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What's the point, if you're not having fun? — Transcript

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  1. 0:00The person that you're trying to become,
  2. 0:01and the life that you're trying to
  3. 0:02build, is on the other side of doing
  4. 0:04things that suck. That's a belief that I
  5. 0:06thought to be true until about 24 hours
  6. 0:09ago. And now I find myself questioning,
  7. 0:12why is it that we romanticize pain? Why
  8. 0:14do we romanticize suffering? Why do we
  9. 0:17romanticize doing things that are so
  10. 0:19hard that we genuinely don't enjoy a
  11. 0:21single second of them? For some reason,
  12. 0:25in the modern day, we want to strip
  13. 0:26ourselves of every single aspect of fun
  14. 0:29in some sort of noble pursuit to become
  15. 0:33the most perfect, optimized,
  16. 0:36well-rounded version of ourselves. And
  17. 0:38honestly,
  18. 0:40I kind of I'm starting to think that
  19. 0:42that's a bunch of
  20. 0:44For some reason, we want to romanticize
  21. 0:47the David Goggins of the world. We want
  22. 0:49to romanticize the people that
  23. 0:52spend every waking moment suffering,
  24. 0:55that spend every second in the
  25. 0:57metaphorical pain cave. And while I
  26. 0:59think there is a time and a place for
  27. 1:01that, while I think that the David
  28. 1:03Goggins of the world are important and
  29. 1:06we need them,
  30. 1:07I also want to put into question
  31. 1:12why we don't allow ourselves to enjoy
  32. 1:14the life that we're building. I think in
  33. 1:16the modern day, we tend to villainize
  34. 1:18the people who aren't
  35. 1:21tapped in or aren't trying to achieve
  36. 1:25their potential. And I think a lot of
  37. 1:26the reason for that is we believe that
  38. 1:29they are not going to be able to enjoy
  39. 1:31their life as much as they maybe could
  40. 1:33if they
  41. 1:35trained harder, if they studied more, if
  42. 1:37they spent more time with their own
  43. 1:39thoughts trying to figure out what makes
  44. 1:41them tick. And while I think that's
  45. 1:43true, while I think that it's important
  46. 1:45to try and become better, to try and
  47. 1:47become self-enlightened, if you will, I
  48. 1:50also think that the never-ending pursuit
  49. 1:54of greatness,
  50. 1:56the one that
  51. 1:58doesn't allow us to enjoy ourselves,
  52. 2:01might as well be the same thing.
  53. 2:04If we spend 30 years of our lives trying
  54. 2:07to extract maximum potential from
  55. 2:10ourselves
  56. 2:11at the expense of our own enjoyment,
  57. 2:13what is the difference
  58. 2:16between that and not being top 10 at all
  59. 2:20and drinking beer with your homies every
  60. 2:22single weekend on a Saturday? It's
  61. 2:23literally the same thing
  62. 2:26because neither one of us are enjoying
  63. 2:28our lives.
  64. 2:30I think
  65. 2:32what is the point I mean honestly, what
  66. 2:34is the point in living if we're not
  67. 2:36going to enjoy it just a little bit. I
  68. 2:38want to talk today
  69. 2:40about my past 24 48 hours because it has
  70. 2:44been straight up type one fun. It has
  71. 2:46been one of the most fun weekends of my
  72. 2:49entire life.
  73. 2:50At least in the past year or 2 years and
  74. 2:54that's because I typically spend every
  75. 2:55single weekend with type two fun, trying
  76. 2:58to do things that are hard, trying to
  77. 2:59push myself, trying to extract that
  78. 3:01human potential and
  79. 3:03again, like there is a time and a place
  80. 3:05for that. That is important. But at the
  81. 3:08same time,
  82. 3:09if we're not allowing ourselves to have
  83. 3:11fun, if we're not allowing ourselves to
  84. 3:12enjoy the fruits of our labor, then what
  85. 3:14is the point in any of it?
