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Romantic obsession takes over when you lack meaning/purpose — Transcript

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  1. 0:00This one's going to ruffle some
  2. 0:01feathers. How
  3. 0:03an aimless life devoid of passion
  4. 0:08amplifies lirance.
  5. 0:11Oh boy, I feel it already.
  6. 0:14I feel this one because I'm like, "Oh,
  7. 0:16this is a critique of my own life, the
  8. 0:18life that was." I'm Kirby. I'm a
  9. 0:20specialist in trauma and attachment
  10. 0:21theory. I used to be a wreck. Now I'm
  11. 0:23not. That's it. I've got a multitude of
  12. 0:27videos that talk about the things I
  13. 0:29teach. Check them out. They're awesome.
  14. 0:32At least the comments seem to think
  15. 0:33they're awesome. I do one-on-one
  16. 0:35sessions and I love it greatly. It's one
  17. 0:37of my number one passions. And my top
  18. 0:39priority in everything is to protect the
  19. 0:43next generation of children from
  20. 0:46attachment trauma. And the way we do
  21. 0:49this is by helping you get your life in
  22. 0:51order. You get your attachment system in
  23. 0:53order. Okay. So on to the topic today
  24. 0:58which is the connection between limrance
  25. 1:03and life dissatisfaction,
  26. 1:06aimless,
  27. 1:07lack of passion, lack of meaning, lack
  28. 1:09of purpose,
  29. 1:11all those things. This one's pretty
  30. 1:13simple actually, but it is a hard truth
  31. 1:15to swallow for many. If I do not have
  32. 1:19something in my life that I really care
  33. 1:22about. If I wake up every day and I'm
  34. 1:25like, I'm not sure what I'm doing here.
  35. 1:28I'm not sure where I should spend my
  36. 1:29time.
  37. 1:31I don't really have anything that drives
  38. 1:33me. Well, when you have something that
  39. 1:36you that drives you or you feel
  40. 1:38passionate about or that you're you wake
  41. 1:41up in the morning and you're raring to
  42. 1:42go to just be like, I want to go make
  43. 1:46some incremental progress on this
  44. 1:48project. I want to go learn. I want to
  45. 1:51go practice. I want to go train. There's
  46. 1:53something that drives me. Like something
  47. 1:57I heard once was like, "What is the
  48. 1:59thing in your life that makes you want
  49. 2:02to jump out of bed on a cold, wet, nasty
  50. 2:06morning when you've got the flu?"
  51. 2:09Basically, you feel miserable and the
  52. 2:11day looks like crap, but you're still
  53. 2:15like,
  54. 2:17I want to get up and I want to go.
  55. 2:20That's our job. And this job is very
  56. 2:22serious.
  57. 2:24It's hard. It is super hard and I don't
  58. 2:28want to be creating sense of
  59. 2:30hopelessness in people because I know
  60. 2:32there's a lot of people out there that
  61. 2:34don't have this. They never have. They
  62. 2:35don't even know what it feels like. They
  63. 2:37don't know how to get there if they
  64. 2:38don't have it. I was like this for long
  65. 2:41time, decades. And now I'm here much to
  66. 2:44my surprise. So if we don't have that
  67. 2:48then we our mind our emotions and our
  68. 2:52body kind of fall in this state of like
  69. 2:54listlessness this ambivalent
  70. 2:58confusion about what am I supposed to do
  71. 3:01with my time? Maybe I should just go to
  72. 3:04the grocery store. Maybe I should clean
  73. 3:07the carpet. Maybe I should finish
  74. 3:10watching that Netflix series that I
  75. 3:12never finished. Right? For a lot of
  76. 3:14people, what they do in these moments
  77. 3:17when you don't have the passion that
  78. 3:20makes you want to jump out of bed is
  79. 3:22that they fill it with numbing agents.
  80. 3:25Numbing agents, oftentimes called
  81. 3:28addictions. I prefer the term numbing
  82. 3:30agent because I think it's more
  83. 3:31descriptive.
