time
    0:29:36 because when they
    0:29:37 meet someone,
    0:29:38 they present
    0:29:39 a facade
    0:29:40 which might not
    0:29:41 necessarily be
    0:29:41 accurate
    0:29:43 and then
    0:29:44 very quickly
    0:29:44 the relationship
    0:29:45 ends because
    0:29:46 it was never
    0:29:46 real in the first
    0:29:47 place,
    0:29:47 but this person
    0:29:48 is now aware
    0:29:48 of it.
    0:29:50 but it’s still
    0:29:50 happening over
    0:29:51 and over again.
    0:29:51 They’re still
    0:29:52 living out the
    0:29:52 same pattern
    0:29:53 in their life
    0:29:53 and still
    0:29:54 getting the
    0:29:55 same results
    0:29:55 and dissatisfaction.
    0:29:56 So when we
    0:29:57 think about
    0:29:58 trauma at an
    0:29:59 early age
    0:29:59 that results
    0:30:00 in this
    0:30:00 sort of
    0:30:01 cyclical pattern
    0:30:02 of getting
    0:30:02 same behaviour,
    0:30:03 same results,
    0:30:04 I wondered
    0:30:05 if you had
    0:30:05 a perspective
    0:30:06 on how one
    0:30:06 can let go
    0:30:08 of that
    0:30:08 and therefore
    0:30:09 break the
    0:30:09 pattern.
    0:30:10 So let me
    0:30:11 draw you
    0:30:12 a picture.
    0:30:16 I was a
    0:30:18 four-year-old
    0:30:18 boy
    0:30:20 having
    0:30:21 father and
    0:30:21 mother,
    0:30:23 Asian
    0:30:24 origin,
    0:30:26 being
    0:30:26 refugees
    0:30:27 from
    0:30:28 Vietnam
    0:30:29 Laos,
    0:30:29 meaning
    0:30:30 they
    0:30:33 ran away
    0:30:33 from the
    0:30:34 war,
    0:30:36 coming to
    0:30:36 Europe,
    0:30:37 coming to
    0:30:37 Germany
    0:30:38 with the
    0:30:39 idea that
    0:30:40 for the
    0:30:40 children
    0:30:41 to have
    0:30:41 a better
    0:30:42 security
    0:30:43 on the
    0:30:43 one side,
    0:30:44 feeling
    0:30:44 feeling
    0:30:44 more
    0:30:45 safe
    0:30:45 in
    0:30:46 Germany
    0:30:46 without
    0:30:47 the
    0:30:48 instability
    0:30:48 that
    0:30:48 they
    0:30:49 witnessed
    0:30:49 in
    0:30:49 their
    0:30:49 own
    0:30:50 country.
    0:30:51 And so,
    0:30:52 of course,
    0:30:52 father and
    0:30:53 mother,
    0:30:53 with this
    0:30:54 idea,
    0:30:56 put a lot
    0:30:56 of pressure
    0:30:57 in early
    0:30:58 ages already
    0:30:59 in terms
    0:31:00 of you
    0:31:01 need to be
    0:31:01 good at
    0:31:01 school,
    0:31:02 you need
    0:31:03 to achieve,
    0:31:04 you need
    0:31:04 to prove
    0:31:05 yourself.
    0:31:05 So this
    0:31:05 is the
    0:31:06 education
    0:31:07 from father
    0:31:07 and mother.
    0:31:08 at the
    0:31:08 same
    0:31:09 time,
    0:31:09 with the
    0:31:10 age of
    0:31:10 four,
    0:31:11 I went
    0:31:12 into a
    0:31:12 Shaolin
    0:31:12 Kung Fu
    0:31:13 school,
    0:31:14 learning
    0:31:14 martial
    0:31:14 arts,
    0:31:16 and every
    0:31:16 martial
    0:31:16 artist
    0:31:18 practitioner
    0:31:18 probably
    0:31:19 knows,
    0:31:19 teachers
    0:31:20 and
    0:31:20 masters
    0:31:21 usually
    0:31:22 are not
    0:31:22 the ones
    0:31:23 telling
    0:31:23 you,
    0:31:24 oh yes,
    0:31:24 you did
    0:31:25 that very
    0:31:25 good,
    0:31:26 yes,
    0:31:27 very well,
    0:31:27 no,
    0:31:28 they just
    0:31:28 say,
    0:31:29 okay,
    0:31:29 more,
    0:31:31 deeper,
    0:31:32 faster,
    0:31:33 harder.
    0:31:34 So bottom
    0:31:35 line is,
    0:31:35 from the
    0:31:36 age of
    0:31:36 four,
    0:31:37 growing up,
    0:31:38 the only
    0:31:38 thing that
    0:31:39 in the
    0:31:39 way I
    0:31:40 felt was,
    0:31:41 actually,
    0:31:41 you’re never
    0:31:42 enough.
    0:31:44 No matter
    0:31:44 what I
    0:31:45 brought home
    0:31:46 in terms
    0:31:46 of grades,
    0:31:47 if it
    0:31:47 was a
    0:31:48 B,
    0:31:48 why was
    0:31:49 it not
    0:31:49 an A,
    0:31:50 if it
    0:31:50 was an
    0:31:50 A,
    0:31:51 why is
    0:31:51 it not
    0:31:51 an A
    0:31:51 plus?
    0:31:52 If I
    0:31:52 did
    0:31:53 already
    0:31:53 100
    0:31:54 push-ups,
    0:31:54 question
    0:31:54 is,
    0:31:55 why don’t
    0:31:55 you make
    0:31:55 150?
    0:31:57 If I
    0:31:57 was fast
    0:31:58 already,
    0:31:58 it was
    0:31:58 still not
    0:31:59 fast
    0:31:59 enough.
    0:31:59 So
    0:32:00 constantly
    0:32:01 this
    0:32:01 type
    0:32:01 of
    0:32:02 never
    0:32:02 enough.
    0:32:03 Okay,
    0:32:05 ultimately
    0:32:05 meaning,
    0:32:07 and this
    0:32:07 is all
    0:32:07 now,
    0:32:07 I can
    0:32:08 just
    0:32:08 tell you
    0:32:08 40
    0:32:09 years
    0:32:09 later,
    0:32:10 but now
    0:32:10 I can
    0:32:10 see it.
    0:32:11 Ultimately
    0:32:12 meaning that
    0:32:13 at some
    0:32:13 point,
    0:32:14 this little
    0:32:14 boy
    0:32:15 started
    0:32:15 simply
    0:32:16 to
    0:32:17 build up
    0:32:18 a shield,
    0:32:19 build up
    0:32:20 such a
    0:32:20 shield
    0:32:21 to be
    0:32:23 less
    0:32:23 dependent
    0:32:24 more
    0:32:24 anymore
    0:32:24 on what
    0:32:25 other
    0:32:25 people
    0:32:27 think
    0:32:28 about
    0:32:28 me.
    0:32:29 Meaning,
    0:32:30 I just
    0:32:31 started
    0:32:31 to rely
    0:32:32 everything
    0:32:33 in my
    0:32:33 life
    0:32:33 purely
    0:32:35 on what
    0:32:35 I think.
    0:32:37 At the
    0:32:37 same time,
    0:32:38 building up
    0:32:39 emotional
    0:32:39 blockages
    0:32:40 and emotional
    0:32:41 walls,
    0:32:42 nothing to
    0:32:43 penetrate and
    0:32:43 at the same
    0:32:44 time also
    0:32:45 nothing to
    0:32:45 express to
    0:32:46 the outside.
    0:32:48 So now,
    0:32:50 having entered
    0:32:51 into a very
    0:32:51 new
    0:32:53 circumstance
    0:32:53 in my
    0:32:54 life where
    0:32:56 I need to
    0:32:56 take into
    0:32:57 consideration
    0:32:58 the opinion
    0:32:59 and the
    0:32:59 emotional
    0:33:01 state of
    0:33:01 my beloved,
    0:33:02 of my
    0:33:03 partner,
    0:33:03 of my
    0:33:04 son,
    0:33:06 I can
    0:33:08 feel how
    0:33:08 my old
    0:33:09 patterns
    0:33:09 sometimes
    0:33:11 are still
    0:33:12 trying to
    0:33:13 sneak in.
    0:33:14 So the
    0:33:15 only thing
    0:33:16 to do
    0:33:17 is what
    0:33:17 to do
    0:33:17 to break
    0:33:18 patterns.
    0:33:19 Number one,
    0:33:19 you need to
    0:33:20 see you
    0:33:20 have one.
    0:33:21 And number
    0:33:22 two,
    0:33:23 you need to
    0:33:24 replace old
    0:33:24 patterns,
    0:33:25 which ultimately
    0:33:27 mean patterns,
    0:33:28 it’s habitual
    0:33:28 behavior,
    0:33:29 it’s habits.
    0:33:30 How do you
    0:33:31 build habits?
    0:33:33 By continuous
    0:33:35 behavioral
    0:33:36 patterns that
    0:33:36 you continuously
    0:33:37 do.
    0:33:37 So there is
    0:33:38 something about
    0:33:40 consistency and
    0:33:41 continuity that
    0:33:42 ultimately builds
    0:33:43 a pattern.
    0:33:46 And this is
    0:33:47 now where,
    0:33:47 for example,
    0:33:48 in this field
    0:33:49 of martial
    0:33:49 arts,
    0:33:50 that’s exactly
    0:33:50 what it’s
    0:33:50 about.
    0:33:53 Consistency
    0:33:55 of having
    0:33:56 a training
    0:33:57 regimen
    0:33:58 every day.
    0:34:00 This is,
    0:34:00 you know,
    0:34:01 it’s not
    0:34:01 helpful.
    0:34:02 to like
    0:34:03 six days
    0:34:03 per week
    0:34:04 do nothing
    0:34:05 and then
    0:34:05 you go
    0:34:06 one day
    0:34:07 to the
    0:34:07 gym
    0:34:08 and give
    0:34:08 your
    0:34:08 everything.
    0:34:11 It’s better
    0:34:11 you have
    0:34:11 some type
    0:34:12 of consistency
    0:34:13 throughout
    0:34:13 the whole
    0:34:14 day.
    0:34:15 This is
    0:34:16 what builds
    0:34:16 patterns,
    0:34:17 healthy
    0:34:18 patterns.
    0:34:20 And so
    0:34:21 similar like
    0:34:21 this,
    0:34:22 I would
    0:34:22 describe now
    0:34:24 what is
    0:34:24 somebody
    0:34:25 supposed to
    0:34:25 do?
    0:34:25 Number
    0:34:26 one,
    0:34:27 look at
    0:34:27 yourself
    0:34:29 and see
    0:34:30 yourself.
    0:34:30 We are
    0:34:31 all not
    0:34:31 perfect.
    0:34:34 But according
    0:34:34 to the
    0:34:35 circumstances
    0:34:35 that you
    0:34:36 are facing
    0:34:36 right now
    0:34:37 today,
    0:34:39 what type
    0:34:40 of character
    0:34:40 do you
    0:34:41 think,
    0:34:42 with what
    0:34:42 do you
    0:34:42 want to
    0:34:43 equip your
    0:34:43 character
    0:34:46 that he
    0:34:46 is able
    0:34:47 to go
    0:34:47 through
    0:34:48 this current
    0:34:49 times in
    0:34:49 the best
    0:34:50 possible
    0:34:50 manner?
    0:34:51 What is
    0:34:52 not useful
    0:34:52 for you
    0:34:53 anymore,
    0:34:54 try to get
    0:34:54 rid of it
    0:34:55 and get
    0:34:56 your new
    0:34:56 skills in?
    0:34:58 And then
    0:34:59 train those.
    0:35:00 And then
    0:35:01 train, of
    0:35:01 course.
    0:35:02 Those new
    0:35:02 patterns.
    0:35:02 We don’t
    0:35:03 often think
    0:35:03 about
    0:35:03 training
    0:35:05 some of
    0:35:05 the virtues
    0:35:06 that we
    0:35:06 want to
    0:35:07 acquire
    0:35:08 and the
    0:35:08 patterns we
    0:35:08 want to
    0:35:08 have.
    0:35:09 We kind
    0:35:10 of think
    0:35:10 that we
    0:35:10 have to
    0:35:11 select
    0:35:12 them and
    0:35:13 then we’ll
    0:35:13 do our
    0:35:14 best to
    0:35:14 live them.
    0:35:14 But the
    0:35:15 idea that
    0:35:15 I might
    0:35:15 have to
    0:35:16 train
    0:35:17 certain
    0:35:18 new
    0:35:19 behaviours
    0:35:20 is a
    0:35:20 really
    0:35:20 compelling
    0:35:20 one.
    0:35:21 Because you’re
    0:35:21 right,
    0:35:21 in the
    0:35:22 context of
    0:35:22 any
    0:35:22 physical
    0:35:23 development,
    0:35:23 I have
    0:35:24 to go to
    0:35:24 the gym
    0:35:24 and I
    0:35:24 have
    0:35:24 to
    0:35:25 do
    0:35:25 my
    0:35:26 repetitions
    0:35:26 to
    0:35:27 build
    0:35:27 that
    0:35:27 thing,
    0:35:28 that
    0:35:28 strength.
    0:35:29 But I
    0:35:30 was just
    0:35:30 thinking
    0:35:31 about
    0:35:31 creating
    0:35:31 a
    0:35:31 training
    0:35:32 regimen
    0:35:32 for
    0:35:33 certain
    0:35:34 behaviours
    0:35:35 and new
    0:35:35 patterns
    0:35:36 that I
    0:35:36 want in
    0:35:36 my life
    0:35:37 and trying
    0:35:37 to make
    0:35:38 sure I
    0:35:38 do them
    0:35:38 every
    0:35:39 day,
    0:35:40 which is
    0:35:40 not
    0:35:40 something
    0:35:41 that I’ve
    0:35:41 ever
    0:35:42 considered.
    0:35:43 Three
    0:35:43 months ago
    0:35:45 you became
    0:35:45 a dad
    0:35:46 to a young
    0:35:46 boy,
    0:35:47 to a young
    0:35:47 son.
    0:35:48 Yes.
    0:35:49 So you’re
    0:35:49 now in
    0:35:50 the process
    0:35:50 of raising
    0:35:51 a man
    0:35:51 yourself.
    0:35:52 And there’s
    0:35:53 a lot of
    0:35:53 dialogue at the
    0:35:54 moment in
    0:35:54 the UK but
    0:35:55 also just
    0:35:55 broadly in
    0:35:55 the Western
    0:35:56 world around
    0:35:57 what it is
    0:35:57 to be a
    0:35:58 man and
    0:35:59 how to
    0:35:59 raise men.
    0:36:00 I think
    0:36:00 much of
    0:36:00 this dialogue
    0:36:01 has been
    0:36:01 sparked by
    0:36:02 some shocking
    0:36:03 statistics that
    0:36:04 show young
    0:36:05 men are
    0:36:05 struggling now
    0:36:05 more than
    0:36:06 ever in
    0:36:07 various ways.
    0:36:08 I think the
    0:36:08 single biggest
    0:36:09 killer of
    0:36:09 men under
    0:36:09 the age of
    0:36:10 45 is
    0:36:11 themselves.
    0:36:12 and also
    0:36:12 there’s
    0:36:13 an overarching
    0:36:14 sense of
    0:36:14 purpose
    0:36:15 meaninglessness
    0:36:16 that they’re
    0:36:16 struggling in
    0:36:17 school more
    0:36:18 so than
    0:36:18 women are.
    0:36:19 Some forecasts
    0:36:20 predict that
    0:36:21 for every
    0:36:22 two women
    0:36:23 that graduate
    0:36:24 university or
    0:36:25 college only
    0:36:25 one man will
    0:36:27 graduate in
    0:36:27 the near
    0:36:28 future.
    0:36:29 And it’s
    0:36:30 pretty shocking.
    0:36:30 So when I
    0:36:31 think about the
    0:36:31 way that you’re
    0:36:32 intent on
    0:36:32 raising your
    0:36:33 young man
    0:36:34 but also
    0:36:35 what it is
    0:36:36 that young
    0:36:36 men in
    0:36:38 particular are
    0:36:38 missing in
    0:36:39 their lives,
    0:36:39 I wondered
    0:36:40 if you
    0:36:41 had an
    0:36:41 answer.
    0:36:43 From this
    0:36:44 moment
    0:36:46 there’s one
    0:36:47 thing I can
    0:36:48 tell by
    0:36:48 myself what
    0:36:49 I would
    0:36:49 absolutely
    0:36:52 prevent when
    0:36:52 it would
    0:36:52 come let’s
    0:36:53 say to
    0:36:54 the education
    0:36:55 or what I
    0:36:55 share with
    0:36:56 my son.
    0:36:58 Like I
    0:36:58 said I
    0:36:59 felt I
    0:37:00 was never
    0:37:00 enough.
    0:37:01 There was
    0:37:02 always something
    0:37:03 that additionally
    0:37:03 needed to be
    0:37:04 done.
    0:37:05 So which
    0:37:05 literally means
    0:37:06 for me for
    0:37:08 my son there
    0:37:08 is nothing
    0:37:09 to be done.
    0:37:10 there is
    0:37:11 nothing he
    0:37:12 has to
    0:37:13 achieve.
    0:37:16 If there
    0:37:17 would be
    0:37:17 something it
    0:37:19 is stay
    0:37:19 connected.
    0:37:21 So in
    0:37:22 terms of
    0:37:24 I don’t
    0:37:25 see myself
    0:37:26 as somebody
    0:37:27 who is
    0:37:28 now having
    0:37:29 the responsibility
    0:37:30 to shape
    0:37:30 my son.
    0:37:31 No.
    0:37:32 I only
    0:37:33 provide the
    0:37:34 framework.
    0:37:35 I try to
    0:37:36 provide the
    0:37:37 most safe
    0:37:39 framework for
    0:37:39 my son.
    0:37:40 He can
    0:37:41 try out
    0:37:41 whatever he
    0:37:41 wants.
    0:37:42 If he
    0:37:43 fails he
    0:37:44 will learn
    0:37:44 by himself
    0:37:45 to get
    0:37:46 up again
    0:37:46 and keep
    0:37:47 trying.
    0:37:49 So you
    0:37:50 know to
    0:37:51 fail and
    0:37:51 then to
    0:37:52 continue.
    0:37:53 I just
    0:37:54 want to
    0:37:55 build up
    0:37:56 this framework
    0:37:56 as good as
    0:37:57 I can to
    0:37:57 make him
    0:37:58 feel safe.
    0:37:59 better.
    0:38:00 But trial
    0:38:01 and error
    0:38:02 is what I
    0:38:02 do believe
    0:38:03 is the
    0:38:03 way how
    0:38:04 you find
    0:38:04 yourself.
    0:38:06 So
    0:38:07 definitely
    0:38:08 not being
    0:38:09 spoiled but
    0:38:10 at the
    0:38:10 same time
    0:38:11 also not
    0:38:12 like keeping
    0:38:13 something away
    0:38:13 from him
    0:38:15 where I
    0:38:15 make him
    0:38:16 feel like
    0:38:16 he’s not
    0:38:17 enough.
    0:38:18 So ultimately
    0:38:19 I do think
    0:38:19 in the modern
    0:38:20 way of how
    0:38:21 to express
    0:38:22 it in all
    0:38:22 these attachment
    0:38:23 theories.
    0:38:24 Very simple.
    0:38:25 of course
    0:38:25 it’s the
    0:38:27 secure way
    0:38:28 of being
    0:38:30 a stable
    0:38:32 own built
    0:38:33 self made
    0:38:34 self sufficient
    0:38:36 individual
    0:38:39 who knows
    0:38:39 his own
    0:38:40 value.
    0:38:41 Why?
    0:38:41 Because he
    0:38:42 failed and
    0:38:42 got up.
    0:38:44 Why do you
    0:38:44 think so many
    0:38:45 young men are
    0:38:45 struggling?
    0:38:53 No.
    0:38:55 whatever
    0:38:57 shows up
    0:38:57 right now
    0:38:58 at this
    0:38:58 moment
    0:39:00 2025
    0:39:01 it didn’t
    0:39:02 start in
    0:39:03 2025.
    0:39:05 Whatever
    0:39:05 appears right
    0:39:06 now
    0:39:06 sometimes
    0:39:07 it’s the
    0:39:08 result
    0:39:09 of how
    0:39:10 things have
    0:39:10 been handled
    0:39:11 how the
    0:39:11 education
    0:39:12 has been
    0:39:13 from previous
    0:39:13 years
    0:39:14 whether it’s
    0:39:15 the last
    0:39:15 10 years
    0:39:15 whether it’s
    0:39:16 the last
    0:39:16 20 years
    0:39:17 so it’s
    0:39:17 not
    0:39:18 necessarily
    0:39:19 what did
    0:39:20 the
    0:39:20 generation
    0:39:21 right now
    0:39:22 did wrong
    0:39:23 let’s say.
    0:39:24 no it’s
    0:39:24 also the
    0:39:25 question of
    0:39:26 what did
    0:39:27 the previous
    0:39:27 generation
    0:39:29 missed to
    0:39:31 keep passing
    0:39:32 on that
    0:39:33 ultimately
    0:39:34 led to the
    0:39:35 result that
    0:39:35 we have
    0:39:36 nowadays.
    0:39:37 So and
    0:39:38 this is the
    0:39:39 question where
    0:39:42 where I do
    0:39:43 think it’s
    0:39:44 multi-layered.
    0:39:46 You gave a
    0:39:47 TED talk in
    0:39:48 2020 almost
    0:39:49 five years ago
    0:39:50 now about the
    0:39:51 five hindrances.
    0:39:54 what are
    0:39:56 the five
    0:39:56 hindrances?
    0:39:57 You described
    0:39:57 them as
    0:39:58 five mental
    0:39:59 states that
    0:39:59 are holding
    0:40:01 us back.
    0:40:03 Let’s put
    0:40:03 the context
    0:40:04 first.
    0:40:07 Take a
    0:40:07 symbol.
    0:40:09 Just you
    0:40:10 have a goal
    0:40:10 setting.
    0:40:10 You set
    0:40:11 yourself
    0:40:11 whatever goal
    0:40:12 it is.
    0:40:13 You have
    0:40:13 your goal.
    0:40:15 so your
    0:40:16 mind is
    0:40:16 set on
    0:40:16 the goal
    0:40:18 normally.
    0:40:20 The five
    0:40:21 hindrances
    0:40:21 now simply
    0:40:23 describe there
    0:40:24 are five
    0:40:25 mental states
    0:40:26 that would
    0:40:28 actually make
    0:40:28 it difficult
    0:40:29 for you to
    0:40:30 still keep
    0:40:31 your goal
    0:40:31 in the mind.
    0:40:33 Whatever goal
    0:40:33 that is.
    0:40:36 the number
    0:40:37 one for
    0:40:38 example is
    0:40:38 called
    0:40:39 sensual
    0:40:40 desire.
    0:40:41 Sensual
    0:40:42 desire means
    0:40:43 you are
    0:40:44 too
    0:40:45 receptive
    0:40:47 for any
    0:40:48 type of
    0:40:49 pleasurable
    0:40:50 feeling in
    0:40:51 regards to
    0:40:51 your five
    0:40:51 senses.
    0:40:54 You are
    0:40:54 being too
    0:40:54 quickly
    0:40:55 attracted
    0:40:55 when you
    0:40:56 see something
    0:40:56 beautiful.
    0:40:59 you are
    0:40:59 too
    0:41:00 quickly
    0:41:00 attracted
    0:41:01 if you
    0:41:01 smell
    0:41:01 something
    0:41:02 tasty.
    0:41:03 You are
    0:41:04 too
    0:41:04 quickly
    0:41:05 distracted
    0:41:06 when you
    0:41:06 have
    0:41:07 physical
    0:41:07 touch.
    0:41:09 So the
    0:41:10 first
    0:41:10 hindrance
    0:41:10 means
    0:41:12 you are
    0:41:12 losing
    0:41:13 the goal
    0:41:13 already
    0:41:14 because in
    0:41:15 the moment
    0:41:15 something
    0:41:16 pleasurable
    0:41:16 is being
    0:41:17 presented
    0:41:17 to you
    0:41:19 your mind
    0:41:19 has shifted
    0:41:20 already.
    0:41:22 So that
    0:41:22 means that
    0:41:23 first mental
    0:41:24 state only
    0:41:24 means
    0:41:25 look
    0:41:26 be aware
    0:41:28 of what
    0:41:28 is it
    0:41:28 that you
    0:41:29 are very
    0:41:29 easily
    0:41:30 attracted
    0:41:30 to.
    0:41:32 It doesn’t
    0:41:32 say it’s
    0:41:33 bad.
    0:41:33 It doesn’t
    0:41:34 say it’s
    0:41:34 good.
    0:41:35 It just
    0:41:35 says in
    0:41:36 the context
    0:41:38 of you
    0:41:38 want to
    0:41:38 reach your
    0:41:39 goal,
    0:41:40 how to
    0:41:40 reach the
    0:41:40 goal the
    0:41:41 quickest,
    0:41:42 be focused
    0:41:42 with your
    0:41:42 energy.
    0:41:44 Meaning be
    0:41:45 focused with
    0:41:45 the mind.
    0:41:46 Don’t lose
    0:41:47 the goal
    0:41:47 from the
    0:41:48 mind.
    0:41:49 Whatever you
    0:41:49 do from
    0:41:50 the moment
    0:41:50 of waking
    0:41:51 up until
    0:41:52 the evening,
    0:41:53 whatever you
    0:41:53 do, keep
    0:41:54 the goal
    0:41:54 in the
    0:41:54 mind.
    0:41:55 This is
    0:41:56 the quickest
    0:41:56 way of
    0:41:57 making this
    0:41:58 goal become
    0:41:58 real.
    0:41:59 Number
    0:42:00 two.
    0:42:02 Simply
    0:42:03 said, you
    0:42:04 don’t like
    0:42:04 discomfort.
    0:42:07 You don’t
    0:42:08 like challenges.
    0:42:08 You don’t
    0:42:09 like hardship.
    0:42:11 In that TEDx
    0:42:12 talk, I
    0:42:12 described it
    0:42:13 like you
    0:42:13 were like
    0:42:14 walking
    0:42:14 along the
    0:42:15 path and
    0:42:15 then suddenly
    0:42:16 it starts
    0:42:17 to rain,
    0:42:18 but you
    0:42:18 don’t like
    0:42:18 rain.
    0:42:20 So instead
    0:42:20 of you
    0:42:21 just continue
    0:42:22 you follow
    0:42:23 the path,
    0:42:24 you are
    0:42:25 starting to
    0:42:26 make your
    0:42:27 mind busy
    0:42:28 about what
    0:42:28 you don’t
    0:42:29 like.
    0:42:31 And already
    0:42:32 that means
    0:42:32 the mind
    0:42:33 starts to
    0:42:34 shift again,
    0:42:34 losing the
    0:42:35 focus of
    0:42:36 the goal.
    0:42:37 So this
    0:42:38 idea,
    0:42:40 hindrance
    0:42:41 number one,
    0:42:41 hindrance
    0:42:42 number two,
    0:42:42 actually you
    0:42:43 can easily
    0:42:44 say it like
    0:42:44 this.
    0:42:46 this is
    0:42:47 the goal.
    0:42:48 Two things
    0:42:49 not to
    0:42:49 do.
    0:42:52 Spend your
    0:42:52 time enjoying,
    0:42:54 don’t do
    0:42:55 this, or
    0:42:57 spend your
    0:42:58 time rejecting
    0:43:00 that things
    0:43:01 are not the
    0:43:02 way how
    0:43:03 you imagine
    0:43:03 them to
    0:43:03 be.
    0:43:05 Both of
    0:43:06 these things.
    0:43:07 One is you
    0:43:07 follow pleasure
    0:43:08 and the other
    0:43:09 thing you’re
    0:43:11 rejecting any
    0:43:11 challenges.
    0:43:12 Both of
    0:43:12 these things
    0:43:14 is something
    0:43:14 to be aware
    0:43:16 of when it
    0:43:16 comes to
    0:43:17 stay focused
    0:43:18 along the
    0:43:18 path.
    0:43:19 When we
    0:43:19 think about
    0:43:20 this first
    0:43:20 hindrance of
    0:43:21 sensual desire,
    0:43:23 is this where
    0:43:25 discipline comes
    0:43:25 into play?
    0:43:26 The idea of
    0:43:26 discipline,
    0:43:27 because that
    0:43:27 word is often
    0:43:28 used, but
    0:43:29 it’s often
    0:43:29 lacking a
    0:43:30 clear definition,
    0:43:31 but also a
    0:43:33 clear understanding
    0:43:33 of how one
    0:43:34 attains and
    0:43:35 exhibits
    0:43:36 discipline.
    0:43:36 Because when I
    0:43:37 think about
    0:43:38 the things that
    0:43:38 require me to
    0:43:39 have discipline,
    0:43:41 it is these
    0:43:42 desires, it
    0:43:42 is the five
    0:43:43 gates, it is
    0:43:44 something I
    0:43:44 want to eat,
    0:43:45 it is,
    0:43:47 maybe some
    0:43:48 kind of touch
    0:43:48 that I want
    0:43:49 to have, et
    0:43:49 cetera, et
    0:43:49 cetera.
    0:43:50 So is this
    0:43:51 where discipline
    0:43:52 is important?
    0:43:55 No.
    0:43:55 Even, for
    0:43:56 example, like
    0:43:57 in the book
    0:43:59 or even
    0:44:00 now when we
    0:44:00 talk about
    0:44:01 we have the
    0:44:02 five hindrances,
    0:44:03 we have the
    0:44:05 14 virtues,
    0:44:06 we have the
    0:44:06 eight rules,
    0:44:07 we have the
    0:44:08 four here and
    0:44:09 the 13 here
    0:44:09 and the
    0:44:09 16.
    0:44:14 it’s a very
    0:44:15 good guideline
    0:44:17 because it
    0:44:17 makes it
    0:44:18 easy for us
    0:44:19 humans to
    0:44:20 have something
    0:44:20 like really
    0:44:21 structured.
    0:44:21 There are
    0:44:22 four steps,
    0:44:23 there are
    0:44:23 six steps,
    0:44:24 there are
    0:44:24 five steps,
    0:44:24 whatever.
    0:44:26 What I want
    0:44:27 to say is
    0:44:29 just in this
    0:44:30 way, it’s
    0:44:31 also that
    0:44:33 only discipline
    0:44:36 wouldn’t be
    0:44:38 helpful if
    0:44:39 in the first
    0:44:40 place you
    0:44:40 do not
    0:44:41 possess the
    0:44:43 ability to
    0:44:45 see it,
    0:44:47 to realize
    0:44:48 it, to
    0:44:49 be aware
    0:44:50 of it.
    0:44:52 Meaning you
    0:44:52 have discipline
    0:44:54 but you are
    0:44:54 never aware
    0:44:56 actually when
    0:44:56 is the moment
    0:44:57 actually appearing
    0:44:58 right now that
    0:45:00 this sensory
    0:45:02 desire is
    0:45:02 hitting in.
    0:45:03 you are not
    0:45:04 aware of
    0:45:05 it, so
    0:45:06 the discipline
    0:45:06 wouldn’t help
    0:45:07 you if you
    0:45:07 don’t have
    0:45:07 this
    0:45:08 awareness.
    0:45:10 So always
    0:45:10 meaning, I
    0:45:11 do think
    0:45:11 that there
    0:45:13 are different
    0:45:16 qualities of
    0:45:16 the mind
    0:45:19 that come
    0:45:20 into play
    0:45:21 for you to
    0:45:24 adjust yourself
    0:45:24 properly.
    0:45:25 I was thinking
    0:45:26 about my
    0:45:27 friend when you
    0:45:28 mentioned awareness
    0:45:28 there, the
    0:45:29 friend I
    0:45:29 described earlier
    0:45:31 who exhibits
    0:45:31 the same
    0:45:33 pattern and
    0:45:34 although they
    0:45:35 might be
    0:45:35 aware of
    0:45:35 the pattern,
    0:45:36 they might
    0:45:36 say, you
    0:45:36 know, I
    0:45:37 have this
    0:45:38 pattern, I
    0:45:38 don’t believe
    0:45:39 they’re aware
    0:45:41 of the
    0:45:42 moment where
    0:45:43 that pattern
    0:45:44 begins, like
    0:45:44 the singular
    0:45:46 trigger which
    0:45:46 sends them in
    0:45:47 that loop.
    0:45:48 So I was
    0:45:49 thinking the
    0:45:49 same about
    0:45:50 myself, there’s
    0:45:50 some behaviors
    0:45:51 that I have
    0:45:51 that I don’t
    0:45:52 like and
    0:45:53 although I’m
    0:45:53 aware of
    0:45:54 them, in
    0:45:55 the moment
    0:45:55 when it
    0:45:57 happens, I
    0:45:58 might not be
    0:45:59 conscious that
    0:46:00 the pattern
    0:46:00 has begun.
    0:46:02 Someone has
    0:46:02 said something,
    0:46:03 something has
    0:46:04 happened and
    0:46:04 then you go
    0:46:05 on that
    0:46:05 pattern or
    0:46:06 you reach
    0:46:06 into the
    0:46:08 refrigerator at
    0:46:08 1am in the
    0:46:08 morning and
    0:46:09 grab the
    0:46:10 thing or you
    0:46:10 end up being
    0:46:11 triggered by
    0:46:11 something.
    0:46:12 So I
    0:46:13 wondered if
    0:46:13 there’s a
    0:46:14 practice at
    0:46:14 all to
    0:46:16 increase our
    0:46:16 awareness of
    0:46:17 the trigger
    0:46:17 moment.
    0:46:21 this is for
    0:46:22 example where
    0:46:23 I very much
    0:46:25 appreciate so
    0:46:26 many different
    0:46:27 teachings that
    0:46:28 are meanwhile
    0:46:28 existing and
    0:46:29 freely available
    0:46:30 for example
    0:46:30 through the
    0:46:31 social media
    0:46:32 including
    0:46:33 breath work,
    0:46:34 including yoga
    0:46:35 practices.
    0:46:37 All of them
    0:46:38 if you have a
    0:46:39 proper teacher
    0:46:41 I’m very sure
    0:46:42 that this is
    0:46:43 exactly what is
    0:46:43 starting to
    0:46:45 raise your
    0:46:46 awareness for
    0:46:47 something that in
    0:46:48 this field when
    0:46:48 you’re spending
    0:46:49 some time we
    0:46:50 refer to as
    0:46:52 energy.
    0:46:53 If you’re not
    0:46:54 aware of your
    0:46:57 own innerst
    0:46:57 layer let’s
    0:46:58 say like this
    0:47:00 and somebody
    0:47:01 insults you
    0:47:03 it can happen
    0:47:03 that like
    0:47:04 somebody so
    0:47:05 somebody insulted
    0:47:06 me and then I
    0:47:06 just started
    0:47:07 exploding.
    0:47:09 Yeah but the
    0:47:09 fact is before
    0:47:11 something explodes
    0:47:12 before I
    0:47:13 explode
    0:47:14 first of all
    0:47:15 something must
    0:47:15 be lit.
    0:47:17 already the
    0:47:18 small little
    0:47:19 flame
    0:47:20 already must
    0:47:21 have been
    0:47:21 lit.
    0:47:23 So when I
    0:47:24 already knew
    0:47:24 who is it
    0:47:24 that I’m
    0:47:25 going to
    0:47:25 meet
    0:47:27 maybe that
    0:47:28 already knowing
    0:47:29 hearing the
    0:47:29 name from
    0:47:30 him already
    0:47:31 was ah
    0:47:33 was already
    0:47:34 the starting
    0:47:35 point of a
    0:47:35 potential
    0:47:37 explosion to
    0:47:38 happen.
    0:47:39 Yeah so
    0:47:39 then ah
    0:47:40 this was where
    0:47:40 when this
    0:47:41 little flame
    0:47:42 already started
    0:47:43 being there
    0:47:43 and then
    0:47:44 you literally
    0:47:45 can feel
    0:47:45 things like
    0:47:46 this you
    0:47:47 can feel
    0:47:48 when something
    0:47:48 is has
    0:47:50 been injected
    0:47:51 let’s say
    0:47:51 into you
    0:47:52 when something
    0:47:52 starts to
    0:47:54 arise because
    0:47:55 when the fire
    0:47:55 is already
    0:47:56 too big when
    0:47:56 the whole
    0:47:56 house is
    0:47:57 burning you
    0:47:58 not gonna
    0:47:59 you’re not
    0:48:02 gonna put
    0:48:02 down that
    0:48:04 fire in
    0:48:04 any way.
    0:48:06 You can only
    0:48:06 put down all
    0:48:07 of these
    0:48:08 fires before
    0:48:09 things come
    0:48:09 too big.
    0:48:11 Meaning we
    0:48:12 must find a
    0:48:13 way to be
    0:48:14 directly
    0:48:16 grabbing the
    0:48:16 root,
    0:48:17 grabbing the
    0:48:18 core or
    0:48:19 grabbing the
    0:48:20 source of the
    0:48:21 explosion.
    0:48:22 and the
    0:48:23 only way
    0:48:23 that I
    0:48:25 know is
    0:48:26 you need
    0:48:27 to become
    0:48:28 more sensitive
    0:48:30 for everything
    0:48:31 that goes
    0:48:33 on in
    0:48:34 your body,
    0:48:36 in your
    0:48:36 surrounding,
    0:48:38 in everything.
    0:48:39 This is where
    0:48:40 for me
    0:48:41 awareness
    0:48:42 does play
    0:48:42 a role.
    0:48:46 And
    0:48:47 yes
    0:48:49 and especially
    0:48:50 when it
    0:48:50 comes to
    0:48:51 becoming
    0:48:52 aware of
    0:48:52 your
    0:48:53 emotional
    0:48:54 states,
    0:48:55 this is
    0:48:55 absolutely
    0:48:56 inner work.
    0:48:57 This has
    0:48:57 nothing to
    0:48:58 do with
    0:48:58 doing work
    0:48:59 out here.
    0:48:59 It’s
    0:49:00 inner work.
    0:49:02 How does
    0:49:03 one begin
    0:49:03 the journey
    0:49:05 of doing
    0:49:05 that inner
    0:49:05 work?
    0:49:07 You give
    0:49:08 trust in
    0:49:08 the vision
    0:49:10 that when
    0:49:11 you are
    0:49:11 investing
    0:49:12 your time
    0:49:12 right now
    0:49:13 to become
    0:49:14 more aware
    0:49:14 of
    0:49:16 yourself,
    0:49:16 of your
    0:49:17 emotional
    0:49:17 states,
    0:49:18 that this
    0:49:18 is going
    0:49:19 to benefit
    0:49:19 your life.
    0:49:20 That’s the
    0:49:20 starting
    0:49:21 point.
    0:49:22 You believe
    0:49:22 in it.
    0:49:23 You believe
    0:49:23 in it.
    0:49:25 So you
    0:49:25 don’t do
    0:49:25 it because
    0:49:26 somebody tells
    0:49:27 you you’re
    0:49:27 supposed to
    0:49:27 do it.
    0:49:29 You do
    0:49:29 it because
    0:49:29 you genuinely
    0:49:31 believe this
    0:49:32 is the
    0:49:32 way.
    0:49:34 inner work.
    0:49:34 I want to
    0:49:34 know more
    0:49:35 about myself.
    0:49:38 I want
    0:49:38 to really
    0:49:39 understand
    0:49:40 what is
    0:49:40 it that I
    0:49:41 am made
    0:49:41 out of.
    0:49:44 I want
    0:49:45 to figure
    0:49:45 out is
    0:49:45 there
    0:49:46 something
    0:49:49 inside of
    0:49:49 myself.
    0:49:50 I tried
    0:49:51 to look
    0:49:51 away for
    0:49:52 many years
    0:49:53 but I know
    0:49:54 it’s still
    0:49:55 there and
    0:49:56 was afraid
    0:49:56 to look at
    0:49:56 it.
    0:49:57 All of
    0:49:58 these
    0:49:58 things
    0:49:59 there’s
    0:50:00 only one
    0:50:00 way to
    0:50:01 make
    0:50:01 yourself
    0:50:01 free.
    0:50:03 You need
    0:50:04 to become
    0:50:04 transparent.
    0:50:08 If there
    0:50:10 are spots
    0:50:10 inside of
    0:50:11 ourselves
    0:50:12 where there’s
    0:50:13 no light
    0:50:13 yet
    0:50:17 it can’t
    0:50:17 be.
    0:50:20 It
    0:50:20 can’t
    0:50:20 be.
    0:50:23 Bringing
    0:50:24 light
    0:50:25 to
    0:50:26 everything
    0:50:26 that has
    0:50:27 been in
    0:50:28 the dark
    0:50:30 this is
    0:50:30 another area
    0:50:30 of the
    0:50:31 path
    0:50:33 which
    0:50:34 at some
    0:50:34 point
    0:50:34 everybody
    0:50:35 will face.
    0:50:38 You know
    0:50:39 and even
    0:50:39 though that
    0:50:39 is
    0:50:40 even though
    0:50:41 that this
    0:50:41 is now
    0:50:42 just like
    0:50:43 a saying
    0:50:43 but
    0:50:46 just the
    0:50:46 idea
    0:50:50 whatever
    0:50:50 you’re
    0:50:50 doing
    0:50:51 whatever
    0:50:51 you’re
    0:50:52 thinking
    0:50:52 whether
    0:50:52 people
    0:50:53 are
    0:50:53 around
    0:50:53 you
    0:50:53 or
    0:50:54 you’re
    0:50:54 alone
    0:50:56 just
    0:50:57 imagine
    0:50:58 there is
    0:50:58 one
    0:50:59 who
    0:50:59 always
    0:51:00 sees
    0:51:00 what
    0:51:00 you’re
    0:51:00 doing
    0:51:03 so
    0:51:03 live
    0:51:03 your
    0:51:03 life
    0:51:03 based
    0:51:04 on
    0:51:04 that
    0:51:06 and
    0:51:06 that
    0:51:07 person
    0:51:07 is
    0:51:07 you
    0:51:10 also
    0:51:12 who
    0:51:12 else
    0:51:12 is
    0:51:12 it
    0:51:14 it’s
    0:51:14 the
    0:51:15 elevated
    0:51:15 version
    0:51:15 of
    0:51:16 you
    0:51:16 but
    0:51:16 it’s
    0:51:17 true
    0:51:17 it’s
    0:51:17 you
    0:51:18 and
    0:51:18 you
    0:51:20 once
    0:51:21 I’ve
    0:51:21 shone
    0:51:21 a light
    0:51:21 on that
    0:51:22 area
    0:51:23 of me
    0:51:23 so I
    0:51:23 have
    0:51:24 greater
    0:51:24 awareness
    0:51:25 of its
    0:51:25 existence
    0:51:26 and
    0:51:26 it’s
    0:51:26 now
    0:51:27 transparent
    0:51:28 is
    0:51:29 is it
    0:51:30 what
    0:51:31 what
    0:51:31 is the
    0:51:31 work
    0:51:31 I
    0:51:32 have
    0:51:32 to do
    0:51:33 to
    0:51:33 make
    0:51:33 a
    0:51:34 change
    0:51:34 in
    0:51:34 that
    0:51:35 context
    0:51:36 so we’re
    0:51:36 talking
    0:51:37 here about
    0:51:38 managing
    0:51:38 one’s
    0:51:39 emotions
    0:51:39 and getting
    0:51:39 a grip
    0:51:40 of one’s
    0:51:40 emotions
    0:51:40 so you
    0:51:41 can
    0:51:41 avoid
    0:51:42 being
    0:51:43 triggered
    0:51:43 or
    0:51:45 perpetrating
    0:51:45 the same
    0:51:46 patterns
    0:51:46 in your
    0:51:46 life
    0:51:47 that have
    0:51:47 led you
    0:51:47 to the
    0:51:48 same
    0:51:48 outcomes
    0:51:49 first
    0:51:50 you
    0:51:50 believe
    0:51:51 that it’s
    0:51:51 possible
    0:51:51 to
    0:51:52 change
    0:51:54 you gain
    0:51:54 a greater
    0:51:54 awareness
    0:51:55 of the
    0:51:56 parts
    0:51:57 of yourself
    0:51:58 that you’ve
    0:51:58 kept in the
    0:51:59 dark
    0:51:59 that you
    0:51:59 might want
    0:52:00 to change
    0:52:01 and then
    0:52:01 what does
    0:52:02 one do
    0:52:02 from there
    0:52:03 because
    0:52:05 I came
    0:52:05 let’s say
    0:52:06 from this
    0:52:07 martial art
    0:52:08 field
    0:52:08 yes
    0:52:09 also meaning
    0:52:10 the Tao
    0:52:11 is teaching
    0:52:12 or the
    0:52:12 principles
    0:52:13 of yin
    0:52:13 and yang
    0:52:14 have always
    0:52:14 been a part
    0:52:15 in there
    0:52:18 let me
    0:52:18 put it
    0:52:19 like this
    0:52:22 whatever
    0:52:22 you are
    0:52:22 thinking
    0:52:24 saying
    0:52:26 or doing
    0:52:30 has
    0:52:32 a
    0:52:32 consequence
    0:52:34 so
    0:52:35 this
    0:52:35 consequence
    0:52:36 that you
    0:52:36 have
    0:52:36 created
    0:52:37 or that
    0:52:37 you are
    0:52:37 intending
    0:52:38 to create
    0:52:41 ask
    0:52:42 yourself
    0:52:43 what is
    0:52:43 that
    0:52:44 consequence
    0:52:45 actually
    0:52:46 does it
    0:52:47 make
    0:52:48 yourself
    0:52:48 does it
    0:52:49 make
    0:52:49 your
    0:52:49 being
    0:52:50 your
    0:52:51 interaction
    0:52:52 with
    0:52:52 people
    0:52:54 does it
    0:52:54 make it
    0:52:55 feel more
    0:52:55 light
    0:52:57 more
    0:52:58 pleasurable
    0:52:59 more
    0:53:00 enjoying
    0:53:01 more
    0:53:01 free
    0:53:05 more
    0:53:05 nourishing
    0:53:07 or is
    0:53:07 the result
    0:53:08 that you
    0:53:08 are about
    0:53:09 to create
    0:53:11 going in
    0:53:11 the other
    0:53:11 direction
    0:53:12 meaning
    0:53:12 you are
    0:53:13 nourishing
    0:53:13 conflict
    0:53:14 you are
    0:53:15 nourishing
    0:53:15 aggression
    0:53:16 feeling
    0:53:16 like
    0:53:17 you are
    0:53:17 carrying
    0:53:18 the
    0:53:18 suffering
    0:53:19 of the
    0:53:19 world
    0:53:19 on your
    0:53:20 shoulder
    0:53:21 feeling
    0:53:21 like
    0:53:22 there’s
    0:53:22 a burden
    0:53:23 on you
    0:53:24 feeling
    0:53:24 like
    0:53:24 there’s
    0:53:25 a stone
    0:53:25 on your
    0:53:26 heart
    0:53:26 feeling
    0:53:27 like
    0:53:27 you’re
    0:53:27 being put
    0:53:28 under
    0:53:28 pressure
    0:53:29 all of
    0:53:29 all of
    0:53:30 these
    0:53:30 expressions
    0:53:30 have
    0:53:31 something
    0:53:31 to do
    0:53:31 with
    0:53:32 density
    0:53:33 have
    0:53:33 something
    0:53:33 to do
    0:53:34 with
    0:53:36 pressure
    0:53:38 but then
    0:53:38 when we
    0:53:39 look at
    0:53:40 no matter
    0:53:40 which
    0:53:40 tradition
    0:53:41 it is
    0:53:42 Buddhism
    0:53:42 enlightenment
    0:53:44 freedom
    0:53:47 liberation
    0:53:49 elevation
    0:53:50 no matter
    0:53:50 what it
    0:53:51 is
    0:53:51 you see
    0:53:51 it is
    0:53:52 just
    0:53:53 two
    0:53:53 forces
    0:53:53 in the
    0:53:54 world
    0:53:56 two
    0:53:56 forces
    0:53:56 in the
    0:53:57 world
    0:53:57 one
    0:53:58 aiming
    0:53:58 for
    0:54:00 limitlessness
    0:54:01 and the
    0:54:02 other one
    0:54:03 aiming for
    0:54:04 restricting
    0:54:05 and very
    0:54:05 clear
    0:54:06 boundaries
    0:54:07 these are
    0:54:08 the two
    0:54:08 forces
    0:54:11 and this
    0:54:12 is exactly
    0:54:12 now
    0:54:13 turning the
    0:54:14 view upon
    0:54:14 yourself
    0:54:16 what are
    0:54:16 you made
    0:54:17 out of
    0:54:18 your
    0:54:19 patterns
    0:54:20 the emotional
    0:54:21 states that
    0:54:22 follow you
    0:54:23 within a
    0:54:23 week
    0:54:25 within a
    0:54:25 week
    0:54:26 looking back
    0:54:26 the last
    0:54:26 week
    0:54:27 what was
    0:54:27 the most
    0:54:28 dominating
    0:54:30 emotion
    0:54:31 you felt
    0:54:31 inside
    0:54:32 yourself
    0:54:33 was it
    0:54:34 one that
    0:54:34 had the
    0:54:35 character
    0:54:35 of limiting
    0:54:36 yourself
    0:54:36 in a way
    0:54:38 or were
    0:54:38 you in an
    0:54:39 emotional state
    0:54:39 like through
    0:54:40 the week
    0:54:41 this was
    0:54:41 light
    0:54:42 it was
    0:54:42 cool
    0:54:43 liberated
    0:54:44 free
    0:54:46 uplifting
    0:54:47 joyful
    0:54:48 which of
    0:54:48 these
    0:54:49 so
    0:54:50 and this
    0:54:51 simply
    0:54:51 gives you
    0:54:52 exactly
    0:54:53 from what
    0:54:53 to what
    0:54:55 do I
    0:54:55 think
    0:54:56 you
    0:54:57 need
    0:54:57 to
    0:54:58 transform
    0:54:58 yourself
    0:54:59 if you
    0:55:00 want
    0:55:00 this
    0:55:02 if you
