Everyone is in Their Own World

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 So the big question is this, how do young men like us who didn't listen to society, who are on our own, 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can live better tomorrow? 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000 That is the question and this show will give you the answers. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,000 My name is James Radzinski and welcome to the Ascend Momentum Show. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Welcome back, welcome back. 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:43,000 So today I want to quickly start off by saying I am becoming a lot more calm, a lot more confident around girls. 7 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 So let me explain. 8 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:51,000 As you guys know, but just in case you haven't heard previous episodes for context, 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:01:02,000 I'm in a gym class in school called Adventure Ed and in this unit that we're in, we're in the pool kayaking. 10 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,000 So, and it's a co-ed class, so boys and girls. 11 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:17,000 And I have to change and then walk across the field house shirtless, which, yeah. 12 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:25,000 And we're in a pool, so we're all in our swimsuits and our swimming attire, so I'm not wearing a shirt. 13 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:34,000 And there are these two girls in my class that we were, for context, we were doing a relay race with the kayaks. 14 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,000 We were just doing races and there was one part. 15 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:49,000 I was in a group of two with one other guy and then there was two girls next to us that were competing as well. 16 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:56,000 And so one of the race events was that we had to group up with another team. 17 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:03,000 So we had to have two kayaks and two motors, essentially, people that are kicking behind. 18 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:11,000 And so we grouped up with a group of girls and we sadly didn't win the relay, but that's okay. 19 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 But I started talking to them afterwards and I was just like, hey, what's your name? 20 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:29,000 And then we started talking and I was just really calm and I was happy because that I never would have been able to do that a year ago or even three weeks ago. 21 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:42,000 So it's looking good and I'm really looking forward to the future because it'll get easier and easier from here as it gets closer and closer into my comfort zone, talking to girls. 22 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:58,000 But when I was reading Transurfing today, I read After School a little bit and I was reading the chapter on slides and 23 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:06,000 he was talking about how your slide is basically a distortion of reality and you can have positive slides. 24 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:17,000 And in those slides, you can basically visualize yourself having more confidence being just having qualities that you strive to earn. 25 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:38,000 And he said that you can, a way to make the slide actually become reality quicker and make it work quicker and more effectively is by talking to strangers in real life. 26 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:49,000 And that connected a bunch of dots because I didn't have a slide in my head, but I wanted to get more confident and calm around girls. 27 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 And so what I did was go to the mall and talk to girls. 28 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,000 And so that actually helped turn that slide in my mind a lot. 29 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,000 It actually helped it become reality a lot quicker. 30 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Now I'm not all the way there yet, but I'm definitely getting there and I can definitely tell that it's helping a lot. 31 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:21,000 He said that talking to strangers with your side in mind, so actually acting out your side. 32 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,000 So if your side is more confident, you talk to strangers more confidently. 33 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,000 And that works because you've never seen them before and they don't have an impression of you. 34 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 And it plus it gives you good practice. 35 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:43,000 So that's all things that it kind of connected the dots a little bit on why. 36 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Another reason why talking to girls at the mall is very beneficial. 37 00:04:48,000 --> 00:05:00,000 So I want to talk to you guys about this thing that I read about last night and started reading a little bit more today. 38 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:14,000 But for some context, I've been reading reality, Transurfing and in the chapter called intention, he talks about how you need to wake up in your life. 39 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:26,000 And once you wake up, you're able to manage your own destiny and you're basically able to get what you want in life and choose things that you want in life. 40 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:39,000 So last night I read, I was kind of just surfing the web because I was bored and I was putting off my work. 41 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:44,000 I needed something to distract myself. 42 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:52,000 So I was searching the web for reality, Transurfing and I came upon his website, Adam Zellin's website. 43 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 And I didn't even know he had a website. 44 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:01,000 So I looked at it and it was a very good website, it's a very good resource. 45 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:14,000 So I was looking at it more today during school and there was a section about Toofty the Priestess. 46 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:22,000 And Toofty the Priestess is basically, he has two books all about that. 47 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:29,000 And it's basically a being who is teaching you how to implement the Transurfing techniques. 48 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:37,000 And I read a little bit of the introduction of that book on the website. 49 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,000 And it's definitely a good book that I want to read in the future. 50 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 But there was one thing that he said that really stuck out to me. 51 00:06:48,000 --> 00:07:01,000 I read this last night and I actually needed to hear it because I was reading intention on Reality Transurfing. 52 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,000 And he was saying that you need to be awake all the time, but I didn't know how to do that. 53 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:15,000 I was just playing on brute forcing it and just always trying to wake up, wake up, wake up. 54 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:24,000 But what he said on his website, what Toofty the Priestess said is, you need to... 55 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Well, let me just explain this. We all have a habit, most people have a habit to fall asleep. 56 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:40,000 They fall asleep whenever an event happens, like you see someone, an object appears, 57 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,000 or literally anything that happens in the outside world. 58 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,000 We have a habit to fall asleep. 59 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 And that's outer, outer sleep. 