well I think the one thing that
discipline definitely does help you with
is it helps you get things done and when
you get things done when you you have
you actually do things you you you you
have more success if you have more
success sometimes a big part of success
is just not being fucking lazy and just
doing it just get that’s like 90% of it
is just showing up get there and start
working like you’re not gonna feel
perfect every day if I felt if I only
worked out when I felt good I’d be a fat
fuck 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 they’re
probably gonna 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 always say that
I’m like the most lazy disciplined
person I know because I don’t want to do
it yeah but I always do one of the big
problems is sitting down and doing the
work and you gotta impress filled talks
about that it 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 in that in debt
just it puts it in your head that this
is what I do this is what then 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 gotta fuck a thousand words today I
put a thousand more than you yeah you
you’re doing the work and out of that
work gems blossom their little things
but you might have a day where you just
write nothing but dogshit
so what show up again tomorrow and
tomorrow out of that dog shed a flower
will emerge you never know and that’s
the only way to develop real like to
really develop your potential a hundred
percent in anything
whether it’s as an author or even as a
martial artist there’s a lot of
creativity in martial arts to be a great
striker you have to be creative because
you have to you have to develop patterns
or execute patterns that aren’t gonna be
perceived this idea that life is hard
something you’re supposed to shield from
them it’s so silly and you know I’ve had
this conversation with my friends
because everybody that I know that’s
interesting how to fucked up life but
but now we have kids and the last thing
we want is our kids to have a fucked up
life so we put our kids in these good
schools you live in these nice
neighborhoods everybody eats healthy and
there’s no fucking domestic violence and
everybody seems it’s it’s so different
than all of our lives and we were
talking about it me and Bryan Callen
were actually talking about like look we
all had fucked-up childhoods and
everybody we know had fucked-up
childhoods and they’re all interesting
but I don’t want my kids to be boring
but I also want them to be safe so it’s
like how do you how do you approach that
I mean I think you get involved that’s
what I’ve chosen to do is get my kids
involved in martial arts and and and and
give them the opportunity to pursue
difficult things and understanding that
through pursuing these difficult things
like in accomplishing stuff like you you
learn something about yourself you learn
that you have this ability inside of you
to overcome get obsessed with life
improvement find things that you enjoy
doing they’re difficult do them and get
better it seems so simplistic it seems
like a ridiculous idealistic point of
view but it’s effective well you need
some form some amount of pride and some
amount of ego to get good at things in
the first place because it’s such a
counterintuitive notion because you have
to have a belief in yourself you have to
be able like when you eat first it when
you start out at jujitsu your wipeouts
like I remember being a wipeout and
being like oh my god I am fucking never
gonna get good at this I’m gonna suck
forever but to look at people who are
better than you and know they had to
have sucked at one point in time okay
there’s got to be somewhere along the
end of this tunnel there’s got to be a
light I just got to keep going yeah and
then he goes yeah I was gonna say I mean
ego drives you know you to be successful
me to be successful eagle is what’s
driving you the problem is when you
you go too far yeah and you know
everything you know everything takes
balance this is a dichotomy and
everything every part of you has a
dichotomy you know you can get so into
the physical aspects of things that you
end up like doing a bunch of steroids
and going crazy and ruining your health
like yes that’s not good
right the other end of the spectrum you
know you can sit around and play video
games and turn into a bodybuilding is a
great example of that because when you
start lifting weights like god I’d like
to be stronger and you start getting a
little bit bigger you like oh look at
that I got a muscle whoo this is cool
and then you keep going and then you
keep going but some guys get so fucking
crazy they won’t stop until they have 22
inch arms and they want to have thighs
that are so big they have to walk like
they’re they’ve got a barrel in between
their legs and you know and they just
can’t help but they just take it to some
completely unhealthy place yeah that’s
uh that’s rough
yeah well it’s it’s just the nature of
trying to get good at something you got
to recognize what’s good and what is
just fucking insane for some people
especially they’re just experiencing way
too much pressure and that pressure a
lot of times it’s just an imbalance in
perspective and some of its input like I
was talking to this mom once her
daughter does gymnastics with my
daughter and we were talking about kids
killing themselves where she used to
live she used to live in one of the
really wealthy tech areas outside of San
Francisco and a bunch of kids that went
to school with her daughter that were
like 15 16 were jumping off bridges and
chin like it was a like an epidemic and
they were trying to figure out what the
fuck is going on and they’re literally
calling it affluenza that these affluent
kids and their their families are
literally worth a billion dollars you
know I mean everybody’s super rich and
they’re having this insane pressure in
like before high school and in high
school to be an Ivy League schools and
to get 4.0 s and all in their fucking
they’re not having any fun and they’re
not experienced in life and they don’t
have any hope and their parents are all
on fuckin pills and they’re just killing
themselves for some people out there
that aren’t feeling good man if you’ve
just fucking struggled more you get over
that struggle you feel better it sounds
so simplistic but I
swear by it yeah and I felt shitty
myself and then forced myself to work
out then after I get out of there I’m
like whoa fuck it wasn’t guaranteed it’s
hard for people to break momentum to in
momentum it’s good momentum or meant to
momentum this bad momentum when I get a
like when I get on a good groove or
working out all the time I feel it like
after I’m done working I’m like Jack
can’t wait to get in there again I can’t
wait to work out again that’s the good
momentum but then there’s that bad
momentum like you get injured or
something like that you can’t do
anything for a couple weeks and then to
try to get that kick start that meant
motor up then it’s the whole it’s hard
to get momentum there’s a lot of people
that are eating shit food and then by
the end of the day your body’s in a
crisis yeah
the body’s just processing all this
bullshit and if you’re eating a big like
bullshit lunch filled with nonsense like
your body’s got to process all that
stuff and so the end of the day yeah
you’re gonna lose your willpower
so like when five o’clock six o’clock
rolls around you’re gonna be tired but
if you have a healthy lunch and you know
you’re properly fueled and then you also
have positive people in your life
everyone’s motivated by the end of the
day you’re gonna feel good whenever the
fuck you thing is just go and do it just
force yourself to do it and if you feel
like shit because you ate lunch then
your lunch was you know filled with
bullshit well then hey dummy don’t eat
shitty lunch tomorrow tomorrow try a
nice salad yeah no try salad with some