    0:55:02 want
    0:55:02 this
    0:55:03 so
    0:55:04 and
    0:55:07 why do
    0:55:08 I think
    0:55:09 that this
    0:55:10 is the
    0:55:10 goal
    0:55:11 lightness
    0:55:12 lightness
    0:55:13 let’s just
    0:55:14 imagine
    0:55:15 after this
    0:55:15 conversation
    0:55:17 your best
    0:55:18 friend or
    0:55:18 your best
    0:55:19 girlfriend
    0:55:19 going to
    0:55:19 ask you
    0:55:20 so how
    0:55:21 was this
    0:55:21 conversation
    0:55:23 and even
    0:55:23 so that
    0:55:24 we are
    0:55:24 maybe just
    0:55:24 talking
    0:55:25 three hours
    0:55:25 four hours
    0:55:27 even if
    0:55:27 you spend
    0:55:28 two days
    0:55:29 long
    0:55:30 explaining
    0:55:31 to your
    0:55:31 best friend
    0:55:32 how this
    0:55:33 conversation
    0:55:33 was
    0:55:34 it’s not
    0:55:35 the truth
    0:55:38 it is
    0:55:38 not the
    0:55:38 truth
    0:55:42 how is
    0:55:42 this
    0:55:43 conversation
    0:55:44 how is
    0:55:44 this
    0:55:45 conversation
    0:55:46 even right
    0:55:46 now
    0:55:48 we cannot
    0:55:48 even speak
    0:55:49 about it
    0:55:52 I tell
    0:55:52 you how
    0:55:53 this
    0:55:53 conversation
    0:55:54 right now
    0:55:55 really is
    0:55:55 yes
    0:56:00 how you
    0:56:00 want to
    0:56:00 describe
    0:56:01 this
    0:56:04 you
    0:56:05 only
    0:56:05 you
    0:56:06 will be
    0:56:06 the only
    0:56:06 one
    0:56:07 ever
    0:56:08 knowing
    0:56:09 how
    0:56:10 this
    0:56:10 is
    0:56:12 it
    0:56:12 doesn’t
    0:56:12 matter
    0:56:12 who’s
    0:56:13 going to
    0:56:13 ask
    0:56:13 you
    0:56:13 afterwards
    0:56:15 what
    0:56:15 you’re
    0:56:15 going
    0:56:15 to
    0:56:15 tell
    0:56:16 them
    0:56:18 you
    0:56:18 want
    0:56:18 to
    0:56:18 feel
    0:56:19 it
    0:56:20 you
    0:56:20 need
    0:56:20 to
    0:56:20 experience
    0:56:21 it
    0:56:22 there
    0:56:22 is
    0:56:22 no
    0:56:22 other
    0:56:23 way
    0:56:23 and
    0:56:23 this
    0:56:24 is
    0:56:24 the
    0:56:25 nature
    0:56:25 of
    0:56:25 words
    0:56:27 this
    0:56:27 is
    0:56:27 why
    0:56:28 these
    0:56:29 ancient
    0:56:29 stories
    0:56:30 come
    0:56:30 for
    0:56:31 example
    0:56:31 one
    0:56:32 master
    0:56:32 and
    0:56:32 his
    0:56:33 student
    0:56:33 walk
    0:56:34 up
    0:56:34 on
    0:56:34 the
    0:56:34 mountain
    0:56:35 early
    0:56:35 in
    0:56:35 the
    0:56:36 morning
    0:56:36 then
    0:56:37 the
    0:56:37 sun
    0:56:38 rises
    0:56:38 up
    0:56:39 and
    0:56:39 then
    0:56:39 the
    0:56:39 student
    0:56:40 says
    0:56:40 oh
    0:56:40 master
    0:56:41 what a
    0:56:41 beautiful
    0:56:42 sunrise
    0:56:43 and
    0:56:43 then
    0:56:43 the
    0:56:43 master
    0:56:45 slaps
    0:56:45 him
    0:56:45 and
    0:56:45 never
    0:56:46 takes
    0:56:46 him
    0:56:46 to
    0:56:46 a
    0:56:46 walk
    0:56:47 anymore
    0:56:48 and
    0:56:49 you
    0:56:49 say
    0:56:50 why
    0:56:50 was
    0:56:50 the
    0:56:51 teacher
    0:56:51 so
    0:56:51 hard
    0:56:52 to
    0:56:52 him
    0:56:53 because
    0:56:54 in
    0:56:54 the
    0:56:54 moment
    0:56:55 where
    0:56:55 you
    0:56:55 give
    0:56:56 something
    0:56:56 that
    0:56:56 you
    0:56:57 experience
    0:56:58 a
    0:56:58 word
    0:57:00 you
    0:57:01 limit
    0:57:01 its
    0:57:03 nature
    0:57:05 you
    0:57:06 naturally
    0:57:06 limit
    0:57:06 its
    0:57:07 nature
    0:57:08 so
    0:57:09 how
    0:57:09 does
    0:57:09 this
    0:57:09 now
    0:57:10 translate
    0:57:10 into
    0:57:12 into
    0:57:12 into
    0:57:13 what
    0:57:13 we
    0:57:13 can
    0:57:13 do
    0:57:14 with
    0:57:14 this
    0:57:14 knowledge
    0:57:18 whatever
    0:57:19 is
    0:57:19 being
    0:57:20 dense
    0:57:20 and
    0:57:20 it’s
    0:57:21 limiting
    0:57:22 I
    0:57:22 don’t
    0:57:23 think
    0:57:23 it’s
    0:57:23 the
    0:57:23 way
    0:57:27 I
    0:57:27 think
    0:57:28 everything
    0:57:29 for us
    0:57:29 to
    0:57:29 practice
    0:57:30 is
    0:57:31 look
    0:57:32 beyond
    0:57:32 limitations
    0:57:34 look
    0:57:35 beyond
    0:57:36 the
    0:57:36 words
    0:57:38 look
    0:57:38 beyond
    0:57:39 the
    0:57:39 shape
    0:57:41 practice
    0:57:41 to look
    0:57:42 beyond
    0:57:42 the
    0:57:44 superficiality
    0:57:44 of
    0:57:44 things
    0:57:47 because
    0:57:47 this
    0:57:47 is
    0:57:47 where
    0:57:47 the
    0:57:47 meaning
    0:57:48 lies
    0:57:48 or
    0:57:49 this
    0:57:49 is
    0:57:49 where
    0:57:51 part
    0:57:51 of
    0:57:51 the
    0:57:53 part
    0:57:53 of
    0:57:53 the
    0:57:55 realization
    0:57:56 lies
    0:57:57 I
    0:57:57 think
    0:57:57 in
    0:57:58 my
    0:57:58 life
    0:57:58 I
    0:57:59 want
    0:57:59 to
    0:57:59 be
    0:58:00 liked
    0:58:01 but
    0:58:01 the
    0:58:01 way
    0:58:01 that
    0:58:02 my
    0:58:02 life
    0:58:02 tends
    0:58:02 to
    0:58:03 operate
    0:58:03 is
    0:58:03 I
    0:58:04 might
    0:58:04 aspire
    0:58:04 for
    0:58:05 that
    0:58:06 but
    0:58:06 then
    0:58:07 I
    0:58:07 fall
    0:58:07 into
    0:58:08 almost
    0:58:08 a
    0:58:08 bit
    0:58:08 of
    0:58:08 an
    0:58:09 autopilot
    0:58:10 and
    0:58:11 I
    0:58:11 run
    0:58:11 the
    0:58:12 same
    0:58:12 pattern
    0:58:13 throughout
    0:58:13 the
    0:58:13 week
    0:58:14 and
    0:58:14 the
    0:58:14 same
    0:58:15 I
    0:58:15 respond
    0:58:15 in
    0:58:16 the
    0:58:16 same
    0:58:16 ways
    0:58:16 to
    0:58:16 the
    0:58:17 same
    0:58:17 external
    0:58:18 stimulus
    0:58:19 so
    0:58:19 although
    0:58:20 one
    0:58:20 might
    0:58:21 aspire
    0:58:21 to
    0:58:23 be
    0:58:23 freer
    0:58:24 and
    0:58:24 to
    0:58:24 be
    0:58:24 less
    0:58:25 agitated
    0:58:26 or
    0:58:26 to
    0:58:26 be
    0:58:27 all
    0:58:27 those
    0:58:28 things
    0:58:29 I
    0:58:29 quickly
    0:58:30 fall
    0:58:30 back
    0:58:30 into
    0:58:30 my
    0:58:30 old
    0:58:31 path
    0:58:31 my
    0:58:31 old
    0:58:32 autopilot
    0:58:33 because
    0:58:34 life
    0:58:34 does
    0:58:34 seem
    0:58:34 to
    0:58:34 come
    0:58:35 at
    0:58:35 me
    0:58:35 pretty
    0:58:35 quickly
    0:58:37 if
    0:58:37 I
    0:58:37 look
    0:58:37 at
    0:58:37 my
    0:58:38 calendar
    0:58:38 it’s
    0:58:38 just
    0:58:38 full
    0:58:38 every
    0:58:39 day
    0:58:40 so
    0:58:40 I
    0:58:40 wake
    0:58:40 up
    0:58:41 and
    0:58:41 I
    0:58:41 woke
    0:58:42 up
    0:58:42 this
    0:58:42 morning
    0:58:45 phone
    0:58:46 schedule
    0:58:46 to
    0:58:46 figure
    0:58:47 out
    0:58:47 what
    0:58:47 day
    0:58:47 it
    0:58:47 is
    0:58:48 and
    0:58:48 what
    0:58:48 that
    0:58:48 means
    0:58:49 and
    0:58:49 what
    0:58:49 I
    0:58:49 have
    0:58:49 to
    0:58:49 do
    0:58:49 and
    0:58:50 what’s
    0:58:50 just
    0:58:50 happened
    0:58:51 and
    0:58:51 oh the
    0:58:52 podcast
    0:58:52 has
    0:58:52 gone out
    0:58:52 I’ve got
    0:58:53 this email
    0:58:53 from this
    0:58:53 person
    0:58:54 and there’s
    0:58:54 my calendar
    0:58:55 when I’m late
    0:58:56 by 20
    0:58:56 minutes
    0:58:57 and
    0:58:58 although I
    0:58:58 might have
    0:58:59 the day
    0:59:00 said to
    0:59:00 myself
    0:59:00 that this
    0:59:00 week
    0:59:01 we’re
    0:59:01 going to
    0:59:01 be
    0:59:02 joyful
    0:59:03 and light
    0:59:03 and free
    0:59:04 it feels
    0:59:04 like
    0:59:05 the week
    0:59:06 hits me
    0:59:07 like a
    0:59:07 truck
    0:59:08 and then
    0:59:08 boom
    0:59:09 autopilot
    0:59:11 so our
    0:59:11 goal is set
    0:59:12 in a way
    0:59:13 and now
    0:59:13 comes the
    0:59:14 next
    0:59:14 realisation
    0:59:15 just because
    0:59:15 your goal
    0:59:16 is set
    0:59:17 doesn’t mean
    0:59:18 this life
    0:59:18 is going
    0:59:18 to give
    0:59:18 you
    0:59:19 exactly
    0:59:19 what
    0:59:19 you’re
    0:59:19 looking
    0:59:20 for
    0:59:22 meaning
    0:59:25 you really
    0:59:25 must make
    0:59:26 sure
    0:59:27 how
    0:59:28 important
    0:59:29 is that
    0:59:30 goal
    0:59:30 really
    0:59:31 for you
    0:59:33 because
    0:59:34 I
    0:59:37 witness it
    0:59:38 in my
    0:59:38 life as
    0:59:39 well
    0:59:39 so
    0:59:40 at some
    0:59:41 point
    0:59:42 when it
    0:59:42 started to
    0:59:43 become a
    0:59:43 lot
    0:59:43 public
    0:59:44 the
    0:59:45 calendar
    0:59:46 went
    0:59:46 full
    0:59:47 and at
    0:59:47 some
    0:59:48 point
    0:59:48 I said
    0:59:49 to myself
    0:59:49 okay
    0:59:50 now it’s
    0:59:50 becoming
    0:59:50 too
    0:59:51 full
    0:59:52 let’s
    0:59:52 start
    0:59:52 to
    0:59:54 settle
    0:59:54 down
    0:59:54 a bit
    0:59:55 let’s
    0:59:55 start
    0:59:55 to stay
    0:59:55 a little
    0:59:56 bit more
    0:59:56 in the
    0:59:56 background
    0:59:57 but then
    0:59:57 still
    0:59:59 requests
    0:59:59 coming
    1:00:00 in
    1:00:00 still
    1:00:01 and then
    1:00:01 you
    1:00:01 will
    1:00:01 think
    1:00:02 this
    1:00:02 one
    1:00:03 still
    1:00:04 but
    1:00:04 ultimately
    1:00:05 it’s
    1:00:05 really
    1:00:05 up
    1:00:06 to
    1:00:06 you
    1:00:07 how
    1:00:07 much
    1:00:08 do
    1:00:08 you
    1:00:08 really
    1:00:09 want
    1:00:09 it
    1:00:11 and
    1:00:11 it’s
    1:00:12 going
    1:00:12 to
    1:00:12 continue
    1:00:12 like
    1:00:13 this
    1:00:13 until
    1:00:13 you
    1:00:14 will
    1:00:14 ultimately
    1:00:15 come
    1:00:15 to
    1:00:15 the
    1:00:16 point
    1:00:18 and
    1:00:18 it’s
    1:00:18 going
    1:00:18 to
    1:00:18 come
    1:00:18 quickly
    1:00:19 I
    1:00:19 do
    1:00:19 think
    1:00:20 yeah
    1:00:24 where
    1:00:24 you
    1:00:25 realize
    1:00:26 for
    1:00:26 yourself
    1:00:27 that
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    1:17:23 brick
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    1:17:25 to
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    1:17:27 talked
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    1:17:28 five
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    1:17:31 that
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    1:17:34 ability
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    1:17:34 focus
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    1:17:35 culminates
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    1:17:36 you
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    1:17:38 brick
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    1:17:39 hand
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    1:17:42 this
    1:17:42 connection
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    1:17:43 mind
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    1:17:44 body
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    1:17:45 a
    1:17:46 particular
    1:17:46 moment
    1:17:46 yes
    1:17:47 so
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    1:17:47 show
    1:17:47 me
    1:17:48 you
    1:17:49 smashing
    1:17:49 this
    1:17:49 brick
    1:17:51 absolutely
    1:17:55 do you
    1:17:56 put the
    1:17:56 brick
    1:17:56 in
    1:17:57 the
    1:17:57 middle
    1:17:57 of
    1:17:58 the
    1:17:58 blocks
    1:17:58 or
    1:17:58 do you
    1:17:58 just
    1:17:59 put it
    1:17:59 there
    1:18:00 put it
    1:18:00 like
    1:18:00 this
    1:18:00 oh
    1:18:00 see
    1:18:01 okay
    1:18:02 I just
    1:18:02 chop it
    1:18:02 it down
    1:18:03 on one
    1:18:03 side
    1:18:05 do you
    1:18:05 have
    1:18:05 another
    1:18:06 brick
    1:18:07 yes
    1:18:08 there’s
    1:18:08 another
    1:18:09 one
    1:18:09 here
    1:18:11 you’re
    1:18:11 going to
    1:18:11 pick
    1:18:11 your
    1:18:11 brick
    1:18:19 one
    1:18:20 is
    1:18:20 one
    1:18:20 is
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    1:18:50 damn
    1:18:51 so what
    1:18:51 were you
    1:18:51 doing
    1:18:51 then
    1:18:52 in the
    1:18:52 lead up
    1:18:53 to that
    1:18:54 just have
    1:18:55 your hands
    1:18:55 like
    1:18:55 here
    1:18:56 to the
    1:18:56 front
    1:18:58 if I
    1:18:58 touch you
    1:18:59 like this
    1:18:59 and only
    1:19:00 do
    1:19:00 here
    1:19:01 see
    1:19:01 it’s
    1:19:01 like
    1:19:03 I don’t
    1:19:03 have a
    1:19:03 good
    1:19:04 feeling
    1:19:04 for you
    1:19:04 I don’t
    1:19:05 have a
    1:19:05 good
    1:19:06 feeling
    1:19:06 for your
    1:19:07 body
    1:19:08 because it’s
    1:19:08 like
    1:19:09 it’s
    1:19:09 superficial
    1:19:10 right now
    1:19:11 what I
    1:19:11 what I
    1:19:12 do is
    1:19:12 like when
    1:19:12 I
    1:19:12 touch
    1:19:13 you
    1:19:16 no
    1:19:17 so
    1:19:18 it’s
    1:19:18 not
    1:19:18 this
    1:19:18 type
    1:19:18 of
    1:19:19 touching
    1:19:19 you
    1:19:19 when I
    1:19:20 touch
    1:19:20 you
    1:19:20 I
    1:19:21 literally
    1:19:21 try to
    1:19:22 sense
    1:19:23 your
    1:19:23 body
    1:19:23 structure
    1:19:25 I
    1:19:26 feel
    1:19:26 like
    1:19:26 inside
    1:19:27 you
    1:19:28 where
    1:19:28 is
    1:19:28 the
    1:19:29 tension
    1:19:29 where’s
    1:19:30 the
    1:19:30 relaxation
    1:19:31 inside
    1:19:31 the
    1:19:31 body
    1:19:33 so
    1:19:33 it’s
    1:19:33 like
    1:19:33 we
    1:19:34 call it
    1:19:34 I’m
    1:19:35 reading
    1:19:35 your
    1:19:35 body
    1:19:37 I’m
    1:19:37 reading
    1:19:37 your
    1:19:37 body
    1:19:38 how
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    1:19:39 where
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    1:19:39 the
    1:19:40 energy
    1:19:40 locked
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    1:19:41 dense
    1:19:41 where
    1:19:41 is
    1:19:41 it
    1:19:42 loose
    1:19:42 the
    1:19:43 same
    1:19:43 I
    1:19:54 the
    1:19:55 stone
    1:19:55 I
    1:19:56 feel
    1:19:56 the
    1:19:57 density
    1:19:57 of
    1:19:57 the
    1:19:57 stone
    1:19:58 in
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    1:19:59 fingers
    1:20:00 and
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    1:20:01 I
    1:20:01 just
    1:20:01 see
    1:20:01 okay
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    1:20:03 I
    1:20:05 know
    1:20:06 how
    1:20:06 the
    1:20:06 energy
    1:20:06 is
    1:20:06 going
    1:20:07 to
    1:20:07 come
    1:20:07 down
    1:20:08 I
    1:20:08 know
    1:20:08 how
    1:20:09 the
    1:20:09 energy
    1:20:09 is
    1:20:09 going
    1:20:09 to
    1:20:10 come
    1:20:10 down
    1:20:10 and
    1:20:11 then
    1:20:11 I
    1:20:11 just
    1:20:11 like
    1:20:12 see
    1:20:12 how
    1:20:13 does
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    1:20:13 fit
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    1:20:13 so
    1:20:14 on
    1:20:14 the
    1:20:14 one
    1:20:14 side
    1:20:15 I
    1:20:15 feel
    1:20:15 the
    1:20:16 structure
    1:20:16 of
    1:20:16 the
    1:20:16 stone
    1:20:17 on
    1:20:17 the
    1:20:17 other
    1:20:17 side
    1:20:18 I
    1:20:18 know
    1:20:18 what
    1:20:18 type
    1:20:19 of
    1:20:19 energy
    1:20:19 is
    1:20:19 going
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    1:20:21 two
    1:20:21 I
    1:20:22 combine
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    1:20:23 just
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    1:20:25 that’s
    1:20:25 it
    1:20:26 and
    1:20:26 how
    1:20:26 does
    1:20:26 that
    1:20:27 translate
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    1:20:27 life
    1:20:28 generally
    1:20:30 good
    1:20:30 question
    1:20:30 because
    1:20:31 we
    1:20:31 you know
    1:20:32 it’s not
    1:20:33 a problem
    1:20:33 I have
    1:20:33 day to
    1:20:33 day
    1:20:34 but
    1:20:34 that
    1:20:35 ability
    1:20:35 to
    1:20:35 understand
    1:20:36 the
    1:20:36 energy
    1:20:37 of
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    1:20:38 the
    1:20:38 structure
    1:20:39 of
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    1:20:39 and
    1:20:39 then
    1:20:39 really
    1:20:40 understand
    1:20:41 be
    1:20:41 able
    1:20:41 to
    1:20:41 cultivate
    1:20:41 your
    1:20:42 own
    1:20:42 focused
    1:20:43 energy
    1:20:43 when
    1:20:43 you
    1:20:43 need
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    1:20:47 I
    1:20:47 do
    1:20:48 so
    1:20:48 do
    1:20:48 you
    1:20:49 need
    1:20:49 to
    1:20:50 live
    1:20:51 a
    1:20:51 proper
    1:20:51 life
    1:20:52 I
    1:20:52 don’t
    1:20:52 think
    1:20:52 so
    1:20:54 but
    1:20:55 somebody
    1:20:55 who
    1:20:55 is
    1:20:56 able
    1:20:56 to
    1:20:56 break
    1:20:56 the
    1:20:57 stone
    1:20:57 like
    1:20:57 this
    1:20:58 definitely
    1:20:59 possesses
    1:20:59 some
    1:21:00 type
    1:21:00 of
    1:21:00 skill
    1:21:01 set
    1:21:02 raises
    1:21:02 the
    1:21:02 probability
    1:21:03 that
    1:21:03 you
    1:21:03 can
    1:21:03 do
    1:21:04 something
    1:21:04 with
    1:21:04 that
    1:21:05 mindset
    1:21:05 in
    1:21:05 your
    1:21:05 daily
    1:21:06 life
    1:21:07 which
    1:21:07 means
    1:21:07 already
    1:21:09 the
    1:21:09 only
    1:21:10 way
    1:21:10 to
    1:21:10 do
    1:21:10 this
    1:21:10 is
    1:21:10 you
    1:21:11 know
    1:21:11 what
    1:21:11 consistency
    1:21:12 means
    1:21:13 you
    1:21:14 know
    1:21:14 what
    1:21:15 patience
    1:21:15 means
    1:21:17 you
    1:21:18 also
    1:21:18 know
    1:21:19 what
    1:21:19 endurance
    1:21:20 means
    1:21:20 or
    1:21:21 like
    1:21:22 training
    1:21:23 means
    1:21:24 and all
    1:21:25 of these
    1:21:25 character
    1:21:26 attributes
    1:21:26 that make
    1:21:27 it possible
    1:21:27 to break
    1:21:28 the stone
    1:21:29 just also
    1:21:30 builds the
    1:21:30 foundation
    1:21:31 I would
    1:21:31 say
    1:21:32 to integrate
    1:21:33 this now
    1:21:34 into other
    1:21:35 areas of
    1:21:35 life
    1:21:35 yeah
    1:21:36 so
    1:21:36 it’s not
    1:21:37 about the
    1:21:37 breaking
    1:21:38 of the
    1:21:38 stone
    1:21:39 but at
    1:21:40 the same
    1:21:40 time
    1:21:41 it’s also
    1:21:41 an expression
    1:21:42 of
    1:21:43 look
    1:21:44 the human
    1:21:44 your body
    1:21:45 is capable
    1:21:45 of doing
    1:21:46 a lot
    1:21:46 of things
    1:21:48 and this
    1:21:49 is just
    1:21:49 one of
    1:21:49 them
    1:21:50 there are
    1:21:50 so many
    1:21:52 extraordinary
    1:21:52 abilities
    1:21:53 that people
    1:21:53 can do
    1:21:54 nowadays
    1:21:55 but all
    1:21:55 of them
    1:21:56 have one
    1:21:56 thing in
    1:21:56 common
    1:21:58 you have
    1:21:58 a vision
    1:22:00 and you
    1:22:00 find a
    1:22:01 proper way
    1:22:01 how to
    1:22:02 nourish
    1:22:02 that vision
    1:22:03 that the
    1:22:03 vision
    1:22:03 becomes
    1:22:04 real
    1:22:05 similar
    1:22:06 like this
    1:22:09 so this
    1:22:09 is a
    1:22:10 consequence
    1:22:10 of
    1:22:13 a long
    1:22:14 journey
    1:22:14 of
    1:22:15 several
    1:22:16 character
    1:22:16 traits
    1:22:17 and
    1:22:17 attributes
    1:22:18 which
    1:22:19 you’ve
    1:22:19 cultivated
    1:22:20 over a
    1:22:20 long
    1:22:20 period
    1:22:20 of time
    1:22:21 and this
    1:22:21 is just
    1:22:21 a
    1:22:22 symptom
    1:22:23 or a
    1:22:23 consequence
    1:22:23 of those
    1:22:24 things
    1:22:25 that’s
    1:22:25 exactly
    1:22:26 the thing
    1:22:26 similar
    1:22:27 like
    1:22:27 you know
    1:22:27 when
    1:22:29 nowadays
    1:22:29 you look
    1:22:29 at any
    1:22:30 type
    1:22:30 of
    1:22:30 competition
    1:22:31 sports
    1:22:33 the event
    1:22:34 itself
    1:22:34 the competition
    1:22:35 is being
    1:22:35 recorded
    1:22:37 that
    1:22:38 one minute
    1:22:39 performance
    1:22:40 yeah
    1:22:41 or that
    1:22:41 nine rings
    1:22:42 or that
    1:22:42 three
    1:22:43 minutes
    1:22:43 yeah
    1:22:44 but
    1:22:46 everything
    1:22:46 that makes
    1:22:47 it possible
    1:22:47 for them
    1:22:48 to perform
    1:22:49 in that
    1:22:49 one minute
    1:22:50 on that
    1:22:50 show
    1:22:52 nobody
    1:22:52 sees
    1:22:53 what is
    1:22:53 lying
    1:22:54 in front
    1:22:54 of there
    1:22:55 similar
    1:22:56 like this
    1:22:56 yeah
    1:22:57 it’s
    1:22:58 with
    1:22:58 less than
    1:22:59 one second
    1:23:00 the stone
    1:23:00 is broken
    1:23:02 yeah
    1:23:03 but took
    1:23:03 like a few
    1:23:04 years to
    1:23:05 be able
    1:23:05 to do
    1:23:06 that
    1:23:06 one
    1:23:06 second
    1:23:08 and how
    1:23:08 long
    1:23:08 would it
    1:23:08 take me
    1:23:10 to learn
    1:23:10 how to do
    1:23:11 two bricks
    1:23:11 like you
    1:23:11 just did
    1:23:12 then
    1:23:13 how long
    1:23:13 do you
    1:23:13 think you
    1:23:14 would have
    1:23:14 to spend
    1:23:15 training me
    1:23:16 you’re looking
    1:23:17 at my hand
    1:23:18 because it’s
    1:23:18 important
    1:23:19 because it’s
    1:23:19 literally
    1:23:21 not only
    1:23:21 about
    1:23:22 it’s not
    1:23:23 just about
    1:23:23 the focus
    1:23:24 of the
    1:23:24 mind
    1:23:25 it literally
    1:23:26 is also
    1:23:26 about
    1:23:27 building
    1:23:28 the density
    1:23:29 now physically
    1:23:30 speaking
    1:23:31 the density
    1:23:32 of the bone
    1:23:32 structure
    1:23:34 so I can
    1:23:34 just give you
    1:23:35 if you like
    1:23:36 a little
    1:23:36 example
    1:23:38 so what we
    1:23:38 do is
    1:23:39 this part
    1:23:41 and this
    1:23:42 part of the
    1:23:42 arm
    1:23:43 we just
    1:23:44 smash it
    1:23:44 like this
    1:23:45 oh my god
    1:23:45 this is like
    1:23:46 so like
    1:23:47 this
    1:23:47 okay
    1:23:48 you just
    1:23:49 try
    1:23:49 like
    1:23:50 one
    1:23:50 come
    1:23:52 just go
    1:23:52 go
    1:23:52 go
    1:23:52 really
    1:23:54 oh my god
    1:23:56 yours is like
    1:23:57 steel
    1:23:59 yeah
    1:24:00 and this is
    1:24:01 what it is
    1:24:01 yeah
    1:24:03 so
    1:24:04 it is
    1:24:04 changing
    1:24:05 you
    1:24:05 if you want
    1:24:06 you can like
    1:24:06 touch
    1:24:07 you can feel
    1:24:07 it
    1:24:08 yeah it’s
    1:24:08 like steel
    1:24:10 mine’s like
    1:24:12 polystyrene
    1:24:15 in comparison
    1:24:15 to that
    1:24:16 well it
    1:24:17 just feels
    1:24:17 like steel
    1:24:18 it felt like
    1:24:18 I was hitting
    1:24:19 a bar
    1:24:20 or something
    1:24:21 okay so you’ve
    1:24:22 got to build
    1:24:23 up the strength
    1:24:24 but still to answer
    1:24:24 the question
    1:24:25 I do think
    1:24:27 three months
    1:24:29 but dedicated
    1:24:29 training
    1:24:29 yeah
    1:24:30 and what would
    1:24:31 that training
    1:24:31 look like
    1:24:33 so right now
    1:24:34 as I
    1:24:35 explained before
    1:24:36 this is why
    1:24:37 I also like
    1:24:37 in the book
    1:24:38 I mentioned
    1:24:38 one of the
    1:24:39 grandmasters
    1:24:40 that I also
    1:24:40 learned a lot
    1:24:41 of the
    1:24:41 methods from
    1:24:43 this is now
    1:24:44 let’s say
    1:24:45 it’s a stone
    1:24:45 yeah
    1:24:46 stone
    1:24:47 belonging to
    1:24:47 the family
    1:24:48 of earth
    1:24:49 because okay
    1:24:50 earth
    1:24:51 now in
    1:24:52 Asian tradition
    1:24:53 we have like
    1:24:54 the five elements
    1:24:55 or the five
    1:24:56 transition phases
    1:24:57 wood
    1:24:58 earth
    1:24:58 metal
    1:24:59 fire
    1:24:59 water
    1:25:00 like these
    1:25:01 five elements
    1:25:02 so
    1:25:03 the proper
    1:25:03 training
    1:25:04 starts
    1:25:05 with the
    1:25:06 so called
    1:25:06 wood
    1:25:07 training
    1:25:08 okay
    1:25:09 so we are
    1:25:09 using a lot
    1:25:10 of wooden
    1:25:10 material
    1:25:11 to actually
    1:25:12 condition
    1:25:12 our body
    1:25:14 so you’re
    1:25:14 not going
    1:25:14 to break
    1:25:15 stones
    1:25:16 you break
    1:25:16 like first
    1:25:16 of all
    1:25:17 wooden
    1:25:17 things
    1:25:19 after wood
    1:25:19 is no problem
    1:25:20 for you
    1:25:20 then we go
    1:25:21 to the next
    1:25:21 layer
    1:25:22 which is going
    1:25:22 to be stone
    1:25:24 this was
    1:25:25 this was this
    1:25:25 one for example
    1:25:26 after stone
    1:25:27 comes metal
    1:25:28 and so
    1:25:29 like this
    1:25:30 we go
    1:25:30 through all
    1:25:31 the layers
    1:25:32 until your
    1:25:33 body
    1:25:34 has increased
    1:25:35 in its
    1:25:35 abilities
    1:25:36 you know
    1:25:37 the frequency
    1:25:38 of wood
    1:25:38 you know
    1:25:39 the frequency
    1:25:40 of stone
    1:25:41 you know
    1:25:42 the frequency
    1:25:42 and vibration
    1:25:43 of metal
    1:25:45 this is how
    1:25:46 we increase
    1:25:46 our ability
    1:25:47 to just
    1:25:48 be able
    1:25:49 to actually
    1:25:50 maintain
    1:25:52 our strength
    1:25:53 in the field
    1:25:53 of all five
    1:25:54 elements
    1:25:54 you can break
    1:25:55 metal
    1:25:56 where you
    1:25:57 can hit
    1:25:57 metal
    1:25:57 you can hit
    1:25:58 metal
    1:25:59 you can hit
    1:25:59 metal
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    1:27:05 in Shaolin tradition
    1:27:06 virtues are a
    1:27:07 guiding system
    1:27:07 in both
    1:27:08 martial arts
    1:27:09 and daily life
    1:27:09 a Shaolin
    1:27:12 and mindfully
    1:27:12 about the
    1:27:12 virtues
    1:27:14 of everyday
    1:27:14 life
    1:27:15 for his
    1:27:15 or her
    1:27:16 life
    1:27:16 and there
    1:27:17 are two
    1:27:17 categories
    1:27:18 of virtues
    1:27:20 the virtues
    1:27:20 to be expected
    1:27:22 and the
    1:27:22 virtues to be
    1:27:23 learnt
    1:27:25 what are
    1:27:25 these
    1:27:26 virtues
    1:27:28 that you
    1:27:28 speak about
    1:27:29 in the
    1:27:29 Shaolin
    1:27:29 tradition
    1:27:33 prior to
    1:27:33 somebody
    1:27:34 entering
    1:27:34 now
    1:27:34 let’s
    1:27:34 say
    1:27:35 into
    1:27:36 the
    1:27:36 temple
    1:27:37 and
    1:27:37 wants
    1:27:37 to
    1:27:37 learn
    1:27:38 from
    1:27:38 there
    1:27:39 first of
    1:27:39 all
    1:27:40 we
    1:27:40 also
    1:27:40 as
    1:27:41 teachers
    1:27:42 want
    1:27:42 to
    1:27:42 find
    1:27:43 out
    1:27:46 what
    1:27:46 does
    1:27:46 the
    1:27:47 character
    1:27:47 of that
    1:27:48 personality
    1:27:49 already
    1:27:50 possesses
    1:27:51 yeah
    1:27:52 and these
    1:27:53 are for
    1:27:53 example
    1:27:54 what we
    1:27:54 are looking
    1:27:54 for
    1:27:55 are
    1:27:55 ultimately
    1:27:56 the
    1:27:57 virtues
    1:27:58 to be
    1:27:59 expected
    1:28:00 virtues
    1:28:01 to be
    1:28:01 expected
    1:28:02 are
    1:28:02 for
    1:28:02 example
    1:28:03 self
    1:28:04 control
    1:28:05 a certain
    1:28:05 amount
    1:28:06 of
    1:28:06 self
    1:28:06 control
    1:28:08 a
    1:28:09 certain
    1:28:09 amount
    1:28:09 of
    1:28:10 discipline
    1:28:11 so
    1:28:12 self
    1:28:12 control
    1:28:12 what does
    1:28:12 that
    1:28:12 mean
    1:28:13 in this
    1:28:13 context
    1:28:14 if I’m
    1:28:14 self
    1:28:15 controlled
    1:28:15 what am
    1:28:15 I
    1:28:16 you
    1:28:17 don’t
    1:28:17 let
    1:28:17 your
    1:28:17 emotions
    1:28:18 run
    1:28:18 over
    1:28:18 you
    1:28:18 you
    1:28:19 don’t
    1:28:21 even
    1:28:21 if
    1:28:21 something
    1:28:22 makes
    1:28:22 you
    1:28:22 angry
    1:28:22 but
    1:28:23 in
    1:28:23 this
    1:28:23 context
    1:28:24 it’s
    1:28:24 not
    1:28:24 honorable
    1:28:25 it’s
    1:28:25 not
    1:28:26 respectful
    1:28:26 to
    1:28:26 now
    1:28:27 shout
    1:28:27 out
    1:28:27 you
    1:28:28 shouldn’t
    1:28:28 do
    1:28:28 it
    1:28:29 okay
    1:28:29 you
    1:28:29 should
    1:28:30 like
    1:28:30 be
    1:28:30 able
    1:28:31 to
    1:28:32 maintain
    1:28:32 your
    1:28:34 emotional
    1:28:35 states
    1:28:35 maintain
    1:28:36 your
    1:28:36 temper
    1:28:36 let’s
    1:28:37 say
    1:28:37 also
    1:28:38 at
    1:28:38 least
    1:28:38 to
    1:28:38 a
    1:28:38 certain
    1:28:39 extent
    1:28:40 this
    1:28:40 is
    1:28:40 where
    1:28:40 I
    1:28:40 would
    1:28:41 say
    1:28:41 it
    1:28:41 comes
    1:28:41 to
    1:28:42 self
    1:28:43 control
    1:28:43 and
    1:28:43 the
    1:28:43 second
    1:28:44 one
    1:28:44 you
    1:28:44 said
    1:28:44 was
    1:28:44 discipline
    1:28:45 so
    1:28:46 discipline
    1:28:47 meaning
    1:28:49 you
    1:28:49 have
    1:28:50 like
    1:28:50 I
    1:28:50 said
    1:28:51 even
    1:28:51 if
    1:28:51 it’s
    1:28:51 called
    1:28:52 the
    1:28:52 virtues
    1:28:52 to
    1:28:52 be
    1:28:53 expected
    1:28:54 expected
    1:28:54 means
    1:28:55 they
    1:28:55 should
    1:28:55 be
    1:28:56 visible
    1:28:57 somehow
    1:28:57 but
    1:28:58 not
    1:28:58 to
    1:28:58 the
    1:28:58 fullest
    1:28:59 extent
    1:28:59 to
    1:29:00 what
    1:29:01 people
    1:29:01 are
    1:29:01 capable
    1:29:01 of
    1:29:02 okay
    1:29:03 discipline
    1:29:04 just meaning
    1:29:04 this
    1:29:05 understanding
    1:29:05 that
    1:29:06 if you
    1:29:07 come to
    1:29:07 the temple
    1:29:08 life
    1:29:09 you know
    1:29:09 it’s going
    1:29:09 to be
    1:29:10 difficult
    1:29:11 to wake
    1:29:11 up
    1:29:11 every day
    1:29:12 at the
    1:29:12 same
    1:29:13 time
    1:29:13 and then
    1:29:14 start
    1:29:14 to do
    1:29:15 through
    1:29:15 the
    1:29:15 go
    1:29:16 through
    1:29:16 the
    1:29:16 daily
    1:29:17 structure
    1:29:18 so
    1:29:18 it
    1:29:18 needs
    1:29:19 some
    1:29:19 type
    1:29:19 of
    1:29:20 commitment
    1:29:20 let’s
    1:29:21 say
    1:29:22 it
    1:29:22 needs
    1:29:23 some
    1:29:23 type
    1:29:23 of
    1:29:24 I
    1:29:24 know
    1:29:25 it’s
    1:29:25 hard
    1:29:25 but
    1:29:26 I’m
    1:29:26 willing
    1:29:26 to
    1:29:26 do
    1:29:27 it
    1:29:27 this
    1:29:27 type
    1:29:27 of
    1:29:28 discipline
    1:29:29 yeah
    1:29:30 this
    1:29:30 is
    1:29:30 also
    1:29:31 in a
    1:29:32 way
    1:29:32 expected
    1:29:33 and
    1:29:34 then
    1:29:35 another
    1:29:35 one
    1:29:36 is
    1:29:36 simply
    1:29:36 to be
    1:29:37 benevolent
    1:29:38 as
    1:29:38 well
    1:29:39 so
    1:29:39 that’s
    1:29:40 kindness
    1:29:40 and
    1:29:40 compassion
    1:29:41 for your
    1:29:41 brothers and
    1:29:41 sisters
    1:29:42 kind
    1:29:42 of
    1:29:43 it
    1:29:43 goes
    1:29:43 yeah
    1:29:44 the
    1:29:44 virtues
    1:29:45 sometimes
    1:29:45 swim
    1:29:45 into each
    1:29:46 other
    1:29:46 but
    1:29:46 this
    1:29:47 idea
    1:29:47 of
    1:29:48 why
    1:29:49 do
    1:29:49 we
    1:29:49 have
    1:29:49 these
    1:29:50 virtues
    1:29:50 in
    1:29:50 the
    1:29:50 first
    1:29:51 place
    1:29:54 again
    1:29:55 it’s
    1:29:55 like
    1:29:55 in
    1:29:55 Star
    1:29:55 Wars
    1:29:57 the
    1:29:58 force
    1:29:58 what
    1:29:58 you’re
    1:29:58 learning
    1:30:00 the
    1:30:00 cultivation
    1:30:01 of
    1:30:02 energy
    1:30:03 the
    1:30:04 skills
    1:30:04 that
    1:30:04 you’re
    1:30:05 learning
    1:30:05 these
    1:30:05 are
    1:30:05 very
    1:30:06 very
    1:30:06 powerful
    1:30:07 things
    1:30:08 yeah
    1:30:09 but
    1:30:10 what
    1:30:10 does
    1:30:10 what
    1:30:11 makes
    1:30:11 the
    1:30:11 difference
    1:30:12 between
    1:30:12 somebody
    1:30:13 possessing
    1:30:13 this
    1:30:13 power
    1:30:14 and
    1:30:14 using
    1:30:14 it
    1:30:14 for
    1:30:15 the
    1:30:15 sake
    1:30:15 of
    1:30:16 humanity
    1:30:16 or
    1:30:16 somebody
    1:30:17 using
    1:30:17 it
    1:30:18 for
    1:30:18 the
    1:30:20 not
    1:30:21 betterment
    1:30:21 of
    1:30:21 humanity
    1:30:22 it’s
    1:30:22 the
    1:30:22 character
    1:30:24 the
    1:30:24 power
    1:30:24 is
    1:30:25 the
    1:30:25 same
    1:30:25 it’s
    1:30:26 the
    1:30:26 character
    1:30:27 it’s
    1:30:27 the
    1:30:28 carrier
    1:30:28 of
    1:30:28 the
    1:30:28 power
    1:30:29 it’s
    1:30:29 the
    1:30:30 one
    1:30:30 who
    1:30:30 is
    1:30:32 responsible
    1:30:33 to
    1:30:33 hold
    1:30:34 this
    1:30:34 power
    1:30:34 to
    1:30:35 maintain
    1:30:35 this
    1:30:35 power
    1:30:36 that
    1:30:36 one
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    2:06:33 to
    2:06:34 this
    2:06:35 this
    2:06:35 academic
    2:06:36 education
    2:06:37 then
    2:06:37 finally
    2:06:38 graduating
    2:06:39 like
    2:06:39 after
    2:06:41 20
    2:06:41 years
    2:06:44 yeah
    2:06:45 and
    2:06:45 then
    2:06:46 I
    2:06:46 just
    2:06:46 returned
    2:06:47 from
    2:06:47 the
    2:06:47 graduation
    2:06:48 back
    2:06:48 to
    2:06:49 back
    2:06:49 to
    2:06:51 Kaiserslautern
    2:06:51 the city
    2:06:52 where I
    2:06:52 lived
    2:06:52 and that
    2:06:53 was
    2:06:53 the
    2:06:53 last
    2:06:53 year
    2:06:54 I
    2:06:55 spent
    2:06:55 with
    2:06:55 my
    2:06:55 father
    2:06:55 yeah
    2:06:57 so
    2:06:57 literally
    2:06:58 meaning
    2:07:01 spending
    2:07:02 so many
    2:07:02 years
    2:07:03 in this
    2:07:03 academic
    2:07:04 education
    2:07:05 for
    2:07:05 my
    2:07:05 father
    2:07:07 and
    2:07:07 now
    2:07:07 he’s
    2:07:07 not
    2:07:08 even
    2:07:08 there
    2:07:08 to
    2:07:08 witness
    2:07:09 that
    2:07:10 it
    2:07:10 has
    2:07:10 been
    2:07:10 done
    2:07:11 for
    2:07:11 him
    2:07:12 now
    2:07:13 this
    2:07:13 was
    2:07:13 like
    2:07:13 a
    2:07:14 point
    2:07:14 where
    2:07:14 I
    2:07:14 thought
    2:07:15 like
    2:07:18 yeah
    2:07:23 yeah
    2:07:24 yeah
    2:07:24 this
    2:07:24 was
    2:07:25 the
    2:07:25 one
    2:07:25 area
    2:07:26 that
    2:07:27 that
    2:07:27 stuck
    2:07:28 somehow
    2:07:28 a little
    2:07:29 bit
    2:07:29 hard
    2:07:30 and
    2:07:30 then
    2:07:30 the
    2:07:31 next
    2:07:31 things
    2:07:32 you know
    2:07:33 I
    2:07:33 call it
    2:07:33 maybe
    2:07:34 small
    2:07:34 but
    2:07:34 it’s
    2:07:34 not
    2:07:34 so
    2:07:35 small
    2:07:35 apparently
    2:07:37 because
    2:07:38 I
    2:07:39 grew
    2:07:39 up
    2:07:39 in
    2:07:39 let’s
    2:07:39 say
    2:07:40 this
    2:07:40 Asian
    2:07:41 tradition
    2:07:42 with
    2:07:42 let’s
    2:07:42 say
    2:07:42 different
    2:07:43 type
    2:07:43 of
    2:07:44 beliefs
    2:07:44 or
    2:07:44 rituals
    2:07:45 or
    2:07:45 ceremonies
    2:07:46 that
    2:07:46 we
    2:07:46 do
    2:07:47 one
    2:07:48 of
    2:07:48 these
    2:07:48 things
    2:07:48 was
    2:07:49 that
    2:07:49 when
    2:07:49 my
    2:07:50 father
    2:07:50 was
    2:07:50 still
    2:07:51 lying
    2:07:51 in
    2:07:52 hospital
    2:07:53 when it
    2:07:53 was
    2:07:54 clear
    2:07:54 that
    2:07:54 it’s
    2:07:54 just
    2:07:55 going
    2:07:55 to
    2:07:55 take
    2:07:55 a
    2:07:55 few
    2:07:56 days
    2:07:56 until
    2:07:56 he
    2:07:56 would
    2:07:57 pass
    2:07:57 away
    2:07:59 he
    2:07:59 for
    2:07:59 example
    2:08:00 also
    2:08:00 said
    2:08:01 well
    2:08:01 he only
    2:08:02 said
    2:08:02 it
    2:08:02 to
    2:08:02 me
    2:08:02 because
    2:08:02 you
    2:08:03 know
    2:08:03 I
    2:08:03 would
    2:08:03 be
    2:08:03 the
    2:08:04 only
    2:08:04 one
    2:08:04 who
    2:08:04 is
    2:08:04 able
    2:08:04 to
    2:08:05 do
    2:08:05 it
    2:08:06 don’t
    2:08:06 cry
    2:08:07 for
    2:08:07 me
    2:08:22 because
    2:08:23 he
    2:08:23 couldn’t
    2:08:23 say
    2:08:23 to
    2:08:23 my
    2:08:24 mother
    2:08:24 she
    2:08:25 cannot
    2:08:25 handle
    2:08:25 it
    2:08:27 couldn’t
    2:08:28 say
    2:08:28 to
    2:08:28 my
    2:08:28 brother
    2:08:31 yeah
    2:08:32 but
    2:08:32 because
    2:08:34 I
    2:08:34 trust
    2:08:34 in
    2:08:34 the
    2:08:39 tradition
    2:08:40 the
    2:08:40 reason
    2:08:41 why
    2:08:41 not
    2:08:41 to
    2:08:41 cry
    2:08:42 when
    2:08:42 my
    2:08:42 father
    2:08:43 passed
    2:08:43 away
    2:08:44 is
    2:08:44 because
    2:08:44 we
    2:08:44 do
    2:08:45 think
    2:08:45 the
    2:08:46 body
    2:08:46 is
    2:08:46 there
    2:08:46 the
    2:08:47 body
    2:08:47 passes
    2:08:48 away
    2:08:48 the
    2:08:48 spirit
    2:08:49 sets
    2:08:49 itself
    2:08:49 free
    2:08:51 and
    2:08:51 when
    2:08:51 the
    2:08:51 spirit
    2:08:52 simply
    2:08:53 realizes
    2:08:53 that
    2:08:53 all
    2:08:53 the
    2:08:54 sons
    2:08:54 are
    2:08:54 there
    2:08:54 the
    2:08:55 families
    2:08:55 they
    2:08:55 are
    2:08:56 crying
    2:08:57 the
    2:08:57 spirit
    2:08:57 in a
    2:08:57 way
    2:08:58 is
    2:08:58 still
    2:08:59 bound
    2:08:59 to
    2:08:59 this
    2:09:00 realm
    2:09:00 bound
    2:09:01 to
    2:09:01 the
    2:09:01 earth
    2:09:01 realm
    2:09:02 let’s
    2:09:02 say
    2:09:03 and
    2:09:04 in
    2:09:04 order
    2:09:04 to
    2:09:04 be
    2:09:05 able
    2:09:05 to
    2:09:05 help
    2:09:05 my
    2:09:06 father
    2:09:06 actually
    2:09:07 to
    2:09:07 get
    2:09:08 on
    2:09:10 to
    2:09:10 move
    2:09:10 on
    2:09:10 quicker
    2:09:12 to
    2:09:12 move
    2:09:12 on
    2:09:12 quicker
    2:09:13 that
    2:09:14 was
    2:09:14 the
    2:09:14 reason
    2:09:14 why
    2:09:15 it
    2:09:15 is
    2:09:15 sometimes
    2:09:15 so
    2:09:16 important
    2:09:16 to
    2:09:17 don’t
    2:09:18 show
    2:09:19 any
    2:09:19 grief
    2:09:20 in
    2:09:20 the
    2:09:20 moment
    2:09:21 when
    2:09:21 a
    2:09:21 beloved
    2:09:21 one
    2:09:21 like
    2:09:22 passes
    2:09:22 away
    2:09:25 yeah
    2:09:26 but
    2:09:26 all
    2:09:26 of
    2:09:26 these
    2:09:27 things
    2:09:27 yeah
    2:09:30 you know
    2:09:30 like
    2:09:33 spending so
    2:09:33 many years
    2:09:34 for my
    2:09:35 father
    2:09:35 then he’s
    2:09:36 not there
    2:09:36 to realize
    2:09:37 it
    2:09:38 then not
    2:09:38 being able
    2:09:39 to cry
    2:09:39 and then
    2:09:41 being in
    2:09:42 all this
    2:09:42 very very
    2:09:43 hard field
    2:09:45 and always
    2:09:45 like
    2:09:48 overachieving
    2:09:49 and
    2:09:52 no problem
    2:09:53 working 16
    2:09:54 hours a day
    2:09:54 saying well
    2:09:54 these are
    2:09:54 these are
    2:09:54 all the
    2:09:55 things
    2:09:55 that made
    2:09:55 it
    2:09:55 possible
    2:09:56 to be
    2:09:57 where I
    2:09:57 am right
    2:09:58 now
    2:09:59 but at
    2:10:00 the same
    2:10:00 time
    2:10:01 I just
    2:10:01 do feel
    2:10:02 like
    2:10:03 especially
    2:10:03 in the
    2:10:03 moment
    2:10:04 now
    2:10:04 when
    2:10:05 my son
    2:10:05 started
    2:10:05 to come
    2:10:06 and all
    2:10:06 of these
    2:10:06 things
    2:10:09 I just
    2:10:10 felt like
    2:10:10 there’s
    2:10:10 a lot
    2:10:10 blocked
    2:10:11 there
