Spirit

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Guys that are making really good money online, E Com, you guys are definitely making a solid living on the Internet. But it's super easy to use that as a shield to hide from physical interaction because you've developed this self conception and you have a self image, everything's clicking in your life. You're making money, you can support yourself, you can sustain yourself, you live in a dope city. But at the end of the day, you also have to question, are you hiding?

Are you hiding from the world? Are you protecting your self image? Because I see guys that are making money hand over fist, but they don't have women, they don't have chicks, they don't have power over their domain. People aren't listening to them, they don't have any influence.

They're just boarded up and barricaded in their high rise apartment stacking cheddar. But they're not really putting themselves out there. They don't put themselves in positions where they could be rejected or put themselves in positions where they could lose control. And you have to do that to build your spirit because you have to put your self image in question.

And every time you are rejected by a woman, but by a business proposal, by an opportunity, every time you give yourself the opportunity to be rejected, you are putting your self image on the line. You're, you're, you're risking the fact that your opinion of yourself could change based on that outcome. And I see a lot of guys are super protective, overprotective of who they think they are. And that's why you won't go after the big pie.

That's why you're not going after the bad bitches. That's why you're stuck with the twos and threes and fours. Because you know they'll tolerate your. And you know that you don't really have to be anything impressive to get to the higher stratosphere.

So it's extremely crucial that when you are successful and you find your stride, that you are continually challenging yourself and putting yourselves in situations where you lack control. And more importantly, your self conception is at risk. Because if you can take a loss and you can absorb blows and you can handle rejection and it doesn't fucking permeate into your core and it doesn't make you question who you are, you're unstoppable and it becomes a high, it becomes a whole new fucking drug and you unlock a new frontier because you can continue to push and you can continue to put yourselves in positions where you can be rejected and your self image doesn't get rattled. I think this is extremely important.

I want to do a little Q A. I'd like to get some questions just about training, congruency, strength of spirit. Because I think nobody talks about the intangibles and I think it's extremely destructive because like I said, it's extremely hard to sell what I'm. What I'm telling you here.

No one can sell you a product if they're telling you that you need to go out there and actually put your balls on the line and actually take a legitimate risk. There's just no money to be made in it. And that's unfortunate because that's where every man needs. That's where the battleground is.

The battleground ain't in money. Everybody knows it's easy to make a living in this society. It's the easiest time in the world to keep yourself afloat. But keeping yourself afloat is for cowards.

We need to be constantly pushing forward and constantly reanalyzing and being and taking honest stock and honest assessments with ourselves about how much we're hiding from the world. Hiding is for. Hiding is for little bitches. And a lot of us are in these grooves where we're just using these tools to hide.

Whether it's the gym, whether it's our online business. We're so careful because we're, we're afraid that if anything goes wrong or we put ourselves out there in a position where we could possibly get our heart broken, that everything's gonna fall apart. And it's true. A lot of you will fall apart if you get your heart broken because you've never, you've never been in the trenches, you've never rolled up your sleeves and you've never known what it's like to actually have to self reflect and, and wonder why it is that you ended up the way you are.

Because to me, being a man is all about being well calibrated. And well calibrated to me means that your opinion of yourself is extremely close to the reality. You want your opinion of yourself to be extremely close to the reality. You don't want to barricade yourself and huddle in these self delusions that you have that you have.

So I just want to kind of break some of this down. I would love to take some questions about it because I think this shit's crucial. So I'm just going to go down the line here. Loons.

What up?

00:05:18CALLER 11

Hey, what's up, man? I just wanted like to caveat a little bit of what you said and I Guess kind of too. But like, don't you think like. I think a lot of what, what you're saying, like what a problem with like a lot of people in general, not just like males, but like people in general is that like, you know, a lot of people just have like self confidence issues and like who they are.

And I think like something like, you know, the social media and like, especially in like the 21st century, 2021, you know, kind of just amplifies that for people, you know,

00:05:48HOST

100. When you say self confidence issues, be more specific.

00:05:53CALLER 11

Like, and like who they really are. Like, you know, like, especially because the world itself is like very global now. So like yes, like 2021 is like

00:06:02HOST

the best time to live.

00:06:02CALLER 11

But it's also like you have global competition with like pretty much everything you do in life.

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So it's just like, you know, confidence

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issues, pretty much like who they are, who they're gonna be. Like, what's gonna happen to them?

00:06:13HOST

You know what I'm saying? 100. Because nobody even knows who their neighbor is. Everyone's kind of cocooned in these little communities, but no one really gives a about their neighbor and no one gives a about the other man. So everyone's kind of, everyone's kind of isolated and everyone's extremely self indulgent and conceited.

And I think that like I said, it's extremely important that we're actually interfacing with the real world. Like the online is dope. Don't get me wrong, I've built a tremendous community online. But I still think it's incredibly important that we.

The real world is never going out of style, Period. The end. Breaking bread with dudes over at steakhouses and signing deals on cocktail napkins, like, that shit's not going out of style. And I think a lot of us are, like I said, we're hiding online and it's, it creates this extremely gay Persona and it, it, what it really does is it destroys self confidence because a lot of you guys are like secret kings.

This is in this segues perfectly into pornography and everything else. It's like when guys watch porn or they are on Instagram looking at hot chicks all day. What the do you think that does to the chimp brain? It signals to yourself that you're incredibly low status.

You're watching other men do physically what you wish you could be doing. And it creates this extreme ambience of arrogance. Because when you're watching porn and you're watching another guy drill a woman, what you're doing is you're creating this like fake society in your world where, where you're wanted, where you're desired and like you're in control of the situation. Ultimately it's fucking risk free and that's why it's so fucking gay.

You have to put zero investment in. You just want to get your rocks off. And what the do you think that does to your self image? It creates an extremely distorted Persona.

Pornography 100 is the bane of 2021 because there's dudes who just absolutely refuse to interface with women in the real world and all they're doing is just scrolling and just looking at beautiful women all day. And that I think is the biggest catalyst for self confidence issues. Because like I said in your head, in your own mind, you're this warlord who has access to all these photos and images and you like fantasize about how you're a king, but you're a nobody. And that's extremely hard and painful for guys to accept.

So I think you just need to stop like literally even browsing Instagram and just looking at hot women all day is incredibly destructive because you're not gonna talk to those chicks, you're never gonna meet them in real life. It's not happening. And so I just think it's important that you shut off the Internet and get the out there and start interfacing with the real world. That's how you build confidence.

And you have to have skin in the game. You have to be willing to risk your heart and your, and your self image. Going to take the next question. Base philosopher.

Good to have you, baby. Hey, what's good bro? Hey man, I've been thinking about this. The line between self sabotage and testing yourself.

Like how do you find that show? Is that just every for every man to figure out for himself?

00:09:57CALLER 2

Man?

00:09:57HOST

That's a good question. I think. I think self destruction, self destruction in men particularly, ultimately does lead to self improvement. Because it's kind of like my mantra lately has been that men need to find their high quality vices.

Because you, the only way you can really figure out who you are is through your vices, through your obsessions, through what your natural inclinations are. If you follow that road, of course it's going to lead to ruin and despair and destruction. But at the end of the day too, what happens is you get broken down when guys overindulge in drugs, alcohol, partying, whatever the device is it, it ultimately leads you to a reflection point where you have no choice but to figure out why the you're doing what you're doing. And I think that men have to absolutely pursue their, their natural obsessions pretty much into oblivion because that's how you really.

That's how you really take an honest appraisal of who you, who you really are. If you. I do not believe in self resistance. I see a lot of people walking around and their whole stick is just telling themselves in their head over and over not to do things.

And I think that ultimately leads to a lot of repression, it leads to a lot of suppression, and it leads to far more ruin than a guy who's honest with himself and is willing to indulge in vices that will ultimately lead him to hitting rock bottom. Because the only way men really learn is by hitting rock bottom. I'm. Yeah, I mean, it's like self resistance just.

It just never ends well. I've never seen it end well. You can only tell yourself not to do something so many times before some components in your brain are going to break. It's like, that's not an honorable, noble deed at all.

It's not a noble act to just

00:12:03CALLER 1

walk around and just resist your natural impulses.

00:12:06HOST

We're animals. And I think a lot of men

00:12:08CALLER 1

are afraid of their barbaric nature.