salmon and see how you feel then you
okay I feel way better today at 6
o’clock duh yeah now your
decision-making will be better like that
people don’t understand how significant
it is like all these little decisions
they those are like that that’s the path
for the rest of your existence on earth
and if you decide to go to fucking
Cheetos chocolate chip cookie route
you’re you’re just making a shit path
you’re carving your fucking path through
broken rocks and glass and there’s not
the way to go you know what else doesn’t
exist in a day to day life what a place
where it’s okay to be a man
it’s actually okay to mend it’s okay to
have man thoughts like you know
everybody is so so toned down and
neutered it’s like the human resources
and and corporate life has watered down
people’s natural behavior to the point
where people are just dying on the
inside sitting in these fucking cubicles
rotting they’re just freaking the fuck
out having all these thoughts that can’t
entertain having to pretend to be
someone there they’re not all day long
putting on this bullshit way of talking
this fake way of thinking everybody’s
got to subscribe to whatever fucking
ridiculous policies their company wants
to enforce and you’re just a robot you
get out of there and you just want to
scream it’s this fear of discomfort
people have this extreme feeling in
their mind when it comes to their
associations with exercise they want to
avoid discomfort they feel like any type
of exercise is just like something to be
avoided that’s not for me fuck that I
don’t want to sweat I don’t want to
strain and a lot of times this
association that they have is about the
beginnings of getting in shape it’s not
about once you’re actually fit because
once you’re actually fit exercise is
something you look forward to it’s an
alleviation of stress it’s it feels
great like if I can’t get a workout in
and I look at my schedule I go oh shit I
don’t any time for a workout which means
I’m not gonna get that good feeling and
so instead of looking at it like oh I’ve
got to go grunt and sweat I’m thinking
I’m not gonna feel good I’m not gonna
feel relaxed I’m not gonna feel carefree
and I’m not gonna feel even appreciative
like my appreciation of things and it
gets enhanced greatly after exercise I
just feel better I feel like I can take
things in for what they are rather than
you know whatever that weather or
sensory data that I’m getting from any
event is just one more distraction that
gets in my way and you know that that’s
a lot of times how I look at things if
I’m overstressed or if I’m working too
much like 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 fee
wings 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 and not being happy
and content with certain situations in
life or certain feelings in life there
are massive massive motivators and
they’re they’re amazing at at
facilitating change and yet our instinct
is to avoid those and just sit on the
couch and watch some fucking reality
show about dudes and make moonshine with
our jaw open like it’s with bizarre and
for me at least when I get when I get
like really disciplined and really I get
really consistent with my workouts one
of the things that I feel I almost feel
momentum I feel like there’s like a push
behind me like all right we’re you know
like after I get out of the gym I have a
really good workout I’m like yeah now
I’m doing it I’m doing it all the time
now and I’m looking forward to the next
time and it makes that resistance much
weaker and it makes my motivation and my
discipline much stronger I think a lot
of it is based on just the consistency
you know it’s one of the things that I
talked about recently on the podcast I
said you know like blowing something off
it’s not just not good like blowing off
of an exercise that you planned is not
just bad for you physically it’s also
bad mentally because then that option is
now available the option to fuck off is
available and you did it before and
you’re probably gonna do it again and
you’ll get mediocre results not just in
that aspect of your life but maybe in
all aspects of your life because I think
that option to fuck off when you embrace
it that is a pathway that you might
choose when it comes to dealing with
conflict in your personal life dealing
with business decisions dealing with
career decisions like an uncomfortable
decision that you might be faced with
maybe you need to make a change as far
as like what your pathway is in life but
you don’t do it instead you fuck off and
that the inclination to fuck off I think
that gathers momentum as well the
inclination to be disciplined
that comes with momentum too and I think
both things like you did you take a path
the path of the healthy person or the
path of the fuck off like this is not
like your body is like a race car that
you can juice up yourself like you can
add the fat tires you can add the
improve suspension you can beef up the
horsepower in the engine you could do
all that yourself or you could just
choose to have this shitty body that’s
always falling apart on you because
we’re essentially ecosystems you know
and we’re we were in charge this weird
consciousness that has all this
resistance and has all this inclination
towards comfort and fucking off and
blowing things off is what is in charge
of making all these things happen that
keep this ecosystem healthy it’s almost
like if Earth itself had like a shitty
manager you know if like there was a
manager of a natural manager of Earth
that was like oh god who cares if it
rains Oh God you know like let’s let you
know I’m gonna stop growing things I
don’t give a shit anymore it’s all
stupid anyway I mean it’s literally like
the the just below it yeah fuck it let’s
just kill all the life what day it’s all
gonna die eventually I mean the Sun only
lasts 7 billion years you see that is
the perspective a lot of people take
with aging where it’s like well you’re
gonna die you’re gonna age you can’t
stop aging and it’s like yes you’re
right but that’s not the point the point
is to age better like that’s the point
the point is to increase your health
span you know and that is we know is
possible like that can there’s some
there’s some of these like centenarians
and super centenarians I’ve seen that
are like in you know over a hundred
years old and they’re like riding bikes
and racing and it’s like yeah they’re
old they are very old they’re
experiencing a very good quality of life
yeah and there’s experiencing a quality
of life that these other people that
don’t exercise feel they physically feel
their own body diminishing and they just
feel it’s inevitable it’s just what it
is what it is you’re wasting your time
you’re out there running around but not
we’re not because this experience right
now it’s not like no-one’s under the
illusion you’re going to live forever
but you are enhancing the experience
that you’re currently
involved in right now and you are alive
you are alive you do experience this
life but do you experience this life
optimally is it is it as enjoyable as it
can be and we all know that there’s a
spectrum for that enjoy ability like
we’ve all had times in our life where
it’s not been so great and then times in
a life where everything came together
like what a fucking great day whoo like
make more of those like you can make
more of those and then the whole thing’s
better and I think when that whole thing
is better it affects everybody you touch
everybody it’s around you everybody you
come in contact with and that in turn me
it sounds so grandiose but in an intern
can affect the entire race of human
beings
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I’ve always wondered if the depression
that people see in mass today there’s so
much depression that people mean there’s
a car it’s a common trait like it’s a
common condition
