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Trevor Noah ON: How to Turn Bad Experiences into Healing Experiences & Finding Calm in Chaos
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Trevor Noah ON: How to Turn Bad Experiences into Healing Experiences & Finding Calm in Chaos

Today, I am talking to Trevor Noah. Trevor is the most successful comedian in Africa and is the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. Under Trevor, “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” has broken free from the restraints of a 30-minute linear show, producing engaging social content, award-winning digital series, podcasts and more for its global audience. He has written, produced, and starred in 11 comedy specials, including his most recent, “Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia,” which launched in November 2018 on Netflix. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” and its young readers adaptation “It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,” which also debuted as a New York Times bestseller.     

Trevor opens the conversation by sharing what it was like growing up, how he sees the rest of the world, and why it felt like it was okay growing up the way he did. We then exchange thoughts and perspectives on topics such as finding the true meaning of having a ‘home’, the type of friends we often surround ourselves with and why, finding independence in a completely new and foreign place, and being mindful of yourself and in one with your inner thoughts.     

What We Discuss:

  • 00:00:00 Intro
  • 00:02:18 Same story, same book but different meaning
  • 00:05:33 Comparing your hardships to others experiences
  • 00:09:27 “It was not bad because it happened to everyone.”
  • 00:13:27 Are you forced to be grateful for everything?
  • 00:19:13 The true definition of the word home
  • 00:21:39 What is your purpose?
  • 00:25:19 Who are your friends?
  • 00:35:43 Becoming unrelatable to people
  • 00:44:43 How does a monk fire someone?
  • 00:46:48 What is your idea of safety?
  • 00:52:30 When’s the best time to walk away?
  • 00:56:37 Having conversations with yourself
  • 01:03:37 When you leave home
  • 01:09:25 The burden our parents unconsciously give us 
  • 01:17:54 The Many Sides to Us
  • 01:24:03 Trevor on Final Five

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Speaker 1: We are so attached to the idea of who we are,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to lose me and me, I know me.

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Speaker 1: If I want to lose me, do I love me? Hey? Everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to On Purpose, to number one health podcast

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Speaker 1: in the world. Thanks to each and every one of

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Speaker 1: you that come back every week to listen, learn and grow.

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Speaker 1: Now you know that one of my favorite ways to

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Speaker 1: my life, and that's why I try and share those

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Speaker 1: with you here. And today's guest is someone that I've

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Speaker 1: only someone who needs no introduction, Trevor. Noah, Trevor, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for doing this. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: I'm very grateful to have you in the seat. Finally,

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Speaker 1: it's good. I'm grateful to be talking to you in person.

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Speaker 1: Most of the time I see you, I'm watching a

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Speaker 1: clip of yours online, so this is nice. No I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate this. And my interview with you that we

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Speaker 1: Thank you for you so anyway, but I want to

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Speaker 1: that you've simplified it as awareness, because that awareness or

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Speaker 1: you know, that's what home means for me. Yeah, it's

409
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Speaker 1: just that you know, and you feel that in New

410
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Speaker 1: York too. When you're here, you find that you have

411
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Speaker 1: that because of that familiarity, you feel like I've always

412
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Speaker 1: see you, and always it seems to me like you're

413
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Speaker 1: always home. I don't know why. That's that's a nice

414
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Speaker 1: thing for you to say. Genuinely, it always seems like

415
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Speaker 1: I never feel like you. You're uncomfortable, I never feel

416
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Speaker 1: like you. But I don't know if that's just what

417
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 1: you put out, No I would. It's I was going

418
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Speaker 1: to define it. It's contextually sharing now, but my definition

419
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Speaker 1: of home has always been where I feel I'm living

420
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Speaker 1: my purpose. So that's always been my purpose. So and

421
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Speaker 1: I genuinely feel like that where I could wake up

422
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Speaker 1: and be in another city or another country or another seat.

423
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Speaker 1: And as long as this is my like I feel this,

424
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Speaker 1: I'm doing my purpose tonight with you. And that's why

425
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Speaker 1: I'm here. Help me understand. So how would you because

426
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 1: I can try to understand about what? What would you

427
00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 1: say you feel your purpose is? So my purpose is

428
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 1: to help other people find their purpose, Okay, And to me,

429
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,679
Speaker 1: my purpose is to be a vessel of being able

430
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Speaker 1: to expose people to a number of different ideas, insights, paths, stories,

431
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 1: walks of life so that they can find theirs. I

432
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Speaker 1: don't think everyone's purpose looks like mine. I don't think

433
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 1: everyone's path looks like mine because I think one of

434
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Speaker 1: the best things I got when I was a kid,

435
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 1: and again it goes back to my childhood experiences, my

436
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 1: dad was really worried that I didn't read enough and

437
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: I would never be interested in reading fiction books at school.

438
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 1: So we'd get the fiction books like goose Bumps and

439
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: then later on Harry Potter and all these books, and

440
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 1: I would never read them and I wouldn't have any

441
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Speaker 1: interest in them. So my dad was worried and my

442
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: mum was worried that this kid's not going to read.

443
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Speaker 1: And now I was back about thirteen going on fourteen,

444
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 1: and I still wasn't reading a lot, and so my

445
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:35,359
Speaker 1: dad started giving me biographies and autobiographies, and so I

446
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 1: read like by the time I was sixteen, I'd read

447
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Speaker 1: Malcolm X Martin, Luther King. Wow. I was also reading

448
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 1: like David Beckham and Drada L. Johnson because I was

449
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,199
Speaker 1: a massive soccer football fan, and so I started just

450
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: like collecting all these stories. And then, as I told

451
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Speaker 1: you when I said on your show, like I met

452
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Speaker 1: a monk when I was eighteen, and that was the

453
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Speaker 1: story that my purpose felt connected to God. And so

454
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Speaker 1: now I feel I'm like, well, someone's going to listen

455
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Speaker 1: to Trevor story and feel far more connected interest and

456
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: that may spark this kid out there to say, hey,

457
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,199
Speaker 1: maybe that's the kind of direction I want to go in.

458
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 1: I feel like today where we're exposed to the same

459
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: people online and on TV and streaming, and we're also

460
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Speaker 1: exposed to the same parts of them, that's true. And

461
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Speaker 1: my hope is that this podcast, even if you're seeing

462
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Speaker 1: someone who's famous and popular like yourself. Hopefully people get

463
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Speaker 1: a deeper insight into someone famous and popular, or they

464
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Speaker 1: get to meet someone random who's not famous and popular,

465
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Speaker 1: but it's interesting. So anyway, that's that's my purple. So

466
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Speaker 1: I feel like if I'm doing that in a city,

467
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Speaker 1: in a country, I'm home. And it's because one of

468
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Speaker 1: the famous scholars and you two about your mother being

469
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Speaker 1: a scriptural scholar and like such an avid reader. I

470
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Speaker 1: never met this scholar, but my monk teachers would often

471
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Speaker 1: quote him, and he said that the only place higher

472
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Speaker 1: than like the spiritual realm, and he would be poetry,

473
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Speaker 1: but also you know literal as well, that the only

474
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Speaker 1: place higher than being in heaven or the virtual realm

475
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Speaker 1: is a place you live your purpose. And that idea

476
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: always like connected with me, because then I was like, oh,

477
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,439
Speaker 1: so I could be in the middle of chaos but

478
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Speaker 1: still feel at holds and so it gives me a

479
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Speaker 1: sense of comfort, and you know, that's what keeps me

480
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Speaker 1: going when the day is tough, when things are going

481
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Speaker 1: whatever they are, it's something that comforts me and it

482
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483
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484
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485
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499
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Speaker 1: know how much of an inspiration my mom has been

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Speaker 1: you as the one thing. The thread that I've heard

513
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: in you, which I really appreciated, is like literally three

514
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Speaker 1: times you've responded, You've said my friends, my friends. I

515
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: was talking to my friend, Like this person talks a

516
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Speaker 1: lot to their friends, which which is really beautiful because

517
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: you're thinking, wow, that you're a busy person. You're back

518
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: to back. I mean, I remember I was in I

519
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Speaker 1: think we were both speaking at the Charger Book Festival.

520
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Speaker 1: You landed. One night, I message you and I said, Trevor,

521
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: let's do breakfast. You're like, dude, I leave. I was

522
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 1: there for eight hours. You were there for like six

523
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: or four. And I was like, I thought I was

524
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,919
Speaker 1: there for not enough to like I was there for

525
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: eight hours and you were like, dude, I'm literally leaving tonight.

526
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: And so you're a busy person. But in this conversation,

527
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 1: so many times you said friends friends friends friends, friends,

528
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 1: Like yeah, Like how a, who are the friends? What

529
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: are you talking to them about? Like what's your consistent?

530
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: See I'm fascinated by that, because so who are the friends?

531
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,400
Speaker 1: Predominantly my friends are from South Africa, friends I met

532
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 1: doing different things, all all organic meetings, which I'm a

533
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: sucker for. I'm terrible at making friends, partially because I

534
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: don't trust people easily. I exist in the world where

535
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,959
Speaker 1: I can be friendly with many people, but you know,

536
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: it takes me a while to accept that this person

537
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 1: is actually a part of my life. And I think

538
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: for a long time it was because and still is

539
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: sometimes because a I have an idea of putting something

540
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: on that person where I may need them means that

541
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: they may disappoint me. And then on the other side

542
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: of it, them needing me means I could be in

543
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Speaker 1: the position to disappoint them, you know. And And so

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00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: as we learn people, I find, we learn what they

545
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: can and cannot do, we learn who they are or

546
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 1: are not. And it's always situational for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: That's that's when I'll call you like a friend. Is

548
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: that I know how you are in most situations. Yeah,

549
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: you know that that that for me is the definition

550
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Speaker 1: of a friend. So you know, I can be we

551
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: use it loosely obviously, but you know I can be

552
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: friends with you and we always meet for lunch, always

553
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: me for But but then I only know you in

554
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: one way. My friends, I start to be able to

555
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: I almost almost store in a vault in my mind.

556
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: I can say, for a fact, if we're friends. If

557
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 1: Jay was here, this would bother him. He would like that.

558
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Speaker 1: He would probably say this, and that's why he would

559
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: act this way. And that's you know, that's that's how

560
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: I think of my friends. Yeah, so they've been a

561
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: major part of making me feel at home. You know,

562
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Speaker 1: my my my job, stand up comedy is a really

563
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Speaker 1: lonely career, you know. And I remember talking to a comedian,

564
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Speaker 1: it was a few weeks ago, talking about how there

565
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Speaker 1: was like a period where all the stand up comedians

566
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Speaker 1: we're committing suicide, you know, and would be you'd hear

567
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: this devastating story of a comedian that everyone loved. They

568
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: were in a hotel room and then they committed suicide

569
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: and I was petrified because I always think it can

570
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Speaker 1: happen to me. You know, I go that if that

571
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: happened to them, why did it happen? How If I

572
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: don't understand, then what is it? Another comedian, another comedian,

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Speaker 1: Another comedian, another comedian. I think being a stand up

574
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: comedian is a really lonely job in that we're traveling

575
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Speaker 1: oftentimes alone. We don't have a band, we don't have

576
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,959
Speaker 1: backup dancers, we don't we don't, we don't travel. Can

577
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: you imagine? And yet every night you're going out there

578
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: and you're making people love, you're having fun with them.

