What Would You Trade to Be 20 Again?

0:00For me, the idea that there was no such thing as legacy, that when I died eventually everything that I had would become dust. And that anything expanded over a long enough time horizon disappears, right? Which if you are like Christian for example, it's the whole book of Ecclesiastes. Um if you and I think the realization of that allowed me to quiet my ego a lot.

0:23Um so that I could be more present in the idea that like this moment will only be here in my mind and anything that I do here will not last. And so it shifted how I worked, it shifted how I saw relationships and a lot of my thinking is around like my 85-year-old self. I feel like the my number one mentor is like my fictitious 85-year-old self because it's the only person that I really believe has my best interest at heart and has no ulterior motive. And so there's this there's this tweet that I had that went pretty viral, but it was like listening to a billionaire or a millionaire, I'll just use that. Like when I was in my 20s, I wanted to be a millionaire and when I was a millionaire, I wanted to be in my 20s.

1:06Mhm. And so the idea that my future self would trade all the money he had to be poor in 20 again made me really reanalyze how I saw living life in the moment. If I literally in the future will value my present moment more than the achievement of the thing that I'm I'm seeking right now in the present then something's something's off cuz even my future self knows that. Cuz right now I would pay all the money I have to get 10 years back.

1:33>> Isn't that interesting? >> about it. And so then all of what I'm going to achieve in the next 10 years, I would happily give up to be right where I am right now. And so I think thinking about that really shifted a lot for me because it helped me quiet, I'm not saying eliminate, but quiet some of the thoughts that are more ego-driven because the ego always wants to like separate and isolate from others and prove that it's better. >> Mhm.

1:57>> And if I know that it will all be dust, there is no better because we're all going to be dust. And so in that same way, if like if we're all going to be dust and we're all siblings, like two very strong frames for me at least, it helped me quiet that aspect. And I think in that way, I was able, I think, ask my people, but like I think I I was able to show up better as a leader. I think I was better able to show up better as a husband. Um show up better like to make content, things like that. Like I don't think I could have made the stuff we make now 5 years ago because I still think I would have been more it would have been too

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