60 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:03,000 And then the other part is we have a habit to fall asleep anytime we decide to do something or we think about something. 61 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,000 So that's inner, inner sleep. 62 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:23,000 So what Toofty said is we need to reverse this habit and make it so whenever something on the outside happens, 63 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:31,000 you wake up instead of fall asleep. You wake up anytime anything happens, you wake up. 64 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:38,000 And then whenever anything happens inside, like you decide to do something, you decide to take action, 65 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,000 or you think about anything, that should be a trigger to wake up. 66 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,000 And that gives me a lot of structure moving forward. 67 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Create the habit to create the habit that whenever something happens on the outside or inside, 68 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:07,000 it triggers me to wake up, build that habit, and reverse my current habit of falling asleep. 69 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:21,000 So that is a very good piece of advice, a tip that I would give to you guys and to myself because I'm just starting to implement this. 70 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:28,000 And yes, you have to be extremely vigilant, you have to be extremely obsessive over this. 71 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:43,000 I'm going to get some water. 72 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:52,000 So I want to talk to you guys about the second thing that I discovered last night. 73 00:09:52,000 --> 00:10:04,000 When I was searching Reality Transurfing, I came across this website that was a 180 book reading list, 74 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:15,000 the ultimate reading guide for human beings, and it was the website was called Beautiful World or something like that. 75 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,000 And the reason why I found that is because I was searching Reality Transurfing, 76 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:37,000 and in that website there is a Reality Transurfing quote, or not quote, but it talks about Reality Transurfing. 77 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:44,000 And so I was reading that book and he said, or not the book, I was reading his reading guide website, 78 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:54,000 and he said that in order to, or no, he said he wished that he had this list back in the day, 79 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:06,000 and you can read 40,000 books over the next 20 years, but if they're not the right books, you won't gain anything from them. 80 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:24,000 And then he also said he wished that he had this list and this list basically cuts out all the nonsense and cuts to the chase of a spiritual or awakening, consciousness awakening. 81 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:35,000 And having read all these books, you will have a brand new awakening and you will see the world differently, you will live differently. 82 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:46,000 And he basically says that this is the ultimate reading list for human beings, just human beings. 83 00:11:46,000 --> 00:12:02,000 So I read further and he said that the normal reading method of picking up a book and reading from the first page to the last page is just bad. 84 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,000 It's a waste, it's inefficient. 85 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:17,000 And he suggested a new tactic where you pick up seven books and then pick the first one up, read until you lose focus, 86 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:26,000 which is when you have to reread a sentence you already read, and then switch to the next book and then repeat. 87 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:33,000 And then repeat that for all seven books. And then you just keep cycling back and forth. 88 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:41,000 And then he said that you can easily read a book a day for 100 days using this method. 89 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:56,000 And so when I read that, I got really excited because I know that if you can get as much information in and retain as much as possible from books, 90 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:16,000 then you will be able to change your consciousness and change your mind, change your subconscious, mold it to the shape of those books, which I read through a bunch of those books, 91 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:27,000 just the descriptions and what he'd said about them, those books are the real deal and I feel that that may be the next avenue of my life. 92 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Because he said that these books really get you to understand life and the fabric of reality. 93 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:57,000 And it just reading through his descriptions of these books and just his comments, it really made me see that there's a new, there's way more to life than what I am open to right now. 94 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 And I've been reading Reality Transurfing and that's changed my life. 95 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:13,000 And the reason why this reading list is so appealing to me is because for context, Reality Transurfing is my favorite book. 96 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,000 It's changed my life. 97 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:19,000 If I had to choose one book to only read ever, it would be Reality Transurfing. 98 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:27,000 If I was stuck on an island and was given one item to survive, I would choose the book, Reality Transurfing. 99 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,000 I know it crazy. 100 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,000 I wouldn't choose a knife. 101 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 I wouldn't choose anything. 102 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:35,000 I'd choose that book and read it. 103 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:40,000 So that's how valuable Reality Transurfing has been for me. 104 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000 And back to the list. 105 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:54,000 The reason why that list is so appealing to me is because when he was explaining the list before he actually gave the list, he said, 106 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:01,000 before you read anything, read this book and then begin with the list. 107 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:08,000 And that book that he recommended was Reality Transurfing the Alternative Space. 108 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:21,000 And for context, the way that I'm zelens Reality Transurfing books are structured is he originally wrote five different books. 109 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:28,000 Reality Transurfing the Alternative Space, Reality Transurfing, I don't remember what all the other ones were called, 110 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:34,000 but he just wrote five different books all about Reality Transurfing. 111 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,000 All about Transurfing, I should say. 112 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:46,000 And then eventually he actually combined them all into one book, one 750 page long book. 113 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Just all one. 114 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:59,000 So that's why when you search up Transurfing, the book with the sunshine rainbow yellow cover says Reality Transurfing parts one through five. 115 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:11,000 It's because it's basically book one through five because he wrote five books and he just combined them all into one book for convenience. 