E129 - The True Purpose Of Life That 99% Of People Miss (It’s Not What You Think) | Peter Crone

34:27And then it becomes a bit of an internal battle for the parent as to, I want to give them the life that I didn't have. I want them to be comfortable, to spoil them to some extent. But at the same time, I also want life to be a little bit hard so that they have this ambition and drive and don't just squander their life. Yeah, trust them, baby. Yeah, no, it's hard, but even that's compensatory, right? Meaning if a parent went from poverty to success, and then they don't want their children to experience what they did being raised in poverty, that's still all about them. well-intended and beautiful.

35:08And of course, you wouldn't want somebody to be in a state of poverty if you can avoid it. But it's all based in reactions. It's like the father figure whose dad was never available, wasn't emotional, never told him that he was loved, didn't give him hugs. And so that son, when he becomes a father, over-adjusts. And he's like, I'm going to make sure my son knows how much I love him and I'm going to hug him. And I would absolutely say it's a better archetype, but it's still him just being his dad, but the opposite. So the legacy continues versus choosing consciously in present time, who do I want to be, not as a result of something else.

35:55So there's a difference between what I call creative life and a reactive life. And most people just live a reactive life. Well, I'm upset because you fucking said something or, you know, I'm going to do this to prove my dad wrong. It's not generating from ourself. This episode is brought to you by Whoop. The all new Whoop is here. The only wearable that turns your health and fitness data into personalized guidance. Now, 7 % smaller with 14 days of battery life. I've been wearing Whoop since 2021 and I've been wearing it every single day. It's a device which I have used to improve my training, improve my sleep, and stay away from the things which are definitely not good for me.

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37:13Let's get back to the episode. Where does the underlying source of ambition come from, do you think? I mean, a multitude of reasons, usually fear. Fear? The fear of failure being inadequate? Fear of failure, fear of looking bad, fear of not fulfilling on your parents' view of you, fear of being mocked by the kids that made fun of you. Fear is the overarching emotion that drives human behavior. So if somebody has no fear, then they would be lacking in ambitions? No. No, because fear that drives ambition is always going to be based on what I call more of a forceful energy. You can get a lot of things to happen through force.

37:54So you obviously understand physiology. So look at anaerobic versus aerobic. Sprinters, you know, 100 meters relative to 200 is a lot easier. Why? Because the systems that allow you to sprint 100, they're within the threshold. But once you get to like 110, 120, 130, you've run out. Yeah, it sucks. It's fucking hurts, right? Yeah. So force, and people get a lot of results through force, but what expense to pissing people off, destroying life, ruining relationships, and some sort of degradation of their own physiology because they're fighting through life. So that's one form of ambition that's really typically driven by internal fear, external social expectations.

38:43It's not choice driven. Ambition that is driven by soul, which is really for me based more in love, in freedom, creativity, exploration, joy, is more like power. With all my athletes, I always ask them to say, I'm forceful. And then describe what does that feel like and they're like it's tense I'm like I'm pushing um it's hard and then I say I'm powerful and they're like oh I just I feel soft I feel relaxed so there's two different energy supplies that we can pull from especially emotionally and psychologically yeah I feel I feel like a lot of my drive comes from being able to have the freedom that I truly want yeah I don't want to be a I've worked a number of different jobs when i was a teenager early 20s did a little thing it was just like really crappy jobs yeah um and i i didn't like being told what to do i didn't like having a boss i didn't like not being able to choose when i worked yeah i didn't like the fact that if i was going to put like twice as much effort into something i wasn't going to be rewarded or compensated for that so that that's why i tell a lot of people when they're like i don't really know what i want to do with my life and these are guys in their teenage years or early 20s i'd say just go and try and experience working a load of different jobs.

40:06At least that way, you'll know what it is that you don't want to do. Because that's going to help you decide what you do want to do if you know what you don't want to do. Process of elimination. Yeah. Yeah. No, and it's great. And I mean, these things that we go through in life forge the choices that then we subsequently make. But ultimately, that's why my membership platform is called Freedom, right? Because that to me is what every human being is looking for. emotional freedom, spiritual freedom, financial freedom, physical freedom. We're here to break out of limitations. So you've found your way through different discomforts, especially in the workplace, to get to that spot where I want to create my own financial freedom, which is great and sounds like you're doing really well.