  84. 3:32Covers a wider range of behaviors. So
  85. 3:34then what are they doing? They're doom
  86. 3:37scrolling. They're shopping on Amazon.
  87. 3:40They're binge watching Korean dramas.
  88. 3:43They're like, "I don't know what to do
  89. 3:44with my time, so I'm just going to go to
  90. 3:45the gym." A lot of people out there that
  91. 3:48have they're like super fit because they
  92. 3:52didn't really have any other idea what
  93. 3:54to do with their time, so they just say,
  94. 3:55"I'm just going to go hit the gym all
  95. 3:56the time." Awesome. Of all the possible
  96. 4:00numbing agents there are, that's
  97. 4:02probably top tier. It's probably in the
  98. 4:05top 2% if not 1% really because it it
  99. 4:09there's just so many good things about
  100. 4:10it. Even though it's coming from a place
  101. 4:12of listless, aimless lack of passion, it
  102. 4:15can still be it still has like good good
  103. 4:19benefits on the nervous system. But then
  104. 4:21you got the people that are like they
  105. 4:23start there and they say, "Well, this
  106. 4:25they turn it into a passion. They say,
  107. 4:27I'm going to become a trainer. I'm going
  108. 4:29to become a nutritionist. I'm going to
  109. 4:30open my own gym. I'm gonna go do a
  110. 4:33Pilates instruction, teacher, yoga
  111. 4:36teacher training, whatever, blah blah
  112. 4:38blah. Right? They make it their passion
  113. 4:41and then they start figuring out what
  114. 4:43social media works, you know, all the
  115. 4:46different ways of shooting videos in the
  116. 4:48gym so that they like look good and they
  117. 4:49start doing this. They start creating
  118. 4:51content and the whole thing starts
  119. 4:53momentum and then it's a cold, wet,
  120. 4:57rainy morning and they feel like crap
  121. 4:59and they say, "I've got to go today. I
  122. 5:04don't feel good. I'm not motivated. I
  123. 5:06know, but this is what I do and this is
  124. 5:09what I want to do and I feel good when I
  125. 5:12achieve some small step towards my goal
  126. 5:15of being a gym influencer. Is that a
  127. 5:18word?" Now they found it. They found
  128. 5:21their passion and they're engaging in
  129. 5:23it.
  130. 5:25Started with listlessness. Started with
  131. 5:27aimless not knowing and they've turned
  132. 5:30it into something. Hooray.
  133. 5:34Congratulate yourself.
  134. 5:36That's quite an accomplishment
  135. 5:39and it does amazing things for you, your
  136. 5:42body, your mind, your emotions, and your
  137. 5:45future relationships. Now, of course, we
  138. 5:47get the people that are they can't be
  139. 5:50emotionally present in a relationship
  140. 5:52because they're so obsessed with their
  141. 5:53gym influencing. That happens. But you
  142. 5:56also get people that are just like,
  143. 5:58"This is something I like. This is
  144. 6:00something I care about. This is
  145. 6:01something I do." And they come back and
  146. 6:02they try to have a healthy relationship.
  147. 6:04But when I mentioned the title of the
  148. 6:06video, I said I said something about
  149. 6:08lirance. Okay. What's lirance? Limrance
  150. 6:11is like basically romantic obsession.
  151. 6:14I call it relationship. OCD someone
  152. 6:17mentioned one time. Maybe there's
  153. 6:18connection there. Well, there's
  154. 6:20definitely connection from attachment
  155. 6:21point of view inside my brain, but I'm
  156. 6:23like other people might see them as
  157. 6:25different. And this is why limrance is a
  158. 6:29fantasy. Limrance is a preoccupation.
  159. 6:33Limrance functions like a passion.
  160. 6:38Limrance functions like that thing that
  161. 6:43makes me want to jump out of bed on a
  162. 6:45cold, dark, dreary morning when I got
  163. 6:47the flu.
