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So, we're sitting here in Austin, Texas. All right. All right. And we're going to
be shooting into a video today on what I think is the single biggest distinction between people that
are successful and people who are unsuccessful. Now, as I go into this, here's what I want you
to do. Before I say it, don't cheat. Don't cheat. Before I say it, write in the comments what you
think is the single biggest distinction between people that are successful and people who are not
successful. Okay? Do it now. Pause. Okay, so you wrote it down. Check the comments below. You might
even want to participate in the comments. Say what your opinion is. And I'm going to tell you mine.
My personal opinion is that the single biggest distinction between people that are successful
and the people who aren't is a value for your time. It is two completely different modes of
existence. And when you value your time, you get super rich. Your dating life and your
relationship life is off the charts. You wind up traveling the world. You wind up super healthy.
Everything just goes up and up and up. Everything is awesome. You build a legacy. And when you don't
value your time, well, guess what? If you don't have a plan for your time, somebody else does.
So maybe the good old Chinese Communist Party, they're sitting over there in China, they're like,
"We have a plan for this stupid Americans time. We're going to get them to shorten their attention
span and get propagandized while getting them addicted to short-term dopamine and watch Tik
Tok and collect all their private information in case anything gets crazy." Okay, they've
got a they've got a plan for your time. You're going to doom scroll and shorten your and and and
get addicted on a dopamine spike uh type of flow and then you're and you're going to doom scroll.
You're going to lose all your time. You're going to go broke while they make billions of dollars
and you rot your brain. That's the plan for their time. Or maybe there's a guy who sells weed and
his plan for your time is that you're going to become a weed addict. Or maybe someone made some
stupid piece of reality TV and then they're going to get money while you watch it and become dumb.
Or maybe somebody's going to make processed foods and then you're going to eat it while they get
rich and they don't even have to make proper food for you. And there's a million different
versions of people who have a plan for your time. Oh, they got a plan for your time. All right,
they got a plan for your time, but you don't have a plan for your own time. So, the single biggest
distinction that I want to make in your head right now is we're sitting here in Austin, Texas,
is do you value your time or do you not? And what we're going to be shooting into today is breaking
down the different attributes of what it means to value your time, how your life pans out. I'm going
to tell you some personal stories. In fact, this is kind of funny. I'm going to tell you the truth,
and this is a sad confession, and we're going to reveal how this happened later in the video. I'm
sitting here right now in Austin, and I've been planning to I've been planning two things for
today. Okay? I usually on average plan my life about two years out. Everything I'm going to do,
and that includes the fun stuff I'm going to do, I plan about two years out. And I had a plan for
this day about two years ago that I was going to go to the San Antonio Riverwalk with my kids and
I was going to shoot a video right here on this hill uh during Golden Hour. Now, you'll notice
it ain't golden hour. I missed the shot. Although the view at this is called blue hour right now,
which is also beautiful, but I would want to catch a bit of golden hour first. But also, I missed the
trip with my kiss to San Antonio this morning. So, I allowed myself to do something very, very stupid
last night where I didn't get the shot that I planned two years ago and I missed the trip.
That is cuz I didn't value my time. I will also reveal how that happened in that story later in
this video. So, lock in, get ready. And what we're going to show you right now is the importance of
what I think is the single most important thing to your success, which is being a different type
of person, a different kind of beast, which is somebody who values your time. [Music]
Okay, so we're very very blessed today. I got my buddy Josh Terry here. If you want to see
an amazing personal growth Instagram, go to Josh Terry Plays. Look up Josh Terry plays. So we're
lucky to have Josh here today. And Josh, when you hear me talking about the value for time,
I know that you think about that within a context of taking leadership of your time. I want you to
give that take as I lead into my take that we've been promising here. Sounds good. Okay. So there
are people who value their time and there are people who don't know that time has value.