oh he suffers from depression oh she
suffers from depression like oh he’s got
herpes
you know you don’t I mean it’s like it’s
a it’s a common thing I’ve always
wondered or I’ve been wondering more and
more recently it really hit me when have
you ever seen Hein Mo’s Arctic adventure
this guy lives in this incredibly remote
area of the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge in the Alaskan interior and he he
lives in this really small log cabin and
he hunts and gathers and that’s all he
does and he’s very smart like he’s not a
dummy at all and he’s been up there he
lives with his wife and his raised
children up there and it’s really really
there’s some dark moments in there
because they lived like this from the
time like when they had children up
there and they lost their two-year-old
baby in a fucking canoe like they tipped
over you know in a canoe and lost their
kid and it’s like it’s really intense
when they revisit the site and leave
flowers and it was like 30 years ago and
they had several children since then but
this moment is still like this intense
moment loss for them when they lost
their baby but
this fucking guy is very happy and very
very smart and very connected and very
articulate and he firmly believes that
human beings when we evolved and
developed and were hunter-gatherers that
there’s a set of rewards there’s a
reward systems that are set up inside
the human body inside the very being
that we embody that don’t get mad in
today’s society and it’s one of the
things that’s causing depression one of
the things that’s causing this funk that
people are in is that we’re living our
lives
many of us at least in these very
unfulfilled ways where you’re going to
this office with artificial light and
you’re doing something you don’t want to
do all day long and then you get home
and you’re tired and on top of that
you’re eating shit you’re eating potato
chips and you’re drinking soda and your
body is just like what in the fuck is
this we’re supposed to be out in the
fields we’re supposed to be walking up
hills we’re supposed to be looking for
animals or gathering vegetables we’re
supposed to be doing all these things
that our body is designed to do we’re
supposed to be in nature yeah and nature
is like a medicine like it literally is
a medicine to you like people people
that go you don’t have to go hunting you
don’t have to go fishing just go fucking
hike man just go hike up to the top of a
mountain and look out you know there’s a
reward that you get from that that is
intensely like soul filling just like
something about like when I was in
Colorado and there was this this area of
Boulder where you drive up one of these
roads and there’s this area where you
could park and it was this incredible
view man these people just Park and just
go out there and just look but you get
there in your Park and you go
because you would see you literally seen
the Continental Divide these snow-capped
mountains and jolt high in July it’s
covered with snow because those
mountains no perfective oh just this the
whole new perspective on it and I think
nature I think the ease of suffering is
always in present miss you know when
you’re in present is truly locked in and
presents there is no suffering there can
be pain but no suffering suffering isn’t
is something created by our own minds
and I think nature is one of the great
ways to do this because humans we we
learn we take cues from our environment
and nature as I was saying earlier is
always in the present you know there’s
this natural presence of all the animals
everything around you but if you get
around a bunch of people watching
housewives and stressed about this and
popping pills you’re gonna take on that
energy too and you’re gonna lose your
presence because of your surroundings so
it’s like this ultimate re grounding
tool where we get back to AA present
moment you know and that’s such a fuckin
key element to human happiness and I
think the other key element is having
something where we’re fighting for you
know having a mission I think we’re all
forces and that force needs to have an
effect needs to have a reason that it’s
moving in a certain direction and I
think with all of our Meads and all of
our needs met you know where we don’t
have to hunt for food we don’t have to
acquire everything everything’s
relatively easy and it’s all about
advancement and all this we’ve lost a
lot of the basic mission which was the
mission to survive and procreate you
know so and we haven’t replaced it with
any other universal mission which is I
think one of the big allures of these
things like Wars and these things like
creating an enemy well at least then you
have a mission and when you have a
mission human beings are happy you know
like Bertrand Russell talked about he
did book conquest to happiness and he
had his own fucked-up attributes every
time I bring him up people talk about
his fucked up as he thought he was into
phrenology and he might have been a
racist whatever but he was a good
philosopher smoke constantly yeah but
but anyways he talked about the happiest
person he knew the happiest person he
could find was a groundskeeper on a
manor who everyday woke up and was at
war with the rabbits of the God he just
declared that the rabbits were the
fucking enemy and he would go out with
his gun and he would hunt as many as
possible and he’d go morning till till
tonight and he would kill as many
rabbits
could because it was hit the rabbits
were the ones eating the hedges and the
flowers and whatever so he basically
made the rabbits his enemy and struck
out every single day to kill as many
rabbits as possible and that dude
according to Bertrand Russell was happy
as fuck
he had a task he had a task he had a
purpose you know he had a mission
my mission is destroy the rabbits I just
have a dog like that yeah I the happiest
dog ever his name was Frank Sinatra and
he was a pit bull that all he lived for
was killing lizards and my house my old
house not the house of his now but my
old house had this one it’s like on a
hill and there’s this one wall where
these lizards would run up the wall and
so Frank I would literally let him out
in the morning and he fucking bolt out
that doors like time to go to war like
and he would run and go look for these
lizards and he would stand there like
Eddie Bravo would just watch it and
marvel he’d be like fuck man this dog
does this every day this dog does this
every day I go this is what he loves to
do and he would go there and he would
have his paws on the wall crazy he would
jump up and try to grab a lizard and
occasionally he would get one and he
black fuck yeah and he would get one
they would go looking for another one he
would go he was a pretty big yard so he
would go wandering around the yard
looking for anything else that fucked up
anything else that was slipping there
was conflict unfortunately twice I had
to take him to the hospital because he
got bit by rattlesnakes cuz rattlesnakes
are slipping too apparently he killed
the rattlesnakes but the rattlesnakes
fucked him up okay like a water balloon
growing out of the side of his head both
of my dogs I in it by the way that’s a
real problem if you don’t have the money
to pay for the serum it’s super
expensive it was several thousand
dollars to treat them for this
rattlesnake venom anti-venom shit it’s
like I was like man what if I was poor
what if fuck that’s a whole fucked up
system like they’re you they inject
horses with the venom mm-hmm and they
like get the antibodies from the horses
it’s actually archaic system I think my
friend Donald Shultz is working on he’s
a big snake handler guy he’s working on
ways to innovate around that because
it’s kind of like a real backwards
system that they have how you get
anti-venom well a horse will survive so
let’s just fucking sorta put the venom
in there and the antibodies from the