40:48But then I would be cautious of when does that stop? Because then you can establish it in real life, but the mechanism that got you there is still alive yeah right it becomes like a virus yeah yeah i feel like there's i speak to a lot of people about ai and how maybe in the future at some point ai will allow us all to be basically just living the lives we want to live and you know all these things tedious tasks will no longer need to be done by humans and they'll be a lot more wealth spread amongst everyone and there's like two scenarios if everybody's presented with ultimate freedom where they can just do whatever it is that they want to do you're going to get those people who will actually go and do really cool stuff and yeah make themselves i don't know fulfilled happy yeah achieve their purpose whatever it is but then you'll get a load of other people who they won't actually know what to do with their freedom yeah And then they'll just be depressed and then, you know, they'll just waste their life.

41:52It's called communism. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So how do people in that scenario, when they achieve this goal, the point where they do have the freedom, how do they use that wisely? I think, you know, when people ask me bigger questions like, what's the meaning of life? I say that's a relatively straightforward question. It's whatever your brain is making it mean. Everyone's got their own perspective and everyone lives within the view of their life. You can't function outside of the way you view life. Meaning that if you have a view, oftentimes think of the big things like religion, right? Religion's made up, right?

42:30There's no such thing. It's a story, you subscribe to it. Typically, it's not even a choice. You're born into a family and because your parents are fill in the blank, Christian, Muslim, da, da, da, Christian, Jew, that's who you are now. So then that defines where you typically behave, certainly the actions and beliefs you have and even the thoughts and the ways you conduct yourself. So for me, when you get to that place of freedom, it's really about recognizing the power of choice. It's pure possibility versus, as I said, reactive life is you are a certain thing, usually at a deeper level, not enough, not love, not safe, not worthy.

43:06And then you spend your life trying to disprove that. There's no freedom there. So if you can get to a place of freedom, if you really experience that, that to me is awakening, that's enlightenment, that's joy, then you play a game of choice. So the meaning of life is whatever you make it mean. The objective of life is to establish freedom. And then I would say the purpose of life is once you get to that place, help other people find freedom. Yeah, that makes sense. Are you religious? No. No. But spiritual? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. If you're going to use those words to delineate, I'd say yes. To me, religion divides.

43:44It creates the very thing that inspires suffering, right? The illusion of separation, which is the ego, is what creates suffering. Because if I'm separate from you, now I have to do something in order to feel connected. If I'm in a relationship, I need to do what I need to do to be loved and accepted by the person. Or if it's in competition, I need to be better than the person. So, separation is what creates suffering. so religion you know again i'm not knocking it a lot of people get a lot of value from it but it nonetheless creates separation for me i'm much more interested in unity and recognizing that everybody's interconnected even in the literal sense of the unified field yeah um and that's what i speak from is that sense of true belonging nobody's not part of that gang yeah and then you believe whatever you believe that makes you think you're not part of the gang right i try i try to give it a chance i mean i'm very open-minded i'm open to listening to everyone uh i respect everyone's decisions um i don't think i'm a religious person i'm definitely more on the spiritual side of things and i think speaking of spirituality i think there's still a lot of science out there they can't prove like everything that's actually going on yeah maybe in 50 years 100 years i don't know like we will have a better understanding of what is actually going on right now at the present time yeah um but i think for some people they need religion i think that without it they would be lost or they would be doing things they shouldn't be doing it's um it's like guardrails you know so when you go 10 pin bowling and you have the fluffy whatever blow up things on the side so you don't slip into the gutter.

45:28So I think for a lot of people, whether it's religion or AA, and they have meetings to be able to keep them from self-destructing, I think it serves its purpose. It's like, I can't stand pharmaceuticals. It's like a racket, right? It's not a healthcare system. It's a sick care and disease management system. Pharmaceutical companies aren't interested in health because they'd put themselves out of business. But for some people who don't know how to get beyond the feeling of worthlessness that creates depression. They need an SSRI until they establish some sort of awakening. You know, so everything has its purpose until you get beyond the sort of the stabilizing wheels of, you know, trying to keep your identity together.