116 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:17,000 And then he wrote three other books after that about Transurfing as well. 117 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:25,000 One called Toofty Life, Live, Stroll, Through a Movie, It, Foot. 118 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 It's basically Toofty spelled backwards. 119 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,000 I haven't really looked into it though. 120 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:39,000 And then the last one was 78 days of Reality Transurfing. 121 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,000 So it's basically like a practical guide. 122 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:52,000 So he's written four books, but technically like eight books or nine. 123 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 I don't know. 124 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Four books is what's listed on his website because one of the books is five books combined. 125 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:11,000 So what I got from all of that is in that read back to the reading list, the 180 book long reading list, the ultimate reading list. 126 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,000 He only recommended the first book. 127 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:27,000 So I assume that it's because he it was either he wanted to recommend a quick book and off the star, or he just didn't. 128 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:34,000 He wrote it before the parts one through five was released. 129 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Either way, me having read Reality Transurfing once and then I'm studying it a second time and I made a plan to finish it in 30 days. 130 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 I'll get to that later. 131 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 But me having studied it. 132 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:59,000 And then I'm going to finish it in 30 days and then once I get home from Funal Hacking Live, I will begin with the list of books. 133 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:12,000 That's my plan right now because what I'm trying to say is since I'll have studied it a second time and actually written a lot stuff down and spent a lot of time on it. 134 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:26,000 That will put me at a huge advantage beginning the list, starting the list and I'll have a lot of understanding already built up before I even start with the list. 135 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 So that's huge. 136 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:34,000 He said that the first book you should read this this book wasn't even on the list. 137 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:42,000 His list was 168 pages or 168 books long, but and that was the actual main list. 138 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:50,000 But before he even presented the list, he said, this is the book you should read first. 139 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 And so I've read that already. 140 00:18:53,000 --> 00:19:00,000 I haven't read that exact book, but I've read that book in a in a part of an entire book of Transurfing. 141 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,000 And I'm on in the middle of my second read through of it. 142 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000 And what I was saying is I'm going to finish it in 30 days. 143 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 That's my goal. 144 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Even though I was saying I wasn't going to rush it. 145 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:25,000 I feel like I can finish it in 30 days and still get a lot of value from it because when I was rushing it, I was reading 50 pages a day and just just trying to burst through it. 146 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,000 But I did the math and I have 500 pages left. 147 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:38,000 And if I read 20 pages a day, then I'll be done before 30 days. 148 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:43,000 And 20 pages a day is definitely feasible. 149 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:53,000 I'd have to do two studies every day, though, to keep up because usually I get 10 to 15 pages done in the morning. 150 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:59,000 And then I have to read a little bit at nighttime as well. 151 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:12,000 But that is that is huge because he was talking about the first book on that list. 152 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 He said that that is the foundation. 153 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:20,000 It lays the foundation to understanding the world. 154 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 I'm not sure if I'm presenting this or explaining this well enough. 155 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,000 I'm not sure if I'm doing it justice enough. 156 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:33,000 But that book is probably one of the most important books that I'll have ever read. 157 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,000 And I don't even know anything about it. 158 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:43,000 And then I was reading through the first 20 books on the list. 159 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,000 And the first seven were great. 160 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:54,000 And I've never even heard of any of the books that he's recommending except for the Reality Transurfing, which was number one. 161 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:03,000 But the first seven seemed great and he was hyping them up a lot. 162 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:12,000 And he talked about there was one book that was talking about the pyramids, the Egyptian pyramids. 163 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:32,000 And once I saw that, I instantly remembered this thing, this piece of information, this piece of text that I read in Transurfing the other day in the Intention chapter. 164 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:45,000 And he talked about how the ancient Egyptians used outer intention to build the pyramids. 165 00:21:45,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Now, if you don't know what outer intention is, it's basically allowing the world to help you along your path and allow the world to achieve, help you achieve your goals. 166 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:10,000 It's basically choosing to have the goals realize themselves. 167 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:18,000 So choosing for your goals to happen on their own and actually get achieved on their own. 168 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Now, most people in the society, me included, are used to achieving things and getting things through inner intention, 169 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:34,000 which is basically directly manipulating our external world to get what we want. 170 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:50,000 But Transurfing offers a different approach and its outer intention, which is to simply choose to have and then the world will take care of it the rest. 171 00:22:50,000 --> 00:23:01,000 So that connection, he said that the ancient Egyptians actually built the pyramids through outer intention, 172 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:13,000 which makes a lot of sense because, first of all, there's no way that they would have been able to build the pyramids that quickly. 173 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Because those stones were heavy. Those stones are so heavy. 174 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:27,000 There's no way they could have had slaves do that. Like no human could carry that. 175 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:35,000 But also, they didn't, I'm pretty sure they did it. So I don't even know anything about Egyptian pyramids, so I don't even know why I'm talking about this. 176 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:43,000 I'm not. That's why I need to read the book. But it just makes a lot of sense that they did not use inner intention. 177 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:53,000 But the second reason is they were sophisticated because the pyramids were exactly aligned with the stars. 