00:12:12HOST

And those valves have to be fucking depressurized or you end up with these very passive aggressive, bitchy kind of men who are always in a bad mood, always grumpy, always holding chips on their shoulder against other dudes and they don't understand why they ended up that way. And it's because of a many, many years of repression and stuffing down these natural desires. So I think that it's a great, it's a great question. It's definitely a fine line.

But men definitely have to explore their vices to really figure out who the they are and what they're here for and what their purpose is. Because vices ultimately lead to your purpose. That's the irony of it is like sometimes you have to go backwards and you have to fall to the depths of despair before you can find the strength in yourself that you never knew you had. And that's kind of the beauty of vices in general is, like I said, they ultimately lead to ruin and devastation.

And then once you're at that point of disgust when you can no longer tolerate living one more second the way you're living, then you're actually ready to make a change. But any other kind of change that doesn't involve heartbreak and having your guts ripped out, I've just never seen it last. I'VE never seen one case where a guy actually recalibrated and did and made the correct move without first falling. And again, falling is far better than being stagnant.

You notice how poor people don't commit suicide. Rich people do. Poor don't kill themselves. You know why?

Because they're struggling. And, and struggling is endemic to man's nature. You have to struggle. You don't want all your problems taken away from you because it creates an existential crisis that you cannot comprehend until you're in that place.

So I always say if you're stagnant, only stagnant people kill themselves because they're. They're stuck, they're trapped, and they want out. But if you're falling backwards or you're ascending higher, one of the two, at least you have some momentum. At least molecules are moving around.

So if you're trapped, my best advice to you is absolutely take the floor out from under you and go terminal velocity because at least you're moving in a direction. Let's go. Let's go, baby. Get a man right, bro.

I'm gonna get another guy. That was a great question. Thank you. Godpa.

What's up, baby? Hey, what's up, man?

00:15:15CALLER 5

I just wanted to make a quick question about how putting yourself out there is important. And I just want to give you some context so, you know, you can give me some advice on this. I'm living in a really small town, right, because of the pandemic and all this stuff. Had to move back down here.

Been here for a year. But, you know, I really tried to put myself out there. You know, go to. Go to where most of the nightlife is, you know, go to the cafes every day.

You know, find some people. I know, you know, try to say hi to everybody. But I just wanted to ask you, like, I know it's not important to mind about what other people say about you, but living in such a small city, you know, the world can run around really fast, right? And, you know, I'm a young guy.

I'm 22, so, you know, if I do some stupid shit, you know, older people can, you know, know about it and, you know, your, Your rep. How. How do you get yourself out there and put yourself in dangerous positions and. And do crazy shit without really damaging your reputation to a point where it's not beneficial for you?

00:16:35HOST

That's a good question. I'll tell you how. When you do stupid shit and you. And you do dangerous shit, first thing you have to understand is this all genius insights come from 60 IQ retarded moves.

Think about all the dumbest you've ever done. The dumbest you've ever done, ironically, always produces the highest level insights that make you look like a genius. That's the paradox. So if we have that premise, the way that you preserve your reputation by doing dumb and dangerous is very simple.

You have to lead from the front, meaning you have to show the people around you that you are willing to sacrifice your blood, sweat and tears, your cash, your capital, your livelihood to make happen. You can't be running around doing dumb, hurting other people. If you're not willing to hurt yourself, if you're willing to put yourself in the danger zone and you're willing to risk your money and ventures and you're willing to put your dick on the line, then it's very easy to get other people on board with your vision and have them come along for the ride because they see that you're willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. And most people are unwilling to do that.

Most people are running around causing harm to others. And they're not sacrificing themselves, which is some real. They're not out there swinging, punching, working long hours, staying up 24 hours a day to make their visions real. They're just out there causing trouble for others.

And that is how you end up a coward. But everybody respects a man who's up, who's making mistakes. If their balls are being tormented and their soul is tormented because they're doing everything in their power to make it right and to make their vision real. And everybody will follow you.

If you're doing that, if you're proving to people that your is at risk, you're destroying your health, your life to make your mission come true, then you will be forgiven. Because that's the only vindication that there is. If you lead from the back, everybody will resent you. You will earn the animosity and ire of all men, and pretty much every creature on the planet will despise you.

So it's about you putting yourself on the front lines and leading from the front and taking all the damage for your people. That's how you preserve your reputation. Because you can make a thousand mistakes in a row, but if you never quit and you're out there on the front lines, it's just mathematically probable that eventually you're gonna make it right. Cool.

00:19:27CALLER 3

Cool.

00:19:28CALLER 5

Yeah. Sounds. Sounds good. Thank you.

00:19:31HOST

Thank you. Fur can, yo.

00:19:45CALLER 4

Thanks, Brute. Really appreciate everything you do on Twitter and appreciate this, man. My question is kind of going Back to the stuff that you were talking about in the beginning with social media, you know, all the different things that just suck our, you know, brain power away. So I think that, like, it's a thing that, you know, it's not really easy to fix in one day if you're just like, oh, I want to put my phone away.

00:20:09CALLER 1

But how do you think, you know,

00:20:11CALLER 4

is the best way to just reset the brain, you know, once shit's just been too up for a little while now, you know,

00:20:21HOST

you're talking about like dopamine resets.

00:20:23CALLER 4

Yeah, just to, you know, just to, you know, maybe reset all the way that like, you know, because after a certain point, once you keep doing the same every day, you don't, you know, even winning, you know, you need a bigger win every single time, you know, so like, even the stuff that made you happy like a couple months ago, you know, it seems like, baby, so you always want more and more and more. But I'm trying to get my brain off of that, you know, always needing to keep succeeding and making more money and doing more.

00:20:51CALLER 12

And

00:20:54HOST

man, I wish that's the million dollar question. I wish I had the answer to that because I'm.

00:20:58CALLER 1

I'm constantly redlining.

00:21:00HOST

I'm constantly redlining and I'm constantly in war mode. I don't know how to relax. I don't want to relax. I just think.

I think we just need to have. Everybody needs to kind of take stock of what their goals are. Like, I'm not interested in peace and

00:21:14CALLER 1

quiet in my life right now.

00:21:15HOST

I'm sure at some point in my life I will. But like, there's times for peace and there's times for war. And if you're not where you want to be in life, I find it extremely hard to recline. To recline in a chair around palm trees and just kick back at the beach.

I mean, there's honestly nothing, like, for me right now, it's either just non stop going 247 or sleep. There's no in between. I don't take time for meditation. I don't take time to monitor my thoughts.

I'm just either sleeping or I'm up vertical on my feet, just absolutely painting the town with shots. I wish I had a better answer for you. All I can say is, All I can say is, is I think that if you're not where you want to be in life and you're not anywhere close and you don't have independence and people are still telling you what to do, I genuinely don't think it's accept to really, to really rest. I really don't.

I think guys are obsessed with taking breaks. I think guys are obsessed with cutting corners. And I just think until you're at a place where literally nobody on the planet can tell you what to do, I just don't think you have that luxury. I really don't.

And it's. And again, this is all built into the hardware of the animal. Like. Like we are all factory installed with mechanisms that will fucking make us slow down regardless.

So it's like you can go as hard as you want and eventually your body and brain will tell you that you literally just can't do it anymore. And you will be forced to meditate. That's why I think forced meditation is so stupid. Because if you truly put in a fucking day's work, which I don't think very many people understand what that actually entails.

There's. It almost comes to a point where you have no choice but to lay down on your back for five minutes and just recoup because your brain is so fucking fried from all the problems you're trying to solve.

00:23:12CALLER 4

Do you. So is that technically like burnout to you? Like when you're just fully burnt out, you know, you just can't do anything anymore?

00:23:19HOST

You know, I think it is kind of like that. And I think that. I think burnout is kind of a funny term. I think a lot of people have appropriated that term that have no clue what hard work really looks like.

It's the same, same kind of crowd who, who admonishes you about burnout that'll

00:23:34CALLER 1

tell you about over training.

00:23:37HOST

Have no clue what over training looks like. 99 of the world is under trained. And if you can't do something and you're not in good enough shape to run around 24 hours a day, taking shots, moving pieces around the board, it's because you're just not in good enough shape. And your body is. Is incredible.

Your body will do in amazing things when you really push it and your body adapts. It's like people have been telling me for 15 years that the way I train is stupid. I'm gonna get hurt, I'm gonna burn out, blah, blah, blah. I've been training every day for 15 years.

I never take a day off. And I go to max every day. And I'm natural. I've never injected a single substance in my body.