horse
then you know it’s a weird it’s a weird
thing how they do it yeah well that’s a
real problem with people that are vegans
if you’re a vegan you don’t use any
animal products you get bit by a
rattlesnake you got two choices
compromise your morals well that’s a
wrap
yeah you know but this dog was so
goddamn happy mm-hmm he had missions you
know he would go out of that the yard
and he wasn’t bored he was like please
take me for a walk come on man he was
like see a dude I don’t know he was calm
just his little mission and I think you
can see that in the people who are the
most unhappy they seem aimless yeah like
what am I here for why am I doing this
nothing makes sense you know and I’ve
even felt it in my own life when you
know I know what my mission here is
first my mission is to expand human
consciousness to help people be happy
like that’s really what I find my
greatest purpose in but every once in a
while I’ll get this kind of like fuck
people out of to maybe someone who said
some fucked up shit and my man people
fucking some people and then at that
poem that’s when I’m actually confused
you know cuz I’ve lost my mission
instead of having a mission like yes my
mission is human consciousness all the
suddens like fuck people fuck that
mission they’ll figure it out and then
I’m depressed cuz I’ve lost my purpose
it’s very hard to rise above like
literally when something like that
happens and realize like oh you’ve just
you’re encountering one diseased
individual you got to look at the mass
of humanity yeah like when you encounter
one diseased individual it’s it’s so
like this guy who shot up that nightclub
in Orlando you’re looking at one
diseased individual and if you say man
people fucking suck look at what they
did well look at how many people that
are responding with rainbows on their
Twitter pages and love and and and all
the best wishes to those folks that got
killed and all their I mean I was
looking at this guy’s page who’s an
animal lover who was organizing people
to go to the homes of the victims and
see if they have pets that are trapped
you know there’s this beautiful people
out there yeah there’s a lot there’s
more beautiful pieces this is without a
doubt not just the safest the easiest
this is a happiest time in terms of like
being able to like reach out and and and
send love to people and have people send
love to you but just occasionally you
run into constant yeah no no in the
constant self but the beauty is out
there too it’s not as dramatic and it
doesn’t impose upon us as forcefully but
we just look it’s around all the time we
run into good people all the time but
you know you just make eye contact with
that good person or that kid who’s just
looking at you and just creating with
that little smile and you’re like oh
yeah the good of humanity the fact that
you know we really are loved you know
being expressed you know
outwardly all the time and it’s just
these other delusions that get in the
way of that
well we’re oddly attracted to negativity
– it’s almost like we look at negativity
online or that you run into is like a
possibility of war like you have to look
out this fucking drums beating goddamn
it there’s an army on the background
they’re coming they’re coming but you
know it’s like this this real impulse to
sort of batten down the hatches when
really it’s just some fucking 36 year
old loser sitting in his parents
basement you know farting and smelling
his own farts and angry online I mean
that’s really what a lot of you’re
dealing with you really you’re dealing
with like really sick people like people
that have just for whatever reason
they’ve not found their path they’ve not
found any happiness they’re not found
any fulfillment they don’t found it
haven’t found any growth they’re just
stifled or rotten and some sort of a
weird way it just hasn’t really worked
for them and so they’re they’re lashing
out
they’re lashing out at the world and you
run into one of those you know people
suck
yeah and that’s the initial response and
then the more conscious response is to
look at them be and have compassion for
that yeah you know that’s right that is
hard to do and our system isn’t based
upon that even if you look at the US
penal system it’s very much about
punishment whereas you watch that that
documentary that Michael Moore did who
to invade nests where they go to Norway
they have a whole different idea of what
the penal system is for it’s about
restoring human dignity and cultivating
you know a change really making change
in the person not about punishment it’s
about it’s about actually changing that
individual so he doesn’t do it again and
then you look at the recidivism rates
between our prisons and Norway’s prisons
and they’re just dramatically different
that impulse to punish immediately you
know is not the healthiest impulse
gonna create more issues down the road
you’re not rehabilitating anybody you’re
just taking even more broken people and
putting them out in the world and hoping
they’re not going to do the broken
things well it’s not gonna fucking work
you know the the right impulse is always
that compassion and looking to see as if
that was you how all of these fucked up
elements of the world and choices I’m
not overriding the fact that they had
choices in all this they’re not free of
guilt but look at look at that like this
is the person that just made some bad
choices and had some tough shit to deal
with and couldn’t overcome it the
resistance in the video game was higher
than his skillset and he wasn’t able to
to choose to work and choose to the the
positive elements that would allow him
to overcome it yeah yes it’s it’s also
Norway’s dealing with far fewer people
true you know that’s that’s a good thing
for them and it’s also they don’t have
that conkers mentality that we have so
we’re so wrapped up in success and also
in punishment I mean that that is a big
aspect of our culture like punishment
and I mean like when anyone does
anything wrong online the amount of
people that feel like it’s their job to
shame that person and embarrass that
person and and insult that person it’s
pretty crazy to watch when something
goes down it’s also it’s also
counterproductive you know and I see
that in the people shaming people for
appropriation right so let’s say for
example someone wears a headdress at a
fucking festival right they’re probably
mildly they’re not doing it to mock the
Native Americans most like or probably
like a a mild appreciation and interest
I think this looks cool I’m in a place
and you know
and then all of a sudden they get all
this intense hate and shame and and
putting all of this stuff all of these
intentions on them that weren’t true
again going back to my point about
morality it’s not about the act it’s
about the intentions of the act but
right now we make it all about the act
oh you wore this headdress that means
you’re insulting thousands of years of
Native Americans you’re oppressing
you’re appropriating like no I fucking
wasn’t I was wearing a fucking hair
headdress but then all of a sudden that
imprint will create trauma and that
trauma will have a poisonous impact that
will make them feel weird and make them
want to do that to other people so it’s
like you’re injecting someone with like
a hate virus you know that they’re gonna
then pass on to other people rather than
doing the opposite you know spreading
the love herpes where yeah this
contagious positivity that goes the
other way and we have those choices with
how to deal with people but more often
than not we come with this thing to
punish and create more trauma which
triggers their own self judge and their
own self hate lowers their own self-love
and then they’re gonna pass that off to
kids family members people around them
you know there’s just two sets of
dominoes that we can choose to take to
take either path [Music]