178 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,000 There's no way they did that on accidents. Impossible. 179 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:06,000 They were all perfectly aligned with the stars mathematically. And there's just some, I don't know exactly like the whole deal with it. 180 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:19,000 But there's something special about the pyramids that they simply just couldn't have done through normal means, especially since it was, I don't even know, maybe thousands of years ago. 181 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:25,000 I don't know how long ago it was, but it was definitely before they had modern tools. 182 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:32,000 So the only way to have done it is outer intention. So I'm really excited to read that book. 183 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Because I read the back page summary of it on Amazon, the picture. 184 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,000 I read a part of it because it was blurry, so I couldn't really get the whole thing in. 185 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:58,000 And it talked about how the author is a controversial and has a very opposing to the normal worldview. 186 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:10,000 So that's something. So let me get to the downside of me discovering all this stuff, this new reading list. 187 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:22,000 It's because, let me tell you a story. The first time I was reading Reality Transurfing, I was on YouTube Shorts, which is basically TikTok. 188 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:28,000 And I was searching for new books to read because I wanted to know the next book to read. 189 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:38,000 And mind you, Reality Transurfing is 750 pages long, and I was only on page 200 at this point. 190 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:43,000 I don't know the exact number, around 200. So I was looking for the next book to read. 191 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:52,000 I was so excited for the next book. And I found two books to read next, and I ordered them on Amazon, had them shipped. 192 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,000 And then I was so excited for them, I just decided to read them. 193 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,000 So I stopped Reality Transurfing, and I read those books. 194 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 And I said, I was going to go back to Transurfing after those books. 195 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000 And then I ordered another book, and then another book. 196 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:17,000 And then I never ended up finishing Transurfing until my friend Franklin asked me what the next book he should read is. 197 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:23,000 And after a little bit of contemplation, I said Transurfing, and then I realized how valuable Transurfing is. 198 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,000 So I went back and read it. 199 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:32,000 And so it took me a couple months, maybe three months to read Transurfing. 200 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:37,000 And that's because in the middle of it, I just didn't read it. 201 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:48,000 And I'm telling you this because it's kind of a similar situation right now, but at least now I'm conscious of it. 202 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:54,000 Because I just found 180 brand new books that I'm really excited to read. 203 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:02,000 A brand new reading list that will basically lead to a consciousness awakening. 204 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,000 I have no idea what that means, but it sounds amazing. 205 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:12,000 And so I'm really hype and I'm really excited for these books. 206 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,000 And I was about to make the purchase by seven of them last night. 207 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000 But I remembered what happened last time I did this. 208 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,000 The exact same time and I'm on about page 200 on Transurfing. 209 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 So it's the same situation as last time. 210 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000 And now I'm conscious of it. 211 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,000 I just have to push through and finish Transurfing. 212 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:44,000 And that's why before I wasn't going to have a page reading goal per day. 213 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,000 But now I am. 214 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000 I'm going to have at least 20 pages a day. 215 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Because I want to be able to finish it before I go to Funnel Hacking Live. 216 00:27:53,000 --> 00:28:01,000 So then once I get home from Funnel Hacking Live, my current plan is to read all of the next books. 217 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:10,000 But that could definitely change because I predict that Funnel Hacking Live is going to be a big turning point in my life. 218 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Let me get some water. 219 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:40,000 So there was this fly flying around in my basement a couple minutes ago when I was talking. 220 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:51,000 And it landed on my monitor and I touched it. I was able to touch it, which is weird because most flies just fly away instantly. 221 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,000 And they have an amazing reaction speed. 222 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,000 But that fly, I was like, I touched it and swatted it down. 223 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,000 And then it landed on my notebook and it was still up. 224 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:14,000 It was just crawling around on my notebook right next to me. And I just put my finger on it and pressed down on it. 225 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Thinking that it was going to fly off, but it didn't. 226 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000 And so I killed it on accident. 227 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:28,000 And I was in the middle of talking, so I didn't want to... 228 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:41,000 I don't know. It was just really gross and weird. So I just put it under my notebook and then while I was drinking water 10 seconds ago, I flicked it off of my desk. 229 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:46,000 But that's something weird that just happened. 230 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:54,000 Also, I want to talk about how my goal is to go to Florida right now for Funnel Hacking Live. 231 00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:08,000 And I want to talk about how it is so hot and humid out lately in Chicago right now. 232 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:19,000 It's literally like 95 degrees out today. Super sunny. The UV is 8 and it's extremely humid. 233 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:26,000 And so this morning I was thinking, man, this is Florida weather. It's Florida weather. My reality is changing. 234 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:34,000 So that's cool. There's just something cool that's going on. 235 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:48,000 I just want to remind you guys real quick to wake up because for every moment you spend practicing the Transurfing Practices, you are consciously moving towards your goals. 236 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:53,000 So that means that every moment you are awake, you're consciously moving towards your goals. 237 00:30:53,000 --> 00:31:12,000 And if you...my friend said that written in Toofty, the priestess, that book on Transurfing, written in that is Toofty said, 238 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:18,000 if you can stay awake for 20 minutes straight, that will change your life. 239 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:24,000 So right now I'm probably at like 2 minutes. Probably less than that to be honest. 