  86. 3:16And
  87. 3:17maybe much to my surprise, honestly,
  88. 3:21I kind of feel like the growth that I've
  89. 3:22had this weekend is equivalent if not
  90. 3:26higher than
  91. 3:27any of the weeks that I'm pushing myself
  92. 3:29to my very limit. And
  93. 3:33at the end of the day, I think that
  94. 3:34you're more likely to grow if you enjoy
  95. 3:36what it is that you're doing.
  96. 3:38So, what have I been doing the past 48
  97. 3:39hours? What has the past weekend look
  98. 3:41like looked like, I mean?
  99. 3:44On Friday night after work, I went rock
  100. 3:47climbing just at a local crag with a
  101. 3:50friend of mine. And typically, when I'm
  102. 3:54out in the mountains, I'm trying to
  103. 3:56become the best that I can be. And
  104. 3:58typically, my approach to that is
  105. 4:00pushing myself, doing things that are
  106. 4:01really hard, doing things that challenge
  107. 4:03me, that scare me, that make me not
  108. 4:06fully enjoy what it is that I'm doing
  109. 4:09in hopes that the outsized return I get
  110. 4:12from that investment is an enhanced
  111. 4:15level of skills, a larger toolkit, um
  112. 4:18and just a bigger
  113. 4:20sort of reservoir to draw on as a
  114. 4:23mountaineer.
  115. 4:25Friday was different. On Friday, I went
  116. 4:28to just go and have fun. I bought a new
  117. 4:30rope. I had all my gear. Me and my
  118. 4:32friend just went out and had a good
  119. 4:33time. I led up a super easy route. So,
  120. 4:37for those of you who don't climb,
  121. 4:39there's top rope climbing, which is once
  122. 4:41there's already an anchor built up at
  123. 4:42the top, which basically, it's like
  124. 4:44creative mode in Minecraft. You can do
  125. 4:46anything you want. You can fall and
  126. 4:48you'll be fine. Hopefully, if somebody
  127. 4:50catches you, obviously.
  128. 4:52Um but, there's kind of no rules in top
  129. 4:54rope climbing. Lead climbing is a lot
  130. 4:56more consequential. If you are climbing
  131. 4:59up and you take a fall above the last
  132. 5:01piece of protection, then you could
  133. 5:05injure yourself. The reason that you're
  134. 5:06doing this is because someone has to set
  135. 5:08that anchor up at the top of the route
  136. 5:10for the rest of the people to climb it.
  137. 5:11So, typically, you're going to have two
  138. 5:13climbers. You're going to have a leader
  139. 5:14who will bring the rope up and attach
  140. 5:16little carabiners called quick draws to
  141. 5:18these bolts. You then attach the rope,
  142. 5:20and then you go up to the next bolt,
  143. 5:21clip it in, go up to the next bolt. So,
  144. 5:23if you're climbing above the previous
  145. 5:25bolt, but you haven't clipped into the
  146. 5:26next one yet, if you fall, you're going
  147. 5:28to fall down to that bolt.
  148. 5:30So, you go up, put your anchor up, then
  149. 5:31the next guy climbs up it. So, I led up
  150. 5:34a super easy route, one where there's
  151. 5:36basically no
  152. 5:37real risk of me falling unless I did
  153. 5:39something really stupid. But again,
  154. 5:41we're we're just there having fun. We're
  155. 5:42just having a good time.
  156. 5:43Testing out the new rope. After that, we
  157. 5:45went and set up a top rope in a really
  158. 5:51cool
  159. 5:53sort of chimney cave overhung thing. A
  160. 5:57bat flew out. There was
  161. 6:00bat crap everywhere. It was kind of
  162. 6:01disgusting. But,
  163. 6:03we did that in the dark with our
  164. 6:04headlamps, set up a nasty rappel down
  165. 6:07through the chimney.