    2:10:16 there’s
    2:10:16 a lot
    2:10:17 that still
    2:10:17 needs to
    2:10:18 be released
    2:10:19 for the
    2:10:19 sake of
    2:10:20 my son
    2:10:23 and
    2:10:25 yeah
    2:10:34 what is
    2:10:34 it you
    2:10:35 needed
    2:10:35 and when
    2:10:35 did you
    2:10:36 need it
    2:10:37 I would
    2:10:37 call it
    2:10:38 recognition
    2:10:39 being
    2:10:40 recognized
    2:10:40 by my
    2:10:40 father
    2:10:41 at some
    2:10:41 point
    2:10:43 to
    2:10:43 finally
    2:10:44 somehow
    2:10:44 say
    2:10:45 you
    2:10:45 did
    2:10:46 well
    2:10:46 is
    2:10:46 enough
    2:10:48 but it
    2:10:48 didn’t
    2:10:49 come
    2:10:49 until
    2:10:49 today
    2:10:52 so I
    2:10:52 still
    2:10:52 keep
    2:10:52 going
    2:10:57 I
    2:10:57 never
    2:10:57 heard
    2:10:57 it
    2:10:57 from
    2:10:58 my
    2:10:58 father
    2:11:00 from
    2:11:00 my
    2:11:00 mother
    2:11:00 I
    2:11:01 also
    2:11:01 don’t
    2:11:01 hear
    2:11:01 it
    2:11:04 well
    2:11:05 maybe
    2:11:05 in a
    2:11:05 different
    2:11:05 way
    2:11:06 but
    2:11:07 I
    2:11:07 do
    2:11:07 think
    2:11:10 it
    2:11:10 is
    2:11:10 the
    2:11:11 father’s
    2:11:11 recognition
    2:11:14 that
    2:11:14 you
    2:11:14 probably
    2:11:14 aim
    2:11:15 for
    2:11:15 so
    2:11:16 these
    2:11:16 are
    2:11:17 absolutely
    2:11:17 things
    2:11:18 that
    2:11:18 do
    2:11:18 shape
    2:11:18 my
    2:11:19 character
    2:11:19 for
    2:11:19 sure
    2:11:23 many
    2:11:23 people
    2:11:23 will
    2:11:23 be
    2:11:24 able
    2:11:24 to
    2:11:24 relate
    2:11:24 in
    2:11:24 their
    2:11:24 own
    2:11:25 ways
    2:11:26 and
    2:11:27 maybe
    2:11:27 their
    2:11:28 parents
    2:11:28 have
    2:11:28 now
    2:11:28 passed
    2:11:29 on
    2:11:29 or
    2:11:29 are
    2:11:29 no
    2:11:29 longer
    2:11:29 with
    2:11:29 there
    2:11:30 so I’m
    2:11:30 wondering
    2:11:30 if there
    2:11:31 is
    2:11:31 a way
    2:11:32 to
    2:11:34 hear it
    2:11:34 from
    2:11:35 yourself
    2:11:36 yes
    2:11:37 yes
    2:11:37 yes
    2:11:37 there
    2:11:39 there
    2:11:39 is
    2:11:41 and
    2:11:41 again
    2:11:42 this
    2:11:42 leads
    2:11:42 to
    2:11:43 the
    2:11:43 fact
    2:11:43 of
    2:11:44 sometimes
    2:11:45 it’s
    2:11:45 very
    2:11:45 very
    2:11:45 helpful
    2:11:46 to
    2:11:47 really
    2:11:47 shut
    2:11:47 the
    2:11:47 world
    2:11:48 shut
    2:11:48 the
    2:11:49 world
    2:11:49 out
    2:11:49 of
    2:11:49 you
    2:11:50 and
    2:11:50 spend
    2:11:50 time
    2:11:50 with
    2:11:51 yourself
    2:11:53 and
    2:11:53 actually
    2:11:54 create
    2:11:54 what you
    2:11:55 think
    2:11:55 you were
    2:11:56 missing
    2:11:56 there
    2:11:57 create it
    2:11:57 because
    2:11:57 you’re
    2:11:57 the
    2:11:57 one
    2:11:57 who
    2:11:58 creates
    2:11:58 it
    2:11:59 that’s
    2:11:59 exactly
    2:12:00 what
    2:12:00 I
    2:12:00 do
    2:12:01 think
    2:12:03 that
    2:12:04 when
    2:12:04 we
    2:12:05 were
    2:12:05 speaking
    2:12:05 about
    2:12:05 it
    2:12:06 right
    2:12:06 now
    2:12:07 of
    2:12:07 course
    2:12:07 we
    2:12:07 could
    2:12:07 say
    2:12:08 that
    2:12:08 what
    2:12:08 is
    2:12:09 it
    2:12:09 that
    2:12:09 I
    2:12:09 was
    2:12:10 looking
    2:12:10 for
    2:12:10 from
    2:12:10 my
    2:12:11 father
    2:12:11 fact
    2:12:11 is
    2:12:12 I’m
    2:12:12 not
    2:12:12 going
    2:12:12 to
    2:12:12 hear
    2:12:13 it
    2:12:13 from
    2:12:13 him
    2:12:13 anymore
    2:12:15 so
    2:12:15 I
    2:12:15 need
    2:12:15 to
    2:12:15 hear
    2:12:15 it
    2:12:16 of
    2:12:16 course
    2:12:16 by
    2:12:16 myself
    2:12:18 and
    2:12:18 this
    2:12:18 is
    2:12:19 where
    2:12:19 it
    2:12:19 comes
    2:12:19 to
    2:12:19 all
    2:12:19 these
    2:12:20 type
    2:12:20 of
    2:12:20 practices
    2:12:21 and
    2:12:21 methods
    2:12:22 that
    2:12:22 many
    2:12:23 specialists
    2:12:23 now
    2:12:23 they
    2:12:23 also
    2:12:24 like
    2:12:25 emphasizing
    2:12:26 regardless
    2:12:26 of
    2:12:26 how
    2:12:27 you
    2:12:27 call
    2:12:27 them
    2:12:27 yeah
    2:12:29 and
    2:12:29 what
    2:12:30 are
    2:12:30 those
    2:12:30 sentences
    2:12:31 in
    2:12:31 particular
    2:12:31 that
    2:12:32 if
    2:12:32 I
    2:12:34 if
    2:12:34 I
    2:12:34 was
    2:12:34 your
    2:12:34 father
    2:12:37 you
    2:12:38 would
    2:12:38 want
    2:12:38 me
    2:12:38 to
    2:12:39 say
    2:12:39 to
    2:12:39 you
    2:12:39 right
    2:12:39 now
    2:12:42 well
    2:12:43 something
    2:12:43 like
    2:12:45 you
    2:12:45 did
    2:12:46 well
    2:12:46 you
    2:12:47 did
    2:12:47 enough
    2:12:50 I
    2:12:50 see
    2:12:51 what
    2:12:51 you
    2:12:51 are
    2:12:51 doing
    2:12:53 but
    2:12:53 now
    2:12:54 take
    2:12:55 your
    2:12:55 energy
    2:12:55 back
    2:12:59 and
    2:12:59 give
    2:12:59 it
    2:12:59 to
    2:12:59 your
    2:12:59 son
    2:13:01 give
    2:13:01 him
    2:13:02 everything
    2:13:02 that
    2:13:02 you
    2:13:03 feel
    2:13:04 you
    2:13:04 didn’t
    2:13:04 receive
    2:13:04 from
    2:13:05 me
    2:13:10 if
    2:13:10 you
    2:13:10 heard
    2:13:10 those
    2:13:11 words
    2:13:11 from
    2:13:11 him
    2:13:11 how
    2:13:11 do
    2:13:11 you
    2:13:11 think
    2:13:12 you
    2:13:12 would
    2:13:12 change
    2:13:15 I
    2:13:15 do
    2:13:16 think
    2:13:16 there
    2:13:16 will
    2:13:17 be
    2:13:17 change
    2:13:19 and
    2:13:19 I
    2:13:19 do
    2:13:19 think
    2:13:19 there
    2:13:20 is
    2:13:20 already
    2:13:21 change
    2:13:23 this
    2:13:23 is
    2:13:23 maybe
    2:13:23 like
    2:13:24 the
    2:13:24 part
    2:13:24 where
    2:13:25 like
    2:13:25 specialists
    2:13:26 now
    2:13:26 they
    2:13:26 would
    2:13:26 say
    2:13:27 it’s
    2:13:27 not
    2:13:28 necessarily
    2:13:28 an
    2:13:29 area
    2:13:29 of
    2:13:29 the
    2:13:29 conscious
    2:13:30 mind
    2:13:31 I
    2:13:31 do
    2:13:31 think
    2:13:31 that
    2:13:31 these
    2:13:31 are
    2:13:32 talks
    2:13:32 right
    2:13:32 now
    2:13:33 more
    2:13:33 dealing
    2:13:34 with
    2:13:34 subconsciously
    2:13:36 is
    2:13:36 stored
    2:13:36 inside
    2:13:37 our
    2:13:37 our
    2:13:38 let’s
    2:13:38 say
    2:13:39 in
    2:13:39 our
    2:13:39 mind
    2:13:40 I
    2:13:40 think
    2:13:41 this
    2:13:41 is
    2:13:41 where
    2:13:41 it
    2:13:42 plays
    2:13:42 a
    2:13:42 role
    2:13:44 especially
    2:13:44 when
    2:13:44 it’s
    2:13:45 about
    2:13:45 patterns
    2:13:46 that
    2:13:46 come
    2:13:46 up
    2:13:47 it’s
    2:13:48 not
    2:13:48 consciously
    2:13:49 when
    2:13:49 you’re
    2:13:49 conscious
    2:13:50 enough
    2:13:50 you can
    2:13:50 regulate
    2:13:51 already
    2:13:53 that
    2:13:54 you
    2:13:54 are
    2:13:54 not
    2:13:55 aware
    2:13:55 of
    2:13:56 that
    2:13:56 are
    2:13:56 still
    2:13:56 a
    2:13:57 part
    2:13:57 of
    2:13:57 your
    2:13:57 life
    2:13:58 and
    2:13:58 if
    2:13:58 you
    2:13:59 wouldn’t
    2:13:59 have
    2:14:00 asked
    2:14:00 about
    2:14:00 my
    2:14:00 father
    2:14:03 I
    2:14:04 wouldn’t
    2:14:04 even
    2:14:04 think
    2:14:05 about
    2:14:05 him
    2:14:05 for
    2:14:06 one
    2:14:06 month
    2:14:06 it’s
    2:14:06 all
    2:14:06 not
    2:14:07 a
    2:14:07 problem
    2:14:08 yeah
    2:14:08 but
    2:14:09 I
    2:14:09 do
    2:14:09 still
    2:14:09 think
    2:14:10 that
    2:14:10 these
    2:14:10 are
    2:14:10 very
    2:14:11 very
    2:14:11 deep
    2:14:11 layers
    2:14:12 that
    2:14:12 just
    2:14:13 translate
    2:14:14 a lot
    2:14:16 unconsciously
    2:14:17 into
    2:14:17 the way
    2:14:17 of
    2:14:18 doing
    2:14:18 things
    2:14:19 in
    2:14:19 way
    2:14:19 of
    2:14:20 how
    2:14:20 I
    2:14:20 see
    2:14:21 things
    2:14:21 also
    2:14:21 and
    2:14:22 this
    2:14:22 is
    2:14:22 where
    2:14:22 I
    2:14:22 feel
    2:14:23 like
    2:14:23 it
    2:14:23 probably
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    2:14:59 this
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    2:15:24 met
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    2:15:27 met
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    2:15:32 instructors
    2:15:33 looking
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    2:16:33 meant
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    2:16:38 master
    2:16:38 for
    2:16:38 him
    2:16:39 to
    2:16:39 run
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    2:17:45 well-being
    2:17:46 about
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    2:17:49 dependent
    2:17:49 on
    2:17:50 any
    2:17:50 third
    2:17:51 parties
    2:17:53 anything
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    2:17:56 government
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    2:17:57 decision
    2:17:58 from the
    2:17:58 government
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    2:18:10 the
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    2:18:13 well-being
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    2:18:24 literally
    2:18:24 telling
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    2:18:30 well-being
    2:18:30 to
    2:18:31 anything
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    2:18:32 you
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    2:18:46 well-being
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    2:21:45 being
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    2:21:51 foundation
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    2:21:51 people
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    2:21:55 understand
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    2:21:58 never
    2:21:59 one
    2:21:59 directional
    2:22:02 yeah
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    2:22:10 know
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    2:22:14 do
    2:22:14 tomorrow
    2:22:15 okay
    2:22:19 look at
    2:22:19 yourself
    2:22:20 and ask
    2:22:20 yourself
    2:22:20 what
    2:22:21 is
    2:22:21 the
    2:22:21 most
    2:22:22 disturbing
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    2:22:24 the
    2:22:24 last
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    2:22:26 life
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    2:22:31 week
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    2:22:49 that
    2:22:50 brings
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    2:22:50 that
    2:22:51 emotion
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    2:22:52 state
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    2:22:54 somebody
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    2:23:10 life
    2:23:11 I
    2:23:11 want
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    2:23:12 future
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    2:23:16 my
    2:23:17 energy
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    2:23:18 this
    2:23:18 one
    2:23:18 I
    2:23:18 can
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    2:23:19 see
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    2:23:20 that
    2:23:20 is
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    2:23:21 one
    2:23:21 now
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    2:23:22 all
    2:23:22 of
    2:23:23 the
    2:23:23 energy
    2:23:23 to
    2:23:24 figure
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    2:23:24 the
    2:23:24 solution
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    2:23:25 this
    2:23:25 one
    2:23:27 because
    2:23:28 if
    2:23:28 you
    2:23:29 took
    2:23:30 care
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    2:23:30 this
    2:23:30 already
    2:23:30 the
    2:23:31 last
    2:23:31 half
    2:23:31 year
    2:23:32 the
    2:23:32 chances
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    2:23:34 you’re
    2:23:34 going to
    2:23:34 have
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    2:23:34 the
    2:23:34 next
    2:23:35 half
    2:23:35 year
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    2:23:37 one
    2:23:38 year
    2:23:38 and
    2:23:38 if
    2:23:39 you
    2:23:39 do
    2:23:39 nothing
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    2:23:40 it’s
    2:23:40 going
    2:23:40 to be
    2:23:41 two
    2:23:41 years
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    2:23:42 going
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    2:23:42 three
    2:23:43 years
    2:23:43 and
    2:23:43 in
    2:23:43 three
    2:23:44 years
    2:23:44 you
    2:23:44 still
    2:23:45 sit
    2:23:45 there
    2:23:46 and
    2:23:46 complain
    2:23:46 that
    2:23:46 you
    2:23:46 were
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    2:23:47 able
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    2:23:48 move
    2:23:48 on
    2:23:49 yes
    2:23:51 because
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    2:23:51 the
    2:23:52 same
    2:23:53 pattern
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    2:23:53 it
    2:23:53 is
    2:23:53 the
    2:23:54 same
    2:23:55 hindrance
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    2:23:59 example
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    2:24:00 know
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    2:24:01 my
    2:24:01 next
    2:24:02 area
    2:24:03 of
    2:24:06 development
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    2:24:08 say
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    2:24:10 most
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    2:24:11 the
    2:24:11 moment
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    2:24:13 think
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    2:24:15 something
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    2:24:17 no
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    2:24:38 believe
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    2:24:38 the
    2:24:39 moment
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    2:24:39 say
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    2:24:42 I
    2:24:42 have
    2:24:42 arrived
    2:24:44 I
    2:24:44 think
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    2:24:53 closing
    2:24:54 tradition
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    2:24:54 podcast
    2:24:55 where
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    2:24:55 last
    2:24:55 guest
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    2:24:56 question
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    2:24:56 the
    2:24:56 next
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    2:24:58 going to
    2:24:58 be
    2:24:58 leaving
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    2:25:02 question
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    2:25:04 is
    2:25:08 what
    2:25:08 is
    2:25:09 your
    2:25:10 greatest
    2:25:11 regret
    2:25:21 I
    2:25:21 would
    2:25:22 say
    2:25:22 that
    2:25:22 40
    2:25:23 years
    2:25:23 long
    2:25:31 whatever
    2:25:31 I
    2:25:32 said
    2:25:32 and
    2:25:32 whatever
    2:25:33 decision
    2:25:33 I
    2:25:33 took
    2:25:34 in
    2:25:34 the
    2:25:34 last
    2:25:34 40
    2:25:35 years
    2:25:36 I
    2:25:36 could
    2:25:37 always
    2:25:37 stand
    2:25:37 behind
    2:25:37 it
    2:25:40 yeah
    2:25:41 I
    2:25:42 pushed
    2:25:42 decisions
    2:25:43 through
    2:25:43 and
    2:25:43 I
    2:25:44 gave
    2:25:45 I
    2:25:45 gave
    2:25:46 comments
    2:25:46 to
    2:25:48 do
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    2:25:48 the
    2:25:48 way
    2:25:49 that
    2:25:49 I
    2:25:50 wanted
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    2:25:52 my
    2:25:53 mind
    2:25:53 was
    2:25:53 always
    2:25:55 supporting
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    2:25:55 of
    2:25:55 this
    2:25:58 just
    2:25:58 in
    2:25:58 the
    2:25:58 recent
    2:25:59 months
    2:25:59 I
    2:25:59 had
    2:25:59 to
    2:25:59 take
    2:26:00 a
    2:26:00 decision
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    2:26:02 would
    2:26:03 have
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    2:26:03 to
    2:26:03 have
    2:26:03 a
    2:26:03 little
    2:26:04 bit
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    2:26:04 time
    2:26:04 to
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    2:26:05 to
    2:26:05 make
    2:26:05 the
    2:26:06 transition
    2:26:06 more
    2:26:06 pleasant
    2:26:07 but
    2:26:07 I
    2:26:07 couldn’t
    2:26:08 I
    2:26:08 had
    2:26:08 no
    2:26:08 choice
    2:26:10 and
    2:26:10 so
    2:26:11 despite
    2:26:11 of
    2:26:11 not
    2:26:12 feeling
    2:26:12 that
    2:26:12 it
    2:26:13 is
    2:26:13 the
    2:26:13 right
    2:26:13 way
    2:26:13 to
    2:26:14 do
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    2:26:14 I
    2:26:14 still
    2:26:15 had
    2:26:15 to
    2:26:15 do
    2:26:15 it
    2:26:24 thank
    2:26:24 you
    2:26:25 thank
    2:26:25 you so
    2:26:26 much
    2:26:26 for
    2:26:26 the
    2:26:27 message
    2:26:27 you’re
    2:26:27 putting
    2:26:27 out
    2:26:27 into
    2:26:27 the
    2:26:27 world
    2:26:28 because
    2:26:28 it’s
    2:26:28 an
    2:26:29 increasingly
    2:26:29 necessary
    2:26:30 message
    2:26:30 because
    2:26:31 we’re
    2:26:31 I
    2:26:31 think
    2:26:32 we’re
    2:26:32 all
    2:26:32 searching
    2:26:32 for
    2:26:33 answers
    2:26:33 and
    2:26:34 a
    2:26:34 variety
    2:26:34 of
    2:26:34 different
    2:26:35 reasons
    2:26:35 and
    2:26:36 your
    2:26:36 message
    2:26:37 as I
    2:26:37 read
    2:26:37 it
    2:26:38 throughout
    2:26:38 the
    2:26:38 book
    2:26:39 the
    2:26:40 striking
    2:26:40 thing
    2:26:40 about
    2:26:40 it
    2:26:41 is
    2:26:41 it’s
    2:26:41 a
    2:26:41 simple
    2:26:41 one
    2:26:42 but
    2:26:43 that
    2:26:43 doesn’t
    2:26:43 mean
    2:26:43 it’s
    2:26:43 an
    2:26:43 easy
    2:26:43 one
    2:26:45 but
    2:26:45 it’s
    2:26:45 a
    2:26:45 very
    2:26:46 necessary
    2:26:46 one
    2:26:47 and
    2:26:47 for
    2:26:49 today
    2:26:50 and
    2:26:50 the
    2:26:51 situations
    2:26:51 we’ve
    2:26:51 described
    2:26:51 that
    2:26:52 people
    2:26:52 are
    2:26:52 feeling
    2:26:52 at
    2:26:52 the
    2:26:52 moment
    2:26:53 I’d
    2:26:53 highly
    2:26:54 recommend
    2:26:54 you
    2:26:54 give
    2:26:54 this
    2:26:55 book
    2:26:55 a
    2:26:55 try
    2:26:56 because
    2:26:56 it
    2:26:57 is
    2:26:57 a
    2:26:57 completely
    2:26:57 different
    2:26:58 message
    2:26:59 so
    2:26:59 thank
    2:26:59 you
    2:26:59 for
    2:26:59 writing
    2:27:00 such
    2:27:00 an
    2:27:00 incredible
    2:27:00 book
    2:27:00 and
    2:27:01 thank
    2:27:01 you
    2:27:01 for
    2:27:01 the
    2:27:01 wisdom
    2:27:01 that
    2:27:02 you’ve
    2:27:02 put
    2:27:02 out
    2:27:02 into
    2:27:02 the
    2:27:02 world
    2:27:02 I
    2:27:19 appreciated
    2:27:19 having
    2:27:19 this
    2:27:20 conversation
    2:27:20 thank
    2:27:20 you
    2:27:21 so
    2:27:21 much
    2:27:23 I’m
    2:27:23 going
    2:27:23 to
    2:27:23 let
    2:27:23 you
    2:27:24 into
    2:27:24 a
    2:27:24 little
    2:27:24 bit
    2:27:24 of
    2:27:24 a
    2:27:24 secret
    2:27:25 you’re
    2:27:25 probably
    2:27:25 going
    2:27:25 to
    2:27:26 think
    2:27:26 me
    2:27:26 and
    2:27:26 my
    2:27:26 team
    2:27:26 are
    2:27:26 a
    2:27:26 little
    2:27:27 bit
    2:27:27 weird
    2:27:27 but
    2:27:27 I
    2:27:27 can
    2:27:27 still
    2:27:28 remember
    2:27:28 to
    2:27:28 this
    2:27:28 day
    2:27:28 when
    2:27:29 Jemima
    2:27:29 from
    2:27:29 my
    2:27:29 team
    2:27:30 posted
    2:27:30 on
    2:27:30 Slack
    2:27:30 that
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    2:27:31 changed
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    2:27:32 scent
    2:27:32 in
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    2:27:33 studio
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    2:27:34 after
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    2:27:35 entire
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    2:27:36 clapped
    2:27:36 in
    2:27:36 our
    2:27:36 Slack
    2:27:37 channel
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    2:27:37 this
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    2:27:37 sound
    2:27:38 crazy
    2:27:38 but
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    2:27:38 Diary
    2:27:39 of
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    2:27:40 type
    2:27:40 of
    2:27:40 1%
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    2:27:44 by
    2:27:45 understanding
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    2:27:47 you
    2:27:48 can
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    2:27:49 outcomes
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    2:27:51 isn’t
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    2:27:51 drastic
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    2:27:53 or
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    2:27:56 consistent
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    2:27:57 have
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    2:27:58 lasting
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    2:27:59 outcomes
    2:27:59 so
    2:27:59 two
    2:28:00 years
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    2:28:01 the
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    2:28:02 beautiful
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    2:28:03 and
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    2:28:03 truly
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    2:28:04 there’s
    2:28:04 lots
    2:28:05 of
    2:28:05 pictures
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Cái nào là, cái nào là nền tảng cơ bản? Cái gì là nền tảng của sự tương tác của chúng ta? Vì vậy, sự thật là, thực tế ngay bây giờ là, bất kể có khoa học hay không, cách mà sự tiến hóa của chúng ta phát triển, ngay bây giờ, chúng ta đang ở đây. Cơ thể của bạn, cơ thể của tôi, chúng ta đang ở đây. Đây là những gì chúng ta đang có ngay bây giờ. Cùng lúc đó, theo cách mà lối sống hiện tại như thế nào, chúng ta sẽ không có nhiều hơn 50 năm nữa để sống trong cơ thể đó. Vậy nên rất đơn giản. Không cần tin tưởng, không có khía cạnh tôn giáo nào, một lần nữa, sự thật là, tuổi thọ của những gì bạn đang mang ngay bây giờ và những gì tôi đang mang ngay bây giờ là có giới hạn. Và bây giờ, hãy tưởng tượng rằng bạn sẽ là, giả sử, đạo diễn của bộ phim của riêng bạn. Nhảy ra khỏi cơ thể và quan sát chính mình. Ngay bây giờ, bạn đang ngồi cùng với She Hung Yi, chúng ta ngồi ở cùng một bàn, và bạn đang viết câu chuyện của mình. Bạn muốn viết câu chuyện như thế nào? Bạn muốn, sau podcast này, bạn sẽ cảm thấy không thoải mái, cảm thấy không an toàn, cảm thấy không được yêu thương, cảm thấy chỉ đơn giản là không hài lòng với cả cuộc sống, khóc hoặc bất kỳ điều gì như vậy? Hay bạn tưởng tượng cuộc sống thật sự tốt đẹp trong 50 năm tới của bạn sẽ như thế nào? Vì vậy, dựa trên điều đó, mục đích có thể khác nhau. Bạn nói, tôi thích du lịch. Tôi thích đầu tư cuộc đời này trong cơ thể này để ít nhất có cảm giác rằng tôi có thể đóng góp điều gì đó cho tất cả các anh chị em xung quanh. Vì vậy, nó khiến tôi, khiến tôi thức dậy, tôi thích làm điều đó, nó mang lại cho tôi mục đích. Vậy nên, đó là điều rất, rất cá nhân. Và điều đó cũng có nghĩa là, theo một cách nào đó, nói theo những thuật ngữ này ngay bây giờ, tôi không tin rằng mỗi con người đều có cùng một mục đích khi nói đến loại mục đích này. Nhưng bây giờ, có một loại mục đích khác, điều mà riêng tôi cho rằng, tại sao tôi nghĩ rằng, từ đầu, chúng ta đã được trao cho tất cả những khả năng này? Và, nói tích cực, tôi nghĩ đó là một phước lành, được phép chỉ đơn giản là trải nghiệm. Đó là một phước lành mà chúng ta đã được ban cho khả năng trải nghiệm những gì sự tồn tại này có khả năng tạo ra, bao gồm tất cả mọi thứ. Bao gồm cả niềm vui, bao gồm cả hạnh phúc, bao gồm cả nước mắt, bao gồm cả đau lòng, tất cả những điều này. Mà không có sự phân chia, liệu bạn có thích một lĩnh vực nào đó hay không. Một số điều, đôi khi, cái này đi với cái kia. Nhưng mục đích, theo một cách nào đó, chỉ là tồn tại và trải nghiệm. Điều duy nhất xảy ra, và đó là một phần lớn ngày nay, là nếu bạn coi sự tồn tại hiện tại của mình quá nghiêm túc. Nếu bạn hoàn toàn dựa vào danh tính của mình, vào sự tồn tại của bạn, vào những gì bạn nghĩ rằng bạn là. Nhưng như tôi đã nói, đó chỉ là một bức tranh ngay bây giờ, đúng không? Nhưng đôi khi, hãy làm cho nó thật đơn giản. Nhảy ra khỏi chính mình. Và trở thành đạo diễn. Trở thành đạo diễn của hình ảnh này. Và sau đó, nó mở ra một cái nhìn khác. Bởi vì trong khoảnh khắc đó, bạn nhận ra rằng nó giống như một bộ phim. Không phải lúc nào mọi thứ cũng tích cực. Nhưng trong khoảnh khắc có những thời điểm khó khăn, vẫn vậy. Không bị mắc kẹt trong chính sự sáng tạo của bạn. Danh tính. Danh tính. Ảo tưởng về chính mình. Những biểu hiện khác nhau cho điều đó. Đây là một cách suy nghĩ rất hữu ích. Hãy đặt nó như vậy. Bởi vì có rất nhiều người nói rằng họ đang gặp khó khăn trong việc tìm kiếm ý nghĩa trong cuộc sống của họ. Hoặc họ cảm thấy mình không có mục đích. Và, bạn biết đấy, tôi nhận được rất nhiều tin nhắn từ mọi người trên khắp thế giới nói rằng họ, nói những điều như, liệu đây có phải là tất cả không? Đây có phải là tất cả cuộc đời của tôi không? Vậy đây thực sự cũng là một điểm mà bạn chỉ vừa nhắc đến. Liệu đây có phải là tất cả không? Không có gì hơn sao? Điều đó luôn là một phần theo tôi trong suốt hành trình. Đặc biệt là trong ba, bốn năm qua. Sau khi mạng xã hội, thuật toán của mạng xã hội thật sự đã bắt đầu đẩy chúng ta ra thế giới bên ngoài. Nhiều yêu cầu hơn đến từ việc tổ chức các hội thảo, làm podcasts, dạy ở đây, dạy ở đó, sản xuất chương trình truyền hình, tham gia vào các bộ phim. Và, tất nhiên, tất cả điều này cùng với nhiều thứ khác, những cánh cửa bắt đầu mở ra, nhiều điều khác bắt đầu xuất hiện. Nhưng vào một thời điểm nào đó, tôi chỉ không thể tin rằng điều này là mục đích. Bởi vì tất cả điều này vẫn liên quan đến, như, làm việc. Việc liên tục làm việc. Đúng vậy. Và ở đó, tôi cảm thấy trong cuộc sống của mình bây giờ, khi nhìn vào điều này, điều này không thể là tất cả.
    Dưới đây là bản dịch sang tiếng Việt của đoạn văn bạn cung cấp:
    Vì vậy, tôi luôn tìm kiếm những lựa chọn thay thế và luôn luôn như vậy, đặc biệt là cảm thấy rằng trên con đường mà bạn muốn nói, để đạt được điều gì đó, được công nhận ở một điều gì đó.
    Vâng.
    Nhưng có một mặt khác đi kèm với điều đó mà công chúng không thấy.
    Có những lúc tôi có thể đơn giản là bị bao quanh bởi hàng ngàn người, nhưng vẫn cảm thấy cô đơn.
    Không phải là những gì bạn xung quanh.
    Mà là những gì bạn kết nối.
    Và ở đó, tôi cảm thấy luôn luôn, lại có loại sức mạnh này.
    Điều gì thúc đẩy bạn tiến lên?
    Đi ra ngoài, đi ra ngoài, đi ra ngoài, bạn đánh mất chính mình.
    Nhưng cái tôi này là điều duy nhất có thể cho bạn sự kết nối trong cuộc sống này.
    Và bạn cần phải kết nối với cái gì?
    Bạn đã nói về việc bị bao quanh bởi hàng nghìn người và cảm thấy cô đơn.
    Và thực sự là về những gì bạn kết nối với.
    Một người cần phải kết nối với cái gì?
    Có thể trước khi tôi trả lời câu hỏi này, có một điều tôi muốn đề cập trước.
    Khi tôi học tiểu học và cũng trong thời gian đi học, tôi thực sự, chẳng hạn, đã tham gia vào các bài học Cơ đốc giáo.
    Vì vậy, theo bố mẹ tôi, tôi lớn lên với truyền thống Phật giáo, giả sử vậy.
    Từ việc tập luyện võ thuật, tôi cũng được giới thiệu về cái mà được gọi là Thiền.
    Bởi vì bố tôi luôn nói với tôi, nhìn này, con trai, chúng ta đang ở một đất nước xa lạ.
    Con là người nước ngoài.
    Luôn luôn tốt hơn khi có bạn bè hơn là có kẻ thù.
    Đó là lý do tại sao tôi luôn kết bạn với mọi người.
    Điều đó có nghĩa là tôi có rất nhiều bạn bè người Nga.
    Tôi có nhiều bạn bè người Ả Rập.
    Tôi có nhiều bạn bè người Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ.
    Đa văn hóa.
    Điều đó cũng có nghĩa là, vào một thời điểm nào đó, tôi đã được giới thiệu về Hồi giáo.
    Tóm lại, là tiếp nhận tất cả kiến thức này từ quá khứ vào tâm trí tôi.
    Bất kể từ góc độ nào tôi nhìn vào lúc này.
    Tôi tin rằng chúng ta đều có một nguồn gốc.
    Có một nguồn gốc.
    Vì vậy, dù bạn gọi nguồn gốc đó là gì, đó là vũ trụ.
    Dù bạn gọi nguồn gốc đó là Thần.
    Hay nguồn gốc này là năng lượng vô hạn, tôi không biết.
    Có rất nhiều cách diễn đạt khác nhau về điều này.
    Nhưng khi tôi nhìn vào tất cả những giáo lý này, tất cả đều hướng về một và cùng một điều.
    Chỉ cần lấy biểu tượng âm và dương.
    Đúng không?
    Biểu tượng mà mọi người trên thế giới đều biết.
    Và có một câu nói hay, âm và dương có một người mẹ.
    Người mẹ đôi khi đơn giản được hình dung như một vòng tròn.
    Vì vậy, âm và dương là sự biểu hiện từ sự nhị nguyên, tính lưỡng cực, sự tồn tại của số hai.
    Hai cái đó đến từ đâu?
    Chúng phải đến từ một.
    Vậy thì, đơn giản như, theo cách của chúng ta, bạn ở đó, tôi ở đây, một, hai, chúng ta đến từ đâu?
    Phải có một điều gì đó mà chúng ta có như là một ước số chung.
    Và nguồn gốc này là điều duy nhất có thể kết nối chúng ta.
    Bởi vì đó không phải là gia đình của bạn.
    Nó không phải là gia đình của tôi.
    Chúng vẫn khác nhau.
    Điều đó không đủ.
    Chỉ cần nhìn vào, chúng ta là con người.
    Động vật cũng vậy.
    Bất cứ điều gì và ai cho chúng ta khả năng có mặt ở đây.
    Đó là cùng một người đã cho bạn sự cho phép.
    Đó là cùng một người đã cho tôi sự cho phép và phước lành.
    Và đây là điều tôi nghĩ, đây là mức độ của tâm trí.
    Đây là mức độ kết nối sẽ không bao giờ để lại bạn cảm thấy cô đơn.
    Đó là điều tôi muốn nói.
    Kết nối với nguồn gốc.
    Vâng.
    Bây giờ, cho những ai đang nghe điều này và đang cảm thấy bối rối tại thời điểm này và họ tự hỏi, nguồn gốc đó là gì?
    Bạn đã mô tả nó theo nhiều cách có thể.
    Nhưng cố gắng mô tả lại, đó là nơi mà chúng ta đã đến từ.
    Đó là, đó là nguồn gốc.
    Có cách nào tốt hơn để mô tả điều này cho những người có thể không quen với khái niệm này không?
    Trước hết, tôi không thể nói mà không có nó và nó sẽ có ý nghĩa với mọi người.
    Đó là phần rất, rất khó khăn đầu tiên.
    Đó là lý do tại sao ý định của tôi không bao giờ là nói, nó là gì?
    Điều duy nhất tôi có thể làm là, giống như, chỉ ra các chỉ dẫn.
    Nhưng cuối cùng, chỉ có một người có thể tìm ra điều đó.
    Và không phải tôi tìm ra điều đó cho người khác.
    Mọi người sẽ tìm ra điều đó cho chính họ.
    Vì vậy, mỗi con người, tôi nghĩ, đang ở một mức độ khác nhau trong sự phát triển của mình.
    Và mọi người nhận được những gì họ cần chính xác vào khoảnh khắc mà họ đang ở.
    Đó là lý do tại sao tôi nghĩ rằng mọi người ngay lúc này đều đang ở đúng nơi mà họ cần để diễn ra sự thăng tiến tiếp theo.
    Điều duy nhất bạn cần làm là nhìn vào chính mình ngay bây giờ và chỉ cần tìm xem, điều gì khiến bạn không vui?
    Cái gì chính xác trong thời điểm này trong cuộc sống của bạn đang ràng buộc và hạn chế bạn tiến lên?
    Và đây là câu hỏi giống nhau cho mọi người.
    Nhưng điều bạn cần phải đối mặt, nó khác nhau.
    Trong quá khứ, thỉnh thoảng tôi chơi Super Mario và Luigi.
    Và đó giống nhau.
    Nếu bạn không vượt qua cấp độ số một, bạn sẽ không thấy cấp độ số hai.
    Những thử thách từ cấp độ hai sẽ không đến.
    Thủ lĩnh cuối cùng từ cấp độ hai sẽ không đến.
    Trước tiên, bạn hoàn thành cấp độ một.
    Nhưng khi số một đã hoàn tất, bạn sẽ không phải đối mặt với cùng một thứ nữa.
    Và có một điều gì đó theo chiều dọc mà đôi khi cũng giống như một trò chơi cùng lúc.
    Đừng coi nó quá nghiêm trọng.
    Nó giúp.
    Về điểm mà chúng ta đều đang đấu tranh với một cái gì đó dựa trên các cấp độ mà chúng ta đang ở,
    nếu bạn phải cố gắng tóm tắt câu trả lời chung cho những gì mọi người đang đấu tranh, bạn nghĩ điều đó có thể là gì?
    Tôi đã nghĩ về những người bạn thân nhất của mình, vì đôi khi thật dễ dàng để bước ra ngoài bản thân mình
    và nhìn vào người khác.
    Và tôi đã suy ngẫm về những cuộc trò chuyện mà tôi đã có với họ trong vài tuần qua
    về những điều mà họ đang đấu tranh.
    Và tôi sẽ định nghĩa nhiều điều đó là mong muốn.
    Vì vậy, mong muốn cải thiện công việc kinh doanh của họ, mong muốn cải thiện tình huống lãng mạn của họ và tìm kiếm tình yêu.
    Tôi sẽ nói rằng bản chất của nó, nỗi đau dường như là nỗ lực để đạt được điều gì đó mà họ không thể nắm bắt.
    Nhưng tôi tự hỏi liệu có phải bạn có một quan điểm khác về điều đó.
    Hai điều mà bây giờ sẽ xuất hiện trong tâm trí tôi.
    Luôn có cuộc đấu tranh giữa việc làm và sự tồn tại.
    Việc làm, tôi muốn hỏi, tại sao bạn lại làm như vậy?
    Vậy thì tại sao?
    Tại sao bạn muốn hành động?
    Chủ yếu, có một mục tiêu.
    Mục tiêu.
    Tại sao bạn có mục tiêu đó?
    Bởi vì bạn hướng tới việc nhận được điều gì đó mà trong khoảnh khắc bạn có nó, rõ ràng bạn đang thiếu.
    Vậy điều đó có nghĩa là kiểu thiết lập mục tiêu này, từ quan điểm của tôi, tôi tự động sẽ đề cập đến nó như vậy,
    rằng việc thiết lập mục tiêu của bạn đã đến từ một không gian thiếu thốn.
    Bạn cảm thấy mình đang thiếu điều gì đó.
    Đó là lý do bạn cần phải làm.
    Bạn cảm thấy mình đang thiếu điều gì đó.
    Đó là lý do bạn cần giáo dục bản thân.
    Được chứ?
    Đây là một hướng đi.
    Bây giờ, quay lại, có thể nghe lại có vẻ hơi triết lý.
    Kết nối với nguồn.
    Không có gì để thêm vào, và không có gì để lấy đi từ bạn.
    Vậy, rõ ràng, khi ai đó có tham vọng rất cao về việc làm điều gì đó, đạt được điều gì đó,
    thì rất có khả năng, điều đó không đến từ việc kết nối với nguồn.
    Nó đến từ ý tưởng muốn nuôi dưỡng hoặc tạo dựng một danh tính.
    Một danh tính mà bạn nghĩ rằng bạn muốn thể hiện, phải không?
    Vậy đây là một lĩnh vực.
    Việc làm so với sự tồn tại.
    Và sau đó điều thứ hai là điều cuối cùng đi đôi với cách sống cuộc đời bạn là một điều bị lãng quên dọc đường.
    Sự thật rằng bất kỳ ai và bất cứ điều gì bạn đang tạo ra và đang có ý định tạo ra và đang có ý định thu thập bây giờ và bắt đầu đạt được những điều.
    Mức độ đạt được tối đa của bạn sẽ chỉ kéo dài 100 năm.
    Đó là sự thật khác.
    Vậy, tôi tin rằng mọi người hiểu chính xác những gì tôi đã nói.
    Nhưng bây giờ có cuộc chiến lại xuất hiện.
    Cuộc chiến giữa, vâng,
    giữa cái danh tính rất mạnh mẽ này muốn tự duy trì
    và mặt còn lại là quên đi danh tính của bạn.
    Hãy là chính bạn.
    Chỉ vậy thôi.
    Không quan trọng bạn sẽ đạt được điều gì,
    bạn sẽ có nó trong 100 năm sau khi đã qua.
    Vậy, hãy đơn giản là tồn tại.
    Đừng căng thẳng quá về điều bạn không có.
    Thật không may,
    và điều này sẽ luôn tiếp tục như vậy.
    Thật không may, luôn có ba cách mà bạn sẽ học điều này.
    Đôi khi mọi người chỉ cần có trải nghiệm
    để nhận ra,
    được rồi,
    tôi đã làm điều đó.
    Tôi đã có điều đó.
    Giờ tôi nhận ra
    tôi không cần nó.
    Nhưng ở lần đầu tiên,
    bạn cần phải có nó.
    Cách đầu tiên để học.
    Cách thứ hai để học.
    Bạn tin tưởng vào một người thầy nào đó.
    Bạn tin tưởng vào một người hướng dẫn hoặc người cố vấn nào đó.
    Bạn chỉ sao chép cách họ sống cuộc đời của mình.
    Vậy,
    cách tiếp cận của bạn là
    bạn chỉ đơn giản sao chép vì bạn thấy
    rõ ràng người đó đang sống một cuộc sống tốt.
    Vậy,
    bạn chỉ sao chép.
    Cách thứ hai để học.
    Và cách thứ ba để học là
    có thể bạn có một người thầy hoặc một bậc thầy.
    Anh ấy nói với bạn một số lời khôn ngoan.
    Bạn ngẫm nghĩ về điều đó.
    Bạn suy nghĩ về điều đó.
    Và vì bạn đã suy nghĩ về nó,
    nó đã đưa bạn
    vào con đường thay thế
    mà không cần bạn phải tự mình thử nghiệm.
    Vậy,
    và sẽ luôn có những người trong thế giới này
    trong ba loại này.
    Bởi vì,
    bạn biết đấy,
    nói một cách đơn giản,
    nói với ai đó, nhìn xem,
    đừng,
    đừng đặt tay vào lửa.
    Họ vẫn sẽ làm điều đó.
    Nhưng muộn màng là khi họ làm điều đó
    như hai lần, ba lần,
    thì đã xong.
    Nhưng rất nhiều người không bao giờ đạt được điều mà họ theo đuổi.
    Vậy,
    bạn biết đấy,
    ai đó có thể nói,
    tôi muốn trở thành triệu phú
    hoặc tôi muốn có một chiếc xe thể thao Lamborghini.
    Đa số mọi người
    muốn đạt được điều đó
    thống kê sẽ không bao giờ đạt được.
    Vậy,
    họ sẽ dành cả cuộc đời
    chỉ để theo đuổi.
    Họ sẽ không bao giờ nhận được bài học của
    con đường một
    nơi bạn thử nghiệm
    và nhận ra rằng.
    nhưng có thể
    đó cũng đã là
    bài học
    liên quan
    đến cuộc sống của người này.
    Bạn có mục tiêu này
    trong tâm trí.
    Bạn, bạn đặt tất cả năng lượng,
    tất cả nỗ lực
    của mình vào việc
    cố gắng
    để đạt được điều đó.
    Bạn 20 tuổi.
    Bạn đang cố gắng.
    Bạn 30 tuổi.
    Bạn đang cố gắng.
    40 năm rồi.
    Bạn vẫn đang cố gắng.
    50 năm.
    Bạn vẫn chưa buông bỏ
    ý tưởng đó.
    Thật ra,
    vào một thời điểm nào đó,
    hy vọng,
    bạn nhận ra chính xác
    rằng,
    cách tiếp cận vô nghĩa
    về cách
    mà bạn cá nhân
    đã lãng phí
    30 năm
    theo đuổi một mục tiêu
    với kết luận
    của hai điều.
    Điều số một,
    bạn vẫn chưa đạt được
    hoặc điều số hai,
    bạn không có cách đúng
    để đạt được điều đó.
    Nhưng điều quan trọng là
    bạn có hai cách
    bây giờ để làm gì.
    Buông bỏ ý tưởng
    rằng bạn cần
    và chuyển hướng
    cuộc sống của bạn
    hoặc
    chuyển hướng
    cách tiếp cận của bạn
    về việc bạn vẫn
    muốn đạt được
    mục tiêu đó
    nếu bạn không muốn
    buông bỏ nó.
    nhưng rõ ràng một
    trong hai điều này
    không đúng.
    Và càng nhiều
    bạn muốn cuộc sống của mình
    bây giờ,
    giả sử,
    trong tương lai
    trở nên khác biệt
    hơn những gì bạn quen thuộc,
    càng nhiều bạn cần
    có thể
    buông bỏ.
    Buông bỏ các mẫu hình,
    buông bỏ
    cách suy nghĩ
    mà bạn đã có
    trong những
    năm và tháng vừa qua.
    Bây giờ,
    nếu không có gì
    thay đổi về điều đó,
    sẽ không
    xuất hiện một cuộc sống mới.
    Rất nhiều người trong chúng ta
    sống trong các mẫu hình,
    những chu kỳ giống nhau.
    Chúng tôi cuối cùng đạt được
    những kết quả tương tự
    và những kết quả đó
    dẫn đến
    sự không hạnh phúc
    và đau khổ.
    Và tôi đã nói chuyện
    với một người bạn
    vào cuối tuần
    về việc làm thế nào
    một trong những người bạn khác của chúng tôi
    đã sống
    trong một chút
    các mẫu hình
    và họ đã
    không thể
    tìm thấy
    tình yêu và sự đồng hành
    bởi vì một số
    điều xảy ra
    khi họ còn trẻ.
    Tôi nghĩ họ đã
    bị bắt nạt.
    Vì vậy, họ có
    lo lắng sâu sắc hơn
    về việc phải
    chứng minh bản thân
    và sự thiếu tự tin.
    Và điều này xuất hiện
    mọi lúc
    bởi vì khi họ
    gặp ai đó,
    họ trình bày
    một bề ngoài
    có thể không
    nhất thiết là
    chính xác
    và sau đó
    rất nhanh chóng
    mối quan hệ
    kết thúc bởi vì
    nó chưa bao giờ
    thực sự tồn tại từ trước,
    nhưng người này
    bây giờ đã nhận thức
    được điều đó.
    nhưng nó vẫn
    diễn ra
    lặp đi lặp lại.
    Họ vẫn
    sống trong
    cùng một mẫu hình
    trong cuộc sống của họ
    và vẫn
    nhận được
    những kết quả tương tự
    và sự không hài lòng.
    Khi chúng ta
    nghĩ về
    chấn thương ở
    tuổi thơ,
    điều này
    dẫn đến
    một
    kiểu
    chu kỳ
    hành vi
    giống nhau,
    kết quả
    giống nhau,
    tôi tự hỏi
    liệu bạn
    có quan điểm
    nào về việc
    làm thế nào
    để một người
    có thể buông bỏ
    điều đó
    và do đó
    phá vỡ
    mô hình.
    Vậy hãy để tôi
    vẽ cho bạn
    một bức tranh.
    Tôi là một
    cậu bé bốn tuổi
    có cha và
    mẹ,
    có nguồn gốc
    Châu Á,
    là những người
    tị nạn
    từ Việt Nam
    và Lào,
    điều đó có nghĩa là
    họ
    đã chạy trốn
    khỏi
    cuộc chiến,
    đến
    Châu Âu,
    đến
    Đức với
    ý tưởng rằng
    để
    bọn trẻ