My come to Jesus moment was uh when I realized that the path that I was following was someone
else's path. Um, I was the most agreeable person that I knew growing up. I was like,
like you know how the all the magazines they talk about how like, you know, the guy was a
rebel and all that stuff. I wasn't that at all. All that I did was I was told that this, you know,
fundamentalist Christian path would work for me and I would do that and then I was told work hard
and then things will work for you. And then I just worked hard and I became a burnout workaholic who
uh didn't have a life. And my come to Jesus moment was realizing that none of the rules that had been
set for me worked. And I had to start setting my own rules. So I just want to jump in the video
let you know that I'm actually out here today on the beach practicing what I preach doing all the
things that I tell you to do in these videos. I don't just do seminar videos where I tell you that
you should work on your social skills. I go out and I meet and talk to people all the time. Now,
as I'm out here doing this, here's what's funny. I've got students that are out here with me
watching exactly what it is that I do, and they're kind of blown away by it. But then what I'm doing
that I think is blowing them away even more is I'm showing them exactly how to do it so they can get
the exact same result. Now, imagine for everybody that's out here for the rest of their lives,
if they want to make a business connection, they want to network, they want to make friends,
they want to work on making a genuine connection with someone very, very special. They know exactly
what to do forever and ever because we came out here and did this work. Well, here's the thing.
This work is not for everybody. You've got to be a very, very special kind of person to have what it
takes to come out here and do this. You've got to be an action taker. You've got to be somebody who
understands the value of knowing how to meet people anytime, anywhere, and realizing that
your net worth is your net worth. Okay? When you know everybody, what winds up happening? You make
more cash, you're happier, and you wind up raising the vibe for everybody. It's an incredible skill.
Well, what I've done is a lot of people have asked me about these trainings, and so I created a brand
new website. It's actually brand new with a a very very deep video that's really shocking.
It's a shocking video. It It's kind of an intense video where I go very very deep on what it is that
this looks like. Like imagine meeting up with me personally and going out and doing this. It's a
shocking crazy experience. And on the website in the video, I show exactly what it is that you can
expect. It's really crazy. So if you want to see this, click the link below. And if you think that
you're somebody that has what it takes, cuz this is not for everybody. And you've got to actually
add value to the group. Okay? In a situation like this, you can't be a leech. You've got to
be someone who's bringing energy and is serious about results. If you think that that's you,
fill out the form right on the website and what I'll do is come and meet up with you in person
and we're going to learn this together. But again, that's only if you're the right fit. If you think
that that's you, you click the link below and we'll be sitting out here together doing this
and change your life. Anyway, click the link and back to the video. And when I did that,
I started to see that the ways that I was spending my time were useless. They were a complete waste.
And when I switched over to setting rules for myself, I understood that if I set good rules,
then the the value uh was the metric for whether or not they were good rules. And so I would start
setting rules and looking at whether or not I was following them. And then when I followed them and
I got good results, I got value, I said, "Oh, I was spending my time in a positive manner." And
then when those rules uh led me astray, I started setting new rules. And so valuing my time and
seeing that I was getting good results with my time helped me to start defining the rules for
how I was going to independently choose to live my life. No, that's fantastic, bro. And that's
that's what a major theme in the video is going to be, which is basically looking at how do how
do you value your time? Where is your time going? How are you structuring relationships and the way
that you're engaging with other people and their plans for your time? So, you're going to go very
very deep on that. And it sounds like you had a big paradigm shift once you had an understanding
of that. Do do would you say that value your time is the single? Everyone's going to have their own
view. That's why that's actually why I put as a question because I think everyone's going to
have their own take on what's the most important thing. But I'm sure that you saw that it was one
of one of the most at least for you uh important distinctions between people that self-develop and
people who don't. Was that kind of like a big Did you ever have an aha moment or was it like
like as you said your come to Jesus moment? Um in that moment did you almost like like I almost
feel like when I had that awareness that value for your time is everything. It's like I almost
I almost couldn't even sleep for a month. Like like my brain was like just I was just re auditing
my whole life like what am I doing? Like what's happening to me? I'm I'm like a like a I'm like a
girl getting bukkakeied from every direction, you know? It's just like ah, you know, it's just like
everything being shot at me while I'm just like ah like collecting it from every direction. It's
like no, no more time, bukkakei. Okay, just stop. Like you're just allowing people to do that to
you. And it's that moment when you just say no, no more. I had to value my time now. And then you you
almost become a like like same animal, different beast. Did you have a bit of that experience?