46:09Yeah. What are you doing in terms of your nutrition and exercise regime? to um i'm i kind of like the gamut i run the you know from everything like hiking biking skiing i love sports as a way to really try and maintain physiological health but i also do hit training i'll do pilates i'll do yoga um and then nutrition wise you're a true hybrid athlete yeah i like to be an athlete you know it's like for me because i love my sport so you see a lot of guys like you of incredible physiques and you look more like an athlete than a lot of guys who are jacked but i don't know how functional that is you know they're really great at bench press yeah yeah yeah but how does that translate like put their hands behind their head yeah t-shirt yeah exactly or you know so it's like to what degree is that just all about appearance versus function um and no you know people choose what they choose but for me nutritionally i i stick as best as i can to an ayurvedic diet so everybody's got their own constitution some people more air some people more fire, some people more earth.

47:12And then depending on what you have a predisposition to because of that, like for me to have spicy food, drink alcohol is not going to work because I'm more fire or give me, you know, irritation, headache or acid reflux. So I try to keep within the confines of what Ayurveders saw me, but also enjoy food. You know, it's like now I'm traveling, I'm going from here to Abu Dhabi, I'll be at festivals and I try to just source good healthy food but I'm not maniacal about it How do you know which one you are? So as a general overview it's actually based on the elements themselves so air is like the wind so wind is light it's moving it's cold and it's dry so when somebody has a light frame meaning they tend to be more skinny like think about Mick Jagger they will feel more of the cold they'll have dry rough skin and they can't sit still somebody's more fire tends to be more mesomorph middle kind of more athletic frame they're not as lean but they're not heavy they tend to have more inflammatory disorders so they're going to have you know acid reflux maybe imbalance could be Crohn's celiacs IBS where there's too much heat in the system.

48:32They tend to run hot. Yeah, I think that's me. Yeah, you know, for sure you're a fire type. Yeah. And they tend to be visually oriented. So they're perfectionists because you think about a dark room, you bring light to it like a flame, you can see. So fire types tend to be very visually dominant. So they're also hard to be around sometimes because they see things that the other types don't. So you can come across as critical, judgmental, typically more so to yourself, very hard on themselves. And then the earth types, they're more like Oprah's and heavy build. You know, they've got beautiful, soft, doughy skin because think about earth and water, it's like mud.

49:08And so it's like you have good thick hair, beautiful doughy eyes, big joints, but they tend to have accumulative disorders. So they'll have diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol because they hold on to things. And then that manifests also in the way they live. So air people more degenerative because the wind can wear things out, dry things out. And so they'll have twitches and anxiety. They're very future oriented because they're very quick, they're moving. So they tend to have dry skin, osteoporosis, anything that's degenerative. And then the fire types or inflammation and the earth types are cumulative.

49:50And so air types, they get things really quickly and they're super enthusiastic, but they're in a job, out of a job, in a relationship, out of a relationship because they move very quickly. Fire types, more the perfectionists. They're very detail-aunted. They're super into order and cleanliness. They're quite discerning. They can be leaders because they're visionaries, CEO types. And then the earth types are more the supporters, the nurturers, the quintessential friend who's like, when you're down, you go over there and they've got cake and tea and they take care of you. So yeah, it's pretty fascinating.

50:21That's interesting. Isn't it? When you mentioned about the fire type and being very self-critical, I think you know i'm probably a little bit like that i'll always look in the mirror and yeah i there's there's i'm satisfied with what i see and i'm proud of what i see but i'm always like oh there's little things that can be improved that's the perfectionism um eye for detail and i wondered i mean a lot when i'm telling people all this stuff about how to get in shape i think everybody at this point now knows the basics of what they need to do but it's more of a mental game this yeah because you can't just click your fingers and get it it's a long-term game which requires discipline some more than others like for me going to the gym like five times a week i wouldn't say i'm disciplined at doing that because i enjoy doing it so yeah but it's not really it doesn't require a lot of discipline to go i genuinely enjoy it the discipline is outside at the gym when it comes to what I put in my mouth.