  166. 6:09It looked like a scene from
  167. 6:13like
  168. 6:14a Batman movie. It was so sick. Just
  169. 6:17straight up fun. Just straight up
  170. 6:18totally fun. Again, not a particularly
  171. 6:21hard climb that we were doing. We
  172. 6:22weren't really testing our skill set. We
  173. 6:24weren't really trying to push the
  174. 6:27envelope of
  175. 6:28ourselves, our minds, our physical
  176. 6:30capabilities, none of that. We were just
  177. 6:32there to have fun.
  178. 6:34That said,
  179. 6:35what I got out of Friday was better than
  180. 6:38any other rock climbing session. A, I
  181. 6:40enjoyed it more than any of the other
  182. 6:41times that I've gone out. B, I honestly
  183. 6:44feel like I retained more of what I did.
  184. 6:47Because I was just more in the moment. I
  185. 6:49was enjoying what it was that I was
  186. 6:51doing. I wasn't so focused on how much
  187. 6:53it sucked and how much I wanted to get
  188. 6:54out of there, how ready I was for
  189. 6:56everything to end.
  190. 6:58I just
  191. 7:00was there. I just enjoyed it. It was
  192. 7:01just fun.
  193. 7:02And
  194. 7:03I think there's a lot to be said about
  195. 7:05that. Yesterday, I ran a trail race. It
  196. 7:09was a 10-miler. It was the first trail
  197. 7:11race that I've ever run. I've done
  198. 7:13number of road races, 5Ks, 10Ks, half
  199. 7:16marathons. I was going to run a marathon
  200. 7:17earlier in the year, but had an ankle
  201. 7:18injury, and so I had to pull,
  202. 7:20unfortunately. I ran the half marathon
  203. 7:22instead.
  204. 7:23And then I ran a 10-miler on trail.
  205. 7:26Typically, when I run road races,
  206. 7:28there's not a whole lot of it that is
  207. 7:30genuinely fun in the moment for me. I
  208. 7:32run them because I want to push myself,
  209. 7:35I want to test myself, I want to reach
  210. 7:38that state of
  211. 7:39enlightenment, right, from doing the
  212. 7:41hard thing.
  213. 7:43The trail race, I kind of expected it to
  214. 7:45be the same. Part of me sort of felt
  215. 7:48going into it that it was going to be
  216. 7:49easier than a road race because I just
  217. 7:52feel more comfortable in the mountains.
  218. 7:53I spent a lot of time
  219. 7:56exploring, adventuring, and just being
  220. 7:59in the mountains. And so, the trail race
  221. 8:01felt like it would be more natural than
  222. 8:02a road race to me, and it was. But, what
  223. 8:05I did not expect was
  224. 8:07purely how fun the trail race was. And
  225. 8:10I'm not talking from a type two fun
  226. 8:12perspective, meaning it was fun after
  227. 8:15the fact, but in the moment it sucked. I
  228. 8:16mean type one fun.
  229. 8:19In the moment, the trail race was
  230. 8:21genuinely fun. I was having a great time
  231. 8:24looking out It was on Antelope Island,
  232. 8:26which is a a place kind of by the Salt
  233. 8:28Lake, the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
  234. 8:31It was on Antelope Island. The scenery
  235. 8:32is beautiful. There's bison, there's the
  236. 8:35sun reflecting off of the water. The
  237. 8:37weather got a little heinous for a
  238. 8:38minute. There was
  239. 8:40some rain, a lot of rain actually,
  240. 8:43um and a bunch of wind. Supposedly,
  241. 8:46there's a hurricane coming through
  242. 8:49in Utah, which is just kind of crazy to
  243. 8:51me. Funny story, actually, as an aside,
  244. 8:54the other day my computer told me that
  245. 8:55there was a hurricane going actively,
  246. 8:58and I looked out the window, and it was
  247. 9:00it was sunny as could be. So,
  248. 9:02I don't really know, but supposedly
  249. 9:04there's a hurricane going on. It still
  250. 9:06looks fine outside right now, but um
  251. 9:10hopefully
  252. 9:11we don't get hit with a ton of rain or
  253. 9:13wind or whatever, but
  254. 9:15um Yeah, anyways, it was a little bit
  255. 9:17rainy as in it was a lot rainy. It was
  256. 9:19pretty windy, and um
  257. 9:22it was just a great time, though.
