- [Divyanshu] Thanks Brandon for having me on your channel.
Hey guys, I'm Divyanshu, and I'm gonna help you
get One Percent Better, so let's talk about
this guy named Julien who was a very successful lawyer.
Now when I say successful, I mean that he was famous,
rich, and he fought cases only to defend
some really wealthy people.
He had a big mansion, a private jet,
and of course, a Ferrari.
But even after achieving these huge things in his life,
he was not satisfied.
He wanted more fame, more money which led him
to a point where he was working for almost 18 hours a day.
As a result, he got divorced, he barely interacted
with his family and boy did he look like an 80 year old man
even though he was just 53.
So once during a regular courtroom session,
he felt some pain around his chest area
and suddenly he fainted.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital
where doctors divinized that he'd just got a heart attack.
When Julien came back to senses, doctors advised him
not to go so hard on himself, as he really was not
in a position to sustain all that pressure.
They asked Julien to quit his job and to live his life
peacefully with all that he has earned.
This came as a shock to him.
I mean, he had been winning all cases his entire life,
but when it came to the case of his own life,
he looked like a loser.
He took a few days to digest this fact
and slowly he started to realise all his mistakes.
So one fine morning, he took a very bold step.
He started selling every materialistic things
that he possessed.
He sold his mansion, his private jet, and yes,
he even sold his Ferrari.
Once he was done selling things, he set out on a journey
in search of the true meaning of life.
This journey was towards the mystical land of India
across the great Himalayan range
where these Indian monks resided.
These monks were not ordinary, as they were among the people
with highest level of wisdom, and they were capable
of liberating the potential of anyone's soul, body and mind.
Julien had his sources from where he got to know
that these monks live happily for more than 100 years,
that too with an energy of a young man.
It took him days to find one of those monks
who upon listening to Julien's story,
agreed to take him to their secret village.
Julien started living there
with those monks in that village.
Watching Julien's dedication, monk leader decided
to teach Julien the principles of life on a condition
that Julien will not keep that knowledge to himself.
Rather, he would spread it to the outside world.
So the monks started narrating a story.
Imagine you're sitting in a beautiful garden
which is full of different type of trees, flowers,
and you can see many birds chirping around.
The flowers in the garden smell really nice
and you are having a good time there.
You notice that there's a lighthouse in the middle
of the garden and suddenly the door of that lighthouse
creaks open as you can see a sumo wrestler
coming out of the lighthouse.
It's really weird to look at the sumo wrestler,
as he's just wearing an underwear made of thin wire.
He wanders around and finds a golden stopwatch
lying in the garden.
As soon as he tries to pick it up, he slips and he falls
on the ground, lying motionless.
After some time, you could see that he gets
back to his senses, probably because of
the nice fragrance of the rose in the garden
and he looks towards his left.
On his left was a path paved out of small diamonds
which led to a place where the sumo wrestler can find
all the happiness in his life.
He starts walking on that path and soon gets out of sight.
Now I know you guys might be feeling really weird,
so did Julien as this is no story.
He asked monk if this was some kind of a joke
as this story made no sense at all.
The monk then said that this is no ordinary story,
as this story has seven biggest principles of life.
He then went there and started explaining the story,
leading it to its hidden meaning.
The first principle is related to the garden.
The garden in the story symbolises our brain.
If you sow good seeds, you'll eventually be a nice
fruits on trees, good plants bearing beautiful flowers,
and nice smooth grass.
But if you put garbage inside the garden,
or if you just stop watering the plants,
the place will soon turn into a dump.
Similarly, if you flood your brain with positive thoughts
like kindness, love, empathy, and if you keep
motivating yourself, your brain will develop
into this beautiful garden bearing good thoughts.
This will help you achieve
great things in life with inner peace.
But if you think negative or if you don't give your brain
some regular exercise, it will turn into
this garbage dump which can only yield something poisonous.
It's rightly said, empty mind is devil's workshop.
The second principle is related to the lighthouse
which symbolises goals in your life.
A lighthouse shows the right direction to the ships
sailing in an ocean.
Similarly, we should choose the right path in our life.
You can only reach a destination
if at all you know your destination.
Choose the target and work on achieving it.
You might have to face some difficulties
while moving towards your goal.
But if you're consistently moving in right direction,
sooner or later you're going to reach your destination.
The third principle is related to the sumo wrestler
which symbolises kaizen.
Kaizen is a Japanese word which means
continuous learning and improvement.
Like a sumo wrestler has to be very specific
with his diet and discipline to achieve this huge physique,
we need to always keep learning.
One Percent Better has always been focusing
on how we should inculcate the habit of reading books
because books are the best mentors.
Not only you learn things from books,
but you always keep improving in every small thing
that you do in your life.
Moreover, books are a consolidation of everything
that the authors have learned in their entire lifetime,
and you can have all that knowledge in just a few hours.
Isn't that amazing?
So my point here is to take part in every activity
which you think can help you improve in your life.
The fourth principle is related to the underwear
that the wrestler is wearing which is made up of wires.
Interpret self control and discipline.
It might be small and think, but without that underwear,
the wrestler will be naked,
and that really won't be a pleasing sight.
Now if you have seen cable wire from inside,
you might be aware of the fact that it usually
is made up of many thin wires which together forms a cable.
These thin wires might be weak alone,
but when put together are even stronger than an iron rod.
Similarly, our self control and discipline
is made up of every small thing that we do in our life.
Be it waking up early or eating healthy.
We feel that these small things don't really matter.
But in reality, these are the only thing that matters.
You won't see an instant impact, but in the long run,
these small things can bring some big changes in your life
and they will define who you are as an individual.
The fifth principle is related to the golden stopwatch
which symbolises time.
No matter how rich or poor you are,
you only have 24 hours in an entire day,
not even a second more or less than anyone else.
But the way we utilise these 24 hours
is what makes us happy or sad, rich or poor.
Most of us have this habit of procrastinating
which is nothing but a waste of time.
By the time you're done with building castles in the air,
someone else out there just signed a huge profitable deal.
By the time you woke up in the morning,
someone else is running from gym
feeling fresh, fit and happy.
Now when I say time is golden, it doesn't mean
that we should always keep working, no.
Instead we must enjoy and have some fun activities
in our day-to-day life.
And what's really important is to manage
everything in those 24 hours.
Every successful person knows how to manage time.
So they manage to do every single activity
in same 24 hours that each one of us has got.
Now the sixth principle is related to the fragrant rose.
There's one really famous saying in China which means
that there's always a little fragrance remaining
in the hand of those who give flowers to others.
So here this flower and its fragrance
symbolises social cause.
Doesn't matter how much you earn or what heights you reach,
satisfaction of helping others is priceless.
No wonder why some really rich people in today's world
do charity work, investing their hard earned money
in developing some rural village, and many more things.
So if you want to have that priceless feeling of happiness
and satisfaction, help others selflessly
and you'll find yourself happy most of the time.
The seventh principle is related to the path of diamonds.
These diamonds represent the small moment of happiness
which comes our way in life.
These moments are always in the present time.
Our human brains are designed in such a way
that we tend to get disturbed thinking of our past
and worrying about future.
You never really enjoy the small happy moments
that we have in present.
It can literally be anything, playing with your kids
in a nearby park, or maybe spending
some quality time with your partner.
These present moments are supposed to be lived in present
and these are the real diamonds in our life.
If only you understand this now, you are really
going to be good at relationships, and well,
a real happy, contented person.
So guys, these were the seven lessons which the monk
taught Julien which completely changed his life.
As promised, Julien spread out this knowledge
to the outer world, and that is what we all should do
to help our loved ones get all the happiness in the life.
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