And I guess you could say I'm in a permanent state of fatigue. I mean, I feel it. I wake up in the Morning and I'm absolutely fatigued, but my body is so adapted that I'm able to go in the gym and outperform 99 of the planet just because I've continued to dig in. And when I was in the dark times, I continued to show up.

So I think that when we go through those dark periods where we're just so beat up and exhausted and we can't even fathom about dragging our body into the office or into work or into the gym, I think it's really important that we keep showing up because the body does adapt. And if you can make progress while you're in a totally fatigued state, then I look at that guy and I'm like, I know that guy's going somewhere. But most people quit and most people have zero clue what the body is truly capable of when you push it.

00:25:11CALLER 4

Just, just one more last question. Sorry to keep going. Do you think psychedelics like, for that, for that fatigue that you're talking about, do you think like psychedelics and like trying to catch the reset from something like that is a viable option or is that just noise?

00:25:26HOST

I do, I think. I've never done psychedelics, but I've, I've researched them extensively. I think I'm open minded to the idea. I think that when it comes to psychedelics, I think that the number one factor is you got to look at the candidacy.

I don't think, I think most people are actually not good candidates to take psychedelics. It's like not everybody should, should be going down those avenues. I think you have to have, I don't know, there's certain features and characteristics in a person that, that has to be. There has to be some sort of like well adjusted aspect of your life before you start going down those avenues.

Because I know some dudes who are extremely up and have a lot of skeletons in their closet and I don't think those dudes should be doing it until they get like. I know psychedelics are commonly used to heal trauma, but I think that, I just think candidacy is extremely important. Not everybody should be experiencing those kind of visions. Not everybody can handle it.

Not everybody can handle that kind of ego dissolution and that kind of truth is what I'm trying to say. So I don't think, I don't think that's a once, I don't think that's a one size fits all prescription whatsoever. I think that there's a very certain cast of society that should be experimenting with that and the rest of us should, should just be chipping Away.

00:26:46CALLER 4

Cool, man. I appreciate it, man. I've been meaning to ask you that for a while.

00:26:50HOST

Thanks. No problem. The manly circle. What's.

The manly circle? What's up? Hello. How are you, brute?

What's up, brother? I'm good. So I like. Off topic question.

It was related to gut health. So could you please talk about gut health, please? Because that's an important topic nowadays,

00:27:34CALLER 6

Brother.

00:27:34HOST

I'm gonna have to have you speak up. I can't understand you. Can you hear me now? Yeah, yeah, go ahead.

So I wanted you to talk about the gut health. So how do you. Bro, I literally cannot unders. I.

I can't understand you, brother. I think it's your microphone. Can you hear me now? You want to try to re.

You want to try to readjust it and come back in once? I want to. Yeah, yeah. Just pop back in when you're ready.

I'm going to take some other questions in the meantime. Hello? Deja Ru. What's up?

00:28:16CALLER 2

Hey, what's up, brother? I want a question, and this is not so much for me, but just for everybody else. What do you think are the major landmines that guy should absolutely. Just not with.

Under any circumstances, Things that can tear it all apart,

00:28:34CALLER 1

man.

00:28:34HOST

That's a great question, Bro. I'd have to get back to you on that one. What are your ideas?

00:28:49CALLER 2

I would say drugs, bro. I mean, once you get down that hole, you know, it can be. It can be severe. So some people never make it back.

I do. I do. I do like the idea of vices. I do like the idea of indulging in what you're naturally called to.

For me, it's gambling. I have. I've lost so much. But for me, it's just the funnest thing ever.

So I understand what I'm doing. But with drugs, you can kind of go into such a psychosis that you don't even realize who you are anymore. All you're chasing is that next hit of crack, right? So for me, personally, I've never touched a single drug ever.

I don't think I ever will.

00:29:26HOST

But yeah, I'm the same. I'm the same. And it's a really good question because I. I honestly, I was talking to my boy.

I was actually talking to Freak about this the other day. A couple things. One, I'm a teetotaler.

00:29:41CALLER 1

I've never.

00:29:41HOST

I've never been drunk. I've also never been high. I've actually never even tried a drug because I have extreme other vices. I'm A huge gambler as well as most of you know, but I literally do not know a single high level, high functioning, high successful who, who like drinks crazy amounts of alcohol.

I don't know one. I think it's like a meme. It's, it's bizarre, but it's. When you really look at it on the face of it, I just simply don't know one.

He doesn't know one. Like most of the people, people that I know that are extreme, I'm talking like extremely high functioning, they don't alter, they don't alter anything. They're not trying to alter their reality. They're actually because ultimately delusions are for the weak.

I mean delusions are for the weak. And if you can handle whatever reality that you're in, I think your chances

00:30:34CALLER 1

of, of, of getting out of whatever

00:30:37HOST

social structure, whatever, whatever circumstances you were born into, your best chance is to face as much stone cold truth as possible. So I definitely admonish against any kind of substance alterations. I mean the reality is it's all a drug. Gambling's a drug, cortisol is a drug, adrenaline's a drug.

And I'm under no delusions that I'm definitely a cortisol and adrenaline junkie. But it's also self manufactured. And I think that if you can self manufacture your experience, I think that your chances of just making it are extremely high rather than being dependent on exogenous substances like you said. So it's a good question.

00:31:27CALLER 2

I hate Reliance, bro. I think we agree on that one. I don't even take caffeine unless I'm drinking. But let's say for, for a pre workout, never, never ever.

Because I don't want to be in a situation that. Dude, that's not real life, man. You don't have pre workout real life. You're not always going to have everything handy.

You're not going to have the perfect conditions to perform. You need to train yourself to perform under the worst conditions because then you can perform in any.

00:31:54HOST

Brother, I could not agree more with that. I literally, I refuse to take pre workout. I don't take caffeine, I take zero supplements. I refuse, I refuse.

I don't even wear shoes. I don't wear gloves. I don't have a belt. I just am ready to rip shits, rip the head off of things at any given time.

I'm ready to rumble. I don't need my little gallon jug of water walking around all day like a bodybuilder. I'm just ready to go. I'M like a camel.

I need very little water. I train heavy, fasted. So all these just. This is a great question, great topic.

I think we need to train in extremely rough conditions. Grungy gyms, hot, sweaty, humid. I just see way too much reliance on external. And I think it's, I think it's what you said.

I think it, it, it's extremely destructive because you're not, it leads to that whole self confidence issue. You can pull me out of bed at 4am, put 4:50 on the bar. I'm gonna squat it, no problem. I don't need anything.

I just have heart and I have some grit and I have some, I have mental fortitude. Those are the three components that you

00:33:11CALLER 1

need to do anything in life.

00:33:15HOST

That's what it is, bro.

00:33:16CALLER 2

I mean, and reliance. I, I extend that to everything. You know, when answering questions I used to give big detailed responses. Try to really carve it out so people knew exactly what I mean.

But now I've kind of switched to a style where it's more. So figure it out, bro. That's the direction you go. Find the shop.

Right? I don't answer questions about supplements. Whoa, what brand is that? How much are you taking?

I don't answer. You're not going to have the answers fed to you in anything. It's not real, bro. It develops learned helplessness.

If you just get used to having the essence all given to you. What are you going to do when there's no one to turn to? What are you going to do when you face a solution, a problem that only you can find a solution to?

00:33:58HOST

That's exactly right. I'm a, I'm a pretty, I'm pretty much a non interventionist now in my life. If I see people going down a bad path or a bad road. I think if you truly love somebody, you have to let them crash and burn.

And I think a lot of people disagree with this, but it's 100% fact. If you are constantly intervening with people

00:34:16CALLER 1

who are doing up and on a

00:34:18HOST

bad path, what you're doing is you're stealing and robbing the lesson that they have to learn on their own. Who the are we to intervene in somebody's path before they need to learn the lessons that they're supposed to learn? So if someone wants to go down a path of absolute destruction, I will actually encourage and aid them in that quest. It's like you want to do cocaine and destroy your life.

I'll give you a mountain of cocaine. Because I want, because I want I want you to fucking. I want you to hit bottom faster. You need.

That's what they really need. They need to hit the ground at terminal velocity faster so they can rebound, and that's true love. If you really care about somebody and you're not a selfish prick, because intervening is selfish. People are like, oh, no, it's because I care about him.

It's like, dude, it has nothing to do with that. You're. You're being selfish because you are playing God. You think that by intervening and by pulling somebody out of their lesson that you're actually doing them a favor.