  164. 6:49It creates such a strong dopamine
  165. 6:53anticipatory
  166. 6:55chemical cocktail
  167. 6:57that I get to feel amazing
  168. 7:00when I go engage with my limited object
  169. 7:03or I go chase after that person I'm
  170. 7:05obsessing over or I, you know, call them
  171. 7:09or stalk them on Instagram or blah blah
  172. 7:11blah blah blah, right? Whatever. It
  173. 7:13feels so good. Why? because you don't
  174. 7:16have anything else. And that's what I'm
  175. 7:19getting at here. I've actually noticed
  176. 7:20this quite a few times in recent
  177. 7:22discussions with people both online,
  178. 7:24offline,
  179. 7:26in all various forms. I've noticed these
  180. 7:29people that are like really dealing with
  181. 7:31some serious lirant obsession
  182. 7:34over a person or an idea or whatever,
  183. 7:38and then they see all these videos, they
  184. 7:40think I can help them with it. I can.
  185. 7:43And then they call me up and they're
  186. 7:45just like, "How do I deal with this?"
  187. 7:48And one of the questions I ask is like,
  188. 7:49"What's the rest of your life look
  189. 7:51like?" Like, "Well, I just I'm just not
  190. 7:54good at making friends and I'm I'm just
  191. 7:56an introvert and I'm just a blah blah
  192. 7:59blah blah." And it's just a list of
  193. 8:00justifications and excuses. Now, I get
  194. 8:04it. I'm so I used to make excuses like
  195. 8:06that. So, I get that it's hard to kind
  196. 8:08of transition away from that. But at the
  197. 8:10same time, it's still an excuse. It's
  198. 8:12still a way of justifying staying where
  199. 8:16I'm at. It's like, oh, you move to a new
  200. 8:19city, country, state, whatever. You
  201. 8:22don't really have a solid friendship
  202. 8:24network. Oh, you're like, oh, I've got
  203. 8:25this best friend. When was the last time
  204. 8:26you saw your best friend? It's like, oh,
  205. 8:28three years ago. [snorts] All right.
  206. 8:30That's not fulfilling attachment needs.
  207. 8:34So, what do you do for a close
  208. 8:35attachment connection? And like, uh,
  209. 8:39you know, some people just draw a blank.
  210. 8:41Some people get a dog. Some people are,
  211. 8:44you know, they've got some friend
  212. 8:46somewhere that's kind of like casual or
  213. 8:48whatever. The point that I'm getting at
  214. 8:50is that a person comes to me talking
  215. 8:53about problems with lirance, problems
  216. 8:56with romantic obsession, problems with
  217. 8:58not being able to get over their ex,
  218. 8:59problems with like this I can't eat, I
  219. 9:02can't sleep, I just had this breakup and
  220. 9:04I can't stop thinking about them. It's
  221. 9:06like, okay, what's the rest of your life
  222. 9:08look like? And they'll go da da da da
  223. 9:10da. and they'll talk for a while. It's
  224. 9:12like so basically what you're saying is
  225. 9:13the rest of your life is extremely empty
  226. 9:16from attachment point of view. Like
  227. 9:18you're not getting any attachment needs
  228. 9:20met. You're not getting any connection,
  229. 9:22any validation, any richness of like
  230. 9:25sitting down with someone over a cup of
  231. 9:28warm beverage and joking about like
  232. 9:31like you don't have that. So what do you
  233. 9:34do? Oh, it's like doom scroll or I watch
  234. 9:36YouTube or whatever. Those are not real.
  235. 9:39Those are not any aspect of social media
  236. 9:44or video consumption.