51:18I've got a big appetite and I love sweet things. So that requires more work. But why do some people have such a hard time sticking to these requirements in order to get this physique that they want to look a certain way? Because I deal with so many people who do the whole yo-yo dieting thing. They get this surge of motivation and inspiration they're like right i'm going to change everything yeah and they get good at it for a couple of weeks yeah but then it just kind of phases out and then they just go back to their old habits a couple weeks later and then it's just on off on off yeah it's predominantly because the underlying motivation is inauthentic so meaning for you to go to the gym five days a weak is somewhat effortless.

52:08Like you said, it doesn't require discipline because your identity pulls for it. So for example, going back to religion, I know it's a sensitive subject, but if somebody is Christian in their identity, it's effortless for them to sustain whatever behaviors and practices they're supposed to have because that's how they've identified themselves. So somebody doesn't identify themselves as healthy or in good shape, it's almost like they're immediately in conflict with themselves why have i identified myself i would have to know a little bit about your history and you know where you felt the need to compensate you know what is this that this gives you that underneath it's covering up i think it's a probably a few things because people ask me like what like go why why did you start and i'm even trying to think of the motivations as to why i started because nobody told me to do it no it was something i i would go by i think i started just deciding to lift weights when i was like 17 yeah none of my friends did it in fact a few of them made fun of me for going like because they just thought it was a weird thing to do yeah but i just immediately very quickly enjoyed it i don't know if it was just because it was a thing that I could do purely by myself.

53:29It was because beforehand playing rugby, it was very much team sport. Right. And this was a thing which was just all within my control. Yeah. And then I could very quickly see the changes in my body and maybe it's a vanity thing. I was like, I like the way I look. Absolutely. So I would say it's usually driven by two forces, right? You're either getting the positive feedback. In this case, you see the results, which could also not lead just to you like the way you look, you're getting more attention, it's girls, it's whatever. Or it can be driven by something that you don't want, right? So wanting has sort of got these two forks to it, like wanting that leads to something that is self-fulfilling.

54:08And that's like a positive feedback loop of confidence versus wanting that's driven by something you don't want. So again, as a stereotype for guys who get, as I said, more jacked than you, they were bullied, they were made fun of, they were scrawny as a kid. and that gave them a sense of not belonging not being loved not being wanted and that hurt because we all want a sense of belonging so they discovered that well fuck that i'm gonna actually get jacked and i'm gonna disprove my friends i'm gonna disprove my dad you know whatever it is so now you're being driven and motivated by more the fear and the scarcity it can still create results but at the end of the day you're still going to be unhappy internally yeah do you know arthur brooks no he's uh he's like a happiness expert he was on a podcast recently i think with chris williamson And he was saying how a lot of these guys who go to the gym and are jacked usually have quite a lot of mental issues that are unresolved.

54:59Yeah, totally. It's compensatory, as I said. It's a compensation for a belief of inadequacy, scarcity, or something's missing. What about those people who, they are in great shape, but they tend to develop this body dysmorphia, where they don't see themselves as the true reality of what's going on. The same thing for maybe some women who are struggling with anorexia. They genuinely don't see themselves for what they are, which is very skinny, low body fat. And they just refuse to eat. Because again, it's driven by the mind and the perception. It's got nothing to do with reality. Like I said, I could work with billionaires, but internally they still feel worthless because they grew up, like I can remember one guy was in Thailand at a retreat and this guy came from Australia, multi-billionaire, huge commercial real estate guy.

55:50And he told me the story of how he walked in once and saw his mom on all fours, you know, mopping the floor, wiping the floor on her second or third job. And he felt like I'm never going to be in this situation. So he then planted the virus of I'm never going to accept poverty that then obviously created wealth but that virus is still like i said alive did you ever see the movie inception yeah yeah with yeah so the the backstory apart from them trying to plant you know inception that story into the asian businessmen or whatever is leonardo caprio's story with his wife and so he knew that inception work because he did it on her because people go down to these different levels of the subconscious which is what i work on and they get sort of enamored with that It's like, I want to stay here, right?

