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00:00 *sad music*
00:02 Impossible is nothing. Doing nothing is easy. So do nothing.
00:08 Every day is a fresh new start to go straight back to bed.
00:12 You can never fail if you never try. You may not be strong. You may not be good enough.
00:19 You may never even be a decent person.
00:22 *record scratch*
00:23 Oh, you caught me reading my favorite book.
00:26 That's right best-selling motivational author here. 2024 is approaching and it's time to get motivated.
00:33 How's your investment portfolio going?
00:35 What about your side hustle? You had do have a side hustle, right?
00:39 At least tell me you shave your balls.
00:42 *laughs*
00:44 I wanted to make this video to help you guys get motivated.
00:47 Yeah, because every single time I do a Q&A everyone's like "I need motivation. Help me, I need motivation."
00:54 I don't know why this has been bestowed on me.
00:57 I don't know how to say this without sounding like an asshole, but it's just not something I struggle with.
01:01 I struggle with a lot of stuff, okay? But motivation just isn't one of them.
01:06 I realized just how weird motivational stuff is online.
01:09 I don't know if you've seen these type of videos.
01:12 Why Sigma males are the extremely dangerous. One of the biggest mistakes you can make is underestimating a Sigma male.
01:18 The f*ck are you talking about?
01:22 Not the typical alpha male does not mean they are not dangerous.
01:25 Sigma males are the type of guy who is quiet, but deadly. Sigma males are dan-
01:31 *weird noises*
01:32 It's like an infestation.
01:34 These are everywhere.
01:36 *music*
01:38 People watch these?
01:42 Do you want a bite?
01:45 I'm on a diet, but thank you.
01:47 You don't need to lose any weight. You're kidding, right?
01:51 You look great.
01:53 You can always be a little thinner.
01:55 You can always be thinner.
01:57 Look better.
01:58 Well, maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner.
02:00 I don't want to ruin your willpower.
02:02 That's a lie.
02:04 I'm not very good at controlling it anyway.
02:07 Doesn't he cut her off with a chainsaw? Like, what's the motivation?
02:11 *laughs*
02:12 Sigma mindset.
02:14 Motivation. Self-improvement.
02:16 *laughs*
02:19 I wanted to share my thoughts on motivation today to help you guys get motivated
02:23 so you can turn that beta mindset into a Sigma grindset.
02:28 I'm so sorry.
02:31 Chapter 1. Yes, this video has chapters.
02:34 Habits.
02:35 There is an abundance of videos on this topic already,
02:39 but the Greeks figured this sh*t out.
02:42 2000 years ago. 2000 years ago, they were like,
02:45 "Bro, you gotta hit the gym. Come on.
02:47 Stop being lazy. What are you, beta?"
02:50 Plato himself actually said, "Adjustable dumbbells
02:53 are all you really need for a cost-efficient, well-rounded workout."
02:56 Actually, when I was looking into stuff for this video,
02:59 I realized Aristotle actually said something about the 4 a.m. grind.
03:03 You know how there's so many videos about 4 a.m. workout or 4 a.m. go up and do sh*t?
03:08 Apparently, Aristotle said, "Rising before daylight is also to be commended.
03:14 It is a healthy habit and gives more time for management of the household
03:17 as well as liberal studies."
03:19 That 4 a.m. liberal studies grind.
03:22 Aristotle's Sigma confirmed.
03:26 But anyway, the Greeks understood the importance of habit.
03:29 Not necessarily habits to just exercise or motivate you to do certain things,
03:34 but your whole character is built around habit.
03:37 Aristotle even claimed that virtue itself came from habit.
03:40 So, this is not innate in us, but something that we need to practice
03:45 to then gradually make it become a stable part of your character.
03:49 It might seem that for some people it's easy to do certain things,
03:52 but it's because they develop this over time.
03:55 And so can you.
03:56 There's actually a misquote by Aristotle that says,
03:59 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
04:04 Ah, so beautiful. Shame he never said it.