Yeah, I found it to be like a extreme unconscious behavior to not value the time. And so anytime I
would stop being conscious about my behavior, my value of my time would go away. I think a lot of
self-development, we have to go through a painful experience of recognizing the waste, recognizing
the useless parts of ourselves. And when I looked for the things that I was doing that were useless,
I started to see how much time I had available to me to start succeeding with. That's awesome,
man. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. We're shoot to the next shooting location. And
right now, next up, we're going to show you how to value your time. Let's do it. [Music]
Okay, so I took a bunch of notes on this and I'm going to use the notes because I want to
be laser precise. So you have time valuers and non-time valuers. Time valuers first of all have
a vision for their life. They want something more fun or interesting or having more variety
than just the same thing every day and some kind of blob. They want to develop themselves and they
want to leave a legacy. So, is that you? Let me ask you a question. Do you have a vision
for your life? Would you like to have a little bit more fun or do you just want to keep doing
the same thing over and over and over? Would you like to actually become the best version
of yourself or would you rather stay the same and have the world accommodate the existing stagnant
version of yourself? And do you want to leave a legacy? You want to add value to the world. Now,
if that's what you care about, then you value your time. Now, if you don't value your time
and you don't care about it, it's more like this. You have no vision. So, you're basically
just going to consume whatever's put in front of you. Um, you're probably feeling crappy. And so,
you're just trying to numb yourself and be on autopilot, right? So, you almost want to think
of it as a line uh between coping and thriving. There's like this coping and thriving continental
divide. And if you feel like crap and you just want to stop feeling like crap, that's you trying
to numb out. Or if you're tired and you just want to be told what to do, that's you just want to go
on autopilot. Or are you someone who is already at a half decent baseline, you don't want to numb out
because you like your life. You want to actually have autonomy and will in your life because you
want to have some degree of of personal role in your life. So you're not trying to numb out and go
on autopilot, but rather you want to actually have some degree of control over your life. Okay. Um so
do you want to stagnate? Someone who's who doesn't value their time wants to stagnate because if you
don't value your time, you're going to stagnate. and do you not really care about legacy because
you kind of just care about yourself and that's it. That's all. Okay, so that is the continental
dividing line with whether or not you care about your time. And like I said in the beginning of the
video, if you care about your time, the end result of it is like look, let me just tell you straight
up. Most of these [ __ ] you see out here, okay, we walk down on Sixth Street. Look, I love him to
death. I love them to death. That's why I'm making the [ __ ] video. They don't give a [ __ ] about
their time. They are sitting there looking for any possible diversion to waste their time down
because I I mean let's be honest, right? Like if you like to get drunk or you like smoking a lot of
weed, that's probably because you don't like the way you feel in your body and you want to numb it.
Uh let me give a simple example. When I broke my leg, I broke the [ __ ] out of my leg. And
during that week that I broke my leg, they ba they they basically had me doing in one week fentinyl,
codin, and oxy. Okay, now I broke I exploded my leg. They thought I was going to be in wheelchair
for life. They had to cut open my leg, rip the muscle off, drill into the bone, close it up,
and I took the least amount of painkillers of anyone they've ever seen. They've they're like,
"We've never seen someone take this little amount of painkillers." I was like meditative zen state
the whole time. But for that first day, they had me on different painkillers. And let me
tell you something, that is not something that I would be addicted to at all. It sucked. It was
disassociative. It was annoying. It didn't feel good. But I'll tell you this, if I didn't enjoy
being in my brain, well then yeah, that probably would have been a good time because it would have
shut off the demons. So the average person that you see out here, they've got a lot of
trauma. Their life's not going in the direction they wanted to. There's not really anything to
look forward to. So as a result, anytime that they could just numb out, that's good. And they don't
value their time. Then if somebody says, "Let's gossip and should talk about somebody," well,
they're going to do that, too. Why? because they get a little dopamine spike out of it because they
get they get widow effect off of thinking they're better than somebody else who's actually in the
arena. They get fake dopamine from it. So now they're getting fake dopamine from [ __ ] talk.
