3 Minute Saturday Morning Reset: Why Practical Optimism is the Ultimate Competitive Advantage

0:00Focus features in Blumhouse present Obsession. When I have a crush on a guy, no one knows. Be careful. I wish Nikki loved me more than anyone in the entire world. Who you wish for. Obsession is 96 % fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. I love you so, so, so, so much. It's blood-soaked nightmare fuel. What kind of blood you put on her? You have been warned. Obsession, rated R, under 17, I made it without parent. Only theaters May 15th. With special engagements in Dolby. Nothing you do professionally actually matters. People knowing I'm a nice human being and that I've helped matter so much more to me than the zeros in my bank account.

0:37I know the cliche response, easy for you to say now that you have it. I got it because that's who I was. If you love music more, but you make more money in cards and comics, go all in and learning music because flipping music is going to make you happier in your soul. What makes me happy in my soul was these flowers. There's no money I make that ever makes me feel better than the moment I just had, people knowing I'm a good guy and me knowing that then it affects them so that they'll be a good guy to the girl or guy that comes and sees them in 15 years, that I'm setting the framework that I am literally one of the few people on the internet that's like, no, nice guys win, nice guys win, nice guys win, be nice.

1:18Like, I know. I mean, somebody left a comment to a post I did yesterday that got like a thousand likes on TikTok that said this is the king of toxic positivity. And I laughed. I laughed that we live in a world where people really believe there's something called toxic positivity. I'm not delusional. Does anybody listen to what I say? Toxic positivity is slang for delusion. I'm selling you all delusion that life can be good or that it's nice out there or it's not as bad as you think. That is insanity to me. It's the truth. But you've all believed the naysayers. You believe the cynics, the politicians, the scared parents and teachers and bosses.

2:00You're allowed. But I'm telling you right now, fuck fear. Fuck fear and go get yours. And if you actually believe you can't because someone told you it's tough for your generation. Gen Z's fucked by the boomers and you'll never be as successful. Or sneakers are dead and you're fucked because you got a closet and a warehouse. If you believe you're dead, do you fucking understand you're dead?

2:26I'm not saying this is the secret. All of this is hard work. I've got two admins and a whole team behind me looking over my shoulder right now because I'm four minutes late. That's how valuable my time is. It's all fucking work. But I promise you, if you don't choose practical optimism, meaning you have to be optimistic that you can, because it's true, you can. You might have to go through therapy. You might have to cut all your fucking toxic friends out. You might have to stop popping pills and smoking weed. You might have to do a lot of shit. But you can. I know you can. I've been on the receiving end of thousands of you who weren't you, who were fucking already set up for winning and it just had to be a little like truth of love.

3:03Like I didn't let you down and you kept listening. I've met thousands of not you. Fucking real drug use, abusing their girl, really fucked up, hating the world. Only like trying to build out of fear and hate, not out of love and optimism. And I've watched my content and my interactions and many others that do what I do, convert these people to straight gangsters. And that's what I want for you. I don't want you to have a shit fucking life. That's my rant. I do not want you to have a shit fucking life. And I promise you it's this. Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. The message for everyone paying big wireless way too much.

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