04:08 Greek writing, unfortunately, doesn't sound like it would fit on a gym t-shirt,
04:12 but it does sort of encompass what Aristotle was saying about habit,
04:16 although grossly simplified.
04:18 Since there's such an abundance of literature and videos and whatnot
04:22 about motivation and people always ask me,
04:25 "Oh, I want to read philosophy. What should I start?"
04:27 I would highly recommend Epictetus.
04:30 Specifically, not this one, the Inquiridian.
04:33 This one just has it contained.
04:35 And the Inquiridian literally translates to handbook.
04:37 I didn't know this, but it's meant to keep practicing.
04:41 It's not that you read a book once and you're wise.
04:43 It's something, philosophy is something that you should always sort of keep working on.
04:47 Keep practicing. Make it part of your character through habit.
04:51 I think there's so much modern take on problems
04:54 that aren't any different now from what they were back then.
04:58 We are literally standing on the shoulders of giants.
05:00 Why not take advantage of it?
05:02 So let's read some passages from it that I picked out.
05:05 Here we have, "Address to someone who has been caught cheating on their wife."
05:09 No, wait, that's not the one.
05:11 "To someone who became a little too excited in the theater."
05:14 Ah, here we go. "How to fight against impressions."
05:17 "Every habit and faculty is formed or strengthened by the corresponding act."
05:22 "Walking makes you walk better. Running makes you a better runner."
05:25 "If you want to be literate, read. If you want to be a painter, paint."
05:28 "Go a month without reading, occupied with something else, and you'll see what the result is."
05:32 "So if you like doing something, do it regularly."
05:35 "If you don't like doing something, make a habit of doing something different."
05:39 So whenever you do something, even just once, good or bad,
05:42 you've automatically made it easier for you to do that again.
05:46 That's why it's always good to examine yourself
05:48 and consciously choose which path you want to take.
05:51 Habit shouldn't be some mindless repeating of action,
05:55 but rather a deliberate attempt of where you want to take your life.
05:59 [laughs]
06:01 I think it's good to ask yourself why you want to develop a habit.
06:04 I think for a lot of people, it often comes down to maybe an end goal or appearances.
06:09 You want to reach certain things.
06:11 But I think if you do it for those sort of reasons,
06:13 you're just making it easier to quit when it gets hard
06:16 and easier to quit once you reach that goal.
06:19 To me, life isn't or shouldn't be an end goal.
06:22 It's rather fleeting and short.
06:24 The goal of developing different habits should be for you to develop yourself,
06:28 your character, and who you want to be.
06:30 And another beauty of not worrying about the end goal is to look at it as,
06:34 "Yes, I may not be exactly where I want to be, but at least I am on the right path."
06:40 And that doesn't matter if you're starting or wherever you are.
06:43 It doesn't matter.
06:44 So habits can be a great tool,
06:46 but I also think they can be quite harmful if you're not careful.
06:49 I think they can instill a sort of false sense of control in people,
06:53 especially if you are looking at things for an end goal,
06:56 "If I do these specific things, then I'll reach this goal.
06:59 Absolutely for sure I'll be successful because this person told me to do it this way."
07:05 Life shouldn't just be a string of repeated motions.
07:08 A lot of the best moments in life come from spontaneity.
07:12 So always examine yourself and what you're doing,
07:14 and you can't go that wrong, right?
07:17 What wrong can come out of it?
07:18 Know yourself.
07:19 That's my little take on habits.
07:21 I love habits.
07:22 It makes me feel like I'm living the life I want to,
07:25 and it makes me feel like if sh*t hits the fan tomorrow,
07:28 I still live the way I want to.
07:30 I get a lot of joy out of it.
07:32 It's helped me being consistent with things I think are really positive for me in life.
07:37 Anyway.
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07:58 Wow.
07:59 Lao Tzu, thanks for the shoutout.
