So the big question is this, how do young men like us who didn't listen to society
who are on our own, how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can live a
better tomorrow? That is the question and this show will give you the answers. My
name is James Rydzinski and welcome to the Ascend Momentum Show.
Welcome back everyone. So I want to talk about the reality of our situation.
I'm not sure where this episode is headed to but let me just start talking. A couple days ago I
discovered a ultimate reading list for human beings and it has 180 books for
all human beings to read. And as you guys know I'm a really strong, I'm a really
big fan of reality transfer and I know that book is very valuable. Hence why
I'm reading it a second time. And when I saw that reading list he wrote down an
article before he even gave the reading list so that before the reading list was
a couple pages of text and he was talking about different things. And one of
the things he said is that the first book you should read is reality
transfer. So he's essentially saying the foundation to living life as a human
being is transurfing. So that's one thing. And another thing is that he is
probably 28 years old, 30 years old. And so he is 10 years ahead of me
essentially. At least 10 years ahead of me in life. And he's read a lot. He's a
very similar reader to me where he reads nonfiction, self-improvement books is
what it seems. Not even just self-improvement but books to just grow as a
human. And yeah. And I was reading through a couple of his, like I was reading
around his website and not just the reading list but other parts of the
website. Like his three-year long trip, his road trip, where he basically went
started at the northernmost point of North America and then ended at the
southernmost point in South America. So he was on a road trip for three
years with his friends. So he knows how to live the good life is basically what
I'm trying to say. And he wrote a book and he was actually reading many books
throughout his life and just especially over the past eight years, let's say. And
over the past eight years he was reading a lot, growing a lot as a human,
evolving a lot. And then also he went on that road trip. And then he wrote a book
and that book is called Dancing When the Music Stops. I'm pretty sure is what
it's called. And he basically said that book is the result of the past eight
years of reading all these different books on this reading list and going on
this road trip. Now when I read his description of the book on his website,
my perspective on life shifted a bit. He talked about, and let me give some
context. I read through all of the 180 titles and on and his thoughts and
description about the books on his reading list. And there were probably 10, at
least five, like around five to 10 books about extinction, global warming, and the
state of the earth and where it's headed. Basically, many books on that list are
saying that the world is dying right now and we only have a few decades left. So
when I, all throughout my life, I've heard of global warming. I just scoffed. I
not scoffed, but I was just like, oh, that sucks. But I never really saw the
impacts. And I never really realized how it affected me. And then something
changed in me yesterday where I actually read, I read through that reading list
and on his list of essential reads for human beings were a bunch of books about
the state of where the earth is headed. And for even more context, I'm working
on basically escaping the game that we live in as a society. I'm basically
working on getting out of the 40 hour work week and the nine to five job. And
I'm basically working on freeing myself from all of the everything about society.
I'm basically trying to free myself from where I was headed, which was going to
college, working a nine to five for the rest of my life, living up to nothing,
becoming nobody. And to bring it back to the reading list, his comments about the
books were very astounding to me. They he was saying so as a matter of factly that
the world is dying in 2050, and we're all going to be gone. Or at least it's
going to be miserable. And he was saying that and the reason why I believe it now
is because I feel like the reason I believe in now is because he's not just
saying it. He's saying, yeah, this is happening, but still live your life and
still love life and still enjoy life. Like this is happening. Yes. But continue on
with your happiness and just find the joy of life. And so that's another reason
why that book, though that reading list is going to be so valuable because it'll
open up a lot of perspective to just new perspective about life because I've been
shaped for seven. My mind has been shaped for 17 years to basically stay in the
concrete jungle that I live in and never go off. And that's probably why I never
really noticed global warming because I've lived in a concrete jungle all my
life. I live in the suburbs. I live in the city. And I never really know what I
don't really know what I'm missing. I don't know what I'm losing when the
earth dies. I don't know all the nature. I've never had a chance to actually
experience nature in its entirety. And over the past couple, over the past couple
months during summer break, me and my friend would go to the park, which is
just this one block chunk of grass in the middle of my town. Just one block. So if
you don't know what a block is, it's basically one city block of houses. So
maybe 10, 15 houses just aligned next to each other. And then this is just one
block. And it's two houses. So imagine 10 houses just aligned next to each other.