  237. 9:47It's either numbing the need which the
  238. 9:50corporations love or it is tricking your
  239. 9:53mind into thinking you have a social
  240. 9:56connection. Somebody recently asked me
  241. 9:57about parasocial connections. This is
  242. 9:59what we're talking about. Like texts,
  243. 10:02letters on a screen in little green
  244. 10:06bubble is not a human connection. That
  245. 10:11is pixels behind a sheet of glass that
  246. 10:16have we have attached certain semantic
  247. 10:19meaning to. So our brain interprets that
  248. 10:22and then it ball balloons that out into
  249. 10:25a big set of meaning which will then
  250. 10:28trick us into thinking we've got a
  251. 10:30connection with that person. Would not
  252. 10:32recommend. Did that for a while. Did
  253. 10:35that for a long while kind of when
  254. 10:36social media was first getting going and
  255. 10:38I first had a smartphone all that kind
  256. 10:39of stuff. And sometime year two years
  257. 10:43later, I realized that like my actual
  258. 10:46social life was completely empty. And
  259. 10:49all of it was through this like false
  260. 10:52medium of like texting back and forth
  261. 10:54and everything else. And people say,
  262. 10:55"Well, if I feel it, it's real, right?"
  263. 10:58No, actually feelings can be tricked.
  264. 11:02Now, what you're feeling, there is some
  265. 11:04aspect to emotions are real and emotions
  266. 11:07don't lie. So if you're feeling a sense
  267. 11:10of connection, you're not actually
  268. 11:11feeling a connection with that person.
  269. 11:13You're feeling a connection with the
  270. 11:14idea of that person. And because that
  271. 11:16person is not actually here with you in
  272. 11:19their totality of who they are, then you
  273. 11:22are in relation with a faximile.
  274. 11:26It's called a working model. Like I've
  275. 11:27created basically a simulation of their
  276. 11:29personality inside my brain. And now I
  277. 11:31interact with that person that
  278. 11:33simulation.
  279. 11:35And that's why people will be in these
  280. 11:37long-distance relationships for like
  281. 11:38years and years and then they finally
  282. 11:40meet and the relationship like instantly
  283. 11:41blows up. You know, they just have some
  284. 11:44mad sex or like, "Oh my god, we're
  285. 11:45finally together." Da d d d d d d d d d
  286. 11:46d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d
  287. 11:46d d d d d d d d d d d d and then you
  288. 11:48know first sign of conflict that's just
  289. 11:50like
  290. 11:52not always but often enough that we can
  291. 11:54talk about it and everybody knows what
  292. 11:56mean. So lirance is functioning like a
  293. 11:58passion and an addiction at the same
  294. 12:00time. Well, is there really a difference
  295. 12:03between a passion and addiction?
  296. 12:06Yes, but only in the conceptual sense.
  297. 12:11From a physiological biological sense,
  298. 12:13maybe not. But we can say just like the
  299. 12:16gym analogy earlier, like if you engage
  300. 12:20in this thing with a kind of an
  301. 12:22obsessive addictive passion and it
  302. 12:25consistently brings benefit to your
  303. 12:27life, then why not? Are we going to call
  304. 12:30it addiction? We're going to call it
  305. 12:31passion. Who cares? Like you're getting
  306. 12:33benefit from it consistently.
  307. 12:37Stick with it. Do that. But lirance is
  308. 12:39not that.
  309. 12:41Limrance has this dark downside.
  310. 12:45Romantic obsession has this downside.
  311. 12:49All the things that have to do with
  312. 12:50being hung up, stuck, fixated, whatever,
  313. 12:55or a person that doesn't want you or is
  314. 12:57gone or whatever. like that has serious
  315. 13:03negative cost.
  316. 13:05So, we're not going to say that's a good
  317. 13:06thing. So, now that's out of the way, we
  318. 13:09can say lirance is not a good thing.
  319. 13:11It's functioning as an addiction. And
  320. 13:14one of the reasons it's so powerful is
  321. 13:16because that part of me inside that's
  322. 13:20hungry for connection is
  323. 13:23in this giant open
  324. 13:26cavern of emptiness.