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08:42 Chapter 2. Action.
08:45 What prompts action?
08:47 Why do anything?
08:48 Why you click on video?
08:50 I don't know.
08:51 According to Buddhism, will comes from wanting pleasure.
08:54 You want pleasure right from me?
08:56 And by not having it, we suffer.
09:00 Most beings live immersed in the enjoyment of sensual pleasures.
09:04 Others, driven by the need for power, status, and esteem,
09:07 pass their lives in vain attempts to fill an unquenchable thirst.
09:10 I think this is important to remind yourself.
09:13 You will never be satisfied.
09:14 You just won't.
09:15 Napoleon kept trying to conquer shit.
09:17 When is it ever enough?
09:20 How much stuff do you need?
09:21 Ask anyone on the planet almost, they'll want something more.
09:25 I think everyone has this fictional image in their head.
09:28 Like, if I had this, then I'll be satisfied.
09:31 No, you won't.
09:32 No, you f***ing won't.
09:33 I guarantee it.
09:34 It's hard to call you out.
09:36 While this idea of wanting sensual pleasures,
09:38 receiving them, suffering in between,
09:41 and then receiving it, not feeling satisfied,
09:43 feels like a sort of pessimistic view of existence.
09:46 That doesn't seem very fun to me, at least.
09:48 Buddhism does teach you how to overcome it.
09:50 But I also believe it has merit, again, to examine your actions
09:54 and make conscious choices of what you want to do.
09:57 Are you indulging something deliberately or just for the pleasure of it?
10:01 It actually helped me.
10:02 I've said this many times, so it's getting boring,
10:04 but it really did help me examine my actions with drinking.
10:08 I wouldn't have even thought about it otherwise.
10:11 I was really just drinking for the sake of feeling good.
10:14 I had anxiety at night, and I wanted to get rid of it.
10:17 [laughs]
10:19 Too much information.
10:21 And it helped me realize and just cut it away from my life entirely,
10:25 and I'm free from that suffering because I don't have that craving.
10:28 Craving, according to Buddhism, is suffering.
10:31 And to be honest, I feel like I'm still always trying to fight bad habits.
10:34 As much as I love habits, bad habits are equally easy for me to pick up.
10:38 Doom scrolling on the phone is such a typical example,
10:42 especially watching short videos like TikToks and YouTube shorts,
10:46 because to me, it doesn't feel like a conscious choice.
10:50 It feels rather that I'm mindlessly doing it for the sake of being entertained at the moment.
10:55 Don't misunderstand me as well.
10:57 Even with Buddhism, pleasures are fine, as long as it's deliberate and not attached.
11:03 But it doesn't feel very deliberate when I'm just like...
11:05 [sniffs]
11:07 Was that on Reddit?
11:09 I hate it. I hate that habit of mine.
11:11 Going back to the Greeks, actually, for a moment,
11:13 there's another passage of Epictetus.
11:15 "What aid can we find to combat habit?"
11:18 The opposed habit.
11:19 "Against sophistry, one should have the practice and exercise of rational argument.
11:23 Against specuous impressions, one should have clear preconceptions polished and ready to hang."
11:28 I don't like this translation, because I don't understand the words.
11:32 I did a video recently where I started picking up drawing,
11:35 and the reason I wanted to do that was because
11:37 instead of just spending 10 minutes on social media,
11:40 and if I have that time, which I...
11:42 As a new dad, I don't have much time,
11:44 and instead of having that 10 minute that I get for free
11:47 spending on social media, I thought, "Why not just do something more deliberate
11:50 that actually makes me feel good?"
11:52 And that's why I picked up drawing, so...
11:54 To counter a bad habit, do a good habit.
11:57 Chapter 3, our goals.
11:59 What should we strive for?
12:01 I don't know.
12:02 What's the point of anything?
12:03 I didn't think of that.
12:05 I think when people strive for certain goals,
12:07 there is usually an idea of success and recognition in mind.