And then imagine that twice with an alley in between. So that's one block is
what I'm defining as a block right now. And imagine no houses but that same
area but just grass. So it's not that big of a grass, but us going there has
started to shift our lives and change our lives. And that's just a tiny little
bit of grass. And so I and we were just we're in the grass, but our vision was
full of houses and civilization and structure. So I've never really experienced
true nature and just the jungle of the world. I never really experienced a
jungle. I never experienced Antarctica. I've never experienced anywhere that is
not civilized. So I never really had the human experience that humans have had
over the past millennia. And so that's what I'm trying to say. Even if I hope
that the world doesn't die in 2050. But the fact that he said it as such a
matter of fact like the statement, it was just no nothing attributed to it. He was
just saying it like a normal conversation. That kind of struck a chord in me. And
then it made me think that I'm spending hours every day sitting in my room
sitting in class inside of a building disconnected from nature. And in 30 years
nature is going to be gone. Nature as we know it will be gone. We're the last
generation to experience the earth as we know it. Now I'm not qualified at all to
speak on any of these anything about global warming because I haven't done
any research about it. But I'm using this not as a sense of despair and
sadness. I'm using it as a sense to help me push forward towards where I want
to be in life and push towards my goals and realize that I really am given a
special opportunity in life because if I'm the last generation to experience
the earth as we know it, I sure as heck don't want to waste it. So another key
part that I want to speak on is a transfer for stays awake is always aware.
And in order to master outer intention you have to have awareness, reduced
importance, and let go of the goal. And awareness is a huge piece to
transurfing. And I believe that awareness is a huge piece to living life on your
own accord. And it's just a huge piece to living life because every time I fall
asleep in my day, which if you are new here, falling asleep, I refer to as just
zoning out, losing presence, and immersing yourself in the game of life. So
whenever someone has a temper tantrum, they are immersed in the game. And
there's a lot of importance placed amongst whatever they're mad at. And
they are asleep essentially. So that's what I define as awareness, but that's
one extreme. You can still just zone out whenever if you've ever noticed, let's
say in class, you just stare at something and then you just zone out. That's
falling asleep as well. And if falling asleep can happen in the day to day
where you're just in normal conversation, you just fall asleep. So a
transfer for is aware and always awake. And if you're in, if let's just talk about
our dreams. So when you're sleeping at nighttime and you're dreaming, things
just happen to you. That's because you're not aware, you're immersed in the game of
a dream. And you're not aware that it's just a game. You're not aware that you
can actually change things and control things. Not necessarily control, but you
can choose what you want.
What? No. Sorry, this is sorry I was interrupted. But what I was saying is
imagine when you're sleeping and you're in a dream when you're actually asleep
at nighttime, you're just, things just happen to you and you're kind of the
victim of circumstance. Things just happen and you don't really get to choose
what happens in life and you kind of just are at the will of others in your
dreams. Now what if I were to tell you that that's exactly how it is in real
life. And that's why people, that's why most of society work on 9 to 5. And
that's why there's only a select few who achieve greatness. And it's because
everyone is asleep and they're immersed in the game of life. And they don't
understand that they can actually choose. But the way you can just choose, you
have to be awake to choose. You have to be vigilant. And that's, if you've ever
heard of a lucid dream, that's essentially what it is. In a dream, if
someone realizes that it's just a dream, they wake up in the dream and they're
like, oh, it's just a dream. I can do whatever I want now. And then they're
lucid. So then they, that's when they have a lot of awareness and a lot of
vigilance. And then they basically get to live life of their own accord in the
dream. And they get to do whatever they want. They choose whatever they want. Now
that's exactly how life is. Life is the same as a dream in that sense. Except
life is kind of like tar or resin or molasses where it's slow moving. If you've
ever been lucid in a dream and you try to make something appear or you try to
shift scenery or you try to fly, it all happens instantly. And that's because a
dream is kind of like water. That's the texture. It's easily movable. Or let's
just say a dream is like air. You can move through air at your will easily. And
things manifest in a dream as easy as you move around in air. So outer intention
has no friction essentially. But then in real life, it's all the same properties
except it's not air that you're in. You're in tar or resin or molasses. Some slow
moving substance. So things take a little bit longer to manifest into real life.
That's why you can't instantly change. You can't instantly summon an apple on
your desk. Because it's where real life is like tar. It's like moving around in a
pile of tar. It's slow moving. Dreaming is quick. Like move your hand in the air
around right now. It's quick. There's no tension. There's no resistance. But
imagine if you were to move your hand in in water. There'd be a little bit more
resistance. It wouldn't be as easy. Now imagine trying to move your hand in
molasses. Have you heard of the term slow as molasses? Because molasses takes a
long time to fall out of the jar. So it takes a lot longer. And in the first,
remember the first rule of gaining outer intention, which I haven't even
explained outer intention yet. Outer intention is basically the will to have.
So it's basically allowing yourself to have something. And then the world gets
it for you. And this is what every... this is what all the people are doing that
know how the world works. They use outer intention. Outer intention is basically
achieving your... letting your goals achieve themselves, basically. Now I don't
even understand what outer intention is. And that's why I'm giving you such a vague
explanation. But I have a conceptual idea of what it is. And I know how to enact it.
