Elle Luna implores us to stray away from should and to go toward our musts.
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00:00I would like to know if this room from my dreams exists somewhere out in the world and
00:04So I started asking the question when you decide to look for your dreams in real life. Where do you go?
00:10Craigslist, that's exactly where you go
00:12It was a white room with tall white walls warehouse windows
00:18Concrete floor and a mattress on the ground with white sheets
00:22I would visit this room every night for months while I slept
00:28And one day
00:29I brought it up to a friend and I said i've been having this crazy dream this recurring dream about this weird room
00:34Like what do we do about it? And she asked me the question that changed my life forever
00:39She said
00:40Have you ever thought about looking for your dreams in real life?
00:44After weeks go by this little tiny thumbnail goes up the screen
00:48And there in a tiny little box
00:51Is an image of my dream
00:52I got the place two weeks later
00:54It became my home and I literally said out loud in the middle of the white room from my dreams
00:59Why am I here?
01:01And as clear as day the space said back to me
01:05You're here to paint
01:07I woke up the next morning and I went to the art supply store. I got a couple supplies
01:11I went back to the white room for my dreams and I started painting non-stop for months waking up at three
01:17Four five in the morning. I couldn't stop. I just couldn't stop the only catch during all of this
01:24Is that I still had a job?
01:26I was working over 40 hours a week a job is something done nine to five typically something done for pay
01:34A career is a system of advancements and promotions
01:39A calling is something intrinsically motivating something that you would do regardless of pay
01:44It's not always likely that our jobs or even our careers are necessarily our callings
01:51I started stumbling across these beautiful stories like the author t.s. Elliot
01:55Did you guys know he was a banker in london?
01:57I mean go on and on einstein. He worked in the patent office for seven years while he hatched his theory of relativity
02:04Jobs can create beautiful structures for your callings
02:08Let's not get confused like we have got to have money if we want to live on this planet
02:13And you cannot be thinking about your calling if you don't have money to put food on the table for your family
02:19This is how the world wants you to show up
02:23You should do this. You should do that. Sometimes their requests are really small
02:28They're seemingly innocuous things that are very easily accommodated. You should read that book. You should check out that blog post
02:34Other times should can be large oppressive systems of thought
02:38That seek to convince people to live their lives differently
02:42When you choose should there's lots of rewards
02:45The road is very smooth. They make it worth your while
02:48I sometimes think like what would it look like if every single person right here in this room was like
02:53Chasing down that must like there was it was the last train out of town like what what would be different?
02:59What would we see?
03:00sometimes i'd like to think there'd be like new colors in the world or
03:03Like there we would maybe be living on different planets
03:05And when you say yes to must you're saying no to who your mom says you should be
03:11Who your dad says you should be who generations of people in your family?
03:15Believe that you should be the culture that you grow up in
03:19must is different
03:20Totally and completely different must doesn't have options. You have no other choices must is just who you are in your gut level
03:28What you believe what you want to do what you're drawn to what you don't want to do
03:33It's all of the things that are
03:35you
03:45You