    một
    sự an toàn
    tốt hơn ở
    một mặt,
    cảm thấy
    an toàn hơn

    Đức mà không
    có sự bất ổn
    mà họ
    chứng kiến

    quê hương.
    Và vì vậy,
    chắc chắn rằng
    cha và mẹ,
    với ý tưởng này,
    đã đặt rất nhiều
    áp lực
    ngay từ
    những năm đầu
    về việc
    bạn cần phải
    học giỏi,
    bạn cần
    đạt được,
    bạn cần
    chứng minh
    bản thân.
    Đây là
    cách giáo dục
    của cha
    và mẹ.
    Cùng lúc
    đó,
    khi tôi
    bốn tuổi,
    tôi bắt đầu
    học tại một
    trường Shaolin
    Kung Fu,
    học
    võ thuật,
    và mọi
    người thực hành
    võ thuật
    có lẽ đều biết,
    các thầy
    và bậc thầy
    thường không phải là
    những người
    nói với bạn,
    ồ, vâng,
    bạn đã làm
    rất tốt,
    vâng,
    rất tốt,
    không, họ chỉ
    nói,
    được rồi,
    nhiều hơn,
    sâu hơn,
    nhanh hơn,
    mạnh hơn.
    Vậy tóm lại là,
    kể từ lúc
    bốn tuổi,
    trưởng thành,
    điều duy nhất

    cách tôi
    cảm thấy là,
    thực ra,
    bạn không
    bao giờ
    đủ.
    Bất kể
    bạn mang về
    nhà
    về mặt
    điểm số,
    nếu đó là
    một
    B,
    tại sao không
    là một A,
    nếu đó là
    một A,
    tại sao không
    là một A
    cộng?
    Nếu tôi
    đã làm
    100
    hít đất,
    câu hỏi là,
    tại sao không làm
    150?
    Nếu tôi
    đã nhanh rồi,
    thì vẫn chưa
    đủ nhanh.
    Liên tục
    là loại cảm giác
    không bao giờ
    đủ.
    Được rồi,
    cuối cùng
    có nghĩa là,
    và tất cả
    chỉ là,
    tôi có thể
    nói với bạn
    sau 40
    năm,
    nhưng giờ
    tôi có thể
    thấy điều đó.
    Cuối cùng,
    nghĩa là,
    ở một thời điểm nào đó,
    cậu bé nhỏ này
    đã bắt đầu
    đơn giản
    xây dựng
    một lớp bảo vệ,
    xây dựng
    một lớp
    như vậy
    để không
    còn phụ thuộc
    bằng cách nào nữa
    vào những gì
    người khác
    nghĩ về
    tôi.
    Nghĩa là,
    tôi chỉ
    bắt đầu
    dựa
    mọi thứ
    trong cuộc sống
    của tôi
    hoàn toàn
    vào những gì
    tôi nghĩ.
    Cùng lúc
    đó,
    xây dựng
    các
    chướng ngại
    cảm xúc
    và các bức
    tường cảm xúc,
    không có gì
    để xuyên thấu

    cùng lúc
    đó cũng
    không có gì
    để bày tỏ ra
    bên ngoài.
    Vì vậy,
    bây giờ,
    khi tôi
    đã bước vào
    một
    hoàn cảnh
    mới
    trong cuộc sống của tôi
    nơi tôi cần phải
    xem
    các ý kiến

    trạng thái
    cảm xúc
    của
    người tôi yêu,
    của
    đối tác tôi,
    của
    con trai tôi,
    tôi có thể
    cảm nhận được
    những mẫu cũ
    của tôi
    đôi khi
    vẫn đang
    cố gắng
    len lỏi vào.
    Vì vậy, điều duy nhất
    cần làm là
    cái gì
    để phá vỡ
    các mẫu.
    Số một,
    bạn cần phải
    nhìn vào
    bản thân
    và thấy
    mình.
    Tất cả
    chúng ta đều không
    hoàn hảo.
    Nhưng theo
    các tình huống
    mà bạn
    đang đối mặt
    ngay bây giờ
    hôm nay,
    bạn nghĩ rằng
    đặc điểm nào,
    với điều gì
    bạn muốn
    trang bị cho
    nhân cách của bạn
    để nó có thể
    đối mặt
    với những thời gian hiện tại
    một cách tốt nhất có thể?
    Điều gì
    không còn hữu ích
    cho bạn,
    hãy cố gắng
    thoát khỏi nó
    và tìm kiếm
    những kỹ năng
    mới?
    Rồi hãy
    rèn luyện những điều đó.
    Và sau đó
    huấn luyện, tất nhiên.
    Những mẫu mới đó.
    Chúng ta không
    thường nghĩ
    về việc
    rèn luyện
    một số
    đức tính
    mà chúng ta
    muốn đạt được
    và các mẫu mà chúng ta
    muốn có.
    Chúng ta kind of nghĩ
    rằng chúng ta
    phải
    lựa chọn
    chúng và
    rồi chúng ta sẽ
    cố gắng
    tối đa để
    sống theo chúng.
    Nhưng ý tưởng rằng
    tôi có thể
    phải rèn luyện
    các hành vi
    mới nhất định
    là một điều
    thật sự
    rất thuyết phục.
    Bởi vì bạn nói đúng,
    trong bối cảnh
    bất kỳ
    sự phát triển
    thể chất nào,
    tôi phải đến
    phòng tập thể hình
    và tôi
    phải
    làm
    các lần
    lặp lại
    để
    xây dựng
    thứ đó,
    sức mạnh đó.
    Nhưng tôi chỉ
    đang nghĩ về
    việc tạo ra
    một chế độ
    tập luyện
    cho
    các hành vi
    nhất định
    và những mẫu
    mới
    mà tôi
    muốn trong
    cuộc sống của tôi
    và cố gắng
    đảm bảo rằng tôi
    thực hiện chúng
    mỗi ngày,
    điều này không
    phải là điều
    mà tôi từng
    nghĩ đến.
    Ba tháng trước
    bạn đã trở thành
    một người cha
    của một cậu bé,
    một cậu con trai nhỏ.
    Đúng vậy.
    Vì vậy, bây giờ bạn
    đang trong
    quá trình nuôi dưỡng
    một người đàn ông
    cho chính mình.
    Và có rất nhiều
    cuộc đối thoại lúc này
    ở Vương quốc Anh nhưng
    cũng rộng rãi hơn
    trong thế giới phương Tây
    xung quanh việc
    trở thành
    một người đàn ông
    và cách nuôi dạy
    các chàng trai.
    Tôi nghĩ rằng
    nhiều phần
    của cuộc đối thoại này
    đã được khơi dậy bởi
    một số thống kê
    đáng kinh ngạc cho thấy
    các chàng trai trẻ đang
    gặp khó khăn nhiều hơn
    bao giờ hết
    theo nhiều cách khác nhau.
    Tôi nghĩ rằng
    thủ phạm lớn nhất
    gây ra cái chết
    cho nam giới dưới
    45 tuổi chính
    là chính họ.
    Và cũng có
    một cảm giác bao quát
    về mục đích,
    sự vô nghĩa
    mà họ đang
    gặp khó khăn trong
    nhà trường nhiều hơn
    so với phụ nữ.
    Một số dự báo cho thấy rằng
    trong mỗi hai
    phụ nữ tốt nghiệp
    đại học hoặc
    cao đẳng chỉ
    một người đàn ông sẽ
    tốt nghiệp trong
    tương lai gần.
    Và điều này
    thật sốc.
    Vì vậy, khi tôi
    nghĩ về cách mà bạn
    quyết tâm
    nuôi dạy cậu
    con trai của mình
    nhưng cũng
    về những gì
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    Từ bây giờ, có một điều tôi có thể tự mình nói rằng tôi sẽ tuyệt đối ngăn chặn khi nói đến giáo dục hoặc những gì tôi chia sẻ với con trai của tôi. Như tôi đã nói, tôi cảm thấy mình chưa bao giờ đủ. Luôn có điều gì đó cần phải làm thêm. Vì vậy, điều đó có nghĩa là đối với tôi, đối với con trai tôi, không có điều gì phải làm, không có điều gì mà nó phải đạt được. Nếu có một điều gì đó, đó là duy trì sự kết nối. Về mặt này, tôi không thấy mình là người có trách nhiệm hình thành nên con trai mình. Không. Tôi chỉ cung cấp khuôn khổ. Tôi cố gắng tạo ra khuôn khổ an toàn nhất cho con trai tôi. Nó có thể thử bất cứ điều gì nó muốn. Nếu nó thất bại, nó sẽ tự học cách đứng dậy và tiếp tục cố gắng. Vì vậy, bạn biết đấy, để thất bại và rồi tiếp tục. Tôi chỉ muốn xây dựng khuôn khổ này tốt nhất có thể để giúp nó cảm thấy an toàn. Nhưng việc thử và sai là điều tôi tin là cách bạn tìm thấy chính mình. Vì vậy, chắc chắn không phải là nuông chiều, nhưng đồng thời cũng không phải là giữ cái gì đó khỏi nó khiến nó cảm thấy như nó chưa đủ. Cuối cùng, tôi nghĩ rằng trong cách hiện đại để diễn đạt điều này trong tất cả các lý thuyết gắn bó, thì rất đơn giản. Tất nhiên, đó là cách an toàn để trở thành một cá nhân ổn định, tự lập, tự cung cấp, người biết giá trị của mình. Tại sao? Bởi vì nó đã thất bại và đứng dậy. Tại sao bạn nghĩ rằng có rất nhiều thanh niên đang vật lộn? Không. Bất kỳ điều gì hiện ra ngay lúc này vào năm 2025 không bắt đầu từ năm 2025. Bất kỳ điều gì xuất hiện ngay bây giờ đôi khi là kết quả của cách mọi thứ đã được xử lý, cách giáo dục đã diễn ra từ những năm trước, cho dù đó là 10 năm qua hay 20 năm qua, vì vậy không nhất thiết cái mà thế hệ hiện tại đã làm sai. Nó cũng là câu hỏi về việc thế hệ trước đã bỏ lỡ điều gì để tiếp tục truyền lại, dẫn đến kết quả mà chúng ta có hôm nay. Và đây là câu hỏi mà tôi nghĩ là đa diện. Bạn đã có một bài nói TED vào năm 2020, gần năm năm trước về năm trở ngại. Năm trở ngại là gì? Bạn đã mô tả chúng như năm trạng thái tâm lý đang kìm hãm chúng ta. Hãy đặt ngữ cảnh trước. Hãy lấy một biểu tượng. Bạn có một mục tiêu. Bạn đặt cho mình bất cứ mục tiêu nào. Bạn có mục tiêu của mình. Vì vậy, tâm trí bạn hướng về mục tiêu đó. Năm trở ngại bây giờ đơn giản mô tả có năm trạng thái tâm lý thực sự khiến bạn khó khăn hơn để giữ mục tiêu trong tâm trí. Bất cứ mục tiêu nào đó. Số một, ví dụ như được gọi là ham muốn cảm giác. Ham muốn cảm giác có nghĩa là bạn quá nhạy cảm với bất kỳ loại cảm giác thú vị nào liên quan đến năm giác quan của bạn. Bạn bị thu hút quá nhanh khi bạn thấy điều gì đó đẹp. Bạn bị thu hút quá nhanh nếu bạn ngửi thấy mùi gì đó ngon. Bạn bị phân tâm quá nhanh khi bạn có sự tiếp xúc về thể chất. Vì vậy, trở ngại đầu tiên có nghĩa là bạn đang mất mục tiêu vì vào thời điểm có điều gì đó thú vị được trình bày cho bạn, tâm trí của bạn đã thay đổi rồi. Điều đó có nghĩa là trạng thái tâm lý đầu tiên này chỉ đơn giản là chú ý đến điều gì đó mà bạn rất dễ bị thu hút. Nó không nói rằng nó xấu. Nó không nói rằng nó tốt. Nó chỉ nói rằng trong ngữ cảnh bạn muốn đạt được mục tiêu của mình, làm thế nào để đạt được mục tiêu nhanh nhất, hãy tập trung năng lượng của bạn. Nghĩa là hãy tập trung vào tâm trí. Đừng để mất mục tiêu khỏi tâm trí. Bất cứ điều gì bạn làm từ thời điểm thức dậy cho đến buổi tối, bất kỳ điều gì bạn làm, hãy giữ mục tiêu trong tâm trí. Đây là cách nhanh nhất để biến mục tiêu này thành hiện thực. Số hai. Nói một cách đơn giản, bạn không thích sự khó chịu. Bạn không thích những thách thức. Bạn không thích khó khăn. Trong bài nói TEDx đó, tôi đã mô tả như bạn đi dọc theo con đường và bỗng nhiên trời bắt đầu mưa, nhưng bạn không thích mưa. Vì vậy, thay vì tiếp tục theo con đường, bạn bắt đầu làm tâm trí bạn bận rộn về những gì bạn không thích. Và điều đó đã có ý nghĩa là tâm trí bắt đầu chuyển dịch một lần nữa, mất đi sự tập trung vào mục tiêu. Vì vậy, ý tưởng về trở ngại số một và trở ngại số hai, thực ra bạn có thể dễ dàng nói như thế này. Đây là mục tiêu. Hai điều không nên làm. Dành thời gian tận hưởng, đừng làm điều này, hoặc dành thời gian từ chối rằng mọi thứ không đúng như bạn tưởng tượng. Cả hai điều này. Một điều là bạn theo những điều thú vị và điều khác là bạn từ chối bất kỳ thách thức nào. Cả hai điều này đều là điều cần nhận thức khi nói đến việc giữ sự tập trung dọc theo con đường. Khi chúng ta suy nghĩ về trở ngại đầu tiên của ham muốn cảm giác, có phải đây là nơi kỷ luật thể hiện? Ý tưởng về kỷ luật, vì rằng từ đó thường được sử dụng, nhưng thường thiếu một định nghĩa rõ ràng, nhưng cũng thiếu một sự hiểu biết rõ ràng về cách một người đạt được và thể hiện kỷ luật. Bởi vì khi tôi nghĩ về những điều yêu cầu tôi có kỷ luật, đó là những ham muốn này, đó là năm cánh cửa, đó là những thứ tôi muốn ăn, đó là, có thể là một loại cảm giác mà tôi muốn có, v.v. Vậy đây có phải là nơi kỷ luật quan trọng không? Không. Ngay cả, ví dụ như trong cuốn sách hoặc ngay cả bây giờ khi chúng ta nói về năm trở ngại, chúng ta có 14 phẩm hạnh, chúng ta có tám quy tắc, chúng ta có bốn ở đây và 13 ở đây và 16. Đây là một hướng dẫn rất tốt vì nó giúp cho chúng ta, con người dễ dàng có một cái gì đó thực sự có cấu trúc. Có bốn bước, có sáu bước, có năm bước, bất kỳ điều gì.
    Những gì tôi muốn nói là chỉ trong cách này, rằng chỉ có kỷ luật thì cũng không có ích gì nếu ngay từ đầu bạn không có khả năng để nhìn thấy điều đó, nhận ra điều đó, và ý thức về điều đó. Điều này có nghĩa là bạn có kỷ luật nhưng bạn không bao giờ thực sự nhận thức được khi nào khoảnh khắc mà ham muốn cảm giác này xuất hiện ngay bây giờ. Bạn không nhận thức được nó, vì vậy kỷ luật sẽ không giúp bạn nếu bạn không có sự ý thức này.
    Vì vậy, có nghĩa là, tôi nghĩ rằng có những phẩm chất khác nhau của tâm trí mà bạn cần phải sử dụng để điều chỉnh bản thân một cách phù hợp. Tôi đã nghĩ về người bạn của tôi khi bạn đề cập đến sự ý thức ở đó, người bạn mà tôi đã mô tả trước đó, người có hành vi tương tự. Dù họ có thể nhận thức được hành vi đó, họ có thể nói rằng bạn biết đấy, tôi có hành vi này, nhưng tôi không tin rằng họ thực sự nhận thức được khoảnh khắc mà hành vi đó bắt đầu, như là yếu tố riêng biệt gửi họ vào vòng lặp đó.
    Vì vậy, tôi đã nghĩ đến điều tương tự về bản thân mình, có một số hành vi mà tôi có và tôi không thích, và dù tôi có ý thức về chúng, vào khoảnh khắc khi nó xảy ra, tôi có thể không ý thức rằng hành vi đó đã bắt đầu. Ai đó đã nói điều gì đó, một điều gì đó đã xảy ra và sau đó bạn bước vào hành vi đó hoặc bạn mở tủ lạnh lúc 1 giờ sáng và lấy cái gì đó hoặc bạn bị kích thích bởi điều gì đó.
    Vì vậy, tôi đã tự hỏi liệu có thực hành nào để gia tăng sự ý thức về khoảnh khắc kích thích không. Đây là ví dụ nơi mà tôi rất trân trọng nhiều giáo lý khác nhau mà hiện nay đang tồn tại và có sẵn miễn phí, chẳng hạn qua các phương tiện truyền thông xã hội, bao gồm cả việc làm thở, bao gồm cả thực hành yoga. Tất cả những điều đó, nếu bạn có một giáo viên đúng, tôi rất chắc chắn rằng đó chính xác là những gì đang bắt đầu nâng cao sự ý thức của bạn về một điều gì đó trong lĩnh vực này mà chúng ta dành thời gian và gọi là năng lượng.
    Nếu bạn không nhận thức được lớp sâu nhất bên trong của chính mình, hãy nói như vậy, và ai đó xúc phạm bạn, có thể xảy ra rằng như thể ai đó đã xúc phạm tôi và rồi tôi chỉ bắt đầu bùng nổ. Vâng, nhưng thực tế là trước khi có điều gì đó bùng nổ, trước khi tôi bùng nổ, trước tiên có điều gì đó phải được thắp sáng. Ngọn lửa nhỏ nhỏ đã phải được thắp sáng.
    Vì vậy, khi tôi đã biết ai đó mà tôi sẽ gặp, có thể việc đã biết và nghe tên từ họ đã là điểm khởi đầu cho một vụ nổ tiềm năng xảy ra. Vâng, vì vậy thì đây là nơi mà khi ngọn lửa nhỏ đã bắt đầu tồn tại và rồi bạn có thể cảm nhận được điều đó, bạn có thể cảm nhận khi có điều gì đó đã được tiêm vào bạn, khi có điều gì đó bắt đầu nổi lên bởi vì khi ngọn lửa đã quá lớn, khi cả ngôi nhà đang cháy, bạn sẽ không thể dập tắt ngọn lửa đó theo cách nào. Bạn chỉ có thể dập tắt tất cả những ngọn lửa này trước khi mọi thứ trở nên quá lớn.
    Điều này có nghĩa là chúng ta phải tìm cách trực tiếp nắm lấy gốc rễ, nắm lấy cốt lõi hoặc nắm lấy nguồn gốc của vụ nổ. Và cách duy nhất mà tôi biết là bạn cần trở nên nhạy cảm hơn với mọi thứ đang diễn ra trong cơ thể bạn, trong môi trường xung quanh bạn, trong mọi thứ. Đây là nơi mà với tôi, sự ý thức đóng một vai trò quan trọng.
    Và vâng, và đặc biệt khi nói đến việc trở nên nhận thức về trạng thái cảm xúc của bạn, đây hoàn toàn là công việc nội tâm. Điều này không liên quan gì đến việc làm việc bên ngoài. Nó là công việc nội tâm. Làm thế nào để bắt đầu hành trình của việc thực hiện công việc nội tâm đó? Bạn đặt niềm tin vào tầm nhìn rằng khi bạn đang đầu tư thời gian của mình ngay bây giờ để trở nên nhận thức hơn về chính mình, về trạng thái cảm xúc của bạn, thì điều này sẽ mang lại lợi ích cho cuộc sống của bạn. Đó là điểm khởi đầu. Bạn tin vào điều đó. Bạn tin vào điều đó.
    Vì vậy, bạn không làm điều đó vì có ai đó bảo bạn rằng bạn nên làm điều đó. Bạn làm điều đó vì bạn thực sự tin rằng đây là cách đi. Công việc nội tâm. Tôi muốn biết thêm về chính mình. Tôi muốn thực sự hiểu điều gì làm nên tôi. Tôi muốn tìm hiểu xem có điều gì bên trong chính mình. Tôi đã cố gắng quay lưng lại trong nhiều năm nhưng tôi biết rằng nó vẫn ở đó và tôi đã sợ phải nhìn vào nó. Tất cả những điều này chỉ có một cách duy nhất để làm cho bạn tự do. Bạn cần trở nên minh bạch. Nếu có những điểm tối bên trong chính mình nơi mà chưa có ánh sáng, điều đó không thể xảy ra. Nó không thể xảy ra. Mang ánh sáng đến mọi thứ đã ở trong bóng tối, đây là một lĩnh vực khác của con đường mà vào một thời điểm nào đó mọi người đều sẽ phải đối mặt.
    Bạn biết đấy, dù điều này giờ chỉ như một câu nói, nhưng chỉ cần hình dung rằng cho dù bạn đang làm gì, đang suy nghĩ gì, có người xung quanh bạn hay bạn đang một mình, hãy tưởng tượng có một người luôn nhìn thấy những gì bạn đang làm. Hãy sống cuộc đời của bạn dựa trên điều đó, và người đó chính là bạn – phiên bản cao cấp hơn của bạn. Nhưng điều đó là sự thật, chính là bạn. Một lần tôi đã chiếu sáng vào khu vực đó của bản thân mình, vì vậy tôi có được ý thức cao hơn về sự tồn tại của nó và bây giờ nó trở nên trong suốt. Vậy công việc tôi phải làm để thay đổi trong ngữ cảnh đó là gì? Chúng ta đang nói ở đây về việc quản lý cảm xúc của bản thân và nắm bắt cảm xúc của mình để bạn có thể tránh bị kích thích hoặc lặp lại những mẫu hình giống nhau trong cuộc sống của bạn, điều đã dẫn bạn tới những kết quả tương tự.
    Trước hết, bạn phải tin rằng có thể thay đổi; bạn có được nhận thức lớn hơn về những phần của bản thân mà bạn đã giấu kín, có thể bạn muốn thay đổi. Và từ đó, người ta sẽ làm gì? Bởi vì tôi đến từ lĩnh vực võ thuật, cũng có nghĩa là Đạo đã dạy hoặc các nguyên tắc của âm dương luôn có mặt trong đó. Hãy để tôi đặt nó như thế này: bất cứ điều gì bạn đang nghĩ, nói, hoặc làm đều có một hậu quả. Hậu quả này mà bạn đã tạo ra hoặc dự định tạo ra, hãy hỏi bản thân bạn, hậu quả đó thực sự là gì? Nó có khiến bạn thấy mình, có khiến sự tồn tại của bạn, sự tương tác của bạn với mọi người trở nên nhẹ nhàng hơn, thú vị hơn, tận hưởng hơn, tự do hơn, bổ dưỡng hơn, hay kết quả mà bạn đang định tạo ra đi theo hướng ngược lại – nghĩa là bạn đang nuôi sống xung đột, đang nuôi dưỡng sự hung hãn, cảm thấy như bạn đang mang sự đau khổ của thế giới trên vai, cảm thấy như có một gánh nặng trên bạn, cảm thấy như có một viên đá trên trái tim bạn, cảm thấy như bạn đang bị áp lực? Tất cả những biểu hiện này có liên quan đến mật độ, có liên quan đến áp lực.
    Nhưng khi chúng ta nhìn vào bất kỳ truyền thống nào, từ Phật giáo, khai sáng, tự do, giải phóng, thăng hoa, không quan trọng là gì, bạn sẽ thấy chỉ có hai lực trong thế giới – một lực hướng đến sự vô hạn và lực còn lại hướng đến việc hạn chế và có những ranh giới rất rõ ràng. Đây là hai lực mà chúng ta cần xem xét và chính xác bây giờ là thời điểm để tự soi chiếu – bạn được cấu tạo từ những gì, từ những mẫu hình nào? Những trạng thái cảm xúc nào đi theo bạn trong một tuần? Nhìn lại tuần vừa qua, cảm xúc nào chiếm ưu thế nhất mà bạn cảm thấy bên trong mình? Có phải là một cảm xúc có tính cách hạn chế bản thân hay bạn ở trong một trạng thái cảm xúc nào đó như suốt cả tuần, bạn cảm thấy nhẹ nhàng, mát mẻ, giải phóng, tự do, nâng cao, vui vẻ? Cái nào trong số này?
    Và điều này đơn giản chỉ cho bạn rõ ràng từ cái gì tới cái gì mà tôi nghĩ bạn cần phải biến đổi bản thân nếu bạn muốn điều này. Tại sao tôi nghĩ rằng điều này là mục tiêu? Sự nhẹ nhàng. Hãy tưởng tượng sau cuộc trò chuyện này, bạn của bạn hay người bạn gái thân nhất của bạn sẽ hỏi bạn rằng cuộc trò chuyện này như thế nào. Dù cho chúng ta có thể chỉ nói chuyện trong ba giờ, bốn giờ, hoặc dù bạn dành hai ngày để giải thích cho bạn thân của bạn về cuộc trò chuyện này, thì đó không phải là sự thật. Nó không phải là sự thật. Cuộc trò chuyện này như thế nào, ngay cả bây giờ chúng ta cũng không thể nói về nó. Tôi nói với bạn rằng cuộc trò chuyện này bây giờ thật sự là gì? Vâng, bạn sẽ mô tả như thế nào? Chỉ có bạn, bạn sẽ là người duy nhất biết điều đó là gì. Không quan trọng ai sẽ hỏi bạn sau này, bạn sẽ nói gì với họ. Bạn cần phải cảm nhận nó, bạn cần phải trải nghiệm nó, không có cách nào khác. Và đây là bản chất của ngôn từ.
    Đó là lý do tại sao những câu chuyện cổ xưa lại có mặt, chẳng hạn như một vị thầy và học trò của ông ấy đi bộ lên núi vào sáng sớm, khi mặt trời mọc lên, học trò nói: “Ôi, thầy, một buổi bình minh thật đẹp.” Và sau đó, vị thầy tát học trò và không bao giờ dẫn anh ta đi dạo nữa. Bạn sẽ tự hỏi, tại sao thầy lại nghiêm khắc với anh ấy? Bởi vì trong khoảnh khắc bạn diễn đạt một điều gì đó mà bạn đang trải nghiệm bằng lời nói, bạn đã giới hạn bản chất của nó, bạn tự nhiên làm hạn chế bản chất của nó. Vậy điều này bây giờ dịch chuyển thành những gì chúng ta có thể làm với kiến thức này? Bất cứ điều gì đang trở nên nặng nề và hạn chế, tôi không nghĩ đó là cách. Tôi nghĩ mọi thứ để chúng ta thực hành là nhìn qua những giới hạn, nhìn qua những từ ngữ, nhìn qua hình dạng, thực hành nhìn qua bề ngoài của sự vật, bởi vì đó là nơi mà ý nghĩa nằm. Hoặc đây là nơi một phần của sự nhận thức nằm.
    Tôi nghĩ rằng trong cuộc sống của mình, tôi muốn được yêu thích, nhưng cách mà cuộc sống của tôi có xu hướng hoạt động là tôi có thể khao khát điều đó, nhưng sau đó tôi lại rơi vào một chút như là chế độ tự động và tôi phát lại cùng một mô hình suốt cả tuần. Tôi phản ứng theo cùng một cách đối với cùng một kích thích bên ngoài. Vì vậy, mặc dù một người có thể muốn tự do hơn và ít bị kích thích hơn hoặc để trở thành tất cả những điều đó, tôi nhanh chóng rơi trở lại con đường cũ của mình, chế độ tự động cũ của tôi, vì cuộc sống dường như đến với tôi khá nhanh. Nếu tôi nhìn vào lịch của mình, nó đầy ắp hàng ngày. Vì vậy, tôi thức dậy và sáng nay tôi đã thức dậy, kiểm tra điện thoại và lịch để tìm hiểu xem hôm nay là ngày nào, có nghĩa là gì, và tôi phải làm gì và chuyện gì vừa xảy ra.
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    Tôi có thể theo đuổi việc có được một chiếc xe thể thao không? Liệu có thể có được chiếc xe thể thao đó mà không để nó chi phối tôi, và từ đó tôi có thể tránh được những hậu quả đi kèm với mối quan hệ không lành mạnh với sự sở hữu? Bởi vì trong cuộc sống của bạn chắc chắn có những thứ mà bạn đang theo đuổi, và bạn đạt được những thứ đó. Chẳng hạn như sách của bạn bán được một triệu bản, kênh YouTube của bạn rất thành công, bạn đã theo đuổi những điều đó. Hãy bắt đầu với chiếc xe thể thao. Điều đó phụ thuộc vào phần còn lại của các tình huống. Hãy để tôi nói thế này: nếu mức lương của bạn, chẳng hạn, chỉ đủ để bạn trả tiền thuê nhà, tuy nhiên bạn vẫn muốn có chiếc xe thể thao đó, thì bạn có thể vay tiền và mua chiếc xe thể thao. Rất có thể bạn sẽ trở nên rất gắn bó với chiếc xe đó, đơn giản vì bạn đã mua nó trong một tình huống như vậy, bạn không mua nó từ một vị trí dư giả. Vậy đây đã không phải là một điểm khởi đầu tốt để có được thứ mà bạn thực sự không thể đủ khả năng mua. Ngược lại, khi bạn có khả năng và bạn chỉ tốn thời gian và tiền bạc cho chiếc xe thể thao, và nhìn nhận nó như nó là, và thực tế xem xét bạn đã dành bao nhiêu thời gian với nó. Tôi nghĩ rằng sự phấn khích trong những ngày đầu tiên sẽ kéo dài một tuần, có thể một tháng, đó đã là lâu rồi, nhưng nó sẽ phai nhạt, và vào một ngày nào đó bạn thậm chí không nhìn thấy nó vì bạn quá bận rộn. Rồi sẽ có cả một tuần mà bạn chỉ thấy chiếc xe đứng đó, và sẽ có cả tháng trôi qua trong khi bạn đang du lịch khắp thế giới và bạn không còn chắc chắn nữa rằng lần cuối cùng bạn lái nó là khi nào. Và những điều này là khi bạn quan sát chúng và thực sự nhận ra rằng đó là sự thật. Đây là cách mà sự phát triển của những thứ với sự sở hữu diễn ra. Ngay từ đầu, luôn luôn giống như bạn muốn có, bạn muốn có, rồi sau đó chúng sẽ phai nhạt. Thế rồi, khi bạn thâm nhập vào loại tư duy này, thực sự hiểu rằng muốn có là một phần, và rồi nhận ra cuộc sống thực sự như thế nào, bạn có cần nó không, liệu nó có cần thiết không, bạn có đủ khả năng để có nó không, thì đó là phần thứ hai. Điều này chỉ mở ra một cách nhìn khác và rồi bạn tự quyết định cho chính mình. Nhưng xem xét liệu một cái gì đó có chi phối bạn hay bạn có thể sở hữu một cái gì đó mà không quá gắn bó với nó liên quan rất nhiều đến tất cả những điều này: Từ vị trí nào bạn đã mua nó? Bạn đã đạt được nó từ đâu? Và điều thứ hai là bạn thực sự đã dành bao nhiêu thời gian với nó? Điều thứ hai trong năm trở ngại là lòng ác cảm, một cảm xúc tiêu cực như sự không thích ngăn cản bạn theo đuổi mục tiêu. Bạn có thể cho tôi một số bối cảnh về điều này không? Bạn có ý gì khi nói về lòng ác cảm? Bạn biết đấy, tôi làm cho nó cực kỳ đơn giản khi nói về năm trở ngại. Thực sự nó như thế này: bất cứ điều gì xuất hiện trong cuộc sống của chúng ta, nếu tôi đặt ra mục tiêu ngay bây giờ, những gì bạn không nên làm là chứng kiến một cái gì đó. Và bây giờ nếu bạn có như là khao khát số một, khao khát cảm giác, điều chúng ta thường làm là chúng ta bắt đầu kéo mọi thứ về phía mình. Đó là điều thứ nhất. Điều thứ hai mà không nên làm, đây là điều mà tất cả thuộc về gia đình không phán xét. Khi lòng ác cảm xuất hiện trong cuộc sống của bạn, một điều gì đó mà bạn chứng kiến, bạn gặp một người mà bạn không muốn gặp, bạn nhận được một thông điệp mà bạn không muốn đọc. Bất kể đó là gì, và bạn cố gắng tránh nó bằng cách thực hiện những hành động nhằm xô đẩy nó ra xa khỏi bạn. Cuối cùng, điều đó có nghĩa là đừng làm điều nào trong số đó vì bất cứ điều gì bạn cố gắng giữ lại, bản chất của sự vật là nó đang xảy ra, và nó sẽ bị xô đẩy ra xa khỏi bạn. Và bất cứ điều gì bạn cố gắng để tránh và đẩy xa khỏi bạn, như gần gũi với bạn, nó sẽ kéo gần lại với bạn. Được không? Điều này cũng có nghĩa là theo cách mà nó được biểu đạt: đừng chạm vào nước nếu bạn không muốn có một cuộc sống quá lo lắng. Đừng chạm vào nước vì ngay khi bạn chạm vào, sự chạm vào của bạn là sự khởi đầu để những gợn sóng xuất hiện. Tương tự như vậy, nếu bạn muốn theo đuổi mục tiêu đó, bạn muốn có nó dễ dàng thì đừng chạm vào bất kỳ thứ nước nào thêm dọc theo mục tiêu của bạn. Đừng chạm vào nó vì bạn thích một điều gì đó và đừng chạm vào nó vì bạn không thích một điều gì đó. Bởi vì khi bạn đi về phía mục tiêu và bạn thực hiện ở đây, ở đó và ở kia, bạn chỉ đang làm gợn sóng toàn bộ môi trường xung quanh bạn, điều này cuối cùng có nghĩa là năng lượng của bạn chỉ đang quay trở lại khỏi mục tiêu ban đầu của bạn. Đó là cách tôi sẽ nói điều này, rằng lòng ác cảm là một trong những cách thể hiện rằng bạn không thích một điều gì đó và rồi bạn đầu tư năng lượng vào đó. Bạn thích một cái gì đó và nó thu hút năng lượng của bạn quay trở lại đó. Và lòng ác cảm cũng tương tự trong danh mục này, thuộc về ý tưởng không nên đẩy hay kéo. Khi bạn trở nên nổi tiếng hơn và bạn có hàng triệu hàng triệu lượt xem trên internet, bài nói chuyện TED của bạn, tôi nghĩ từ một trong những liên kết mà tôi thấy có khoảng 20 triệu lượt xem, và nó có thể đã có hàng chục triệu lượt xem khác nữa trên internet. Sẽ có ngày càng nhiều người gửi cho bạn tin nhắn, tương tác với bạn và nói những điều tuyệt vời, những điều không tuyệt vời. Chúng ta-back từ mọi người, khi bạn nghĩ về cách bạn quản lý điều đó và bạn quản lý ý kiến của những người khác về bạn, liệu điều này…
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    trong
    truyền thống Shaolin
    trước khi
    một người nào đó
    gia nhập
    bây giờ
    hãy nói
    vào
    ngôi đền

    muốn
    học
    từ đó
    trước hết
    chúng tôi
    cũng như
    những người thầy
    muốn
    tìm hiểu
    tính cách
    của nhân cách
    đó
    đã sở hữu
    những gì rồi
    vâng
    và đây là ví dụ
    cái mà chúng tôi
    đang tìm kiếm
    cuối cùng

    các đức tính
    được mong đợi
    các đức tính
    được mong đợi

    ví dụ
    kiểm soát bản thân
    một lượng nhất định
    của
    kiểm soát bản thân
    một
    mức độ nhất định
    của
    kỷ luật
    vì vậy
    kiểm soát bản thân
    có nghĩa là gì
    trong ngữ cảnh này
    nếu tôi
    có khả năng kiểm soát bản thân
    tôi
    là ai
    bạn không
    để cho
    cảm xúc của bạn
    lấn át
    bạn
    không
    ngay cả khi
    một điều gì đó
    khiến bạn
    giận dữ
    nhưng
    trong ngữ cảnh
    này
    thì không
    đáng kính
    không
    tôn trọng
    để bây giờ
    kêu gào
    bạn
    không nên
    làm như vậy
    được rồi
    bạn nên
    có khả năng
    duy trì
    trạng thái cảm xúc
    của bạn
    duy trì
    cơn giận của bạn
    hãy nói
    cũng
    ít nhất
    đến một
    mức độ nhất định
    đây là
    nơi tôi sẽ
    nói
    nó liên quan đến
    kiểm soát bản thân

    cái thứ hai
    bạn đã nói
    là kỷ luật
    vì vậy
    kỷ luật
    nghĩa là
    bạn có
    như tôi đã nói
    ngay cả khi
    nó được gọi là
    các đức tính
    để được mong đợi
    mong đợi
    nghĩa là
    chúng nên
    được thể hiện
    bằng một cách nào đó
    nhưng
    không đến
    mức tối đa
    của những gì
    mọi người
    có thể
    làm
    được rồi
    kỷ luật
    chỉ đơn giản
    nghĩa là
    hiểu rằng
    nếu bạn
    đến
    cuộc sống
    trong ngôi đền
    bạn biết
    nó sẽ
    khó khăn
    để thức dậy
    mỗi ngày
    vào cùng
    một thời gian
    và sau đó
    bắt đầu
    đi qua
    cấu trúc
    hàng ngày
    vì vậy
    nó cần có
    một loại
    cam kết
    hãy nói
    nó cần có
    một loại
    tôi biết
    nó khó
    nhưng
    tôi sẵn lòng
    làm điều đó
    đây là
    một loại
    kỷ luật
    vâng
    điều này
    cũng
    theo một cách nào đó
    được mong đợi

    một điều nữa
    đơn giản là
    hãy từ bi
    cũng vậy
    vì vậy đó là
    tình yêu thương
    và lòng nhân ái
    đối với
    các anh chị em
    của bạn
    kiểu như
    nó kết nối
    đúng không
    các đức tính
    thỉnh thoảng
    chen chúc
    vào nhau
    nhưng
    ý tưởng này
    tại sao
    chúng ta
    có những
    đức tính này
    ngay từ đầu
    một lần nữa
    nó giống như
    trong Star Wars
    năng lượng
    mà bạn đang học
    cách trồng trọt
    năng lượng
    các kỹ năng
    mà bạn đang học
    đó là
    những điều rất
    rất mạnh mẽ
    vâng
    nhưng
    điều nào
    đem lại sự khác biệt
    giữa
    một người
    sở hữu
    quyền lực này

    sử dụng nó
    vì lợi ích
    của nhân loại
    hay
    một người
    sử dụng nó
    không
    để cải thiện
    nhân loại
    đó là
    tính cách
    quyền lực là
    giống nhau
    nó là
    tính cách
    nó là người
    mang
    quyền lực
    nó là
    người chịu trách nhiệm
    giữ gìn
    quyền lực này
    để duy trì
    quyền lực này
    mà một người
    cũng phải
    được đào tạo