You're doing them a disservice. Everybody has to fucking learn their own way. So I'm glad you brought that up, because I think. I think men need to be a lot more.

Need to just give their friends a lot more leeway to up. I really do believe that. I think that's actual love, and I think that's actual care and consideration for the other individual, because those lessons are so invaluable and priceless, and you can't learn them if you don't get your guts ripped out.

00:35:51CALLER 2

I. I've often said that sometimes the best thing you can do for somebody is to allow them to go through more pain. And somebody asked me, you know, I've got my best friend and he's 300 pounds, he's fat. How do I help him?

I said, don't. You cannot. He's not ready to make a change yet. If it was uncomfortable for him, if it was unbearable, he would be already on his journey to rid himself of that.

That's exactly not there yet. So continue to allow him to go through that pain until he decides. Until he looks in the mirror and goes, okay, I've fucked up. It's now time to actually make a change.

00:36:29HOST

That's exactly correct. We all know subconsciously people don't make changes.

00:36:33CALLER 1

And until they're truly fucking disgusted with

00:36:36HOST

them, when they wake up in the morning and they literally can't bear to look in the mirror, they are so disgusted and horrified at what they've become. That's when people make real change, and that's honest and that's integrity. And that's literally. That's that's part of the natural order.

That's like a truth as old as time. It's uncontroversial. People do not change with little pats on the back and nodes of encouragement. They might make little steps, but the.

The reversion and the recidivism is extremely high. Why do you Think the recidivism is high. It's high because always rebound to their baseline. Change has to come within.

That's why it's incredibly important not to judge other people where they're at. It's very easy to look at another and say you're fat and disgusting. But a lot of us are not fat and disgusting. But there's, we're obese.

We're the 400 pound obese guy in

00:37:32CALLER 1

other areas of our life.

00:37:33HOST

And we need to take honest appraisal of that and be extremely cautious about the way we're pointing the finger at others because we all have work to do and, and honestly, everybody's up. Amen, bro. Amen. Thank you.

Yo, yo, new speaker. All right, we're gonna move on. Roush. What's up, Rash goon?

You're up. All right, I'm gonna go down the line. Zane, I'm gonna bring you on. Who's popping?

Oh, what's popping? Go ahead, bro. From Brazil. Feel me.

What's up, brother?

00:39:08CALLER 1

No idea what that dude said.

00:39:10HOST

Zayn, what's up, dog?

00:39:12CALLER 9

Hello, brother. Thank you for putting up this space brute. You put up some tweets recently about, you know, animating principle and mode of spirit. My question to you is, when you were like 23 years old, I remember you said that you were hanging about with a guy in his 40s who was pretty up, and you said that you had issues with your dad.

Would you say your mode of spirit has been pretty much the same these past ten years? And yeah. What, just what, what were you like when you were 23 years old?

00:39:56HOST

That's a good question.

00:39:57CALLER 1

I mean, I was extremely tenacious and just relentless. I, I, I was, I, I was, I grew up in an extremely up situation where all pressure, all pressure points were pointing me towards just basically being a perfect mold of society. I was being groomed to just go to college and just live this life. And I've always been just a very cantankerous sort of recalcitrant personality.

I've always been kind of defiant since

00:40:24HOST

I was a kid.

00:40:25CALLER 1

And I never,

00:40:28HOST

a lot of those

00:40:29CALLER 1

qualities were trying to be gutted and ripped out of me. And I never understood that if you double down on your character flaws and that if you resist the temptation to give in to the sort of like, umbrella of society that wants you to have good manners and bad, be, have this sort of parlor etiquette and be this like, perfect model citizen, you can

00:40:54HOST

literally push boundaries and push yourself to places that you never dreamed were possible.

00:40:58CALLER 1

And you can do that without hurting anybody. It's just that I've always had a natural inclination towards cockiness, towards sort of arrogance, towards. I don't want to say ill mannered, but I'm, I've just sort of, kind of always had like an uncouth disposition. And I think that when I was in my 20s, I really started to kind of explore the darker sides of myself that I had been repressing for so many years.

And that's when everything clicked for me.

00:41:26HOST

I was like, why am I pretending to like fold my hands on the table at dinner and pretend that I'm

00:41:31CALLER 1

like this high mannered aristocrat?

00:41:33HOST

It just ain't me. And I just kind of had to peel back those layers and really, really plug in and figure out who I really was. I'm just a naturally kind of like cocky, arrogant kind of kind of guy. And when I took the gloves off and I pulled away the veneer that I was putting on, I really started to break ground because ultimately I believe the evolution of man and my evolution as a man has come full swing when I just honored who I really was.

Even if those qualities alienated me, even if they eliminated good people in my life. Because God knows I've had some, some remarkable relationships. I've had amazing women come into my life. I've met some extremely cool dudes, and I've alienated and had to rip myself away from a lot of those people because it just wasn't congruent.

Those relationships were not a good fit

00:42:28CALLER 1

for my personality type.

00:42:29HOST

I'm a wild man.

00:42:30CALLER 1

I'm an adventurer.

00:42:31HOST

I'm a explorer. I don't really like commitment. I like, I like to be no strings attached. I like to be able to do whatever the I please at any given time.

00:42:39CALLER 12

I would say that there's absolutely nothing wrong with being arrogant. But you know, if you're going to be the type of person that is ignorant, that's almost unacceptable.

00:42:52HOST

Who said that?

00:42:57CALLER 12

I did, bro. What's up?

00:42:59HOST

Oh, so you look, listen, of course you like. Arrogance is definitely a fine line. My point is if you're a naturally cocky person and you just sort of naturally have high self esteem, it's incredibly

00:43:14CALLER 1

important not to dim that. That's all I'm saying.

00:43:17HOST

You can't, you can't walk around pretending that you're not who you are. And to answer Zayn's question, when I was 23, I really just kind of activated all of those qualities that I was rejecting. And that's when I really Made progress. Even though, like I said, I alienated tons of people in my life, I still found strength and resolve in my solitude.

I found strength and resolve to God

00:43:50CALLER 1

as you're ever going to be.

00:43:51HOST

And I just find tremendous solace and solitude in that. Even if I'm alone and I got nobody around me, no support, nobody believes in my dreams, nobody has my back, which has never been the case. But hypothetically, if I was in that situation, if you are living your destiny and you're being congruent with who you're supposed to be, there's tremendous relief in that. You're.

You're alleviated. You're alleviated because you're just being who you are, and other people are not gonna like that. And if you are not somebody who is marginalized and you're not an outcast and you're not somebody who struggles with alienation, it's extremely likely that you're not being who you are.

00:44:39CALLER 12

Dude, I would absolutely agree with 100 of everything that you're saying. At the same time, like, there's a lot of people that don't appreciate the fact that people are able to

00:44:51HOST

kind

00:44:51CALLER 12

of accept, like, who they are and what they are like and understand their place in society. You know, there's a lot of people that try to form themselves or mold themselves, you know, to, like, a societal standard, and that's up. Like, dude, just be yourself.

00:45:12HOST

100. I mean, that advice gets lambasted a lot in our side of Twitter. I think be yourself can be. Can also be destructive advice in the sense that be yourself does not mean don't improve.

I think a lot of people take that as meaning. Like, just accept who you are. If you're a miserable loser, continue to be that. That's not what that means.

It means you have to figure out what your natural inclinations are, what your natural disposition is, what your natural demeanor

00:45:44CALLER 1

is, and you have to go all in on that.

00:45:47HOST

And if you're rubbing people the wrong way, that's typically a sign that you're closer to God, in my opinion. Doesn't mean you're trampling people. That's a very clear distinction. Does not mean you're hurting or trampling other people, but it does mean that you are rubbing people the wrong way because you do not capitulate and you do not cowtow and you do not genuflect to who try to get you to behave a certain way.

That's crucial. And so once I stopped behaving in certain ways that other people were trying to influence Me on. That's when all the creativity and that's when everything clicked for me because I realized anything was possible. That was a great question.

I'm glad that you guys, you guys rolled on that. I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get a new speaker,

00:46:38CALLER 9

brother. Just one off the top question.

00:46:41HOST

Yeah.

00:46:41CALLER 9

Do you enjoy living in Los Angeles, California? Does it light your spirit up?

00:46:48HOST

Absolutely. I love, I love Los Angeles has been very good to me. I see a lot of hate on California and Los Angeles. And I mean, it definitely, definitely is not a meme.

