94. Progress is Still Happening Despite Down Times

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 We are all on our own path. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,000 So, at times our paths may merge, converge, 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000 cross directions, but really we are all on our own path 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,000 and we're all taking our own walk on this earth. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 We're all taking our own walk of life. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 And we have to choose the path for ourselves. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 So, let me tell a quick story. 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:33,000 A couple months ago, beginning of summer of 2023, 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:42,000 I met my friend Franklin and we were kind of on our own paths 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 when we first met, but we're both on self-improvement 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,000 and so we started hanging out a lot and spending a lot of time together. 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,000 And then slowly but surely we started like merging paths. 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 We were both going our own direction in the beginning 14 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 and then we merged basically. 15 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:08,000 And then I felt a kind of disconnect or not disconnect. 16 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:16,000 I just felt the need or I felt like tension 17 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,000 once I felt that he was like going off on his own path. 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:28,000 But I didn't know that he, I wasn't conscious of the reason behind the tension. 19 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 All I knew was that I felt tense around him. 20 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 But later after a while of thinking, 21 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 then I realized that it was because he was going on his own path 22 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 and I was not comfortable with it. 23 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Then I just realized that I have to let him go on his own path 24 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,000 and go on my own path and focus all on myself. 25 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 When I first started self-improvement 26 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 and really the whole time I've been on self-improvement 27 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 up until I met Franklin, my friend, 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:09,000 I have always been like individual, individualistic. 29 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 I've always been very private about myself improvement 30 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:20,000 and I've always been just solo. 31 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,000 I just went solo and I always kind of did what I thought was right. 32 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 And that worked very well. 33 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:34,000 And then once I started hanging out with my friend, Franklin a lot, 34 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:41,000 we started strategizing and talking a lot about stuff that we could do. 35 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 And then it got to the point where we were doing these exact same things. 36 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And also there's many... 37 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,000 We were pretty much doing the same thing. 38 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 And I realized that I lost my kind of individuality 39 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:07,000 or my solo persona when it comes to self-improvement 40 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 as well as my private. 41 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 I lost my being solo and I lost private. 42 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:22,000 And so slowly but surely I kind of started to become conscious 43 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,000 of the fact that I didn't like being like the dual anymore. 44 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 I didn't like tag-teaming anymore. 45 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000 And so slowly but surely we've been starting to like a lot of changes. 46 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,000 For example, when I first started going to the gym, 47 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:47,000 I would always go by myself and I would never really lift with other people. 48 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,000 And so one of my other friends, he started going at my time that I would always go at 49 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 in the morning before school. 50 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,000 And then he would like right when he started going, he texted me. 51 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 He was like, I'm going to start going at this time. 52 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000 And I said, okay, but we are not lifting together and we're not talking. 53 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 This is gym is for work. 54 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Like gym is work time. 55 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 When we're at the gym, we put in the work. 56 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 We don't talk or mess around. 57 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Yeah, I never put up those walls or that barrier or set those rules with my friend Franklin. 58 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:34,000 And so we started like today, especially we made a lot of changes. 59 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:41,000 I usually I always like walk up to him at the end of the gym session that I run. 60 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 I'm about to leave and I say goodbye. 61 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Yeah, I dropped that. 62 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000 I'm not saying goodbye anymore. 63 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 That's dumb. 64 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 That's that's something that like I've just felt attached. 65 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 I felt dependent like I needed to say goodbye. 66 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Not anymore. 67 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 I'm solo now. 68 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:07,000 And like just a lot of different things and also like waiting for each other after class is one of the things. 69 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Just a lot of making changes. 70 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:19,000 And to be honest, even today, I didn't realize when I was making the changes, I didn't realize one of the things was that I like being solo. 71 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Honestly, I didn't even realize that I liked being solo until like five minutes ago when I started talking about this, which is funny because that's another way that I learned so much just from talking for an hour every day on my podcast. 72 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:45,000 So I'm making a lot of changes and we are both going down our own paths. 73 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 We're doing a lot of different things. 74 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:59,000 He's focusing on studying ADHD stuff and studying like research lab stuff, like studies. 75 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:08,000 And I'm focused on spirituality and learning about worldview and all this stuff. 76 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Neither path is good or bad. 77 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 It's just our own path. 78 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,000 And I got to keep reminding myself that. 79 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:23,000 And that brings me to one of the things that I realized today. 80 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:33,000 One thing that I realized today was I am going, I feel lately, especially over the past maybe two days. 81 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:43,000 I feel like my inner mind or my just my attention, my control over my thoughts is not as much. 82 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000 It's not as powerful. 83 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,000 It's not as strong. 84 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Like I feel as though over the past couple of days, I have not been getting to bed. 85 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:58,000 I've been getting to bed at like the same time every day, but it's been taking me a long time to actually fall asleep. 