They're getting diversion from gossip. They're getting numbed out from drugs and alcohol. They're
getting diversion from processed food and so on and so forth. Now they can't think properly. Then
they've got a shitty job. Now they're getting paid. Again, talk about low low value for time.
getting paid dollars for time rather than dollars for results or dollars for owning the systems
the way that a rich person does or dollars for investments that you put in. They just get dollars
for time because they've got nothing else to trade and as a result their life [ __ ] sucks. They
don't go anywhere. We could do an experiment right now. Walk down Sixth Street and be like, "Okay,
you live here in Austin, Texas. Have you been to say San Antonio, which has a really cool riverwalk
and has the Alamo, which is 90 minutes from here? Have you even been to the [ __ ] Alamo or the
Riverwalk up the [ __ ] street? Uh, no. And it's a sign that they don't value their time. Um, there's
a lot of really cool hiking out here in Austin. ATVing here in Austin. Uh, there's incredible
museums here in Austin. The Mothership, the comedy store, uh, the comedy place that Joe Rogan runs is
here in Austin. There's cool restaurants here in Austin. Zilker Park is right there. There's cool
things happening here in Austin. You have Ban Springs, cool little rivers and stuff. Ask the
average person here, have you even gone swimming in Bart and Sprint? No, because they don't value
their [ __ ] time. Okay, so that is what you might call like like the continental dividing line. You
either value your time or you don't. And then if you're and and this is the thing, if you're
someone who actually values your time, if you do value your time, well then guess what? Um you're
going to have a more expansive life. And by a way of looking at it, you could argue that there's no
right or wrong way to live life. If I mean to be fair, I have my opinion obviously clearly. Um,
but if somebody consciously chooses to be in a cope, they're just like, "Yo, I just want to be
a [ __ ] cope. Like, I just like this weed, yo, like I just like it." And they really meant it,
then that is a fair decision. But if it's simply the fact that you just never even thought about
valuing your time, like it just never occurred to you because they didn't teach it to you in
school. They just didn't teach to you and you just never thought about it. And then you've kind of
just been consuming whatever's in front of you. And like Josh Terry said earlier up on the hill,
um you're not taking leadership in where your time is going and so now you're just like a victim of
the Chinese Communist Party putting TikTok in front of you while they gather your data and turn
you [ __ ] and so on and so forth. Well, if that's the case, um then just think about it, right?
So again, if if you're like, "Look, Owen, as as cool as it would be to have millions of dollars,
have a great dating life, to be super healthy, to go travel around the world, to go have fun, as
cool as that would be, I just smoking this weed. Yo, I got everything I need in this spliff. Like,
if if you can honestly say that. Maybe you went and did it and you're like, you know, I'm good.
I'm good. And that's just where you're at. I I mean that to me that would seem kind of weird, but
let's just say in theory as a thought experiment, that's true. Then fine. Well, hey, now you do
value your time. But if you're somebody where you've just never thought about it, then what I'm
going to be doing in this video is we're going to be encouraging you to think about where that time
is going. And next up, what we're also going to do is we're going to look at the at value for time
within the context of human relationships. Okay? What is the context within human relationships?
Because you have some people that value their time who maybe you want to have relationships with,
whether that's friendship, romantic relationships, whatever. And there's some people who don't. They
don't have value for their time, right? So, you know, maybe you got a significant other, romantic
partner, and they love their weed, you know. So, then you go on vacation, they [ __ ] and complain
the whole time. Well, of course they [ __ ] and complain the whole time. They don't want
to go on vacation. They want to smoke weed. You know, maybe you hired somebody and they [ __ ] up
and [ __ ] up and [ __ ] up and complain and make drama within the business. Of course, they [ __ ]
up and make drama in the business. they don't value their time. Right? So, there's a dividing
line. So, you got to think about who it is that you're relating to and then uh most of all, what
I want to get you do, what I want to get you to do is I want you to think about um and do an audit of
where you're at and actually look at where your time is going. I'm going to encourage you that