California has deteriorated. I've seen it before my own eyes. But all the hate and all the talking I see on Los Angeles is just from who can't make it here. It's, it's a shark tank.

If you can make it in LA and you're not invisible and you can actually do business and do commerce here and date women here, you can do it anywhere on earth. And so I just feel like it's playing the game on hard mode because if you're out of shape and you're not a guy who's driven or motivated, you're not ambitious, you're invisible in Los Angeles. No one's gonna give a about you. No one's gonna know who you are.

Girls won't even look your direction. But if you're somebody who actually has a body of work that's remotely impressive, you're gonna do well here. And I think LA is an extremely vibrant city. People generally take really good care of themselves here.

There's definitely high consciousness around meat and diet. And I mean, the one drawback, because I travel a lot, every time I go out of la, I laugh to myself because I've been everywhere. The food In LA is 100 top class. You, I, I've been to New York, I've been everywhere.

Miami does not compare to the local farms and the kind of that they're raising out here in Cali does not hold a candle to it. So I always kind of miss out on the nutritional aspects when I leave la because just the. You can access in LA from raw milk to the egg quality to the beef quality is off the chain. So, yeah, I would just say LA is a shark tank.

And anybody who bashes LA just probably just unfortunately can't compete and can't do well there. I would say that's just the, the hard truth.

00:48:37CALLER 2

Beautiful.

00:48:39HOST

Andre, what's up? Bob? Plugging you on right now. Fire away.

00:48:55CALLER 3

What up, Brooke, can you hear me?

00:48:57HOST

What's up, brother?

00:48:58CALLER 3

Yeah, I think that this is a very powerful space you're holding here. And what you said at the beginning really resonated with me because my natural inclination has always been that warrior spirit. And I shied away from that because I had business ventures that were going very successful. Like for instance, this month was the first month that I ever broke a six figure mark in a month.

And it was the most depressed I ever felt in my life. And one of the reasons why is because my boxing coach, who I've been with since I was like 12 years old, said to me, you know, it's kind of fucking embarrassing that you come in here and dust people up, but you have no balls to actually go do the real thing. And the reason I didn't ever fight is because my grandpa, who was basically like my role model, raised me and everything before he passed away, said, you know, a dangerous man doesn't need to go out there and hurt other people. Use it as a defense mechanism.

Promise me you'll never fight. And so I never did. And this month when everything kind of culminated and my coach was telling me like, how the are you living your life based upon something your grandpa said who's no longer around, like, what's authentic to your soul? And, and it hit me, you know, so much that I almost got like a lightning strike by it.

And yeah, you, you bringing up this whole thing of following your true authentic, you know, path of your soul and being what your inclinations are, I think is so valuable and underutilized in today's society. And so, yeah, I'm gonna be training for my first amateur bout here coming up pretty soon. And basically just saying, look, the money obviously didn't make you happy, so follow your inclination. See how that turns out?

00:50:42HOST

Exactly. That's exactly what it is. It's like I have ruined so many opportunities I've had handed to me on a silver platter numerous times in my life, but it just didn't jive with my soul, so I just refused to take it. And it's like, you want to talk about a confidence building exercise when you're in a position where you can reject opportunities that you know are going to be profitable because it just doesn't fit with who you are.

It's unbelievable what you can accomplish. And I've done that over and over and over again. I've turned down, I mean, like a really good example. I get DMS all the time about affiliate marketing.

Guys want me to help them push their products, and that's just not me. It's just literally not Me, I just cannot affiliate and push other people's products if it's not a product that I believe in or if it's not a product I've used myself. I don't give a how much money I can make. I just can't do it.

And have I left, have I left tons of money on the table? Of course, of course I have. But it, it ultimately when I started, I steer back and I go and I live by my own direction about my own, by my own forces and my own will. I'm actually able to create other opportunities that make up for that 20 fold on the back end.

So it's just, there's a certain power and confidence that you have when you can sit back in a chair and be like, look, I don't need to capitulate to anybody. I don't have to bow down or do anything that I don't want to do in life. Because we all have a choice and we all, all can stick to our guns and triple down. That's why I'm saying it's so important to not remove your flaws.

We have to integrate our flaws. Like the that like you think is holding you back or the that you're doing is somewhat destructive. Yes, some of that needs to be curtailed. But most of the time, a lot of those personality quirks will actually work really well for you if you can just learn to incorporate them into other that you're doing that's successful.

Instead of being obsessed with constantly removing everything and scratching parts of yourself that you don't like. A lot of times you just got to put that on your shoulders and just keep rocking with it because all this gets resolved. I see so many personality flaws and personality quirks get automatically resolved when guys start achieving things. Something about achievement, something about winning, something about creating more freedom for yourself just has this sort of underglow effect of just sort of removing the natural that you want to get rid of anyway.

You don't have to sit there and journal for a hundred hours about all your character defects and all the that you want removed. You just need to take it along with you and find patterns and strides where you can actually find success. And a lot of that just gets sloughed off in the end anyway. That's been like probably the most profound insight that I've had in the last 10 years is I stopped worrying about my flaws and I just integrated them and kept trucking.

And now I'm an extremely flawed individual. But at the same time I have a pretty decent body of Work. I'm pretty happy with a lot of the things that I've accomplished in my life. And ultimately, like I said, man, I have the, I have the keys to, to my own kingdom.

Nobody tells me what to do. I'm in the driver's seat. And that's all I've ever wanted. Since I was a little kid, all I ever wanted was to just be in a position where I could say, you, I don't have to do that.

And I got there and it's, it's an extremely uplifting experience that I think all men should pursue. Doesn't mean that I don't work with other people. And that, I mean, I'm not really, I'm not really a team player by nature. And I love working, working with other people, but I can work with other people.

Like I don't have to, I don't have to compromise my integrity. I don't have to compromise what I believe in order to make things happen anymore because I can just draw my lines in the sand. I know exactly what my limitations are. And I try to put myself at the edge.

I try to show. Shatter the edge of my ability to find my own limitations. That's just, I'm just addicted to improvement essentially.

00:54:50CALLER 3

So Brew, I just want to like throw this out there. So what you're talking about is something like, if you look at the word knowledge right, it's like knowing the ledge and the legends are only the people that know the end of their ledge. They're the legends, they find the end of their ledge. So like for you, you know, you said I could wake up in the morning and get under a 450 pound bar.

That pressure makes you feel alive. And it's like anything other than that fire, it almost makes you feel dead. It's like I could put five grand on a five team parlay and feel nothing. But you getting yourself in a situation where you could get knocked the out and you feel more alive than you've ever felt.

And anything other than whatever your fire is just like basically a life not lived, dude.

00:55:31HOST

Exactly. And if you look at the face of my life, my life is extraordinarily dysfunctional. It's extremely dysfunctional. But what's interesting is I find that the most dysfunctional lives ironically have the most utility and application in the real world.

I'm firing, I fire six figures a day on games. My betting patterns are so egregious and so stupid, if anybody looked at my life, they'd be like, dude, how the do you Survive my swings, my highs and lows are so ridiculous. But I've been doing this for 15 years. I know how to get take the rough with the smooth.

And it's like you said, I know who I am. I know I'm always going to be degening. I'm going to be degening till the end of time because it's just who I am. And I refuse, refuse to let that self, let that part of myself go.

Because you don't want to blunt your edge, you don't want to dull your edge in life. And that's what happens when you take away all your vices and you self resist. And you're constantly putting yourself in a position where I can't do that because it's going to hurt me. What you do is you blunt the edge of the blade and you don't want that.

You need edge, you need your, you need to combine things that don't make sense. I'm a high level, elite Olympic lifter and I'm an extremely high stakes gambler that those two things don't make sense. But men, great men, combine elements that make no sense. That's where you get your edge, that's how you stand out.

That's where your uniqueness is, comes out, is you just combine things that should make no sense under any circumstances. Right. Because I'm into health, fitness, I take such good care of myself, but I also put myself under tremendous pressure and stress that is unneeded. I don't have to live this life.

I could throw the towel in right now, take a cushy opportunity, roll in some passive income, kick my feet up and call it a day. But it ain't me. I need that thunder. I need to experience, I need to be have my hands in, I need to be in the mud wrestling.

It's just who I am. I just need it. For whatever reason, I can't let other people run my business for me. Even if I'm making 10k a day, I need to feel the pain.