discipline definitely does help you with
is it helps you get things done and when
you get things done when you you have
you actually do things you you you you
have more success if you have more
success sometimes a big part of success
is just not being fucking lazy and just
doing it just get that’s like 90% of it
is just showing up get there and start
working like you’re not gonna feel
perfect every day if I felt if I only
worked out when I felt good I’d be a fat
fuck 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 they’re
probably gonna 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 always say that
I’m like the most lazy disciplined
person I know because I don’t want to do
it yeah but I always do one of the big
problems is sitting down and doing the
work and you gotta impress filled talks
about that it 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 in that in debt
just it puts it in your head that this
is what I do this is what then 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 gotta fuck a thousand words today I
put a thousand more than you yeah you
you’re doing the work and out of that
work gems blossom their little things
but you might have a day where you just
write nothing but dogshit
so what show up again tomorrow and
tomorrow out of that dog shed a flower
will emerge you never know and that’s
the only way to develop real like to
really develop your potential a hundred
percent in anything
whether it’s as an author or even as a
martial artist there’s a lot of
creativity in martial arts to be a great
striker you have to be creative because
you have to you have to develop patterns
or execute patterns that aren’t gonna be
perceived this idea that life is hard
something you’re supposed to shield from
them it’s so silly and you know I’ve had
this conversation with my friends
because everybody that I know that’s
interesting how to fucked up life but
but now we have kids and the last thing
we want is our kids to have a fucked up
life so we put our kids in these good
schools you live in these nice
neighborhoods everybody eats healthy and
there’s no fucking domestic violence and
everybody seems it’s it’s so different
than all of our lives and we were
talking about it me and Bryan Callen
were actually talking about like look we
all had fucked-up childhoods and
everybody we know had fucked-up
childhoods and they’re all interesting
but I don’t want my kids to be boring
but I also want them to be safe so it’s
like how do you how do you approach that
I mean I think you get involved that’s
what I’ve chosen to do is get my kids
involved in martial arts and and and and
give them the opportunity to pursue
difficult things and understanding that
through pursuing these difficult things
like in accomplishing stuff like you you
learn something about yourself you learn
that you have this ability inside of you
to overcome get obsessed with life
improvement find things that you enjoy
doing they’re difficult do them and get
better it seems so simplistic it seems
like a ridiculous idealistic point of
view but it’s effective well you need
some form some amount of pride and some
amount of ego to get good at things in
the first place because it’s such a
counterintuitive notion because you have
to have a belief in yourself you have to
be able like when you eat first it when
you start out at jujitsu your wipeouts
like I remember being a wipeout and
being like oh my god I am fucking never
gonna get good at this I’m gonna suck
forever but to look at people who are
better than you and know they had to
have sucked at one point in time okay
there’s got to be somewhere along the
end of this tunnel there’s got to be a
light I just got to keep going yeah and
then he goes yeah I was gonna say I mean
ego drives you know you to be successful
me to be successful eagle is what’s
driving you the problem is when you
you go too far yeah and you know
everything you know everything takes
balance this is a dichotomy and
everything every part of you has a
dichotomy you know you can get so into
the physical aspects of things that you
end up like doing a bunch of steroids
and going crazy and ruining your health
like yes that’s not good
right the other end of the spectrum you
know you can sit around and play video
games and turn into a bodybuilding is a
great example of that because when you
start lifting weights like god I’d like
to be stronger and you start getting a
little bit bigger you like oh look at
that I got a muscle whoo this is cool
and then you keep going and then you
keep going but some guys get so fucking
crazy they won’t stop until they have 22
inch arms and they want to have thighs
that are so big they have to walk like
they’re they’ve got a barrel in between
their legs and you know and they just
can’t help but they just take it to some
completely unhealthy place yeah that’s
uh that’s rough
yeah well it’s it’s just the nature of
trying to get good at something you got
to recognize what’s good and what is
just fucking insane for some people
especially they’re just experiencing way
too much pressure and that pressure a
lot of times it’s just an imbalance in
perspective and some of its input like I
was talking to this mom once her
daughter does gymnastics with my
daughter and we were talking about kids
killing themselves where she used to
live she used to live in one of the
really wealthy tech areas outside of San
Francisco and a bunch of kids that went
to school with her daughter that were
like 15 16 were jumping off bridges and
chin like it was a like an epidemic and
they were trying to figure out what the
fuck is going on and they’re literally
calling it affluenza that these affluent
kids and their their families are
literally worth a billion dollars you
know I mean everybody’s super rich and
they’re having this insane pressure in
like before high school and in high
school to be an Ivy League schools and
to get 4.0 s and all in their fucking
they’re not having any fun and they’re
not experienced in life and they don’t
have any hope and their parents are all
on fuckin pills and they’re just killing
themselves for some people out there
that aren’t feeling good man if you’ve
just fucking struggled more you get over
that struggle you feel better it sounds
so simplistic but I
swear by it yeah and I felt shitty
myself and then forced myself to work
out then after I get out of there I’m
like whoa fuck it wasn’t guaranteed it’s
hard for people to break momentum to in
momentum it’s good momentum or meant to
momentum this bad momentum when I get a
like when I get on a good groove or
working out all the time I feel it like
after I’m done working I’m like Jack
can’t wait to get in there again I can’t
wait to work out again that’s the good
momentum but then there’s that bad
momentum like you get injured or
something like that you can’t do
anything for a couple weeks and then to
try to get that kick start that meant
motor up then it’s the whole it’s hard
to get momentum there’s a lot of people
that are eating shit food and then by
the end of the day your body’s in a
crisis yeah
the body’s just processing all this
bullshit and if you’re eating a big like
bullshit lunch filled with nonsense like
your body’s got to process all that
stuff and so the end of the day yeah
you’re gonna lose your willpower
so like when five o’clock six o’clock
rolls around you’re gonna be tired but
if you have a healthy lunch and you know
you’re properly fueled and then you also
have positive people in your life
everyone’s motivated by the end of the
day you’re gonna feel good whenever the
fuck you thing is just go and do it just
force yourself to do it and if you feel
like shit because you ate lunch then
your lunch was you know filled with
bullshit well then hey dummy don’t eat
shitty lunch tomorrow tomorrow try a
nice salad yeah no try salad with some