86 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 And I'm unsure exactly why that is. 87 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:09,000 I have one theory and it's because I'm staying on my computer until five o'clock instead of 445. 88 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:18,000 So today I'm going to get off of my computer at 445 to test that theory. 89 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:25,000 But I like, I don't know why I'm taking a while to fall asleep other than that. 90 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:45,000 It might be like the temperature because it is in that awkward part of the season when the air conditioning as well as the heat, like the air can, it's too cold to use AC, but it's also like the perfect temperature to not use heat. 91 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:51,000 And so I can't get like the house to like the most optimal temperature. 92 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:57,000 But it's, I don't know. 93 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:05,000 But with all that said, especially because my sleep has, like my sleep has been good for the most part. 94 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:13,000 It's just that I have been like just barely a little bit less sleep than what I should be getting. 95 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Like, because like I, it takes maybe 30 minutes to fall asleep at night. 96 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:29,000 But what I'm trying to say is that my control over my thoughts and my attention has not been very strong lately. 97 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Like I haven't had much, I've been able to call myself to wake up plenty of times throughout the day, but my control just releases a lot. 98 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Like I find myself falling asleep a lot more and being immersed a lot more. 99 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,000 And I find myself getting annoyed with things a lot more. 100 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 I feel like it all stems from my sleep especially. 101 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,000 But with that said, that's happened in the past. 102 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Like I've gone down like downward, like control of my thoughts before and then it goes up. 103 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:15,000 It's kind of like an up and down road, road with lots of ups and downs. 104 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:32,000 And so the epiphany that I came to today, because I was really struggling with, like I felt like I was, there was just this vague, or this like feeling that I was falling behind, that I was losing progress. 105 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,000 I wasn't making progress towards my inner work anymore. 106 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:47,000 But then I kept reminding myself like I'm still, as long as I just keep going, I can have down days as long as I just keep going, I'll get it back. 107 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:57,000 But it is an okay mindset, but then I remembered, I actually didn't remember this, but I'm going to explain this right before. 108 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000 I tell the epiphany I came across. 109 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:19,000 And the thing that I want to tell you is one of the Transurfing Principles and it's basically, you can never know whether an event is good or bad for you, but you can always choose to like receive good or bad. 110 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Like you can always make the choice for yourself of whether it's good or bad and whichever choice you make is what it will be. 111 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:37,000 And so I just want to tell you that I wasn't really thinking of that when I came to this epiphany. 112 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:45,000 This epiphany kind of just hit me randomly and I'm pretty sure it happened when I was in the gym. 113 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Like when I was done lifting, I don't remember if it was when I was in the steam room or if I was showering. 114 00:10:53,000 --> 00:11:01,000 I remember thinking about it when I was showering, like trying to keep running it in my head to make sure I didn't forget it. 115 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:07,000 So it happened once I was done lifting at the gym and I was like showering. 116 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:22,000 And basically the epiphany I came to came across was you can like the path on your goal, the path towards your goal is a road. 117 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:31,000 And it's basically just a straight road, but it's not like horizontally even. 118 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:42,000 It's not an even road. It goes up and down. It has large like hills and then large like, what is it called? Decreases. 119 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Like downhills and uphills. It just has a lot of up and down changes in altitude, but it's still going in the same direction. 120 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:57,000 And so the uphill parts are days when you're very good, like you're feeling great. 121 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Your control over your thoughts, like this happened to me like two or three days ago. 122 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:10,000 My control over my thoughts was very high and I was also in this like stage. 123 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 I was in this like mindset. 124 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:21,000 My thinking was very like dream oriented where I could tell that I was like kind of living a dream. 125 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:26,000 And then I also could feel like things just were not real. 126 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:33,000 So like that was my uphill and I just reached the peak on that day because then I started going downhill. 127 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:40,000 And so when I went downhill, I was like my sleep was I wasn't falling asleep as quick. 128 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:46,000 I am losing control over my thoughts, my attention a lot more often. 129 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 I'm losing it quicker. 130 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Like just I'm getting irritated over things more often. 131 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Just all of these things. 132 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,000 But I'm still moving towards the direction of my goal. 133 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 And that's the epiphany I came to. 134 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Even though you have like down days and off days, you're still moving in the same direction. 135 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,000 You're still making the same progress as your positive days. 136 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Like you going uphill or downhill doesn't matter because you're still going in the same direction at the same speed. 137 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:27,000 If anything, the downhill like according to physics, you're going to be going faster downhill. 138 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:36,000 But let's just say for argument's sake, for the metaphor sake, you're going the same speed towards your goal. 139 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:46,000 So that's something that I'm really happy that I came to that epiphany because it's really something to... 140 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:54,000 It's something that I can really remind myself about and lean on because I find like I just talked about. 141 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:07,000 I find that a lot of times I feel as though my days are not as like efficient if I'm on a bad downhill. 142 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 If I don't have as much control over my thoughts as I would hope. 143 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 If I'm not making a parent progress. 144 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Excuse me. 145 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 And just all of that stuff. 146 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:31,000 So if I'm on any downhill, then I feel as though the day is a waste or worse that I am going back. 147 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,000 And actually that mindset is very damaging because then that's what it will become. 148 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:46,000 But that's why I'm very happy with this new mindset because now as long as I follow this mindset of the path towards your goal is a road 149 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:53,000 that has a lot of changes in altitude, a lot of uphills and downhills, but the road is still going in the same direction. 150 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 It's just a straight shot. 151 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Like the road is a straight shot to your goal and you ride that road up and downhills. 