I need to be leading from the front. I need to absorb the damage, I need the blows. I want it because it makes me feel alive like you said. And it reinforces the, the fact that I'm living my purpose, I'm living my mission.

I'm doing what I'm what I want to do. And that's freedom.

00:57:58CALLER 3

I gotta head into, I gotta head into a meeting. I just want to say I appreciate the space. You're a real ass and real ones will recognize that. So you guys have A good one.

00:58:06HOST

Thanks, dog. I appreciate you. I want to get a couple more questions here that we're going to call it, but this has been great. Keys.

What's up? Keys to cash. You're on. All right, take another one.

Nomad, what's up, baby?

00:58:47CALLER 13

Got a quick question for you, bro. So been following you for a while. I appreciate the insights. There's a lot of discussion that you have about identity, right?

This is just who you are. This is just how you operate. And obviously, you know, you got to play to your strengths. But a lot of what you're saying, regardless of identity, is just a, like, a good skill set and a good mindset to have, period.

So leaving the identity aspect aside, how do you. How do you pour that into yourself? How do you. How do you kind of force yourself to love the challenge, not just to do it?

You know, anyone can make themselves do anything, but like, you're saying there's a certain type of freedom that's found in loving the challenge. How do you kind of develop that in yourself?

00:59:26HOST

I develop it with the awareness that ultimately you have to understand there's so much opportunity on a daily basis that's being lost. People are squandering the. The world. The amount of money being exchanged, the.

That is popping off daily is so absurd when you really ponder it that it doesn't matter if you take risks and get blown out. We live in a world in 2021 where you can rebuild your ships so fast, you can rebuild overnight in this society. So it's like, what's the worst case that can happen? Dude, I get my ass blown out in a.

On a game. What's like, what's the worst case scenario? I just roll up at a coffee shop the next morning and go talk to a bad. Like, go get a chick's number, spend the night at her house, rejuvenate, get back on the saddle in two days.

It's like the worst case scenario in 2021 is. Is infinitely, infinitesimally larger than any moment in history in time. You're never going to find opportunities like this again. There is infinite ways to challenge yourself.

Make money, rough up, cause havoc, cause trouble, cause chaos daily. Even if you lost everything. And I think people are terrified of that, because people are. I will say this.

Here's the best answer to your question. Focusing on one thing that you have full conviction in. And going all in is the name of the game. I see people doing way too much.

They got their hands in too many tills. They're trying to do too many side hustles, too many different things and they suck at everything thing. Find one thing that puts your heart on fire and go all in and be willing to die for it. Literally be willing to face the belly of the beast.

And if you fail, who gives a, who gives a ground beef is $3 a pound. You're still going to be eating good. You ain't gonna go homeless. It's too easy to make a living in this society.

There's

01:01:26CALLER 10

it,

01:02:05CALLER 1

The change.

01:02:06HOST

You're gonna have to change. And people are afraid of change more than they're afraid of death. They want to do everything they've been doing for years. It's not working and get different results.

And when you do the same thing you've always done, the same results are always going to occur. So you have to change. If you want change, you have to become a different person. And the only way to become a different person is to try new and put yourself out there so that you can reconceive who you are.

And so I understand that. I understand on a fundamental level, if my business goes belly up, I don't give a. Because I have so much tremendous self belief. I know for a fact in 48 hours I will be back on the saddle making happen again.

So you can't lose with that mentality. But people are so terrified to go outside the box and do things outside of their comfort zone.

01:03:07CALLER 1

Hope that answers it. That was a great question.

01:03:14HOST

I'm gonna take a couple more. Yo,

01:03:30CALLER 1

Skeleton, Skeleton dude with the green lasers.

01:03:32HOST

What's,

01:03:36CALLER 10

what's up bro? Appreciate you on me. Let me on here. Basically, I'm just wondering like for training, do you think that only lifting heavy things as fast as possible is the best plan for everyone?

Or you think like just like movement exercises? Like I do all flow stuff right now and I feel like it's like the most efficient like warrior training, like getting in that warrior mindset like you said.

01:04:01HOST

Yeah, I think the flow can be pretty tight.

01:04:03CALLER 1

It's, it doesn't really speak to my heart. Like I, I, I, I definitely can see the benefit. Some of those patterns are extremely functional. No doubt about it.

01:04:11HOST

I think that lifting heavy as quickly

01:04:13CALLER 1

as possible is the name of the

01:04:15HOST

game simply because of longevity.

01:04:17CALLER 1

As we get older, we lose our fast twitch muscle fibers and the only way to strengthen those fibers is to move weight explosively. So I think sprinting, just pushing any kind of heavy weight quickly is never going to go out of style because it keeps men youthful into their 60s, 70s, 80s. The flow will definitely keep you limber. The problem is, is you're deteriorating those fast twitch muscle fibers.

And as you get older, you don't

01:04:41HOST

really lose your strength, you lose your

01:04:42CALLER 1

power, which means you lose your speed. So essentially that old man strength is true. Like you see old guys who are mechanics, they have vice grips for a handshake. They'll like tear your arm out because they're strong as.

But what you do lose as you age is that speed and that power and that snap. And training heavy quickly drastically reduces the deterioration of those functions.

01:05:06HOST

So I think, I think leaving strength

01:05:10CALLER 1

on the table is just absolutely idiotic when it comes to training in general. I think you can have both. I, I think the flow is cool, but I absolutely think that dudes should be spending at least two, three days a week doing explosive lifts just for the preservation of those muscle fibers that I was telling you about.

01:05:26HOST

Like heavy kettlebells.

01:05:27CALLER 10

Would that work or is it barbell?

01:05:30HOST

Absolutely.

01:05:30CALLER 1

Kettlebells are great. They're ballistic movements. They're, it's, it's got the perfect shape. You cannot find a better path for the shoulder, to put the shoulder through full range of motion than a kettlebell press.

Something about the way the weight is distributed, the way it sits on your wrist, It's a perfect flight path for when you're putting, doing overhead work and absolutely snatching with it. Ballistic cleans, any of those ballistic movements are going to help tremendously. You preserve your power.

01:06:00CALLER 10

The reason I asked is I was in a car accident like a few years ago and it like twisted a lot of my fascia. And so I'm like off balance in many ways. And I find that doing like symmetrical lifts and anything with like a barbell further accentuates that. Whereas when I do stuff with a kettlebell, it's all isometric and I have to like push fully through on each motion and it really helps me get like aligned better.

01:06:22HOST

Right.

01:06:22CALLER 1

100 barbells are obviously a very unnatural implement. Unfortunately I've just kind of gravitated to it just because I like, I like the fact that you can load it as heavy as you can. But yes, you're talking about from like a pure functional health perspective. Obviously a barbell is an extremely unnatural implement.

And yeah, I mean a kettlebell is definitely superior. If you want to talk about pure function, I'm just interested in max strength. So unfortunately like I, I with the 105 pound kettlebells, they're just too light. And I've, I've like, I with some

01:06:53HOST

custom ones but when you get up

01:06:55CALLER 1

to like 200 pound kettlebells, they're so awkward and cumbersome the way they're built, that it just, it becomes completely impossible to like, manipulate them the way you want to, so. But yeah, definitely, kettlebells are an extremely valuable tool for strength training, just overall fitness in general.

01:07:14HOST

Cool, man.

01:07:15CALLER 10

Thanks for the advice.

01:07:15CALLER 1

You got it. There was a dude I wanted on here. He disappeared. All right, we'll get.

01:07:31HOST

Michael b. What's up, baby? Yo, Michael, you're live. Hey, brood.

How's it going, man?

01:07:46CALLER 2

What's up, brother?

01:07:47HOST

Thanks for taking my question here. First of all, say I love your stuff. I've learned a ton of stuff from you. Just following you.

But I guess kind of you've touched on this a little bit. I was curious if you are at all religious. I hear you talk, you know, about God a lot, you know some of your stuff. And do you have any take on the current pandemic situation?

I'm not religious. I definitely believe in the whole Christian renaissance and this kind of Christian revival. I definitely think that's probably the only way we can save the West. I mean, I understand the, like, the philosophical underpinnings of it, I think is extremely valuable.

The pandemic thing is just beyond comical. I, from day one, literally the first day they announced it, I thought the entire thing was. I'm one of the few people that I know that actually thinks covet is completely fake. Like, I literally, I know people who say they've had it, but I legitimately do not think covet even exists whatsoever.