  258. 9:24Looking out at the trail, seeing the
  259. 9:26bison, seeing the runners on the single
  260. 9:27track, it was just so cool. And I really
  261. 9:31enjoyed the trail environment for being
  262. 9:35able to sort of
  263. 9:37mentally lock in yourself and not pay
  264. 9:39attention to other people, pay attention
  265. 9:41to the fanfare, see the billions of
  266. 9:43signs that you typically see when you
  267. 9:44run a major road race. There's people
  268. 9:46who come out from all over the city to
  269. 9:49support, that have the signs with a
  270. 9:51Mario power-up, and if you touch the
  271. 9:53sign you get super speed, and
  272. 9:55like that stuff's fun,
  273. 9:57but also you're not able to have the
  274. 9:58same love level of reflection that I
  275. 10:00think you can get through a trail race,
  276. 10:02and there's something really special
  277. 10:03about that.
  278. 10:04So, after running this trail race, A, I
  279. 10:07don't think I'll run many more road
  280. 10:08races. I think I'm retiring from that,
  281. 10:10and I'm just going full trail mode until
  282. 10:12I become an ultra-marathoner. So, maybe
  283. 10:14I'm going to become David Goggins,
  284. 10:15actually. Um, we'll see about that. But,
  285. 10:18um,
  286. 10:19point being, it was just so much fun all
  287. 10:23around. Just such a good experience,
  288. 10:24such a good time. The people were great,
  289. 10:26the vibe was awesome. All around, the
  290. 10:29event just kicked ass, and
  291. 10:32what did I gain out of this one, right?
  292. 10:34What what what do you think is the point
  293. 10:35of this story? What am I talking about?
  294. 10:36Sorry, this is kind of a scrambled
  295. 10:38podcast episode. If you're watching this
  296. 10:41one, I apologize for you. My brain feels
  297. 10:43a little scrambled today cuz I'm still a
  298. 10:45little bit tired from running the race.
  299. 10:47Um,
  300. 10:49I
  301. 10:51going into the race, I didn't really
  302. 10:52have a goal other than to run the race.
  303. 10:56I was running it with my friend Sam.
  304. 10:57Sam, if you're watching or listening to
  305. 10:59this, shout out to you, homie.
  306. 11:01Uh, but we're going to run it together.
  307. 11:02Sam was having a little bit of a
  308. 11:05migraine type of issue, and so then he
  309. 11:07ushered me to go on ahead. So, I took
  310. 11:09off ahead. I started crushing like 8:30
  311. 11:12miles for a minute, which for me is
  312. 11:14fast. I'm not a fast runner, but I was
  313. 11:16full mountain goat just down the hill.
  314. 11:19It was sick.
  315. 11:20And, um, I was having an awesome time,
  316. 11:22bouncing from rock to rock, running down
  317. 11:25the gully, just
  318. 11:27doing the thing. Like,
  319. 11:29feeling alive while doing the event. Um,
  320. 11:33but I kept on looking at my watch
  321. 11:36and I would see the time. At around 5
  322. 11:38miles, I think the time was 50
  323. 11:424 55-ish minutes
  324. 11:44of the 10-mile race. So, I was like,
  325. 11:46"Holy crap. I think I can get under 2
  326. 11:48hours." Which
  327. 11:50you know, maybe it's fast, maybe it
  328. 11:51isn't. I think that's like a 11
  329. 11:54I guess 2 hours would be a 12-minute
  330. 11:56mile. So, if you got uh little under
  331. 11:58that, then that would be you know, like
  332. 12:0011 something on the mile. Which for
  333. 12:02trail miles is not not terrible.