579
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: They come with their families, they come with their friends,

580
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: they come with their loved ones. You leave alone and

581
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: and it's this constant exchange of energy. And what I

582
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: learned was my my friends became that hub. My friends

583
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: became my recharge. My friends became the couch I could

584
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: lie on and say nothing or everything. And thanks partly

585
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: to technology, I've been able to keep in touch with them.

586
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: There's no there's no catching up for us. It's literally

587
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: a running We've got a WhatsApp thread that is now

588
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:23,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, fifteen years old, Like literally I can

589
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: go back and search something from maybe ten years ago.

590
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes I can go back on the WhatsApp there and

591
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: go what happened, and I can search and I can

592
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: find it. That's how long we've had the same group

593
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: and the same friends and the same everything. And obviously

594
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: it's grown over time, but that core has kept me.

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Speaker 1: You know, I always think, did you end up reading

596
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Speaker 1: Harry Potter? I didn't ever read it. I've watched all

597
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Speaker 1: the movies. Yeah, oh, do you watched it? Okay, I

598
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: watch till movies. I know. I'm a big fan act Okay, okay,

599
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:52,239
Speaker 1: So I feel like your friends in life or your

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00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: Hale cruxes. Oh interesting, Okay, you know, yeah, I think

601
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Speaker 1: that's people. What we do is we break ourselves into parts,

602
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: and whenever we meet people, we give them a part

603
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: of ourselves. And some people we give more than we

604
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: give others. But we give everyone a different part of ourselves.

605
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: No one in your life has the same part that

606
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: another person has. They may seem similar, but they're not.

607
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: Your mother and father hold different parts of you. Your uncles,

608
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: your cousins, your brothers, sisters, your friends, whoever it is,

609
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: they will hold a different parts of you, and the

610
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Speaker 1: same way Voldemort could use that to come back to life.

611
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: I feel like we can use that wow to come

612
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: back to life. Wow. You know what I mean? Yeah,

613
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: you're watch a different movie. Yeah, the Book of my Friend. Yeah,

614
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: And so I always think that is I. I man.

615
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: Sometimes I can be at my worst. I can be

616
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: sometimes I can be lost. Really Jay, there will be

617
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: times when I'll be like, what am I doing? Or

618
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: why am I? I'm stressed, I'm tired, I'm burnt out,

619
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Speaker 1: I feel lost. And I can call a friend and

620
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: no joke. They can say to me, well, the Trevor

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Speaker 1: I know, you know, and and I love that they

622
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: say that. They don't say this is who you are

623
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: or not. They go the Trevor I know found his

624
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: joy here. Hey. You know, I've noticed that you're always

625
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: happiest when you do it this way. Hey, I've noticed

626
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: that you know you stress more when you're in this person. Hey,

627
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: can I go man? I didn't know that about myself. Well,

628
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: I didn't hold myself that way because I'm always experiencing

629
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: all of me still through my lens. But thank you.

630
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: You freed me, you encouraged me, you held me, you

631
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: loved me. And what then happens is I start to

632
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: find what I need to get back to my purpose,

633
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: to my passion, to whatever drives me. And that's why

634
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: my friends are a big part of that. That is

635
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: that is the core of my world, you know. And

636
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: and it's funny. My mom even used to say that

637
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: to me when I was growing up, you know, at

638
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: a certain age, she said to me, she'd say to me,

639
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: my friend, you know, and I'd be like, I'm not

640
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: your friend, You're my mom. And my mom would say,

641
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: just because I'm your mom doesn't mean i'm your friend.

642
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: She said. There are many mothers out there that I'm

643
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: friends with their child. And she said, I'm your mother

644
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: and I will always love you as your mother, but

645
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: you are becoming my friend. And that stuck with me.

646
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: I realized that friendship is a choice. Every other relation

647
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: we have isn't, and so even your your relatives can

648
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: become your friends or may not be your friends. And

649
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: I think understanding that illuminates a lot of how you

650
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: interact with people in the world. Yeah, I really resonate

651
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: with what I mean, everything you said, But one of

652
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: the things that stood out was that kind of performance

653
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: loneliness and my work mainly started with coaching and working

654
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: with people. And I work with a lot of musicians

655
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: and people who tour and travel, not comedians, but artists,

656
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: and you know, they're performing to like one hundred thousand people,

657
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: eighty thousand people. And then they would always talk to

658
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: me about this and I didn't I didn't really have

659
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: a empathetic experience of it. I could understand it theoretically.

660
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: And then because most of the events I used to

661
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: speak out with, like corporate events or like a business

662
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: event or things like that. And then a few years

663
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: ago when I did my first ever event with my audience,

664
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: and it was in La people who came because they

665
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: followed my work, not because of anything else. It was

666
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: only about two thousand people in the audience. And I

667
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: finished the event and I got into the car and

668
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: it hit me and I was like, oh, like, this

669
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: is chemical. This is definitely a chemical, because you've just

670
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: had thousands of people shouting your name and like loving

671
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: everything you say and all this validation and everything else

672
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: as well you were saying when you were coming, like

673
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: the dopamine that everything. And then all of a sudden,

674
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, this feels weird, Like

675
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: why do I feel like, you know, a sense of loneliness.

676
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: And it was really interesting because I felt like that

677
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: pretty much the whole and I felt like calling someone yes,

678
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: and I couldn't because in London it was too early.

679
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: None of my friends would be away, and so they're

680
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 1: eight hours ahead because I'm in LA and I'm going,

681
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: oh God, wait the hour for my friend to wake up.

682
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: Two hours. I'm not going to wake him up in

683
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: the middle of the night. So I'm waiting there. And

684
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: then all my friends in LA were just at the event,

685
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: so I just saw them, and so they're probably like

686
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: going home, and it was a week night, and so

687
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: maybe then I'm like, I don't want to And then

688
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: I get home and my wife would organize a surprise

689
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 1: party for me with all my best friends, my closest

690
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: friends in law, and it was like a relief. It

691
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: wasn't even a celebration. I was like, there's a sense

692
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: of relief. I was like, oh, thank God, because I

693
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know what I would have

694
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: done tonight. Man, Like, you know, I understand why people

695
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 1: turned to drugs. I understand why people turned to I

696
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: understood like it was the first time I was like,

697
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: because you need to numb its. Yeah, you need to

698
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: numbage because you just don't know what to do with

699
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,439
Speaker 1: that feeling. And that was the first time I'd felt

700
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: that way. And I can't imagine, as you were saying,

701
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: for someone who's on tour and traveling every night. Drug

702
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: as I said, my drug was chocolates. I love to up.

703
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 1: That was like my I couldn't. It's like my team knew,

704
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: my people knew. It's like I'll do the show and immediately.

705
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: And you probably relate to this more because coming from

706
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: the UK in America, they don't really do it. In

707
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: South Africa. Our petrol stations, our gas stations, right, they

708
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,959
Speaker 1: have amazing stores attached to them. Like here, every gas

709
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: station looks like it's already been robbed. You don't want

710
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: to pour gas. I don't like it looks terrible. They

711
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: all look abandoned. Yeah yeah, yeah, they all look like

712
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: a ghost. They really did. Yeah. Whereas where we're from,

713
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you go and you buy a pie,

714
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: you buy some you do buy a few dreams. It's

715
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: like cooked exactly. It's like, oh, this is life. You

716
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: can get some groceries on though it's a very normal concept,

717
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: and that would be me. After every show I would drive,

718
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: there would be the silence. I couldn't listen to music.

719
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: I couldn't. My mind would just be It's like I

720
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: could hear everybody, but they were gone. And then I

721
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: would go in and then I would buy chocolate would

722
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: be my thing, it immediately, and then I I you know,

723
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: over the years, I would read and I'd started learning

724
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: that you know, chocolate, the dopamine, the sugar, one of

725
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: these things. I was I was correcting a chemical thing

726
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: without realizing it, because it is a it is a

727
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: shock on your body. Everyone nothing. Yeah, it's it's so

728
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: fascinating that that that experience. And I'm sure people have

729
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: that in different ways in their life, Like you don't

730
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: have to be a performance two thousands of people to

731
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: experience that. I think people experienced that in lots of

732
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 1: different ways. It's beautiful that you've been able to continue

733
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: this tenure WhatsApp chat like that's you know, that's like

734
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: a brilliant achievement. How did you do in such a

735
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: way that when you became unrelatable to people? Like, how

736
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: has that affected your friendships, your life, your relationships, Because

737
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: at one point. I'm guessing. You know, when when you

738
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: come to America, you crush on the Daily Show, things

739
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: are going great, you know, times one hundred most influential

740
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: people like, crushing took some time. But yeah, okay, no, no,

741
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: of course, no, no, no no, no, it tooks it. I

742
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: mean it too, like it actually goes into your goes

743
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: into your question. Yeah, And I just think that there's

744
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: an interesting thing about being so grounded and like, I'm

745
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: enjoying this conversation. It's it's fun. We're like just having

746
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: a real conversation. But at the same time, to a

747
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: lot of people externally, you can start becoming more unrelatable.

748
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: So what's interesting is the reason I the reason I

749
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: put it in, the reason I say the crushing wasn't instant.

750
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: When you're on a journey, people oftentimes will remember the

751
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: beginning of the journey and they will define the journey

752
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: by the way it currently is or how it ended.

753
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: You know, you lived a good life because of how

754
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: your life ended. If somebody is, you know, really poor

755
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 1: for eighty years, then they win the lottery at eighty

756
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: and then they buy their family stuff and they have

757
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 1: a good People were like, man, it was tough body.

758
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: We had a good life, did they? Though it's more like, oh,

759
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: we remember that. That ending is what we often remember.

760
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: And to your point of relatable, My journey was really interesting,

761
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: particularly in America, because for many months, maybe even a

762
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: year and a bit, I was hated, you know, by

763
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: many people. Don't get me wrong, there many people who

764
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: loved me, but it was such a visceral understandable, but

765
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: this will response to me as a concept, who are you?

766
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: How dare you? You? On the show what you know?

767
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: And you're trying to establish imagine trying to meet people

768
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: for the first time, but they have an idea of you,

769
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: and they've already decided what the idea of you is,

770
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: and so you you you can't even relate or make

771
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: yourself relatable to them, and then overnight, all of a sudden,

772
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: people go, are you crushing it? It's a it's a

773
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 1: it's a really weird space to be in because it's

774
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: it's terrible, and then it's not. But your brain doesn't

775
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: shift that quickly. I remember learning once that the human

776
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: brain and the human body aren't necessarily always on the

777
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: same page. If you're running from danger, if there's if

778
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: there's a threat and you run from the danger. Even

779
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: when the danger subsides, your body's still in the danger.