    đây là
    nơi
    các đức tính
    bắt đầu
    các đức tính
    đang xây dựng
    khung cấu trúc
    của nhân cách
    của
    avatar
    cuối cùng là
    nhận được
    tất cả
    các loại
    đào tạo
    kỹ năng
    đào tạo

    chúng tôi
    thì
    ít nhất
    trong
    truyền thống Shaolin
    chúng tôi sẽ
    nói
    nó tốt
    để
    biết chúng
    cũng tương tự
    như trong
    kinh doanh
    thực sự
    tôi đã nhìn vào
    nhiều
    các đức tính này

    tôi nghĩ
    chúng đều là
    những thứ
    mà chúng tôi
    đang tìm kiếm
    trong một
    thành viên tốt
    của nhóm
    vì vậy
    kỷ luật
    kiểm soát bản thân
    khiêm tốn
    từ bi
    khiêm nhường
    tôn trọng
    chính trực
    tin tưởng
    tận tụy
    ý chí
    kiên trì
    bền bỉ
    courage

    kiên nhẫn
    cuối cùng
    như tôi đã nói
    trước đó
    trong
    văn bản truyền thống
    Shaolin
    được chia thành
    14
    các đức tính khác nhau
    bốn trong số đó
    được mong đợi
    năm đức tính
    hành động khác
    năm đức tính
    trong tâm trí
    chỉ đơn giản
    khi bạn
    sẽ
    sau này
    bay qua

    một lần nữa
    các đức tính
    của hành động
    có nghĩa là gì
    các đức tính
    của hành động

    bạn nên
    hành xử như thế nào
    bạn nên
    hành xử như thế nào
    hành xử
    một cách trung thành
    hành xử
    một cách đáng tin
    hành xử
    một cách tôn trọng
    hành xử
    một cách dũng cảm
    vì vậy
    đây là
    cách bạn nên
    làm một cái gì đó

    các đức tính
    của tâm trí
    ví dụ
    họ nói
    điều gì
    nuôi dưỡng
    cách
    để bạn
    biến
    các đức tính
    của hành động
    thành thực tế
    là như thế nào
    làm thế nào
    bạn có thể
    học cách
    hành xử
    tôn trọng
    bởi vì
    tất nhiên
    nếu
    mọi người
    thích
    xúc phạm
    bạn
    bạn không
    hành xử
    tôn trọng
    đối với
    họ
    vâng
    vậy làm thế nào
    bạn có thể
    vẫn hành xử
    tôn trọng
    vẫn
    trung thành
    với
    mọi người
    làm thế nào
    bạn làm điều đó
    tốt
    thì đây là
    nơi mà

    sẽ
    đến
    với
    các đức tính
    của tâm trí
    để thực sự
    học cách
    kiên nhẫn
    để thực sự
    biết
    cái gì
    có nghĩa là
    có tính kiên trì
    để kiên trì
    trong suốt
    đào tạo của bạn

    đây cuối cùng
    là cách
    tôi sẽ
    miêu tả
    để dễ
    hiểu
    bạn có
    tin vào
    một vị thần
    hay
    bạn có
    tin vào
    một tôn giáo
    nếu
    ai đó
    hỏi
    bạn
    bạn theo
    tôn giáo nào
    câu trả lời
    của bạn
    sẽ là gì
    Tôi sẽ gọi
    đó là
    tôn giáo
    của sự
    thống nhất
    tôn giáo
    của sự
    thống nhất
    tôn giáo
    của
    tôi
    tin rằng
    chúng ta
    được kết nối
    theo một cách nào đó

    đó là hành trình
    của tôi
    tôi không muốn
    chỉ
    trí thức hóa

    tôi
    thực sự nghĩ
    đó là
    con đường
    là lật lại
    và loại bỏ
    tất cả
    các ma sát

    tất cả
    các trở ngại
    để chỉ
    nhận ra
    rằng
    nó là như thế
    vâng
    điều này
    có thể cũng
    như là
    một điểm
    rất
    cần thiết
    trong suốt
    dòng chảy
    đầy đủ

    một người nào đó
    đọc
    cuốn sách
    hay
    một người nào đó
    xem
    tất cả
    các loại
    kênh YouTube
    tôi tự
    luôn lớn lên
    trong
    nhu cầu
    đạt được
    một cái gì đó
    để
    thêm
    một cái gì đó
    trên
    cuộc sống của tôi
    truyền thống này
    toàn bộ
    truyền thống
    tôi đang nói.
    It seems like your provided text is excessively long and exceeds the limits for translation in one go. Please allow me to break it down and translate it in smaller segments. Here is the first part:

    **Translation:**
    Trên thực tế, đúng là hoàn toàn ngược lại. Đó là lý do tại sao trong những video hoặc bài viết mới nhất, tôi thường đề cập rằng thực sự không có gì tôi có thể cho ai đó. Không phải là bạn đang thiếu điều gì trong cuộc sống của bạn. Tôi nhớ rằng bạn không thiếu thốn, mà là trong khoảnh khắc, nơi mà cảm giác như chúng ta đang gặp nhau, và tôi cho bạn điều gì đó khi bạn thậm chí còn nghĩ rằng tôi đang cho bạn điều gì đó và bạn sắp nhận được điều gì đó. Đó không phải là trạng thái tâm trí đúng đắn. Tôi không có gì để cho bạn. Điều duy nhất mà tôi thực sự cố gắng làm là lấy đi những thứ từ bạn, lấy đi những điều đang che phủ bạn khiến bạn không thấy rằng bạn đã hoàn thiện. Những điều gì có xu hướng che phủ chúng ta mà cần phải được lấy đi? Tất cả mọi thứ xây dựng danh tính, mọi thứ xây dựng một danh tính mạnh mẽ hơn. Tất cả những gì bạn giữ lại từ quá khứ trong tâm trí bạn. Càng giữ lại quá khứ trong tư duy, danh tính của bạn càng mạnh mẽ. Tôi nghĩ đây là một mối tương quan, mà cũng xảy ra song song. Càng giữ lại các yếu tố quá khứ trong tâm trí, khả năng bạn thoát khỏi tương lai càng giảm, và mở ra cho những khả năng mà cuộc đời này có thể vẫn còn dành cho bạn.
    Bạn có hạnh phúc không? Đó là một câu hỏi khó. Tôi không tìm kiếm hạnh phúc, tôi tìm kiếm sự bình yên. Vì vậy, trạng thái mà tôi đang nhắm tới, tôi sẽ nói đó là bình yên. Bởi vì hạnh phúc với tôi là điều bạn đang lấy đi bởi từ này. Nếu có hạnh phúc, thì có sự buồn bã. Nếu một điều gì đó có thể nổi lên, một điều gì đó phải phải rơi xuống. Nếu bạn có thể đạt được một điều gì đó, thì cũng có điều gì đó để mất. Đó là lý do tại sao nó khó khăn. Đó là lý do tại sao tôi dừng lại. Tôi không biết bạn đang nói về loại hạnh phúc nào. Bạn hài lòng với nơi bạn đang đứng? Vâng, có nghĩa là, tôi không có những khoảnh khắc khó khăn? Tôi có những khoảnh khắc khó khăn, và đó là lý do tại sao với tôi, những điều tôi tìm kiếm cuối cùng. Tôi sẽ gọi đó chỉ là bình yên.
    Bạn có trong trạng thái bình yên hơn không? Có, ngày càng nhiều. Vậy những gì cản trở sự bình yên của bạn? Tôi sẽ gọi đó là các mối quan hệ nghiệp báo, các kết nối nghiệp báo mà bạn chỉ nghĩ rằng bạn không thể tránh né chúng. Bạn không thể còn tránh né chúng nữa.

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    Here is the translated text in Vietnamese:
    bản thân tôi
    làm thế nào
    ai đó
    thậm chí
    đầu tư
    cuộc đời
    của anh ấy
    đứng

    đặt
    bản thân
    vào
    một
    vị trí như vậy
    tốt
    thì chắc chắn
    phải có
    một lý do
    tại sao
    trong
    thời cổ đại
    điều này
    được giữ
    như một
    thực hành bí mật
    để ở
    như thế này

    kể từ khi
    tôi
    phát hiện ra
    điều này
    tôi
    phải
    nói rằng
    nó không
    phải là
    điều này
    ở một thời điểm nào đó
    con khỉ
    ngồi
    được gọi là
    đây là một
    thực hành
    xây dựng
    cái mà
    chúng ta
    gọi là
    năng lượng
    làm thế nào
    bạn
    xây dựng
    năng lượng
    bằng cách
    cho tâm trí
    bạn
    một điều gì đó
    nơi
    bạn
    cần

    sức mạnh ý chí
    để
    duy trì

    sức mạnh ý chí

    phát triển
    năng lượng
    đi
    song hành
    với
    nhau
    ý chí
    sống
    ý chí
    tiếp tục
    ý chí
    ý chí
    mạnh mẽ
    ý chí sắt đá
    năng lượng
    cũng
    rất
    cao

    vì vậy
    một số
    tư thế
    này
    rất
    đòi hỏi
    trên
    cơ thể
    rằng
    để
    duy trì
    vị trí này
    bạn
    phải

    ý chí
    bạn
    cần
    tạo
    ra
    điều gì đó
    về
    bản thân
    mình
    nơi
    bạn
    đang
    đẩy
    bản thân
    mình

    đây là
    khi
    chúng ta

    thời gian
    tôi
    sẽ
    cho bạn
    thấy
    bài tập

    đây là
    lý do
    tại sao
    tôi
    làm
    điều đó
    vậy
    điều đó
    quan trọng
    như thế nào
    với
    cuộc sống
    của mọi người
    khi
    thực hiện
    những điều
    khó khăn
    bạn
    có nghĩ
    rằng

    điều đó
    rất
    dễ
    không
    làm
    những điều
    khó khăn
    trong
    thế giới
    tiện nghi

    chúng ta
    đang sống
    khi
    tôi
    nhắc đến


    sau đó
    bạn
    trực tiếp
    nhìn
    lên
    theo
    cách
    của tôi
    hoặc
    bất kỳ
    chuyên gia nào
    người
    sau đó
    thực hiện
    loại
    đào tạo
    này
    tất nhiên

    vượt
    qua
    khả năng
    của
    bất kỳ
    người bình thường nào
    nhưng
    không
    phải
    bạn
    cần
    học

    làm
    những thứ
    khó khăn
    như
    thế này
    nhưng
    một điều

    chắc chắn
    cuộc sống
    này
    sống
    một cuộc đời
    như
    một
    con người
    chắc chắn
    không
    dễ
    hãy
    nói
    như thế này
    sống
    cuộc đời
    này
    không
    dễ
    càng
    nhiều
    mong ước
    bạn

    càng
    khó
    khăn

    trở thành
    càng
    tham vọng
    bạn
    sẽ
    phải
    đối mặt
    vì vậy
    điểm mấu chốt

    tôi
    nghĩ
    rằng
    trong
    khoảnh khắc

    bạn
    chỉ
    thường xuyên
    đặt
    bản thân
    mình
    một cách
    có ý thức

    tự nguyện
    vào
    những
    tình huống
    khác nhau

    hoàn cảnh
    khác nhau

    thực sự
    đại diện
    một chút
    cho
    cấu trúc
    của
    cuộc sống

    những khoảnh khắc
    trong
    cuộc đời này
    khi
    bạn
    sẽ
    cảm thấy
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    Below is the translated text in Vietnamese:
    kỹ năng liên quan đến lĩnh vực võ thuật, vì vậy tôi muốn phát triển điều này. Những người khác muốn phát triển doanh nghiệp của họ. Tôi nghĩ rằng có điều gì đó tương tự trong cách xây dựng khi tôi phát triển cơ thể của mình. Làm thế nào để tôi thực sự phát triển? Làm thế nào để tôi khiến cơ thể mình phát triển? Điều đó chỉ xảy ra nếu tôi tìm ra một cách liên tục để tạo áp lực cho cơ thể mình tiếp xúc với những tình huống ngoài vùng an toàn mà tôi đã biết, nếu không thì không gọi là phát triển. Nếu tôi mỗi ngày chỉ làm những thứ mà cơ thể đã biết cách làm, thì không có gì đang phát triển. Ý tưởng hiểu rõ vùng an toàn của cơ thể mình, sau đó một cách thường xuyên, rất ít, không nhất thiết phải là một bước nhảy lớn, nhưng rất ít mở rộng vùng an toàn này cho đến khi cơ thể tự nhiên coi đó là thói quen trong việc nâng cao tiêu chuẩn về nơi vùng an toàn của bạn thực sự là, luôn luôn một chút, luôn luôn một chút, luôn luôn một chút. Nhưng điều này chỉ có thể, theo tôi nghĩ, bằng cách vượt qua giới hạn của bạn. Nhưng bây giờ, đến điều mà bạn có thể vượt qua giới hạn bằng cách thực sự phóng đại và có nguy cơ bị chấn thương, hoặc bạn làm cho ý tưởng vượt qua giới hạn trở nên có ý thức, cẩn thận, nhưng vẫn vượt qua giới hạn theo một cách có kiểm soát. Hãy nói rằng bạn biết đó là giới hạn bây giờ, nhưng cùng lúc đó, vào một thời điểm nào đó, bạn cũng nhận ra rằng cơ thể của chúng ta, tâm trí của chúng ta thật thông minh. Trước đây, khi chúng ta kéo dãn, vào một thời điểm nào đó, bạn cảm thấy như mọi thứ sắp rách ra, nhưng tôi biết và đó là lý do nếu chúng ta kéo dãn ngay cả khi bạn nói nó đau, tôi biết chúng ta vẫn có thể làm thêm. Bạn nghĩ, nhưng tôi chỉ biết bởi vì bạn thông minh rằng trước khi có điều gì nghiêm trọng thực sự xảy ra, nó sẽ báo cho bạn rất sớm rằng hãy cẩn thận. Và việc phát hiện ra giới hạn thực sự nằm ở đâu, đó là điều tạo ra sự khác biệt. Có một giới hạn, đúng vậy, nhưng giới hạn này vẫn có một khoảng mà chúng ta vẫn có thể di chuyển bên trong. Đúng vậy, và tôi thực sự nghĩ rằng điều này như một đường thẳng chung áp dụng cho mọi thứ nếu bạn muốn phát triển và từng bước một. Khi bạn thực hiện điều đó, vùng an toàn sẽ mở rộng. Thế thì, làm thế nào điều gì mới có thể bước vào cuộc sống của bạn? Chà, chỉ có một cách, chính xác là con đường mà nhiều người cũng đang sợ hãi ngay bây giờ: bước vào điều chưa biết. Nhưng đó chính xác là điều mà nó là. Nếu chiếc bàn này là vùng an toàn của chúng ta và bạn chỉ ở lại đây, bạn sẽ không bao giờ biết những con đường của London đẹp như thế nào. Nếu bạn chỉ ở lại đây, bạn cần phải đi vào điều chưa biết, bạn cần phải từ từ bước đi để tìm lối thoát. Nhưng điều đó có nghĩa là việc bước vào điều không chắc chắn không phải là điều xấu. Đối với tôi, tôi thực sự rất vui mừng về việc sự không chắc chắn tồn tại trong thế giới này, vì tôi không thể tưởng tượng được sự tẻ nhạt sẽ như thế nào nếu tôi đã biết chắc chắn tôi sẽ ở đâu trong 20 năm tới.
    Có điều gì thực tế mà một người có thể làm để cải thiện việc bước ra khỏi vùng an toàn của họ không? Bởi vì trong cuộc sống hàng ngày của chúng ta, bước ra khỏi vùng an toàn có thể chỉ đơn giản là giơ tay lên trong một cuộc họp hoặc thực hiện một bài nói trước công chúng hoặc bắt đầu một trang Instagram cho những chiếc bánh cupcake của chúng ta, hoặc nó có thể là học cách chạy. Điều bước nhỏ đầu tiên mà một người nên thực hiện để phát triển thói quen đó là gì? Một số người nói chỉ cần bắt đầu đọc. Tôi nghĩ rằng những người thích đọc là điều mà bạn luôn tìm kiếm điều gì mới để học hỏi, luôn nhận ra rằng những điều có khả năng vẫn được khám phá lớn hơn nhiều so với những gì bạn nghĩ bạn biết. Và điều đó có nghĩa là cách bạn cũng mô tả nó bây giờ, đúng chính xác với 20 lần trước đó bạn đã giữ im lặng, lần tiếp theo bạn đã giơ tay lên. Dù là gì đi nữa, hãy đừng ở lại trong những mô hình cũ, hãy phá vỡ chu kỳ. Đây là nơi mà tôi sẽ nói rằng có một tiềm năng lớn nằm trong điều giữ chân chúng ta lại, đó là nỗi sợ. Đúng vậy, làm thế nào để chúng ta vượt qua nỗi sợ đó? Vậy tôi có không sợ hãi không? Không. Tôi có sợ rất nhiều thứ không? Không. Tôi thực sự nghĩ rằng chỉ có một điều cuối cùng giúp bạn thoát khỏi nỗi sợ, đó là tìm một con đường và tỉnh thức khỏi giấc mơ đó. Bạn không coi mọi thứ quá nghiêm trọng trong cuộc đời này để chỉ cần thay đổi. Hãy đặt nó như thế này: thay đổi góc nhìn, hợp lý hóa mọi thứ nếu bạn thích, nó tương tự như nỗi sợ và lo lắng. Đúng vậy, ít nhất khi tôi nhìn vào những lo lắng mà tôi đã có trong tháng vừa qua. Chà, chắc chắn 80% – 90% tất cả các lo lắng đều không xảy ra ngay từ đầu. 10% có thể bằng cách nào đó đã trở thành sự thật, nhưng sau đó tôi lại tự hỏi mình rằng điều gì đó mà tôi có thể làm về nó. Đến khi kết luận, không có gì cả. Không có gì cả. Và rồi điều gì đó thật sự đã bắt đầu chuyển động bên trong tôi, nơi tôi đã buông bỏ điều gì đó, buông bỏ ý tưởng rằng mọi thứ là như thể nó theo một hướng duy nhất. Rằng mọi thứ mà bạn sẽ gặp phải trong cuộc sống này sẽ đẹp đẽ. Mọi thứ trong cuộc sống này sẽ bình yên. Mọi người mà bạn sẽ gặp trên hành trình của bạn sẽ có lòng tốt đối với bạn. Không, không phải như vậy. Bởi vì trong khoảnh khắc mà bạn có những người có lòng tốt, bạn có những người có ý xấu. Và trong khoảnh khắc có thành công, nơi bạn muốn trở thành một phần của câu chuyện thành công, bạn sẽ trở thành một phần của câu chuyện thất bại. Và trong khoảnh khắc mà bạn muốn trở thành một phần của câu chuyện ánh sáng, bạn sẽ trở thành một phần của câu chuyện bóng tối. Đây là cách mà nó diễn ra. Đây chính là thế giới của sự sinh ra và…
    Here is the translation of the provided text into Vietnamese:
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    của
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    lý do
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    Tôi gọi đó có thể là nhỏ, nhưng hóa ra không nhỏ chút nào, vì tôi lớn lên trong truyền thống Á Đông này với những loại niềm tin, nghi lễ hoặc lễ hội khác nhau mà chúng tôi thực hiện. Một trong những điều này là khi cha tôi còn nằm trong bệnh viện, khi mà rõ ràng chỉ còn vài ngày cho đến khi ông qua đời, thì ông cũng đã nói với tôi, chỉ vì tôi là người duy nhất có thể làm điều đó. Ông đã nói: “Đừng khóc cho tôi,” vì ông không thể nói điều đó với mẹ tôi, bà không thể chịu đựng được. Ông cũng không thể nói điều đó với anh trai tôi. Nhưng vì tôi tin vào truyền thống, lý do không khóc khi cha tôi qua đời là vì chúng tôi nghĩ rằng cơ thể vẫn ở đây, cơ thể qua đời, linh hồn được tự do. Và khi linh hồn nhận ra rằng tất cả các con trai đều có mặt, gia đình họ đang khóc, linh hồn theo cách nào đó vẫn bị ràng buộc với cõi này, ràng buộc với cõi đất. Để giúp cha tôi thực sự tiến lên nhanh hơn, đó là lý do tại sao đôi khi rất quan trọng để không thể hiện bất kỳ nỗi đau buồn nào vào lúc một người thân yêu như vậy qua đời. Thế nhưng, tất cả những điều này, bạn biết đấy, đã dành rất nhiều năm cho cha tôi, rồi ông không còn ở đó để nhận ra điều đó, rồi không thể khóc và ở trong tất cả những lĩnh vực rất khó khăn này, và luôn luôn như đạt được nhiều hơn mong đợi, không vấn đề gì làm việc 16 giờ mỗi ngày, nói rằng: “Đây là tất cả những điều đã làm cho tôi có thể ở nơi tôi đang có bây giờ.” Nhưng cùng lúc đó, tôi cảm thấy rằng đặc biệt trong khoảnh khắc bây giờ, khi con trai tôi bắt đầu đến và tất cả những điều này, tôi cảm thấy có rất nhiều thứ bị chặn lại, có rất nhiều điều vẫn cần được giải phóng cho sake của con tôi.
    Và, bạn cần gì và khi nào bạn cần nó, tôi gọi đó là sự công nhận. Sự công nhận từ cha tôi vào một lúc nào đó, để cuối cùng nói rằng: “Bạn đã làm tốt.” Là đủ, nhưng đã không đến đến hôm nay, vì vậy tôi vẫn tiếp tục cố gắng. Tôi chưa bao giờ nghe điều đó từ cha tôi, từ mẹ tôi cũng không nghe được, có thể là theo một cách khác, nhưng tôi nghĩ rằng đó là sự công nhận của cha mà bạn có thể đang tìm kiếm. Vì vậy, đây là những điều chắc chắn hình thành nhân cách của tôi. Chắc chắn nhiều người sẽ có thể đồng cảm theo cách riêng của họ và có thể cha mẹ của họ giờ đã qua đời hoặc không còn bên cạnh. Vì vậy, tôi tự hỏi liệu có cách nào để nghe điều đó từ chính mình? Vâng, có, và một lần nữa, điều này dẫn đến thực tế rằng đôi khi rất hữu ích để thực sự ngắt kết nối với thế giới, tách biệt thế giới ra khỏi bạn và dành thời gian cho bản thân, và thực sự tạo ra những gì bạn nghĩ mình đang thiếu. Tạo ra nó vì bạn là người tạo ra nó.
    Điều đó là đúng, tôi thực sự nghĩ rằng khi chúng ta đang nói về điều này ngay bây giờ, tất nhiên, chúng ta có thể nói rằng điều tôi đang tìm kiếm từ cha mình, thực tế là tôi sẽ không còn nghe điều đó từ ông nữa. Vì vậy, tôi cần phải nghe điều đó từ chính mình, và đây là nơi mà tất cả những thực hành và phương pháp mà nhiều chuyên gia giờ đây cũng nhấn mạnh đến. Dù bạn gọi chúng là gì, và những câu cụ thể nào mà nếu tôi, nếu tôi là cha bạn, bạn sẽ muốn tôi nói với bạn ngay bây giờ? Vâng, có thể là điều gì đó như: “Bạn đã làm tốt, bạn đã làm đủ rồi, tôi thấy những gì bạn đang làm, nhưng giờ hãy lấy lại năng lượng của bạn và dành nó cho con trai bạn, hãy cho nó mọi thứ mà bạn cảm thấy bạn chưa nhận được từ tôi.”
    Nếu bạn đã nghe những lời đó từ ông ấy, bạn nghĩ bạn sẽ thay đổi như thế nào? Tôi nghĩ sẽ có sự thay đổi, và tôi cũng nghĩ đã có sự thay đổi. Đây có thể là phần mà nhiều chuyên gia giờ đây sẽ nói rằng không nhất thiết phải là một lĩnh vực của tâm trí có ý thức. Tôi nghĩ rằng đây là những cuộc trò chuyện ngay bây giờ đang xử lý nhiều hơn với những gì được lưu trữ trong tiềm thức, trong tâm trí của chúng ta. Tôi nghĩ đây là nơi mà nó đóng vai trò, đặc biệt khi nó liên quan đến những mẫu hình xuất hiện. Nó không phải là có ý thức; khi bạn đủ tỉnh táo, bạn có thể điều chỉnh điều đó, mà bạn không biết là vẫn là một phần của cuộc sống bạn. Và nếu bạn không hỏi về cha tôi, tôi cũng không nghĩ đến ông ấy trong một tháng. Tất cả những điều này không là vấn đề gì, nhưng tôi vẫn nghĩ rằng đây là những lớp sâu mà chuyển tải rất nhiều điều một cách vô thức vào cách làm mọi thứ, vào cách nhìn nhận mọi thứ.
    Và đây là nơi mà tôi cảm thấy có lẽ sẽ giúp ích, bạn đã buồn vì sự ra đi của ông ấy chưa? Vâng, tôi nghĩ rằng ở một mức độ nào đó, trong 49 ngày, đó là khoảng thời gian mà người ta nói rằng đừng buồn vào thời điểm đó. 49 ngày sau đó, tôi đã buồn, nhưng có lẽ vẫn còn rất nhiều điều cần phải giải phóng. Bạn đã viết một quyển sách tuyệt vời mà mô tả con đường đến sự tự chủ, và đó là một cuốn sách thực sự biến đổi mà tôi rất khuyên mọi người nên xem. Tôi sẽ liên kết nó bên dưới.
    Khi chúng ta nói về sự tự chủ, bạn ngụ ý điều gì? Sự tự chủ là gì? Khi lớn lên, như tôi đã nói trong lĩnh vực võ thuật này, tôi đã gặp rất nhiều bậc thầy, tôi đã gặp rất nhiều đại sư, tôi luôn tìm kiếm những người hướng dẫn khác, tìm kiếm ai đó bên ngoài bản thân mình để làm người cố vấn, để làm người hướng dẫn cho tôi. Nhưng vào một lúc nào đó,
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    你對我說,打破這塊磚的關鍵不一定是力量,而是能夠真正專注。因此,你能否展示一下你是如何砸碎這塊磚的?夏宏毅大師是世界上最硬核的僧侶。他利用數十年的知識和技術幫助人們控制自己的思想,克服社會上最大的問題。這個世界充滿了如此多的選擇,以至於很難做出決定,該走哪個方向,什麼是正確的做法。因此,通過功夫訓練所發展的技能會帶來許多痛苦,其中涉及的方法和實踐可以讓你具備這樣的能力。但是,有五種障礙使你難以在心中保持你的目標。它們是感官欲望、惡意、遲鈍、不安以及自我懷疑。為了克服這五種障礙,你推薦四步 RAIN 方法。是的,這樣我會簡化它。我們當中很多人都生活在同樣的不快樂和痛苦的循環中。我在我的生活中也見證到了這一點,因為我覺得自己從來不夠好。我的父母給了我很大的壓力,讓我需要證明自己。因此,我做了所有這些方法和實踐,使我能夠達到現在的位置。我希望得到父親的肯定,但這並沒有發生。因為你的父親因癌症去世了。對。那麼,如何放下這一點,從而打破這種模式?我會給你展示一些方法。第一,我發現非常有趣的是,當我們查看 Spotify 和 Apple 以及我們的音頻頻道的後台時,大多數觀看這個播客的人還沒有點擊訂閱按鈕或跟隨按鈕,不論你是在什麼地方收聽。我想和你達成一個交易。如果你能給我一個很大的幫助,點擊那個訂閱按鈕,我將不知疲倦地努力,從現在開始一直到未來讓這個節目變得越來越好。我無法告訴你,當你點擊那個訂閱按鈕有多麼有幫助。節目變得更大,這意味著我們可以擴展製作,邀請你想看到的所有嘉賓,並繼續做我們熱愛的事情。如果你能在你收聽的地方給我這個小幫助,對我來說將意味著全世界。這是我唯一會請求你的幫忙。非常感謝你的時間。根據目前世界上發生的一切以及你致力於工作的事情,你目前的使命是什麼?為什麼現在這麼重要?我認為在這個世界上,總是存在著不同的流派和不同的力量,一種是引導人類向更美好的方向發展,另一種是引導人類走向毀滅。我認為存在一些智慧和知識,這些智慧和知識在當今社會中可以非常輕鬆地被利用,而不需要任何額外的幫助。你不需要去任何地方。你只需花些時間,反思自己,深入內心,找到那裡的答案,然後為自己決定你希望為生活的世界貢獻哪一部分和哪一類。最終,我認為這就是我所做的。你認為人們在什麼方面掙扎?因為有那麼多人寫信給你,發消息給你,來見你。他們在根本層面上掙扎的事情是什麼?我會說是多樣性和選擇。這個世界充滿了如此多的選擇,讓人難以抉擇該往哪個方向走,該做什麼是正確的,什麼是不正確的。但最終,只有你自己知道答案,這意味著回到關鍵點,更多地了解自己。這就是一切的開始。因為如果你對自己有錯誤的認知,你在這一生中的一切決策都不會朝著正確的方向前進。那麼,其他你每天聽到的現代人們在什麼方面掙扎呢?在如今這個數字化的世界,我們比以往更孤獨,心理健康似乎正在上升。他們告訴你什麼,或者透過他們的話你推斷出他們實際上在掙扎的基本問題是什麼?選擇、選擇過載和無法做出明確決定是第一位。因此,坦白說,我通常不太依賴人們告訴我的信息、他們的想法、他們的問題。我只是看著,就能看到我認為你需要什麼。而且,最重要的一點,也很簡單,沒有宗教成分,沒有信仰的問題。事實是,你沒有按照身體應有的方式使用它。非常簡單。是的,很多人一天中坐得太多。身體根本沒有活動。很多工作和能量的投入都是用心智進行的。而真正用於身體的能量投入則是少之又少。這在我看來意味著有不平衡。創造我們的那位並沒有創造我們來坐在一個地方思考。 我認為我們被創造出來的一部分原因就是要走出戶外,去做一些事情。而不利用我們的身體以應有的方式,會付出什麼代價呢?不平衡的能量可能轉化為焦慮,轉化為不滿,轉化為不斷尋找卻從不滿足。最常見的就是,沒有意識到你所擁有的時光是多麼珍貴。而是用幻想、夢想和不實際的假設來取代它們。意味著,每個人,甚至不論是佛教徒,亦或是少林,這都是常識。我們不知道明天是否會醒來。事情就是這樣。
    當然,我們有五年計畫、十年計畫。我們有短期計畫和中期計畫。事實上,我們不知道明天會不會醒過來。所以,我不想讓這聽起來像是負面的說法。只是活在當下,而不做計畫。這不是我想表達的意思。但這就是當今的挑戰。我們如何在願景和現實之間取得平衡?真實的。現在唯一真實的就是這一刻。對我們來說,這是真實的。我能感受到。你能聽到。你能察覺到。這是真實的。你幾乎把我的桌子弄壞了。我有點擔心。因為稍後你會向我證明,你可以用你的意志和身體的準備來打破這塊磚,而我覺得這真的非常有趣。因為我曾經試著把這塊磚砸在地上,但我做不到。所以你所說的所有事情,理解自己的身體和心智,並掌握它,但也要了解自己的肉體,我們將會知道你是否能打破這塊磚。在這一點上,我想談論一個相關的主題,那就是目的,如何規劃自己的人生。如果我們花太多時間思考未來而不是當下,那麼目的和對生活的遠大夢想如何融入這個方程式?我們是否應該有一個目的?如果是的話,我們又該如何找到它?所以,絕對有意識的領域。意識是一個龐大的領域。然後我們有科學。這是另一個非常非常大的領域。因此,有人提出問題,意識是創造物質,還是相反?哪一個是根本基礎?我們互動的基礎是什麼?事實是,不管有沒有科學,無論我們的進化是如何發展的,現在,我們就在這裡。你的身體,我的身體,我們就在這裡。這是我們此刻所擁有的一切。同時,根據目前這種生活方式,我們在這個身體裡不會再有超過五十年的時間了。所以很簡單。不用相信,沒有任何宗教的角度,再次強調,事實是,你現在所承載的生命是有限的。現在,想像一下,你將是你自己電影的導演。跳脫出自己,觀看你自己。此刻,你和謝洪毅坐在同一張桌子上,你在寫自己的故事。你想如何寫這個故事?你希望在這個播客之後感到不安、不安全、不被愛,感到對整個生活感到不滿、哭泣,還是像這樣?或者你想像在未來五十年裡,你想要的真正美好的生活是什麼樣子?所以,根據這一點,目的可以是不同的。你可以說,我喜歡旅行。我喜歡將這一生投入這個身體,至少讓我感覺到我能夠為周圍的兄弟姐妹們貢獻一些東西。這讓我感到,我醒來時,我喜歡這樣去做,這給了我目的。這是非常非常個人的東西。也意味著,以這種方式進行討論時,我不相信每個人都有相同的目的,但現在,還有另一種目的,對我來說,為什麼我認為我們一開始會被賦予這些可能性?從積極的角度來看,我認為這是一種祝福,能夠僅僅體驗。這是一種我們獲得的祝福,讓我們有可能簡單地體驗這個存在所能創造的一切,包括一切。包括喜悅,包括快樂,包括眼淚,包括心碎,所有這些。在不分彼此的情況下,無論你是否偏愛某一個領域。有時,一個和另一個是相伴而生的。但目的,在某種程度上,就是存在與體驗。唯一發生的事情,現在是很大一部分,是如果你過於認真看待當前的存在。如果你完全基於你認為自己是什麼樣子的來界定你的身份。但就像我說的,這只是一幅當下的畫面,是嗎?但有時,把事情簡化。跳出自己。成為導演。成為這個化身的導演。然後,它就會為你打開另一個視角。因為在那一刻,你會意識到這就像一部電影。並不是所有事情都總是積極的。但在掙扎的時刻。不要被困在自己的創造中。身份。身份。自我的幻覺。對此有不同的表達方式。這是一種非常有幫助的思維方式。我們這樣說吧。因為有這麼多人說他們正在為找到生活的意義而掙扎。或者他們感到沒有目的感。而且,你知道,我收到來自世界各地的許多信息,內容都是誠摯的,像是,“這就是我的生活嗎?就這樣嗎?”所以這也是你剛剛提到的一個重點。這就是了?難道沒有其他的嗎?這一直是一個伴隨我走過的課題。尤其是在過去的三、四年裡。隨著社交媒體的發展,社交媒體的算法也開始推動我們走向更外圍。接著更多的請求來了,要求舉辦工作坊、播客、在這裡教學、在那裡教學,參加電視節目,參與電影等等。當然,所有這一切都帶來了不同的機會,各種事情開始入侵我的生活。然而,在某個時刻,我真的不敢相信這應該就是我的目的。因為這一切仍然與行為有關,這種不斷的行動。是的。此時我感到在我的生命中,看著這一切,這不應該是我的目的。
    因此,我總是不斷尋找替代方案,特別是感覺到在你所說的過程中,實現某種成就,得到某種認可。
    是的。
    但這背後有另一面,是公眾所看不到的。
    有時候,我可能身邊圍著成千上萬的人,但仍然感到孤獨。
    這不是你所處的環境。
    而是你所連結的東西。
    在那裡我覺得,這種力量總是存在。
    究竟是什麼驅使著你呢?
    向外,向外,向外,你會失去自我。
    但這個自我是你在此生中唯一能給予你連結的東西。
    那麼,你需要與什麼連結呢?
    你提到過身邊有成千上萬的朋友卻感到孤獨。
    這真的和你所連結的有關。
    人需要與什麼連結呢?
    也許在回答你的問題之前,有一件事我想提前提到。
    當我上小學時,還有在學校的期間,我其實參加了基督教課程。
    所以,由於我的父母,我在佛教傳統中長大,這麼說吧。
    透過武術訓練,我也接觸了所謂的禪宗。
    因為我父親總是告訴我,看,兒子,我們在一個外國。
    你是一個外國人。
    擁有朋友總比有敵人來得好。
    因此,我總是與每個人交朋友。
    這意味著,我有很多俄羅斯朋友。
    我有很多阿拉伯朋友。
    我有很多土耳其朋友。
    多元文化的。
    也意味著,在某個時刻,我也接觸到了伊斯蘭教。
    底線是,將所有過去的知識帶入我的腦海。
    無論我現在從哪個角度看。
    我相信我們都有一個來源。
    這是一個來源。
    不管你稱這個來源是宇宙,
    還是稱這個來源是神,
    還是這個來源是無限的能量,我不知道。
    對此有很多不同的表達方式。
    但是當我看所有這些教導時,所有的教導總是指向同一件事情。
    讓我們以陰陽這個表達為例。
    是嗎?
    這是全世界大家都知道的符號。
    有句美好的話,陰陽有一位母親。
    母親有時候簡單被描繪為一個圓圈。
    所以,陰陽是二元性、極性、二之存在的表達。
    這兩者從何而來?
    它們必須來自於一。
    那麼簡單說,在我們的情況下,你在那裡,我在這裡,從一到二,我們從何而來?
    必須有一些東西作為我們的共同基礎。
    而這個來源是唯一能連結我們的。
    因為那不是你的家庭。
    也不是我的家庭。
    它們仍然是不同的。
    這還不夠。
    直面事實,我們都是人類。
    動物也是一樣。
    不論是誰,無論是什麼讓我們能在這裡。
    那就是同樣給你允許的人。
    那就是同樣給我允許和祝福的人。
    這正是我所認為的,這是心靈的層面。
    這是那種永遠不會讓你孤獨的連結層面。
    這正是我所說的。
    與來源連結。
    是的。
    現在,對於正在收聽此話題、感到困惑的人來說,他們在問,這個來源是什麼?
    你以很多潛在的方式來描述它。
    但我對它的描述是,這最終是我們的來源。
    這就是,這就是來源。
    對於那些可能不熟悉這個概念的人,有沒有更好的描述方式?
    首先,我無法不提及這個來源,並讓每個人都能理解。
    這已經是第一個非常非常困難的部分。
    因此,我的意圖從來不是去說,這是什麼?
    我唯一能做的就是提供一些指引。
    但最終,只有一個人能找到答案。
    而不是我替他人找到答案。
    每個人都會為自己找到答案。
    所以我認為,每個人類在其成長、發展的不同階段中,都處於不同的層次。
    並且每個人都會在他所處的時刻獲得他所需要的。
    這就是為什麼我認為每個人,在這個時刻,正好處於他需要的位置,以便下一個升華能夠發生。
    你唯一需要做的就是目前看看自己,找出是什麼讓你不快樂?
    在你生命中的這一刻,究竟是什麼束縛著你,限制你繼續前行?
    這對每個人都是相同的問題。
    但你最終需要解決的問題,則不同。
    在過去,我有時玩超級瑪利歐和路易吉。
    這是一樣的。
    如果你不完成第一關,你不會看到第二關。
    第二關的挑戰不會出現。
    第二關的最終大BOSS不會出現。
    首先,要完成第一關。
    但一旦第一關結束,你將不會再面對相同的挑戰。
    而在這條線上,有時這就像一個遊戲。
    不要太過認真。
    這有幫助。
    基於我們每個人面臨著各自不同的關卡挑戰,如果你必須嘗試總結出人們所苦惱的共同答案,那你認為這會是什麼?
    我在思考我的好朋友,因為有時候,走出自己,看看別人的情況會更容易。
    我在反思過去幾周與他們的對話,關於他們所掙扎的事情。
    我會將很多這些定義為想要。
    所以想要改善他們的業務,想要改善他們的情感狀況,尋找愛情。
    我會說,這一切的本質,痛苦似乎源於對無法抓住的東西的追求。
    但我想知道你是否有不同的看法。
    我現在想到的兩件事情。
    總是存在著做與存在之間的鬥爭。
    我會問,為什麼你要去做?
    那麼,為什麼呢?
    為什麼你想要付諸行動?
    大多數情況下,是有一個目標。
    那個目標。
    你為什麼會有那個目標?
    因為你希望獲得一些在當下明顯缺乏的東西。
    所以,從我的角度看,這種目標設定自動會被我視為,
    你的目標設定已經來自一種缺乏的空間。
    你覺得自己缺少了某些東西。
    這就是為什麼你需要去做。
    你覺得自己缺少了某些東西。
    這就是為什麼你需要自我教育。
    明白了嗎?
    所以這是一個方向。
    現在,也許回過頭來,聽起來又過於哲學。
    與源頭相連。
    對你來說,無可添加,亦無可減少。
    所以,顯然,當某人有這種非常非常高的抱負去做某事或達成某事時,
    那麼很可能,這並不是來自與源頭的連接。
    而是來自於想要滋養或創造一種身份的想法。
    一種代表了你想要代表的東西的身份,對吧?
    所以,這是一個區域。
    做與存在。
    然後第二件事就是最終與這種生活方式相輔相成的是,有一件事情在這個過程中被遺忘了。
    那就是,無論你創造了什麼,或者想要創造什麼,並現在開始獲得的東西。
    你的獲得最高限度將會持續一百年。
    這是另一個真相。
    所以,我相信人們完全明白我所說的。
    但現在又有鬥爭了。
    這種鬥爭,對,
    在這一方面,有很強的身份想要維持自己,
    而另一方面則是忘記你的身份。
    做你自己。
    就是這樣。
    無論你要獲得什麼,
    在你失去之後,你只擁有一百年。
    所以,只需要存在。
    不要過於強調你尚未擁有的東西。
    不幸的是,
    這種情況將會一直持續下去。
    不幸的是,總有三種方式讓你學習這個道理。
    有時候人們只是需要經歷去意識到,
    好的,
    我做到了。
    我明白了。
    現在我意識到
    我不需要這個。
    但是首先,
    你必須先擁有它。
    第一種學習方式。
    第二種學習方式。
    你信任某位老師。
    你信任某位引導者或導師。
    你只是複製他的生活方式。
    所以,
    你的方法是
    你只是複製,因為你看到
    顯然那個人過著美好的生活。
    所以,
    你只是複製。
    第二種學習方式。
    第三種學習方式是
    你可能有位老師或大師。
    他告訴你一些智慧的話。
    你思考它。
    你反思它。
    因為你在思考它,
    這已經把你置於
    另類的道路上,
    而不需要你自己去嘗試。
    所以,
    在這個世界上總會有人
    在這三個分類中。
    因為,
    你知道,
    簡單來說,告訴某人,
    看,不要把手放進火裡。
    他們仍然會去做。
    但當他們做了兩次、三次後,才會明白。
    但許多人永遠不會獲得他們所追求的東西。
    所以,
    你知道,有人可能會說,
    我想成為百萬富翁
    或我想擁有這款 Lamborghini 運動車。
    大多數有這些抱負的人
    從統計上來看將永遠無法達到。
    所以,
    他們會花一生
    僅僅在追求。
    他們永遠不會得到
    第一種道路的教訓
    在你嘗試的過程中,
    你意識到這一些。
    但也許
    這也是
    已經
    這個人生活中的教訓。
    你有這個目標
    在心中。
    你把所有的精力,
    所有的努力
    投入到
    試圖
    實現這個目標中。
    你二十歲。
    你在努力。
    你三十歲。
    你在努力。
    四十歲了。
    你仍然在努力。
    五十歲。
    你仍然沒有放下
    這個想法。
    好吧,
    在某個時刻,
    希望,
    你能看到
    這種毫無意義的方式
    你個人
    已經浪費了
    三十年
    在追隨一個目標中
    得出的兩個結論。
    第一,
    你還沒有實現它
    或者第二,
    你沒有正確的方法去實現它。
    但底線是
    你現在有兩種方式
    可選擇。
    放下你所認為需要的想法
    並重新引導
    你的生活
    或者
    重新引導你的
    方法
    去實現
    那個目標
    如果你不想放棄它的話。
    但顯然這兩件事情之一
    並不正確。
    而且越是
    你希望你的生活
    未來,
    與你習慣的
    截然不同,
    你就越需要
    能夠放下。
    放下模式,
    放下你在過去
    幾年和幾個月中的
    思維方式。
    現在,
    如果這一切
    都沒有改變,
    就不會出現新的生活。
    我們中許多人
    活在模式中,
    同樣的循環。
    我們最終得到
    相同的結果,
    而那些結果
    導致
    不幸
    和痛苦。
    我週末與一位朋友談論了
    我們另一位
    朋友的情況,
    他在某些模式中生活
    而找不到
    愛與陪伴,
    因為他們年輕時發生的一些事情。
    我想他們曾經受到過欺凌。
    所以他們有這種
    更深層的
    必須
    證明自己的感覺和不安全感。
    這種情況總是會出現,
    因為當他們
    遇見某人時,
    他們表現出
    一種假象,
    這樣的表現並不一定準確,
    然後
    很快,關係就結束了,
    因為一開始就不真實,
    但這個人
    現在意識到了這一點。
    但這種情況
    仍然一遍又一遍地出現。
    他們仍然
    在生活中重複著
    相同的模式,
    並且仍然
    得到相同的結果
    和不滿意。
    當我們思考早期創傷所導致的這種循環模式時,我想知道您是否有一些看法,關於如何讓人們擺脫這種模式,從而打破這種循環。所以讓我畫一幅畫。我是個四歲的小男孩,父母是亞洲裔,從越南或老撾的難民,意味著他們從戰爭中逃離,來到歐洲,來到德國,期望孩子能擁有更好的安全感,感覺到在德國比在他們自己國家更安全,沒有那種他們在自己國家目睹的動盪。因此,父母有這樣的想法,自然在早期就對我施加了很大的壓力,讓我在學校表現得很好,需要獲得成就,需要證明自己。這就是父母的教育。
    同時,在我四歲的時候,我進入了一所少林功夫學校,學習武術,而每個武術練習者可能都知道,老師和師傅通常不會告訴你,“哦,是的,你做得很好,非常好”,不,他們只是說,“好,更深,更快,更用力。”所以,總結來說,從四歲開始,我成長的過程中,我感受到的唯一一件事就是你永遠不夠好。無論我在成績上帶回家的結果如何,如果是B,那為什麼不是A;如果是A,為什麼不是A+?如果我已經做了100個伏地挺身,問題是那為什麼不做150?如果我已經很快了,那還是太慢了。所以不斷地感受到這種”永遠不夠”的狀態。
    好的,最終意味著,這一切都是在40年後我才能告訴你,但現在我能看見了。最終的意思是,某個時刻,這個小男孩開始簡單地建立起一個防護罩,建立一個這樣的防護罩,讓自己不再過度依賴別人對我的看法。也就是說,我開始完全依賴我自己對生活的看法。同時,建立起情感上的障礙和情感上的牆,沒有任何東西能夠穿透,同時也沒有任何東西可以對外表達。
    所以現在,我進入了人生中一個非常新的情況,需要考慮我所愛的人、伴侶、兒子的意見和情感狀態,我能感受到我舊有的模式有時仍在試圖偷偷進入。因此,唯一需要做的就是要打破這些模式。第一,你需要認識到你有一種模式。第二,你需要替換舊的模式,這最終意味著這些模式就是習慣行為,就是習慣。你如何建立習慣?通過不斷的行為模式,不斷地去做。
    因此,有關一致性和連續性的一些東西最終會建立一個模式。而這就是,比如說,在武術這個領域,正是這個所關於的。每天有一個訓練的日程,一種一致性。你知道,這樣是沒有幫助的,每週六天什麼都不做,然後有一天去健身房拼盡全力。更好的方法是你在整個一天中保持某種程度的一致性。這才是建立健康模式的方式。
    所以類似這樣,我會描述一下,某人應該怎麼做?首先,看向自己,認識自己。我們都不是完美的。但根據你目前面臨的情況,你想要用什麼來裝備自己的品格,以便能夠以最佳的方式度過當前的時期?哪些對你來說不再有用,嘗試擺脫它,並獲得新的技能?然後訓練那些。然後當然還要訓練這些新的模式。我們並不常思考訓練那些我們想要獲得的美德和我們想要的模式。我們總是認為必須選擇它們,然後就會全力以赴去生活。但我可能需要訓練一些新的行為的想法實在是很有說服力。因為你是對的,在任何身體發展的背景下,我需要去健身房,進行重複來建立那種力量。但我剛在思考的是,為某些我希望在生活中擁有的行為和新的模式創建一個訓練計畫,並試著每天去做,這並不是我曾經考慮過的事情。
    三個月前,你成為了一位年輕男孩的爸爸,是一位年輕兒子的父親。是的。所以你現在正處於養育一位男子的過程中。當前在英國、甚至廣泛的西方世界中,有很多關於成為一名男子以及如何培養男子的對話。我認為這些對話大多是由一些令人震驚的統計數字所引發的,這些數據顯示年輕男性在各種方面比以往任何時候都更加掙扎。我認為,45歲以下男性最大的殺手便是他們自己。此外,還有一種總體的目的感和無意義感,他們在學校中掙扎得比女性更多。一些預測預言,未來每兩位女性從大學或學院畢業,就只有一位男性會畢業。這真的很令人震驚。因此,當我思考您所希望的教養年輕男子的方式,以及年輕男性生活中所缺失的東西時,我想知道您是否有答案。
    從這一刻起,有一件事我可以告訴自己,當談到教育或者我與我兒子分享的內容時,我會絕對防止的。正如我所說,我感覺自己從來不夠總有額外需要完成的事情。因此,對我而言,對我的兒子來說,沒什麼需要去做,他也不需要去達成什麼。如果有的話,那就是保持聯繫。所以在這方面,我並不視自己為一個有責任塑造我兒子的人。不是的。我只是提供框架。我努力為我兒子提供最安全的框架。他可以嘗試任何他想嘗試的東西。如果他失敗了,他會自己學著再次站起來並繼續嘗試。所以,您知道,失敗然後繼續。我只是想把這個框架建立得越好越好,讓他感到安全,更好。但是,試錯是我確信的,這是你找到自己的方式。因此,肯定不是被寵壞,但同時也不會讓他感覺到不足。因此,最終我認為在現代的方式中,如何在所有這些依附理論中表達。非常簡單。當然,這是一種安全的方式,成為一個穩定、自我建立、自給自足的個體,知道自己的價值。為什麼?因為他失敗過並重新站起來。你認為為什麼這麼多年輕男性在掙扎?不管現在2025年出現什麼,這一切在2025年並沒有開始。無論現在出現什麼,有時它都是過去的處理方式、教育如何的結果,無論是過去的10年、20年,所以這不一定是目前這一代犯了錯誤的問題。這也是先前一代人錯過了什麼,未能繼續傳遞下去的問題,最終導致了我們現在所面臨的結果。因此,我認為這是一個多層次的問題。你在2020年發表的TED演講,幾乎是五年前,講述了五個障礙。那五個障礙是什麼?你將它們描述為五種阻礙我們前進的心理狀態。我們先建立背景。拿個符號。假設你有一個目標。你為自己設定了一個目標。不管那個目標是什麼。你的心智通常會專注於這個目標。這五個障礙簡單地描述為,有五種心理狀態會讓你難以將目標保持在心中。無論那個目標是什麼。第一個,比如說,稱作「感性渴望」。感性渴望的意思是,對於任何與你五種感官相關的愉悅感受,你過於敏感。當你看到美麗的東西時,你過於迅速地被吸引。當你聞到美味的氣味時,你過於迅速地被吸引。當你有身體接觸時,你過於迅速地分心。因此,第一個障礙的意思是,你已經失去目標,因為在一瞬間,某些愉悅的事物呈現在你面前,你的心智已經轉移了。所以,這意味著這第一種心理狀態僅僅表示要注意你很容易被吸引的東西。這並不是說這不好,也不是說這好。它只是說,在你希望達成目標的背景下,如何最快地達成目標,專注於你的精力。意味著要專注於心智。不要讓目標從心中消失。無論你從早上醒來到晚上做什麼,無論你做什麼,都要保持心中有目標。這是使這個目標成為現實的最快方法。
    第二點。簡單地說,你不喜歡不適。你不喜歡挑戰。你不喜歡艱難。在那次TEDx演講中,我描述了你就像在小路上走著,然後突然開始下雨,但你不喜歡雨。所以,與其繼續沿著小路走,你開始忙於思考你不喜歡的事情。這意味著你的心智又開始變移,失去了對目標的專注。所以這個想法,障礙一、障礙二,實際上可以這樣簡單地說。這是目標。有兩件事不應該做。花時間享受,不要這樣做,或者花時間拒絕事情不是你想象的那樣。這兩件事情。一是你追隨愉悅,另一是你拒絕任何挑戰。這兩件事情都是需要留意的,當然保持專注於小路上。
    我們談到這第一個感性渴望的障礙時,這就是紀律進入的地方嗎?紀律的概念,因為這個詞經常被使用,但經常缺乏清晰的定義,也缺乏明確的理解,如何獲得和表現紀律。因為當我想到需要我擁有紀律的事情時,正是這些渴望、五個城門、我想吃的東西、我想要的某種觸摸等等。因此,紀律是否重要呢?不。例如,在書中或甚至現在我們談論時,我們有五個障礙,我們有14個美德,我們有八條規則,我們在這裡有四條,在這裡有13條,還有16條。這是一個非常好的指導方針,因為它使我們人類有東西變得相當結構化。有四個步驟,有六個步驟,有五個步驟,無論如何。
    我想要表達的就是這樣,僅僅擁有自律在一開始也是沒有幫助的,若你本身不具備看見它、意識到它、理解它的能力。這意味著你有自律,但你可能從未意識到,當那種感官的渴望進入時,實際上是什麼時候在出現。你並沒有察覺到,因此如果你沒有這種意識,自律便無法幫助你。所以我認為思維中的不同品質會影響你如何恰當地調整自己。
    我在你提到意識的時候,想到我的朋友,我之前描述的那位展現相同模式的朋友。雖然他們可能意識到了這種模式,但他們可能會說,你知道,我有這個模式,我不相信他們意識到這種模式開始的那一刻,像是一個單一的觸發點,讓他們進入那個循環。所以我也在思考自己,有些我不喜歡的行為,雖然我知道它們,但在發生的時候,我可能沒有意識到這個模式已經開始了。有些人說了些什麼,或者發生了什麼事,然後你就陷入了那個模式,或者你在凌晨一點進冰箱拿東西,或是你被某些事觸發。因此,我在想是否有任何實踐來增強我們對那個觸發時刻的意識。
    例如,在這裡我非常感謝許多目前存在且自由可得的教導,例如透過社交媒體,包括呼吸練習、瑜伽等。如果你有一位合適的老師,我非常確信,這正是提高你對這個領域中我們所稱之為能量的某種事物的意識。假如你沒有意識到你自己內心的最深層,就像這樣子,如果有人侮辱你,就會發生這樣的情況,比如說有人侮辱了我,然後我就開始爆發。是的,但事實是,在某事爆炸之前,首先必須有東西被點燃,那微小的火焰必須已經點燃了。
    所以當我已經知道我將要見到的人,或許那已經是聽到他的名字之後,潛在爆炸的起點。是的,然後這就是小火焰開始存在的地方,然後你可以感覺到事情是被注入你身體中,當某些事物開始出現,因為如果火焰已經太大了,整個房子都在燃燒,你將無法以任何方式熄滅那場火。你只能在事情變得過於龐大之前,熄滅所有這些火。這意味著我們必須找到一種直接抓住根源、核心或爆炸源的方法。根據我所知道的唯一方法是,你需要對身體裡發生的一切、周遭的環境變得更加敏感。這就是對我而言,意識所起的作用。
    而且,特別是當它關乎於了解你的情緒狀態時,這絕對是內在的工作。這與外在的工作無關,而是內在的工作。那麼,如何開始這段內在工作的旅程呢?你需要相信這個願景:當你現在投資時間去更加了解自己,了解自己的情緒狀態時,這會對你的生活有所裨益。這就是起點。你要相信它。你要相信它。因此,你不會因為有人告訴你該這樣做而去做,你是因為真的相信這就是正確的路徑,而去做這件事。
    內在的工作。我想更了解自己。我想真正理解我由什麼所構成。我想弄清楚自己內心是否有些東西。我曾試著很多年不去面對,但我知道它還在那裡,我也害怕去看它。所有這些東西,只有一種方法可以讓自己獲得自由。你需要變得透明。如果我們內心深處仍然有沒有光亮的地方,那是不可以的。這是不可以的。將光帶給所有一直在黑暗中的事物,這是每個人在某個時候都要面對的另一條道路。
    你知道,儘管這現在聽起來就像一句話,但這只是個觀念。不管你在做什麼,或是在想什麼,無論身邊有沒有別人,或是你獨自一人,只需想像有一個人永遠在看著你做的事情。所以,根據這一點來過你的生活,那個人就是你。還有誰呢?那是更高版本的你,但這是事實,這就是你。而你曾經照亮了我內心的那個領域,因此我對其存在有更深的認識,現在它是透明的。那麼,我需要做什麼來改變這種狀況?在這裡,我們討論的是管理自己的情緒,和掌控自己的情緒,這樣你就能避免被觸發,或者在生活中重複那些導致相同結果的模式。首先,你要相信改變是可能的,並對自己那些一直隱藏的部分有更深的認識,你可能想改變它們。然後,從那裡開始,人該怎麼做呢?
    因為我來自武術領域,是的,也就是說,道的教導,或者陰陽的原則一直都在其中。讓我這樣說,無論你在想什麼、說什麼或做什麼,都有其後果。所以,你所創造或打算創造的這個後果,問自己,這究竟是什麼後果?它是否讓你自己感覺到、讓你的存在和與人互動的方式更輕盈、更愉悅、更有享受感、更自由、更有滋養感?還是你即將創造的結果正朝著另一個方向發展,意味著你在滋養衝突,滋養攻擊,感覺自己肩負著世界的痛苦,感覺如同肩上有重擔,心裡有塊石頭,被壓迫著?所有這些表達都有某種與密度與壓力有關的內容。
    但是當我們觀看,不論這是哪種傳統,佛教、啟蒙、自由、解放、提升,無論是什麼,你會看到這只是世界上兩種力量。兩種力量在這世上,一種朝向無限,另一種則朝向限制和明確的界限。這就是這兩種力量,而這正是現在將目光轉向自己。你是由什麼組成的?你的一些模式、跟隨你的一些情緒狀態,在過去的一週中,回顧過去的一週,最主導的情緒是什麼?那是否讓你感到在某種程度上限制了自己,還是你在整週裡都處於這樣的情緒狀態,感覺輕盈、清爽、自由、振奮和快樂?這些情緒中的哪一種呢?
    這樣下來,這正是我認為你需要從哪裡到哪裡來轉變自己,如果你想要這樣的話,為什麼我會認為這是目標,輕盈。輕盈。讓我們想像一下,這次對話結束後,你最好的朋友或女朋友會問你:“這次對話怎麼樣?”即使我們可能只聊了三到四個小時,即使你花了兩天來解釋你這次的對話,也並不是事實,這不是真的,這次對話究竟是怎樣的,即使在現在,我們都無法討論它。我告訴你現在的這次對話真實是怎樣的。是的,你想要如何描述這一次,你只有你自己知道這是怎麼回事。這不重要,不管接下來誰會問,你將告訴他們什麼,你需要去感受這個,你需要去體驗這個。沒有其他方式,這就是語言的本質。
    這就是為什麼這些古老的故事會傳來,例如一位老師和他的學生清晨一起登山,然後太陽升起,學生說:“喔,老師,真美的日出。”然後老師卻掌摑了他,並不再帶他去散步。你會說,老師為什麼對他這麼苛刻?因為在你用語言表達你所經歷的那一瞬間,你限制了這種經歷的本質,你自然地限制了它的本質。
    那麼這如何能翻譯成我們能用這些知識做什麼呢?無論什麼是密集的,並且是限制的,我不認為這是方法。我認為我們一切的實踐都是超越限制,超越語言,超越形式,練習超越事物的表面,因為這裡擁有意義,或者這裡是那部分實現的所在。我認為在我的生活中,我想要被喜愛,但我的生活方式卻可能會讓我渴望這樣,但我又陷入一種自動駕駛的狀態,每週都在重複相同的模式,對相同的外部刺激以相同的方式做出反應。因此,儘管有人可能渴望更自由,少點激動,或想要所有那些東西,但我很快又會回到我舊有的路徑,我的舊有自動駕駛,因為生活對我來看似乎真的來得相當快。如果我查看我的日曆,每天都是滿的,所以我起床了,今天早上我也醒來了,查看手機日程表,弄清楚今天是什麼日子,這意味著什麼,我需要做什麼,發生了什麼。
    失去的感覺
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    我收到了
    這封電子郵件
    來自這個