salmon and see how you feel then you
okay I feel way better today at 6
o’clock duh yeah now your
decision-making will be better like that
people don’t understand how significant
it is like all these little decisions
they those are like that that’s the path
for the rest of your existence on earth
and if you decide to go to fucking
Cheetos chocolate chip cookie route
you’re you’re just making a shit path
you’re carving your fucking path through
broken rocks and glass and there’s not
the way to go you know what else doesn’t
exist in a day to day life what a place
where it’s okay to be a man
it’s actually okay to mend it’s okay to
have man thoughts like you know
everybody is so so toned down and
neutered it’s like the human resources
and and corporate life has watered down
people’s natural behavior to the point
where people are just dying on the
inside sitting in these fucking cubicles
rotting they’re just freaking the fuck
out having all these thoughts that can’t
entertain having to pretend to be
someone there they’re not all day long
putting on this bullshit way of talking
this fake way of thinking everybody’s
got to subscribe to whatever fucking
ridiculous policies their company wants
to enforce and you’re just a robot you
get out of there and you just want to
scream it’s this fear of discomfort
people have this extreme feeling in
their mind when it comes to their
associations with exercise they want to
avoid discomfort they feel like any type
of exercise is just like something to be
avoided that’s not for me fuck that I
don’t want to sweat I don’t want to
strain and a lot of times this
association that they have is about the
beginnings of getting in shape it’s not
about once you’re actually fit because
once you’re actually fit exercise is
something you look forward to it’s an
alleviation of stress it’s it feels
great like if I can’t get a workout in
and I look at my schedule I go oh shit I
don’t any time for a workout which means
I’m not gonna get that good feeling and
so instead of looking at it like oh I’ve
got to go grunt and sweat I’m thinking
I’m not gonna feel good I’m not gonna
feel relaxed I’m not gonna feel carefree
and I’m not gonna feel even appreciative
like my appreciation of things and it
gets enhanced greatly after exercise I
just feel better I feel like I can take
things in for what they are rather than
you know whatever that weather or
sensory data that I’m getting from any
event is just one more distraction that
gets in my way and you know that that’s
a lot of times how I look at things if
I’m overstressed or if I’m working too
much like 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 fee
wings 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 and not being happy
and content with certain situations in
life or certain feelings in life there
are massive massive motivators and
they’re they’re amazing at at
facilitating change and yet our instinct
is to avoid those and just sit on the
couch and watch some fucking reality
show about dudes and make moonshine with
our jaw open like it’s with bizarre and
for me at least when I get when I get
like really disciplined and really I get
really consistent with my workouts one
of the things that I feel I almost feel
momentum I feel like there’s like a push
behind me like all right we’re you know
like after I get out of the gym I have a
really good workout I’m like yeah now
I’m doing it I’m doing it all the time
now and I’m looking forward to the next
time and it makes that resistance much
weaker and it makes my motivation and my
discipline much stronger I think a lot
of it is based on just the consistency
you know it’s one of the things that I
talked about recently on the podcast I
said you know like blowing something off
it’s not just not good like blowing off
of an exercise that you planned is not
just bad for you physically it’s also
bad mentally because then that option is
now available the option to fuck off is
available and you did it before and
you’re probably gonna do it again and
you’ll get mediocre results not just in
that aspect of your life but maybe in
all aspects of your life because I think
that option to fuck off when you embrace
it that is a pathway that you might
choose when it comes to dealing with
conflict in your personal life dealing
with business decisions dealing with
career decisions like an uncomfortable
decision that you might be faced with
maybe you need to make a change as far
as like what your pathway is in life but
you don’t do it instead you fuck off and
that the inclination to fuck off I think
that gathers momentum as well the
inclination to be disciplined
that comes with momentum too and I think
both things like you did you take a path
the path of the healthy person or the
path of the fuck off like this is not
like your body is like a race car that
you can juice up yourself like you can
add the fat tires you can add the
improve suspension you can beef up the
horsepower in the engine you could do
all that yourself or you could just
choose to have this shitty body that’s
always falling apart on you because
we’re essentially ecosystems you know
and we’re we were in charge this weird
consciousness that has all this
resistance and has all this inclination
towards comfort and fucking off and
blowing things off is what is in charge
of making all these things happen that
keep this ecosystem healthy it’s almost
like if Earth itself had like a shitty
manager you know if like there was a
manager of a natural manager of Earth
that was like oh god who cares if it
rains Oh God you know like let’s let you
know I’m gonna stop growing things I
don’t give a shit anymore it’s all
stupid anyway I mean it’s literally like
the the just below it yeah fuck it let’s
just kill all the life what day it’s all
gonna die eventually I mean the Sun only
lasts 7 billion years you see that is
the perspective a lot of people take
with aging where it’s like well you’re
gonna die you’re gonna age you can’t
stop aging and it’s like yes you’re
right but that’s not the point the point
is to age better like that’s the point
the point is to increase your health
span you know and that is we know is
possible like that can there’s some
there’s some of these like centenarians
and super centenarians I’ve seen that
are like in you know over a hundred
years old and they’re like riding bikes
and racing and it’s like yeah they’re
old they are very old they’re
experiencing a very good quality of life
yeah and there’s experiencing a quality
of life that these other people that
don’t exercise feel they physically feel
their own body diminishing and they just
feel it’s inevitable it’s just what it
is what it is you’re wasting your time
you’re out there running around but not
we’re not because this experience right
now it’s not like no-one’s under the
illusion you’re going to live forever
but you are enhancing the experience
that you’re currently
involved in right now and you are alive
you are alive you do experience this
life but do you experience this life
optimally is it is it as enjoyable as it
can be and we all know that there’s a
spectrum for that enjoy ability like
we’ve all had times in our life where
it’s not been so great and then times in
a life where everything came together
like what a fucking great day whoo like
make more of those like you can make
more of those and then the whole thing’s
better and I think when that whole thing
is better it affects everybody you touch
everybody it’s around you everybody you
come in contact with and that in turn me
it sounds so grandiose but in an intern
can affect the entire race of human
beings
[Music]
I’ve always wondered if the depression
that people see in mass today there’s so
much depression that people mean there’s
a car it’s a common trait like it’s a
common condition
oh he suffers from depression oh she
suffers from depression like oh he’s got