780
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think I think they talk about something

781
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: similar in the book The body keeps the score, but

782
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: your body's still there, and your mind goes, hah, all right,

783
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: oh okay, I'm done. Your body's like, oh hot, pumping,

784
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: you know, veins, throbbing, everything is still happening. And you

785
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: know that that was part of my experience. But what

786
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: was interesting was to your points of relatable. I didn't

787
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: even have a moment to exist in relatable. It was stranger.

788
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: You know, don't like different, weird? Why do you say

789
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: words the way you do? You know? What is aluminium?

790
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,439
Speaker 1: All these things coming together and then oh, yeah, our guy,

791
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: you know which I'm grateful for internally grateful. I was

792
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 1: telling my people everyone, I go, yo, do not forget,

793
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: Do not forget how hard this was, Do not forget,

794
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Do not take it for granted. But what happens is

795
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: it's not that you don't become relatable or you aren't relatable,

796
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: or it's it's it's how people relate to you. They

797
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: have one idea of who you are, they have one

798
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: idea of of how you are, and It's understandable because

799
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 1: of how they interact with you. You know. I I

800
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: have two younger brothers, both, in my opinion, far wiser

801
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 1: than I'll ever be. Always, always, you know, I'll custom

802
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: out and say, you guys, you guys cheated because you

803
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: like took what I did and then you just like

804
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: you leap frogged me, you know. And and my youngest

805
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: brother said one of the most beautiful things. One day,

806
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: we were trying to have dinner as a family, and

807
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: we're taking a quiet moment, and you know, someone came

808
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: over to the table and they're like, hey, can I

809
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: get a selfie? And and this is happening in the

810
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: dinner and you know, and and and someone who was

811
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: with us said, oh, man, that must get annoying. And

812
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I get it. And I said,

813
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: I just don't understand the familiarity and the I don't

814
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: understand it truly. And my brother said one of the

815
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: most interesting things. He said, No, what you're not understanding

816
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: is a disconnect in your relationship, in the relatability. He said,

817
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: You've met them, and they've talked to you, and you've

818
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: had a conversation with them, and so they've built up

819
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: a relationship with you, but they don't understand that you

820
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: haven't been building up the same relationship with them. And

821
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: so they, he said, they're reacting to you as naturally

822
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 1: as they would had you been conversating with them constantly.

823
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: And so he said, if anything, they're acting normally, you're

824
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 1: acting weird because they go, hey, Trevor, and You're like,

825
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: who the hell are you? And I'm like, what do

826
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: you mean? We've been friends for seven years? What's you

827
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: on TV? Every day? And just through that Lens he

828
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: helped me understand that it's it's that they were misrelating, yes,

829
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: And that's sometimes what happens to us, I think as

830
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: people is we're misrelating. We have an idea of the

831
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: thing that isn't incorrect from our point of view, yes,

832
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: but is incorrect from the other person's points of view.

833
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 1: And so that's what creates the conflict, That's what creates

834
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: the disconnect, and that's what creates the loneliness, that's what

835
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: creates the isolation, that's what creates the you know, yeah,

836
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: it creates an environment that doesn't lend itself to familiarity,

837
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: to trust, to relaxation. I think that's where it becomes

838
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: even more important to find your grounding, to find your space,

839
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 1: to find you. Like my friends know me in the group,

840
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: I'm notorious as the vacation guy. I'm the holiday guy. Really,

841
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, where are we going? What are we doing?

842
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: We're making this happen. I shoot out a list and

843
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,439
Speaker 1: everything because I don't live back home. Yes, they all do.

844
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: So I've learned they can take for granted the fact

845
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: that we will see each other, and they might go like, oh,

846
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: did we plan anything for December? Oh we didn't. Oh, well,

847
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: well we'll do. No. I can't take it for granted,

848
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 1: and so they know I go every year, I'm like, guys,

849
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: what are we doing? And what are we doing here?

850
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: Three times a year we have to be in the

851
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: same place. And doesn't mean we're going somewhere fancy. No,

852
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: we might just find a place a house and we

853
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: sit together and that's what it's going to be. But

854
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: I make it happen because of that relats ability, because

855
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: that is where I can exist. They can exist. I

856
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: can exist, they can exist, you know. Because sometimes what's

857
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: funny is it can go the other way for me.

858
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: Sometimes I will completely be myself with people and they

859
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,280
Speaker 1: won't know what to do with it because they only

860
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: have one idea of me. Yeah, you know. Yeah, so

861
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: they'll meet me and travel, hey how are you? Hey,

862
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: hey buddy, gayboll And if I say something back and

863
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: they say, hey, wait what was that, I'm like, oh,

864
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 1: this is all of me. Yeah, they don't have a

865
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: reference point, and I get that, and so I yeah,

866
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: it's it's it's really interesting when you exist in a

867
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 1: one dimensional space in terms of you know, you know,

868
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: I guess it would be unidirectional, just like you know,

869
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: it's just going in that one direction as opposed to

870
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: it coming back and going you know, yeah, definitely. That's

871
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: such a great answer. I'm one of those people that like, generally,

872
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: if I get enough time to meet someone, or if

873
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: I know someone's going to be in my life for

874
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: an extended period of time, i I hire a new

875
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: person on my team or something like that, I try

876
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: and show them all of me very quick. I don't

877
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 1: know one of those people that are like, Okay, I'm

878
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna be as jokey as I

879
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:51,959
Speaker 1: usually am. I'm gonna expose you to how I choked

880
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: to my wife, Like interest. And I do that not

881
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: as a not as I definitely do it as a

882
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: conscious It's not like it happens. It's a conscious attempt

883
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: at trying to figure out whether this person actually wants

884
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: to be around me or lifting, because I'd rather quickly

885
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: figure out whether I feel chemistry with someone yes, as

886
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: opposed to wait to reveal my full self for them

887
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: to what you said to then let them down and

888
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: then they're like, oh, George, I didn't know you liked it.

889
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: And so I usually warn people I'm like, hey, I

890
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: make a lot more jokes in person than I do

891
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: on Instagram. And so if I'm like and I'm banned

892
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: to a lot because of Britain, and me and my

893
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: wife will ban to a lot. So most people think

894
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,280
Speaker 1: me and my wife are going to get a divorced

895
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: every other day because it is like the one we

896
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: talked to each other because we're both from England. I

897
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: want people to be exposed to that, not because I

898
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: want them to appreciate you or like, I just want

899
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 1: to know quickly whether whether you vibe with you. Okay,

900
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: but but aren't you ever concerned going the other way?

901
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: Because you may go this is me, this is all

902
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 1: of me. Yeah, not, depending on your position in life.

903
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: The person may be a certain way to you. Sure

904
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: based on that Sure, because they feel they can't and

905
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: then they reveal themselves, Then what do you do when

906
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: they reveal themselves in a positive or like a challenge

907
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: challenging way. In a challenging way, then well, that's what

908
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: I'm saying that it's people that I think are going

909
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: to be in my life for a longer period of time.

910
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: And then if it's if it's a team member where

911
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: we don't get along, then we can both move on

912
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: and go out separate ways. I wouldn't do it with

913
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: someone that I am not getting enough quality time. Does

914
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: a monk fire someone? How does the monk fire as well?

915
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm not a monk anymore. I'm I'd love to know

916
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: how it's a monk fight it is? You know what?

917
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: The thing about it is so uncomfortable? Oh it is okay.

918
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: I thought maybe as a monk it was like super

919
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 1: chill and you just come in and you go. In life,

920
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: everything is happening to you. You know, everything that seems

921
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: bad could be good, and so this as me letting

922
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: you go. But rather think of this as me setting

923
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: you free. Yeah, I think maybe it would be something

924
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 1: more surrender then you have to end it. That would

925
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: be brilliant, But it isn't comfortable. It's so as in

926
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: I've also been let go, so I know what it

927
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: feels like. Like I've in in a position where I

928
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: think I've been let go poorly, where it hasn't been

929
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: handled well where and I'm very clear on how like

930
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: having one skill set doesn't just naturally apply to everything.

931
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: Being a monk doesn't make me good at recruiting people

932
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: or letting go of people. Those are not transferable skills.

933
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: There's certain elements of compassion and empathy, but it doesn't

934
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: make you good at the start that it will cover everything,

935
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: and it doesn't. It doesn't right, Like I think, to

936
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: give you a very practical example, I felt for a

937
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: lot of a long time that people needed love. Like

938
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: I felt for a long time that I believe that

939
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: if you love people then they will be happy and

940
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: they will feel good about stuff. And I used to

941
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: believe that. And after trying to express love to people

942
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: even in the way they want it so, not even unconsciously,

943
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: but I would try and figure out, how does this

944
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: person receive love? Okay, let me give them love in

945
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: the way they want to receive love. I've realized that

946
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 1: so many people were not even operating on that level. Yeah,

947
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: that all they needed was safety, like they just needed

948
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: a base level of safety. They weren't They couldn't even

949
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: accept or receive love because that was such a lofty,

950
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: deep idea. It's like they didn't understand how someone who

951
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: doesn't know them very well could express deep love for

952
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: them because they've never experienced that before. How do you

953
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: find the correct safety to convey? And what I mean

954
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: by that is we all have a different idea of

955
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: what safety means, you know, going back to your idea

956
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: of you know, when you were saying stability and stability

957
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: earlier in the conversation. One of the wildest discoveries I

958
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: made in therapy was where I was speaking to my

959
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: therapist and I realized I am particularly comfortable in chaos.

960
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: That is where I'm most comfortable. You know, if you're

961
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: in an airport and you know flights are being canceled

962
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 1: and you know everything's being delayed, you want me rolling

963
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: with you like I'm that is me problem. I solve it.

964
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: I genuinely I find a beautiful hum of peace that

965
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: comes over me when there is chaos, traffic, everything caused.

966
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: That's where I'm comfortable. And yet the flip I also

967
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:26,399
Speaker 1: discovered was true is that when there's calm, now I'm

968
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: in chaos. Wow. You know. And so I learned that

969
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 1: I felt safest where most people didn't, and I felt

970
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: the least safe where most people would know. And I

971
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: learned a lot of that came because growing up in

972
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: a home where there was domestic abuse. You you know,

973
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 1: the silence meant you didn't know anything could happen at

974
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: any moment. What's going on? What's happening? You don't know,

975
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: you don't know. But when something is happening, all you

976
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: have to do is deal with it. Yeah. Wow, I

977
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: mean that, do you get? Yeah? I mean I mean,

978
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: but that's like, that's such a challenging, difficult idea for

979
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: people to grasp because what you're saying is that I

980
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: can hear gunshots at least I know, well, I know

981
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 1: who is coming from, correct, Yeah? Yeah, exactly, I know

982
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: where to run away too from exactly. You get what

983
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, No, no, I fully get what you're saying.

984
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,760
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying that that is a challenging concept

985
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: for people to get around because if you've not been brought,

986
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: if you've not been raised in a space like that, like,

987
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 1: that's so much to do with your upbringing. Yeah, but

988
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: that's what I mean by safety. So that's why I'm

989
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: a yeah. Yeah, So how do you even find that?

990
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: Because you know, I understand what you mean by love,

991
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: because again, how we process it, what our languages are,

992
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: et cetera, or so specific. But even safety, you know,

993
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: my my idea of safety isn't the same as your idea.