56:39They had those scenes where people are just staying on the beds. They're living in the dream world. And his wife didn't want to leave. So he planted the virus of this isn't real. Because you know that you get out of the different levels of subconscious by killing yourself, right? It's like, you know, if you're in a horrible dream, you're being chased or you get shot, you suddenly wake up, right? So it's a beautiful, very smart premise. But because that virus is still alive, that once they'd come out of the levels, she was in reality. But she's like, no, no, honey, this isn't real. yes no no he's like it is but she's so she's being driven that ultimately is the deciding factor for all thoughts feelings and actions is as i said earlier your view of yourself and life yeah so it doesn't it's really immaterial you could have the most beautiful body but you'll still see yourself as less than if that was the story that you made up at a young age yeah it's funny because i sometimes ask myself like who am i if you take away the physique yeah muscles yeah just like a regular guy and can you be okay with that yeah yeah i'm sure at this age i'm yeah sure i would be but younger not so much yeah yeah i'm it is weird because it has become a part of my identity for so long yeah you've got a business you've got a beautiful place you know it's all like where we put value we attribute so much energy and effort onto that which gives us a sense of worth, a sense of love, a sense of acceptance.

58:01I had this thing, which I don't have anymore, but it was like in my twenties where I, I feel like a lot of my success had come purely based off the way that I look. And it was just that it had nothing to do with anything else. Yeah. And it kind of, I was like, Oh, I need to prove that I'm more than just this visual thing. Yeah. Because what if it is taken away than who, who am I? Could I even do anything else? Yeah. And that fear almost drove me to want to achieve more things outside of fitness. Yeah. Because I didn't want to be seen as that guy that only had like one thing to offer. Yeah. No, and that's a compensation, but it does lead to diversity and it accesses different parts of your potential.

58:46But think about women. How many women who are beautiful have spent their whole life being told you're pretty, like you're a pretty girl and then you're cute and then you're like gorgeous. and then you know that's where all of the values put and so for them there's an inordinate amount of pressure that now becomes like anti-aging and makeup and they're they're still playing the game of trying to get and garner the acceptance of other people when they don't have it for themselves that's really the yeah and they usually not always the case but sometimes they don't have the best personality because life is so easy they don't even need to really work on the conversation skills and being funny and charismatic because yeah i look so good the guys are just going to want me regardless yeah whereas you know it's like guys as well guys aren't necessarily the most attractive guys yeah they're like okay well i need to i need to work on my game yeah like i need to have a ton of cash yeah yeah yeah so there's there's like there's ways ways around it and the common theme with all of it is the underlying belief that you're not love for who you are yeah yeah um i want to speak a bit about uh ego okay can can ambition exist without ego or is ego always going to be a part of the game um again i think with the word ambition you know maybe that is synonymous with ego i think curiosity exploration creativity are going to be the bedfellows of ambition, but more from an authentic place.

1:00:17Meaning, I love to explore my potential, but I'm not doing it to disprove a feeling of inadequacy. I'm not trying to do it to prove myself to society. So it's a little bit more of a natural curiosity and inquiry versus ambition. Ambition is great, but I think we're getting into the semantics of language. I think ambition is going to typically be associated with ego. It's a compensation. So it's good to have a little bit of ego. I mean, good, unavoidable. I mean, even myself, you know, I'm Peter Crone, I'm the mind architect. I know at the deepest level, that's not me. But I'm not, you know, if I'm walking down the street, someone says, hey, Peter, I'm not going to ignore them because I know it's all just labels.

1:01:04I'm just pure consciousness. You know, it's like, that doesn't, I mean, that's great. How's that going to pay the fucking bills, right? So we all have ego to a certain degree. It's just, you don't want to be defined by in a way that you're constantly playing the game of either proving or disproving a story about yourself. That's why when I said earlier about the definition of success, you know, saying, oh, well, if someone's successful, is your question. And I'm like, well, for me, success has got nothing to do with materialism. It's got everything to do with being completely at peace. Yeah. I see this a lot, especially those people that come into a great degree of success very quickly.