to do that, too. We got a lot more to cover. We're going deeper into Austin, Texas. Let's go. [Music]
Okay, so Austin is a land of social media influencers and I have my other buddy Josh
Josh Hudson here. Now Josh, you got to check out his channel. He does the subject of men recovering
from having their wives leave them. But just like me, I have my surface level subject matter
of things like social skills, but we go way, way deeper into personal growth, self-actualization,
self- loveve. Josh has a ton of content that goes way, way deeper than just how to save your
marriage. But this comes up in the topic of how to save your marriage with what he deals with because
what happens when you don't value your time? Often times your wife stops respecting you. So
make sure that you check out Josh Hudson. Check out his channel and we're going to get his take
on this exact topic of valing your time. Thanks Owen. So in that book it's Frij Niche right it's
one of his books fictional books on how the main character is up in this cave meditating for years
answering life's biggest questions and so he comes down to this village right and he says
I have all the answers to life essentially he starts preaching and everyone thinks he's this
this circus performer and they start laughing at him well as this book continues fried niche
is able to differentiate between the people who are time wasters and people who are the
uber mitch the superman and it also ties into Mazo those hierarchy of needs. You
could probably show a photo of this, how we are self-actualizing individuals, right? In which we
are all born diamonds, perfect, full of love, light, and joy. If you look at a little baby,
right? They're free from trauma. They are just h they're crying because they want mom or dad,
but ultimately they're balls of love and light. And what happens over time in this model is
that dirt gets thrown onto this diamond through trauma, through messages that you're not enough,
whether through societal conditioning or different patterns in life. And so with
the time waster idea, what's happening here is that a lot of people are ignoring a lot of the
mental chatter that's going on in their mind. They're just trying to distract themselves and
get through life instead of embrace it. And so as a time waster, right, what you're trying to
do is you're trying to see the core issue here is that you have dirt spread all over your diamonds,
right? Your beautiful diamonds. And what you need to do is recognize that the weed, the porn,
and all this stuff, what it's doing is essentially just masking who you really are at the core. Okay?
And so in my process, I was addicted to porn. I was playing video games. I mean,
there's some pretty good games everyone was talking about, right? Like God of War, Ghost of
Sushima. That [ __ ] was amazing. But when you're in it and whacking off and whacking, oh my god,
the deviency of porn you can go down to to waste your time, you are just avoiding this core
fundamental belief that you are not good enough, right? And so I thought to myself in recording
this, how did I get out of that? There was a core moment where I remember I was about seven years
into the YouTube channel, my first channel. Got to 150,000 subscribers, right? Before that moment,
I was spending multiple years in a mastermind with other big YouTubers, Clark Kegley, all these other
guys, and they were crushing it. And I was like, why am I not able to do what they're doing? I'm in
the mastermind with these guys. I'm doing exactly what they're doing. And then I had a conversation
with Clark one day, and we were going over my daily habits. And I was honest with him. I said,
I played I played two hours to three hours of video games a day. He's like, "Why?" He's like,
"What do you do on the weekend?" I was like, "I go out with my friends and I drink a little bit."
He's like, "I'm working every weekend." And that moment hit me. If I want to get to where I want
to be, I have to do the things those people are doing, right? And so that started the personal
journey of being like, "Okay, what is that dirt on my diamond?" And as a licensed therapist,
what I usually do with clients is that we're able to reveal these limiting beliefs that you have.
It's almost like software code that you first had enveloped into your brain as a child that told you
you weren't good enough. and you automatically believe it. It's in your subconscious mind,
right? So, what you do instead is that you are able to extract those beliefs with an expert or
even self inquiry, right? You read a few books on therapy and how this works. There's a couple
books that I can mention. I think one of the most popular ones is letting go by Dr. Hawkins,
right? So, really good one, right? Um, the untethered soul is a really good one as well.
