Defeat Burnout Culture & Attract Your Dream Life | Jameela Jamil EP 542

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:10How can people who are upset, frustrated, worn out, exhausted, if you can only share one message with them on how to really be effective on making a change and the thing that matters to them most, what would you say to those individuals? Well, first thing you need to do is identify that that's a cultural pattern in our generation, right? We want a thousand channels. We want a thousand shows to be able to stream at the same time. We want to be able to have 600 different people on a menu that we can swipe through who we're going to go on a date with tonight. We have Amazon Prime. It delivers today.

0:47You know what I mean? Instant gratification. We don't do slow weight loss or weight gain anymore. It's like, where are the shortcuts? It's a generation taught to look for shortcuts, to look for a quick fix, to look for instant gratification. And so recognizing that as a cultural phenomenon that's never existed before, because pre-technology we just didn't have access to it, I'm sure the inclination was always there. It's never good for you. We have too much content. We are overstimulated. We're spending too much time on screens. We're seeing mental health issues. We have too many dating options, too many apps.

1:20People are lonelier than they've ever been. They're having less sex than they've ever had. The birth rate, I guess, is declining. All kinds of things are going wrong from having too many options, too much convenience. right we are seeing people's health decline because of fast food and so when we look at people losing weight with these extreme measures via pills injections and very very severe diets that are unsustainable five percent of which work 95 of which fail like those aren't good for people they can lead to eating disorders or heart problems all kinds of different health issues if you're taking substances to speed up your weight loss i was talking in the senate like not long ago about the fact that in muscle build products that are predominantly targeting boys, in a lot of them they're finding Viagra and heavy metals.

2:08Oh, just quick fix, quick fix, quick fix. There's no such thing as a quick fix. Nothing that has ever been done at speed can ever work. It always causes mess, chaos and harm. So while I understand wanting anything fast, patience and discipline are two things that are no longer encouraged in our society. We don't even allow for human beings to grow and change anymore. We expect them to instantly be updated with all of the perfect opinions that are constantly changing all of the time. So we have to take a step back and look at the fact that we are a sick society. Wow. Mentally, physically, socially.

2:48Once we're realistic about the fact that the quick fix doesn't work, I think we're able to return to, okay, what does incremental change look like? The only kind of change that ever lasts. Right. Incremental change. It's kind of slow change. It's slow change. It's slow bit by bit by bit by bit. And that allows you to have time to be careful. It allows you to have time to consider. It allows you to have time to change your mind. Strategize, test it out, see how this feels. My rise to fame way too fast. I had no idea what the f*** was going on. I felt like I was in the middle of a tornado. I didn't have time to look at myself or look at the way that I was coming across or look at the impact to the people that I most wanted to reach.

3:26I didn't want to reach the people who already agree with me. And now those are the only people that are probably listening to my podcast that I mean to be for everyone. But I couldn't see it. It's too fast. Nothing fast ever works. Wow. Nothing good comes from it. So what does incremental change look like? incremental change looks like starting to educate yourself it involves listening to people's opinions who are opposed to you which you're not supposed to do i'm not just shutting them out nowadays you're not even supposed to follow anyone that has a different opinion or who did something wrong because then you'll be judged for following those people develop critical thinking skills as to why you disagree with them research learn when you have a family member who says something that you find egregious that you disagree with whatever political side you're on learn how to debate learn just run away and shame them and make them give them the facts learn how to convince each other again not just shut each other down and dispose of each other change the circle you're in if we can all just focus on the circle we're in and stop fighting with celebrities who we way over deified anyway and stop fighting with you know our great grandfather who isn't did something in the war back in the day or whatever.

4:40Like, let's just work on our inner circle and try to make an influence there, change the way that we interact with others, because that will change the way that person goes on to interact with someone else, and open up our scope of who we are.

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