152 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,000 And then when you feel like you're going downhill and you're like, oh no, I'm... 153 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Like you have a choice to make. 154 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:22,000 You can either remind yourself of the road and how it has up and downhills or you can choose to perceive that downhill as negative and how you're going... 155 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Like it's hurting you towards your goal. 156 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:32,000 So then you start steering off course and you start going in a different direction. 157 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:39,000 And that's basically another transfer from principle. Whenever an event happens, you come across a crossroads. 158 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:46,000 You either go on a negative direction or a positive direction. 159 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:53,000 After an event happens, you can either go in a positive direction in life or a negative direction in life. 160 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:00,000 And the way you choose which way to go is by your relationship to that event. 161 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:05,000 So this applies to everything. 162 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:12,000 The path towards your goal is very important. 163 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:18,000 And I want to talk about World View more. 164 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:24,000 But first I want to explain that I am basically done with reading, dancing after the music stops. 165 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I'm on the appendix part which in this book, the appendix is basically a bunch of pictures, like 50 pages of pictures with some quotes. 166 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 So I'm going to read all that stuff. 167 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,000 And then I'm done. 168 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,000 So I'll probably finish it tonight to be honest. 169 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:48,000 I'll get off of the computer editing with like 15 minutes to spare tonight. 170 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:54,000 I'll be able to actually finish it tonight and then tomorrow I'm going to start Die Wise. 171 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:01,000 The reason why I'm telling you this is because Die Wise is going to be one of the most... 172 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:07,000 I have a feeling that it's going to be one of the most impactful books that I've ever read that I will ever read. 173 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Because Gene Pascal Reaman, he is the author of Dancing After the Music Stops. 174 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,000 And he also has a website called The Most Beautiful World. 175 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,000 And I've talked about this plenty of time so I'm sure you guys are sick of hearing me talk about this. 176 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:29,000 But just remind yourself that I've been talking about this for the past month, maybe even more. 177 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Which means that it's important. 178 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:41,000 If I've spent so much time talking about this, you guys have to start paying attention to the things that I'm obsessing over. 179 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Like I'm obsessing over worldview and I'm obsessing over spirituality and toppling these limiting beliefs and escaping all of this. 180 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 I'm obsessing over this stuff. 181 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 You should pay attention. 182 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Like the people that you watch, the people you listen to online, like the successful people, pay attention to what they are obsessing over. 183 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Because that tells a lot on what you should focus on. 184 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Like Mr. Beast, before he grew so much, he obsessed over creating the perfect YouTube videos. 185 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:32,000 He obsessed over the algorithm, what thumbnails worked the best, what video styles. 186 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Like he obsessed over everything YouTube and that's what got him successful. 187 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,000 And I feel like everyone has their own things that they obsess over. 188 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Like for Mr. Beast, it was YouTube. 189 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 I don't know if he obsessed over worldview. 190 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 I'm not sure. 191 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Because I've only heard of the YouTube part of things. 192 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:03,000 But for me, my thing that I'm obsessing over is worldview and spirituality. 193 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:13,000 And the thing is Mr. Beast obsessed over YouTube and he made the thing that he was obsessing over directly linked to his career, which was YouTube. 194 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 So it makes sense. 195 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:21,000 He's obsessing over YouTube and it's directly linked to YouTube because he's learning how to get better at YouTube. 196 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:27,000 And so for me, the thing that I'm obsessing over is worldview and spirituality. 197 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Right now is what I'm obsessing over. 198 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:39,000 And I'm making that directly linked to my career because I'm talking about it every single day for an hour. 199 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,000 I think that the best way to one of the best. 200 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000 So right now my number one priority is self-improvement. 201 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:55,000 My number one priority is self-improvement over podcasting because or not even just podcasting. 202 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000 My number one priority is self-improvement over business. 203 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:05,000 And I've always had that priority, which is why I'm so... 204 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:11,000 This is why I'm focusing on this specific type of podcast. 205 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:19,000 I can combine them and still work on self-improvement while I'm doing business, 206 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 which basically just means that I'm just self-improvement all around. 207 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:31,000 So it means that I don't have to have money to be improving and to see benefits, results, and success. 208 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Like I haven't gotten any money off of this. 209 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,000 I haven't really gotten much views off of this. 210 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000 I don't have... Not very many people are listening to this. 211 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000 That's like the monetary side of things. 212 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Those are the results. 213 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,000 But when you tie your passion or whatever you're obsessing over, 214 00:20:51,000 --> 00:21:00,000 you tie your self-improvement or whatever your core values are for me, 215 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,000 it's self-improvement, you tie that to your business. 216 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Then you don't even need... Especially in my situation, I am still a high school student. 217 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:17,000 I'm still living under my parents' roof, and they're still supporting me financially. 218 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:23,000 So I have the time to continue developing myself. 219 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:30,000 And I also have the time to spare because it may take a little bit longer to go this route. 220 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:36,000 But it's worth it because I'm still seeing results all the way through. 221 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 It's very good. 222 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:45,000 This is why I'm very glad about this specific type of podcast. 223 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:51,000 But Die Wise is going to be one of the biggest... 224 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:59,000 I feel like it's going to help me topple one of the biggest limiting beliefs or fears I have, which is fear of death. 