12:13 Which isn't unreasonable, by the way.
12:15 But it's usually pitched in this abundance,
12:17 especially in those TikTok videos that I showed before.
12:20 Like having a giant mansion, or five yachts.
12:23 I remember I found it so frustrating when I was starting off on YouTube,
12:27 because when media wanted to interview me,
12:30 I told my entire story, and I thought it was great.
12:33 At least from my perspective, it was crazy, right?
12:36 I had gone from quitting university, working at a hot dog stand,
12:41 barely making any money, to all of a sudden reaching millions of people.
12:45 That, to me, was just such an unbelievable leap.
12:49 Yeah, it was incomprehensible. I thought it was insane.
12:51 But then the article comes out, and it's just like,
12:54 "PewDiePie makes money."
12:56 It's like, for fuck's sake.
12:58 Is that all anyone cares about?
13:00 I get it. It was a new concept at that time as well.
13:04 But it's always what's at the forefront.
13:07 That's sort of how we measure success, I suppose.
13:11 Which, hey, money isn't all bad, okay?
13:13 I don't want to be all preachy-beachy,
13:15 but it's a terrible metric for success.
13:17 Whenever I see those Sigma male memes or whatever,
13:20 I really hope people are being ironic.
13:22 But there was actually a philosopher that brought up
13:26 an idealized version of man.
13:28 That's right, Friedrich Nietzsche.
13:30 He did a couple more things than just growing a cool mustache.
13:33 Who would have thought?
13:34 He came up with the idealized human, the Ubermensch.
13:38 Reading from "The Sarathustra,"
13:40 "Man is a rope fastened between animal and Superman, or Ubermensch,
13:45 a rope over an abyss, a dangerous going across,
13:48 a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking back,
13:51 a dangerous shuddering and staying still.
13:53 What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
13:56 What can be loved in man is that he is a going across and a down going."
14:00 This idea of the Ubermensch or Superman was the idea of what a human can be,
14:04 although not easily achievable.
14:06 He put a lot of emphasis on the individual.
14:08 We all have different circumstances.
14:10 We all have different experiences and choices.
14:12 But we all have the capability of overcoming ourselves.
14:15 No pain, no gain.
14:17 That does fit on a gym t-shirt.
14:19 We shouldn't be content living a comfortable life.
14:22 We should climb and reach for the mountain tops.
14:24 To overcome our limitations is a difficult climb,
14:27 but that's up there is where the true beauty lies.
14:30 A lot of Nietzsche's writing is very poetic,
14:32 but often people tell me that,
14:34 or even look at what I have as some idealized version of,
14:38 "Oh, he can just retire and live off his money and be comfortable."
14:43 And that's great.
14:44 I'm not trying to undervalue that I have that,
14:47 but it's through the struggle that we have the capacity to overcome ourselves.
14:51 Struggle isn't necessarily a bad thing.
14:54 And I think personally to see life through that lens of Nietzsche
14:58 is so much more appealing than previously mentioned like Buddhism.
15:02 Because we're all going to have tough circumstances
15:04 instead of looking at, "Oh, woe is me. This is so difficult."
15:08 Rather saying, "Yes."
15:09 Embracing challenges. Say yes to life.
15:11 Life can be whatever you want.
15:13 It's the ultimate video game.
15:15 Create your own values.
15:17 So yeah, that is the essence of becoming an Ubermensch,
15:19 although very oversimplified.
15:21 You know, we're all on a journey.
15:23 So let's keep dreaming.
15:24 Let's keep realizing our potential.
15:26 Keep questioning yourself.
15:28 Keep striving.
15:29 Keep growing.
15:30 And who knows?
15:31 Maybe you're closer to an Ubermensch than you thought.
15:33 Was that motivational? I sure hope so.
15:35 I want you guys to do well.
15:37 I genuinely do.
15:38 [laughs]
15:40 I hope that helped.
15:41 See you guys in the next video. Bye.
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