994
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: Of course, you know whether it will be in a

995
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: personal relationship, in a romantic relationship. You know. Some people's

996
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: idea of safety is hey, you you text me every day,

997
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: and you exactly you call me to make sure I

998
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: got home and you. Another person's idea of safety is

999
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: you leave me alone when I'm busy. That makes me

1000
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: feel safe. You take care of yourself, makes me feel safe,

1001
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:06,919
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So how do you then

1002
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: find what the person's idea of safety is? Well, I

1003
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: think it's what you just said that there's a hierarchy

1004
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: of needs, right, and everyone has their different like you said,

1005
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: like the base level, and I'm looking at the vaders,

1006
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: which is what I studied as a monk, and it

1007
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: says that the base level of anyone's motivator is fear

1008
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: and anxiety, right, Like people get motivated by fear and anxiety.

1009
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: So the lack of fear and anxiety is a sense

1010
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: of safety. Right. Higher than that is someone who's motivated

1011
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: by results or goals, so they feel safe when they're

1012
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: moving towards something. They feel safe when they're driving towards

1013
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 1: a deadline that is clear and active. Another level is

1014
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: tranquility and calm, And it's like someone feels safe when

1015
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: they feel clarity, okay, right, and so in similar what

1016
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 1: you're saying, like, there's so I think what I realized though,

1017
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 1: was that safety was such a base need of human

1018
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: right that until you fulfill that need, it love just

1019
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: and this is just experience, right, I'm saying this from

1020
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: my experience. I just felt like opening my heart to people,

1021
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: or like trying to give love to people in a

1022
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: very genuine way, I just felt that it couldn't fully

1023
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: be received because I realized most people have probably never

1024
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: received love, even maybe from their parents or their family,

1025
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: or from the people they expected to love them. So

1026
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,319
Speaker 1: when someone unexpected comes along and tries to show you love,

1027
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: it's like what is it? What does he want? Or

1028
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: what is this going on? Or you know, where does

1029
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 1: this land? And so I was like all right, like

1030
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: real it back, you know, real it back it just

1031
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: figure out safety first. Anyway, that was at least a

1032
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: personal experience. But but but why did we get there?

1033
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: We got there because we're talking about this idea with

1034
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: you of like you know, talking about relatability. Yeah, and

1035
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: we're moving through to you know, safety and love and

1036
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: then meeting people, and you're talking about how you will

1037
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 1: reveal all of yourself early on that so that the

1038
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: person I guess is in the safest space. Really yeah,

1039
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: and that's only my method. Again, I'm not saying that's

1040
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: right or wrong. It's just kind of and even what

1041
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: you said earlier, like you said, like Jay, you always

1042
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: feel safe. I think I feel the opposite too. I

1043
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: feel most unsafe when I think I'm somewhere and I

1044
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: don't have a purpose there. Okay, So if I get

1045
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: invited to a place where I don't feel I have

1046
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,439
Speaker 1: any purpose, you will see me just like I will

1047
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: last like thirty minutes and then I will leave because

1048
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: I'm just like, what am I going to do here?

1049
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 1: I'm not just going to shoot the breeze? So do

1050
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: you purpose them not doing being in my purpose? Yeah? Yeah,

1051
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: So when I'm in a space like that, I will,

1052
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:33,439
Speaker 1: I will look at I will be there. Of course

1053
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: I can. I can have conversations and I can talk

1054
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 1: and everything else. You're not crying in a corner. No, No, yeah,

1055
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: I say do you do? Then what I'm asking is

1056
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: do you have to work on that? Yes? Absolutely, Yeah,

1057
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: because it's a discomfort. Yes, it's a discomfort that I

1058
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: have to work on, which is, well, I don't know

1059
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: why I'm here, I don't know what my purpose is.

1060
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 1: And then and then sometimes my way of talking to

1061
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,919
Speaker 1: myself is you never know. There may be something here,

1062
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 1: and you have to be open today if if if

1063
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: I live, if I sit here and I'm close to that,

1064
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: then I may never discover anything. If I'm open to it,

1065
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: maybe I'll discover something. Maybe I won't. How do you

1066
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 1: find the balance between knowing when to walk away and

1067
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: when the opportunity may present itself. I feel like that's

1068
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: the greatest challenge in life, because sometimes you find yourself

1069
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: at an event, whatever it may be a work event

1070
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 1: of friends, whatever it may be. You go, ah, man,

1071
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: i'm not having fun here. I'm not having a good time.

1072
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: I'm not. And then as you say the one idea,

1073
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: maybe hey, stay in this discomforts and what may come

1074
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: from it is something special, which oftentimes can happen. The

1075
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 1: flip is true as well. I stayed there for too long.

1076
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,720
Speaker 1: I stayed in that relationship for too long. I stayed

1077
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 1: at that job for too long. I stayed in that

1078
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: environment for too long. It was discomfit, and I thought

1079
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: I was going to get something out of it. I

1080
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: often hear people saying that even you know, they'll they'll

1081
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: you know, friends, colleagues, strangers, Sometimes I'll meet they'll say, yeah,

1082
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: but I've just I've been doing it for so long

1083
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: now and I just feel like maybe there's there's there's

1084
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: something and you know. And then I will say and

1085
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:08,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if even if if I'm right, So

1086
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: I go, maybe the lesson you're learning is when to

1087
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: walk away or how to walk But I don't even

1088
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: know this myself. You know, you may leave the thing

1089
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: that that's makes me uncomfortable because of that, you have

1090
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 1: a certain er bit of experience totally, and you go, oh,

1091
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: that's why I left, because this was supposed to happen.

1092
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: You were always confirmed the confirmation bias absolutely, or you

1093
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: stay and then something happens and you go like, ah,

1094
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: I was always supposed to stay. So how do you

1095
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: how do you? How do you know? Or do you

1096
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: accept the fact that you don't know? I think that's

1097
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: I think you literally just answer you to us on

1098
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 1: the our journey, all right, just yeah, yeah, no, No,

1099
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: You're spot on. You don't know, you don't know, right, like,

1100
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 1: and you can only you can. I think it's also

1101
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: a matter of time, right I think if I was

1102
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: and this is again personal, but there's a difference between

1103
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: like if we got here on this beautiful setup that

1104
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 1: we have that you're admiring and you're saying you like

1105
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,439
Speaker 1: the energy, and how I do too. If we got

1106
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: here on Friday, which was when we first started filming here,

1107
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 1: if I didn't like it on Friday, if I didn't

1108
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: like the energy, and I could tell the guests in

1109
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: like the energy, I would have shifted the room immediately

1110
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: because I'm not going to wait around. If I'm clear

1111
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: on something or I'm sensing it. I think jobs are

1112
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: harder because they probably exactly and so I think when

1113
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,280
Speaker 1: things are tied to your survival, we tend to spend

1114
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 1: longer in them than we probably should because that safety

1115
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 1: again and security is so tied to that. And I

1116
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: think that's why relationships, as you've rightly pointed out homes,

1117
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: like I was just talking my uncle and aunt, like,

1118
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,919
Speaker 1: you know, my grandparents have passed away. They've moved on,

1119
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 1: and you know they've been wanting to move home, they've

1120
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: said for many, many years, but now they don't. They

1121
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: live in London and they have a house and they

1122
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:51,240
Speaker 1: want to they want to move to a different environment

1123
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: they've always wanted. But now they're like, no, no, but

1124
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: all our memories in this house, right, And so there's that,

1125
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: there's that familiarity, and they're like, no, I don't want

1126
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 1: to leave, even though I don't love this house as

1127
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,799
Speaker 1: a structure and as a space, I don't want to leave.

1128
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: And I think that's what we do with people. Yeah,

1129
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: but I guess that's a good question for you that

1130
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,720
Speaker 1: you've you've obviously had to find home again and again

1131
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: you've continued to find it in yourself, Like how have

1132
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: you let go of previous identities and personalities and are

1133
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:23,439
Speaker 1: you because that's where we started. Like I think I've

1134
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: had to do that a lot of times, Like even

1135
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: when you said Monk, and I always say, well, I'm

1136
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: not anymore. And the reason I say that is because

1137
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: I had to let go of so many parts of

1138
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: that identity that don't serve me anymore. There are lots

1139
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: of parts of that identity that serve me massively, there

1140
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: are lots of parts of that identity that don't serve

1141
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: me anymore. Same with same with anything, like any work

1142
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,919
Speaker 1: I've done. So I guess today when you're deciding who

1143
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: you want to be. One of the things I've taken

1144
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: away from this episode for sure I'm talking to you,

1145
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 1: and I've genuinely enjoyed talking to you is we know

1146
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: you're a very smart, intellectual, thoughtful person about what's happening

1147
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: in the world world. But what I find really beautiful

1148
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: and refreshing is that today you're doing the same things

1149
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: internally on your inner world. Has that always been a habit?

1150
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: You even said today when you walked in before we

1151
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: even started recording, you were like day, when I've been

1152
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: on all day, I need to just reflect and decompress

1153
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: and think about stuff. Has that always been a habit?

1154
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: Is there a method you use, is there an approach

1155
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: or is it just something you naturally just go into

1156
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: the inner world. Although I'm not particularly religious, I would

1157
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: have to say growing up religious installed within me the

1158
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: idea that I could have conversations with myself and they

1159
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: were necessary in order for me to process what I

1160
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: was going through. You know, That's what prayer is, in

1161
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: my opinion. It's a conversation that you are having multiple

1162
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: times a day. You are remembering, you are thinking, you

1163
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: are discussing, you are exposing your vulnerabilities, you are whatever

1164
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: it may be you are you're doing in doing that

1165
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: As a little child, you know, getting on my knees

1166
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: and praying. One of my favorite lessons that my mom

1167
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: taught me was that your relationship with God is your

1168
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: relationship with God. You know, she if I was in trouble,

1169
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: she wouldn't say to me, pray in front of me,

1170
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 1: let me hear you pray. No, She'd be like you

1171
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 1: and go and pray. And so what I am grateful

1172
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: for in that experience was that my relationship with God

1173
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: was then always my relationship with God. It was my conversation.

1174
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: It wasn't performative. It wasn't I remember as a little kid,

1175
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: she's like asking random questions. You know. I'd go to

1176
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: bed and I'd be like, oh god, a man, why

1177
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,439
Speaker 1: do I break things all the time? Why? I don't

1178
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: know what it is? Like, I mean, you were there

1179
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: with me, I don't know why. Why don't you stop me? Sometimes?

1180
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: Like you know, you never stop me. I'll just be

1181
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: there as a kid, and I would I don't want

1182
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: to break things. But then I broke it and I

1183
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: knew it was going to break. And now Mom's angry,

1184
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: and please try and make it not as angry. But

1185
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: I'd have these conversations and I would feel different afterwards.

1186
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: I would feel better. I feel like I processed something.

1187
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: And that is an element of prayer that I think

1188
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 1: a lot of people take for granted. Is that processing

1189
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: of the information that's oftentimes just running away in your head,

1190
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: just rarely running away in your head. In that I

1191
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 1: just try and ask questions. I let's tell people, you know,

1192
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: I go like, I don't know. If I don't think

1193
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: I'm smart, I think I'm I think I am more

1194
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: and more confident in being an idiot to be honest

1195
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: with you. You know, I have friends who I consider

1196
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 1: smart because I can ask them about anything, you know.