225 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Die Wise is all about dying and death. 226 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:10,000 And to be honest, I've never read or learned or heard anything of death. 227 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:19,000 In this culture that I live in, in American culture, and even like Western civilization culture, 228 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:25,000 death is seen as something no one talks about, and it seemed as something unnatural. 229 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,000 And it's not supposed to happen. It's like a disease. 230 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000 It's something that no one really talks about. 231 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:40,000 And I definitely grew up learning all of that stuff because that's what happens when you get indoctrinated by society. 232 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:46,000 You grow up and you catch and pick up all the things around you. 233 00:22:46,000 --> 00:23:02,000 And so right now I have this very kind of... I'm blanking on the correct word, but I have this kind of negative relationship towards death. 234 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Or neutral negative kind of. 235 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Because whenever a funeral happens, I just have this weird feeling around it. 236 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:20,000 And so I never really think about death either. 237 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:29,000 And there's this book that I read a long time ago, maybe like a half, more than half of a year ago. 238 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,000 It's called Tools, and it's basically a book about psychology. 239 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:40,000 It's like a book that gives you mental tools to use in your life. 240 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:47,000 And it was like the first kind of mind-mental book that I've ever read. 241 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 I read it before Transurfing. 242 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:57,000 I used those tools for maybe a week, and then I just stopped. 243 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:08,000 But I haven't read it in a while, and I think that they all go along with the Transurfing principles. 244 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:16,000 I think that they're all good tools, especially there's one where you basically send love to someone else. 245 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:26,000 You basically visualize your heart being sent to them from your heart, and you basically love them. 246 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:31,000 That's definitely a good thing. 247 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:39,000 But the last tool mentioned in that book was basically the deathbed perspective. 248 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:49,000 And it basically tells you that whenever you need motivation, you can instantly spark motivation 249 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:54,000 by running kind of like an image in your head of your deathbed. 250 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:02,000 And that gives you a perspective that if you remind yourself that you're going to die, 251 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:09,000 so that kind of gives you the motivation to actually get up and do something. 252 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Now, I never really used that one because whenever I needed motivation, I just did it anyways. 253 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:20,000 I just used to split instead. 254 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:28,000 But that was the only time that I've ever really read about anything death related. 255 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:37,000 And the fact that Gene Pascal Riemann, he hyped up that book so much in the most beautiful world's reading list. 256 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,000 He said, this is the number one book you have to read it right now. 257 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:50,000 And he also, at the end of his book, Dancing After Music Stops, there's a page of 19 books that you must read, 258 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 like the best 19 books. 259 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,000 And number one was Die Wise. 260 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:05,000 So Die Wise is the next stage of my life, or the next like phase of reading that I'm going to be doing. 261 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:13,000 It's probably going to take maybe over a week to read it, maybe longer because it's like, 262 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:19,000 I have a feeling that it's going to be a very tough read, maybe an emotional side, I'm not sure, 263 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:30,000 but definitely in like the language side because I was just reading like the intro or the forward the other day. 264 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,000 And it's like very hard to understand. 265 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:39,000 So I'll definitely improve my vocab from it as well, I think. 266 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:58,000 But let me get some water. 267 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Alright, so I got two things to talk about. I want to talk about adventures. 268 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000 I'm just writing it down so I don't forget. 269 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,000 And then also I want to talk about escaping from like the Matrix. 270 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:18,000 So lately I've been obsessing over worldview. 271 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:29,000 The reason why I'm obsessing over the worldview is because I believe that we are being trapped. 272 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:34,000 I believe that society has like indoctrinated us inside of a prison. 273 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000 And you can see it all around you. 274 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Like people are living miserable existence, miserable lives. 275 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:44,000 And I believe that society, like we are being held in a prison. 276 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:54,000 And the most efficient part of it all is that we are like we just learn about it and then we imprison ourselves through our worldview. 277 00:27:54,000 --> 00:28:04,000 And that's why I'm focusing on worldview so much because I really believe that your worldview, if you can manipulate your worldview, you can set yourself free. 278 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,000 So that's why I'm reading like all about that a lot. 279 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Same with spirituality, I'm not sure how they're linked, but I believe I think they may be linked. 280 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:30,000 And like that I'm just trying to get rid of all, unlearn all of the crap that society has put into my brain and replace it with a bunch of like good stuff that I read in good books. 281 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,000 And I was going to talk about, oh yeah. 282 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:51,000 So since we're in a society where we're like in a matrix and I'm just starting to learn about this and I'm reading about other people who have escaped like Jean Pascariman. 283 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,000 But then there's also like other people talking about it like Iman Gatzi. 284 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 Like I talked about it. 285 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:04,000 I think in yesterday's or two days ago's episode, I saw like Iman Gatzi is the reason why I started reading Transurfing. 286 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000 He basically sparked everything. 287 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:17,000 My entire journey, he sparked the start of the journey, my journey for worldview, like worldview and spirituality. 288 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,000 He sparked all of that just from like one simple phrase. 289 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,000 He said like this book is called Rowdy Transurfing. 290 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,000 That's what I study right now. 291 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000 Like that's all he said. 292 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,000 And I went down this whole journey as a result of it. 293 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:37,000 But I hadn't watched like YouTube in a long time. 294 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:49,000 And then I logged on just the other day to like check to see how long of episode, like how long episodes Hamza releases and how often. 295 00:29:49,000 --> 00:30:01,000 Because I wanted, I was in this situation where I didn't know if one hour every day was optimal for the quality of my episodes. 