Joe Rogans Life Advice Will Leave You Speechless One of The Most Eye Opening Videos Ever
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it’s good to treat other people the way
you would like to be treated yourself
it’s like a golden rule and there’s a
reason for it and that reason is that
we’re connected in some strange way that
we don’t totally understand unless you
are good to other people around you
unless you’re kind and friendly and warm
and loving you’re not gonna enjoy this
life you’re just not you’re gonna be
problems everywhere you go you’re gonna
have problems everywhere you go you
gotta figure out a way to enjoy this
life it’s not because of jesus it’s not
because of moses it’s not because of
anybody that may or may not have ever
existed it’s because that’s how you fit
in better in the world that’s how you
stay positive and it doesn’t have to be
some that was written 5 000 years ago on
in animal skins that doesn’t have to be
the golden rule because it’s old you
know that’s dumb we need to figure out
like now today what what is you know the
best way to live your life what is the
you know there there’s got to be ways
you can be putting forward the most
positive energy i mean we know
objectively what’s causing pollution we
know objectively what’s causing birth
defects and you know and we’re taking in
too much chemicals and not enough
vitamins we know objectively all this
stuff we know how to organize our world
and yet we don’t do it we know how to
organize our health and yet very few
people do it we know all these things
the right path to like being like a
happy healthy person is to do all the
that we already know you’re
supposed to do take care of your body
take care of your health take care of
your mind your stress meditate be kind
to people we all know that i mean you
ask anybody they know how to get by and
to be the most evolved version of you
that you can be i mean it’s not like a
magical checklist if you talk to people
about it you said okay here you got a
person you want to improve them what are
the things you’re going to do to them
okay well if i was a life coach the
first thing i would say is this guy’s
got to get on a diet that makes him
healthy i don’t mean a diet just to lose
weight i mean just healthy foods in your
body
many many vegetables vegetables a lot of
good good quality protein a lot of water
stop the sodas stop the bulls
start working out your body and get a
better sense of like how this machine
feels when it’s moving it’s flowing
better there’s less tension in it your
mind feels like relaxed and and you
enjoy every single moment of the day
better step one everybody knows that
step right what’s step two be cool to
people be nice to as many people as you
can smile as many people as you can have
them smile back at you tip well when you
go to restaurants just do the most you
can be as nice as you can
and just still manage to not have people
walk all over you just get through this
life as nice as you can what else do
what you want to do with your life right
don’t don’t be doing something you don’t
enjoy don’t do something that’s don’t
get locked into you know a car that you
can’t afford and doing something crazy
because you need the money don’t don’t
do that do what you want to do do what
the is it that you really want to
do because if someone else is doing it
you can do it you know i mean everybody
makes their own path through this world
but a lot of people don’t follow the
path that they really
feel pulled to you know just for
whatever reason they got negative
programming you know when they were kids
someone told them they couldn’t do it or
told them to take the shortcut or or
take the
the shore route
that’s a sad thing man when you talk to
dudes especially like talented dudes and
they don’t follow up with what they want
to do you know
there’s a bunch of people that will say
yeah well i have a family so you know
it’s all great idea for you to just go
out there and go crazy i have people to
support
you need to listen stop saying that stop
saying any of those things every single
person who has ever done anything
worthwhile or exceptional or difficult
or
extraordinary anyone whether it’s great
artists or authors or mathematicians or
whatever the it is
everyone encounters difficulties there
is no easy road it does not exist it is
impossible
everyone has issues if you have time to
pursue a hobby if you have time to do
anything in your life you can better
yourself and here’s one way you never
better yourself when you come up with
excuses for why other people are
successful and you’re not that is
dangerous when you give yourself an
escape yeah well that’s easy for you to
say you know you do
trust me everybody has a hard road i
wanted to jump out a window several
times during my young life i wanted to
jump in front of a train just ended
because too much pressure not really but
you know what i’m saying theoretically
we all go through hard times we all go
through depression we all do go through
doubt and and then moments in your life
where it’s really
difficult and you’re trying to figure
out what the your path is going to be
it’s hardish but
that is what makes you a person and
those difficult moments are what build
your character show me a great man who’s
the son of a great man and that’s what
we’re saying these kids that are born
billionaires you’re
you’re
you’re never going to be a self-made
person you have a backup trust for your
backup trust for your trust and your man
i’m fascinated by martial arts i’m