  334. 12:04I um kept looking at my watch and was
  335. 12:06like, "Holy crap. I think I'm going to
  336. 12:07be able to get sub 2 hours." And so, I
  337. 12:10started pushing a little bit harder.
  338. 12:11Started pushing a little bit harder.
  339. 12:13Normally when you push and you're really
  340. 12:15digging deep it just sucks straight up.
  341. 12:17It's just not a fun experience. You're
  342. 12:19dying, you're out of breath, your side
  343. 12:21hurts, and you just know that you have
  344. 12:23to keep on going cuz you got to shave
  345. 12:24off those minutes from your miles.
  346. 12:27This was different. I was having so much
  347. 12:29fun running down the hills and then I
  348. 12:31would get to an uphill and just thug it
  349. 12:34out. [snorts]
  350. 12:35Um
  351. 12:37and as we got closer, I had a second
  352. 12:39where I thought I wasn't going to make
  353. 12:40it actually. I um
  354. 12:43looked at my watch and started doing the
  355. 12:44mental math in my head and I started to
  356. 12:46make those excuses that we normally
  357. 12:47make. Once I started to get really close
  358. 12:49to the end of the race, around mile
  359. 12:51eight or so, I looked down at my watch
  360. 12:53and it was 1:36 I believe, meaning I had
  361. 12:5624 minutes to run the last 2 miles.
  362. 12:59Which 12-minute mile is not particularly
  363. 13:02fast, but I had a large uphill section
  364. 13:06that I had to go and tackle. And I
  365. 13:08basically had to have the conversation
  366. 13:09with myself that if you want this goal
  367. 13:12if you want to be able to hit sub 2
  368. 13:13hours, you have to run this uphill. You
  369. 13:15don't have time to stop, you don't have
  370. 13:16time to power walk. You just have to
  371. 13:18blitz through that uphill section. And
  372. 13:19so, I decided in that moment we're going
  373. 13:22to dig deep. We're going to push for it
  374. 13:23and we're going to make it happen. I ran
  375. 13:25that uphill section, got to the
  376. 13:27downhill, flew on the downhill, did
  377. 13:30again like 8:30 or something, and came
  378. 13:33in finishing strong, and I think my
  379. 13:34final time was like 1:56 or something.
  380. 13:37So, a little over an 11-minute mile,
  381. 13:40like 11:30s, and
  382. 13:44did the goal. Did the thing that I
  383. 13:45decided I was going to do in the middle
  384. 13:46of the race. Like, it was completely
  385. 13:48arbitrarily defined. But,
  386. 13:51my point is, by the way, here's the
  387. 13:52medal. Let me Let me show you guys
  388. 13:54really fast.
  389. 13:55Here's the the thing. If you can see it.
  390. 13:57It's like a little coaster. It's
  391. 13:58actually kind of cool.
  392. 14:00Um if you're wa- or you're listening to
  393. 14:01this, I'm That's yeah. It's a little
  394. 14:03coaster that says Antelope Island Fall
  395. 14:05Classic 2026 finisher on it.
  396. 14:08And it's sick.
  397. 14:10Um
  398. 14:12it was just genuinely so much fun. It
  399. 14:13was just genuinely one of the most fun
  400. 14:15experiences that I've had in
  401. 14:18a really long time. And it's the most
  402. 14:20fun race I've ever run.
  403. 14:22So, basically, yeah, I'm retiring from
  404. 14:24road races, and I'm now just running
  405. 14:26trail runs. But,
  406. 14:29at the end of the day,
  407. 14:30the point behind these stories in the
  408. 14:33beginning of this is
  409. 14:36I got a lot out of climbing on Friday,
  410. 14:38and I got a lot out of racing on
  411. 14:40Saturday,
  412. 14:41where I
  413. 14:44was able to dig deep, I was able to push
  414. 14:46for a goal, but I also had fun doing it.
  415. 14:48I also enjoyed doing it. And now here
  416. 14:51today, Sunday, even though I'm tired,
  417. 14:53I'm sore,
  418. 14:54I
  419. 14:56feel great. Feel happy. I feel
  420. 15:00proud of myself, which is something that
  421. 15:03I don't always get to say.