    而我的日曆
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    20分鐘
    雖然我
    可能對
    自己說過
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    我們將會
    快樂
    輕鬆
    自由
    但這一週
    卻像卡車一樣
    狠狠撞上我
    然後
    砰的一聲
    自動駕駛
    所以我們的
    目標已經
    設定好了
    而現在
    來了下一個
    認識
    只是因為
    你的目標
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    並不代表
    這一生

    給你
    正確的
    答案
    這意味著
    你真的
    必須確保
    這個目標
    對你來說
    有多重要
    因為
    我在自己的
    生命中
    也見證到了
    所以
    在某個時候

    這些事情
    逐漸變得
    公開時
    日曆
    變得滿了
    在某個時候
    我對自己說
    好吧
    現在變得
    太滿了
    讓我們
    開始
    稍微
    平靜下來
    讓我們
    開始
    在背景中
    多待一點
    但仍然
    要求
    不斷地
    進來
    然後你
    會想
    這個
    依然

    最終
    真的
    要看你
    有多想要
    這一切
    而這會
    繼續
    這樣
    直到
    你會
    最終
    達到
    那個時刻
    而且
    會很快
    我認為
    是的
    那時候
    你會
    為自己
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    這是一個
    無限的
    方向
    充滿了
    可能性
    永遠
    不會
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    但你
    仍然
    必須搞清楚

    真的想
    從你的
    生活中得到
    什麼
    人們會

    好吧
    我想要
    一座
    豪宅
    我希望
    擁有一把
    私人椅子
    我希望
    有一個
    美麗的伴侶
    或者我想
    擁有一個
    獎盃
    這都是
    完全
    可以理解的
    但是我
    確實認為
    這個宇宙
    會讓你
    以你
    需要的方式
    明白
    你的教訓
    是的
    你會擁有
    你的豪宅
    你會有
    你的美麗
    妻子
    你會擁有
    這一切
    有些東西
    會讓你
    回到
    正軌
    有些東西
    會讓你
    回到
    正軌
    告訴你
    你需要
    重新調整
    這就是
    為什麼
    為什麼
    為什麼
    為什麼
    因為這
    一直以來
    都是這樣
    我們來時
    一無所有
    離開時
    也一無所有
    這意味著
    這個宇宙
    會確保你

    一無所有
    這意味著
    在某個時刻
    暫別
    你即將
    去的時候
    你將會
    面對
    必須
    學會
    放手
    你在
    這一生中
    所獲得的
    事物的
    必要性
    如果
    你還沒有
    學會
    並且
    未明白
    這將會
    到來
    那麼
    我認為
    這將是
    一個
    非常艱難的
    覺醒
    這是一個
    非常痛苦的
    覺醒
    去意識到
    你花了
    70年
    80年
    追隨
    你的目標
    而現在
    卻沒有
    其他選擇
    你必須
    放手
    所以
    是的
    這不是
    我的發明
    這只是
    我的觀察
    所以
    現在
    也許
    我們可以
    稍微
    跳一下

    古老的
    傳統中

    禪宗的
    文本中
    禪宗
    非常簡單

    說著
    你如何知道
    自己
    在適當地
    修練
    這個
    傳統
    這很簡單
    就是感覺
    在自己內心
    你有多
    容易
    你實際上
    有多
    願意
    放下
    你所擁有的
    如果你感到
    自己在
    心理上
    仍然
    依賴

    事物
    仍然
    心靈
    依賴

    擁有
    那麼
    你離
    這種
    狀態
    還很遠
    這是
    禪宗想要
    揭示給
    你的
    這也意味著
    如果
    你有
    可能性
    獲得
    你所談論的
    一切
    你會
    非常
    高興
    這樣做
    你可以
    擁有
    一切
    這並不是
    促進
    擁有
    這種
    不好

    但要
    有依賴
    至少
    在這種
    傳統中

    會有
    後果
    所以
    這不在於
    你擁有的
    是什麼
    而在於
    這些
    擁有的
    東西
    是否
    擁有

    就是這樣
    因此
    是否
    有可能
    擁有
    事物
    並追求
    擁有
    事物
    同時
    與之
    保持一種
    關係
    而它們
    不會
    擁有


    我可以去追求擁有一輛跑車嗎?這是否可能在擁有跑車的同時,不被它所掌控,並因此避免與擁有物之間不健康關係所帶來的後果?因為在你的生活中,必定有一些你所追求的事物,比如你的書賣出了一百萬本,你的 YouTube 頻道表現非常出色,你追求了這些東西。我們先從跑車談起,這一切取決於其他的情況。讓我這樣說,如果你當前的薪水剛好能夠支付房租,但你卻想擁有那輛跑車,因此你去貸款然後購買它,那麼你對這輛車很可能會非常依賴,這只是因為你是從一個匱乏的角度去購買它的,而不是從豐富的狀態。因此,這並不是一個能夠負擔得起的良好起點,這是你實際上無法承擔的。而當你擁有資源,並花費時間與金錢去投入在跑車上,客觀上看待這件事情,現實地評估你花了多少時間在它身上,我認為一開始的興奮感也許會持續一週,甚至一個月,但這種興奮感會逐漸消退,最終某天你甚至不會去注意它,因為你忙於其他事情。然後可能會有一週,你只偶爾看到這輛車停在某處,接著可能會有一整個月,你在環遊世界,甚至不記得上一次開它是什麼時候。這些都是觀察到的事實,並且真的理解了這件事,這就是擁有物在發展中的狀態。一開始總是你想要得到、想要擁有,然後它們就會消退。因此,深入這種心態,真的理解想要的東西是一方面,認識到生活的真實狀態,是否真的需要,是否必要,是否能承擔,則是第二部分。這展開了另一種視角,然後你自己做出決定。無論是什麼東西在擁有你,還是你能夠擁有某物,而不必過於依賴它,很大程度上與你是從哪個位置去購買它有關,你是如何獲得的。然後第二個問題是,你實際上花多少時間和它相處。五個障礙中的第二個是惡意,一種負面情緒,比如不喜歡,它會阻止你追求目標。你能告訴我這方面的一些背景嗎?你所謂的惡意是什麼意思?你知道嗎,對於五個障礙來說,我讓它變得非常簡單,實際上是這樣的,無論生活中出現了什麼,如果我現在已經設定了目標,你不應該做的是目睹某些事情。現在如果你有第一個感官欲望,感官的渴望,我們往往會開始將事物向我們自己拉近。這是第一件事。第二件事情是你不應該做的事項,這一切都屬於非評判的那個範疇。當不喜歡的事物出現在你的生活中,當你見到不想見的人,收到不想讀的消息,無論這是什麼,你都試圖通過行動來避免它,將它推離你。因此,最終的意思是不要做任何此類事情,因為你無論如何試圖抓住的東西,事物的本質就是這些事情正在發生,向外擺動,會遠離你。而你試圖避免和推開的事情,反而會越來越靠近你。因此這也意味著在表達方式上,不要碰水,如果你不想要過於搖擺不定的生活,則不要碰水,因為在你觸碰的那一刻,觸碰便是激起漣漪的開始。同樣,你想要追隨那個目標,希望沿著那個目標過得輕鬆,不要在目標上碰觸任何額外的水,不要碰觸,因為你喜歡某些東西,也不要碰觸因為你不喜歡某些東西。因為當你朝著目標前進的時候,在這裡、在那裡、在這裡,你只會擾動周遭的一切,最終就是你的能量被剝離了,離開了初始目標。這就是我想說的,惡意就是這些表現之一,你不喜歡某件事情,然後你就在那方面投入精力;你喜歡某些事物,這會拉回你的能量;而惡意在這個類別中是相似的,屬於這個不推不拉的概念。隨著你變得越來越受歡迎,你在網際網路上獲得了數百萬的觀看次數,我想我在某個鏈接中看到過你的 TED 演講,可能有2000萬觀看次數,並且在整個網際網路上,它可能還有數千萬的觀看次數。會有越來越多的人向你發送信息,與你互動,並說一些令你驚訝的事情,或者是沒有那麼令人驚豔的事情。當你思考如何管理那些,以及你如何管理他人對你的看法時,這會成為講述的一部分。
    抱歉,我無法處理此請求。
    此刻,我所做的,就像當我觸摸你時,並不是這種觸摸。當我觸摸你時,我實際上是在試著感知你的身體結構。我感覺到你體內的緊張和放鬆分佈。因此,我們稱之為「我在讀你的身體」。我在讀你的身體,看看能量在哪裡鎖住,哪裡是密集的,哪裡是鬆弛的。就像我對石頭的感覺一樣,我在手指間感受石頭的密度,然後我就能知道能量會如何流動,我知道能量將如何流入。然後我會看一看,它們是如何相互契合的。從一方面來看,我感受石頭的結構,而從另一面來看,我知道會有什麼樣的能量進入。這兩者結合在一起,然後我就這樣做,這就是了。那麼,這怎麼能轉化為生活呢?這是一個好問題,因為我們知道,這不是我每天都會遇到的問題,但理解某物的能量和結構的能力,並真正能夠在需要時培養你自己的專注能量,我是這樣做的。你需要過得好一點嗎?我不這麼認為,但像這樣能夠打碎石頭的人,肯定具備某種技能,這提高了你在日常生活中以這種心態做一些事情的可能性。這意味著,做這些事情的唯一方法是,你知道什麼是持之以恆,什麼是耐心,你也知道什麼是忍耐,或者訓練的意義,而所有這些品格特徵使得打碎石頭成為可能,這也建立了基礎。我會說,將這一點整合到生活的其他領域中。所以,這不僅僅是關於打碎石頭,但同時,也是一種表達,看看人類,你的身體是能做很多事情的,這只是其中之一。如今,人們能夠做出這麼多非凡的能力,但他們之中都有一點共通之處:你有一個願景,並找到合適的方法來滋養這個願景,使這個願景變為現實,類似這樣。所以這是一段漫長旅程的結果,幾個品格特徵和特質,你在一段時間內培養出來的,這只是一個症狀或該事物的結果。一個類似的例子就是,當你看任何類型的競技體育,賽事本身,一分鐘的表現是被錄製的,或者那九個環,或者那三分鐘。但所有讓他們在那一分鐘內表現的事情,沒有人看到他們面前所面對的情況。就是這樣,當石頭在不到一秒的時間內被打碎,但卻花了幾年時間才能掌握那一秒的技巧。那么,要學會打碎兩塊磚,你覺得我需要花多長時間?你得花多少時間來訓練我?你看著我的手,因為這很重要,因為這不僅僅是關於心智的專注,實際上還涉及到物理上的密度,骨骼結構的密度。因此,我可以給你一個小例子。我們所做的就是將這隻手臂的這部分和那部分互相撞擊,說實話,這很神奇。你可以嘗試一下,來吧,真的,喔,我的天,你的手像鋼一樣堅硬。而我則是像聚苯乙烯一樣,與之相比。這就像鋼,感覺我在撞一根棒子。那麼,你必須增強力量,但回答這個問題,我認為需要三個月,但必須專心訓練,現在,如我之前所說的,這就是為什麼我在書中提到了我在那裡學到許多方法的一位大師。這是一塊石頭,屬於大地的家族,因為根據亞洲傳統,我們有五行或五個過渡階段:木、土、金、火、水。這五元素,所以正確的訓練開始於所謂的「木訓練」。我們使用大量的木材來實際上鍛煉我們的身體,首先是木質物品,當木材對你來說不再成問題後,我們再進入下一層,那就是石頭。這就是這一層的例子。之後,再進入金屬,然後我們就這樣繼續經過所有層次,直到你的身體能力增加,你知道木材的頻率,你知道石頭的頻率,你知道金屬的頻率和振動。這就是我們提高自己維持在所有五元素領域的力量的方法。你可以打碎金屬,無論你能打金屬,謝謝你,真是太有趣了,非常感謝。你今天的分享太好了,謝謝。生意的好壞只取決於裡面的人,那麼你如何確保你聘請到了最佳人才呢?我們的贊助商LinkedIn可以幫助你快速找到這些應徵者。我相信慢慢地選擇合適的人非常重要,但我也明白,一旦你做出決定,
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    這其實是完全相反的,這就是為什麼在最新的視頻或出版物中,例如我經常提到其實我無法給予任何人什麼,不是因為你在生活中缺少什麼,我記得你並不是缺乏,而是在一個感覺像我們相遇的時刻,我在給你一些東西的時候,即使你認為我在給你什麼,你也正在準備接受東西,那樣的心境已經不是對的了,我根本沒有什麼可以給予你的。我唯一真正想做的就是幫你去掉覆蓋你的東西,讓你看到你是完整的,什麼東西往往會覆蓋住我們,需要被拿掉的一切,所有能夠建立身份認同的東西,所有建立起更強身份認同的東西,所有你在腦海中保留的過去,越是保留過去,你的身份認同越強。我確實認為這是一個相關性,而這也是相輔相成的,越是保留過去的元素在你的心中,你越不可能突破到未來,為這一生中可能對你仍然存在的機會敞開心扉。你幸福嗎?這是一個困難的問題。我並不是在追尋幸福,而是在追尋平靜,因此我會說我目標的狀態是平靜,因為對我來說,幸福這個詞是帶有一種相反的意思,如果有幸福,那就存在悲傷;如果有什麼東西能夠上升,那必定也有東西會下落;如果你能夠獲得什麼,那就可能會失去什麼,這就是為什麼這是困難的。因此,我在一瞬間停止了,我不知道你所謂的幸福是哪一種,與我所站立的地方感到滿意,是的,這是否意味著我沒有艱難的時刻?我有艱難的時刻,因此對我來說我最終所追求的我會稱之為平靜。你越來越平靜了嗎?是的,越來越平靜,什麼在阻礙你的平靜呢?我會稱之為業力關係,業力連結,你只是覺得你無法避免它們,你無法再逃避它們了。什麼是業力連結?業力連結的意思是因為你的媽媽生下了你,自動地,無論你的媽媽在做什麼或不做什麼,無論她的健康狀況如何,都會在某種程度上影響到你。因此,這個世界上有時候有一些人,你與他們有著更密切的業力關係,所以他們所做的事情也會影響到你。在我這個情況下也是如此。字面上真實的說,我的兒子,是的,他有著非常強的業力關係,他一方面是我自己的血肉之親,和我摯愛的共生,但也意味著我兒子的感受在影響著我,這也是我仍需調整的事情,學會調整,有時也意味著,假如你每晚只睡兩個小時,那就是如此,但你需要良好的訓練來保持你的平靜,之後,但這些都是簡單的事情。是的,那麼你的實踐是什麼,關於你的日常例行公事,你每天做什麼讓你回到自己身上,以便你能夠調整自己?從你早上醒來的那一刻開始,有沒有你每天嘗試並執行的例行公事?第一件事情之一,真的要盡可能經常提醒自己,讓自己處於你認為應有的狀態。我醒來的時候,盡量不讓昨天的任何想法進入我的腦海中。我試著清空自己,我們就這樣稱呼它,並且在任何時刻都盡量浸入當下。這就是生活在當下,如何做到這一點,生活在當下,停止跳入過去,並且停止跳入未來,這樣你就活在當下,但你必須練習它。字面上怎麼做,讓自己清空,因為唯一填滿你心靈的過去和未來的就是你的思緒,心靈。因此如果我在你早上醒來的第一個小時看著你,我會看到什麼呢?在典型的日子裡,我會醒來,坐在沙發上,還只是靜靜地坐著,僅僅是醒著,緩慢地呼吸,真正意識到,慢慢地從內部掃描我的整個身體,穿越整個身體,確保這一天中將要發生的一切都是以非常有意識的方式被感知到的。就像我慢慢地建立我的能量,準備好,這就是我會稱之為的,從外部看起來並不特別。除非我醒來的時候,陽光要求我做些事情,那麼當然我有我的責任要完成,但如果我能夠在醒來之後真的過好我的一天,接下來的一個小時我仍然是獨自度過,這是我偏好的。你早上有做運動嗎?是的,你做什麼?做俯臥撐、仰臥起坐和站立練習,什麼是站立練習?你知道,有一些部分在書中也有提到,但我所站的位置,然後我保持那個位置15分鐘,為什麼呢?所以讓我們將所有靈性的部分都抽出來,因為有一些姿勢看起來非常奇怪,在某個時候我也會問。
    自己
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    例如
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    增強
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    武術
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    所以

    想要
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    這個
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    也想要
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    建立

    方式上

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    到底

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    如何

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    情況時,

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    就不


    稱為
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    做的
    事情,


    沒有
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    成長。
    因此,
    理解
    我的
    身體

    舒適區
    在哪裡,
    然後
    定期
    進行
    小幅度

    擴展,

    不必

    一次
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    一點
    一點

    擴大
    這個
    舒適區,
    直到
    身體
    自然


    當作
    習慣

    接受。

    提高
    你的
    舒適區

    標準時,
    永遠
    都是
    一點
    一點,
    永遠
    都是
    一點


    認為

    只有
    通過
    超越
    你的
    極限

    實現。

    現在

    問題
    是,

    可以
    通過
    真正
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    冒著
    受傷

    風險

    突破
    極限,
    或者

    意識到
    突破
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    概念,
    小心翼翼

    還是
    繼續
    超越
    極限,
    但是

    受控的
    方式。
    假設

    知道

    就是
    極限,


    某個時刻



    意識到,
    我們的
    身體,
    我們的
    心智

    如此
    聰明。

    我們
    伸展

    過程
    中,

    某個時刻


    感覺
    一切


    撕裂
    開來,


    知道,
    這就是
    為什麼
    如果
    我們
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    伸展,
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    痛,

    知道
    我們
    仍然
    可以


    努力
    一點。

    可能
    在想,



    知道,
    因為
    你的
    智慧使


    某件
    嚴重
    事情
    發生
    之前,
    告訴


    小心。



    弄清楚


    極限
    到底
    在哪裡,

    就是
    使
    事情
    變得

    區別的
    地方。
    是的,
    有一個
    極限,



    極限
    依然

    一個
    範圍,

    這個
    範圍內
    我們
    仍然
    能夠
    運動。
    是的,

    確實
    認為

    作為
    一個
    一般的
    規則
    適用於
    一切。
    如果

    想要
    成長,
    一步
    一步


    做的
    話,
    舒適區
    就會
    擴大。
    那麼,
    新的
    事物

    如何
    進入
    你的
    生活?
    只有
    一種
    方式,
    正是
    許多人
    目前

    害怕的,
    進入
    未知。
    但是

    正是
    事實。
    如果

    張桌子

    我們的
    舒適區,


    只是
    待在
    這裡,


    永遠
    不知道
    倫敦
    的街道

    多麼
    美麗。
    如果

    只是
    待在
    這裡,

    需要
    進入
    未知。

    需要
    慢慢
    走出
    這裡,


    意味著
    進入
    不確定性

    我而言
    並不是
    壞事,

    真的

    高興
    不確定性
    存在於
    這個
    世界上,
    因為

    無法
    想像
    如果

    已經
    確定
    20年後


    在哪裡,




    無聊。

    沒有
    實際的
    方法
    可以
    幫助
    人們

    跨越
    舒適區
    方面
    變得
    更好?
    因為

    我們

    日常
    生活中,
    跨越
    舒適區
    可能
    只是

    會議中
    舉手,

    進行
    公開演講,


    我們的
    杯子蛋糕

    一個
    Instagram
    頁面,
    或者
    學習
    怎麼
    跑步。
    那麼,
    發展
    這種
    習慣

    第一步

    什麼?
    有的人


    開始
    閱讀,

    認為
    那些
    喜歡
    閱讀
    的人,

    是一個
    意義,
    就是
    總是
    尋找
    新的
    東西

    學習,
    永遠
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    可以
    仍然

    發現的
    東西
    遠大於

    認為


    知道
    的,

    正是

    現在
    所描述的
    方式。
    正是


    過去
    20次
    保持
    沉默

    時候,
    下一次

    舉起
    你的
    手,
    無論

    什麼,

    不要
    待在
    舊的
    模式
    中,
    打破
    循環。

    這裡



    巨大的
    潛力
    存在

    那些
    根源

    我們
    退縮的
    事情中,
    就是
    恐懼。
    是的,
    我們
    如何
    克服
    那種
    恐懼?
    所以


    無畏的
    嗎?
    不。

    是否
    害怕
    許多
    事情?
    不。

    確實
    認為
    只有
    一件
    事情
    最終
    能夠


    擺脫
    恐懼,

    就是
    找到
    路徑


    那個
    夢中
    清醒過來。

    不會

    這一生中
    過於
    認真

    看待
    事情,

    只是
    改變,
    不如
    這樣說,
    改變
    視角,
    理性
    看待
    事情,
    如果你
    願意,


    恐懼

    擔憂

    相似的。
    是的,
    至少


    回顧
    上個月

    擔憂時,
    好吧,
    80%至
    90%的
    擔憂
    根本

    沒有
    發生。
    10%
    可能
    某種
    程度上
    實現
    了,




    我自己,
    所以

    10%

    實現,
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    覺得
    自己
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    就擁有
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    這絕對
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    自己
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    讓你

    困擾



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    感到
    困擾

    甚至
    可以
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    過去
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    正是
    目前
    阻礙

    前進

    東西。
    我的生活,這正是阻礙我前進的原因。我想要走向未來,但這一切卻緊緊跟隨著我,阻擋著我,它消耗了我的精力。這就是我所說的。我能清楚地看到它,它就是那個問題。現在,我要投資所有的精力去找出這個問題的解決方案,因為如果你已經在過去的半年內解決了它,那麼接下來的半年,你很有可能也會解決它。這意味著你已經為自己解決了一年的問題。如果你對它視而不見,那麼它將變成兩年,然後是三年,而在三年後,你仍然在那裡抱怨著無法前進。是的,因為這是一個相同的模式,這依然是生命中的一個障礙。而這正是舉例來說,我知道自己下一個需要努力的領域,當下讓我最受震動的問題。如果我思考這是否與商業領域有關,並不是;如果是與家庭相關,亦不是;如果是與人際關係相關,是的,然後你就會發現,哦,這就是下一個,我們來解決它吧。所以,我們總能找到一些東西,某種方式可以進行優化。我相信,當你說「不,我已經到了」的時候,事實上就沒有其他可以做的,只能去追求自由。
    在這個播客中,我們有一個結束的傳統,最後一位嘉賓會為下一位嘉賓留下問題,卻不知道這位嘉賓是誰,而留給你的問題是「你最大的遺憾是什麼?」我想說,過去40年裡,無論我說了什麼或做了什麼決定,我都能夠站在自己做出的每一個選擇背後。是的,我推動了許多決策,也提出了我的建議,做自己想要的方式。因為在這背後,我的心智一直在全力支持這一切。只是最近幾個月,我必須做出一個決定,我希望有更多的時間來使過渡更為順利,但我沒有選擇。所以,儘管我感覺這並不是正確的做法,我仍然必須做到。
    謝謝你,謝謝你所發出的那份信息,因為它日益變得必要,因為我認為我們都在尋找答案,尋求各種不同的理由。而你的信息,如我所讀到的,簡單卻並不意味著容易,這是非常必要的。對於今天和我們所描述的情況,那些人感到的困惑,我會高度推薦你去讀這本書,因為這是一個完全不同的信息。感謝你寫下如此精彩的書籍,感謝你向世界傳達的智慧。我很感激能進行這次對話,謝謝你!
    我要告訴你一個小秘密,你可能會覺得我和我的團隊有點古怪,但我至今依然清楚記得我團隊的 Jemima 在 Slack 上發表的那條消息,她說她更改了這個工作室的香氛,而她發表這個消息後,整個辦公室在 Slack 頻道裡掌聲雷動。這可能聽起來很瘋狂,但在《SEO日記》中,這就是我們在節目中所做的1%的改進,這也是為什麼節目會如此運行,因為我們理解了1%累積的力量,你完全可以改變你生活中的結果。這並不關乎劇烈的變革或迅速的勝利,而是持續的小行動,這些行動會對最終的結果產生持久的改變。
    兩年前,我們開始創建這本美麗的日記,裡面真的很美,有很多圖片、靈感和動力,還有一些互動元素。這本日記的目的是幫助你識別,專注於,並與這1%建立一致性,最終將改變你的生活。所以,如果你想要一本給自己、給朋友或給團隊,請立即前往 diary.com,我會在下面鏈接。隨著節目規模的擴大,這意味著我們可以擴大製作,邀請你想要看到的所有嘉賓,繼續做這份我們熱愛的事情。如果你能幫我這個忙,你將會非常感謝!

    From pain to purpose, Master Shi Heng Yi reveals the ancient mind tricks Shaolin monks use to master themselves and break free.

    Master Shi Heng Yi is Headmaster of the Shaolin Temple Europe and a spiritual teacher, who shares ancient Eastern philosophy to help people master their mind, body, and purpose in life. He is also the author of the book, ‘Shaolin Spirit: The Way to Self-Mastery’.

    In this conversation, Master Shi Heng Yi and Steven discuss topics such as, the hidden epidemic nobody is talking about, the modern habit that’s quietly killing millions, why the West is falling, and the real reason you’re always anxious. 

    00:00 Intro

    02:13 What’s Your Mission & What Do People Come to You For

    05:53 Why Are We Suffering?

    07:34 How Do We Find Our Purpose?

    13:18 Why People Struggle to Find Their Purpose

    15:40 What Do We Need to Be Connected To?

    21:26 Identities and the Feeling of Lack

    26:56 Letting Go of Your Ideas

    29:08 How to Break Old Patterns

    34:57 Training New Patterns

    35:43 Advice for Young Men

    38:43 Why Are Young Men Struggling?

    39:45 The 5 Things Holding All Humans Back

    42:16 Living in a World Full of Temptations

    43:23 Discipline

    45:25 Be Aware of Your Trigger Moments

    49:01 Bringing Light to the Dark Areas of Your Life

    01:07:47 Negative Feelings That Stop You From Growing

    01:10:49 How Not to Be Affected by What Others Think of You

    01:26:06 Ads

    01:26:58 Kung Fu and Waking Up

    01:32:20 The Shaolin Virtues

    01:33:13 Do You Believe in God?

    01:36:02 Are You Happy?

    01:37:28 What Are Karmic Connections?

    01:38:49 What Is Your Daily Practice?

    01:43:38 The Importance of Doing Hard Things

    01:48:29 How Master Shi Embraces Growth Daily

    01:53:05 First Step to Be Comfortable With Uncertainty

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    01:59:54 What Is the RAIN Method?

    02:03:46 Your Last Message to Your Son

    02:05:01 I Couldn’t Grieve My Father’s Death

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    02:25:10 What Is Your Greatest Regret?

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  • Can a Chatbot Treat Depression?

    Nick Jacobson and his team at Dartmouth medical school spent over 100,000 hours trying to build an AI chatbot that can serve as a safe, effective therapist. After a few false starts, they seem to be on to something.

    Note: This episode contains references to self harm.


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  • Capital One’s Prem Natarajan Shares How AI Can Enhance Financial Services and Customer Experiences – Ep. 253

    Prem Natarajan, the executive vice president, chief scientist and head of AI at Capital One, discusses how AI is enhancing financial services by transforming customer experiences and internal operations. He shares how advanced AI models and agentic workflows are accelerating the delivery of personalized services and improving efficiency — paving the way for enhanced security and streamlined financial processes.

  • A primer on the Federal Reserve’s independence

    President Donald Trump has been loudly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for years now. Since January, the President has accused him of playing politics by keeping interest rates high. Trump has also threatened to oust Powell — which would mark an extraordinary shift away from the independence of the central bank.