fascinated by comedy i’m fascinated by
many many different things i don’t
understand when people say they’re bored
because if i had the time to live a
hundred lives i’d be speaking different
languages i’d be living in different
countries i would i would try a number
of different careers because i think
there’s a lot of unbelievably
fascinating puzzling complex things that
you could study in this world
that’s just me and my personality but
that’s a personality also that i’ve
cultivated over years
as a kid too well i was involved in
martial arts very early and i think that
is one of the things that motivated me
to uh explore difficult tasks because
through difficult tasks you learn an
incredible amount about yourself and you
through the fire of competition you get
to understand
you get to understand
motivation you get to understand the
resistance that you have inside your
mind to doing hard work you get to
understand the rewards of discipline
like you don’t truly appreciate
relaxation unless you’ve worked hard and
that is the yin and the yang of life and
i’ve said this to
to the point of
people getting sick of it but one of the
worst decisions a man can make i can
only speak for men obviously
is to be comfortable i don’t think you
should try to be comfortable i think
what you should try to do is try to earn
comfort and if you if you can get a day
off where you you you’ve worked hard and
you’ve accomplished goals that day off
would be so sweet when i work hard and i
sit in front of the tv i enjoy the
out of it i put my feet up i have a nice
drink you know i i enjoy like three
years that knits your back or something
like you have one of those do you really
those are great they’re great right yeah
i don’t use it that much though honestly
i’m more of a workaholic than i should
be probably if if the balance was i
probably should relax more than i do but
i never feel like i earned it but that’s
part of the reason why when i do feel
like i earned it i can enjoy it it’s
because i am
more connected to the idea that i need
to accomplish things and to and it’s not
not like for anybody else’s benefit
other than my own or anybody else’s
approval other than my own i just when i
have a task whether it’s uh i today i’m
gonna write a thousand words you know or
2000 or whatever the number is if i
don’t do that i don’t i’m not i write
things down like i’ll write down a list
of things that get accomplished that day
and if i don’t accomplish that i’ll get
sick like i’ll it’ll drive me crazy if i
can’t fill out that list that drives me
nuts you know but that’s what led me to
be a championship level martial artist
that’s what led me to achieve
it’s the reinforcement of
those goals like understanding that the
you can achieve those goals it’s going
to be difficult you’re going to push
through the difficulty and then you’re
going to understand what difficulty
truly is and how much of it is just
mental how much of it is just in your
mind this adversity to difficult tasks
or to struggle you know and a lot of
people have that they’re scared they’re
scared of complications they’re scared
of failure failure is a big one that
people are afraid of but failure is one
of the most important things you could
ever have as far as like the motivation
to do things differently
one of the reasons why i think that
i’m good at friendships and
relationships is because i’ve failed at
them in the past one of the things that
i’m good at comedy is because i bombed
on stage one of the reasons why i’m good
at work is because i’ve been a sh worker
in the past and i know the the feeling
of failure the feeling of uh of shame of
being like a weak
non-motivated lazy person that’s a weak
feeling
you don’t respect yourself
you know and i have this phrase that i
use all the time to people to to try to
motivate people they say that
be the hero in your own movie pretend
that if your life was a movie and your
life started now what would the hero do
what would the person that you respected
what would the person that you admire
person that inspires you what would they
do well do that
and if you do that you slowly build
momentum you like today i did what i
wanted to do today i started a class in
yoga i did this i did all these things
that i was saying i wasn’t going to do
and now i feel momentum and momentum is
a very important
point in people’s lives
you know and there’s a lot of folks that
live life on a cushy cloud of
marshmallows and and then one
day something goes wrong and i mean
that’s why spoiled kids are so sad like
a spoiled young boy is one of the
saddest things ever a young boy that
becomes a man and can’t take care of
himself and his dad has to keep on
rescuing him his dad has to keep on
bailing him out of situations and giving
him money i’ve met guys like that and
that is a crippling affliction when they
don’t have the character themselves to
be able to get by in life they
constantly need someone to help them and
bail them out even as a grown man i’ve
met guys in their 40s that still need
help from their parents
i’m like what the man you’re never
going to get it right because somewhere
along the line they didn’t face enough
of the adversity to realize that there’s
sometimes you just got to get up and get
done there’s sometimes where you have to
pull yourself up and you have to push
forward even if you want to stay in bed
and if you don’t do that you just keep
calling on your daddy and your daddy
keeps rescuing you you never develop
those tools you never develop that
ability to recognize what you’re doing