I think the whole thing is just completely laughable. But honestly, man, like, here's my take on it. I think I used to view the elites as my enemy, but I think

01:09:02CALLER 1

they're my friends, man.

01:09:03HOST

I mean, you, you got to understand what's happening is. I think that what they're doing is calling people, like, there's zero percent chance these chicks who got this vax are going to be fertile. I think it's an infertility. I think it's a complete eugenics experiment.

And I think that what's going to happen is a lot of people are going to go infertile. They're going to blame it on Covid itself, not the vaccine. That's just the obvious chess move. And then we're definitely going to see some downstream effects of population decrease, which I think is extremely beneficial.

So I think the elites are actually my friends, right? Because they always, it's like, look, the elites are with us. There's no doubt about it. But they always.

Part of the game is they always give you an out. There's always. They always kind of give you a choice. Even though it doesn't seem like it, there's always like an avenue you can

01:09:51CALLER 1

take to get around it.

01:09:53HOST

So dumb people were always going to fall for this. That's just obvious. Stupid people were always going to go down this road. So I just think the fact, like, I should be on Twitter promoting the vax at this point, I should be.

I should. I am super pro vax. I think as many need to take the vax as possible so we can just weed them out of the gene pool. That's truly what I believe.

01:10:17CALLER 1

Great answer.

01:10:18HOST

Thanks, Bert. You got it. Take a couple more questions. Isaiah, what's up, dog?

How you doing? So I just had a quick question, kind of on the topic of self reliance earlier. What do you think? If you just have a suggestion like, what percent of the time should we be learning and what percent of the time should we be like, actually implementing?

It's a good question. I think they're mutually exclusive. I think that. I think, like I said, interfacing with the physical world is the best way to learn.

I think we need to ditch the books. I think, genuinely, I think there was a time, maybe 2014, 2013, was like a perfect time to be sitting in libraries reading highfalutin novels with flowery language. And I mean, I've read it all.

01:11:10CALLER 1

I've read Dostoevsky, I've read Ayn Rand, I've read Schopenhauer.

01:11:14HOST

I've read it all. And honestly, when I put down the books and just got out there and started interacting in the physical world, I just came across all the wisdom I

01:11:23CALLER 1

read about anyway, literally, it just all

01:11:24HOST

made sense to me just from the capacity of just working in the world

01:11:27CALLER 1

with my hands and senses.

01:11:29HOST

So I think implementing, Implementing is a. Is a funnel that'll take you directly into learning. And I think that we need to be out there in the real world making deals, putting up shots and shit like that. I think.

I don't know if you were here earlier, but I think the online shit is great. But I just think we need to make room for both. Gotcha. Thank you.

I think my point is, is, like, what I want to say about reading is you have to understand reading a novel in 2021 is you're working at a very archaic pace. Like, we live. We live in a time where the blurb, the snippet things are so short shrift. Like Everything is condensed.

And I think we need to kind

01:12:12CALLER 1

of live in accordance with that, that's just where the culture's headed. And if we're resistant to that, I

01:12:16HOST

think we're going to get blown out of the game. I think ultimately, and I hate to say this because I think reading can be extremely powerful, especially when you're younger, if you're a teenager or because ideally

01:12:27CALLER 1

the youth would have been educated when they're young.

01:12:29HOST

The problem is we see a lot

01:12:32CALLER 1

of like mid-20s, young, low 30 year olds that are now trying to read and digest all these novels. And it's kind of like it's too late.

01:12:40HOST

Like you're at a point in your mid-20s and 30s when you need to be, you need to be all in

01:12:45CALLER 1

on building because the times, the time is 100 working against you and you

01:12:50HOST

don't really, it's not, you don't really

01:12:51CALLER 1

have the luxury of sitting in a library and reading Schopenhauer for hours a day. I think audiobooks are definitely powerful. If I get really good book suggestions nowadays, I'll just throw on an audio. But again, I think when you're worth $30 million, yeah, sure, go, go read as many books as you want.

But if you're a loser and you're broke, I just don't really see the ROI translating to the current cultural landscape that we're in. I think, I think there's far more powerful tools to learn and put yourself out there than, you know, sitting and reading novels. Unfortunately, that's just where it is. I don't make the rules.

I, I wish it was different. I just, I see where everything is headed and it's all, Everything's a clip. Nobody has the attention span anymore. So if you really want to be effective and you really want to be powerful and have real influence, I think we need to kind of capitalize on this idea that information is being condensed and compressed in a kind of a more cubic fashion than it was.

It used to be a lot more linear, but now it's very cubic and everything's kind of condensed. So I think we need to kind of like stay in accord with that in order to be successful.

01:14:05HOST

Gotcha. Thank you. You got.

01:14:30CALLER 1

Trying to connect some of you guys.

01:14:35HOST

Prometheus. What's up, dog?

01:14:37CALLER 8

Hey, what's going on, man? Hey. Just like everybody else, I appreciate your content. Been following you for a minute and I find a lot of it very applicable to my life and it's got me good results.

But what I wanted to ask you is about the general topic of harnessing energy, you talk a lot about using failures to prepare you for. And I do have experience with that. But what I do also believe is that's a skill. You know what I mean?

The natural reaction to failure is, you know, generally a negative one. You're down and you know, I mean it keeps you from taking further action. So how do you. You have a method to harness in that negative setbacks to get you forward.

And also my second question is kind of emotional control in general. How did you learn to master your emotions? I guess will it that's in business with women, you know, whatever.

01:15:39HOST

Those are good questions. Do me a favor, mute your mic because you got some static there so I can when I answer this.

01:15:45CALLER 8

Okay, gotcha.

01:15:47HOST

Perfect. Okay. So yeah, so harnessing failure, it's a great question. I think that.

I think number one, very important to understand that we cannot fall in love with our pain. And our pain does not make us unique. Everybody is experiencing different gradients of pain at all times and it's completely unquantifiable. I see a lot of guys take

01:16:07CALLER 1

their failure and use it as an opportunity to sort of romances it and they romanticize in their pain and become. To become sort of married to their pain and they use it as a fake token to make themselves feel special. I think we need to do everything we can to not be victims of our pain and to keep the those experiences in the corner of our mind as fuel. I use all my failures as ammunition.

01:16:34HOST

So I keep it in the corner

01:16:35CALLER 1

of my mind and I hold a grudge against it, but I am not a victim to it. I don't see myself as less than and I don't see myself as greater than because I have had that pain and that experience. I don't use that as an excuse to feel superior and I don't use it as an excuse to feel inferior.

01:16:52HOST

I simply keep it compartmentalized in my

01:16:54CALLER 1

head and I recall on some of those experiences and I use it as a fuel source to push forward and get vengeance over it.

01:17:02HOST

So I think that's probably the best approach.

01:17:04CALLER 1

That's definitely been the best approach for me is just it's very easy for guys to be in pain, go get a six pack of beer, put on sad music and just kind of wallow in their grief and misery for a couple days. I think that a lot of guys kind of enjoy, secretly enjoy that kind of existential despair. And I think it's extremely important to not. To not indulge it at that level and to not fall in love with our pain and find ways to utilize our experiences to propel us forward.

And then your other question.

01:17:42HOST

What was your other question? You there, bro. God damn Soda C. All right, I'm

01:17:59CALLER 1

just gunning, so I'm just gonna keep it moving. That was a great question, though, the first one. Let's. Trying to add you guys here.

Based.

01:18:31HOST

What's up? Hi.

01:18:36CALLER 7

So I love.

01:18:38HOST

First, I love your tweets. They are really great and powerful. So I wanted to ask, can you talk about what are the five biggest risk you have taken in your life? Five biggest risks?

Yeah.

01:19:00CALLER 1

I mean, dude, that's impossible to quantify. But let me put it this way. I have numerous times risked every single penny in my portfolio for shit that I've believed in. And I've had my ass handed to me and had to completely rebuild overnight.

And I'm talking fortunes that would make most people's lifetime. And I've done that over and over and over again. I think simply as a demonstration. I've always had something kind of to prove to myself that I could overcome circumstances.

And honestly, man, I just want to say this. When you lose everything that risk and something that you believe in, you develop this sort of. You develop a very crucial sense of the world that you can't get through any kind of, like, endeavor. Like, you can't.

You don't learn this through relationships with other people. There's certain things that just happen in private where you can put something at risk and it's just you versus you. You don't really have the consolation of a woman, or you don't have the consolation of a friend, or you don't have a mentor. Just kind of overlooking you.