Body keeps a score. But what you do is you pull out these individual beliefs like pieces of code
in your subconscious brain and you simply reframe them, right? You change these belief systems and
then it essentially rubs that dirt dirt off you and then you're able to then take action on that
and that conceptualizes a new person that you are, right? A new identity. Okay? And so with the idea
of time wasting, you have to recognize what are you truly getting. Is it consistent with the man
you want to be? Owen talks about the personal audit all the time. I mean, it sounds so [ __ ]
simple, right? Can I curse? Yes. Okay. It's [ __ ] simple. It's [ __ ] simple. But at the same time,
you don't do it right at the end of the night. You're sitting there like, "Oh, I got a big day
tomorrow. I'm just going to chill. I just need a couple hours just to chill, right? I just need to
whack off. I just want to relax. I want to watch I got to finish that season of Vikings, man. It's
a good season, right, man? How long is this going to go on for? How long are you going to continue
watching? You know, the most [ __ ] up part of this, too, the more that you're talking about like
whacking off and watching Vikings and videos. I'm like, maybe this video is all lie. Maybe I do just
want to watch Vikings and whack off cuz I mean, and that that is the trap is that you do have to
audit to think about what do you like more than this. Like, what do you like more than whacking
off in Vikings? Cuz that's the thing is it's pretty good. I mean, Vikings is a good show. Like,
like that's a great [ __ ] show. So, you've got to think of, you know, and if you're going to watch
a show, then make sure make at least sure it's something like Vikings that's worth it or make
sure if it's a video game, make sure it's [ __ ] worth it. But otherwise, you got to have something
that you prioritize above that. Cuz even as you're saying this, I'm like that's a pretty good Friday
night, bro. It's like it's like what are we doing this for, you know? But that's the thing is that
we have we also want to do something beyond just whacking off and watch watching Vikings. Like that
can't be the pinnacle of life. Well, and the thing there about that Owen is that Owen's achieved a
lot of the success that he set out to achieve, right? I'm sure he's always raising the bar
obviously, but so he's go go go go, right? Like have you grinded every single weekend, you know,
all the all the time? No. Like then you get to whack off and watch Vikings, right? Exactly. So it
is about that balance, but a lot of people like a lot of people what they'll do is they'll sit there
and they'll go through the same patterns, right? And you're expecting a different result, right?
That's the definition of [ __ ] insanity, right? You know this, right? So that's all I have to say
about that for now. Yeah. And by the way, Josh, you also had and just bring this camera over here
for us. um just look into this camera just show us here. Um you also had just you could you please
bring the camera right here. Um you asked also had a take about like a sort of a epiphany moment that
you had as well right on the same subject. Yeah. I and and this speaks a lot to this this idea of
like Okay. So you've been you know wasting a lot of time on TikTok, Netflix whacking off,
whatever. We're going to see how many times we can say whacking off in one video. Um but uh like like
when I was really struggling with my health, I was spending hours and hours on Netflix like which is
I mean really low quality, not just low vibration but low lowquality low vibration uh activities
and I was just spending hours on there and I was sleeping for 11 12 hours a day. And something that
uh like might I I think it's really important to understand is that we don't always know how good
things can get right and so sometimes we get lost in these things and it's not necessarily because
you are you know like lazy you might actually have no idea where to go right and so I had this time
after I had fixed a lot of stuff in my life where I was just taking a talk and I I was just just
feeling the muscles in my body. I was feeling the breath that I was breathing. I was feeling the the
the way the bones were moving in my joints. And it was all pleasant. And I had this moment of,
"Oh my god, I understand why nobody does the work." Because most people don't live like that.
Most people don't have those pleasant feelings and they don't know how good it can get. And
um to get out of it, you kind of have to go in two different directions. One, sometimes you have to
just know that that good stuff is there and just kind of have faith and charge through it. And then
on the other side, sometimes you need to actually find out how good it can be. Uh there's a awesome
quote by I think it's Jordan Peterson. Uh Jordan Peterson says says if you want to quit alcohol,
you need to come up with something that's better than alcohol to replace it with because alcohol
is really good, right? And a lot of these things, God of War, jacking off. I feel like this is going
to convince anyone to talk. Can we get like a marker in the video? Ding ding. Now I'm like,
damn. It's great. These are enjoyable things. Just go do it. Just go do it. They come back to this
video. But no, the things that are representative of a person who does not value their time,
a lot of these things are things that are on the surface pleasant. But there are deeper pleasures
in life. There are deeper joys in life. And what I found is a lot of us don't even realize how
good it can be. And so you need to go through a process of one finding ways to give yourself
quality things in life that are beyond those escape mechanisms. Things that are of high value,
things that are of extreme value, not just in in a work mode, but in terms of wow,
I I had this pleasant activity and the next day I felt better, right? And then you also have to go
through a period of going okay I have read enough books I've watched enough videos to see that there
is something good out there beyond this cope life that I have and let me just try to do some of the
work to see if I have some of those experiences. So, I found it incredibly valuable to like have
a back and forth mechanism of like how do I like have good things just like consciously try to give
myself quality good things in life and then how do I have faith that like the good things will come
and then do the work that people say will get me those good things. Yeah, definitely. Yeah,
I I I could just feel I could like intuitively feel you had something big to add. That was
really awesome. So, as Josh was talking and it was cracking here. Josh just chilling here. Yeah. As
Josh was talking, I was thinking, what was the one moment for me that was that catalyst that changed
everything? Right. I turned 30 years old. I was in this mastermind. I was still working part-time as
a drug rehab facilitator therapist in San Diego. And I had my private practice and I was posting
YouTube content, dating content actually, and it was going all right, but it wasn't to where I
wanted to be. And so there's the whole burning the boats, right? Your self-concept, right? It follows
your actions as much as your actions follow your self-concept. What that means is the actions you
take, your brain says, "Oh, I did this thing. I must be this person." And if you are this person,
you're going to do that thing, right? It's cyclical. Um, atomic cabin, James Clear talks
about that all the time, right? Your identity shapes your behavior. So, I said, "Screw it."