  325. 13:29Because I'm in a giant cavern of
  326. 13:30emptiness,
  327. 13:32one little person walks in with a little
  328. 13:34candle and my system says, "There it is.
  329. 13:38That's my salvation.
  330. 13:40This is where I'm going to put all my
  331. 13:41energy. This will be the passion in
  332. 13:44which I will pursue it because there's
  333. 13:48nothing else in here or what is is very
  334. 13:51weak. But now let's take same you
  335. 13:56similar situation
  336. 13:58but we're going to fill the cavern with
  337. 14:01salsa class and the cooking club and the
  338. 14:05mystery dinner theater that you meet up
  339. 14:07with those guys once a month and the
  340. 14:10rowing team and the you know mogi
  341. 14:13challenge where you're picking up rocks
  342. 14:15and you're carrying it six meters
  343. 14:17underwater like you fill your life with
  344. 14:21these other things that involve people.
  345. 14:25They involve cognitive challenge,
  346. 14:29physical challenge, and probably
  347. 14:30emotional challenge just because you're
  348. 14:32going to run into people you don't like.
  349. 14:34Now, we're going to fill the cavern. We
  350. 14:36don't have to fill it. We just give it
  351. 14:38like, you know, head level of people,
  352. 14:43places, things, interactions,
  353. 14:45stuff, opportunities.
  354. 14:48you there's a event over here that you
  355. 14:50there's 30 people that you see every
  356. 14:52week and another 30 people that are new
  357. 14:55every week and there's so there's
  358. 14:56constant cycle through and it's like oh
  359. 14:58hi who are you what's your story why are
  360. 15:00you here hey you want to dance salsa
  361. 15:02like if that's in your life you're
  362. 15:05filling up your cavern you got a dinner
  363. 15:08you know cooking class over here where
  364. 15:09you're learning how to cook you know
  365. 15:11Asian stir fry you know 20 different
  366. 15:14ways that class has other people in it
  367. 15:17as a teacher as you know spilling the
  368. 15:21bottle of oil and it flows across the
  369. 15:23counter and people are working together
  370. 15:25like get it all cleaned up. That's a
  371. 15:27real social engagement. And believe it
  372. 15:31or not, that fills this empty cavern or
  373. 15:34the cavern that was empty is now filling
  374. 15:36up with people and places and things and
  375. 15:38everything else. And then that person
  376. 15:40comes walking in with their candle, your
  377. 15:42lirant object. And it is not as
  378. 15:45powerful. It is not as radiant. It is
  379. 15:48not as overwhelming because you're like,
  380. 15:50"Oh, I've got other things. I've got
  381. 15:53other people. I don't need that one for
  382. 15:57salvation. I do not need that one for
  383. 15:59safety. I do not need that one to
  384. 16:02finally get my needs for wanted, chosen,
  385. 16:04and prioritized filled." And then the
  386. 16:08lirance is less or non-existent. Usually
  387. 16:12if I live in a world where I believe
  388. 16:17I'm unwanted, I believe I'm
  389. 16:19unattractive. I believe that no one will
  390. 16:22like me or choose me as so many people
  391. 16:26believe. And then one person shows up.
  392. 16:29That's the thing about limiting objects.
  393. 16:31They almost never choose you. They're
  394. 16:33just the fantasy of being chosen by
  395. 16:36them. But if I'm living in this world
  396. 16:38where I feel like I'm not going to get
  397. 16:41anybody that I want or the kind of
  398. 16:44people that I like don't like me back or
  399. 16:46whatever,
  400. 16:48then you pick this person. Maybe, you
  401. 16:52know, maybe they're just some fantasy on
  402. 16:53TV and then your system starts to obsess
  403. 16:56about them. What is it actually doing?
  404. 16:58It's not about them. It's literally it's
  405. 17:00not about them at all.