296 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 So I wanted to check what Hamza does. 297 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:17,000 And I have like a Google Chrome like extensions enabled to where my YouTube is like completely dopamine free. 298 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:22,000 To where it literally just lists the videos by their title and that's it. 299 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000 There's no pictures, no colors, nothing. 300 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,000 It's just like words. 301 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:32,000 And so I had to click on the video to be able to see like the time. 302 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:37,000 So I had to watch, start watching the video to be able to actually see like the time. 303 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000 So I just clicked on his first video. 304 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,000 I wasn't really interested in watching it. 305 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:46,000 So I just clicked on it and then there was an ad that popped up and it was Iman Gatzi. 306 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000 And so I was like, oh, I haven't seen this kind of while. 307 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:57,000 And I grew fond of him because I kind of associated like all this worldview stuff from Transurfing. 308 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000 I just kind of associated Transurfing with him. 309 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:06,000 And so I was like, oh, I was intrigued to watch the video. 310 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:13,000 And he was talking about like I expected the ad to be like his agency. 311 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:18,000 But he was talking about something called the rescue. 312 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:29,000 And it's basically something that he's like a movement that he's creating where he's like it's a movement all about escaping the Matrix. 313 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000 Which is awesome to see. 314 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,000 And I signed up for it. 315 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000 It's in 11 days as of recording this. 316 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,000 It's on the 30th. 317 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:46,000 And I'm probably not going to watch it because I don't want to sit on my computer for like an hour to watch it. 318 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:56,000 But I'm definitely going to be like, I want to figure out what those because he talked about there was five principles to follow that the ancient Greeks followed. 319 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000 So once you follow these five principles, then you escape. 320 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000 And I want to learn about those five principles. 321 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:08,000 Like that's that's like what I want to learn so I can like figure them out and then apply them or see if I'm already applying them. 322 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000 See if I'm on the right track. 323 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:18,000 And it's interesting because he was kind of talking in such a way. 324 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000 I read his email that he sent after I signed up for it. 325 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:27,000 And he was talking in such a way to where this is like a whole movement going on right now. 326 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Like we're entering a new age of like a revel. 327 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:39,000 Not not because there's revolutions in the street, but because people are actually starting to like it under like. 328 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,000 Understand and learn about this matrix kind of thing. 329 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:51,000 And they're starting to escape like to the ordinary I the ordinary citizen won't really notice much change. 330 00:32:51,000 --> 00:33:03,000 But under the surface of things, many people are going through the similar process to what I'm doing right now and actually escaping this matrix. 331 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:19,000 And so it's actually during my journey, I'm documenting like a lot of it right now on this podcast, but it's actually really something that I think about semi often. 332 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:25,000 And I kind of think I can't. 333 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:40,000 Okay, so Hamza is one of the original YouTubers that I would watch on self improvement and he had a very big kind of influence over me in my early days, especially for starting my self improvement journey. 334 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:54,000 And I remember thinking a lot of the things that he is doing, like, for example, in the one video that he that I watched that I clicked on to check his how long of videos that he is recording. 335 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000 He was extremely tan. 336 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,000 Like that's all I saw. 337 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:02,000 I just I just like loaded the video and then clicked pause right away because I wasn't interested in watching it. 338 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,000 I just wanted to see how long the episode was. 339 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000 And he was extremely tan. 340 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,000 So that just shows that he is like getting a lot of sun. 341 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,000 So he's like basically living freely. 342 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000 He is free right now. 343 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:24,000 And I basically only see him as a few years ahead of me. 344 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:37,000 Like when I started self improvement a year ago, honestly, no, before I even started like officially started self improvement is what I consider the official start. 345 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:41,000 I've been watching him like way before I started like started reading. 346 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:53,000 And he was the person that actually sparked my motivation to actually begin reading self improvement books. 347 00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:01,000 But I like pretty much okay. 348 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:10,000 So what I'm trying to say here is that I kind of every once while I kind of compare my situation to his situation a few years back. 349 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:15,000 Like he was not I don't really directly compare it. 350 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:20,000 I kind of just like make a comparison like oh he's a few years ahead of me. 351 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:27,000 And so I'll have a life similar to or I'll be able to live freely similar to what he's doing. 352 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000 I'll be able to live. 353 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,000 Obviously I'm not going to have a similar life to him because we have different interests. 354 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:41,000 But I'm going to be living freely and doing whatever I want just like he does in a like few months or years. 355 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:48,000 So that's something amazing to hear about or not even hear about but just understand. 356 00:35:48,000 --> 00:36:01,000 And the other thing I was going to talk about the first thing was talking about how this like new age is coming upon us where everyone is like breaking free from the matrix. 357 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:07,000 Which is very encouraging to understand because it just goes to show that I'm not the only one. 358 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:16,000 There's other people because currently currently I only know of two other people in my school and I have a fairly large school. 359 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:22,000 It's like 30 30 300 kids in my school last year was 3600. 360 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:32,000 But there's only from what I know there's only like two other people that are actively trying to like break free. 361 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:42,000 And one like two other people from like a 30 300 person school. 362 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:54,000 So it's very kind of comforting to know that there's other people because before I met my friend Franklin I was thinking that there was no one else. 363 00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Like I was literally the only person in my entire like state or country that was actually on this path. 364 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000 And then I met Franklin and I knew that there is more. 365 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:13,000 But now especially with this new movement that I'm learning about I actually know that there's a lot more people. 