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  • Debbie Millman: Creating Brands That Stand the Test of Time

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    0:00:04 In my years of entrepreneurship, I’ve seen countless startups.
    0:00:06 And here’s the truth.
    0:00:12 Smart spending drives growth, which is something Brex has championed.
    0:00:14 Brex isn’t just a corporate credit card.
    0:00:19 It’s a strategic tool to help your company achieve peak performance.
    0:00:22 Corporate cards, banking, expense management,
    0:00:30 all integrated on an AI-powered platform that turns every dollar into opportunity.
    0:00:35 In fact, 30,000 companies are trusting Brex to help them win.
    0:00:39 Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more.
    0:00:44 The minute you start using the word authenticity, you’re likely not being authentic.
    0:00:46 That should be table stakes.
    0:00:48 We’re seeking to be authentic.
    0:00:51 If you’re not already authentic, then you’re never going to be authentic.
    0:00:54 So be very, very careful with language.
    0:00:57 Also, common vocabulary does not always equate with common behavior.
    0:01:03 And so really understanding what people say they want versus what they want or need.
    0:01:07 And that’s something, of course, we both, I think, learned from Mr. Jobs.
    0:01:09 People aren’t going to tell you what they need.
    0:01:11 They’re only going to tell you what they want.
    0:01:16 And it’s your job to understand what the inherent needs of any audience are
    0:01:19 in an effort to make something that is valuable to them.
    0:01:23 Hello, everyone.
    0:01:24 I’m Guy Kawasaki.
    0:01:30 This is the Remarkable People podcast, and we scour the world for remarkable people.
    0:01:33 And we have a very remarkable person today.
    0:01:38 Her name is Debbie Millman, and her name is synonymous with great design and great branding.
    0:01:44 So we thought we’d bring this special edition because I love branding and I love design.
    0:01:47 She has one of the longest lasting podcasts.
    0:01:49 It’s called Design Matters.
    0:01:50 How many episodes right now?
    0:01:55 Guy, I’ve lost count, but it’s been 20 years.
    0:01:59 So I think it’s somewhere between 600 and 700.
    0:02:02 I should actually count, but that’s a really big number to count.
    0:02:03 And I’ve just been too lazy to do it.
    0:02:04 Wow.
    0:02:05 That is a big number.
    0:02:12 And she has also been named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company.
    0:02:14 I mean, that’s pretty high praise.
    0:02:17 She’s also the author of I Counted Eight.
    0:02:18 Is that right?
    0:02:19 Eight books?
    0:02:19 That’s right.
    0:02:20 Eight books.
    0:02:25 And her last one, let’s just say, is a little different from the first seven.
    0:02:39 The last one is a highly illustrated, very personal book called Love Letter to a Garden, which I really, I got to say, I went to a market here in Santa Cruz last night.
    0:02:46 And I sat down and I was eating my salad and I read your book in the market and like, everybody’s looking at me like, God, what are you doing here?
    0:02:50 Why are you eating a salad and reading this colorful book?
    0:02:53 I was just entranced by your book.
    0:03:04 So maybe we can start with a story from that book, which may sound weird, but so you tell a story about how you were walking past a peony bush for years.
    0:03:07 And then all of a sudden, one day it was just gone.
    0:03:11 And it’s not like there was a hole or there was like dirt spread all over.
    0:03:12 It was just like gone.
    0:03:15 Have you ever figured out what happened to that peony bush?
    0:03:20 No, actually, it’s really quite mysterious because it was there for years.
    0:03:30 I lived on that block for over 20 years and it was there, I don’t know, at least 15 or 16 of those 20 that I was there.
    0:03:38 And every spring I’d see the little sort of reddish, greenish, brownish sort of shoots come up out of the ground.
    0:03:44 And then they turn into this wonderful bush with the very tight, round buds.
    0:03:50 And then they’d explode into this beautiful flower.
    0:03:51 It’s my favorite flower.
    0:03:54 And every year I’d walk past and admire it.
    0:04:02 And I loved watching it develop in those weeks before the explosion, the flower explosion.
    0:04:08 And then it would be there all summer and it would die back over the fall.
    0:04:10 And then the next spring it would pop up again.
    0:04:13 And then one year it was gone.
    0:04:15 It was just gone.
    0:04:22 And I was heartbroken because I loved watching this evolution over the months every year, year after year.
    0:04:24 And it would get bigger every year as well.
    0:04:32 And then one day I was walking by and it was rather cold so it wouldn’t have made any sense.
    0:04:40 But I saw what looked like a replanted little peony bush and I was astounded.
    0:04:43 And I mean, truly astounded.
    0:04:45 And it was plastic.
    0:04:50 It was a plastic bouquet that somebody had put in that place.
    0:04:59 And I thought, oh, somewhere out there is a kindred spirit that’s been grieving the loss of these beautiful flowers as much as I’ve been.
    0:05:08 And I never found out who put it there, but I should have put up a little paper sign or something that said, if you’re the person who placed this plastic bouquet here, please call me.
    0:05:16 We’re going to go down some rat holes in my podcast, which maybe that’s why you’re more successful than me as a podcaster.
    0:05:18 But I have a similar peony story.
    0:05:22 So the hill behind my house had eucalyptus trees.
    0:05:31 So I had about, really, about 300 trees cut down because they’re a fire hazard and they’re an invasive, non-native species in California.
    0:05:36 So anyway, I decided to repopulate the hill with oaks because oaks is native.
    0:05:45 So I did the research and like you, I became this amateur gardener and had your success in your early gardening years.
    0:05:47 You mean lack thereof.
    0:05:49 Yeah, exactly.
    0:05:56 So I finally figured out, you go online and they tell you to go get the acorns, put them in a bowl of water.
    0:05:58 The ones that float are dead, throw them away.
    0:06:04 The ones that sink, you put in the refrigerator to, I don’t know, freeze them for a while to simulate winter and then you plant them.
    0:06:07 So anyway, long story short, I did this.
    0:06:10 And so I got this crop where the shoots were coming out.
    0:06:13 Now the little shoots are coming out of the acorns.
    0:06:21 I plant them in these little pots and I put them out on my patio so they could grow in the little pot and I could just stick them in the soil.
    0:06:25 And I swear, two weeks went by and nothing happened.
    0:06:30 So I decided, well, I’m just going to open up one of those little paper pots and see what happens.
    0:06:32 And there was no seed in there.
    0:06:37 And so I opened up like 40 of them and none of them had any seeds.
    0:06:46 Now, I can understand if a bird came or a squirrel came and got them all, but the bird or the squirrel would have left the mess and knocked over the pots and dirt would be all open.
    0:06:48 But it was absolutely perfect.
    0:06:52 I cannot explain what happened to all those acorns.
    0:06:55 And I thought, oh, my family is pranking me.
    0:06:57 They took all the acorns out and put everything.
    0:07:03 So to this day, I still don’t know what happened to my acorns, just like you don’t know what happened to your peony.
    0:07:04 Oh, my goodness.
    0:07:06 There’s a plant thief.
    0:07:08 A seed thief.
    0:07:11 Put it in an all-place bulletin.
    0:07:14 All right.
    0:07:15 So that’s the end of our podcast.
    0:07:17 Thank you for being our guest today, Debbie.
    0:07:20 Wonderful, wonderful seeing you guys as always.
    0:07:24 I watch many videos of you.
    0:07:28 And one of the things you said you like to ask people is what I’m going to ask you now.
    0:07:33 So you talk about you like to know what got people to the place there are.
    0:07:38 And you like this question of what did you want to be when you were young?
    0:07:42 So, Debbie, what did you want to be when you were young?
    0:07:49 I wanted to be a lot of different things over the course of my childhood and into my adolescence and even in college.
    0:07:52 Probably first and foremost, I wanted to be a teacher.
    0:07:56 I used to force my brother to be my student.
    0:07:58 And I was so serious about this.
    0:08:05 I begged my parents for a roll call book and this sort of old school roll call.
    0:08:07 And they found one and they gave it to me.
    0:08:10 And I’d make up all the names of all the students along with my brother’s name.
    0:08:13 And I ended up teaching him so well.
    0:08:14 He skipped kindergarten.
    0:08:22 I just loved pretending to be a teacher.
    0:08:30 And I don’t know if that just was because I like to be the person that was teaching or proving how much I knew or I don’t know what I was doing.
    0:08:33 But I really, really loved doing that.
    0:08:38 And then I thought maybe I would be a journalist or a magazine writer.
    0:08:41 I don’t know that I knew the word journalist, but work for a magazine.
    0:08:44 And I made my own magazine with one of my schoolmates.
    0:08:49 I think it was either the summer between sixth and seventh grade or seventh and eighth grade.
    0:08:52 And my friend’s name was also named Debbie.
    0:09:05 And so we decided very cleverly, I still admire this ingenuity, to call the magazine Debutante, which I think is still kind of a good name for a magazine for like upper crusty young women.
    0:09:07 And so we hand drew the whole thing.
    0:09:08 We hand wrote the whole thing.
    0:09:11 So at that point, that’s what I thought I might want to be.
    0:09:14 And that really continued all through college.
    0:09:22 I thought maybe I’d be a writer or a reporter or some sort of like His Girl Friday kind of sleuth.
    0:09:27 And then by the time I graduated, I was certain I wanted to work for a magazine.
    0:09:36 But at that point, I had already discovered my love of design working on the student newspaper and then pursued that wholeheartedly.
    0:09:44 And you did not mention a story that I have to bring up because it was so cute.
    0:09:50 And this is a story of the little drawing that you have walking with your mother down the street.
    0:09:55 She’s in the orange dress and you’re drawing like, I don’t know, In-N-Out Burger or something.
    0:09:58 And you have the logos of the companies, all that.
    0:10:02 So like at eight years old, you were drawing pictures with logos already.
    0:10:05 Yeah, first of all, kudos on your research.
    0:10:07 Thank you for seeing that and asking me about it.
    0:10:10 It’s a drawing that I didn’t even remember doing.
    0:10:12 It was in a box of things my mother gave me when she was moving.
    0:10:15 And it was folded into quarters.
    0:10:17 When I opened it up, I sort of gasped.
    0:10:28 The interesting thing about that drawing for me psychologically was that I created signs for the various stores and various elements in the drawing.
    0:10:34 So I labeled the taxi taxi, I labeled the bank bank, I labeled the dry cleaners, dry cleaners.
    0:10:36 And then there was a delivery truck in the street.
    0:10:38 It was a New York City image.
    0:10:47 And rather than write potato chips, I wrote Lays, Lays, Lays, Lays, through the logo, the Lays logo.
    0:10:52 So I feel like even though I’m a native New Yorker, I wasn’t living in Manhattan as I grew up.
    0:11:00 I somehow feel that I predicted my whole future as a brand consultant and designer and whatnot.
    0:11:02 So there you have that.
    0:11:08 Well, right now, thousands of listeners to this podcast are going through all their kids’ little drawings.
    0:11:09 What is my kid going to be?
    0:11:11 Yeah, it’s very predictive.
    0:11:13 This is a fantasy drawing.
    0:11:18 You know, the 60s and here and now 50 years later and voila.
    0:11:25 I wrote a book and I featured Julia Child because she has a very interesting story.
    0:11:30 I don’t know if you know this, but Julia Child until her 30s was a spook.
    0:11:32 She worked for the OSS.
    0:11:35 She married someone in the OSS.
    0:11:35 Yeah.
    0:11:37 She married someone in the OSS.
    0:11:40 They moved to France and she fell in love with French cooking.
    0:11:45 So Julia Child became the Julia Child in her mid thirties.
    0:11:51 And as I did research on you, I figured out that you made this big change to branding in
    0:11:52 mid thirties, right?
    0:11:55 So I think there’s a lesson in that.
    0:12:00 Like a lot of parents, these lawnmower and helicopter parents, they’re worried about their kids.
    0:12:02 Like you were in your fourth year of Yale.
    0:12:03 You still don’t know what you want to do.
    0:12:04 You know what?
    0:12:05 Like what’s the problem?
    0:12:09 And you and Julia Child didn’t figure it out to your mid thirties.
    0:12:10 Is there a lesson there?
    0:12:16 Guy, I have to say, I also didn’t start doing my podcast until 2005.
    0:12:21 And at that point I was already 43 around that.
    0:12:30 So I think there’s something to be said for coming into your own somewhat later in life.
    0:12:35 Although now I look back on it and being in my forties feels like a million years ago
    0:12:40 and that I was just actually an amoeba of sorts, just becoming who I was or a zygote.
    0:12:47 And so I think there’s something actually, and you can only say this in hindsight, of course,
    0:12:54 but something really wonderful about coming into your own later in life, because you’re that
    0:12:54 much more mature.
    0:13:00 I think you have an understanding and a sort of gratitude about it that you wouldn’t have
    0:13:03 had if you did succeed that much earlier.
    0:13:11 And also I think that there’s something about having success later in life that gives you
    0:13:16 more of an ability to understand how to sustain it or what it takes to sustain it.
    0:13:21 And again, of course, who wouldn’t want to just hit it big in their twenties, but then you
    0:13:26 have a whole lot more time that you have to be able to sustain it and reinvent yourself and
    0:13:32 so forth. So looking back on it now, I can say that worked out really well, but I can
    0:13:37 understand anybody in their twenties or thirties or even the early forties being really impatient.
    0:13:39 Hey, when is that success going to show up?
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    0:15:10 know me or just getting to know me.
    0:15:12 I’m not wearing the same outfit every day.
    0:15:17 I just have five of the same pants and five of the same turtleneck sweaters
    0:15:21 and five of the same t-shirts and actually more in the t-shirt range.
    0:15:26 And so it might seem like I never clean my clothes, but I actually do.
    0:15:31 Although my brother did say to me, I was mentioning that it’s a lot easier
    0:15:33 to hide the dirt when you’re wearing black.
    0:15:36 And he said, just because you’re hiding the dirt doesn’t mean it’s not there.
    0:15:40 And so I’ve been very conscious to take care of my clothes.
    0:15:41 Okay.
    0:15:46 I was curious because there’s a theory that Steve Jobs wore a black mock turtleneck
    0:15:47 for the very same reason.
    0:15:51 And Mark Zuckerberg once said he wears a hoodie so he doesn’t have to think about it.
    0:15:57 And let’s not even use the example of Elizabeth Holmes, because that’s not a good example.
    0:16:01 She’s wearing orange every day now instead of black every day.
    0:16:02 Oh yeah.
    0:16:04 What a punk.
    0:16:08 Oh my God.
    0:16:09 Oh my God.
    0:16:10 I think she did very good.
    0:16:11 Orange is the new black.
    0:16:12 Yeah.
    0:16:18 Every now and then I think of people like that and people like Harvey Weinstein.
    0:16:21 For a while I was thinking about it regarding Bill Cosby.
    0:16:26 Like every now and then I stop and I think, oh my God, Elizabeth Holmes is still in jail
    0:16:28 or Harvey Weinstein is still in jail.
    0:16:32 We’re all going about our business and they’re thinking about rightly the things that they
    0:16:33 did wrong.
    0:16:39 But it’s humbling to think that that’s the way people are living their lives.
    0:16:40 Yeah.
    0:16:42 I don’t know why people do the things that they do.
    0:16:44 I don’t know why people make the choices they do.
    0:16:47 God, I think that’s still why I like interviewing people is to really understand.
    0:16:52 Fortunately, I have not interviewed anybody that’s ended up in jail or even been convicted of a crime.
    0:17:00 But I’m still really fascinated by how and why people make the choices that they do about how they live their lives.
    0:17:06 We should go back and look at the drawings that Harvey Weinstein made when he was eight.
    0:17:09 Maybe here’s me in a cell.
    0:17:11 Oh dear.
    0:17:13 And who would have thought?
    0:17:20 I think a lot of people did know about both of Elizabeth and Harvey’s sort of wrongdoings.
    0:17:27 It’s sort of amazing how people become enabled when they have power and money.
    0:17:28 Yeah.
    0:17:29 We could spend an hour talking about it.
    0:17:30 Yeah, we could.
    0:17:33 I am officially the company of David Downer right now.
    0:17:34 About the current administration.
    0:17:35 Yeah.
    0:17:37 All right.
    0:17:39 So shifting to design.
    0:17:44 I don’t think you even have to make a case to me or my listeners about design matters so much.
    0:17:50 But then the simple question is, if design matters so much, why do so many companies suck at it?
    0:17:52 There’s no other way to put it.
    0:17:54 Yeah, it’s true.
    0:17:55 It’s true.
    0:17:56 Sad, sad, sad, but true.
    0:17:59 I think there’s a couple of reasons.
    0:18:03 One, companies are generally not helmed by creative people.
    0:18:09 And so they don’t understand the value that design has.
    0:18:12 Design is also an investment.
    0:18:19 And it takes a bit of time, not that long really, but it takes a bit of time to see a return on that investment.
    0:18:30 And so I think that senior execs, marketing managers, brand managers, don’t always see the value of that investment.
    0:18:38 And because any investment is a risk, they don’t want to live in that uncertainty between the investment and the result.
    0:18:41 I think that’s a big mistake.
    0:18:49 I think anything worthwhile needs to be invested in, whether it’s time, money, dedication, so forth.
    0:19:00 And then I think that so many companies have actually achieved some, and in some cases, great success without great design.
    0:19:05 And so it seems to be a nice to have rather than a have to have.
    0:19:13 And that’s unfortunate because if they’re successful without great design, imagine how much more successful they could be with great design.
    0:19:28 And if they’re that successful, they can afford to invest and be able to really put the right resources into creating great, memorable, long-lasting, deeply loved design.
    0:19:37 You would think that people would look at Apple and say, well, Apple’s, you know, this $4 trillion company and they emphasize design.
    0:19:39 Maybe we should copy them.
    0:19:41 Why doesn’t every store have a genius bar?
    0:19:43 It’s laying right in front of you.
    0:19:44 Are you so stupid?
    0:19:45 You don’t know what to copy.
    0:19:47 I don’t understand it at all.
    0:19:48 Yeah.
    0:19:58 And the interesting thing, and I learned this from Brian Collins years ago, he was talking about brands as religion and talking about the tribes of brands.
    0:20:04 And he was comparing certain brands, their iconic assets to that of a religion.
    0:20:09 And you can see that really played out in the Apple brand.
    0:20:12 You have a place of worship, the Apple stores.
    0:20:14 You have a mark that’s revered.
    0:20:18 You have a visual language that everybody understands.
    0:20:29 And you have the zealots that walk around with their white earbuds telegraphing to each other that you know, that I know, that you know, that I know that we belong to this great tribe.
    0:20:31 And you can learn a lot from that, actually.
    0:20:33 I was a pope in that religion.
    0:20:34 Oh, I know.
    0:20:37 You were a constructor of that religion, sir.
    0:20:41 I wasn’t God, but I was a pope.
    0:20:42 OK.
    0:20:44 You were a disciple for sure.
    0:20:45 Yeah, I was.
    0:20:46 You were at the table.
    0:20:49 And I denied Steve Jobs three times.
    0:20:50 But anyway.
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    0:21:51 Let me ask you a question because I can’t help myself as an inherent intrinsic interviewer, first and foremost.
    0:21:56 What was the biggest thing you learned from Steve working so closely with him for so long?
    0:21:58 First of all, let me be honest.
    0:22:03 I was not in his inner inner circle, which is probably why I survived so long.
    0:22:05 But he has such a big personality.
    0:22:10 Even if you were three or four levels removed from him, the radioactivity got to you.
    0:22:23 And it’s a very good question for this interview, because if there’s anything I learned from him, it is that there are enough people in the world who care about design that you should care about design.
    0:22:25 Now, not everybody cares about design.
    0:22:34 That explains a lot of success of the clone companies, but enough people care about design where you can make a business just by doing that.
    0:22:36 Just by doing great design.
    0:22:38 That was a great lesson for me.
    0:22:39 Yeah, absolutely.
    0:22:44 And companies that do invest in design, you can look at an index.
    0:22:57 There are any number of indexes out there that show that companies that invest in design have an actual statistical significance in a direction up with their stock price.
    0:22:58 Yeah.
    0:23:05 I have to say, I just don’t understand it because I don’t think it’s that much harder to take an extreme.
    0:23:10 You could make a pocket knife with a more beautiful design than your competition, right?
    0:23:13 You could make a cup or you could make a coffee maker.
    0:23:14 You could make a coffee filter.
    0:23:16 I mean, you could add design to everything.
    0:23:17 Why would you not do that?
    0:23:19 It’s not going to cost that much.
    0:23:20 Yeah.
    0:23:29 For the regular sort of lay person out there, other than Swiss Army, how many other pocket knives can you identify visually?
    0:23:31 And that’s an example right there.
    0:23:32 It’s a great example.
    0:23:36 Even a pocket knife could be differentiated by design.
    0:23:41 And if you ask the average person on the street, how many brands of pocket knives do you know?
    0:23:44 I don’t know how many would come up beyond Swiss.
    0:23:45 It’s hard to imagine.
    0:23:46 I can’t think of any.
    0:23:48 Maybe you can, but I can’t.
    0:23:49 Benchmade.
    0:23:51 Benchmade is one for you.
    0:23:57 When you’re with knife people, you say Benchmade and you say EDC.
    0:24:02 When you mentioned the letters EDC, that stands for everyday carry.
    0:24:06 So if you’re with knife people, you say, yeah, my EDC is a Benchmade.
    0:24:08 It’s like you’re in the club.
    0:24:09 Wow.
    0:24:11 See, there’s a language for that too.
    0:24:12 Even that.
    0:24:15 See, I’m learning something and I’m really happy about that.
    0:24:24 So since I’m talking to the maven of design, can you just give us the basic principles so people know how to recognize great design?
    0:24:32 One of the things that I often ask my students to do when they’re evaluating is take the logo off the product.
    0:24:41 Can you still identify what it is by these assets, the color, the shape, the typography, the secondary typography?
    0:24:46 If you take the logo off, you’re left with the essence of the brand.
    0:24:48 So that’s certainly one way.
    0:24:50 Another way is to look at the audience.
    0:24:53 Do you have loyal zealots?
    0:25:07 If somebody is looking for a bag of potato chips or a pair of headphones, if their brand isn’t available, will they walk away from the shelf or the counter as opposed to buying a replacement?
    0:25:14 And if that is the case, you have a real loyal customer that’s not willing to compromise.
    0:25:15 So that’s another.
    0:25:22 When creating a brand, my advice to anyone is to, like Simon Sinek would say, start with why.
    0:25:24 Why do we need this thing?
    0:25:27 Why is there a reason for being for this product?
    0:25:39 If the reason for being for any creator is to have a Me Too product or to compete with a product on price, it’s not worth it.
    0:25:42 Then you’re just marketing yourself into the ground.
    0:25:51 You have to now begin to understand not what type of different flavor someone wants or what type of different shape people want.
    0:25:55 People are really interested in brands that make a difference in their lives.
    0:26:00 And that also, in many cases now, for younger generations, align with their values.
    0:26:02 And so you have to be very careful.
    0:26:06 The minute you start using the word authenticity, you’re likely not being authentic.
    0:26:08 That should be table stakes.
    0:26:10 We’re seeking to be authentic.
    0:26:13 If you’re not already authentic, then you’re never going to be authentic.
    0:26:16 So be very, very careful with language.
    0:26:19 Also, common vocabulary does not always equate with common behavior.
    0:26:24 And so really understanding what people say they want versus what they want or need.
    0:26:28 And that’s something, of course, we both, I think, learned from Mr. Jobs.
    0:26:30 People aren’t going to tell you what they need.
    0:26:32 They’re only going to tell you what they want.
    0:26:41 And it’s your job to understand what the inherent needs of any audience are in an effort to make something that is valuable to them.
    0:26:47 Another thing that I can say is that if you are thinking about a value proposition, don’t even bother.
    0:26:54 You really need to think about what people think is valuable to them as opposed to a value proposition.
    0:26:56 Just a few things off the top of my head.
    0:27:02 I would love to hear your analysis of the Liquid Death brand.
    0:27:04 Do you know Liquid Death?
    0:27:05 Yeah, the water brand, right?
    0:27:06 Yes.
    0:27:07 Yeah.
    0:27:10 I think they’re very clever in having created this.
    0:27:26 I would like to think that because they’re this clever, they have a plan for brand evolution because it brands tend to be non-it brands after a couple of years.
    0:27:31 I was actually talking to my students last year about the Stanley Cup.
    0:27:39 And did they think that the Stanley Cup could maintain their success?
    0:27:41 And most of them thought that they could not.
    0:27:55 And I thought, well, if they’re smart enough to position the brand to do this now, why would you assume that they’re not smart enough to have a roadmap for growth?
    0:27:58 I would like to think that they have a roadmap for growth.
    0:28:01 Liquid Death has a roadmap for growth and Stanley for that matter.
    0:28:03 But that remains to be seen.
    0:28:11 You know, when you look at the Stanley Cup and Liquid Death, Liquid Death, if you want to be a pessimist, you say, what is the big deal?
    0:28:14 They put water from New York in a can.
    0:28:16 And then Stanley Cup, big deal.
    0:28:17 They made a bigger cup.
    0:28:19 They made a big gulp in steel.
    0:28:20 What is the big deal?
    0:28:27 But it’s somehow, yeah, you can dissect it and you can get NIH about it, but it is a big deal.
    0:28:28 It’s a big deal.
    0:28:29 It’s a very big deal.
    0:28:34 It really shows that the people that created these brands have some real chops.
    0:28:35 They know how to market.
    0:28:48 And there’s a couple of really interesting videos online, one in particular that I’ll send you, and maybe you can put it in the show notes, of the backstory to the creation of the Stanley Cup.
    0:28:49 This was not by accident.
    0:28:52 This was very carefully planned by very smart marketers.
    0:28:59 And I think it’s worth watching for anybody that’s looking to create a moment for a brand.
    0:29:00 You can never predict virality.
    0:29:01 You can’t.
    0:29:08 The moment you think that you’re doing that is the moment you should really hang up your shingle or take it down, actually.
    0:29:12 Because it’s just not something that you can predict.
    0:29:17 There needs to be a bit of a lightning strike for something like that to happen.
    0:29:28 And a lot of it has to do with timing as well as effort, as well as the zeitgeist, as well as the marketplace in general, as well as the stock market, as well as the happiness index.
    0:29:30 There’s so many things that go into it.
    0:29:35 But in the case of these two brands, it wasn’t by accident.
    0:29:42 It wasn’t by accident somebody just came upon this brand and thought, wow, I want to talk to my followers about this brand.
    0:29:45 It wasn’t by accident that this happened.
    0:29:54 And I think that the trick for both of these brands is how to maintain that momentum.
    0:29:56 Because brands are always going to have peaks and valleys.
    0:29:59 And how do you manage through those?
    0:30:14 How do you continually reinvent while still keeping the integrity of your sort of intrinsicness and not pander too much to trends or really fads more than trends?
    0:30:18 And that’s, I think, the necessity for any marketer.
    0:30:29 Because a naysayer would say, listen, Mr. Stanley, you know, you’re all about serious tools and now you’re introducing pink cups and like you’re going to dilute your brand.
    0:30:30 You’re going to ruin your brand.
    0:30:36 People are not going to buy your screwdrivers and hammers because they think of Stanley as a steel pink cup.
    0:30:38 Well, that’s just one option.
    0:30:43 There are also steel black cups and steel target cups and all kinds of programs.
    0:30:45 It hasn’t hurt them yet.
    0:30:53 So I think you do have to be careful with any type of brand extension because it can’t be so far out that it ceases to be the brand anymore.
    0:30:56 But I do think the fact that it’s bigger than others.
    0:30:58 It’s very industrial.
    0:31:03 It seemed to maintain its integrity after a serious car crash.
    0:31:10 I think that does fit in the, and I hate this word, but I’ll use it anyway, the wheelhouse of the Stanley brand.
    0:31:11 All right.
    0:31:13 So speaking of car crashes, I have to ask you.
    0:31:18 So from a designer standpoint, when you see a Cybertruck, what do you think?
    0:31:22 I sort of slap my forehead and think, why?
    0:31:25 There’s that emoji.
    0:31:28 That’s what I feel like.
    0:31:29 Really?
    0:31:31 Just what the world needs, right?
    0:31:39 But that’s a whole separate conversation as well, because you can’t separate that brand from the founder.
    0:31:47 And that is sometimes the real slippery slope of having a founder so associated with the brand.
    0:31:52 Because if the founder falls out of favor, the brand really suffers.
    0:32:01 And oftentimes it’s really hard for that brand to ever recapture its allure.
    0:32:11 In the case of the Cybertruck, you could make the case that the founder and the product have slipped, right?
    0:32:12 And it’s really hard for that.
    0:32:12 And it’s not intended.
    0:32:13 It was intended.
    0:32:16 You know, it was intended as a symbol of social cachet.
    0:32:25 And in fact, it’s now a symbol of grandiosity and overcompensation for other things.
    0:32:27 It’s really rather tragic.
    0:32:32 That’ll be a Harvard Business School case, Eddie, without a doubt.
    0:32:42 I gotta ask, let’s say the phone rings and it’s Elon Musk and Elon Musk says to Debbie Newman, my brand is getting a little tarnished here.
    0:32:43 Yeah.
    0:32:51 Fact that I’m a Nazi and my Cybertruck is socks and the panels are falling off because we use white glue instead of Gorilla glue or whatever.
    0:32:55 So Debbie, come on board, help me fix the Tesla brand.
    0:32:56 What would you say?
    0:32:59 Or maybe you would say the Tesla brand is fine.
    0:33:00 I don’t know.
    0:33:07 Well, I feel that some brands are irredeemable and I would say that’s one of them.
    0:33:15 Now, there are probably people out there that think it would be a nice, big, juicy piece of business to work with him and try to fix things.
    0:33:18 But I wouldn’t be one of them.
    0:33:28 And I also doubt that he would respect the opinion of anybody else other than himself when trying to fix it.
    0:33:29 It’s like Trump.
    0:33:31 I alone can fix these things.
    0:33:36 And I think that Musk probably feels very similarly.
    0:33:40 But I could make the case that Steve Jobs would have that attitude, too.
    0:33:44 Of course, you could make the case that Steve Jobs would have that attitude, but Steve Jobs is right.
    0:33:50 But he also had a band of people around him that helped him fulfill that vision.
    0:33:57 That vision could not have been fulfilled without Wozniak, without Johnny Ives.
    0:34:00 There were so many people that contributed.
    0:34:04 And I would even add you to that list, though you probably would not, but I would.
    0:34:07 And as a bystander, I could say that.
    0:34:12 And I think that he knew to have really good people around him.
    0:34:15 And I never met him and I never had a conversation with him.
    0:34:17 I don’t know that he would say I alone can fix this.
    0:34:29 I think that he very deliberately relied on a group of people that he knew could do certain things, at least as good, if not better than he did.
    0:34:34 Don’t take this as a point of immodesty or something, because I’m not referring to myself.
    0:34:41 But I can tell you from firsthand knowledge, the people around Steve Jobs were just A and A-plus players.
    0:34:50 Steve Jobs was so secure, one could say even arrogant, that there was no doubt in his mind that he could hire the best in anything.
    0:34:59 And that person could work for him and he could work with that person, which I cannot say that about a lot of CEOs, that they would hire people better than themselves.
    0:35:00 Yeah.
    0:35:11 One of the things that I love about some of the stories that I hear about Michael Jordan, for your younger listeners, Michael Jordan, the great legendary basketball player.
    0:35:12 Not the actor.
    0:35:14 Oh, that’s Michael B. Jordan.
    0:35:15 Right.
    0:35:16 Yeah.
    0:35:28 But Scottie Pippen once said that part of what made Michael Jordan so great wasn’t just his singular talent, but how he was able to make everybody else that played with him better.
    0:35:39 And I thought that was a pretty remarkable statement for a real leader to help people not only fulfill your dream, but help them fulfill their own dreams.
    0:35:46 And I think from all sort of observations, it seemed like Steve did that.
    0:35:48 Yeah, absolutely.
    0:35:54 Although it would be very helpful if your dream coincided with his dream, shall I say?
    0:35:57 Yeah, of course.
    0:36:08 I’m going to go down a little bit of a rat hole because I noticed that I saw you give a Ted talk and you were standing at a podium and you actually had notes on the podium.
    0:36:11 And, and to my knowledge, Ted doesn’t allow that.
    0:36:15 So I went to chat GPT and I said, can you use notes at a Ted talk?
    0:36:26 And I said, well, individual Ted X locations have their own rules, but I want to know, like, how did you pull that off? Why did you use notes at that podium?
    0:36:29 One of the big shames of my life.
    0:36:30 One of the big shames of my life.
    0:36:34 Well, first of all, you can use a music stand and quite a few people do.
    0:36:37 You can go back into their archives and see.
    0:36:46 The reason that I did was because of how many statistics I quoted in my talk.
    0:36:50 And I used a lot of science and I’m not a scientist.
    0:36:59 And because I was also very nervous to make a mistake and to misquote, because you can’t correct those things in post.
    0:37:08 And I was so worried that I might make a mistake and misrepresent some science or some fact.
    0:37:17 There were certain brands that I referred to that are long out of business and I didn’t want to make mistakes with their names or their years, the years they came out.
    0:37:22 There were so many facts that I had to share so fast.
    0:37:26 And I had 12 or 13 minutes to do it.
    0:37:29 Plus I hand drew the entire presentation.
    0:37:32 So my timing had to be perfect.
    0:37:36 Otherwise I would be talking about things that people couldn’t see when I was showing them.
    0:37:38 There’s no confidence monitor.
    0:37:40 And I was scared.
    0:37:41 I was scared.
    0:37:43 From one TEDx talker to another.
    0:37:44 I looked at that.
    0:37:46 I said, I have never seen that before.
    0:37:50 So I was just very curious how you pulled that off.
    0:37:58 And then, but I got to tell you that you’re probably more ashamed of the quality of your voice of America, initial recordings.
    0:38:07 Oh my God, I saw you like, I saw you play like voice of America, your early episode.
    0:38:09 And oh my God.
    0:38:10 Like you’re.
    0:38:11 It’s terrifying.
    0:38:13 I started the podcast 20 years ago.
    0:38:15 First of all, let me finish the TED stuff.
    0:38:24 So the TED folks, they recommended that I consider using a music stand and I was really reluctant to do it, but they persuaded me.
    0:38:30 And for good reason that nobody wanted me to make any kind of factual error on the TED stage.
    0:38:31 Okay.
    0:38:33 That being said, yes.
    0:38:36 Another shameful experience in my early podcast.
    0:38:42 Now, 20 years ago, I didn’t know that I’d still be doing the show 20 years from then.
    0:38:47 If I had looked into a crystal ball, that would have been the last thing I would have said I was still doing.
    0:38:52 I started it on a lark and I started on voice America, which is different than voice of America.
    0:38:53 So I just want to be really.
    0:38:54 Oh, sorry.
    0:38:55 No, no, no.
    0:39:00 That’s just because one is sort of was a fledgling internet radio network and the other is not.
    0:39:07 So when I joke that those early shows sounded like they were made by Wayne and Garth for an episode of Wayne’s World.
    0:39:11 That was so prehistoric in the technology.
    0:39:16 I was doing the show early on with two handheld phone sets and then it was then pushed through a modem.
    0:39:17 It was, oh my goodness.
    0:39:19 We all got to start somewhere.
    0:39:20 Actually, Debbie, I could.
    0:39:22 It was worse than the technology guy.
    0:39:25 It was actually my talent at the time was zero.
    0:39:29 I was terrible at interviewing, but in any case, I’m sorry to interrupt.
    0:39:39 Debbie, circa March, 2025, I could make the case that voice of America is a fledgling network again, but that’s another point.
    0:39:40 Okay.
    0:39:53 Now flipping that, I have to say on the other side, I also watched you give a talk at 99 you in 2017 called anything worthwhile takes time.
    0:39:59 And I have to tell you, Debbie, that I think, and I have seen thousands of presentations.
    0:40:04 I think that is the best presentation I have ever seen.
    0:40:05 You were very loose.
    0:40:06 You’re walking around.
    0:40:08 You’re completely emotive.
    0:40:10 You’re completely relaxed.
    0:40:12 You’re like cracking jokes.
    0:40:19 I looked at that and I’m going to send that to, to all these speaking coaches, Nancy Duarte, all these people.
    0:40:20 I’m going to send them this.
    0:40:23 Like this to me is perfection.
    0:40:26 That I like, I am not worthy, Debbie.
    0:40:27 I am not worried.
    0:40:29 That was such a great presentation.
    0:40:30 Thank you.
    0:40:31 That should have been my Ted talk.
    0:40:39 The topic of that, anything worthwhile takes time.
    0:40:43 But then of course, the follow on question is when do you give up?
    0:40:45 If you’re saying it takes 10 years to be a podcaster.
    0:40:47 What if it’s 11 years?
    0:40:49 At what point do you give up?
    0:40:50 I don’t know.
    0:40:52 I don’t know.
    0:40:53 I don’t know.
    0:40:58 I think it’s been very hard for me to walk away from things.
    0:41:00 Even when they were still good.
    0:41:02 Because I don’t like change.
    0:41:04 I’ve stayed at jobs too long.
    0:41:08 I’ve stayed in relationships too long, trying to make them work.
    0:41:12 I wish I could tell you an answer to that question.
    0:41:23 Because for me, I’ve walked away either when I felt like I had no other choice to protect my heart and my sort of psyche.
    0:41:32 But I’ve also walked away when I felt completely broken and wish that I had walked away sooner.
    0:41:39 There are very few things that I’ve walked away from that I think that I look back on and think, oh, I wish I’d done that sooner.
    0:41:40 I do.
    0:41:47 But those tend not to be efforts that are on my own.
    0:41:53 They tend to be things that include other people or other circumstances.
    0:42:04 And so for myself, I seem to have, for better or worse, an endless search for better.
    0:42:11 I think that can sometimes be a trap because when you get a little bit better, then you want to be a little bit better and then a bit better.
    0:42:16 I’ve been accused of continually raising my own bar to a place where it’s unattainable.
    0:42:18 And maybe that’s true.
    0:42:23 But I’ve yet to give up on a whole bunch of my hopes and dreams.
    0:42:26 And I feel like I don’t ever want to.
    0:42:33 But one thing I should say, I’ve always had multiple dreams and multiple hopes.
    0:42:37 And this sort of gets back to the first question you asked about what did I want to be when I was a kid.
    0:42:41 And I’ve always wanted to do a lot of different things.
    0:42:46 And so my success at those different things have all happened at different times.
    0:42:49 And so one success buoyed the other efforts.
    0:42:55 Now, the good news is that a success buoys other efforts.
    0:43:01 The difficulty in that sometimes is because there’s been so many different things that I’ve pursued.
    0:43:08 It’s been a lot longer to achieve any kind of success with any of them.
    0:43:10 And that has been a trade off.
    0:43:12 Now, I don’t mind so much.
    0:43:17 Years earlier, I was much more impatient and probably a bit more desperate.
    0:43:20 I think that’s a very good segue.
    0:43:25 You bring up a topic of the value of self-generated art.
    0:43:28 So can you talk about why self-generated art?
    0:43:33 And I would include writing and podcasting, not just art in that.
    0:43:37 So talk about the value of self-generated arts.
    0:43:40 The podcast for me was very self-generated.
    0:43:46 I was invited to do this by Voice America, but I had to pay them for the production.
    0:43:48 And so it wasn’t a job opportunity.
    0:43:49 It was just an opportunity.
    0:43:56 And at the time, I felt very thwarted by my corporate work and wanted to do something that was more creative.
    0:44:01 Although I couldn’t afford to, nor did I want to give up my corporate work.
    0:44:03 I just wanted to augment my corporate work.
    0:44:06 And so that ended up being entirely self-generated.
    0:44:10 I was paying and investing in that effort myself.
    0:44:15 It turned out to be a wonderful centerpiece to my life now.
    0:44:31 So I’ve always relied on doing things on my own when opportunities that required more collaboration or being hired by others didn’t show up.
    0:44:37 I’ve tended to want to do them enough to start them anyway.
    0:44:38 Wow.
    0:44:41 My first book was called The Macintosh Way.
    0:44:46 I wrote it while I was CEO of a startup and I was very frustrated in that position.
    0:44:55 So in a sense, the Macintosh Way was a self-generated book written out of frustration with my day job.
    0:44:57 So I can entirely relate to that.
    0:44:58 Yeah.
    0:45:09 I did a spec job for MTV in the early 90s and we really wanted the business.
    0:45:14 We really put our hearts and souls into doing this work and we didn’t get the job.
    0:45:30 And about a year or so later, I had decided to leave that agency and I was interviewing at another agency and I saw on their wall of fame, they had little slots in the wall where they had projects that you can look at.
    0:45:38 And it was a brochure and this brochure was the brochure of the work that I had been pitching because it was the same title.
    0:45:40 So the agency stole the work.
    0:45:42 No, it wasn’t my work at all.
    0:45:45 It was just the name of the project that I recognized.
    0:45:52 And I said, Aubrey, did Frankfurt Balkheim participate in spec to get that project?
    0:45:53 You guys won?
    0:45:55 And he’s like, no, no, no.
    0:45:57 We would never do spec.
    0:46:00 They pitched it out to a bunch of agencies.
    0:46:01 They all did it on spec.
    0:46:02 They didn’t like anything.
    0:46:03 And then they hired us.
    0:46:07 And that was the last time I ever did a spec job.
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    0:47:18 I’d like to switch to branding.
    0:47:30 So, first of all, I have a quote from you, which I am going to make a sign out of, which says, “Branding is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.”
    0:47:32 Ah, I love that quote.
    0:47:33 I love that quote.
    0:47:34 I love that quote.
    0:47:38 So, first of all, can you please describe what is a brand?
    0:47:46 Because I think people might get the impression that a brand is just the graphic elements of font and logos and stuff like that.
    0:47:49 But what is a brand?
    0:47:53 A brand is manufactured meaning, first and foremost.
    0:48:03 We manufacture meaning around objects, constructs, products, ideas, movements.
    0:48:06 A brand is something that represents something else.
    0:48:13 So, you have a brand of sneakers that represents a whole series of attributes about what that sneaker means to people.
    0:48:15 It differentiates.
    0:48:17 It’s very deliberate differentiation.
    0:48:27 But I do want to say that the quote that you read is a beautiful quote, and I have quoted it and written about it and included it in one of my books.
    0:48:32 But it was written by, or said by Wally Owens in an interview that we did together.
    0:48:37 The late, great Wally Owens, founder of Wolf Owens, the founder of Saffron.
    0:48:40 And he said that to me in an interview.
    0:48:50 And I feel that on its best day, at its sort of highest moment, that’s what brands should be.
    0:49:01 They should be a profound manifestation of the human spirit because we use brands to represent our ideas and our hopes and our desires.
    0:49:12 And wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could utilize brands to unite as opposed to separate and segment?
    0:49:17 But what do you say to a designer who’s listening to this is thinking, yeah, I love branding.
    0:49:23 And to them, they are talking about making logos and picking fonts and color schemes.
    0:49:25 And which comes first?
    0:49:32 Do those mechanical aspects come after the product or do they, you know, which comes first?
    0:49:34 What comes first is the idea.
    0:49:36 What comes first is the idea.
    0:49:38 It could be, let’s create a religion.
    0:49:40 It could be, let’s create a movement.
    0:49:48 It could be, let’s create a sneaker, a handbag, a pair of headphones, a coffee cup or a coffee shop.
    0:49:55 They could be any product, any idea at all that requires some way to explain it to another.
    0:50:06 And what I would tell any designer is that find out what the strategic positioning is or create the strategic positioning first before you go into execution.
    0:50:11 Because what are you drawing a logo for if you don’t understand what the purpose of this product is?
    0:50:14 What is the benefit for people to understand this?
    0:50:21 Why do you want people to engage with this, to join this, to buy this, to wear this, to eat this?
    0:50:27 If you can’t come up with what that reason for being is, you have no business making a brand.
    0:50:41 And what goes through your mind when you see brands like Apple and Google and they donate a million dollars to an inauguration and then they go and they take a picture on the stage behind the president.
    0:50:44 Like that is part of the brand now, right?
    0:50:45 Oh yeah.
    0:50:46 Yeah.
    0:50:47 And so what happens?
    0:50:49 It dilutes the integrity of the brand.
    0:50:56 It dilutes what people believed about what was intrinsic about this brand.
    0:51:04 It makes it completely inauthentic and phony and sad.
    0:51:10 And what if that CEO calls you up and says, Debbie, let me tell you something.
    0:51:19 If I didn’t do that, then the raw materials for my products would have had a tariff on it and that would have hurt my brand and that would have increased costs.
    0:51:23 And so I did it because I’m loyal to the shareholders or something.
    0:51:25 What would you say to that?
    0:51:28 Those CEOs have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders.
    0:51:29 No question about it.
    0:51:39 But I would be honest about it and say that we’re taking a stand against this and whatever increases are going to happen.
    0:51:47 Because of decisions made by our administration, the people that we’ve voted to lead us.
    0:51:48 And you have to take that.
    0:51:49 You know what?
    0:51:50 These companies make enough money.
    0:51:54 They don’t even have to raise the prices on their products.
    0:51:58 They can make a little bit less money and their share price could go down for a little while.
    0:51:59 But you know what?
    0:52:01 In the long run, it’ll go up.
    0:52:05 And that’s the power of real authenticity.
    0:52:06 Yeah.
    0:52:08 Look what Nike did with Colin Kaepernick.
    0:52:11 Everybody, everybody talked about how that brand destroyed itself.
    0:52:16 People were running over sneakers with their cars, burning them on Twitter.
    0:52:17 Please.
    0:52:18 What happened?
    0:52:21 The next quarter, Nike stock price actually went up.
    0:52:22 They took a risk.
    0:52:23 They took a risk.
    0:52:24 They took a risk.
    0:52:26 That uncertainty terrified Wall Street.
    0:52:28 But what happened in the long run?
    0:52:30 The stock price went up.
    0:52:31 And that’s what people have to remember.
    0:52:33 And that’s what people have to believe.
    0:52:36 They have to take a stand now more than ever.
    0:52:40 Otherwise, they’re going to lose their audience in the long run.
    0:52:44 Much of your work occurred before.
    0:52:47 Let’s just say this current situations.
    0:52:53 And you were talking about Black Lives Matter and Me Too and the pink pussy hats as brands.
    0:53:00 And how this is activism and social responsibility and social responsibility, making the world a better place.
    0:53:05 But now you have to admit that the MAGA brand is very successful.
    0:53:09 So what does that manifestation mean?
    0:53:20 That’s actually a really sad and somewhat terrifying reflection of what is happening in our country.
    0:53:33 When people are outraged by DEI, I ask them, “What word actually are you opposed to? Diversity? Equity? Inclusion?”
    0:53:38 Like, “Really? You’re against those things. Tell me why you’re against those things.”
    0:53:54 We then see a rampant acceptance of discrimination, of segregation, lack of bodily autonomy, lack of reproductive freedom.
    0:53:58 And that’s why I believe we’re in a constitutional crisis.
    0:54:07 But I hope that, as Martin Luther King has said, the arc of the universe bends towards justice.
    0:54:10 The moral arc of the universe bends towards justice.
    0:54:13 And that’s what I’m hoping for.
    0:54:15 No pun intended, but me too.
    0:54:17 I mean, absolutely.
    0:54:19 I’m with you there, Debbie, 100%.
    0:54:21 Podcast to the podcast.
    0:54:26 I just want to finish up this interview with some podcasting questions because I love what you do there.
    0:54:32 So first of all, we have massive overlap between your podcast and mine.
    0:54:38 Like I’ve had Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Temple Grandin, and Daniel Pink.
    0:54:40 So we’re fishing in the same lake.
    0:54:51 And so my first very tactical question is, in your mind, is your podcast, is it a means to an end or is it an end in itself?
    0:54:55 It’s a profound manifestation of my spirit.
    0:54:56 Maybe not so profound.
    0:54:58 It’s the Debbie Millman brand.
    0:54:59 No, no.
    0:55:01 I don’t believe people can be brands or should be brands.
    0:55:04 You can own a brand and you can manage a brand.
    0:55:07 You can found a brand, but I don’t think people should be brands.
    0:55:13 I think that we can just look at the circumstances of some of today’s biggest brands and the people that own them.
    0:55:16 And that’s a good reason why they shouldn’t be people.
    0:55:17 They have souls.
    0:55:19 They have hearts that beat.
    0:55:20 Brands don’t.
    0:55:21 They’re not self-directed.
    0:55:22 Humans are.
    0:55:25 And I would like to think that we remain that way.
    0:55:31 So, yeah, I just think it’s the greatest gift of my life to have stumbled upon this.
    0:55:36 I didn’t think that when I was a little girl, I was going to be a podcaster to bring this full circle.
    0:55:38 But boy, oh boy, am I glad I am.