  406. 17:02It's about while I'm in the lirant
  407. 17:05fantasy, I get to dream. I get to
  408. 17:08fantasize. I get to play out these
  409. 17:10little scenarios in my mind about what
  410. 17:13it would feel like to be chosen
  411. 17:16completely by someone who's that
  412. 17:19valuable.
  413. 17:21And that creates really really strong
  414. 17:24endogenous chemical states. Meaning big
  415. 17:28powerful chemical cocktail squirts out
  416. 17:30of various things, organs inside my
  417. 17:34brain and other bits. Squirts out all
  418. 17:37these chemicals and those chemicals come
  419. 17:38along and hit various parts of the brain
  420. 17:40and they lock into the neuro receptors
  421. 17:42and they stimulate them all with like
  422. 17:44happy, pleasure, joy, feelings. And the
  423. 17:47person's like, "Oh my god, this feels so
  424. 17:49amazing. I did all that because your
  425. 17:52cavern is empty. Now, it's still
  426. 17:55possible to have friends and family and
  427. 17:58connections and everything else and
  428. 18:00still have problems with limrant
  429. 18:02obsession. I've definitely met people
  430. 18:04that fit into this category. But if you
  431. 18:07look at if you do an investigation and
  432. 18:09you scrutinize the quality of the
  433. 18:12various relationships in their life, you
  434. 18:13realize that they're all empty. They're
  435. 18:15flat, shallow, maybe that's the better
  436. 18:18word. They are lowrisk,
  437. 18:20low investment relationships.
  438. 18:23Yeah, I see Bobby every week. I go to
  439. 18:25the climbing gym. Yeah, he's like one of
  440. 18:28my best friends. Do you know Bobby's
  441. 18:30last name? Yeah, sure. It's like Jordan
  442. 18:33Freud. Yeah. You don't know Bobby's last
  443. 18:35name? Do you know the name of Bobby's
  444. 18:37wife? Um,
  445. 18:41do you know can you name one thing that
  446. 18:45Bobby is afraid of? No. Why would I know
  447. 18:48that? Yeah, that's a that's an empty
  448. 18:51relationship. That's something that's a
  449. 18:53that's an acquaintance. That's someone
  450. 18:55you do things with, which is cool, but
  451. 18:59don't go believing that that's any kind
  452. 19:01of deep relationship. Quantity of
  453. 19:04frequency of seeing someone has no
  454. 19:06impact on the depth of that
  455. 19:08relationship. You see your co-workers
  456. 19:10every day for like 10 years and you
  457. 19:14don't know jack about them. That's how I
  458. 19:16lived for a long time. So I'm giving all
  459. 19:18these examples when I pretty much
  460. 19:19already made my point. And the point is
  461. 19:21this that like if you are operating a
  462. 19:25life that is devoid of passion, devoid
  463. 19:28of purpose, meaning something that
  464. 19:30you're pursuing that is filling your
  465. 19:33life with a drive and a passion and then
  466. 19:37in the process connecting with lots of
  467. 19:39people along the way. Then you're more
  468. 19:43prone to romantic obsession, limit
  469. 19:47fantasies, and breakup distress.
  470. 19:50Okay, great Kirby. Well, that sucks
  471. 19:53because I don't have any meaning or
  472. 19:54purpose in my life and I don't know what
  473. 19:56to do about it. How does one find
  474. 19:59meaning and purpose? Good question. I
  475. 20:02asked the same thing for years and years
  476. 20:03and years. And this simple answer that
  477. 20:07one teacher told me was like, well then
  478. 20:09that is your meaning of purpose. your
  479. 20:11meaning and purpose. The thing that you
  480. 20:13want to jump out of bed on the cold,
  481. 20:16wet, dreary morning is to go find your
  482. 20:20meaning and purpose. Go find something
  483. 20:22you care about and don't let it be
  484. 20:24anything that's a numbing agent. Okay.