  422. 15:04And it feels good to be
  423. 15:08in that
  424. 15:09that world. So,
  425. 15:12let's just talk about this really fast.
  426. 15:14Let me look at my notes and see what we
  427. 15:15have written down, cuz I want to just go
  428. 15:16over a few a few points here.
  429. 15:19Um
  430. 15:20the big thing that I'm really kind of
  431. 15:23starting to notice as I get older and I
  432. 15:25think this weekend really put it into
  433. 15:27perspective for me, you can do more when
  434. 15:29you're having fun.
  435. 15:31Straight up.
  436. 15:32Because for some reason when we want to
  437. 15:36put ourselves through suffering, when we
  438. 15:37want to make things harder than they
  439. 15:39really need to be,
  440. 15:41we tend to not do them as much.
  441. 15:43We tend to not want to
  442. 15:46go to the gym or go on the run or go to
  443. 15:48jiu-jitsu or study the homework
  444. 15:51because it's hard and it's not fun and
  445. 15:53we don't enjoy it. But I will tell you
  446. 15:56all of the progress that I've made as a
  447. 15:57musician
  448. 15:59has been when I've been having fun on
  449. 16:00the guitar.
  450. 16:01All of the progress that I have made in
  451. 16:02jiu-jitsu has been when I want to go to
  452. 16:04jiu-jitsu. All the progress that I have
  453. 16:06made doing literally anything has been
  454. 16:09when I actually want to go and do it,
  455. 16:10when it actually sounds fun to me. And I
  456. 16:14think that
  457. 16:15the critical piece that so many of us
  458. 16:17are missing is it's okay to have fun
  459. 16:19doing things
  460. 16:20because we're probably going to get
  461. 16:21better by having fun doing it.
  462. 16:27I really hope this point is getting
  463. 16:28across. It feels kind of rambly to me,
  464. 16:30uh, to be honest with you,
  465. 16:32but
  466. 16:34at the end of the day, like I'm not good
  467. 16:35at basketball because I don't think
  468. 16:37basketball's fun.
  469. 16:39The reason I'm not good at soccer or
  470. 16:41football or any of these other random
  471. 16:42sports is cuz I just don't find them
  472. 16:44enjoyable. I don't think they're fun, so
  473. 16:45I don't do them.
  474. 16:47The reason I'm good at guitar is because
  475. 16:49guitar is fun and I play guitar all the
  476. 16:51time. The reason I'm halfway decent at
  477. 16:53jiu-jitsu or halfway decent at climbing
  478. 16:55mountains is the fact that I do it a lot
  479. 16:58because I enjoy it.
  480. 17:00And
  481. 17:02discipline's important.
  482. 17:04Doing things that you don't want to do
  483. 17:05is important. But
  484. 17:08at the end of the day, having fun is
  485. 17:09kind of underrated
  486. 17:12because if you enjoy every single second
  487. 17:14of it or most seconds of it, you don't
  488. 17:17need to be disciplined.
  489. 17:19Discipline only comes into play when you
  490. 17:20don't want to do something. But if you
  491. 17:21don't want to do something, need to ask
  492. 17:23yourself why is it that you're doing it
  493. 17:25in the first place? Of course, you're
  494. 17:27going to have times where you don't want
  495. 17:28to show up. Of course, you're going to
  496. 17:29have times where things get hard
  497. 17:31and you have to push through. You have
  498. 17:32to flex that discipline muscle. It's
  499. 17:34important that we build it.
  500. 17:36But if you're just doing something
  501. 17:37because the internet or some random
  502. 17:40person or me tells you that you should
  503. 17:42do it, you don't actually want to do it
  504. 17:45ever,
  505. 17:46maybe it's not the thing that you should
  506. 17:47be doing.
  507. 17:50And maybe that's okay.