240 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:33,000 And my life is already changing for the better. So I'm really excited for the future because it's only getting better from there. 241 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:52,000 And I just found out about this technique to basically pair or link, connect the habit of waking up to external and internal events that happen. 242 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:58,000 So anytime something happens around you, let it be a trigger to wake up. 243 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:05,000 And anytime you're about to do something, make it a habit to wake up first. 244 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:11,000 And then there was also this other quote that I remember in Transurfing where he said, 245 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,000 if your intention is strong, you will get there eventually. So don't worry if you fail. 246 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:21,000 If your intention is strong, you will get there eventually. 247 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:29,000 And I just, all the time I keep failing and I keep falling asleep, but then I just remind myself my intention is strong. 248 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,000 So I will make it eventually. 249 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:43,000 And then the other day I discovered, I don't know if I discovered anything, but I kind of realized something. 250 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:52,000 And I said, what if I used outer intention to become more awake and become more present? 251 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:59,000 What if I use outer intention to gain those abilities? 252 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:05,000 And then I was like, okay, and then I just tried to visualize or I tried to unify my heart and mind. I don't know. 253 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:16,000 And then this morning while I was reading Transurfing, I actually talked about this or it was just now a couple, like an hour ago. 254 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:27,000 You can develop a slide in your mind where you are, you have these abilities. 255 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:39,000 So if I develop a slide in my mind where I am present and I am awake all of the time, and then I just play it out in my mind, 256 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:46,000 and then go talk to strangers, talk to girls. If I play this out the next time I go to the mall and talk to girls, 257 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:54,000 then it will become, it will materialize more effectively and more quickly and effectively. 258 00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:00,000 So I think that that could help a lot. So that actually might be a plan of mine. 259 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:09,000 I was going to do a slide of me being an entrepreneur and having entrepreneurial skill sets or mindset, 260 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,000 but I think that this slide is more beneficial. 261 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,000 And that's another thing I wanted to talk to you guys about. 262 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:23,000 I touched on this in the previous episode, I think, or the episode before that. 263 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:32,000 But I am just not, I am not doing anything right now for business. 264 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000 The only thing I'm doing is podcasting. 265 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:45,000 And to be honest, that does not, it counts, but right now I don't perceive it as counting because I'm not checking my analytics. 266 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:55,000 And I have no plans on, right, as of now I have no plans on monetizing this channel, this show. 267 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:03,000 But that will probably change in the future once I check the analytics in September, 268 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:09,000 which I'm going to hold off until September to check them. 269 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:15,000 And by the time that this episode releases, it will almost be September, it will be August 28th. 270 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:23,000 So a couple more days until September, but for me right now, it's August 23rd. 271 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Does this episode release on the 28th? I don't know. I forgot. 272 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:37,000 But that's what I'm trying to say is I have been slacking, I have not done anything for business in weeks, 273 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,000 maybe even a month. 274 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:47,000 So I'm kind of lost right now. I don't really know what to do moving forward. 275 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:55,000 I'm kind of just living, I'm kind of just waiting. 276 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:03,000 I'm just waiting. I don't know what I'm waiting for, but I'm just, I'm on a standstill. I'm kind of dried up. 277 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:12,000 I really don't like to leave in the middle of episodes. I like to record them all the way through, 278 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,000 but I actually have to use the bathroom, so I'll be back. 279 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:24,000 Okay, I'm back. I'm sorry for that interruption. I just, I've been drinking a lot of water lately, 280 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:32,000 and I always go to the bathroom right before I record, but sometimes the timing is just not so great, 281 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:40,000 and I have to use the bathroom halfway through. So sorry about that interruption, but let that be a lesson. 282 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:49,000 Drink more water. I've drank so much water today and over the past couple weeks. It's good. 283 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:57,000 But also if you're going to increase your water consumption, make sure you drink, or make sure you eat a lot of salt also. 284 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:07,000 I always put salt in my first glass of water that I drink in the day, and I pour a lot of salt on all of my meals. 285 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:14,000 I pour a lot of salt in my bone broth when I make it. I pour a lot of salt in my eggs. 286 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:26,000 I pour a lot of salt in my, I actually don't pour it on my burgers because I always forget, but I should. 287 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:46,000 But I always pour a lot on my chicken. So be liberal with your salt. Pour a lot. 288 00:37:46,000 --> 00:38:03,000 So I've been in class lately because I'm a student, and I'm really grateful for this opportunity because I'm a part-time student, 289 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:20,000 so I only have four periods of the day, and then I'm out for fifth period, which is around 11, 30 to 12 around that time. 290 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:34,000 And it's so amazing. I've saved so much time. I get to go to the gym during school. I just do it like a lot. It's just so nice. 291 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:42,000 Alright, so now I know what I'm going to say. Yesterday I talked about this, but I'm re-emphasizing it because it's so important. 292 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:56,000 People are 90% preoccupied with thoughts about themselves. So 90% of people's thoughts are about themselves. 293 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:09,000 And that doesn't mean the rest of the 10% is about you. The rest of the 10% is about their lunch, food, vacation, just random stuff. 294 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:21,000 They're not even thinking about you. And this is so valuable to know because it makes sense. Just ask yourself, do you think about other people? 