  485. 20:26Well, people hear that and say like,
  486. 20:28"Well, okay. So, how do I do that? I'm
  487. 20:31just supposed to wander around the world
  488. 20:32until I find something." Turns out
  489. 20:34that's pretty close. But my more
  490. 20:37specific advice on that is that it's
  491. 20:39like here's your job and you do it like
  492. 20:45your life depends on it because it turns
  493. 20:47out it does. And your job is every
  494. 20:49single week you need to do something
  495. 20:51new, some new experience, a new event, a
  496. 20:55new task. And the requirement is it has
  497. 20:59to involve other people. It is better if
  498. 21:02there's a shared goal like building a
  499. 21:05house or serving food or you know a
  500. 21:08dancing fits like it's like can we get
  501. 21:10through the dance without stepping on
  502. 21:11each other's toes. So it has to involve
  503. 21:14other people that you actually interact
  504. 21:16with.
  505. 21:17It's better if there's a shared purpose.
  506. 21:20It has to be mentally emotionally and
  507. 21:24physically taxing. Let's do make it
  508. 21:26easy. We'll do two out of three. So
  509. 21:29emotionally and physical. emotional,
  510. 21:31mental, or mental and physical. So, it
  511. 21:33has to pick two of those three, meaning
  512. 21:36it has to be hard,
  513. 21:39challenging, and you get bonus points if
  514. 21:43going there feels scary because that's
  515. 21:46going to pay off in good ways, too.
  516. 21:47That's increasing your capacities for
  517. 21:49stress across all domains, which is a
  518. 21:51great great thing that we do. So, that's
  519. 21:53it. Every week, you plan it ahead of
  520. 21:56time. Like you hear this video and if
  521. 21:59you're serious about it, you'll you will
  522. 22:00go out there and you will get it planned
  523. 22:02out and you'll have three months. That's
  524. 22:0512 events. You're gonna have 12 events
  525. 22:08in your life that you're just going to
  526. 22:09be like, I don't know what the hell this
  527. 22:12is all about, but this crazy random guy
  528. 22:14on the internet told me I should do
  529. 22:15this. And so I'm going to a basket
  530. 22:17weaving class.
  531. 22:19And I'm like, I don't know what I would
  532. 22:22ever use basket weaving for. Does not
  533. 22:25matter. You don't have to like it. You
  534. 22:28don't have to. Doesn't have to fit with
  535. 22:31any aspect of who you think you are. It
  536. 22:33just has to be new, different, and
  537. 22:35involve people and some kind of
  538. 22:37challenge. So, it's like, oh, picking up
  539. 22:40trash or yeah, basket weaving, dancing
  540. 22:43class, you know, going to some class on
  541. 22:4715th century like French poetry. You're
  542. 22:50like, why am I here? It's like you're
  543. 22:52here because it's different. You're here
  544. 22:54because there's other people there and
  545. 22:56they're speaking French and your brain's
  546. 22:57going to be cooked. Good. That's exactly
  547. 23:00what you want. Why?
  548. 23:03Because every experience you do has an
  549. 23:07opportunity has will have many
  550. 23:09opportunities involved with it where you
  551. 23:11find something. You discover something
  552. 23:13about yourself. You're like, "Wow,
  553. 23:16that sounds really cool. I had no idea I
  554. 23:18liked French poetry. I don't even speak
  555. 23:20French, but I love the way it sounds."
  556. 23:22And then pretty soon you're interested
  557. 23:24and pretty soon you're watching YouTube
  558. 23:26videos and pretty soon you're doing this
  559. 23:27and this and this and this and then you
  560. 23:29know before you know it you're like
  561. 23:31traveling to France on some kind of you
  562. 23:33know cultural exploration trip and then
  563. 23:36you meet someone else that's doing the
  564. 23:38same thing and like oh my god we're
  565. 23:39totally aligned. Do you want to walk for
  566. 23:40together for a while?