1197
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 1: I have friends who know about, you know, quantum gravity

1198
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 1: and whatever it is, space books. I always got, like

1199
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: you're reading spacebooks again. I have friends who know about,

1200
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 1: you know, the deepest trenches of football history. I know

1201
01:00:56,320 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 1: friends who they're smart in my opinion, but I'm proud

1202
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: to say I'm an idiot. And so when you let

1203
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 1: go of that, sometimes what I find is I I

1204
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: then enjoy asking questions. Yeah, you know, I and most

1205
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: of my work, that's what I'm doing, is I'm asking questions.

1206
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 1: As a comedian, I'm asking questions of how we live

1207
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 1: in society. Why do we accept certain things the way

1208
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: we do? And I think it's funny that we do.

1209
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: And have you ever noticed how? And that's what a

1210
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: lot of comedians do. They're asking a question about something

1211
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: that everybody accepts as the norm. You know. I do

1212
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: it in my job on the Daily Show. I ask

1213
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: questions about how people see politics and why they see politics,

1214
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: and you know, whatever it may be. I ask questions,

1215
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: you know. I remember one day someone said to me,

1216
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 1: some random person who said to me it's like, oh,

1217
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: it's crazy. You know, you came to this country and

1218
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: you know, as a Democrat, you probably say, whoa, wait,

1219
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 1: what do you mean as a democrat? In my country,

1220
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: we don't have that. Yeah, in many political parties, we're

1221
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,439
Speaker 1: not forced into a binary system that's already. You don't

1222
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: ask a question, you made an assumption, you know. And

1223
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: so even that has helped me. Where I come from,

1224
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 1: there is not just this or that. Yeah, in America's

1225
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 1: it has like a very very play hitting vibe to it.

1226
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 1: It's like, look what that party is doing. I look

1227
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: at that and it's like, yeah, but what you know

1228
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 1: what I mean, if you're voting for these things, shouldn't

1229
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 1: you be concerned about what you're going for? Wow to

1230
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: your party? Yeah, you know. And so but as a comedian,

1231
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: I'm going like, where are the jokes. I'll follow the jokes.

1232
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much, because that's what my purposes

1233
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: in that moment. Yea. And this goes to everything I

1234
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: do in life. You know, I've been lucky enough to

1235
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: work on different projects like yourself. You know, I work

1236
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 1: in tech and work with Microsoft and things. Funny that

1237
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 1: I remember the presidence of the company one of the

1238
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: city's like, we're going to call you the chief questions

1239
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 1: off for stuff that's so good because I've been lucky,

1240
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: and you know, I love tech, and a lot of

1241
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 1: tech is asking questions. A lot of what I do

1242
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 1: in life is enjoying asking questions and becoming less afraid

1243
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: of how stupid you may seem or feel asking the question. Yeah,

1244
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: that's oftentimes what I see with kids. The reason they

1245
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: learn as quickly as they do, it's not just because

1246
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: of their brains, but I feel like it's because they

1247
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: don't have an idea of who they all aren't supposed

1248
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 1: to be, and so they ask questions, and they ask questions,

1249
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 1: and they ask questions, and they ask questions, and they

1250
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: ask questions and they ask questions, and so what happens

1251
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: is a they get answers, but be they discover that

1252
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: the people they're asking the questions off sometimes don't even

1253
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: have the answer. They just assumed an idea or the way,

1254
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: you know, the way the world was. And I often

1255
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 1: remind myself that if if I become too tied to

1256
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: the idea of being smart or being informed or knowing,

1257
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 1: then I'm trapped. I would rather say I try to

1258
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: be smart. I try to be informed. But if there's

1259
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:40,360
Speaker 1: one thing I know, I am, well, it's an idiot,

1260
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with that. And I enjoy it,

1261
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: you know, because then I can be the smartest idiot

1262
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,320
Speaker 1: you've ever met, and I can be the most informed

1263
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:48,480
Speaker 1: idiot you've ever met. And I'm fine with that because

1264
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to be the most natural me. That's

1265
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: a that's a good identity. One thing I noticed about

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01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: the way you ask questions in our interview when you

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01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 1: interview me, but also today, and something I appreciate and

1268
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: there is it's rare as I think most people. When

1269
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:07,640
Speaker 1: you were saying, like someone assumed you're a democrat, I

1270
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: think most people ask questions in order to either agree

1271
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: or disagree with what comes out the other person's mouth.

1272
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: But we ask our best questions when we simply ask

1273
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: to learn and infer. And so now it's not asking

1274
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: to see whether we are on the same page. You're

1275
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 1: just asking to know, because I think what we often

1276
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: do is we ask a question and even if the

1277
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: base answer kind of sounds similar, we go, oh, we're

1278
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: on the same page, like oh me, and you you know,

1279
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 1: we're like we have the same values, and it's like, well, no,

1280
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 1: we don't. We just haven't dug deep enough. And I

1281
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 1: think we're often not patient. And I think that's why

1282
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 1: in so many relationships, in our lives and everywhere what

1283
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 1: you said, you said, a friend is someone who I

1284
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 1: know how they'd be in most situations. And I think

1285
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: when you quickly go oh, yeah, yeah, we have the

1286
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 1: same values, we have the same belief system, that's often

1287
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: incorrect because we just haven't asked enough questions to infer

1288
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 1: because we really want to feel that hidden us. Yeah

1289
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: that does. Actually I feel like that when you ask questions.

1290
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: And so I'm throwing that back at you, saying when

1291
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 1: you ask questions. So going back to what we were

1292
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 1: talking about about being an outsider, being an insider, where

1293
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: do I find a home? Where do I find familiar familiarity?

1294
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 1: You are familiar with this to a certain degree because

1295
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 1: of moving out of the UK, going to India, you know,

1296
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: going on that journey, and then moving from then then

1297
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: coming to America. It's another one thing that happens to

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01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:36,440
Speaker 1: you when you leave home is that you have to

1299
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: then either find home or you have to understand why

1300
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:44,720
Speaker 1: this is home, or you have to become comfortable in

1301
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: a new space so that it will be your new home.

1302
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 1: And the best way to do that is by understanding.

1303
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: Is what I find oftentimes you aren't forced to understand

1304
01:05:56,920 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 1: if you are in the majority, If the norm is

1305
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 1: your world, you're fine. Yeah. If everyone has your accents, well,

1306
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: then you don't need to understand another accent. If everybody

1307
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,479
Speaker 1: is your skin color, you don't need to understand another

1308
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: skin color. Everybody's your culture, if everybody is your language,

1309
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 1: if everybody's your you know, socio economic class, whatever it

1310
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: may be, then you don't need to understand. And so

1311
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 1: what I've grown up with because I grew up with

1312
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 1: a black woman pass a woman being my mother, white

1313
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 1: man swissman being my father, family mixed country, broken up,

1314
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 1: separated because of class, because of race. Predominantly, I found

1315
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: myself often having to understand whatever it was language, culture, music, food,

1316
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: I did I have to understand. And what I've found

1317
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 1: is that is often the fastest path to home is

1318
01:06:55,920 --> 01:07:01,600
Speaker 1: just understanding. You know, hammock is a terrible bed unless

1319
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,680
Speaker 1: you understand how to sleep in it. And I think

1320
01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:08,280
Speaker 1: the same goes for everyone and everything. Foreign country doesn't

1321
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 1: feel like home until you understand the language, and then

1322
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,720
Speaker 1: all of a sudden things start to work. Yeah, you know,

1323
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 1: so when I ask a question of you, as Jay,

1324
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:21,360
Speaker 1: I genuinely do it to understand, you know, because you

1325
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: know with you, I agree, and I'm genuine trying to

1326
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 1: understand more because the things I may disagree with, Funny enough,

1327
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 1: more is like how I'm living my life, and I'm

1328
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 1: trying to understand more about like how you see and

1329
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: then how do I you know, it's not to agree

1330
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: or disagree, but more to be like, oh I needn't

1331
01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:35,840
Speaker 1: understand this. And then sometimes it'll be with people where

1332
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 1: I don't agree with them, So I want to understand.

1333
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:40,440
Speaker 1: I see the world and it seems so clear to me.

1334
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 1: Can you explain why you don't see what I'm seeing? Yeah?

1335
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's oftentimes what plagues me as as

1336
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: a person is I think we live in a world

1337
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 1: now where there are fewer and fewer experiences that we

1338
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 1: all relate to or that we've all gone through, and

1339
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 1: so wild it's great for individualism, and it's great for us,

1340
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: you know, living in our own niche, it has robbed

1341
01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 1: us of a collective understanding. And so whether it's in

1342
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 1: politics or whether it's in society or whatever it is.

1343
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's healthy to disagree, Like you know, Jay,

1344
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:18,680
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's that, But it's another thing

1345
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 1: to say, you know, that's my parking. No, that's my parking,

1346
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 1: versus that's my parking. What parking? Wait, you don't see

1347
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: a parking. Well. Now we're in a bigger and that's

1348
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 1: why I feel like society is moving towards as as everything, entertainment,

1349
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:36,479
Speaker 1: social media, all these things become more niche. I think

1350
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 1: we're losing that collective space to be in. And so

1351
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:42,880
Speaker 1: because I've always been outside, because I've never been part

1352
01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:47,080
Speaker 1: of I've always been forced to understand why do you

1353
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:48,640
Speaker 1: do that? Why do you say that? How do you

1354
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:52,000
Speaker 1: eat this? You know? So, when I'm in India and

1355
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:53,720
Speaker 1: I'm eating and I go, okay, can you help me,

1356
01:08:53,960 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 1: help me understand why you use your hand the way

1357
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:57,919
Speaker 1: you do? What are you trying to? Okay? Great chopsticks?

1358
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:00,400
Speaker 1: For the first time, I have to all these things

1359
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: as opposed to assuming or even not being willing to.