295 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:32,000 So I'm picturing, I want you to picture walking through a high school hallway during the passing period, and this is what I have to do every day. 296 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:44,000 So I'm walking through the hallway and there's a lot of kids my age. And the tendency, the natural tendency is to think like, oh no, I hope this person's not judging me. 297 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Oh no, what do they think? What? I mean, I, is my butt sweaty. Like, I have this, sometimes I have a sweaty butt and it leaves sweat stains. 298 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:04,000 And so I'm insecure about that even though it literally never happens only when I'm like in gym class. That's the only time it happens. 299 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:13,000 And even then it's just not visible. But I just get super insecure about it even though it's nothing. There's nothing there. 300 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:31,000 And so that's what the Buddhists, I'm pretty sure the Buddhists call it, the monkey brain. It's basically your brain by default. It's not actually what you're, you're not actually being conscious about it. 301 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:46,000 It's basically when you're asleep. And this brain always has a tendency to think that it's being judged or it's being looked at. 302 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:58,000 And this happens a lot. I was struggling this a lot last year and the year before. I would always get nervous in the hallway and I'd walk very awkwardly because I thought that everyone was judging me. 303 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:14,000 So I was my actions. I had a negative slide in my head. And then that slide affected my actions, which made me walk awkwardly, which actually made me look weird. 304 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:38,000 And I'm saying this because now I realize that people are preoccupied 90%. So the vast majority is about thoughts about themselves. And people only place appearance extra people only place value or meaning onto your appearance. 305 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:50,000 If they're a potential mate, so a potential boyfriend or girlfriend or husband or wife or whatever, that's the only time when they do it. 306 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:59,000 So that's like less than 1% of the people you encounter on a day to day basis, literally nobody. 307 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:10,000 And since my goals are I'm just working on my purpose and fulfilling, I'm just focusing on myself. I'm not worried about getting a girl. 308 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:24,000 So I'm not worried about the 99% because they're not even thinking about me, but I'm not even worried about that 1% because I'm not focused on that part of my life right now. 309 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:32,000 So let this be something to think about next time you're in the hallway asleep. 310 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:48,000 And your thoughts are running in your mind and you're just thinking and thinking. Just remind yourself that people are preoccupied 90% of the time with thoughts about themselves. 311 00:42:48,000 --> 00:43:01,000 And if you don't believe me, just ask yourself because are you thinking about yourself? Like it just makes sense because in that example, you're literally thinking, oh no, I hope they don't think this about me. 312 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:07,000 You're literally thinking about yourself. So most people are like that. 313 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:15,000 And even if they're not, they're thinking about, oh, I hope my hair looks good today or all this stuff. 314 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:21,000 So just take comfort in that knowledge that nobody is thinking about you. 315 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:32,000 So don't place so much importance on yourself that you think everyone is thinking about you and everyone is looking at you because no, they're all minding their own business, they're all worried about themselves. 316 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,000 Now that's not a bad thing. It's just how the way things are. 317 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:48,000 So just find comfort in that and relax into that piece of information because it has definitely helped me a lot. I definitely feel a lot more comfortable. 318 00:43:48,000 --> 00:44:02,000 And every time I start to feel uncomfortable and feel like nervous, I just remind myself that there's no need because I'm kind of just in a world of my own and everyone else is in a world of their own. 319 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:10,000 And plus if you break it down, even if they judge you, who cares? Nothing's going to happen. 320 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:19,000 They can't change your life and you can't change theirs. No one can prevent you from achieving your goals except for yourself. 321 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:36,000 So that's very valuable. That's something I wish I knew a couple of years ago. 322 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:48,000 Let me get some water. 323 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:53,000 I just want to make sure that you guys are staying awake, staying present. 324 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:58,000 A lot of the times I fall asleep during class. 325 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:03,000 Not a sleep of sleep, but I fall unconscious. 326 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:08,000 And then I remember and I wake up and I'm like, oh, that was bad. 327 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:16,000 And this happens a lot throughout my day. I fall asleep and then I catch myself a couple of minutes later, a couple of seconds later. 328 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:21,000 And I have this interpretation that I'm asleep most of the day. 329 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:27,000 But what actually happened is I'm reminding myself a lot more. 330 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:31,000 So a week ago I was reminding myself maybe 10 times a day. 331 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:37,000 Today I'm reminding myself 30 times a day. I don't know the actual number, but it's just a lot more. 332 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:45,000 So it seems like I'm asleep way more throughout the day because I'm catching myself a lot more. 333 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:50,000 But today I actually realized that that's the wrong interpretation. 334 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:55,000 I'm actually asleep a lot less than I was a week ago. 335 00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:02,000 But I'm just catching myself while I'm asleep and waking up a lot more often. 336 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:08,000 So it creates that illusion that I'm awake or that I'm asleep a lot more. 337 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:14,000 So does that make sense? I'm not sure if I'm explaining this right. So I'm going to try again. 338 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:25,000 So a week ago, I don't know the actual time, but let's just say a month ago, I was like, oh yeah, I should work on staying conscious. 339 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:32,000 So I would catch myself maybe five times a day. 340 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:40,000 And five times a day I'd be like, I'd realize that I was asleep. I think it was time to wake up. 341 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:47,000 And then a couple days later, slowly but surely it up to seven. 342 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:52,000 And then a couple days later, 10. And then a couple days later, 13. 