  567. 23:43You know year and a half later you're
  568. 23:45making babies. It can happen. So we do
  569. 23:48the new things one to create the
  570. 23:50opportunity for us to expand
  571. 23:53into unknown territory. So we learn
  572. 23:55about things we like, things we don't
  573. 23:57like. And then it is also on the other
  574. 24:00side, it is the challenge of pushing
  575. 24:03myself into the unknown. Because the
  576. 24:05more unknowns you push yourself into,
  577. 24:07the less unknown it feels. The less
  578. 24:10unknown it is. You're like, "Oh, well, I
  579. 24:13did the French 15th century po French
  580. 24:16poetry class. Now I'm doing the 13th
  581. 24:18century Viking sonnet class." And you
  582. 24:21know what? They're kind of the same. And
  583. 24:24you're like, "Well, that's kind of wild.
  584. 24:26It doesn't It's like I've been here,
  585. 24:27done this, and you only have to go once.
  586. 24:30I mean, twice if you like it." Uh,
  587. 24:33actually, twice. If it's challenging and
  588. 24:35you're really up for it, then you go
  589. 24:37twice. And if you like it, then you go
  590. 24:39three times. So, this does not guarantee
  591. 24:42you will find your passion. I wish it
  592. 24:45did. But you know what it does? It fills
  593. 24:47up your time. It fills up your cavern.
  594. 24:51It connects you with lots of people.
  595. 24:53Suddenly, you're doing all sorts of
  596. 24:54crazy and you're just like, "Whoa,
  597. 24:56what's happening in my life? Why am I
  598. 24:58here? What's happening? I'm on trips or
  599. 25:01engaged in activities or weaving baskets
  600. 25:04or whatever that I never thought I would
  601. 25:05do."
  602. 25:07And look at me go. And then you take a
  603. 25:10moment and you think back on to that
  604. 25:12person that you were like romantically
  605. 25:13liantly obsessed over and the obsession
  606. 25:16is less. And that's very consistent.
  607. 25:20Not always, but very consistent. You
  608. 25:23fill your life with other stuff, and the
  609. 25:25pain and misery you feel for lirant
  610. 25:28romantic obsession decreases.
  611. 25:31And eventually, if you're reading
  612. 25:33between the lines and following along,
  613. 25:36you realize that all those emotions
  614. 25:38about that person you were deliberately
  615. 25:39obsessed over were just filler.
  616. 25:43It was never real to begin with. In
  617. 25:45fact, no aspect of it was real. It was
  618. 25:47just your brain being like, "I'm
  619. 25:50starving. Give me something
  620. 25:53and then it picks the judge Judy or
  621. 25:56whatever, whoever your obsession is. It
  622. 25:59just picks one and then obsesses over
  623. 26:02it." So, it's got something to do with
  624. 26:04its time. Yeah. Try it out.
  625. 26:08Leave comments. Tell us how it goes. In
  626. 26:12fact, if you want accountability, come
  627. 26:14right here. Post a comment down there.
  628. 26:17Say, "Day one, week one, I'm doing
  629. 26:20this."
  630. 26:21And then respond to that comment. Week
  631. 26:23two, week three, week four. Tell us what
  632. 26:25you're doing. We're going to have little
  633. 26:27contests about who's doing the wackiest
  634. 26:29as part of this challenge. And
  635. 26:33I don't know, we'll have a vote or
  636. 26:34something. And if one of them seriously
  637. 26:37impresses me, I don't know, we'll do
  638. 26:38something. We'll celebrate in some way,
  639. 26:41give you some free stuff or something.
  640. 26:44But you got to impress me. And I've done
  641. 26:46some crazy stuff in my life. So, it's
  642. 26:48going to take a lot to impress me. But
  643. 26:50I've been impressed before. I've met
  644. 26:52people that like day one, step one, they
  645. 26:56go hard. And I'm like, "Oh my god, I
  646. 26:59wouldn't do I I don't have the courage
  647. 27:01to do do what you just did." Congrats,
  648. 27:03man. So, it happens.
  649. 27:07Do it.
  650. 27:09Peace.

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