1:01:40It's really hard to not let it get to your head and feel like, oh, I'm the man, I've got all this money or attention, or even if all of a sudden all these women start wanting you, it's very easy for you to just think you are just untouchable, unstoppable. yeah and i do from what i've seen what from what i've experienced as well i feel like life the universe always has a way of humbling you if especially if you uh-huh if you let it get to you too much or you you're not thankful for it or appreciative of it like even for me when things are going too well i'm like okay what's coming next and i'm always i'm always like eternally thankful for like everything i have and the things that come to me yeah um because if if i don't and i feel like oh well i'm just entitled to that and i deserve it and it's yeah all of this is the success is because of me like how good i am the universe will be like yep nope i'm gonna take that all away from you check your ass yeah yeah it's like the old chinese proverb you know there's different iterations of this but like this farmer uh has a couple of horses and one runs away and so the neighbors come over and go, oh, we're so sorry to hear about your news.

1:02:55You lost your horse. And he's like, well, we'll see. And then a few days later a week, the horse comes back and brings these wild stallions with them. And the neighbors come, oh my gosh, that's this great news that you've got the horse and you've got other horses. And he's like, well, we'll see. And then the son is trying to break in one of the new stallions that came there and he gets kicked off and he breaks his leg. And so the neighbors come over and they're like, oh my gosh, we're so sorry to hear about your son that's terrible and he's like well we'll see and then you know the army's coming to recruit all these young men to go to war and his son is in the age group because he's got a broken leg he can't go and so the neighbors are oh that's so lucky that you know your son i guess because he's got a broken leg he doesn't have to go to war and you know it's good news and he's like we'll see and eventually just you never know and that's the beauty of life is that we're really just in this part of this co-creation we're unfolding and to not resist it is really to me to be in that flow state have your goals and aspirations but don't get too attached to outcomes because maybe it's really not what you're supposed to have yeah who out of everyone that you have worked with experiences the most pressure and stress and difficulty with these kind of things so would it be somebody who is a an actor or a sports person or a business owner who which field comes with the most baggage and difficulty um i think the human field no i think you know everybody's bearing their own cross and that's why i always ask people to be kind because you don't know what people have been through so i don't think there's any hard and fast rule as to a particular industry or field that is worse than others of course when you're dealing with emergency services and people are like ambulance you know and fire fighters and you know they're going to see some horrific things or or police you know where you're showing up to a murder scene and i think anybody who's on the front lines of wars and where you're seeing atrocities, that can really have a lasting impact.

1:05:09PTSD is a real thing for soldiers who've had to do the most heinous thing that go against complete human nature, just because someone's a different skin color, nationality, or religion that you've been told to torture them or kill them. That to me is the ignorance of current society is that we don't recognize the unity of everything and that, um, you know, we're all basically the same, just with different stories. So I think there are going to be certain industries that for sure have a lot more trauma associated with them, but otherwise everybody's got their journey. Everybody's here to overcome their own form of limitation and suffering.

1:05:49And that to me warrants compassion. Why is, why is there some people that have this almost unexplainable, probably explainable, uh, self-confidence and self-belief. Like they, they just, they feel like they can achieve anything. Anything is possible. And then they're just not afraid of failure or looking bad. And then there's those other people who they're kind of just content with how their life is because they genuinely think that, well, you know, I can't do this. Like I, that's not for me. yeah like where does that come from um well i remember in these me i do memes on a sunday that people love you know and it's one one way that i bring a lot of humor and also point out hopefully some of the um insanity of the world to wake people up but one of them reminds me is like you know someone says um i wish i had the confidence of a 22 year old life coach yeah you can do it you know i always thought that was funny so again it's going to come down to programming.

1:06:52If somebody is really gung-ho and thinks everything's possible, you could look at their childhood. Maybe they grew up in a family where they were always encouraged, even in the face of adversity, even through failure. Their mom or their dad were like, don't worry about it. It always works out. Versus somebody who perhaps hits this invisible ceiling. They may have grown up in a house where the neighborhood had very wealthy friends and big homes, and they didn't live in that one. So they might have had the story of like, well, play it small, or wealth and success is for other people, not me. Or, you know, it's usually going to be, as I said, some narrative that is defining how people relate to life.