343 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,000 And it would just go up and up and up. 344 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:04,000 But I interpreted that increase, which is if you can imagine a graph, it would just go up. 345 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:17,000 Growth, I interpreted that growth as failure because or I interpreted it as the opposite of growth, like me shrinking and me getting worse, me falling asleep more. 346 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:24,000 Because I would, in the beginning, I would wake myself up five times. 347 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:28,000 So then I would realize that I was asleep five times. 348 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:35,000 So think about it like this, in the beginning, I would realize that I was asleep five times per day. 349 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:40,000 Now I'm realizing that I was asleep 30 times per day. 350 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:52,000 So if you realize you failed five times per day, and then two weeks later you realize you failed 20 times per day or 40 times per day. 351 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:59,000 Well, you're definitely going to interpret that as a failure because you want to fail less. 352 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,000 Even though I'm not talking about the entrepreneurial mindset of fail as much as possible. 353 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:09,000 I'm talking about just human interpretation, human tendency. 354 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,000 You want to succeed. I rarely succeeded. 355 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:18,000 That's what I interpreted because in the beginning I would fail five times. 356 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:27,000 And then now I'm failing 40 times per day. What's up with this? Why am I failing so many times? 357 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:32,000 But then earlier today I realized that is the wrong interpretation. 358 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,000 That's the negative interpretation of this. 359 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:45,000 What is actually happening is a month ago I was falling, I was only catching myself while I was asleep. 360 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,000 So let's say I was asleep all day by default. 361 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:52,000 I was only catching myself five times in that day to wake up. 362 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,000 So I was only awake five times. 363 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,000 So let's reverse it. 364 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:09,000 Before I was interpreting it as I was falling, I would be fall asleep five times and then be asleep 40 times today. 365 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:17,000 But let's reverse this interpretation and say a month ago with this new interpretation I would wake up five times. 366 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:21,000 So that's a lot. That's a more positive outlook. 367 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,000 So I would wake up five times per day. 368 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,000 And now I'm waking up 40 times per day. 369 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:31,000 So I have grown. I have actually grown. 370 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:35,000 So that's kind of, I'm not really sure if you guys are catching it. 371 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:40,000 But if you guys are really understanding what I'm saying because I'm not really sure if I'm explaining it that well. 372 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:51,000 But essentially I was interpreting it as negative when it was in reality was actually positive because I was growing. 373 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,000 I'm actually waking up a lot more. 374 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:59,000 So it seems like I'm asleep a lot more throughout the day because I'm conscious of it a lot more. 375 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:12,000 But I'm actually awake a lot more throughout the day because I have a lot more opportunities and a lot more time slots where I'm actually awake. 376 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,000 If that makes sense. 377 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:25,000 So I think that's a huge piece of valuable piece of information that I would tell someone who is walking the same path as I am just a little couple steps behind. 378 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:40,000 When you start waking up and start being present and start living life consciously, there's two options on interpreting your growth. 379 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:48,000 You can either think that you're doing bad when in reality you're doing good or you can think that you're doing good when in reality you're doing good. 380 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:55,000 So I would take the latter approach because why would you interpret it as negative when it's actually good? 381 00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,000 When you could interpret it as good when it's actually good. 382 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,000 Like you could interpret it how it is. 383 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:15,000 Like you wouldn't, if your goal is to make a million dollars, you wouldn't interpret on day one that you made one dollar and then on day ten you made a thousand dollars. 384 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,000 You wouldn't interpret that as bad because it's actually good. 385 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,000 You would interpret it as good because it's good. 386 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,000 That's kind of what I'm saying. 387 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,000 Let me get some water. 388 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:47,000 So when I record my podcast, I don't plan. 389 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,000 I don't write things down that I'm going to talk about. 390 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,000 I don't write a script. 391 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,000 I don't even jot down things I want to talk about. 392 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,000 I kind of just let it come out. 393 00:51:55,000 --> 00:52:02,000 That's why in the beginning I talk about my day so I can get the ball rolling and start talking more and more. 394 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:07,000 But sometimes just nothing comes out and that's usually when I decided to get water. 395 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:20,000 I usually take a quick water break because I want to let the ideas come out of my mind. 396 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:31,000 But then I found that it's easier to let the ideas come out when you start talking because when you're talking and you're taking action, you're in the flow a lot of the times. 397 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,000 So then things just come out quicker. 398 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,000 And that's what I'm doing right now. 399 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:44,000 I'm just talking to wait to see if something comes out. 400 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,000 But that's something that did just come out and I'm going to talk about it right now. 401 00:52:48,000 --> 00:53:02,000 So I've been having my shirt off a lot lately, biking downtown throughout town and just during gym class because we're in the swimming unit. 402 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:10,000 And so I'm getting a lot more comfortable having my shirt off around people my age and people at my school. 403 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:22,000 But this kind of makes me think about something and it's something that I've been really breaking down the barriers a lot lately. 404 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:32,000 And it's that I always got insecure in public and I would always have this tension in my head. 405 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:41,000 This social tension that I would feel people's energy around me and I would just feel very tense around people. 