wrong with your life
when you’re alone with your thoughts you
get an idea of what your thoughts
actually are if you live your life just
acting constantly on the momentum of
other people’s expectations of you
wanting to be liked by these other
people you can run into a trap
and you you you set up a life that you
didn’t really want you’re you’re you’re
you’re trapped in this situation where
you have a mortgage you’ve got credit
card bills you’ve got student loans you
have to pay you have a bunch going on
you have to continue to feed
and all that and especially if you have
a family and you have to feed them oh my
goodness then you’re fully locked in you
can’t take any chances whatsoever
and
oftentimes people make the mistake of
getting stuck and it is just a tactical
mistake just like it would be a mistake
if you got stuck on a video game just
like it would be a mistake if you
followed a map incorrectly and you get
stuck in the woods your life is
certainly some sort of a journey it’s
certainly some sort of a journey and we
have to all be aware that when we’re
making journeys we’re not going to
always make the right steps and
sometimes you have to back up and try
again and if you’re in a position where
you can’t back up and try again
you’ve trapped yourself and the system
will set out honey pots for people to
get trapped in the system will set out
the ideas of retirement the ideas of the
golden years providing you benefits
providing you a healthy work environment
why well because they want people to
work for them they don’t want people to
realize their own dreams and escape but
those that’s paying the ass you got to
hire more people and train them and they
want to set it up so that you stick
around stick around some sort of an
unsatisfying world it’s up to you to see
that video game problem to see that
issue as it comes up on the map no no i
think this is a right turn to see all
the problems that could potentially lay
in front of you and calculate your your
future and then also look around all the
people that didn’t do it and look at the
misery that they’re in and learn that
you don’t want to be like them and then
look at the people that are have kind of
taken chances and navigated their way
what do they do differently than you
what what objectivity do they have that
maybe you lack what insight into their
own mistakes are they willing to delve
into that you’re not that you step back
and go you know i don’t
i just don’t want to look at myself that
closely but the person who’s able to
look at themselves the closest is going
to get the more rational results
the one thing that discipline definitely
does help you with is it it helps you
get things done
and when you get things done when you
you you actually do things you you you
have more success
if you have more success and sometimes a
big part of success is just not being
lazy and just doing it just get that’s
like ninety percent of it is just
showing up get there and start working
like you’re not going to feel perfect
every day if i felt if i only worked out
when i felt good i’d be a theft
because there’s a lot of days i don’t
want to do it if it’s pretty much the
same with everybody that if that
actually gets good at something that you
you get there’s got to be those days you
push through and they’re probably going
to be more numerous than the days you
don’t and so the benefit of discipline
in my eyes has always been that through
discipline i get things done i always
tell my i always say that i’m like
the most lazy disciplined person i know
because i don’t want to do it but i
always do
write it down
write down everything you want to do i
don’t mean crazy like i’m going to be
the prince of brunei i’m going to have a
base in the moon shut up this is what i
want you to do write down what you would
like to fix about your life and then
just if you’re 30 pounds overweight you
want to lose 30 pounds do it the right
way go start eating vegetables monitor
your calories write down what you eat
exercise every day force yourself to do
it say you’re the general the brain is
the general the troops of the body the
troops don’t want to listen but you go
few you listen and you get up and you do
it and then you get to write it down and
if you don’t write it down you don’t eat
you don’t
you don’t
you don’t shower
write that down so you do it it’s like
brushing your teeth it’s not something i
don’t want to brush my teeth today what
do you want your teeth to run out of
your head you stunts just do it just do
it make yourself do it and if you do
that if you write down and do that you
can change who the you are
our bodies for whatever reason
most people their associations are to
avoid anything that’s uncomfortable but
it’s so illogical because when you look
at
comfort and you look at success and
progress and the eventual the feelings
of
accomplishment and of getting past
certain hurdles and in terms of like how
you feel about life
a lot of those are connected to
discomfort like discomfort is your
friend it really is like discomfort and
not being happy and content with certain
situations in life or certain feelings
in life they’re massive
massive motivators and they’re they’re
amazing at
facilitating change
and yet our
instinct is to avoid those and just sit
on the couch and watch some reality show
about dudes who make moonshine with our
jaw open like
it’s with bizarre
there’s a lot of artists and comics
um i’ve i bet musicians as well but
we’re writers for sure one of the big
problems is sitting down and doing the