My frustration got so much I got to desperation. I quit my job. I was in $40,000 of college debt.
I went to Japan by myself for a month. Got on a bike. I would just choose a monument. I would
just bike through the city touching the cars with earphones in in debt. Like what what's going to
happen when I get back? I don't know. I quit my job and I was the most free and happy I've ever
been. I get back and I know how you feel about psilocybin or mushrooms, right? And psychology.
No, but it's something that that you value and I always acknowledge that people value. Yeah,
we can have a larger conversation about that. So, what happened is my mechanic of all people, I
was talking to him and I was talking to him about the use of MDMA for PTSD, for treating, you know,
veterans who had a lot of trauma. And he's vibing with me. He's like, "Let me show you something."
I was like, "Okay." So, he takes me to his back door of his garage. I'm like, "This guy's about
to kill." He's already kind of weird a little bit, right, Eddie if you're watching this. Like,
but he takes me out this valley. I'm like, "Oh, yeah. This guy's definitely going to kill me."
It's in the dark in this like little thing behind San Diego and there's this room. I'm like, "This
is probably the kill room. He's going to take me to the kill room." He opens the door and it was
like pillows, speakers, a bathroom. He goes, "This is where we do our ceremonies. We're doing one
next weekend. A shaman's coming. Would you want to do it with us?" And I was like, I read I think
from Tim Timothy Larry saying, "Don't seek it out. Let it find you." I was like, "Well, here it
is." Right? So, first time doing Silicon ever, a full-blown ego death, right? I I saw who I thought
I was. It's this therapist in San Diego, Josh, and he's 30 years old and like and who I really was.
My tattoo show shows my one tattoo shows this uh it's called tatamasi which is Sanskrit for
you are it and I experienced that whole blown ego death and that's when I started the business I had
pretty much no money in my bank account and the clients just started coming right and the thing
about God that I believe is that he's benevolent in that if you take the action if you really want
it he will provide it for you but you have to go through that risk as Joseph Campbell says the cave
you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek and so whatever is holding you back from becoming that
person. Find what that is. Re recognize that the distractions are holding you back from that and
take that step into that cave that embrace that fear. Okay? Because when you take that action,
you'll become the man that Uber Mitch we're talking about who's able to go through that fear,
conquer that dragon, and conquer himself. Okay? That's amazing. That these are incredible stories.
And here's what I'll do. I How deep in the video are we at this point? Ibraim, what would you say?
How deep are we in? Say about 30. About Okay, so we're 30 minutes deep. And there was actually an
event that happened yesterday that actually triggered me to think about this and it it
actually triggered me to think about I probably have about another hour of content on this but
I'm going to do it in Houston. So we're actually going to rabbit here. You're like get on the cold.
So we're actually we're actually doing a Russian Bonnie right now. Um but here was the event that
actually triggered this for me. So I was chatting a guy last night who's really really really cool
guy. I enjoy the conversation. Great guy. But what happened was I allowed myself to get sucked
into that conversation, which I was enjoying, but I was, and this is pretty bad, but I'm I'm
not too proud of this, but I was supposed to be with my children this morning at in the at in
the Riverwalk and the Alamo in in San Antonio. San Antonio, we're in Austin, Texas right now.
