Rising Above Insecurity & Conquering Confidence | Russell Brand EP 351

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1:13What are your thoughts on this? Having a dream that is inside of your soul for years that you never fully commit to, what does that do to us if we continue on for the rest of our life, never fully going all in on our dreams. I think it obviously reinforces the idea of incompetence or it reinforces the idea that you are incapable of following through. And I feel like we have an obligation to follow that or as you say, put it aside. Look, we all know in the grim economies of our lives, if we were to put aside staring at some senseless social media platform and give that time to learn in Spanish, we'd speak Spanish by now in four languages yeah that's why someone like Tony Robbins because that man he just makes those choices have you ever heard him tell the story about how he learned polo he's just like whenever I'm walking my dog I feel like I'm friends with Tony and I've told him this whenever I'm walking my dog or anything I feel like Tony wouldn't be doing this Don't you be learning something now?

2:24Well, you know, you could be learning Spanish while you walk the dog. I mean, he's powerful, but he's a one-off, let's face it. He eliminates excuses. He just says there is no room, and he goes all in on his desires. It's pretty powerful. One of the things I think that holds a lot of people back, myself included, is when we doubt ourselves, when we don't believe in our own abilities or what we're capable of creating in the future. What do you think are some ways that we can overcome self-doubt to gain that real confidence, not fake confidence, but overcome the doubts that hold us back from asking that person out or going after that career opportunity or just saying, I'm going to go after what I want in my life?

3:08Self-doubt can be critical, Lewis, because it can be a component of awareness. I feel that the answer must always be the embarkation on a spiritual life. It's difficult, isn't it, in this world of personal development that we find ourselves in, for us not to take on the tropes and objectives of a culture that I think at this point we need to be querying and looking to move away from. We've all been deeply inculcated to believe that the pursuit of happiness is contingent upon the attainment of our petty, trivial desires. But real happiness is contingent on being free from those petty, trivial desires.

3:58You know, see if someone's like that, doesn't know, can't pluck up the confidence to ask someone out or can't pluck up the confidence to pursue their dream or whatever. for me I don't feel like it's my job to operate at that that that intersection at the intersection of well come on believe in yourself you're as good as anyone else you never know unless you try you know I don't think that's my job my job is like why do you think you want this what do you think it's going to do for you what do you want really what do you really want what do you really want what is it you are looking for I don't feel like our job is to train people to bend themselves into a shape where they can succeed within these systems.

4:36I think our job is to train people so that they learn to challenge these systems, to create fairer systems that are not solely built upon the fulfilment of individual goals. Serve the thing you are pursuing. You know, if it's like you really want to go out of a boy or a girl, why are you looking to serve them or do you think they're going to somehow solve or absolve you? You see them as some salve or if you're after some dream why is it because you don't feel like you're good enough or you're worthy i would say this that you are beautiful that you are enough that you deserve to feel content and happy but you have to be willing to surrender everything you have to be willing to accept that what you think you should get might not be right where did it come from that idea having experienced the type of celebrity that I experience.

5:27I've met people that, as I'm sure you have, that are at the apex, the zenith. They have enjoyed it. They have been to Kubla Khan. They've had it. They're in there drowning in riches and drowning in deed because it's not real. It's not real. Never lose sight of the fact that we are in limitless space in every direction. Never lose sight of the fact that in the sub-particular world, the rules of physics as we previously understood them are falling apart. never lose sight of the fact that our senses are limited and we can only see 0.63 % of the electromagnetic range that we are operating essentially in darkness that the neural activity that we experience that constitutes our reality is only a tiny percentage of the potential of our own brain let alone the potential brain of god wouldn't it be a coincidence if we were issued with all of the senses necessary to experience total reality isn't it more likely that we think of reality as just being the circumference of our sensual world so there are limitless experiences as you unheard and men unhad and many of them lay in the realm of mystery engage with the mystery meditate pursue these spiritual disciplines don't rely entirely on the material path this is not like you know neglect the body or hate the body love the body we are in this material world we are god made flesh we are having this experience in bodies but i don't think you can take what this culture is offering you as a solution and think that it will be a solution.

6:54You'll be disappointed. The map is not the territory. The map is not the territory. When you get there, it's not like that. Start where you are. Start with you now. Absolutely. day.

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