Best Life Advice
That most men live lives of quiet desperation it’s one of my favorite quotes ever because it’s true you just you’re just in this world where you just can’t wait to just run away but I think one of the reasons why these people have this deep-seated anger and resentment is there’s a bunch of people out there that have these lives that are deeply unsatisfying because I think there are so many people that are working all day long doing something that is deeply unsatisfying and almost painful. Best Life Advice
Yeah soul-killing they’re stuck in traffic all day and then they’re stuck in a cubicle after that, they relish the time to take a sh** in the bathroom and look at their phone I mean they literally do that that’s a highlight of someone’s day they get in traffic on the way home they get home after that they’re watching television and they’re if people have a regular day job if you could just find someone thing that you do as a passion project and just keep building on it just keep at keep watering it keep adding fertilizer keep giving it attention keep giving it focus and you can escape and you can be self-serving you can be okay you’re gonna be okay. Best Life Advice
For making furniture feels good if you make furniture you make furniture for a living and you you feel a great satisfaction of that you sell that furniture look man if you can do that you could you could cut those corners perfectly and sand everything down nice and stain it and then it’s done you get this satisfied and you sell it to someone and that pays your bills that is infinitely more satisfying than being stuck in some [ __ ] cubicle working for someone that you don’t want to work for having to have these stupid [ __ ] office meetings talking to people in human resources sitting down with your supervisor where they evaluate your job performance and you know you’re not really you know you you really need to be enthusiastic about this company this company is your future this kind of like you’re like [ __ ] kill me now you know there’s a lot of people out there that would way rather do something else and i hope they understand that they can and people that are trapped in bad situations one of the problems is you feel like this is your future you feel like you’re and you can’t get out of that there’s no hope there’s no light at the end of the tunnel there’s no rainbow and if you feel like that that alone can be incredibly defining and limiting. Best Life Advice
But if you can look at if you look at yourself objectively and say okay i kind of am [ __ ] here i’m in credit card debt i’m working in a shitty job i i don’t like what i’m doing but i have some ideas i need to feed those [ __ ] ideas and i i need to feed them and water them and i need to set aside a certain amount of time every day to just try to make those things happen you can do that everyone has a different personality they have different different interests different different things that they would be really satisfied pursuing that’s not encouraged what’s encouraged is go find a job what’s encouraged is go find someplace that you can shove yourself into go find a square hole so you can stick your round peg and just and jam it in there and shave down the top and the bottom so you slide in with all this extra space on the sides and finish for the rest of your life because you need a job because you’re in debt because you have credit cards because you have student loans because that’s what everybody does and so you do it too that’s what’s wrong. Listen to “Joe Rogan Experience” Here
You have an apartment you have to pay for you have a car you lease you have a wife that you have to feed you have a child you have to raise you have to you have your mortgage you have your this you have your that and that’s where it all comes from well the opportunity takes place usually when you’re young and you don’t have any responsibility that’s when you have your options well your options are severely limited the more you gather responsibilities like if i had as a 51 year old father of three married man pays taxes has a house and a mortgage and a business and all that jazz if i had to quit everything now and struggle the way i struggled as a stand-up comedian it would never work, but the only way i could be this person now is if i took that chance when i was 21 when i was dead broke and had my cars repossessed and all that stuff that’s the only way you you ever get where you want to go you have to you have to take a path that’s dangerous and most people want to take the safe path the safe path leaves you stuck in quiet desperation almost every time it’s hell it’s hell.
But can people just make that change i mean look i believe that you have to plan it out the way you can change is you have to put aside enough money to give yourself a window and then you have to have a plan and you have to spend all your waking hours outside of whatever job you do planning your escape and you have to come to the realization very clearly that you [ __ ] up you got yourself stuck so whatever you’re doing you have to do it like your life depends on it and whether it is you’re trying to be an author and you’re gonna you’re gonna if you’re gonna try to be an author and you’re working eight hours a day plus commuting plus family responsibilities or whatever else you have whatever time that you have you have to attack like you’re trying to save the world you’re trying to save your life you don’t want to drown that one and a half hours a day that you have to write god damn you better be caffeinated and motivated you got to go you got to get after it and you got to have discipline that’s most people don’t have those things most people don’t understand what it’s like to to really go for something and to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific. Best Life Advice
I think here’s an important thing too failure is important it is important i think failure teaches you things you don’t learn from success i think failure gives you an opportunity for self-examination and also gives you a feeling that is very uncomfortable and that very uncomfortable feeling helps you grow that when you feel like you screw something up like when i’ve had bad podcasts my podcast has always gotten better afterwards when i’ve had bad stand-up sets i’ve always gotten better after that because those bad sets motivate you they get they give you a perspective like hey here’s some clear examples of where you [ __ ] up yeah what not to do yeah don’t and don’t look at these failures as like proof that you suck look at them as opportunities for growth look at them as opportunities to be motivated to do better you have to make mistakes you’ve been there you feel it you understand what it is and then you have that time to adjust that’s why losing in life is so important whether it’s getting dumped, getting fired losing a game loss those feelings where things didn’t work out your way that’s important because it lets you know this is a bad feeling that comes when it goes wrong and you improve and then it makes the good feelings of victory all the better and I mean that you know in a relative sense like even getting good at something forget about victory like making a terrible book that gets rejected by every publisher and then writing a really good one and people accept and you’re like… ☀︎ Subscribe to Motivation Core → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSLU… Thank you for watching! Best Life Advice