San Antonio is about a 90-minute drive from here. Like, for for those of us from LA, 90 minutes is
just like the other side of town. So, that's not like viewed as a different city in my world. So, I
was supposed to be with him. And because I stayed up talking with him late, I went and he'll feel
bad if and he'll feel bad if I if he hears this cuz he watches my videos. So, what's up, bro? But
it wasn't his fault. It was my fault. I stayed up talking to him late. So, I took something that was
cool and that was fun that was kind of dangled in front of me. But, as a result, I had both planned
to be in San Antonio this morning and I had been planning to shoot this video in the sunlight.
Okay. Because there's a great shot of the city up there in the sunlight. Now, I like this shot, too.
And and Austin has this kind of like cool Tron-l like feel to it. looks great at night, too. But,
you know, I had a plan to shoot in the daytime and to shoot a nighttime video. So, I miss my daytime
video. We'll only get a nighttime video. Um, but I also miss San Antonio with my kids. And that's
what I'm saying is like, you know, you know, the Vikings and the whacking off. Like, that's the
equivalent of the cool conversation with the guy last night, but I should have had a vision of,
wait a minute, two years ago when I laid out my schedule and that's, you know, my travel schedule
I laid out well in advance. I had a plan. I'm going to take I'm going to go with my sons to the
[ __ ] Alabama. her mom took them where she the kids are good but I want to go to the album with
my kids I didn't make it and I also wanted to have a certain video as a legacy piece and I didn't get
it done but I had a cool conversation to me that is what these kind of like you know kind of cool
and fun things but ultimately not the thing and that was like you with your older channel I'm
sure it had a lot of upsides then you had the ego death and then you saw what you're really
meant to do it's like what you're talking about where you had that come to Jesus moment you're
walking down the street you realize there's more there there's there's more to life, right? So,
it's all those little things where you're not understanding um yes, this is cool, but there's
something bigger. And you know, for me, what that something bigger became was in the past few years
um I wound up traveling to almost every national park in America, which is crazy. Um drove America
multiple times over, went to almost every single ski resort multiple times over. And what's funny
is even when I say that, if you haven't done it, it's kind of like someone just talking. It's like
if someone told me they went to Mount Everest, something like Mount Everest, like okay, you know,
right? It's not real. But when you see how amazing it can be to actually go see the world,
it is [ __ ] amazing. Or, you know, I've done some of the very best parties in all of LA, which,
you know, is amazing for your social life, your dating life, let's just say, is wow. Okay. And,
you know, an experience like that, you know, as fun as this to whack off and watch Travis fibble
on Vikings, it's even better. You know, maybe maybe Chad's a pretty good-look guy, but maybe
uh it could be better to actually run the best party like like we've had it where we rent the
best party on a given Saturday in all of LA. Like like it gets out of control, okay? Like I have to
hire like many extra security guards cuz the whole street's going to clog up. Like half the night's
just pushing people back off the street. We're letting the best the best people and you know,
your social life, dating life after that is [ __ ] insane. Or you know, having that amazing moment
at a seminar, just being up in front of a crowd, free associating, having fun, being out here with
my friends, making videos and so on and so forth. Like there's just so much to life that's valuable.
So just make sure that again you don't get stuck in that, you know, really fun conversation, but
you could have done that really next level thing. And that's what we're getting at here. There's
two different types of people. And the different types of people in the world. It's not by race.
It's not by gender. It's not by sexuality. It is who values their time and who doesn't. Who
takes accountability and who believes they're a victim. Who believes they're at the cause and who
believes they're at the effect. and being at the cause and valuing your time and taking agency,
not being a victim. And look, we've all been victimized, but taking agency and valuing your
time. That is the fundamental component of what's going to make you the highest level person you
can be. And in Houston, Texas, we are going to be going into the different relationship components,
which is an entire framework. It's going to be [ __ ] awesome. I've got it all laid out. And
what I want you to do is go home tonight and write down an audit of how you're living your life and
create a vision of what you actually want. Make your vision of seeing every national park or doing
that big party or dating life, health, whatever it is for you. That will overpower the desire to just
shoot a big cream pie on your stomach and pass out with a joint in your mouth. Okay, I know you can
do it. You can [ __ ] do it. Okay, thank you guys for being here very much. It's [ __ ] awesome,
guys. Taking off from here in the heart of Austin, Texas. Be back with more soon. Peace.
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