herpes
you know you don’t I mean it’s like it’s
a it’s a common thing I’ve always
wondered or I’ve been wondering more and
more recently it really hit me when have
you ever seen Hein Mo’s Arctic adventure
this guy lives in this incredibly remote
area of the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge in the Alaskan interior and he he
lives in this really small log cabin and
he hunts and gathers and that’s all he
does and he’s very smart like he’s not a
dummy at all and he’s been up there he
lives with his wife and his raised
children up there and it’s really really
there’s some dark moments in there
because they lived like this from the
time like when they had children up
there and they lost their two-year-old
baby in a fucking canoe like they tipped
over you know in a canoe and lost their
kid and it’s like it’s really intense
when they revisit the site and leave
flowers and it was like 30 years ago and
they had several children since then but
this moment is still like this intense
moment loss for them when they lost
their baby but
this fucking guy is very happy and very
very smart and very connected and very
articulate and he firmly believes that
human beings when we evolved and
developed and were hunter-gatherers that
there’s a set of rewards there’s a
reward systems that are set up inside
the human body inside the very being
that we embody that don’t get mad in
today’s society and it’s one of the
things that’s causing depression one of
the things that’s causing this funk that
people are in is that we’re living our
lives
many of us at least in these very
unfulfilled ways where you’re going to
this office with artificial light and
you’re doing something you don’t want to
do all day long and then you get home
and you’re tired and on top of that
you’re eating shit you’re eating potato
chips and you’re drinking soda and your
body is just like what in the fuck is
this we’re supposed to be out in the
fields we’re supposed to be walking up
hills we’re supposed to be looking for
animals or gathering vegetables we’re
supposed to be doing all these things
that our body is designed to do we’re
supposed to be in nature yeah and nature
is like a medicine like it literally is
a medicine to you like people people
that go you don’t have to go hunting you
don’t have to go fishing just go fucking
hike man just go hike up to the top of a
mountain and look out you know there’s a
reward that you get from that that is
intensely like soul filling just like
something about like when I was in
Colorado and there was this this area of
Boulder where you drive up one of these
roads and there’s this area where you
could park and it was this incredible
view man these people just Park and just
go out there and just look but you get
there in your Park and you go
because you would see you literally seen
the Continental Divide these snow-capped
mountains and jolt high in July it’s
covered with snow because those
mountains no perfective oh just this the
whole new perspective on it and I think
nature I think the ease of suffering is
always in present miss you know when
you’re in present is truly locked in and
presents there is no suffering there can
be pain but no suffering suffering isn’t
is something created by our own minds
and I think nature is one of the great
ways to do this because humans we we
learn we take cues from our environment
and nature as I was saying earlier is
always in the present you know there’s
this natural presence of all the animals
everything around you but if you get
around a bunch of people watching
housewives and stressed about this and
popping pills you’re gonna take on that
energy too and you’re gonna lose your
presence because of your surroundings so
it’s like this ultimate re grounding
tool where we get back to AA present
moment you know and that’s such a fuckin
key element to human happiness and I
think the other key element is having
something where we’re fighting for you
know having a mission I think we’re all
forces and that force needs to have an
effect needs to have a reason that it’s
moving in a certain direction and I
think with all of our Meads and all of
our needs met you know where we don’t
have to hunt for food we don’t have to
acquire everything everything’s
relatively easy and it’s all about
advancement and all this we’ve lost a
lot of the basic mission which was the
mission to survive and procreate you
know so and we haven’t replaced it with
any other universal mission which is I
think one of the big allures of these
things like Wars and these things like
creating an enemy well at least then you
have a mission and when you have a
mission human beings are happy you know
like Bertrand Russell talked about he
did book conquest to happiness and he
had his own fucked-up attributes every
time I bring him up people talk about
his fucked up as he thought he was into
phrenology and he might have been a
racist whatever but he was a good
philosopher smoke constantly yeah but
but anyways he talked about the happiest
person he knew the happiest person he
could find was a groundskeeper on a
manor who everyday woke up and was at
war with the rabbits of the God he just
declared that the rabbits were the
fucking enemy and he would go out with
his gun and he would hunt as many as
possible and he’d go morning till till
tonight and he would kill as many
rabbits
could because it was hit the rabbits
were the ones eating the hedges and the
flowers and whatever so he basically
made the rabbits his enemy and struck
out every single day to kill as many
rabbits as possible and that dude
according to Bertrand Russell was happy
as fuck
he had a task he had a task he had a
purpose you know he had a mission
my mission is destroy the rabbits I just
have a dog like that yeah I the happiest
dog ever his name was Frank Sinatra and
he was a pit bull that all he lived for
was killing lizards and my house my old
house not the house of his now but my
old house had this one it’s like on a
hill and there’s this one wall where
these lizards would run up the wall and
so Frank I would literally let him out
in the morning and he fucking bolt out
that doors like time to go to war like
and he would run and go look for these
lizards and he would stand there like
Eddie Bravo would just watch it and
marvel he’d be like fuck man this dog
does this every day this dog does this
every day I go this is what he loves to
do and he would go there and he would
have his paws on the wall crazy he would
jump up and try to grab a lizard and
occasionally he would get one and he
black fuck yeah and he would get one
they would go looking for another one he
would go he was a pretty big yard so he
would go wandering around the yard
looking for anything else that fucked up
anything else that was slipping there
was conflict unfortunately twice I had
to take him to the hospital because he
got bit by rattlesnakes cuz rattlesnakes
are slipping too apparently he killed
the rattlesnakes but the rattlesnakes
fucked him up okay like a water balloon
growing out of the side of his head both
of my dogs I in it by the way that’s a
real problem if you don’t have the money
to pay for the serum it’s super
expensive it was several thousand
dollars to treat them for this
rattlesnake venom anti-venom shit it’s
like I was like man what if I was poor
what if fuck that’s a whole fucked up
system like they’re you they inject
horses with the venom mm-hmm and they
like get the antibodies from the horses
it’s actually archaic system I think my
friend Donald Shultz is working on he’s
a big snake handler guy he’s working on
ways to innovate around that because
it’s kind of like a real backwards
system that they have how you get
anti-venom well a horse will survive so
let’s just fucking sorta put the venom
in there and the antibodies from the
horse
then you know it’s a weird it’s a weird