  508. 17:51I think that we live for the
  509. 17:52expectations of other people and for the
  510. 17:55expectations of what a past previous
  511. 17:59version of ourselves said.
  512. 18:01You know, we might have said 3 years ago
  513. 18:03that we wanted to go and become
  514. 18:05a doctor. And now you're actually in
  515. 18:07medical school and you hate your life.
  516. 18:10If that's the case,
  517. 18:11quit.
  518. 18:13Like,
  519. 18:14don't do things that you to do.
  520. 18:17Just fill your life, fill your time with
  521. 18:19things that are enjoyable and your life
  522. 18:21will be enjoyable. It's really that
  523. 18:23simple. So now we do need to talk about
  524. 18:25when is it important to do things that
  525. 18:28suck. Because at the end of the day,
  526. 18:30like sometimes, yeah, you got to do
  527. 18:31things that suck.
  528. 18:32I think that we should be doing things
  529. 18:33that suck. I think we should be doing
  530. 18:34things that we don't want to do and
  531. 18:36flexing that discipline muscle when we
  532. 18:38need a mental win. When we need a
  533. 18:40victory to prove that I can do these
  534. 18:42things. I can do hard things. I can do
  535. 18:44things I don't want to do. When you need
  536. 18:45to remind yourself that you are who you
  537. 18:48say you are, that you are the type of
  538. 18:49person who can do tough things, the type
  539. 18:51of person that can push through and
  540. 18:52persevere, yeah,
  541. 18:54go and do things that you don't want to
  542. 18:55go and do.
  543. 18:57But
  544. 18:58if you're looking to optimize your
  545. 19:00growth, if you're looking to optimize
  546. 19:02your skill set,
  547. 19:04I don't think doing things you don't
  548. 19:06want to do
  549. 19:08is the best way to go about it.
  550. 19:10Honestly, I think the best way to
  551. 19:11optimize your skill set is just by
  552. 19:12having fun and doing things over and
  553. 19:14over and over again because there's the
  554. 19:1610,000 hour rule and all these different
  555. 19:19things that state the more time you put
  556. 19:20into something the better you get and
  557. 19:23they're 100% true.
  558. 19:25But think about something that you love
  559. 19:27more than anything else. How easy is it
  560. 19:29to hit 10,000 hours in that thing? Not
  561. 19:31that hard.
  562. 19:32Think about something that you hate more
  563. 19:33than anything else. How hard is it going
  564. 19:35to be to do 10,000 hours of something
  565. 19:37that you hate?
  566. 19:38Extremely
  567. 19:40freaking difficult. And so at the end of
  568. 19:42the day, if you can do something that
  569. 19:46you enjoy
  570. 19:47and completely build your life around
  571. 19:50it, you're just going to become so much
  572. 19:52better at it. Thanks for tuning in and
  573. 19:53watching this video. I hope it was at
  574. 19:55least somewhat productive. I'm sorry. I
  575. 19:57feel a little bit scatterbrained today,
  576. 20:00um but I really wanted to make sure that
  577. 20:02I could still get something out for you.
  578. 20:05The lesson is basically what I've been
  579. 20:07repeating over and over in this. Go and
  580. 20:10have fun. Don't spend every waking
  581. 20:13second doing things that suck because
  582. 20:14then you're going to turn around at 40,
  583. 20:1650, 60 and realize that yeah, you may
  584. 20:18have done some cool things. You may have
  585. 20:19done some things that were hard but like
  586. 20:21you didn't enjoy a single second of it
  587. 20:23and really what is the point in living
  588. 20:25if
  589. 20:26you're not going to enjoy any of it. But
  590. 20:29yeah, thank you so much for tuning in,
  591. 20:31for watching this video. Make sure that
  592. 20:33you like, share, subscribe, follow, rate
  593. 20:35if you're on Spotify and
  594. 20:37I'll see you see in the next one. Have a
  595. 20:40good weekend. Have a good week. Peace
  596. 20:42out. Thank you. Bye-bye.

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