366 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:20,000 And so it's very comforting to know that I'm like there's other people going through these struggles with me. 367 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,000 That's the first thing. 368 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000 And the second thing is adventures. 369 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:35,000 So up until I read Dan Tiff the music stops all I wanted to do was kind of just settle down in Hawaii and like surf. 370 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000 Which I still want to do that. 371 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000 That's still my slide that I visualize every day. 372 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,000 But I've become a lot more. 373 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000 Okay. 374 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,000 Let me explain this first. 375 00:37:46,000 --> 00:38:04,000 And when I read the four hour work week he talked a lot about how he goes on like these three month trips or like these long extended trips to different countries and learns a language as well as a physical skill. 376 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:19,000 So for example one trip that he could go on or one trip that I was inspired to go on was to go to Spain and learn Spanish as well as learn some physical skill that I'm not sure which one I would choose. 377 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:25,000 But like he learned like a language as well as learning how to dance. 378 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:36,000 Like be an extremely good like tango dancer or something he was actually like one like a world championship or something like that. 379 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:45,000 And so when I read that I was introduced to vagabonding which is basically like traveling the world. 380 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:57,000 It was like my first introduction to traveling the world and so ever since I read that book I like became fond of traveling and then reading dancing after the music stops. 381 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:05,000 He talks a lot about his travels and that gave me like a raw take on overlanding. 382 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,000 I don't know what overland I didn't look up the description the definition of overlanding. 383 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:30,000 But what what I came to understand it is under the context clues is basically just traveling the world in like a raw like not really like traveling the like the cracks of the world. 384 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:43,000 So going through like crazy experiences for example Jean Pasco Riemann traveled the Americas on a in a Jeep. 385 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:53,000 And he also traveled through like Vietnam and Laos in a on a motorcycle like a dirt bike. 386 00:39:53,000 --> 00:40:04,000 And one of the things that there's a lot of stories that he told about in South America as well as North America as well as in like Vietnam and Laos. 387 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:19,000 But one of the stories that was really crazy was in when he was in Vietnam he had a dirt bike basically he rented a dirt bike with no insurance nothing. 388 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:29,000 He like probably didn't have that much money and he was basically just riding the bike around just exploring. 389 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:45,000 And then he met this tour guide with the tour guide basically said like go to Laos and then travel 15 kilometers and then turn right and then travel 60 kilometers and then you'll see like something amazing. 390 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:53,000 So he did that he traveled like all the way down and throughout this whole time he met like he was like border crossing. 391 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:58,000 There was like a bunch of crazy things a lot of different things. 392 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:09,000 Then he turned right and he didn't even know if it was like the right thing he didn't know if he was going the right direction like all he was given was distances. 393 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:22,000 He didn't know if he was going down the right road. So he went down this road and it was like this jungle with like a bunch of bombs like landmines all over like literally hundreds of feet away. 394 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:34,000 I don't think they were on that road or else he probably wouldn't have been riding on it but there was like thousands of landmines and bombs literally hundreds of feet hundreds of feet away. 395 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,000 He was just riding down this jungle where there was like a bunch of random stuff. 396 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:57,000 He ran out of gas so he had to pour more gas in that he had in like this little can bot like bottle like can like imagine a coke can a can of coke and he just poured that much gas into that's all he had left. 397 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:17,000 So he had to like start a lot of things went wrong and he basically drove all the way down and reached like this one village and then it was like a bunch of random people or it was just like a bunch of locals. 398 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:36,000 I think it was like a military outpost and then he kept going further down and then he reached like this armed guard this armed person armed military personnel said he has to turn back which it turns out that was the border like he had gone so far. 399 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:53,000 He started in Vietnam and then went into Laos but then he like traveled down this road so far down that he actually made it back into Vietnam which that explained to him that he was actually going down the wrong road the entire time and it was becoming to be nighttime. 400 00:42:53,000 --> 00:43:22,000 And so he went back to the like the military kind of town or village kind of shacks that he had came across and it was just a bunch of like a lot of men who like were in awe of him because he was like the only like white dude that they have probably seen in a long time. 401 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:35,000 And so he talked about how that was like the craziest night of like the most amazing night or evening of his life because they offered him like raw beef. 402 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:48,000 And so he ate it he like chewed it took so long to chew and they were all like watching him and then he didn't really want anymore but they were like eat it and just the way he described the story was really funny. 403 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:53,000 And it really put me in like the scene of things. 404 00:43:53,000 --> 00:44:07,000 And so they basically kept offering him more and more beef so he basically had to eat a bunch of beef and then he had like some wine like rice wine some other stuff and then he went to bed. 405 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:17,000 And like that was the most awesome night of his life because they like danced and did a bunch of awesome stuff they partied all night. 406 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:32,000 He went to bed woke up and then he like went on his way and then he finally made it to the actual place that he intended to go to on accident which was like an amazing waterfall. 407 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:37,000 I think it was the waterfall I might have gotten a few stories mixed up but it doesn't really matter. 408 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:47,000 He ended up in the actual place and this whole time reading it I was kind of reminded of Transurfing as well as this story called the Alchemist. 409 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:58,000 And in the Alchemist basically he had a dream where he had to go to the Egyptian pyramids to find his treasure. 410 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:04,000 And he went on this huge expedition that this huge journey that took him years to get there. 411 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:16,000 And then once he got there he like he experienced a bunch of crazy things a bunch of awesome things and he learned a lot as well. 412 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:33,000 And then once he got there he realized that he didn't find any treasure there and so there's two dudes that were kind of like trying the two guys arrived and started beating him up because they thought that he had treasure. 413 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:43,000 And so there was a passing comment that said the you have to read the story to really understand this. 414 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:50,000 But basically the Alchemist said like oh I'm here because I had a dream a couple years ago that there's treasure right here. 415 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:59,000 And then the other guy said oh yeah that's ridiculous because I had this similar dream where there was treasure underneath a church. 