1:07:30It always comes down to that conversations that you've heard. Money doesn't grow on trees. You know, how many people have heard that? And then they wonder why they have financial problems. It's not that money does grow on trees, but it's implied that it's not easy to come by. Yeah. Do you see? Yeah. It's not a truth, but if you're living with inside of that world or money's the root of all evil, you know, because I teach some my mastermind would talk about these dysfunctional relationships people have to money. And so if you live in that world, you've already created a limitation to what's available to you in a world that doesn't have a budget, right?

1:08:05The universe doesn't speak English, it speaks vibration. So if your vibration is scarcity because money's the root of all evil, or money doesn't grow on trees, or money's for other people, then you're energetically saying it's not readily available. So then life will go, okay, you want to play that game? We'll make sure that you get that. With the people that come to your mastermind, are they coming from common backgrounds? All over the shot. Last one, we had over 30 countries, moms, dads who want to be better parents, leaders, CEOs, managers who want to be better at communicating and inspiring teams, people who are nutritionist coaches who want to be able to help, people with the psychology of stuff.

1:08:49It's across the gamut. And people who've been struggling with their own issues, health, relationships, wealth, lack of purpose, they've been in therapy for 20 years and still talking about the same damn thing. Yeah, so it's across the gamut. It's my purest joy to take people on this three and a half month journey of breaking free of these deep subconscious constraints that everyone's got. I tell people there's nothing more expensive than living within your limitations yeah very true what about do you ever come across people who they if it seems like they have it all and do you ever feel like they're just being greedy and they just want more and more and you have to be like look you just calm down a little bit yeah i mean look at the the gamut of the human experience it's across the board we've got atrocities that are happening to children being sex trafficked and people who are just like at the other end of the spectrum they got more money than time you're talking about philanthropists and i'm not going to name names but billionaires out there who want to inject everybody with serums you know we know who we're talking about and it's like dude you've got enough money that if you really cared about health and get rid of salvation versus poisoning people with pharma products because you've got a depopulation agenda you know it's like so we've got evil at one end we've got poverty and uh devastation and another i mean that's the beauty of the human experience is it's got all frequencies you know it's like a fascinating place to be, isn't it?

1:10:13So everybody's going to have their own journey. And that's what I always find so remarkable is that whoever you are, you're going to attract the perfect circumstances for your evolution. Why is it that you met some chick at the beach the other day, who's going to maybe be a friend, a client, or a lover, versus somebody else's in their office, and they went down to the mailroom, and they ran into somebody who's going to be their future a husband like oh what are the chances they happen to you know what i mean that is crazy i think about that sometimes i wake up every day like for example i have a choice of like literally 10 different gyms that i can go to yeah like i love the fact i can wake up every day and make all these choices as to how my day is gonna yeah pan out and it's funny how i can make one decision about going to one specific place at a certain time and then i have all these conversations and meet these people purely because I decided to go to this place and not that place.

1:11:10It baffles me how literally just being at a certain point in time, you can end up having a relationship with someone. Are you a big believer in timing? Yeah, it's unavoidable. How did we get to meet? Why are we having this conversation? Why are the words that I'm currently using in this precise moment the words that I'm using based on my conditioning? How did you find me? Why is it that I'm in Dubai at this moment? So it becomes incomprehensible to the single mind to try and understand the trillions of events that had to happen simultaneously just for us to be sitting here. It's crazy. Isn't it?

1:11:50And that's where you just, for me, it's awe-inspiring and that's why I just am happy to trust. I've often joked, my parents died, didn't have a penny. And I say, but I'm a trust fund baby because I trust in the universe. What do you say to people who are maybe struggling right now? What was the first thing they can do to get out of this negative mindset and prison that they're in? By not trying to get out of it. What do you mean? Okay. So just accept. Yeah. To be okay. It's okay. You're human. You're feeling. Typically resistance is the precursor to suffering. There's nothing wrong in the moment.

