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I'm going to share with you a really important insight from the great
novelist playwright, all around.
Interesting human being, uh, H G Wells.
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Let's do it.
What really matters is what you do.
With what you have.
Okay.
Friends, regular viewers know that.
I think we live in a highly mimetic culture.
It's a culture that is highly focused upon trying to get what everybody
else has as quickly as possible.
It's a celebrity based culture.
It's an affluence based culture.
It's a commodity.
Atomized culture.
So the sort of success of our post-capitalist world depends upon
creating consumers without consuming.
Then the whole thing begins to eventually fall apart.
How do you do that?
Well, one of the ways you do it is you target evolutionary psychology.
You target the way that we've evolved as a species, which has been to, to look
around into our world, see another tribe.
That's got either better land, better stuff.
And immediately think to ourselves, we'll have we had that stuff.
We would be much happier.
So you sort of bring that forward into the 21st century and isn't it.
Can you agree with me very easy to fall into the trap of thinking that if you
just had what X person had, if you were just looked how they looked, if you just
owned what they owned, if you're as tall as them, I had a haircut this morning.
I sit next to me.
He's got these thick, wavy hair.
Not that I'm bitter about it or anything, and not that I'm making a
point about it or anything, but you get my point and you kind of think,
well, imagine if I had thick black wavy hair, wouldn't that be amazing?
So it's very human.
We all deal with it.
I deal with it.
So what HG Wells is telling us to do.
Is it the real magic in life?
The real success over time comes from not sort of trying to build
your life on what somebody else is has, does, or creates or contributes.
You know, it's all, it's so easy to think that if we just had that particular
talent or we had that particular career path, then, then we would be happy.
So, what we're reminded of today is we really got to work with what we've got.
I've got to work with what I've got.
You've got to work with what you've got.
You know, I shared in a recent video that the impact of COVID on me was,
was pretty huge not getting COVID.
Cause I didn't, haven't got COVID, but the impact on my career, my travel and
all the sorts of stuff that, uh, used to make my life really rich and, uh, an
enjoyable and special sort of disappeared.
So there was a long journey for me of sort of trying to figure out why that's gone.
What do I do?
And I've got back to this long Securitas journey of, you know,
coming to terms with just doing the things that really animate me.
The things that I think can help people that are in me to help people
with, you know, I shared last week I was on the motorbike when this really
hit me, that my job is to teach, inspire, motivate, encourage people.
That's what gets me jazzed.
That's what I love.
So what you need to do, my friend is to begin to think
really about what have you got?
Are you funny?
Are you academic?
Are you athletic?
Are you competitive?
Are you a great listener?
Do you love to paint?
Do you love to draw?
Do you love to create companies?
Do you love to be a parent?
You got to do the best you can with what you have, because you're never
going to have someone else's stuff.
I mean, you can build a life and career and become successful.
You can buy other stuff, but you're never going to have in you the magic
that's in someone else because that's their, that's what they have to do.
So like a lot of the things I say on this channel, This isn't incredibly new.
It's not like I've uncovered some massive new, personal
development principle, or I think.
Because of the cultural influences that surround us.
It's just so easy to fall into the trap of imitation.
You know, Oscar Wilde famously said, you know, be yourself because why he said be
yourself because everybody else is taken.
So I think there is an imperative upon our lives just to, to really
focus each day on doing what we do.
Well, it doesn't mean it won't be hard.
It doesn't mean it won't be tiring.
Doesn't mean it might be a challenge at times, but today is HG.
Wells says you got to do what you can with what you've got again.
Am I getting through, am I getting you to think about.
Look at your talents.
Look at what makes you happy.
Look at, you know, Steve jobs used to talk about it all the time.
I mean, let's not put him on too much of a pedestal.
Cause if you read the biographies, there was quite a few character floors there.
Unlike me.
Of course, it was completely perfect, but.
You know, one of the things that Steve jobs did really well
was he did Steve jobs, right?
He looked at the things that interested him, design, calligraphy, beauty,
simplicity, and he sort of fused that with a ruthless business mind and put something
pretty remarkable together in the, in the sort of scope of human history.
For us, we just got to do that.
You know, my job isn't to be Steve jobs.
I like calligraphy.
If I see nice calligraphy, I think that's lovely.
But he trained in it.
You know, I don't know how many of you know this, but he, when he was at
university, he took a course in it.
And a lot of what he learned in that, just animated him and went
into the stuff he did later.
So, you know, we're all going to have these different interests and talents.
All right.
That's it for today.
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God bless everybody.
My name's Jonathan Doyle.
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