416 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:09,000 And then the Alchemist knew because literally in the beginning of the story was he was at that church like that's where the story started at that church. 417 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:15,000 And so he was like oh whatever and so the dudes left him and then he was like oh wow. 418 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,000 So then he went back to the church. 419 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:25,000 He traveled all the way back to the church and found his treasure and it was and then he became like the richest person ever. 420 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:37,000 So that's pretty much the story how he his actual goal like his actual accomplishment was right next to him all along but he went on this whole journey. 421 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:49,000 So the journey is what's like really the world is basically leading you by the hand taking you on this amazing journey and then giving you the reward. 422 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:56,000 And I was like thinking about that the whole time like I had a suspicion that he was going to eventually find the. 423 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:03,000 I'm going back to the gene Pasco Riemann story I had a suspicion he was going to go find like the thing he was looking for. 424 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:17,000 But I also like saw that he was like going through this whole a bunch of crazy stuff and that's like the journey and he ended up having the most amazing life or the most amazing night ever. 425 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,000 And it he hadn't even reached the actual destination yet. 426 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:45,000 So the that story taught me a lesson that the world will take you on this amazing path and you should just go along because you shouldn't try and control the script so hard to where if you see like let's say the world like you're still going towards your path. 427 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:51,000 But let's say you perceive like a turn like the world takes you on a turn. 428 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:56,000 It's because the world is taking you on this path to go see this new experience. 429 00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,000 Who knows what you'll experience. 430 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:10,000 And so one of the things that I realized after reading dance after the music stops is this whole idea of traveling the world and having these experiences. 431 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:16,000 Right now I've I have not had any like true raw experiences in life. 432 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,000 Not a single like barely. 433 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,000 I don't think any raw experiences ever. 434 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,000 Not to the extent that he describes in that book. 435 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:38,000 And so going back to the idea of me like kind of comparing my situation I'm kind of like basically comparing my situation to like these people like basically my mentors. 436 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,000 People that I'm reading about. 437 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:46,000 So I'm on got he is one of the people that I like to use to compare a lot. 438 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,000 And when I say compare I'm not like comparing. 439 00:48:49,000 --> 00:49:00,000 I'm just like giving myself the comfort of knowing that my life will be to the extent that theirs is in like a few years time. 440 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:07,000 Like I'm basically giving myself the knowledge the comfort in the knowing that I'm going down a path. 441 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,000 I'm simply just I'm going down a similar path to them. 442 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,000 I'm simply just a few years behind like that's the comparison I'm making. 443 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:24,000 I'm just giving myself the comfort of knowledge that I am actually going to make it and I'm actually going to achieve the results and the success that I want. 444 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:31,000 And so Jean Pascal Rehmann is one of the people recently that I've been comparing to because he dropped out of college I believe. 445 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:39,000 And so I'm basically a few years ahead of him in regards of like stop taking school. 446 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:49,000 So and he said that he spent like all of his 20s traveling the world essentially. 447 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,000 And that's something I want to do. 448 00:49:52,000 --> 00:50:02,000 He's also talking about how there's a lot of like true raw experiences are really what helps you learn spirituality and learn the soul. 449 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,000 Like learn about your own nature. 450 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:11,000 And there's only so much you can really learn and achieve reading books. 451 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:15,000 You have to actually get out and have these raw experiences. 452 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:20,000 So reading books gets you to a certain extent but then you can only achieve so much just reading books. 453 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:28,000 You have to actually go out into the world and have experiences which is something that I predict. 454 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:38,000 Again I'm not sure because I haven't read this book yet but I predict come of age is going to talk about that a lot because it talks about like wisdom. 455 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:48,000 But not like I don't think it talks about wisdom but I think it talks about why elders don't have that much wisdom these days. 456 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:56,000 And so I think that come of age is like maybe the second book that I read after die wise. 457 00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:02,000 But that's pretty much like the whole spiel. 458 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:06,000 That's like I know now that I want to have these experiences. 459 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:13,000 I want to travel the world and meet like crazy people and I want to have like crazy experiences and crazy stories to tell. 460 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:24,000 I also want to go rent a cabin for like a year and just spend a month or a year in solitude. 461 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:28,000 Like there's a lot of different things that I'm open to now. 462 00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:37,000 Like there's a lot of different like before when I first started this podcast all I wanted to do was like be a millionaire and move out. 463 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:48,000 And now I want to and then I wanted to move out to Hawaii and surf and then I wanted to move out to Hawaii and surf and have my own private beach and have my own private house. 464 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:57,000 And now I want to move out and be financially free and travel the world and learn a bunch of stuff. 465 00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:08,000 And then I want to have like a lot of new experiences learn all these new languages and I want to like get all these experiences so I can have crazy stories to tell. 466 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:12,000 And then I want to actually I still want to learn. 467 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:16,000 I want to like surf and settle down at a house. 468 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:23,000 I see maybe I see it going like my most optimal path would be. 469 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:50,000 I want to move out to Hawaii right away and kind of spend a few months there in solitude surfing learning how surf and then that would basically be my base that would be like my home because I know that Jean Pascal Reemann goes on adventures for months at a time and then basically goes flies back like put his vehicle in long term 470 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:56,000 and then long term storage and then flies back home to Canada for a little bit of time. 471 00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:08,000 So that would basically be my home I fly back home to Hawaii and then rest for my next adventure and then go on another adventure soon. 472 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:12,000 Like that's kind of the thing that I kind of envision. 473 00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:24,000 And one of the things that I noticed in Jean and dance after music stops he basically said that a lot of times he didn't have money. 