1360
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 1: So maybe that's why I ask a question the way

1361
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 1: I do is because I just don't understand why you

1362
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:12,560
Speaker 1: see the world the way you do, and once I do,

1363
01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 1: I now get to hold two truths. I get to

1364
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: see how you see the world. I get to know

1365
01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:23,120
Speaker 1: how I see the world, and I may augment my

1366
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:25,679
Speaker 1: way of seeing it, or I'll be able to help

1367
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: you understand why I see it the way I do

1368
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:29,760
Speaker 1: because I now understand yours. I don't think I can

1369
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 1: do that if I if I don't ask. Absolutely, That's

1370
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:35,280
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm trying to say, is that when I

1371
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:37,679
Speaker 1: was saying learned, that's what I mean. Understand, Like you're

1372
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: asking to learn, You're asking to understand. There's not an

1373
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 1: asking to say, yes, we're the same or nowhere not

1374
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: the same. And I've read somewhere when when I was

1375
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:49,240
Speaker 1: looking at this interview about how you were saying like,

1376
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:53,120
Speaker 1: because you've never felt of something, you've always felt outside,

1377
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,760
Speaker 1: you've always been able to see the full picture. And

1378
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 1: I was literally just saying this today that I grew

1379
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:01,320
Speaker 1: up in a home where my par 's really agreed

1380
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 1: on anything, and I was always the mediator. Interesting, and

1381
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: so I would sit and listen to my mom and

1382
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: I would understand how she felt, and then I'd sit

1383
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:12,680
Speaker 1: and listen to my dad and I always had an

1384
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 1: equal level of love and respect for them from their

1385
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 1: individual relationship with me, even though collectively they didn't they

1386
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 1: didn't add it together. And I found that when I

1387
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: read that about you, I was wanting to ask you

1388
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:28,439
Speaker 1: about it because I was like, that's where I feel happier,

1389
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 1: learning about people and trying to understand people, because I

1390
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,280
Speaker 1: could see both my mom and dad were right in

1391
01:10:35,439 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: so many ways, Like I would sit with my mom

1392
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:39,439
Speaker 1: and be like, how does dad not see that? And

1393
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: I would sit with Dad and be like how does

1394
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 1: mom not see that? Like how are we missing this

1395
01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: part of the picture? And I felt miserably at trying

1396
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 1: to help the situations. But I think that's partly why

1397
01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 1: I do what I do today, because so much of

1398
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:55,920
Speaker 1: me was exposed to different opinions. So when I when

1399
01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 1: I read that about you, I was like, I'd love

1400
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: to know how did you deal with that feeling? Like

1401
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: how did you deal with the idea? And I know

1402
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:07,920
Speaker 1: you're saying it flippantly in conversation, but like, how did

1403
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 1: you deal with the pressure and the idea that you

1404
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 1: failed to reconcile? What was happening between the two of them?

1405
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:17,519
Speaker 1: I think two me years to accept that and to

1406
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:19,639
Speaker 1: feel that way, because I think when you're a kid,

1407
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 1: it's what you said, you just accept that this is normality.

1408
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 1: So when I was a kid, I didn't even think

1409
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:25,719
Speaker 1: of it. So this is normal. Parents don't get along.

1410
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:27,640
Speaker 1: I want to help my mom out. I'm a good son.

1411
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: I want to help my dad out. You know, we're

1412
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,720
Speaker 1: figuring it out. And i'd probably say I spent a

1413
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:34,560
Speaker 1: good part of like at least my adult life, so

1414
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 1: say from well, maybe not even adult, maybe since I

1415
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:39,759
Speaker 1: was ten, maybe from ten to twenty one, like probably

1416
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:42,760
Speaker 1: eleven years trying to fix that and trying to think

1417
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:44,600
Speaker 1: I could fix that or that we could improve it.

1418
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 1: And while things got better. Sorry, just ye to your point,

1419
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:52,120
Speaker 1: because you were trying to create the safety because as

1420
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:54,280
Speaker 1: a child, I feel like there are a few things

1421
01:11:54,360 --> 01:11:57,599
Speaker 1: that make you feel less safe than your two parental figures.

1422
01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 1: You know. Sorry, but carry on. No, no, no, it's interesting.

1423
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:02,320
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, going back to the safety that you're saying.

1424
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:05,639
Speaker 1: You're trying to make your walls because love didn't work.

1425
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: It didn't It didn't matter how many Valentine's Days there were,

1426
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:10,680
Speaker 1: It didn't matter how many romantic gestures. It didn't matter

1427
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 1: saying I love you or a love letter, but it

1428
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:15,759
Speaker 1: was safety. Yeah, And so I was trying that probably

1429
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:18,120
Speaker 1: for a good eleven years, and then I think when

1430
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:19,720
Speaker 1: I went off to the monastery, was still there in

1431
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 1: my heart. And then I think while I was there,

1432
01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I have to let go of

1433
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:28,360
Speaker 1: this because it's not my responsibility, it's not my ability.

1434
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,839
Speaker 1: I don't have the powers to fix this, and that's okay,

1435
01:12:33,680 --> 01:12:36,320
Speaker 1: and that if I'm able to let go of this,

1436
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 1: then not only would things improved there, I can help

1437
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,800
Speaker 1: people who want to be helped as well. And I

1438
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 1: think that was a whole, like, probably like a fifteen

1439
01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 1: year journey to get to that, because otherwise you hold

1440
01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:52,080
Speaker 1: it as your like, your like responsibility, like this is

1441
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 1: my job almost. And I think that's what many of

1442
01:12:55,040 --> 01:13:00,600
Speaker 1: us have done, is we have been burdened with and

1443
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 1: oftentimes subconsciously a job or a role that our parents

1444
01:13:04,840 --> 01:13:07,560
Speaker 1: didn't realize they were burdening us with. Wow, you know,

1445
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: oftentimes I find it so interesting how the loudest parents

1446
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:13,800
Speaker 1: who aren't good at reading a room will have the

1447
01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 1: most shy child, you know, and and then the parents

1448
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: who aren't good at being outgoing, and they'll have kids

1449
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:22,920
Speaker 1: who are running and screaming and greeting everybody and talking

1450
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,720
Speaker 1: to them because there's this interesting thing that happens in

1451
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 1: nature where I feel like, you know, the child tries

1452
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:32,320
Speaker 1: to correct for what the parent may be lacking. Wow,

1453
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: you know. And it's it's really fascinating that you say that, Yeah,

1454
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 1: because what happens is, over time, you get to an

1455
01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:43,800
Speaker 1: age where then you have to take off you know,

1456
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,440
Speaker 1: that armor, take off that cape, take off that that designation,

1457
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 1: and understand that now you've lived that, you've gained the

1458
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: tools from it. It's become a lot of who you

1459
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 1: are today, but you have to let it go. And

1460
01:13:57,040 --> 01:14:00,600
Speaker 1: that that I find is terrifying, because the only thing

1461
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 1: scarier than accepting who we are is accepting that we

1462
01:14:06,240 --> 01:14:08,840
Speaker 1: don't know who we are going to be when we

1463
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 1: let go of the things that I've made us who

1464
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:13,960
Speaker 1: we are today. Yeah, And that's that not knowing as

1465
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 1: simple as leaving a party early. It's that same feeling

1466
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: of discomfort of like, did I make the right choice

1467
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,280
Speaker 1: if I stayed here? Would it have? If I kept

1468
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 1: that role? Would it have? And Yeah, I was talking

1469
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:30,080
Speaker 1: to a client the other day and she said something

1470
01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:32,920
Speaker 1: really interesting. She was saying, I just never grew up

1471
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:35,519
Speaker 1: with an opinion. She goes, I've just never really had

1472
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:38,240
Speaker 1: an opinion. And I've known her for some time, so

1473
01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 1: it was a fairly it was a progressed conversation. It

1474
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:45,760
Speaker 1: wasn't the first time and we were talking about it.

1475
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 1: She was saying, well, I've never really had an opinion

1476
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:50,280
Speaker 1: on this or that, and so when people ask me

1477
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:52,200
Speaker 1: what I want to do, or when my partner asked

1478
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 1: me what I want to do, I kind of like

1479
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 1: go along with it. But now I'm starting the question

1480
01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 1: like am I living my life or someone else's. And

1481
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:02,000
Speaker 1: it was really interesting because we were really getting into it,

1482
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:05,640
Speaker 1: and I started talking to her about her parents and

1483
01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 1: family dynamic, and she said something really phenomenal to me.

1484
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:14,240
Speaker 1: She said that my brother and my dad always used

1485
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: to argue and I was the peacemaker, and she goes,

1486
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:22,160
Speaker 1: when I felt pain, I never shared it because it

1487
01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:28,280
Speaker 1: would create more complexity, and so I accept that. She

1488
01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:30,760
Speaker 1: came to the conclusion that the reason I don't have

1489
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 1: an opinion is because it disturbs the peace. And when

1490
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:36,760
Speaker 1: I don't have an opinion, the piece is kept and

1491
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:38,599
Speaker 1: I was. You know, those are the kind of things

1492
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 1: that we're saying, Like we take the designation of peacemaker,

1493
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 1: you take the role in the designation of whatever I was.

1494
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:47,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes the comedians take on the role of being a

1495
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,280
Speaker 1: comedian because you kind of get her and the laugh

1496
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:53,040
Speaker 1: and everyone, you know. And so I think these roles

1497
01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 1: that you're talking about are really it's a really beautiful

1498
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 1: way that you said it. That we adopt this job

1499
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:01,600
Speaker 1: and this role and this I think I think we do,

1500
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:06,160
Speaker 1: and I often think sometimes it is necessary. Of course,

1501
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:11,679
Speaker 1: I think it may be evolutionary whatever it is. You know. Again,

1502
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: That's why I don't go to it's bad, it's good.

1503
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:18,000
Speaker 1: I go it is. It just is, And in understanding it,

1504
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: I realize there's nothing wrong with it being as long

1505
01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:24,040
Speaker 1: as you know when to let it go, you know.

1506
01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 1: I often think that about seat belts when I'm in

1507
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:31,680
Speaker 1: a call on a plane. Sometimes I forget that I'm

1508
01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: wearing the seatbelt. I love wearing my seat belts, especially

1509
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:36,000
Speaker 1: on a plane. I buckle it long before they tell

1510
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:38,280
Speaker 1: I'm like in strapped. I don't know what it is.

1511
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 1: I love it even when you see it go off,

1512
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:43,560
Speaker 1: that you know when they'll turn the seatbelt like on

1513
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you mean on it? The whole flight,

1514
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:48,040
Speaker 1: I will be wearing the seatbelt, thank you very much.

1515
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: And what will happen? Sometimes I'm so comfortable as been

1516
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:53,160
Speaker 1: the whole time. When we land, we chill, I don't

1517
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 1: rush to get my bags any of that, and then

1518
01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:58,000
Speaker 1: I'll stand and the seatbelt will pull me and it's always,

1519
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 1: like I love to myself, it always happens because it's

1520
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 1: because it's really down and it just you know, as

1521
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:04,679
Speaker 1: I jump, I was like, pulls me back down, ias

1522
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 1: giggle and I unbuckle it. And I found myself thinking

1523
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:10,680
Speaker 1: the one that I was like, it's amazing, how this

1524
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:14,760
Speaker 1: this device is brilliant. It saves your life. You know,

1525
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 1: you know, car crash, you know you're you know, plane

1526
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: crash on a runway or whatever. I don't know how

1527
01:17:18,920 --> 01:17:20,479
Speaker 1: much you'll save you a big one, but still, you know,

1528
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 1: but this thing is it holds you. Wow, it's helping

1529
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: you stay in tech. It's helping you stay in the

1530
01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: place you need to be in. But if you don't

1531
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: know how to let it go when you need to,

1532
01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: now you're trapped. And so that's what I'm constantly trying

1533
01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 1: to work on, which is so hard to It's like, man,

1534
01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 1: I go like, okay, all right, my sa my safety belt,

1535
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: my seat belt, all right. It might be my personality.

