When You Think You've Run Out Of Options, Do This | Jay Shetty

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0:51There are some people who have the perfect family situation, resources, beautiful backyards and nature who are lazy. and there are others who have, you know, divorced parents, abusive parents, abusive friends, an environment of a desert and they figure out a way to thrive. Totally. How much importance does our environment play in our overall success? If you look at the examples that you just shared and you really analyzed life, you'd see very little because you see people craft their own life. So a good example for me is that when I came back from living in the ashram and there were other people who may have been monks who'd also left the path.

1:35And I came back to a not financially successful or supportive family. So my family doesn't have abundant wealth and couldn't necessarily have taken care of me or paid for me forever. And I had to figure out my own life. And that to me was a great sense of impetus and incentive to go and figure it out and learn new skills and network and meet people. And I saw other friends whose parents had like a property portfolio with like 10 properties ready to hand them over. They had a BMW the second that they came out, whatever, you know, from their own life. Or I even have friends that had all of that and didn't become monks and didn't even find careers.

2:14So I've also got friends that I went to school with that today don't even have careers, even though their parents were really well established. Right. Which has all of these examples have continued me to believe that we truly have influence in our more than our environment. Our environment affects us for sure. It plants seeds and weeds into our life. But there is still a choice. And I think even if you feel there isn't a choice, simply by accepting that there is, it means you have a chance to get out of there. And I think that's what... Because if you don't accept that there is, then you're just going to stay stuck.

2:48Correct. Like there've been so many times in my life and there's a beautiful quote from Edison. I don't think I said this last time, but if I did, it's worth repeating. He said that when you believe you've exhausted all options, remember this, you haven't. And the reason why I love that is your mind continuously feels stuck when it's tried the obvious. And that's why a lot of creativity and focus studies say that the first 10 ideas that come to your mind are never the most interesting. It's when you get into the 11th idea that you start breaking the pattern. And so if someone asks you, oh, what's your best business idea?

3:22Your first 10 ideas are probably not that innovative. And so the mind constantly gets stuck on that train and you've got to keep reminding yourself that there is another door. There could be another pathway. I was thinking about a piece of advice that, so one of my closest spiritual mentors who was in London, I knew him since I was probably like 12 and properly since I was 18. He passed away this year from stage four brain cancer. And he'd had brain cancer for about, I think like three, four years now. And so I hadn't really had a real interaction with him for the past few years because every time I saw him, he wasn't fully functioning in his short-term memory.

3:59His long-term memory was there, but his short-term memory wasn't. And I remember speaking to him probably about seven, eight years ago and asking him the question. I said to him, you know, I've got so many ideas. there's so many things I could do where do I start and he said this beautiful thing to me he said you know what your role should be to open up every door possible and he said let the world close the doors you're not meant to walk through and walk through the ones that remain open oh I want to realize is most of us just not opening up enough doors because we think we only have the option of two doors we look at life is binary zero and one zero and one right it's It's just A or B, this or that.

4:36And I mean, I think you'd say this too about you and every guest you've ever had on. I don't think life is ever this or that. It's like this, that, and that, and maybe that, and that. And there's always a gap. Of course. The challenge that people have that I've sensed a lot is the fear of criticism when you go after something that you weren't supposed to do or that people don't think you're supposed to do.

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