After Skool began in the summer of 2016. it's been quite a journey to this point
and what better way to celebrate 1 million subscribers than to review the
very best lessons learned? Here are the most valuable insights I have gained
from animating these videos. From Alan Watts I learned that life is not a
journey with a destination. We are conditioned to think that life should be
heading towards something like graduation or retirement or heaven but
the true purpose of life is to live. Same way and dancing. When you dance you are
not trying to get anywhere or finish the dance the point of dancing is the dance
life is a dance. Alan Watts also taught me how to find out what I want in life
the question of what do I want is one of the simplest yet hardest questions to
answer there are two reasons why you don't know what you want reason number
one you already have it reason number two is you don't know yourself the
reason you don't know yourself is because you never can to know yourself
is like a flame trying to burn itself or a knife trying to cut itself once you
understand this you will cease to cling to yourself you will reach a state of
desirelessness you won't try to control things and you will discover an endless
access of power from within on the same note
Jordan Peterson teaches that taking responsibility is the key to fulfillment
the more responsibility you accept the more meaningful your life will be if you
go around pointing the finger and blaming others for problems then you
will always be a victim the life of a victim is a sad weak existence always at
the mercy of external forces however if you accept responsibility for everything
then you will find meaning in everything take responsibility and pursue purpose
do not pursue short-term happiness pursue a life worth living Tony Robbins
says life does not happen to you it happens for you this quote means that
the way we choose to see things will shape a reality 5% of life is what
happens and 95% of life is how you choose to react maybe you fall and break
your ankle this event might seem bad but maybe this event leads you to write a
book on physical therapy for ankle injuries and you become a millionaire
there are many events in life we cannot control but we can control how we choose
to see these events David Foster Wallace says everybody worships the only choice
we get in life is what to worship if you worship money and things if they are
where you tap real meaning in life then you will never have enough never feel
you have enough it's the truth worship your body and beauty and sexual allure
and you will always feel ugly and when time and age start showing you will die
a million deaths before they finally grieve you worship power you will end up
feeling weak and afraid and you will need ever more power over others to numb
your own fear worship your intellect being seen as smart you will end up
feeling stupid a fraud always on the verge of being found out but the
insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or
sinful it's that they're unconscious from Eckhart Tolle I learned how to tap
into a higher consciousness by being present and life discomfort is
inevitable but suffering is a choice suffering comes from our fearful
thoughts of the future or painful memories of the past suffering does not
live in the present moment so if you are present truly present then you will be
free from all suffering the secret to being present is to detach your true
self from your thinking mind which stems from the ego Eckhart Tolle says the
beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the thinker
the moment you start watching the thinker a higher level of consciousness
becomes activated you then begin to realize there is a vast realm of
intelligence beyond thought that thought is only a tiny aspect of that
intelligence you also realize that all the things that truly matter beauty love
creativity joy inner peace arise from beyond the mind you begin to awaken well
Smith taught me that failure is not the end failure is a stepping stone to
success the more you fail the more you learn and grow failure helps you
recognize the areas where you need to evolve simon Sinek taught me that the
most important question is why before pursuing any major venture in life like
a business or a marriage you must answer the question of why am I doing this
understand the why before any other question from Joe Rogan I learned how to
stay motivated it's all about momentum if you start something today
where will it be in a year two years ten years if you focus energy on something
you will gain momentum towards that goal if you haven't worked out in three years
just doing ten push-ups will start to roll the momentum in a better direction
the next day you do 20 push-ups then 30 and soon that momentum is an unstoppable
force hurling in a positive direction from Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson
I learned the importance of understanding the mysteries of our past
we are a species with amnesia we have forgotten our origin if we find out
where we came from we will understand why we are here and where we are going
Elon Musk says we must build a future that inspires us we should pursue a path
that makes us excited to get out of bed in the morning
Joseph Campbell taught me that the best ideas are often misunderstood because
they transcend words in the movie Gladiator marcus aurelius
wistfully reminisces there was a dream that was Rome you could only whisper it
anything more than a whisper and it would vanish meaning that a sacred idea
is fragile in its infancy it often gets met with resistance when you come across
an idea that truly inspires you and ignites your passion do not let this
resistance derail you if you have a dream go for it
chase that intuition and don't worry about explaining it to those who won't
understand from Aristotle I learned how to learn Aristotle said it is the mark
of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
believing something blindly is just as silly as dismissing it entirely
both are lazy styles of thinking each question you have is like a rabbit hole
that leads to new understanding and perspectives education does not stop
when school gets out learning is a lifelong process so stay curious and
never stop questioning things this is the goal of after school to get you to
question things the ideas on this channel may seem scattered but there is
a common thread that runs through them all the mission of after skool is to
enhance profound ideas with art thank you for all the support I wish you way
more than luck