You know, just simply have to bootstrap yourself and pull yourself up out of the gutter. I don't find anything to be more empowering than those types of experiences on this planet. Because it's never taken me down, it's never made me weaker, it's never made me worse. I've simply had less material to play with.

But I've become a much bigger demon and a much bigger beast for the next run. So to go off tangent, I have put 100 of my net worth on the line, also other people's net worth. I've had people invest in me, and I have put everything on the line, and I have been destroyed numerous times. And I always fought back and did everything I could to make those relationships and come correct.

01:20:54HOST

So I just.

01:20:55CALLER 1

I just want to say that it's extremely Powerful when you can lose everything and take a puff of a cigarette and realize you're still alive, you didn't die, and you're just a stronger beast. For the next run, I'm gonna take the next question.

01:21:12CALLER 8

Thank you.

01:21:14CALLER 7

Hi, Brute.

01:21:16HOST

Ancient B. What's up, man?

01:21:19CALLER 7

It's been great. And you have been brutal with your ideas. You have been pushing people out of their comfort zone. I am talking about the really good thing that you have just mentioned about hitting the rock bottom experience.

Actually, I'm a spiritual guy, so I have personally experienced it in my spiritual experiences as well. I mean, if you have been sincere with God, I have also hit that rock button that you have just mentioned. But my question is that how, being a spiritual person, how can we keep a balance between our material needs and our spiritual needs? And if your wife is telling you that you have to give yourself to God, so.

And you have been suffering for them from this vice as well, so how can we have to. We can cope up with this challenge. Thank you.

01:22:17HOST

Yeah, thank you. I don't really know how to answer that other than I find spiritual liberation

01:22:22CALLER 1

through kind of this.

01:22:23HOST

The Grecian method of achievement. I mean, excellence. Excellence and greatness, to me is. Is actually raw, ethical spirituality.

If you want to talk about honest spirituality, for me, it has nothing to do with gods. It has nothing to do with the pantheon. It has to do with you achieving whatever it is that you're supposed to achieve. And it's actually goes beyond that.

It's you going beyond what you're supposed to be on paper, because a lot of people have poor genetics.

01:22:50CALLER 1

A lot of people are born into very rough circumstances.

01:22:53HOST

And I think that when you have spirit and you can overcome your circumstances and the best of it, I think that's authentic spirituality.

01:23:01CALLER 1

I think refusing to quit. I think relentlessness.

01:23:03HOST

I think tenacity.

01:23:04CALLER 1

I think perseverance. I think those qualities are deeply, deeply spiritual. I don't hear very many people talk

01:23:10HOST

about them in that.

01:23:11CALLER 1

That aspect. But I find that when I get the better of my circumstances and I enact vengeance and I get vindicated for this, the. That I've gone through that has troubled me or plagued me in the past, I find that is when I am in the highest form of spiritual alignment.

01:23:27CALLER 2

It.

01:23:30HOST

So to me, ethical.

01:23:31CALLER 1

Ethical spirituality is excellence in whatever it is that you're doing.

01:23:37CALLER 7

Great. Thank you.

01:23:39HOST

Thank you, Jesus. Yo.

01:23:48CALLER 6

All right. So, Brute, so, you know, we talked

01:23:51HOST

about, you know, ego.

01:23:53CALLER 6

We talked about power. And I want to discuss with you about anger. So you Know I have anger issues this and that, but it has made me become a great and powerful person in my point of view. So I want to know like,

01:24:15HOST

does

01:24:15CALLER 6

anger fuel you or does just doing whatever the you want feel you?

01:24:24HOST

I mean, it's a good, it's a fair question, I think, I think instrumental anger is extremely valuable. I think this sort of like chaotic, blase, emotionally immature anger can be extremely corrosive. But I think that we need to. I think instrumental, like intentional anger at obstacles or at things that are standing in your way is obviously extremely important.

And I think a lot of men

01:24:48CALLER 1

are terrified of their anger and terrified of their rage.

01:24:54HOST

Yeah, of course anger fuels me. I find anger to be more addictive than probably any other emotion. I find, I think anger, I think anger to be. I find anger to be incredibly intoxicating.

I find it to be incredibly powerful. And it's an energy like anything else. It's just like I hate the idea because I find it very anti human to bash certain emotions or put other

01:25:17CALLER 1

emotions on a pedestal or everything.

01:25:19HOST

If we are born with these experiences and with this panoply of emotions, I think we need to explore them all. I think hate can be a very dope energy. It's an energy just like love. It's actually very close.

Hate and love are extremely close on the dial. So I just think all of these things need to be explored. I don't, I don't have no issue with dudes that are angry at all. I just think that you have to be careful about the way that you're inflicting your anger on other people.

I think anger is best applied when it's directed at obstacles, goals. It's best applied when it's directed at things that are standing in your way. Anger as sort of like a manipulation tool or as a tactic to like try to make paveway in relationships is a pretty bad idea. Has not worked out well for me.

But anger applied towards business, anger applied towards sort of like the more metaphysical realms. Absolutely powerful as yo.

01:26:15CALLER 6

That's why, you know, you see people living in silvers, they never had that emotion. Like you said, you were born into that. You know, I don't know what you know, you're probably discussed what made you into the person you are when I was in, in the podcast right now. But yeah, I just noticed that.

01:26:31HOST

And you know, dude, hatred, hatred isn't, isn't, isn't also completely valid, valuable emotion. People don't like to, people don't like to hear this, but it's an energy just like anything else, and it's dope. And I think it's important to experiment with it all and find out what works mean. I definitely can use animosity and hatred as a catalyst in many aspects of my life to push myself forward.

I just don't think it's wise to shy away from any emotion, period. I think it's. It all leads to destruction. I think that the guys who pretend to have a happy face all the time are the guys who will cut your throat the hardest, right?

And honestly the most hateful, angry, enraged people I've ever met. The guys who could do the most damage, who, who have up past, who've hurt a lot of people. It's ironic. Those guys usually have the biggest hearts.

Ironically, the people who have treated me the best, people who have given me the genuine loyalty, trust, love, companionship, friendship, everything that you would want are all people who were dangerous as and had a short fuse and a hot temper. And I can tell you from experience, every who's ever done me dirty or stab me in the back was one of those jolly Johnny Good boys who pretended that these emotions don't exist. Yo.

01:27:47CALLER 6

I mean, that's right. We should do some terrorism. I'm just kidding, but all right, last question. You know, you discussed like all things I, I wanted to discuss, but real quick, how the did you come up with megalomaniacal ego?

Like I know ego, but the word

01:28:04HOST

megalom, how the did.

01:28:07CALLER 6

I've never heard that word before,

01:28:12HOST

man. I guess just through my own experience. Again, I think the ego needs. I think the ego is extremely important, man.

The ego, like it is, it's a very, very valuable, valid component in the human infrastructure. And it needs to be explored. And I think it needs to be developed to a high capacity before you can get rid of it. Like people are trying to get rid of their ego before they've even seen its fullest expression.

And that's a huge mistake because your ego will take you to places that you can't go without it. That's just a fact. I've never seen, I've never seen non egomaniacs go far in life. I've just never seen it.

It's kind of like you have to, you have to, you have to develop it to its fullest expression. And then if you don't like the consequences of it, then you can do the, the, you can drill to ground zero and get rid of it. But like, until you've even seen what your full capacity and what your full

01:29:04CALLER 1

pot,

01:29:07HOST

I think it's really stupid to try to intervene with its development. I mean, ultimately we have an ego to differentiate ourselves, right? Like you have an ego, so you know who's who, whose mouth to feed. Like, you wouldn't know to put the fork in your own mouth to feed yourself if you didn't have an ego.

So the ego is there for your individuation and for your own kind of unique experience. And I think it's extremely important and valid to explore it to its fullest capacity and extent. I mean, I'm pretty much living in 95 ego at all times, but I also have the subliminal awareness in the back of my head. I kind of have, like the higher virtues and obviously I have the other

01:29:44CALLER 1

parts of myself and aspects that I integrate as well.

01:29:47HOST

But the ego has just been tremendously powerful. I don't wanna. I don't want to stifle that. Always will be.

01:29:55CALLER 6

Thank you, Brute.

01:29:56HOST

Have a good one, guys. I'm gonna shut this down, but this was a blast. We'll do it again soon. I appreciate all of you attending and the speakers for engaging and asking such fucking great inquisitive questions.

Much love to you all.