work
and you you gotta and pressfield talks
about that
in the most concise and beautiful way
and he labels it like an enemy he calls
it resistance you know and that you have
to sit down you have to overcome
resistance and that the pro goes to work
and it doesn’t matter if you’re sick
doesn’t matter if you have kids it
doesn’t matter what you you’re a pro and
you go to work and that and that just it
puts it in your head
this is what i do this is what and you
have pride in that and then when you are
in front of that keyboard and you’re
you’re you got you look down the count
it says i got a thousand words today i
put a thousand words in you yeah you
you’re doing the work and out of that
work
gems blossom little things but you might
have a day where you just write nothing
but dog
so what show up again tomorrow and
tomorrow out of that dog the flower will
emerge you never know and that’s the
only way to develop
real to to really develop your potential
100 in anything
if i look back on anything i’ve ever
done mistakes i’ve ever made
you know what something that i put out
that i didn’t quite think man maybe i
just waited three months before i
released that or maybe i should have you
know re-edited that blog post a couple
more times before i put it online or
those things drive me crazy but the
things that i’ve done have driven me
crazy but yelling at someone i didn’t
have to yell at them for whatever but
the the most important thing is always
for all people to recognize that you’re
not who you were a year ago you’re not
who you were five years ago you’re not
who you were last week you’re who you
are now this is the only you have
control over so you got to regulate how
much you dwell on regrets of the past
you really got to be careful because
it’s good to have a little because my
regrets whether it’s things of
professional nature or the very few
regrets friendship-wise which is one
thing that makes me very happy
but you know there’s there’s life is
strange there’s a lot going on there’s a
lot of factors happening in life
but
for sure
who i am now wouldn’t have ever happened
if i didn’t up
if i didn’t make those mistakes i
wouldn’t understand the importance of
friendship and kindness and if i hadn’t
been cruel at some point in my life or
someone hadn’t been cruel to me i
wouldn’t understand the beauty of love i
would have to i wouldn’t understand the
full range of it because i hadn’t felt
the sting if nobody ever punches you in
the face you don’t really appreciate
safety
because a lot of people don’t even
understand what safety is it’s all we’re
safe we’re safe but you’re so not safe
at any moment you know and when
someone’s punched you in the face a
bunch of times and you’ve been in a
street fight with some guy you barely
knew you got an argument with there’s
something about regular safety that’s
sweeter
it’s more delicious it’s way better to
drive your car straight after you almost
lost control on a turn
i’m not saying that you should go
sideways around corners what i am saying
is that there’s a
yang to this world man
and you gotta fuel yourself with the
ups and most people get stuck in
these patterns because they define
themselves as a or they define
themselves as a person who doesn’t
follow through on their ideas or a
person who doesn’t pursue their real
interests and loves you define yourself
by that well you know i guess when i
start things and i quit no you don’t no
you have started things and you quit and
it gives you a horrible sense of regret
that’s made you define yourself by that
you don’t have to do that you don’t have
to do that
your life would feel better and richer
if you had a goal you chased that goal
you accomplished some things you would
get this boost of confidence you get
this boost of self-esteem like whatever
it is that you’re into doing maybe
you’re into drawing comic books maybe
you’re into nah by making
pottery or sculptures or who but find
whatever the that is and pursue that
instead of doing nothing like the people
that are doing nothing those are the
real people
look doing something might be as simple
as like that alex honold guy he climbs
rocks but he’s world-class rock climbing
it’s something
i enjoy a lot of things and what i found
that the best way to live my life for me
i’m not saying you know other people
some people really love their life to
sit around and off when i sit
around and off i don’t like me i
like to get things done but the things
that i do they’re recreational they’re
all fun like disneyland was fun as
with my kids um the eddie bravo
invitational was fun the ufc was fun my
show sold out show at the cop theater
where they do the cirque du soleil at
mgm with joey diaz and jim norton friday
night fun
it’s fun
too those are jobs right but those are
fun things
and you know training training is fun
stand-up comedy couldn’t be any funner
you know the only real work work is like
you’ve got to discipline myself to
sometimes work out when i don’t want to
right when i don’t want to this is this
is how i feel it’s harder for me to not
do what i’m supposed to do than it is
for me to do what i’m supposed to do
because if i don’t do what i’m supposed
to do then i deal with regret and doubt
i don’t i’ve done it before i’ve done it
a lot of my life i’ve felt those
feelings i don’t like it so what i do is
i just don’t do that i just say well
what is the difference if i don’t do it
then i’m gonna have to feel like i
didn’t do it and feel like a loser so
get after it
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