thing how they do it yeah well that’s a
real problem with people that are vegans
if you’re a vegan you don’t use any
animal products you get bit by a
rattlesnake you got two choices
compromise your morals well that’s a
wrap
yeah you know but this dog was so
goddamn happy mm-hmm he had missions you
know he would go out of that the yard
and he wasn’t bored he was like please
take me for a walk come on man he was
like see a dude I don’t know he was calm
just his little mission and I think you
can see that in the people who are the
most unhappy they seem aimless yeah like
what am I here for why am I doing this
nothing makes sense you know and I’ve
even felt it in my own life when you
know I know what my mission here is
first my mission is to expand human
consciousness to help people be happy
like that’s really what I find my
greatest purpose in but every once in a
while I’ll get this kind of like fuck
people out of to maybe someone who said
some fucked up shit and my man people
fucking some people and then at that
poem that’s when I’m actually confused
you know cuz I’ve lost my mission
instead of having a mission like yes my
mission is human consciousness all the
suddens like fuck people fuck that
mission they’ll figure it out and then
I’m depressed cuz I’ve lost my purpose
it’s very hard to rise above like
literally when something like that
happens and realize like oh you’ve just
you’re encountering one diseased
individual you got to look at the mass
of humanity yeah like when you encounter
one diseased individual it’s it’s so
like this guy who shot up that nightclub
in Orlando you’re looking at one
diseased individual and if you say man
people fucking suck look at what they
did well look at how many people that
are responding with rainbows on their
Twitter pages and love and and and all
the best wishes to those folks that got
killed and all their I mean I was
looking at this guy’s page who’s an
animal lover who was organizing people
to go to the homes of the victims and
see if they have pets that are trapped
you know there’s this beautiful people
out there yeah there’s a lot there’s
more beautiful pieces this is without a
doubt not just the safest the easiest
this is a happiest time in terms of like
being able to like reach out and and and
send love to people and have people send
love to you but just occasionally you
run into constant yeah no no in the
constant self but the beauty is out
there too it’s not as dramatic and it
doesn’t impose upon us as forcefully but
we just look it’s around all the time we
run into good people all the time but
you know you just make eye contact with
that good person or that kid who’s just
looking at you and just creating with
that little smile and you’re like oh
yeah the good of humanity the fact that
you know we really are loved you know
being expressed you know
outwardly all the time and it’s just
these other delusions that get in the
way of that
well we’re oddly attracted to negativity
– it’s almost like we look at negativity
online or that you run into is like a
possibility of war like you have to look
out this fucking drums beating goddamn
it there’s an army on the background
they’re coming they’re coming but you
know it’s like this this real impulse to
sort of batten down the hatches when
really it’s just some fucking 36 year
old loser sitting in his parents
basement you know farting and smelling
his own farts and angry online I mean
that’s really what a lot of you’re
dealing with you really you’re dealing
with like really sick people like people
that have just for whatever reason
they’ve not found their path they’ve not
found any happiness they’re not found
any fulfillment they don’t found it
haven’t found any growth they’re just
stifled or rotten and some sort of a
weird way it just hasn’t really worked
for them and so they’re they’re lashing
out
they’re lashing out at the world and you
run into one of those you know people
suck
yeah and that’s the initial response and
then the more conscious response is to
look at them be and have compassion for
that yeah you know that’s right that is
hard to do and our system isn’t based
upon that even if you look at the US
penal system it’s very much about
punishment whereas you watch that that
documentary that Michael Moore did who
to invade nests where they go to Norway
they have a whole different idea of what
the penal system is for it’s about
restoring human dignity and cultivating
you know a change really making change
in the person not about punishment it’s
about it’s about actually changing that
individual so he doesn’t do it again and
then you look at the recidivism rates
between our prisons and Norway’s prisons
and they’re just dramatically different
that impulse to punish immediately you
know is not the healthiest impulse
gonna create more issues down the road
you’re not rehabilitating anybody you’re
just taking even more broken people and
putting them out in the world and hoping
they’re not going to do the broken
things well it’s not gonna fucking work
you know the the right impulse is always
that compassion and looking to see as if
that was you how all of these fucked up
elements of the world and choices I’m
not overriding the fact that they had
choices in all this they’re not free of
guilt but look at look at that like this
is the person that just made some bad
choices and had some tough shit to deal
with and couldn’t overcome it the
resistance in the video game was higher
than his skillset and he wasn’t able to
to choose to work and choose to the the
positive elements that would allow him
to overcome it yeah yes it’s it’s also
Norway’s dealing with far fewer people
true you know that’s that’s a good thing
for them and it’s also they don’t have
that conkers mentality that we have so
we’re so wrapped up in success and also
in punishment I mean that that is a big
aspect of our culture like punishment
and I mean like when anyone does
anything wrong online the amount of
people that feel like it’s their job to
shame that person and embarrass that
person and and insult that person it’s
pretty crazy to watch when something
goes down it’s also it’s also
counterproductive you know and I see
that in the people shaming people for
appropriation right so let’s say for
example someone wears a headdress at a
fucking festival right they’re probably
mildly they’re not doing it to mock the
Native Americans most like or probably
like a a mild appreciation and interest
I think this looks cool I’m in a place
and you know
and then all of a sudden they get all
this intense hate and shame and and
putting all of this stuff all of these
intentions on them that weren’t true
again going back to my point about
morality it’s not about the act it’s
about the intentions of the act but
right now we make it all about the act
oh you wore this headdress that means
you’re insulting thousands of years of
Native Americans you’re oppressing
you’re appropriating like no I fucking
wasn’t I was wearing a fucking hair
headdress but then all of a sudden that
imprint will create trauma and that
trauma will have a poisonous impact that
will make them feel weird and make them
want to do that to other people so it’s
like you’re injecting someone with like
a hate virus you know that they’re gonna
then pass on to other people rather than
doing the opposite you know spreading
the love herpes where yeah this
contagious positivity that goes the
other way and we have those choices with
how to deal with people but more often
than not we come with this thing to
punish and create more trauma which
triggers their own self judge and their
own self hate lowers their own self-love
and then they’re gonna pass that off to
kids family members people around them
you know there’s just two sets of
dominoes that we can choose to take to
take either path [Music]
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