1536
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: It might be the way I see the world. It

1537
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: might be how I've learned to interact with us. It

1538
01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:52,519
Speaker 1: might be anything how I eat, how I think, what

1539
01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 1: I do, what I don't when I love what I wore,

1540
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:57,839
Speaker 1: all these things and I get that, and I'm always

1541
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:00,600
Speaker 1: just try and ask myself, I, okay, all right, is

1542
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:03,799
Speaker 1: this still your seat belts or has it now become

1543
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: a trapping? And I always just have to ask myself

1544
01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 1: that question. It's extremely difficult, you know. You just go

1545
01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:13,439
Speaker 1: around and around, and sometimes I do you know, yeah,

1546
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: a lot of the time, I'll i'll, I'll be chilly.

1547
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't think I can watch Harry Potter the

1548
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,600
Speaker 1: same again, I don't. I don't think I can be

1549
01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:25,599
Speaker 1: on a plane the same again. Like, yeah, I love

1550
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:29,560
Speaker 1: how you think. I think. It's so refreshing to hear that,

1551
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 1: And I the biggest thing I'm taking about this is

1552
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: just this ability to really question our lives, question things.

1553
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 1: I think. I think that is the purpose of life

1554
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 1: is to start asking questions, and what I loved about

1555
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: at least at least the scriptures I started on the

1556
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 1: Eastern side. They're all Q and a's, Like, they're all

1557
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:50,360
Speaker 1: cute question and answer. None of them are like talking

1558
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:54,840
Speaker 1: or lecturing. Ord is, Yeah, yeah, they're all Q and a's,

1559
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:56,760
Speaker 1: And I think that was a big part of how

1560
01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 1: we were trained to believe that all inquiry was the

1561
01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: birth of wisdom. Like it had to be an inquiry,

1562
01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:04,600
Speaker 1: it had to be a conversation. It couldn't be a

1563
01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:08,920
Speaker 1: lecture or a seminar. And you know, I think when

1564
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: i'd sit with you, and whenever I've said with you,

1565
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 1: and whenever I've watched you, which I've admired you for

1566
01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: so long, I think that the quality of questioning is

1567
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 1: really what we should be more focused on than the

1568
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:21,720
Speaker 1: result and the answers. As you were saying earlier that

1569
01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 1: if we asked questions we were actually interested in knowing

1570
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 1: the answer to, we'd actually listen to the answer. But Trevor,

1571
01:19:29,479 --> 01:19:32,599
Speaker 1: we end the show with two segments. These are fast segments. Okay,

1572
01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: you've been more than generous with your time. So the

1573
01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: first segment is called the Many Sides to Us. Okay,

1574
01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:41,719
Speaker 1: and so this you have to answer in one word,

1575
01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: and there's five questions. So are you ready? I'm ready? Okay.

1576
01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: What is one word to describe what someone would say

1577
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:54,479
Speaker 1: about you meeting you for the first time? Friendly? Friendly? Yeah,

1578
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:57,639
Speaker 1: friends and friendly two different things, but friendly? Okay? Question

1579
01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:00,240
Speaker 1: number two? What is one word to describe what someone

1580
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:05,679
Speaker 1: would say about you that knows you extremely well? Consistent? Nice? Okay?

1581
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: Question number three? What is one word you'd used to

1582
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: describe yourself? Mercurial? Okay, all right, now I'm gonna have

1583
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,360
Speaker 1: to ask you expand like that that I was not

1584
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:16,840
Speaker 1: expecting that word that is a very yeah, tell me

1585
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 1: why that word? Like? You can now go off one

1586
01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:23,639
Speaker 1: word like I'm consistent in the fact that I'm also mercurial.

1587
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: Part of it. Funny enough, I think was not created

1588
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:31,439
Speaker 1: by but as as somebody who has ADHD, it took

1589
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:32,800
Speaker 1: me a long time to learn in life what that

1590
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:36,000
Speaker 1: did to my brain, how that affected how I process time,

1591
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:41,840
Speaker 1: an idea, a thought, an object, any any inquiry that

1592
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 1: I would have could be in some way, shape or

1593
01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 1: form affected by that. And I think, funny enough, there's

1594
01:20:47,439 --> 01:20:51,479
Speaker 1: a there's a huge misunderstanding sometimes I actually, you know,

1595
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:55,360
Speaker 1: hate how we've created a lot of the conversations around

1596
01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: the mind is the best way to put it, you know,

1597
01:20:57,360 --> 01:21:00,679
Speaker 1: because because of the some of the terms have become

1598
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,320
Speaker 1: so wrote and some of the ideas have become so

1599
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:07,760
Speaker 1: simple when they're not. Um. I remember when I was

1600
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: young and I was diagnosed with ADHD. They made they

1601
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:14,600
Speaker 1: made it seem like you can't pay attention, when in

1602
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:16,479
Speaker 1: fact it's the fact that you can't choose what to

1603
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:20,160
Speaker 1: pay your attention to. Very good at paying attention and

1604
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 1: so wow, wow, yeah, it's a very nuance, subtle. Yeah,

1605
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:25,800
Speaker 1: it makes a big difference. It makes a big difference.

1606
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 1: And so what what what's been wonderful for me in

1607
01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 1: life is learning again how to be grateful for how

1608
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:38,599
Speaker 1: I've dealt with something, not even looking at it through

1609
01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:40,479
Speaker 1: the lens of good or bad, but just going it

1610
01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:43,800
Speaker 1: is and then understanding it like that, you know. And

1611
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: that's what I mean by I think we've really hurt

1612
01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 1: ourselves in society with with how we've had some conversations

1613
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 1: because we've made it seem bad or good as opposed

1614
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 1: to understanding because it may not be the same as

1615
01:21:57,040 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: the norm. You know, so is a short person good

1616
01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:03,040
Speaker 1: or bad? No, they're just short. And the reason we

1617
01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: say short is because they're short relative to the general population,

1618
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:08,519
Speaker 1: the same way someone who's tall is tall relative to

1619
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:12,320
Speaker 1: the general population. Now, if you're tall, you may be

1620
01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 1: bumping your head a lot more than other people. If

1621
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:16,720
Speaker 1: you're short, you may not be reaching the things that

1622
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:19,640
Speaker 1: people have put at an average height. I think the

1623
01:22:19,680 --> 01:22:22,240
Speaker 1: same thing goes for the mind. If you're blessed enough

1624
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:24,720
Speaker 1: to have a mind or a mentality that is of

1625
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:27,519
Speaker 1: the norm, most things will work for you, and most

1626
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:30,639
Speaker 1: things will make sense in life. If your mind isn't,

1627
01:22:30,840 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 1: that's why they use divergent. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong,

1628
01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:37,280
Speaker 1: but you need to understand how your mind will react

1629
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:40,479
Speaker 1: to a world that has been designed in a certain way.

1630
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:45,080
Speaker 1: And so that is why I've learned to understand and accept.

1631
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:48,439
Speaker 1: I go, I'm mercurial again. Was a friend who taught

1632
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:50,479
Speaker 1: me that, and I loved it once I understood it.

1633
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: First I was I was like, no, I'm not, I'm not.

1634
01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:54,080
Speaker 1: He's like, he's like, yeah, you're mercurial. And I was like,

1635
01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 1: first of all, explain the word yeah. And then he

1636
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: explained it to me. I was like, I'm not that

1637
01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 1: im and then I realized I could could I could

1638
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: be two things. I'm extremely consistent. Anyone who needs me

1639
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 1: knows me, they know where to find me, they know

1640
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 1: how I'll be. But I'm also mercurial in that how

1641
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 1: I feel about this on a day and how I

1642
01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:14,839
Speaker 1: feel about that's on a day may be more extreme

1643
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:18,360
Speaker 1: than somebody else's range. And so in that again, just

1644
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:21,599
Speaker 1: the understanding and asking the questions of myself, I then

1645
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 1: exist in a space where I understand it. So it

1646
01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 1: will be funny is sometimes I'll meet people and they'll

1647
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:29,799
Speaker 1: get distracted and be like, oh, sorry, that's my ADHD

1648
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:34,640
Speaker 1: and that's not what it is. But yeah whatever, you

1649
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:36,479
Speaker 1: know that, like people have done this with everything. Oh

1650
01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm OCD. It's like I don't okay, yeah

1651
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: that's not what it Yeah. And so we have these

1652
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 1: very limited understandings of these things. Maybe and we've also

1653
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:52,599
Speaker 1: created an idea of them being a bad, correct, good whatever.

1654
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: It's like, No, it's just understanding the same thing we

1655
01:23:56,360 --> 01:23:58,720
Speaker 1: do with glasses. At some point near Sides said, far

1656
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:00,840
Speaker 1: Side said, I wear glasses now, and then at some

1657
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:02,880
Speaker 1: point it was just that's what it is. Yeah, I

1658
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:05,200
Speaker 1: think we have a long way to go in the

1659
01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:08,080
Speaker 1: conversations we have around the mind, yes, and getting us

1660
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: to the same place where when you meet someone they

1661
01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:13,640
Speaker 1: can say that to you and you now understand that,

1662
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 1: oh I wear glasses, okay, great, yes, you know, whereas

1663
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: I'm sure there was a point was like I wear glasses,

1664
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 1: so you're blind. Now people are just like, oh you

1665
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 1: do you wear glasses or you wear contacts? Okay, cool,

1666
01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:26,639
Speaker 1: that's that's who you are. Yeah, And I think that's

1667
01:24:26,680 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 1: what it is that our vocabulary around the mind and

1668
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:32,000
Speaker 1: of psychology is very limited and your spot on and

1669
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:34,120
Speaker 1: one thing that you said that really struck a Quarde

1670
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: was the idea that if the world is designed for

1671
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:38,760
Speaker 1: the average yea, then the challenges that anyone outside of

1672
01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 1: it feels broken. And that's where I think we've gone wrong,

1673
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:44,600
Speaker 1: where it's like there's a weakness or a broken It's like, no,

1674
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:48,160
Speaker 1: the world. If the world was designed for right those people, right,

1675
01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: then we'd feel broken. And it's just that the world

1676
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:53,599
Speaker 1: has been designed for this few people. If you created

1677
01:24:53,640 --> 01:24:55,920
Speaker 1: a new planet that was for only people who had

1678
01:24:55,960 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 1: attain disposition, then it would be a very different case. Yeah. No,

1679
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:04,400
Speaker 1: I love that. That's a that's a great that's another

1680
01:25:04,439 --> 01:25:07,600
Speaker 1: whole two hour comp that's another Yeah, we'll save it,

1681
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 1: all right. Question number four, what is one word that

1682
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 1: if someone didn't agree with you or like you, how

1683
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:15,240
Speaker 1: would they what would they say about you? Not like

1684
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:18,599
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about like an internet roll or stubborn? Stubborn? Right? Okay,

1685
01:25:18,640 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: yeah there that's a good way. Yeah, yeah, that's good.

1686
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,720
Speaker 1: That makes sense. I like that, all right. Question number five,

1687
01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 1: what is the word that you're trying to embody right now?