474 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:50,000 And he also said that he had to work like a bunch of jobs to make money so he would basically enter this period of time in his life where he would just lock in and work at like a oil rig or something like that and work for like a couple months and make like a quarter of a mill and then go on an adventure. 475 00:53:50,000 --> 00:54:06,000 Like that's basically what he did. But what I'm trying to do right now is like literally build my entire foundation, build a self sustaining business and make a lot of money first so I can have the foundation. 476 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:19,000 And then I start like doing all this stuff. And honestly I might go on adventures while I'm doing like like I don't want to build my all my wealth just here at my house. 477 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:30,000 I want to start going on adventures as well because I plan on podcasting for quite some time because I see the podcast as the foundation to my business and my business is the foundation to my life. 478 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:44,000 So in a sense the podcast is the foundation to like my life, which is why it's part of the core three, which is worldview spirituality and documentation, which is podcasting. 479 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:56,000 And so I definitely plan on, well, once I start making money, which I haven't even started making any money yet on my business, but once I start making money, I definitely plan on going out on adventures. 480 00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:13,000 Because one of the adventures that I did go on was going to Florida, which that definitely helped a lot with, I definitely impacted the podcast positively because I had more stories to tell and more things. 481 00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:22,000 And remember the episode, I forgot what episode it was. It might have been like 74 or 64. 482 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:29,000 One episode it was, it was my best episode that I'd ever recorded at that time. 483 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:42,000 And I was like standing shirtless barefoot in the middle of a golf course in Florida, like thousands of miles away from my house recording the podcast. 484 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,000 That was probably an awesome, that was definitely an awesome experience. 485 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:52,000 And that was like my first really travel moment. But honestly, that wasn't really traveling. 486 00:55:52,000 --> 00:56:03,000 I mean, I was traveling to a different state, but I don't really consider that like traveling because I didn't really have much awesome stories to tell on that. 487 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:07,000 I just went to like a business conference. That's it. 488 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:18,000 So I was traveling in one regard, but that's why like exploring and traveling is something that I want to do. 489 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:26,000 And not just traveling like flying different places in just flying to like tourist areas. 490 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:39,000 I want to travel like go hiking. One of the stories that he told was he basically met up with his best friend and then two other women. 491 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:42,000 So two dudes, two girls, two women. 492 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:51,000 And they basically hiked. They went to N'Paul, which is an extremely poor country. 493 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:59,000 And they hiked all the way up like this mountain and is like the highest vertical, I don't know. 494 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:05,000 But they basically hiked all the way up and he had an amazing story to tell about that. 495 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:09,000 Those are like the raw travel experiences that I want to have. 496 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:16,000 Not like traveling to Cancun and staying at a resort for a week. 497 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:24,000 Like yeah, I want to experience that, but not that much. Maybe like one week. 498 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:29,000 I want to have the real raw experience of traveling the earth. 499 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:33,000 Because those are what I learned about in Dancing After Music Stops. 500 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:36,000 Those are what I read about in Dancing After Music Stops. 501 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:45,000 And it really affected me because I remember like this past week I was reading it every morning before school. 502 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:50,000 And when I would finish, when it was time to start getting ready for school, 503 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:55,000 I would like be sitting there and I'd be like, I have to go. 504 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:59,000 I'm choosing to go to school. Like there's so much more to life. 505 00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:07,000 And it really started to change my perspective and worldview because I'm reading about all these awesome adventures that he's having. 506 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:13,000 And I'm just going to school, spending five hours a day at school and then coming home. 507 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:21,000 And still, like even my personal time I'm spending not really doing any adventure stuff. 508 00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:28,000 I'm literally just waking up, doing my morning routine, reading, going to school, and then come home. 509 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:33,000 Or go to the gym, come home, and then podcast and go to bed. 510 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:41,000 Like I'm not really adventuring or doing any crazy things that I'll be able to talk about. 511 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,000 But I still think that it's worth it because I'm building the foundation to my life. 512 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,000 I'm building like the foundation right now. And I really believe that. 513 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:53,000 I really believe that this podcast is the foundation to my financial freedom. 514 00:58:53,000 --> 00:59:00,000 I believe that me reading these books are going to greatly impact the rest of my life positively. 515 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:04,000 And really allow me to explore and experience the rest of my life. 516 00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:11,000 I really believe that my meditations are positively impacting my life. And that's one thing. 517 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:20,000 My meditations. The last thing I want to talk about in this episode was a few days ago I had my first like crazy experience. 518 00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:25,000 And it wasn't really that crazy. It was just one brief moment. It just lasted an instant. 519 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:36,000 And I experienced my entire view. My eyes were closed, but my entire screen, my inner screen, just lit up. 520 00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:41,000 And that was it. And then it ended just as quick as it started. 521 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,000 And then today a similar thing happened. 522 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:56,000 So I kind of like, I'm not very controlled. My thoughts weren't very controlled during my meditation today because I was kind of sleepy. 523 00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:03,000 And so I was just meditating and my mind kind of lost like control. 524 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:08,000 It's like literally fell asleep. My mind fell asleep and it instantly lost its control. 525 01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:17,000 And then my entire screen lit up again in an instant. But this time I saw like three black figures. 526 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:24,000 So my entire screen lit up. And then I saw like three humanoid figures. 527 01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:31,000 There it was just like the shadows, three shadows, just three figures right there. And that's it. It just happened in an instant. 528 01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:41,000 But it happened. And that's basically what happened. So I don't really know how to interpret it. 529 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:53,000 But that gives me another like boost of motivation because I know that meditation is going to help me learn more about myself and our reality. 530 01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:56,000 And just grow spiritually as well. 531 01:00:56,000 --> 01:01:04,000 But that's it for the episode. So to wrap things up, don't forget to download your favorite episodes and subscribe to the Ascend Momentum Show. 532 01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:30,000 But before you guys leave, make sure to look up at the sky.