406 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:54,000 But lately when I was, now that I've been studying Transurfing, a lot of that tension has alleviated because I'm just realizing that everyone's just their own world. 407 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,000 Everyone is living their own world and I'm in my own world layer. 408 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:06,000 It's kind of very peaceful and comforting to think about that while I'm walking throughout the hallways. 409 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:11,000 And that's what I was touching on earlier when people are 90% preoccupied with their thoughts about themselves. 410 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:21,000 It's comforting walking through the hallway, knowing that you're your own person and everyone else is their own person. 411 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:28,000 And we're all just kind of individuals going throughout our lives. 412 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:39,000 And then if you take into account the fact that you're not going to see them after high school, I'm not going to see 99.9% of the people after high school. 413 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:48,000 So it's comforting to know that nothing I do right now will really affect me in four months time when I'm graduated. 414 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:52,000 I'm literally graduating in like four months. 415 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:59,000 So I can do whatever I want and act however I want around these people. 416 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:15,000 And it will just serve to push myself forward because if I expand my comfort zone around these people and use these people as practice, essentially, to help me expand my comfort zone, 417 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:21,000 then that's going to help propel me forward into my life for the future. 418 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,000 And it's really all about the comfort zone. 419 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:31,000 This is just something that I've been really focusing on for the past month or so. 420 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:39,000 Expanding your comfort zone is one of the best things that I've done and I just started doing it recently. 421 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:48,000 And I didn't do it until a couple of weeks ago and I've been on self-improving for almost a year, I bet. 422 00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:57,000 That's when I started reading books a year around 10 or 11 months ago is when I started reading books. 423 00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:06,000 But I was going to the gym for two years and expanding your comfort zone has been one of the best things that I've ever done. 424 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:17,000 Because I'm a shy person, I'm an introvert, but I always used to get extremely nervous and uncomfortable in social situations. 425 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:31,000 And I would just make a lot of awkward movements and my voice would shiver and quiver and my palms would get super sweaty, my pits would get extremely sweaty, I'd get bad pit stains. 426 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:41,000 And a lot of that still happens, but it's way, way less bad. 427 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,000 It's way better. 428 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,000 And that's just because I'm a lot more comfortable now. 429 00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:51,000 Before I was just extremely uncomfortable throughout the day and it was just tense. 430 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:59,000 And now that I've expanded my comfort zone, I just am a lot more comfortable. 431 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:03,000 And when I'm awake, when I'm awake, I'm like comfortable. 432 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:09,000 But it's just, I find that when I'm asleep, I'm a lot less comfortable in situations. 433 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:16,000 And that's when I start to sweat in my hands, my palms get sweaty, my pits start sweating. 434 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:20,000 That's when I start to get tense. 435 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:24,000 But every time I'm awake, I'm chilling. 436 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:32,000 And I was awake when I was talking to those girls that I talked about earlier in gym class right at the end of our race. 437 00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,000 I was talking to them. 438 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,000 We're all in the pool. 439 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:41,000 I was talking to them and I was awake and that's when I was comfortable. 440 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:47,000 Plus it was easy because we were all preoccupied with being in the pool. 441 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:54,000 One of the girls was in the kayak so that was something to kind of lean on. 442 00:57:54,000 --> 00:58:01,000 And it was like an unfamiliar situation where you didn't... 443 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:08,000 It's hard to explain but I didn't have to make uncomfortable gestures with my hands, like positions. 444 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:13,000 Because we were all in the pool so it was all foreign. 445 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:19,000 I don't really know if I explained that well but that's that. 446 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:29,000 So I'm really excited because last year in the same class, or the same class but different classmates, 447 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:34,000 I took this class again last year and in this same unit, 448 00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:41,000 I was talking to my friend about how there are a bunch of girls and guys and I was just trying to build a community. 449 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:44,000 Because my first time I took the class, this is my third time. 450 00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:50,000 Last semester was my second time but the first time I took it, we were all in a community and we all knew each other. 451 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,000 It was a lot more fun. 452 00:58:53,000 --> 00:59:00,000 And so I was telling my friend I wanted to build a community and start talking to the girls and then bringing them in. 453 00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:05,000 And just hanging out together during the class and having fun. 454 00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:09,000 But I was... I kind of whooped out. 455 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:13,000 I whooped out. It was too uncomfortable so I never ended up doing that. 456 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,000 But that's kind of what I want to do this semester. 457 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:23,000 And I definitely can achieve that because my cover zone is a lot better now. It's a lot bigger. 458 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:31,000 So it's definitely achievable and I actually took the first step today kind of without having that goal in mind. 459 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,000 So I'm excited. 460 00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:39,000 And plus it's a... Right now at least today it was a smaller class. There was like 12 people there today. 461 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,000 Usually it's 18 maybe. I don't know the exact number. 462 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:46,000 But today was a smaller class so I had the opportunity to... 463 00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:56,000 I always had the opportunity but I had the really best opportunity to take the initiative and start talking to them. 464 00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:03,000 To wrap things up don't forget to download your favorite episodes and subscribe to the Ascend Momentum show. 465 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:27,000 But before you guys leave make sure to remember the Eagles.