1688
01:25:25,439 --> 01:25:28,759
Speaker 1: Is there like a focus, a presence with a particular

1689
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:33,760
Speaker 1: characteristic or value or believe? Mindful? Great? All right, there's

1690
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:36,160
Speaker 1: a great, there's a fantastic most people struggle with. So

1691
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 1: you did? You hit it out of the park. All right?

1692
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:39,960
Speaker 1: These are the final five. These are easy, one word

1693
01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:42,679
Speaker 1: to one sentence. What's the best advice you've ever received?

1694
01:25:43,439 --> 01:25:46,080
Speaker 1: Never assume it's a great piece of advice. Second question,

1695
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,080
Speaker 1: what is the worst piece of advice you've ever heard?

1696
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:55,640
Speaker 1: Always be yourself? That's really all right times Yeah, to

1697
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:58,639
Speaker 1: be you don't just be yourself. People say they'll relax,

1698
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 1: just be yourself. Yea las, Yeah, you know when to

1699
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: be yourself As a better piece of advice, so I

1700
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 1: can give you. That's good. Question number three, what is

1701
01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: something you used to value that you no longer value? Fame?

1702
01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:14,080
Speaker 1: So there was a time when it was important and yeah,

1703
01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:17,320
Speaker 1: well yeah, I think I I thought that it would

1704
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:21,280
Speaker 1: give me something that I searched for my whole life,

1705
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:25,400
Speaker 1: and that was a certain sense of belonging. No, because

1706
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:27,599
Speaker 1: there's a there's a familiarity you have with people when

1707
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: you see them. I never cared for through the lens

1708
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:32,720
Speaker 1: of like I'm better, No, but I was like, oh man,

1709
01:26:32,760 --> 01:26:35,000
Speaker 1: everyone knows that person, everyone likes that was and you know,

1710
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:36,799
Speaker 1: here I was this kid and I grew up alone

1711
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 1: for so long. I was like, oh, I'll be familiar

1712
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:41,400
Speaker 1: the word fame, you know when you look at the root.

1713
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,080
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, that that thing, I'll be familiar.

1714
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,280
Speaker 1: And then ironically, as I said, it jumps straight to

1715
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: your unfamiliar and so then I realized. I was like,

1716
01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 1: oh man, you don't think that it will come from something,

1717
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 1: but rather understand what you're trying to achieve, and then

1718
01:26:56,439 --> 01:26:58,280
Speaker 1: you know, figure out how you're trying to get there.

1719
01:26:58,479 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 1: That's beautiful. I love that. Question number four, how would

1720
01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: you define your current purpose as being a fertilizer four

1721
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:10,439
Speaker 1: everything and everyone I come into contact with. I would

1722
01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:14,200
Speaker 1: hope to be somebody who enriches the soil that I touch.

1723
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 1: I would hope to be somebody who improves somebody's life

1724
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:21,960
Speaker 1: in the slightest of ways. Whether it's helping you solve

1725
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:24,679
Speaker 1: a problem, whether it's giving you directions and the streets

1726
01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: in New York, whether it's making you laugh at a show,

1727
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:31,640
Speaker 1: you know, talking about politics, whatever it may be. I

1728
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:34,760
Speaker 1: would hope to do what a good fertilizer does in

1729
01:27:34,920 --> 01:27:38,599
Speaker 1: that it enables the soil to be richer, It enables

1730
01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 1: the plant to grow taller, it it brings all of

1731
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:46,559
Speaker 1: the pieces together, you know, it becomes it becomes a food,

1732
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: it becomes it becomes a food that creates more food.

1733
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's not a zero sum game. And

1734
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:56,400
Speaker 1: so I would say that that would probably be what

1735
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 1: I'd like to focus on most right now, even for myself,

1736
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:02,600
Speaker 1: because fertilizer even makes self bigger. It grows itself, you

1737
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:04,760
Speaker 1: add more, multitu it and it keeps ongoing. And so

1738
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 1: I think I think even for me, you know, I

1739
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:10,479
Speaker 1: look to try and fertilize as much as I can.

1740
01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:12,640
Speaker 1: I love that. That's one of my favorite answers to

1741
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:15,120
Speaker 1: that question we've ever had. All Right, fifth and final

1742
01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:17,880
Speaker 1: question of the whole interview. If you could create one

1743
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 1: law that everyone in the world had to follow, what

1744
01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:22,679
Speaker 1: would it be? Everyone in the world, right or creates

1745
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:29,160
Speaker 1: a law that said everyone everywhere in the world, randomly, randomly, randomly,

1746
01:28:30,320 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 1: could be given the lowest person's bank accounts like that,

1747
01:28:38,520 --> 01:28:40,160
Speaker 1: it could be like that would be the law is

1748
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:43,600
Speaker 1: that we do this weird system where every whenever, it

1749
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 1: may be every year, randomly, the lowest person's bank account

1750
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:50,719
Speaker 1: can just go out and become everybody's bank account. Wow.

1751
01:28:51,479 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 1: The reason I would do that is because I think

1752
01:28:55,920 --> 01:29:00,439
Speaker 1: if we lived in a society where more people felt

1753
01:29:00,520 --> 01:29:03,760
Speaker 1: like their fate was tied to the least of us,

1754
01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 1: they would have a little more compassion and think a

1755
01:29:11,200 --> 01:29:14,160
Speaker 1: little more about how those people may or may not

1756
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 1: be existing. And that's why I say I wouldn't say

1757
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:19,320
Speaker 1: anyone can't be rich. I'm not saying that. I wouldn't

1758
01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:21,240
Speaker 1: say anyone can't make as much money as they want. Oh, no,

1759
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:24,120
Speaker 1: go ahead, we should all be doing that, enjoy it,

1760
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:26,360
Speaker 1: go for it. But I would just want us all

1761
01:29:26,439 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 1: to know that the lowest bank balance, the lowest amount

1762
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:32,840
Speaker 1: that someone has could randomly God, and I wouldn't be

1763
01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:35,080
Speaker 1: to everyone. Yeah, it would just have it. It would

1764
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:36,840
Speaker 1: be like ten percent of the population. That's what's going

1765
01:29:36,880 --> 01:29:39,920
Speaker 1: to happen. It's the law. Every year ten percent of

1766
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:42,720
Speaker 1: the population, your bank balance becomes what the person with

1767
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:46,160
Speaker 1: the least amount has in that in the in the world.

1768
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:49,799
Speaker 1: And I just wonder how we would live. I genuinely

1769
01:29:49,840 --> 01:29:55,439
Speaker 1: would because, yeah, I think sometimes and I understand it.

1770
01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:59,200
Speaker 1: You know, capitalism, hyper capitalism, you know this thing we've

1771
01:29:59,240 --> 01:30:01,560
Speaker 1: been tricked into believing that in order for you to have,

1772
01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:04,120
Speaker 1: I cannot have, as if trading didn't exist long before.

1773
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:06,560
Speaker 1: All of that has tricked us into a world of

1774
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 1: believing that mine is only mine and yours cannot come

1775
01:30:11,120 --> 01:30:13,800
Speaker 1: with it. So I wonder what would happen in that space.

1776
01:30:14,160 --> 01:30:17,160
Speaker 1: I think, even myself, everyone would pay a lot more attenion.

1777
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:18,600
Speaker 1: You know, how much do you have? We need to

1778
01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 1: get your balance up, yeah, because I'm trying to keep

1779
01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 1: my life as comfortable as it is. Yeah, And the

1780
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:27,400
Speaker 1: feeling that it could be any of us, Yeah, that

1781
01:30:28,000 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 1: will take it for granted, Jake, like it could it

1782
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:33,439
Speaker 1: could always be any of us. Luck is the most random.

1783
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:36,920
Speaker 1: You can work as hard as you want luck as

1784
01:30:36,920 --> 01:30:38,920
Speaker 1: a huge factor. You can be the best luck as

1785
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:40,679
Speaker 1: a factor. You can be the worst luck as a factor.

1786
01:30:40,800 --> 01:30:43,400
Speaker 1: So you know, it really could be any one of us.

1787
01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:46,679
Speaker 1: And so I don't take for granted that I'm lucky.

1788
01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:50,680
Speaker 1: I work hard, I try, and you know, I try

1789
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:53,120
Speaker 1: and shape as much of the environment that my luck

1790
01:30:53,160 --> 01:30:56,439
Speaker 1: will exist within. But I never take for granted that

1791
01:30:56,560 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 1: I'm lucky. Travel is a new thing. I learned about

1792
01:30:59,040 --> 01:31:01,120
Speaker 1: you today that you don't just ask good questions, but

1793
01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:06,760
Speaker 1: you really answering questions, and that's where people don't by

1794
01:31:06,760 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 1: the way, right, Yeah, thanks, thank you, thank you. True,

1795
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:13,800
Speaker 1: that's so special. Everyone has been listening or watching wherever

1796
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:16,720
Speaker 1: you are in the world. I hope you appreciated that

1797
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:18,559
Speaker 1: conversation as much as I did. I hope you could

1798
01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:20,680
Speaker 1: see that we're genuinely just having a good time and

1799
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:23,240
Speaker 1: getting to know each other and learning and going back

1800
01:31:23,240 --> 01:31:25,280
Speaker 1: and forth. But I think there were so many great

1801
01:31:25,280 --> 01:31:27,760
Speaker 1: insights in this conversation, and I'd love to see what

1802
01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:31,479
Speaker 1: you took away, So please do share them wherever you're sharing,

1803
01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:34,240
Speaker 1: whether it's Instagram or TikTok, or Twitter or wherever it is.

1804
01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:36,400
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear what you learned, what you took away,

1805
01:31:36,520 --> 01:31:40,080
Speaker 1: what you gathered from this conversation, what you collected, what

1806
01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:42,360
Speaker 1: you questioned, right, I think that's the biggest thing. What

1807
01:31:42,439 --> 01:31:45,040
Speaker 1: did you question? What is a question that you're asking

1808
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:48,200
Speaker 1: that you never asked before today? And I want to

1809
01:31:48,200 --> 01:31:49,880
Speaker 1: give a big thank you to Trevor for showing up

1810
01:31:49,920 --> 01:31:52,599
Speaker 1: and thank you doing all this time. And I will admit,

1811
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:54,920
Speaker 1: though I didn't do this just the goodest of my heart.

1812
01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:59,000
Speaker 1: I came because I remember seeing a clip of yours

1813
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:02,479
Speaker 1: many many, many many years ago, and you talked about

1814
01:32:02,520 --> 01:32:06,680
Speaker 1: how we don't know how to breathe. I remember that.

1815
01:32:06,720 --> 01:32:10,840
Speaker 1: I remember even watching it. I was like sitting at home,

1816
01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:16,080
Speaker 1: like I don't know how to breathe. And since then

1817
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:17,800
Speaker 1: it's it's stuck with me. I was like, one day,

1818
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:19,559
Speaker 1: I'm gonna meet this guy and I'm going to ask

1819
01:32:19,640 --> 01:32:21,240
Speaker 1: him to teach me how to breathe. We left to

1820
01:32:21,280 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 1: do that, I know. No, Yeah, thank you, thank you, honestly, no,

1821
01:32:25,160 --> 01:32:27,200
Speaker 1: thank you, man. I appreciate you the best. This is awesome.

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