Why do we live where is meaning coming from and it talks about an intersect of
four areas what am I good at what do I love what is the world need and how do I
get paid for it to me those four help you unlock your passion and I read a
study that inspired my beginning and it was that the most successful people in
the world healthy wealthy or wise choose education over entertainment and the
most unsuccessful people in the world unhealthy unwell or unwise choose
entertainment over education so I made it my mission in life to build
entertainment first content with an educational heart that act as the
foundation because we're living in such busy hectic crazy times how many of you
know that you have a schedule and still half of the things don't happen on that
schedule and so what I do every day is I'll look at the plethora of options
that I have available all of the things whether it's deals ideas thoughts
projects offers whatever it is and on top of all of them I'll write down why I
would do that fast forward where you are look at yourself in 10 15 20 years time
and ask yourself the question is that where I want to be if you're in a
company look at the person who's 20 years ahead of you and ask yourself is
that where I want to be if you're in a start-up look at where other startups
have got to in similar roles and go is that where I want to be and if the
answer's no then you need to find a new path and for me the answer at that time
from observing was NO. The path that my parents or society or the university I
went to or the community I had that was carving out for me it didn't feel like
the path for me so I was almost seeking an alternative or a new path I was just
so fortunate that it happened to be an uplifting powerful path as opposed
to something that could have actually taking me down the wrong road we meet
people who are just like us most of the time and we talk about this in business
if you want to be a billionaire spend time with billionaires if you want
to be a millionaire millionaires if you want to be a tech
startup spend time with you know that's that's the common rhetoric that we hear
all the time but what if you want to find purpose and
master the mind there's no one better than a monk who's mastered the mind so
for me the first step is just opening yourself up to new experiences and new
role models because most of us can't see ourselves in people so then we try and
fit ourselves into the boxes that we do see half of learning in my opinion is
really unlearning everyone already has the answer inside of them you're not
really learning anything new you're just trying to get rid of all the bad since
you learned and everyone has that so it's not so much about like was this
person going from here to here it's not really that it's like it's someone going
from here to here and for me one of the ways I've always thought about is you
can't take the world further than where you visited internally so for me every
person that we're meeting already has that journey right there and all you're
asking them to do is look inwards as opposed to outward.
Im a huge fan of the book Thinking Fast and Slow I don't know if you've read it ?yeah it's a great book
because for me it's got a really close pattern connection again to what I
studied so just understanding system 1 and system 2 if anyone watching hasn't
read it I highly recommend it just being able to differentiate between system 1
and system 2 as Daniel Kahneman calls it in the Vedic philosophy we recall
differentiating between the mind and the intelligence knowing how to
differentiate the voices in your head is the first level of self-awareness so
break down what system 1 and system 2 are. Absolutely the system 1 is your
initial response to anything that happens it's a stop that I can't really
say so if you say something I don't like my system 1 naturally would be a face
that I pull it on like I don't agree with that that's that's the
understanding of what system 1 and it's your initial default reaction in the
moment that can be positive often for example if someone pulls out a knife you
feel scared and you run that system 1 that's a good thing it's it's safe for
you but also system 1 is someone says something that hurts your ego and you
start defending yourself immediately that's also that's a negative
one that we would refer to as the mind it's built up of conditioning those
responses are conditioned those default elements are all there because of habit
and continuous practice the system too is more like the intelligence what I
would say is more like the parent if you can be consider system one to be more
like a child system two is more like a parent it looks more at the long-term it
looks more at the bigger picture it processes that default reaction through
a set of checking and metrics to decide whether that's true the child is the
one that wants everything right away impatient quickly responding straight
away reacting when it doesn't get what he wants
the intelligent parent and good one knows what the child wants and needs and
what's better for in the long term just starting there and being able to reflect
and observe the different voices inside of us is a great place to start your
self-awareness because the biggest challenge is that most of us don't know
what we're listening to and we don't most of us don't even know that there
are more than one voice so the noise that are describing life whether it's
your parents expectations whether it's society's expectations whether it's your
partner's expectations all of those are like noise in the background and that
noise drowns out your ability to understand the mind and the intelligence
that's one of the biggest trip ups that the noise from outside makes us want to
fit into the container and that stops us from differentiating between what is my
mind saying and what is my intelligence saying and what happens is that noise
becomes your voice so that noise becomes what you think is what you're saying if
you look at the ocean and you see someone drowning you want to help them
but if you go in too soon and you're not strong enough it's likely that you're
gonna get pulled in and even today I'm constantly refining my why that's all I
do every day my deepest morning routine and practice is to refine why I do what
I do it's so easy for me to now do it for money it's so easy for me to now do
it for followers it's so easy for me to now do it for fame and every
day I have to refine that because I know having lived as a monk and what I
practiced that if those become what I want then I'll forget who I need to be
so my daily practice my daily routine is refining my intention which in modern
language is why so for me simon's book helped me do that so for me my three e's
are element environment and energy every one has an element that they thrive in
if you take someone out of it their element they won't be the same a
modern-day example would be Michael Jordan he was incredible at basketball
you took him out of basketball put him into baseball no one remembers his
career we talked about one of the best athletes of all time your environment is
the environment around you you can take a fish out of water and give it a
beautiful mansion and a Bentley and all the money in the world but it would die
and that's what we are like our environment everyone is an environment
which may thrive which we have to craft your boss if you're at work is never
gonna ask you what environment you succeed in right like that never happens
so we have to create an environment where we thrive and then finally it's
energy we some of us love high energy environments high pressure
some of us succeed in lower energy environments and low pressure figuring
out your energy and the frequency on which you operate best will help you
thrive as well so for me those are the three e's to really create a thriving
environment know your element know your environment and know your energy there's
an incredible study in 2017 that said the most successful people in the world
healthy wealthy and wise choose education over entertainment
how many people are gonna quit watching Netflix and reading a book every night I
don't know but if we can make that book come to life on Netflix that's gonna
change the world because that's what people are gonna consume so for so long
media has been used to numb people to to switch people off if we can use it to
excite elevate enlighten people not by just not by like the cheesy way of like
well let's follow someone through their journey of enlightenment or like that
kind of stuff I mean like really entertaining programming where you can
learn by being entertained at the same time if I can do that by changing the
the most powerful industry in the world then I will feel that I've had some some
whatever an impact so from a monks perspective the greatest
power is to be self-controlled to be able to train the mind and energy to
focus it exactly where you want it and when you want it to be and so every day
I'm plucking out the weeds out of my life and I'm trying to plant more seeds