1:12:31You're feeling what you're feeling. You're thinking what you're thinking and your circumstances are what they are. Nobody is a victim of circumstance. And there's horrific circumstance. I don't want to dismiss the things that people are going through. Everyone's a victim of perspective. Their perception is creating their suffering. So if right now they're feeling woe is me because they got fired, their girlfriend, boyfriend just left them, they found out someone cheated, they've lost money on the stock market, there's no suffering in any of that. That's circumstance. yeah the brain will use circumstance to justify its perception as to why that's not okay now you're suffering so the more you're okay with everything the more at peace you are and then there's nothing wrong yeah i think being at peace is the goal that's why i said that to me is true success yeah being okay with whatever happens yeah being at peace is good but i don't know if being too comfortable is good.

1:13:30I think sometimes you've got to push yourself out of your comfort zone. If you want to have some sense of accomplishment and fulfill on your potential, absolutely. But there's a difference between when we're talking about ambition, being driven by fear, which can create a lot of force and a lot of outcomes, but with a lot of cost, right? That's the quintessential high achiever who's never actually happy versus being at peace and being in harmony with life i'm okay where i'm at and and i'm super excited to explore my potential yeah do you still do things that scare you or make you uncomfortable or does nothing i guess i think you know things that scare me is sort of a bit of a misnomer because if it scared me then i wouldn't know about it till it happens okay right so like what there's something you would do something and you'd be like i'm gonna be fine doing this i'll be comfortable but then there'd an unexpected fear.

1:14:24Yes, that would come up. And then when that happens, that's an opportunity in my world to be able to look at. It's like, oh, okay, if there's something that I'm not willing to express, experience, or go through, that's where I'm lacking freedom and my commitments to freedom. So then I would lean into that. Whereas most people do the opposite. They escape through substances or distractions or TV. And so now they've gone nowhere. So for me, like I said earlier, the meaning of life, whatever you make, it mean the objective of life to break free from your fears and the purpose to help other people do the same.

1:14:55So there are things that obviously come up for me, but when they come up for me, I see it as an opportunity, not a problem. Yeah. Do you think the psychedelics have their place when it comes to things like this? 100%. Yeah, not for me. I've never done anything. It's not been my means of self-realization or awakening, but for a lot of people, they need that extra nudge. They might not be able to have the wherewithal, the intelligence or self-reflection to be able to get beyond their own blind spots. So I think from obviously never doing it, I don't know, but I've had tons of friends who've done it.

1:15:29You know, and they see the light, they've realized they're one with God, there's only love, you know, whatever it is. My only caution is that people do these experiences, but then they don't integrate it. They don't know what to do with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're like, oh, well, I'll do it again. Yeah, yeah. And then you do 50 ayahuasca ceremonies. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's sometimes pretty useful, particularly for those people that maybe really need an ego death. Yeah. Like, let's just bring you right back down. And this is who you are. It's a little bit of the spiritual two by four because they're not willing to look at the sort of subtler signs in life where they've maybe had 10, 15, 20, 30 years of conditioning that they've just been hiding behind.

1:16:12Yeah. And so sometimes you need that slap around the proverbial, you know, noggin just to get a glimpse of like, oh, fuck, I'm digging in the wrong place. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. What do you got planned for the rest of this year then? Anything exciting? Tons of things. I mean, I'm speaking here at the World Government Summit, which is a big deal. And then I'm going to Abu Dhabi to speak at a festival and do a big keynote. Finishing my book, launching a new membership platform, developing an AI product to bring out this new operating system that's almost done. Nice. Yeah, so, and then whatever life has in store that I can't currently know about that might either scare me or surprise me and we'll find out.

1:16:55Amazing. Where can people find you on social media? At Peter Crone, just my name, C-R-O-N-E, and same website, petercrone.com, if they want to do the Masked Mind. You say it happens every three months, the Masked Mind? Twice a year. Twice a year, okay. Yeah, so we've got, depending on when this comes out, the next one launches on February 21st. so it'd obviously be great if this comes out if not um and then um yeah it's all just my name so linkedin facebook yeah peter crone amazing thank you i've enjoyed today my pleasure great to be with you mate thanks for having me on