    0:55:39 Yeah.
    0:55:41 I feel the same way.
    0:55:42 I feel the same way.
    0:55:43 Yeah.
    0:55:45 How do you prepare for an interview?
    0:55:46 You know what, Guy?
    0:55:48 That’s a really long question.
    0:55:51 And I thought our podcast was for an hour.
    0:55:56 And so I’m happy to come back and share more later today if you want to continue.
    0:55:59 Because this has been one of the best conversations I’ve ever had.
    0:56:04 Never in a million years did I think you’d want to talk to me for an hour, more than an hour.
    0:56:06 But I do have to go.
    0:56:07 I’m so sorry.
    0:56:11 Tell Terry Gross or Joe Rogan to just hang on for a few minutes.
    0:56:12 Okay.
    0:56:13 I will.
    0:56:14 I will.
    0:56:14 I will.
    0:56:15 I will.
    0:56:16 I will.
    0:56:16 Okay.
    0:56:17 Okay.
    0:56:18 I’ll let you go.
    0:56:19 I respect your time.
    0:56:23 But can I just ask you one really simple last question?
    0:56:24 Absolutely.
    0:56:25 Absolutely.
    0:56:26 Absolutely.
    0:56:27 Okay.
    0:56:30 What makes you happy with an episode?
    0:56:31 When you press stop?
    0:56:32 When you press stop?
    0:56:33 What do you say?
    0:56:34 Like, what makes it?
    0:56:35 Oh, that was a great episode.
    0:56:38 Like, I have this conversation with Madison all the time.
    0:56:40 I love what we just did.
    0:56:41 What makes you happy?
    0:56:47 What makes me happy is someone wants to have a conversation with me.
    0:56:49 Somebody is like ready to go there with me.
    0:56:51 Like you did in our conversation.
    0:56:54 Like, I hope I’m doing in our conversation today.
    0:56:55 I can feel the click.
    0:56:57 It’s palpable.
    0:56:59 And it is energizing.
    0:57:03 It’s like an endorphin rush when I connect with someone.
    0:57:08 And that’s the best feeling, the best possible feeling you can hope for in a podcast.
    0:57:13 So this is part two of the Debbie Millman interview.
    0:57:15 And we had so much fun.
    0:57:17 We decided to go to part two.
    0:57:23 And to all of Guy’s listeners, I thought he just wanted to have a friend on friend conversation.
    0:57:26 Guy wants to be my friend.
    0:57:28 This is a friend on friend conversation.
    0:57:32 It’s just a friend on friend conversation in front of thousands of people.
    0:57:33 Right, right.
    0:57:35 I thought we were going like super intimate.
    0:57:39 Like, Guy, tell me about your life.
    0:57:48 So I have an AIGA story.
    0:57:49 Okay.
    0:57:52 So you were very active in AIGA, right?
    0:57:53 I was indeed.
    0:57:54 Okay.
    0:57:55 So I got to tell you this story.
    0:57:58 And maybe you’re going to hate me after I tell you this story.
    0:57:59 I doubt it.
    0:58:04 We’re back here because I thought we were having a friend conversation.
    0:58:07 I’m never going to let you live this down.
    0:58:11 I’m telling my wife, I’m like, I think Guy wants to be my friend now.
    0:58:13 He wants to have another conversation.
    0:58:15 I do want to be your friend.
    0:58:19 That’s why I have to do this AIGA confession story.
    0:58:20 I’m teasing you.
    0:58:23 We need to clear the decks before we can truly be friends.
    0:58:24 Okay.
    0:58:25 Here we go.
    0:58:36 So I had a book called Enchantment and I decided that a particularly enchanting organism is a butterfly.
    0:58:41 And so I really love the process.
    0:58:45 I love and hate the process of getting a cover for a book design.
    0:58:52 So most people just leave it up to the publisher and the publisher submits two or three and says, oh, we’re beyond the deadline.
    0:58:54 You got to pick from these two or three, right?
    0:58:55 So not Guy.
    0:59:00 So Guy goes out and he goes to his social media and he sends out a social media post.
    0:59:03 This is, I have a new book called Enchantment.
    0:59:05 I’m looking for ideas for the cover.
    0:59:07 Submit your idea.
    0:59:11 And I’m going to pick one and pay you a thousand dollars for it.
    0:59:15 So I do this and I get like hundreds and hundreds of designs.
    0:59:17 And finally I pick one.
    0:59:19 And it’s this guy who’s not a designer.
    0:59:23 He’s from Thailand or Bangkok or Bali or something.
    0:59:25 And he’s an engineering student.
    0:59:26 I loved his idea.
    0:59:28 So I executed his idea.
    0:59:36 And then the hate started from the AIGA because the AIGA is starting saying, Guy, this is called spec work.
    0:59:42 And you are actually taking advantage of my industry, our industry.
    0:59:46 You’re making all these designers do something for free and you’re only going to pay one.
    0:59:51 And that’s against the tenants of the AIGA and you’re a bad guy and all this.
    1:00:01 And my logic was, listen, I wasn’t going to go through and make a spec and meet with half a dozen companies and pick one based on meeting with them and the spec.
    1:00:06 I decided that I was going to truly open this up to anybody, give anybody the opportunity.
    1:00:08 And I want to help anybody.
    1:00:11 And that doesn’t have to be a design firm.
    1:00:13 So I’m telling you this story.
    1:00:16 And now you’re going to tell me, Guy, you’re an asshole for doing that.
    1:00:18 Or, Guy, that’s just the way it rolls.
    1:00:20 I’m going to give you a sort of hypothetical.
    1:00:27 Imagine I was going to a party and I really wanted to look wonderful.
    1:00:37 And I didn’t necessarily know about how one goes about acquiring attire for a party.
    1:00:49 And I went to a store and said, I’m going to a party and I really want to wear a dress that you made.
    1:01:02 Can I borrow 15 of them and go home and try them on and maybe have dinner with a couple of my friends in one and go out dancing in another and so on?
    1:01:07 And then the one that I really love the most, I will buy and bring the others back.
    1:01:09 And thanks, but no thanks.
    1:01:23 So designers have notoriously over the, I don’t know, 100 or so years that this has been a sort of professional profession, been asked to do spec work.
    1:01:32 And oftentimes, and I’m not suggesting in any way that this was your intent, I’m just speaking hypothetically about some of the broader issues.
    1:01:33 Yeah.
    1:01:38 It has not been about free work as much as an imbalance of power.
    1:01:47 So somebody with more power asks somebody with less power to do something for them for free in order to get more power.
    1:01:59 And so it becomes a power exchange, whereas people think that because this is a discipline that’s a professional one that anybody should get paid for the work that they do.
    1:02:01 Now, this is not unusual.
    1:02:21 There have been so many, especially over the last couple of years, brouhaha’s where organizations will put out a spec for a poster contest or a T-shirt contest or anything that requires graphics of any sort that result in people contributing work for free.
    1:02:30 Amanda Palmer has gotten into a lot of trouble for this, asking some of her fans to do things with her or for her when she’s trying to just do something that’s more collaborative.
    1:02:36 She’s not forcing anybody to do it and they’re not getting paid and other people get outraged by this.
    1:02:43 I think that for something like what you were doing, opening it up to the whole world, designer or not, I want to see ideas.
    1:02:53 Maybe if you’d offered everybody a free PDF in exchange or a free chapter in exchange, there would have been a sort of exchange of efforts.
    1:03:02 That all being said, this is an opportunity like we’re having now this conversation to educate people, to enlighten people about how certain things are done.
    1:03:15 When people get outraged by things and just have these knee jerk reactions like you’re doing something wrong, you’re bad, without explaining to someone where the nuances are here.
    1:03:26 Like this is an opportunity to share with people that historically his spec work has been seen by designers as a way of getting free work.
    1:03:34 And they use all sorts of examples. You wouldn’t ask a plumber to do something on spec, would you? You wouldn’t ask an electrician, would you? And it’s hard to say.
    1:03:37 So can we still be friends or what?
    1:03:38 Oh, yes, yes, yes.
    1:03:52 You know what? I used to do spec work. The really interesting thing about this was when I was starting out, that’s part of the issue here is that when you’re starting out, a lot of people will ask you to do spec work because they don’t really know the quality of your work.
    1:03:53 Exactly.
    1:04:00 You need to get a sort of sense. You’ll look at a menu before you go into a restaurant, right? You’re not asking for that for free. It’s just there.
    1:04:07 But what I can tell you is that I did a lot of spec work as I was coming up because I didn’t think I had any other choice.
    1:04:22 And I did a spec job for MTV in the early 90s. And we really wanted the business. We really put our hearts and souls into doing this work. And we didn’t get the job.
    1:04:39 And about a year or so later, I had decided to leave that agency. And I was interviewing at another agency. And I saw on their wall of fame, they had little slots in the wall where they had projects that you can look at.
    1:04:46 And it was a brochure. And this brochure was the brochure of the work that I had been pitching because it was the same title.
    1:04:48 So the agency stole the work.
    1:05:01 No, it wasn’t my work at all. It was just the name of the project that I recognized. And I said, Aubrey, did Frankfurt Balkhine participate in spec to get that project? You guys won?
    1:05:13 And he’s like, no, no, no, no, no. We would never do spec. They pitched it out to a bunch of agencies. They all did it on spec. They didn’t like anything. And then they hired us.
    1:05:17 And that was the last time I ever did a spec job.
    1:05:26 I have a theory and a value in my life that I would never ask people to do something I would not do.
    1:05:41 And I will tell you that I have done, quote, spec work as a speaker. I have done many, many, many, many, many free speeches knowing that I wasn’t going to be paid. I should have been paid, blah, blah, blah.
    1:05:48 But I viewed it as an opportunity to get into a company or get into an industry. So I did spec work.
    1:05:54 And so in my mind, Guy, if you’re willing to do spec work, you can ask people to do spec work.
    1:06:12 Now, that might be a rationalization. But then, Debbie, what really triggered me into wanting to ask you this question is when I read or when I watch one of your videos and you said that you actually paid Voice America as opposed to Voice of America.
    1:06:18 You paid Voice of America for that first podcast stuff, right?
    1:06:24 So I said to myself, so here is a person who has risen to the top of her industry.
    1:06:27 She didn’t bitch and moan about doing free spec work.
    1:06:32 She, in fact, paid to do and then get that opportunity.
    1:06:36 So of all people, I should ask her what she thinks with hindsight.
    1:06:38 It’s just an interesting question.
    1:06:40 First of all, that was 20 years ago.
    1:06:51 And while I might have achieved a certain level of success at that point in my life, I certainly was by no means a renowned disc jockey, radio host, anything like that.
    1:06:53 And that was their business model.
    1:07:06 I mean, they were calling people that were leaders in their fields of various levels, various fields to offer them this opportunity to create a platform for themselves.
    1:07:10 This was even before the word influencer was part of our vernacular.
    1:07:21 And so they were asking people to do this as a way for them to expand their platforms, become more well known in those fields.
    1:07:28 The big pushback that I got from Voice America at the time was that my reputation was really in branding.
    1:07:31 And this was the Voice America Business Network.
    1:07:37 I wanted to do the show on design and creativity, which is why I called it Design Matters.
    1:07:44 They were actually really apprehensive about my using the name Design Matters.
    1:07:47 This is a really funny story, which I think you’re going to love.
    1:07:55 So I was trying to persuade them that design was a business and that it would be viable on this part of their network.
    1:08:01 And on the spot in my conversation with them, they said, pitch us an episode.
    1:08:04 If you had to do an episode tomorrow, what would you want it to be on?
    1:08:10 Now, I’m going to point out that I was putting the idea of the show together with Voice America at the end of 2004.
    1:08:14 What was very popular in 2004 on television?
    1:08:20 A little show called The Apprentice.
    1:08:23 I knew I would get you to laugh on this one.
    1:08:39 The night before this conversation, one of the exercises or one of the tasks that the apprentices were tasked with was redesigning Pepsi Edge.
    1:08:44 Redesigning the can.
    1:08:50 Sterling Grants, the company where I was president, had designed the original can.
    1:08:53 So the apprentices or apprentices, I don’t know whether this is the plural.
    1:08:57 They were being tasked with redesigning our can.
    1:08:59 Now, we weren’t part of the show at all.
    1:09:02 The client was Lisa Francella.
    1:09:19 And so on the spot, I said, well, if I had to do a show tomorrow, I’d invite Lisa Francella on the show to talk about Pepsi and the equity that Pepsi Edge has and how the task that these apprentices in trying to redesign the label, how they did, how well they did or how not.
    1:09:22 And they were like, sold.
    1:09:24 And so I did get Lisa on the show.
    1:09:26 But that was the way that I was able to.
    1:09:28 And I thought you’d enjoy that.
    1:09:35 So should I say to myself that Debbie Millman is successful because of Donald Trump?
    1:09:36 Oh, God.
    1:09:38 Oh, God, no, no.
    1:09:42 You know, another really funny story about that.
    1:09:51 Before the show had even gone on the air, they were scouting agencies to do some sort of task with The Apprentice.
    1:09:58 And they came to us and asked us if we would be willing to host one of their exercises and be involved.
    1:10:07 And the senior partner, the partner that actually hired me at Sterling, Simon Williams, was like, absolutely not.
    1:10:08 Oh, no.
    1:10:11 And then Donnie Deutsch ended up doing it.
    1:10:12 Donnie Deutsch ended up doing it.
    1:10:15 And after that, Donnie Deutsch got his own show on CNBC.
    1:10:17 And I was like, oh, rats.
    1:10:18 That could have been me.
    1:10:20 And now I’m like, I’m so glad that wasn’t me.
    1:10:27 Today, you could be Secretary of Education if you had done that.
    1:10:28 Oh, Guy.
    1:10:29 Yeah.
    1:10:31 Not happening.
    1:10:33 Okay.
    1:10:39 So the next thing I didn’t get to ask you yesterday was, I want to know about your podcast.
    1:10:42 So how do you pick guests?
    1:10:45 Are you buying or selling at this stage?
    1:10:47 Well, I never pay to have guests on.
    1:10:48 I don’t know what you mean by selling.
    1:10:49 So this is great.
    1:10:51 I’ll use you an example.
    1:10:55 Years ago, I sent you an invite to be on the show and I didn’t hear anything back.
    1:11:03 And then last year, I got an email from, I guess, a PR person or your book publisher.
    1:11:05 And they were like, oh, would you like to interview Guy Kawasaki?
    1:11:06 I was like, hell yeah.
    1:11:08 I’ve been wanting to interview Guy for years.
    1:11:12 So, you know, that’s how that happened with us.
    1:11:13 Wait, wait, wait.
    1:11:17 So you’re telling me that the first time you reached out to me, I blew you off.
    1:11:18 Yes.
    1:11:19 Yes.
    1:11:20 Oh my God.
    1:11:24 That’s what I call BM, which is before Madison.
    1:11:30 Because after Madison, that would have never fallen through the cracks.
    1:11:31 Oh, I believe that.
    1:11:33 And I don’t take it personally.
    1:11:34 People are busy.
    1:11:36 I don’t always get back to people really quickly.
    1:11:38 And obviously, here we are.
    1:11:42 And I’ve known of you for decades and had always wanted to be on the show.
    1:11:44 Oh, you’re hurting me.
    1:11:47 I loved our conversation when we had it.
    1:11:49 And it’s funny because I’ve always wanted to be on your show.
    1:11:55 But I know that when I was reading about, like you said something, I think in about the show,
    1:11:57 like, don’t pitch me.
    1:11:59 I don’t invite people that pitch me.
    1:12:00 I love.
    1:12:06 But I think that my publicist, because I have a wish list of people’s shows that I wanted to be on.
    1:12:07 And of course, you were on it.
    1:12:08 So I guess she did it anyway.
    1:12:13 Maybe she heard that I focus on people who do gardening or something.
    1:12:14 Well, no.
    1:12:17 The reason she pitched you is because I asked her to.
    1:12:20 I just was taking a chance that maybe you’d consider it anyway.
    1:12:22 But yeah, I gave her a wish list.
    1:12:27 I want to thank you for taking the high road because I couldn’t easily make the case that,
    1:12:30 you know, that asshole didn’t respond to me.
    1:12:34 So now that I’m a big deal, I am not going to go on his show.
    1:12:35 So you took the high road.
    1:12:37 No, no, no, no, no.
    1:12:46 And also usually it’s either a yes or a no answer, not a yes or a no.
    1:12:51 Very few people have written back and said, no, thank you.
    1:12:56 I had Cindy Sherman, the great photographer, wrote back and said, I’m so tired of hearing myself talk.
    1:12:59 I just don’t want to do any more interviews.
    1:13:00 And I love that.
    1:13:02 Like, at least she was being honest.
    1:13:03 I was very excited.
    1:13:05 You know, and sometimes I reach for the stars.
    1:13:09 I wrote to Barbara Streisand’s people when her memoir came out.
    1:13:10 Yeah.
    1:13:12 I wrote to Jill Obama’s people when her memoir came out.
    1:13:17 And I got responses from both of those publicists saying, we’re fans of your show.
    1:13:18 It’s not going to work this time.
    1:13:19 Maybe another time.
    1:13:20 Keep in touch.
    1:13:22 And you know, I’m keeping in touch.
    1:13:27 Like you know that I am keeping in touch because they’re like my great white whales.
    1:13:32 Like I am Moby Dick looking for Barbara and Michelle.
    1:13:34 Aren’t we all?
    1:13:35 Yeah.
    1:13:36 Babs and Mish.
    1:13:38 Come on in.
    1:13:44 I pursued Stacey Abrams literally for years and years.
    1:13:47 And of course, I would love to get Michelle Obama.
    1:13:53 But right now, if I could have one magic wish, it would be Heather Cox Richardson.
    1:13:56 I would love to have her.
    1:13:58 Thank God for that woman.
    1:13:59 Yeah.
    1:14:00 Thank God for that woman.
    1:14:01 I would love to see.
    1:14:07 Literally, pretty much at this point between her and maybe Rachel Maddow and Paul Krugman,
    1:14:14 the only people that are keeping me sort of tethered to some semblance of hope about the future.
    1:14:15 Truly.
    1:14:18 We’re going to get deported for this podcast.
    1:14:19 I know.
    1:14:20 I know.
    1:14:21 We can be sellies.
    1:14:22 Yeah.
    1:14:25 I’ve always wanted to see Cuba.
    1:14:26 Okay.
    1:14:29 So wait, wait.
    1:14:31 But back to my question.
    1:14:33 So are you buying or selling?
    1:14:38 Are you, you know, asking people like Michelle or you getting just inundated?
    1:14:42 So you basically turning down people all the time at this point.
    1:14:44 I do get a lot of requests.
    1:14:46 I do get a lot.
    1:14:49 And sometimes they’re shocking and incredible.
    1:14:52 And I fall off my chair when I look at them.
    1:15:01 I got a couple of years ago an opportunity to interview one of my musical heroes, a woman named Rikki Lee Jones.
    1:15:08 And she helped create my persona in the 80s with her music.
    1:15:13 And so that was an extraordinary experience.
    1:15:17 And she actually sang a little bit on the pod.
    1:15:18 Wow.
    1:15:29 So yeah, there are times where I get opportunities to interview people that I never, ever would have expected being able to talk to.
    1:15:33 And I still find that miraculous.
    1:15:34 I really do.
    1:15:35 Yeah.
    1:15:42 But I also am very deliberate about the people that I want to talk to.
    1:15:54 There are so many people I admire and so many people that I find intriguing that I constantly have a list of people that I am trying to reach.
    1:15:59 Yeah, I mean, I’ve been trying to reach Heather Cox Richardson for a year.
    1:16:01 So I figured I got another year.
    1:16:02 It’s all right.
    1:16:03 Yeah, absolutely.
    1:16:14 One thing that I can say is that I’ve had so much rejection over the decades and not just for the pod, but for so many other things that I just expect it.
    1:16:17 And when I don’t get it, that’s when I’m really surprised.
    1:16:18 It doesn’t hurt me.
    1:16:23 I still try when certain rejections happen, but I only cry for a little bit.
    1:16:26 I don’t take to the bed for days.
    1:16:38 But Debbie, I would say that, okay, so there’s the Michelle’s and there’s the Barbara Streisand’s and maybe there’s the Heather Cox Richardson, but anybody just underneath that level.
    1:16:41 If they got asked by you, they would say yes.
    1:16:43 It would be crazy to say no.
    1:16:48 Guy Kawasaki says they’d be crazy to say no.
    1:16:51 That’s going to be my new headline for my ass.
    1:16:54 Like I said, they don’t generally say no.
    1:16:55 It’s just crickets.
    1:16:56 Like I get nothing.
    1:16:57 I get nothing back.
    1:17:00 And that’s how I know that people, you know, they don’t want to hurt your feelings.
    1:17:08 I don’t want to say no outright, or it just goes into a pile of all the other requests that they’ve gotten for lots and lots and lots of things.
    1:17:11 It’s all because you did spec work 30 years ago.
    1:17:12 Yep.
    1:17:16 Okay.
    1:17:18 And I’m obviously very curious.
    1:17:22 Do you have in particular a favorite microphone?
    1:17:29 No, I hate to admit this, but I am really clueless when it comes to technology.
    1:17:31 I have a wonderful producer.
    1:17:35 He’s been my producer now for how many years?
    1:17:38 Well, it’s almost from Voice America, right?
    1:17:39 No, since Voice America.
    1:17:40 So 16 years.
    1:17:43 He’s been my producer for 16 years.
    1:17:46 And he handles all the tech stuff in my studio.
    1:17:50 And for the studio at home, my wife handles all of that.
    1:17:52 Because the internet.
    1:17:57 So you literally don’t know what microphone you use.
    1:18:01 I think I use a Shure microphone in the studio.
    1:18:12 And if I’m doing interviews that require a connection to Riverside or Squadcast, then I’ll use a Yeti microphone that I have.
    1:18:15 And that is sort of a separate setup.
    1:18:19 But as you saw in our previous conversation, I couldn’t get it to work.
    1:18:23 You are not alone there.
    1:18:24 Okay.
    1:18:31 My last question for the podcast, anyway, is Debbie, your work is just so fascinating.
    1:18:39 And I did a LinkedIn Live right before this, and I was just extolling the virtues of your 99U.
    1:18:44 I cannot get that 99U presentation you did out of my mind.
    1:18:45 I mean…
    1:18:46 I know.
    1:18:47 I know.
    1:18:48 I know.
    1:18:49 He spilled my beating heart.
    1:18:50 I know.
    1:18:51 I know.
    1:18:52 I know.
    1:18:53 He spilled my beating heart.
    1:18:54 I know.
    1:18:55 You can talk again tomorrow.
    1:18:59 We can talk again tomorrow.
    1:19:01 Wait, this is a senior moment.
    1:19:02 I’m 71 years old.
    1:19:08 Well, let me go back for a chance, because you said that you had two things you wanted to ask me about.
    1:19:09 Well, that helps a lot.
    1:19:10 Oh, Canva!
    1:19:11 Canva!
    1:19:12 Canva!
    1:19:13 You said you wanted to talk about…
    1:19:14 Oh, okay.
    1:19:15 We could…
    1:19:16 Yes.
    1:19:18 That is another interesting story.
    1:19:27 Having watched all your old performances and stuff, and there’s a lot of things that Adobe sponsored it and Adobe did this and all that.
    1:19:34 And then six months ago, you became a Canva ambassador or Canva advisory board.
    1:19:40 So, I don’t need to know about the politics of that, but probably the same people were pissed off with me about spec work.
    1:19:54 But some of them say that Canva is a negative thing for graphic designers because it makes it so easy and it makes everybody think they are a designer and they’re not a designer.
    1:19:56 They’re just using templates or whatever.
    1:20:00 So, what’s your take on the role of Canva design?
    1:20:16 I have actually been thinking about this a lot, not only in relation to Canva, but in relation to any technology where designers begin to feel that their jobs are going to be in jeopardy.
    1:20:20 So, you’re 71, I’m 63.
    1:20:30 We both lived through the transition from the drafting table to the computer desk.
    1:20:31 Yeah.
    1:20:34 I learned with an exacto blade.
    1:20:46 Before that, drafting artists only used razor blades and they thought when exacto blades came about that was going to ruin the integrity of their precious mechanicals.
    1:20:50 There’s always been resistance to change.
    1:20:54 That’s just the way it is in general for all human beings.
    1:20:58 Everybody goes to a supermarket, sees a package design change and thinks, “Woo-hoo!
    1:21:00 Look at that!
    1:21:02 Tropicana redesigned again!
    1:21:03 Woo-hoo!”
    1:21:05 If you did the design, they might think that.
    1:21:08 Well, but in any case, people just always are skeptical of any kind of change.
    1:21:35 So, I remember conversations in the mid ’80s, you probably do too, wherein some of the world’s greatest designers, Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli, they were all really outspoken about how they were never going to use a computer, how the computer was taking the soul out of design, how the computer was going to get everybody to think they were designers, but that they weren’t going to be and that all of the jobs would be lost and our discipline would be destroyed.
    1:21:39 Fast forward 20 years later, our discipline was not destroyed.
    1:21:45 In fact, more people probably know about design and fonts and whatnot than ever before.
    1:21:58 Yes, certain disciplines did disappear, but hundreds of thousands of new ones and jobs and opportunities and companies all have flourished since.
    1:22:05 Now we’re living at the precipice of this new dawn of AI, and people are saying the exact same thing.
    1:22:11 AI is going to ruin our business, we’re all going to lose jobs, they’re going to be able to design with prompts.
    1:22:22 And yeah, there might be some jobs lost, but they’ll also, my prediction is, there will be hundreds of thousands of new jobs that come about as a result.
    1:22:24 Now, are there bad actors? Yes.
    1:22:26 Are there bad tech companies? Yes.
    1:22:32 That doesn’t mean that technology doesn’t move forward and that humanity can’t do that with technology.
    1:22:37 Same with AI. AI isn’t really self-directed. It’s directed by people.
    1:22:39 So are people bad? Sometimes.
    1:22:44 Because they are, sometimes they’re not. Sometimes technology is bad, sometimes it’s good.
    1:22:55 In the case of Canva, I want to go back to another sort of moment in design history when an organization like 99U came up.
    1:23:01 99U came up and people were like, $5 logos? That’s going to destroy our business.
    1:23:05 People can go and get $5 logos. What is that going to do for us?
    1:23:14 Like, you get what you pay for. You get what you pay for. And if somebody gets a great logo for $5, God bless them.
    1:23:17 There are not going to be many people like that. I don’t think you have to worry.
    1:23:24 And the same thing happened with stock photography. People were up in arms. Photographers were losing our business.
    1:23:28 We’re going to lose. Same thing with Instagram. Everybody’s a photographer now.
    1:23:35 I don’t think that photographers have to worry about Instagram any more than designers had to worry about 99U.
    1:23:43 Canva is a wonderful tool. It’s a wonderful tool for people that want to be creative.
    1:23:49 They could be professional designers that want to be creative. They could be amateur designers that want to be creative.
    1:23:55 They can be kids that want to be creative. It’s an option that people can choose or not choose.
    1:23:59 Canva is not breathing down people’s backs and saying, you must use this.
    1:24:08 They’re offering a way for people to be able to use their software in a way that’s more democratized.
    1:24:18 If people are worried, then I would suggest that they look internally and ask, why is this so threatening?
    1:24:30 Why is this so threatening? You can’t become a professional designer through the use of a tool any more than you can’t become a Pulitzer Prize winning writer with a better pencil.
    1:24:32 Or a word processor.
    1:24:38 So I think that there’s so much in the world to worry about right now. I don’t think this is it.
    1:24:39 Okay.
    1:24:46 I’m really excited to be working with Canva. I’ve gotten an opportunity to visit them in Sydney, see their offices, meet their founders.
    1:24:47 Yeah.
    1:25:02 And I know you work with them too. I’m preaching to the converted here, but I think that they’re doing some really good work and offering some new ways to be able to make things, which excites me, especially with my sort of technophobia.
    1:25:18 I’ve been with Canva for 10 years and I got to tell you that I know a lot of entrepreneurs and stuff, and I don’t know any company that is more dedicated to improving all aspects of their business.
    1:25:30 There are some companies that, you know, are engineering oriented or sales oriented or operations oriented, but every single piece of Canva, they have people who want to make just onboarding perfect, right?
    1:25:31 Yeah.
    1:25:40 Templates perfect with the fonts perfect. Everybody’s like a little bit of Steve Jobs without the roughness.
    1:25:45 Are you going to Canva create? Please say yes.
    1:25:46 Are you?
    1:25:47 Yes.
    1:25:49 Are you speaking?
    1:25:50 Yes.
    1:25:51 Oh.
    1:25:53 Please go, then we can hang out.
    1:25:56 Oh, it’s in LA in April, right?
    1:25:57 Yeah.
    1:26:05 I will be in San Diego to visit my grandson, so I’ll be very close. So maybe I will drop by just to see you.
    1:26:06 That would be great.
    1:26:07 What is your topic?
    1:26:16 They asked me to do something in the realm of what I wish I knew sooner, which I’m going to have fun with.
    1:26:22 Oh, this is like your video about the 10 things I wish I knew when I graduated college.
    1:26:28 It is, but it’s a much, much more updated version.
    1:26:32 I will try to get there to see you at Canva create. I would love to do it.
    1:26:44 And then I’m going on this little book tour. So I’ll be in San Francisco, like the 24th, 25th, 26th, something like that of April. So I’ll be there for a few days if you happen to be in San Fran.
    1:26:52 Wait, are you doing any South Bay appearances? I mean, besides San Francisco itself, anything in the Bay Area?
    1:26:54 Yeah, I’m doing Santa Cruz.
    1:26:58 You’re doing Santa Cruz? The bookshop of Santa Cruz?
    1:26:59 Yeah.
    1:27:04 Oh, shit. Madison and I will be there. Are you kidding me? That’s like two miles from our house.
    1:27:16 Oh yeah, definitely. I will be there because my cousin lives in Santa Cruz and she’s like my best friend. And so I very specifically asked for a Santa Cruz stop. Maybe you can interview me there.
    1:27:29 That would be wonderful. Guy Kawasaki and Debbie Millman in conversation. Let me tell you the date. It is the 23rd of April. Yeah, the 23rd.
    1:27:35 Maybe we should throw a reception for you or something. Let me know. I’m all yours.
    1:27:39 All right. Thank you so much. I’ll see you next month.
    1:27:44 Okay, good. I’ll save you the details. Okay. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
    1:27:59 This is Guy Kawasaki, Remarkable People Podcast. I’ve been listening to Debbie Millman. I want to thank Madison Neismar, Tessa Neismar, Jeff C and Shannon Hernandez, the Remarkable People team. And until next week, mahalo and aloha.
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    0:01:34 And this week, I learned about how to make money in media, and specifically how to do that in Washington, D.C. in 2025.
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    0:02:01 Welcome to Office Hours with Prof G, where we answer your questions on business, big tech, entrepreneurship, and whatever else is on your mind.
    0:02:08 Today, we’ve got two great listener questions, then after the break, we’ll hit the Reddit hotline, pulling questions straight from Reddit.
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    0:02:15 Let’s get into it.
    0:02:16 First question.
    0:02:19 Hi, Prof G.
    0:02:21 Ray from San Jose here.
    0:02:24 Love the podcast and other teachings you provide.
    0:02:28 Speaking of teachings, I’m an adjunct professor here in the Bay Area.
    0:02:31 I teach entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering.
    0:02:36 You seem to know a thing or two about brands, and you often talk of your favorite hotels.
    0:02:41 My question is around branding stratification in the hotel industry.
    0:02:47 There are just so many brands owned by the top three hotel groups that it just seems a bit much.
    0:02:51 Is having so many brands a good thing for the market?
    0:02:57 Or does it add to consumer confusion and a hotel’s inability to differentiate?
    0:02:59 Would love your take on the situation.
    0:03:01 Hope to meet you live one day.
    0:03:02 Thanks for all you do.
    0:03:05 Thanks, Ray.
    0:03:07 I love this question because my hobby is hotels.
    0:03:08 I know that sounds stupid.
    0:03:10 People say, what are your hobbies?
    0:03:11 I love hotels.
    0:03:13 I travel to hotels, not to cities.
    0:03:18 I get all of those surveys on Instagram or whatever.
    0:03:21 And if I see a cool new hotel, I’ll travel to that.
    0:03:24 So I know a lot about hotels, or at least I think I do.
    0:03:28 Anyways, today there are more than 1,200 hotel brands worldwide.
    0:03:30 However, many of these brands are owned by conglomerates.
    0:03:37 The six largest hotel corporations, Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Wyndham, Accor, and Hyatt, own more than 150 brands.
    0:03:39 And they operate nearly 40,000 properties.
    0:03:44 The industry hasn’t always been this consolidated due to a series of major mergers and acquisitions.
    0:03:46 The number of large hotel groups was cut in half in the 90s.
    0:03:51 Nowadays, just 10 companies control over 65% of hotel room supply.
    0:03:57 That’s not even counting Airbnb, which I think has more rooms on its platform than any hotel company.
    0:04:03 Consolidation allows hotel companies to diversify their brand portfolios, access economies of scale, and centralized operations,
    0:04:06 all without sacrificing the perception of their flagship brands.
    0:04:08 Okay, so there’s a couple things.
    0:04:16 I understand the notion that, okay, one brand, you get scale, one advertising campaign, one set of associations.
    0:04:22 What you need is scale on the back end, but in an era of weapons of mass diligence,
    0:04:30 where people can find out that the best gym in a hotel in Berlin is the Soho House,
    0:04:36 and they can find that the coolest new hotel in Sao Paulo with the best restaurant is the Rosewood,
    0:04:47 or they can find that the coolest kind of hippest place for a romantic getaway with really unusual architecture in Cabo is Las Ventanasal Paraiso, also a Rosewood property.
    0:04:48 You can find your exact brand.
    0:04:50 You can find your exact brand.
    0:04:52 You no longer need to defer to the brand.
    0:04:53 What does that mean?
    0:05:01 It means that a series of niche brands have been able to evolve that sometimes have a back end that they can consolidate around reservation systems.
    0:05:04 Because basically, the hotel industry is the following.
    0:05:09 It’s a wealthy person locally wants to own all the Four Seasons.
    0:05:11 Michael Dell in Hawaii owns all the Four Seasons.
    0:05:20 And the Four Seasons runs the flag, the standards, the service, the reservation system, and they take 8% to 12% top line.
    0:05:21 You think, well, that’s not a lot.
    0:05:29 Actually, that is the best thing to do because that’s high margin revenue, and they aren’t subject to the economic whims of our economy.
    0:05:41 So, in 2008, basically, I think the Four Seasons of Midtown went bankrupt, but the Four Seasons out of Toronto, which only owns one of its hotels, I think it’s flagship in Toronto, still gets that 8% or 12%.
    0:05:51 And the guy who owns the thing has to hemorrhage money because the Four Seasons in their ownership partnership contract says, okay, you have to maintain a certain level of standards.
    0:05:53 You can’t, you have to have, you know, three check-in people.
    0:05:55 You have to clean the room twice a day.
    0:06:03 And so, even in bad economic times, these companies just, the flag itself, which is a management company, doesn’t take any capital risk, just prints money.
    0:06:09 And then they found this other kind of gangster way to make a shit ton of money, and that is they sell residences.
    0:06:18 So, the Almond will sell residences in Miami, and instead of, call it $2,000 a square foot, they can charge $4,000 because it’s an Almond-branded residence.
    0:06:25 And then when the very wealthy person who wanted to be in an Almond residence isn’t there, they put it back into the rental pool, and Almond rents it out.
    0:06:28 Or as a hotel room, and they split the revenue.
    0:06:35 So, they not only get a much bigger gross dollar volume for selling what is a $7 million condo, they get $14 million for it.
    0:06:42 They also get incremental recurring revenue from someone else who has sponsored and took all the capital risk.
    0:06:46 So, if you can develop an amazing niche brand, you can do really well.
    0:06:51 And some amazing niche brands have developed specifically based on demographics.
    0:06:52 What do I mean by that?
    0:06:56 The fastest growing cohort in the world is the super wealthy.
    0:07:02 And the number of people who are worth more than $10 million has absolutely exploded globally.
    0:07:07 And so, it used to be that the Four Seasons, the Manor and Orient on the Ritz-Carlton were sort of the high-end brands.
    0:07:17 And then a series of, like, massive, over-the-top, high-experience, exceptional location brands emerged and went super luxury, right?
    0:07:31 The Manor’s Wood, Amon, Cheval Blanc, Six Senses, the Okater Group, which includes my favorite hotel in the world, the Hotel du Cap, they came in at the very – they out-luxuried luxury.
    0:07:40 And they started charging $1,500, $2,000, $5,000 a night, recognizing there are some people who have become totally price-insensitive.
    0:07:45 And if they want to take their family somewhere on their limited time off, they have much more money than time.
    0:07:53 They will pay $5,000 a night or $7,000 or $8,000 a night to stay at the Six Senses in Thailand.
    0:07:54 And they are exceptional experiences.
    0:07:59 Down towards the middle end, it’s all about scale and cost and offering people a good value.
    0:08:02 And it’s about scale at the back end.
    0:08:13 So these big kind of conglomerates that have multiple brands, they use the same back end, they use some of the same service and headquarters and infrastructure, and they will buy some of these brands.
    0:08:15 I think, actually, IHG purchased the Amon.
    0:08:16 I’m not sure.
    0:08:17 Is that right?
    0:08:18 I can’t remember.
    0:08:24 But anyways, I think that you’re actually seeing – I don’t want to call it fragmentation of brands,
    0:08:32 but you can now support a single brand because of the weapons of mass discovery.
    0:08:37 The thing that is dictating and shaping the global travel industry right now, Instagram.
    0:08:46 I did my 50th birthday in Scotland, 60, and everyone there was complaining that Scotland had been overrun.
    0:08:47 Why?
    0:08:56 Because supposedly they invited 20 or 30 very, very influential Instagrammers, influencers, to Scotland two summers before, and they went apeshit.
    0:08:59 Scotland is like a giant Instagram orgy.
    0:09:01 It is spectacularly beautiful.
    0:09:09 And everyone saw all over the world that Scotland’s amazing, and they thought, it’s a cool way I’ve been there, and they just said the place is just overrun and they can’t handle it.
    0:09:23 At the same time, some of those same influencers started mocking Mykonos and Ibiza and saying, look at this $40 cosmopolitan, or look at how shitty this club is that I just paid $4,000 for a table.
    0:09:29 And supposedly, supposedly, Mykonos and Ibiza saw a serious decline in revenue last summer.
    0:09:32 Again, all brought to you by Instagram.
    0:09:41 But if you’re at the pool at the Hotel Du Cap and you Instagram at the Hotel Du Cap doesn’t need the scale of brand because their brand is singular and it stands out.
    0:09:44 And quite frankly, at the high end, it’s sort of all about Instagram.
    0:09:46 But that’s a thoughtful question.
    0:09:50 Anytime you want to talk hotels, come to the dog.
    0:09:51 Come to the dog.
    0:09:54 Best hotel in Istanbul.
    0:09:57 I wouldn’t do the Four Seasons or in the Manor and Oriental on the Posphorus.
    0:10:02 I would do the Solo House there, which is actually the old American Embassy.
    0:10:04 Best hotel in Paris.
    0:10:06 Used to be the Plaza Atene for me.
    0:10:08 Now it’s the Cheval Blanc.
    0:10:09 Oh, my God.
    0:10:10 That shit is genius.
    0:10:12 Again, if you’re on a little bit of a budget, I like the Hawks in there.
    0:10:17 There’s a lot of really interesting, really interesting kind of little boutique hotels.
    0:10:20 Favorite hotel in Mexico?
    0:10:21 Because you asked.
    0:10:23 I love the Rosewood Mayakoba.
    0:10:25 You feel like an alligator is going to come out and grab you?
    0:10:26 That’s all I have.
    0:10:28 That’s all I have.
    0:10:29 Question number two.
    0:10:31 Hey, Prof G.
    0:10:36 Anyone who is familiar with you knows how interested you are in modern adolescence.
    0:10:43 And specifically what it’s like for young men to grow up in a modern world with social media and lack of in-person connections.
    0:10:47 You mentioned on a recent podcast that you really enjoyed the Netflix show Adolescence.
    0:11:00 I was wondering if you could share your thoughts on what was so impactful for you with that show and what you think it demonstrated with respect to your views on masculinity, adolescence, and the effect of the modern world on young people.
    0:11:04 Thanks so much for all the insight and content that you provide.
    0:11:04 Cheers.
    0:11:07 I’m not sure I have a great take on this.
    0:11:09 I had trouble watching that show.
    0:11:15 I just, as the father of boys, it just, I’m not exaggerating.
    0:11:20 After I watched the first episode, every episode from that point forward, I had a drink before it because I wanted to watch it.
    0:11:22 I’m super interested in the domain.
    0:11:23 I thought it was so powerful.
    0:11:25 And it just rattled me to the core.
    0:11:45 Like, at the end of the day, I think we, with our boys, really early, have to treat them to be, tell them that being a boy, being a man, your transition to being a man is all about, you know, we talk a lot about being a provider in a capitalist society.
    0:11:47 I talk a lot about being a procreator.
    0:11:53 I think it’s important you initiate contact with someone while making them feel safe, such that you can have children and being risk-aggressive.
    0:12:02 But I think with boys, we really have to play up the third leg of the stool of masculinity, and that is you’re a protector.
    0:12:07 And I’ve just been struck by how many women have told me that in New York, they don’t feel safe.
    0:12:09 They don’t feel safe on the subway.
    0:12:18 And it just sort of breaks my heart that when you hear women say that if they’re walking down the street and a group of guys is coming towards them, they sometimes cross the street.
    0:12:32 And I’d like to think, and I have this aspirational view of masculinity, but I haven’t lived that life, that if a woman or someone who feels physically threatened immediately would look just the way you look.
    0:12:35 Who are the most masculine role models, cops and fire people?
    0:12:38 You go to those people when you need protection.
    0:12:46 And it just breaks my heart that we’re not, that people in our society don’t look to men for protection, that they’re scared of men.
    0:12:57 And I think what I took away is at a very early age, we got to first off acknowledge that masculinity and being a boy is a wonderful thing and to embrace it.
    0:13:11 But to really bring home the notion that your evolution from boyhood to manhood is around protection and very much so ground zero for protection for any boy is protection of girls and women.
    0:13:14 And I think a lot of men feel this way.
    0:13:15 I know I felt this way when I was very young.
    0:13:17 I felt very protective of my mother.
    0:13:23 But also just, it’s just heartbreaking that you see this kid.
    0:13:30 And it’s, what’s fascinating about the program is it’s not a whodunit, you know who did it, but it’s an exploration of why they did it.
    0:13:45 And it made me think a lot about fathering and how important it is to really understand what your kid’s up to and his views on girls and violence and misogyny.
    0:13:56 And more than anything, the thing that came to me was, you know, as parents and are you letting the internet raise your kid?
    0:14:03 Because the thing is, if you’re, you know, a lot of people, their nannies or other people or their school raises their kid, right?
    0:14:06 My son’s at Wellington College, this wonderful school.
    0:14:08 I know the school really well.
    0:14:09 I’m in contact with the people there.
    0:14:10 I’ve sat in on classes.
    0:14:11 I’ve spoken there.
    0:14:14 I have a pretty decent idea who is raising my kid.
    0:14:21 Whenever we’ve had a nanny or someone who spends a lot of time with our kid because my partner was working, we know that person really well.
    0:14:22 We have a really good sense of who’s raising our kid.
    0:14:28 I don’t know who’s raising my 14-year-old because he spends a lot of time on the internet.
    0:14:30 And I’d like to think, oh, I’m smart.
    0:14:31 I’ll figure it out.
    0:14:32 No, I haven’t figured it out.
    0:14:34 I absolutely haven’t figured it out.
    0:14:36 He spends way too much time on his phone.
    0:14:39 And anyone who says, oh, well, that’s bad parenting, you don’t have kids.
    0:14:40 They get their homework.
    0:14:45 If they can’t be on their phone, they’re ostracized from their peer group because that’s how they communicate with each other.
    0:14:52 But I wonder if we’re, as parents, I think it’s a really good question is, who’s raising your kid?
    0:15:02 And this story is just so rattling because it’s clear that these good people just didn’t know what influences were raising their kids.
    0:15:04 So what to do about it.
    0:15:06 No kid should be on social media under the age of 16.
    0:15:08 And by the way, my 14-year-old is.
    0:15:10 So do as I say, not as I do.
    0:15:15 But I think we need federal legislation because there’s this isolation effect.
    0:15:21 If you take your kid off of social media at 14 or 15, he gets more, he or she gets more depressed because all their friends are socializing.
    0:15:24 So unless it’s a collective band, it doesn’t work.
    0:15:32 And I think there needs to be education at a very young age that’s a bit, I don’t even call it sexist,
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    0:15:41 And your default as you evolve to a man is protection.
    0:15:48 And ground zero of that protection should be that males who are born with superior bone structure and muscle fiber
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    0:16:20 Are we raising our sons?
    0:16:22 Are schools raising our sons?
    0:16:26 Or are algorithms that don’t have our best interests that are raising our sons?
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    0:20:15 Our Reddit question today comes from Ethan Rabb.
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    0:20:18 Hi, Scott.
    0:20:19 Did you ever meet Elizabeth Holmes?
    0:20:21 What was your impression of her?
    0:20:23 Were you offered a chance to invest in Theranos?
    0:20:27 And if so, did you see through it or get caught up in the hype?
    0:20:31 More broadly, what’s your take on the fake it till you make it founder philosophy?
    0:20:31 Okay, a lot there.
    0:20:34 I’ll come back to whether I know her or not.
    0:20:35 I didn’t see it.
    0:20:40 I remember the cover of Time showing her with a vial, and she was, I think, the youngest
    0:20:43 billionaire or the youngest female billionaire at that point.
    0:20:52 There is a very strong gestalt in the Valley of raise as much money as you can, become a hype machine.
    0:20:55 I mean, fake it till you make it.
    0:20:58 How many times has Elon Musk lied to us about when autonomous driving?
    0:21:01 Autonomous driving is a year away.
    0:21:02 I think he said in 2017.
    0:21:05 I mean, there’s just no getting around it.
    0:21:14 Your ability to tell a story that verges on exaggeration, embellishment, adjectives, maybe even crosses the line at some point into fraud.
    0:21:19 I mean, the difference between storytelling and fraud sometimes, quite frankly, is your performance.
    0:21:28 So I think in the Valley, there’s unfortunately this gestalt that says exaggerate, get cheap capital, and then pull the future forward with your capital.
    0:21:45 Now, having said that, when you start lying about your numbers as that, I think it was Nicola, the guy who put a truck on a slanted hill and said that it was a motor driving the car, you know, that guy deserves to go to jail.
    0:22:00 But I believe if Adam Neumann’s board was not Japanese or driven by Masayoshi-san and was worried about a loss of face of saying, I got fooled, and his board went after him, I think there’s a good chance Adam Neumann would be in prison.
    0:22:04 And with Elizabeth Holmes, yeah, she lied to her investors.
    0:22:06 Her investors were sophisticated.
    0:22:09 No retail investor lost money.
    0:22:13 And there was never really any health ramifications.
    0:22:20 It wasn’t like anyone was taking an HIV test and got false results and, as a result, was hurt.
    0:22:25 So should she have been punished, fired, and maybe sentenced to prison?
    0:22:25 Yes.
    0:22:28 But what bothered me about the whole situation is she was sentenced to 10 years.
    0:22:34 And I just find only 2% or 3% of unicorns are founded by women.
    0:22:40 And it struck me that, okay, yeah, we seem to find one to put in prison for 10 years.
    0:22:42 So why?
    0:22:44 She’s very unlikable.
    0:23:00 And I think that there’s a weirdness in our society, a misogyny, where a woman taking the position and taking on male attributes who ends up to be full of shit, we dislike that person more than a guy who’s exaggerating or even lying.
    0:23:10 And I think she’s doing that person more than a person, and someone in her family, I want to say, who reached out to me and asked if I would openly advocate for a prison sentence.
    0:23:11 And I didn’t respond.
    0:23:13 I’m not going to get involved in that.
    0:23:23 But I wonder, had Adam Neumann’s board been angry and gone after him, if things would have turned different for him.
    0:23:34 And there’s something that bothers me about a founder who ends up spending 10 years in prison is one of the 2% that has ovaries.
    0:23:37 There’s just something uncomfortable there.
    0:23:44 The fake it till you make it, never lie about your numbers, never lie to consumers that you’re serving at that moment.
    0:23:46 But let’s be honest, you have to paint a vision.
    0:23:49 I don’t have an answer for you.
    0:23:51 I think it’s gone too far.
    0:24:08 And what I have generally found, generally found, is that the way I’ve served on a bunch of public company boards, that the people, the managers in public companies, at least traditionally, with the most respect, were the ones that under-promised and over-delivered.
    0:24:20 Having said that, though, in private companies and startups, I mean, I can tell you how many business plans I see of people raising money and their ability, you know, and I would say 90% probably aren’t going to hit those numbers.
    0:24:22 Anyways, that’s all for this episode.
    0:24:27 If you’d like to submit a question, please email a voice recording to officehours at propertymedia.com.
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    0:24:59 This episode was produced by Jennifer Sanchez.
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    Scott shares his take on the explosion of hotel brands and what it says about consolidation, consumer choice, and corporate strategy. Then, he reflects on the Netflix series Adolescence and the pressures facing young men today.

    Finally, in our Reddit Hotline segment, Scott responds to a question about Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, and the culture of overpromising in Silicon Valley.

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