And it's activated through the heart, the unity of the heart and mind. So when
your heart and when your soul and mind both want something and they agree that
you want it, then outer intention will be activated. But you have to be awake. And
that's all there is to it. You have to be vigilant and awake and aware. That's the
difference between me and Vadim Zellan. There's a lot of differences, but Vadim
Zellan is awake. I don't know how much. Let's just say 90% of the day. 100% of the
day. He is awake all the time. So he gets to choose. He's basically living life
like a lucid dream in the sense that he gets to choose whatever he wants because
he's awake at all times. Now me, I'm awake 10% of the day. 5% of the day. I don't
know. Maybe 50% of the day. I don't know. But it's definitely not enough to... It's
enough to activate outer intention, but it's not enough to get where I want. Now
I'll get where I want, but it'll take a lot longer. And if you want to... And even...
Let's just change shift the theme. I'm talking about staying awake to achieve
your goals. What about staying awake to live life? Because if everyone knows that
once you fall asleep, you kind of just skip time and you kind of teleport to the
next time where you're awake. That's how I feel at least. And so if you want to
start living your life fully to its fullest, then stay awake all the time.
And that's another thing I want to talk about. The reason why people fall asleep...
The reason why people fall asleep is because it's a defense mechanism. You're
trying to hide away from the harshness of reality. People don't like reality. And
so they fall asleep to protect themselves from that reality. But what it
actually is doing is reducing your influence on the world and it's taking
away your ability of choice. Let me get some water.
So this is all there is to it. That's all there is to it. Staying awake all day.
Realizing that it's just a game. Life is not all that. It's not the game that you
think it is. And I'm just beginning on this journey. And I'm starting to realize
that there's so much more to life and there's so much more to learn. And that's
why I've been talking about this reading list so much lately. It's because this is
really the next part of my life, I believe. I believe that this is the next
stage of reading. After I've before a couple weeks ago, my plan for when I was
finishing Transurfing was to read business books more, reread.com secrets,
finish expert secrets, read The Lynch Pin by Russell Brunson, and do all this
stuff. But I know that the next stage is reading these books in the reading list.
Because a lot of these books he was saying are unheard of. No one knows about
them. And a lot of these books he's saying that you need to read it. And I'm
gonna I'm believing him, I'm trusting him on this. He's done a good job selling
me. Maybe I sold myself. I don't know but there's something there is something to
it. And the last time I felt this, I just know that there is something to it. And I
don't even remember the last time I felt this, but I know that I felt this before.
I can't put my finger to what.
But with that said, let's switch topics to comfort zone. As you guys here, let me
give you some context just in case you guys aren't, haven't heard. A couple
weeks ago I started expanding my comfort zone. I started out through emailing
random businesses, local businesses. And then I started cold calling random
businesses. And then, and then once that got too easy, I started going in person
to random businesses and talking to them. And I did this once a day for five
days. And then on the fifth day, it became easy and it became comfortable. And it
entered into my comfort zone. Now my framework is it takes five days once a
day every five days until it gets into your comfort zone. And the first day is
100% difficulty. It's 100% discomfort and you 100% don't want to do it. The
second day is 50%. It becomes that much easier. And then the third day 25%, that
much easier. And then the fourth day, 10%. And then the fifth day, it's in your
comfort zone. And so far I've only tested it really with going in person to
businesses. And now I'm testing it with cold approaching girls. So three weeks
ago probably I went to the mall for the first time. I think it was probably two
and a half weeks ago. I don't know. It was on episode 20, I believe it was. And I
went to the mall for the first time and cold approached girls my age and just
asked for their numbers and talked to them. That was extremely uncomfortable. And
then the second time last weekend, I think it was, we did the same thing. Me and
my friend Franklin, we did the same thing and it was still uncomfortable. Maybe
50% or 60%. Now we're gonna go again tomorrow, which is Saturday, and we're
gonna go again on Sunday. And I'm gonna try and figure out how to make it happen.
This is one of another very important thing. And we did that, but
we're also gonna add another piece to it. I just read the other day in
Transurfing that if you create a positive slide in your head, so a slide is
something that you hold in your head that others are not. So for example, if
you're thinking I'm ugly and you just constantly repeat that in your head over
and over again, no one else is thinking that because everyone else is just
thinking about themselves. And if you want proof, just ask yourself, do you ever
think about other people? No, you think about yourself. Or at least you think
about how you yourself is. And then that slide affects your actions and then
also affects just your thoughts too. So then, but you can flip it, you can have a
positive slide to where you imagine yourself, you visualize yourself in the
first person perspective, like it's in real life. You visualize yourself
calmly, confidently talking to girls. That's actually my side, confidence around
girls and comfortable around girls. And so I started that slide maybe two nights
ago. And I'm planning on using it tomorrow. And let me explain. If you have
that slide, it will slowly start to ingrain into your life until it dissolves.
And then once it dissolves, it's in your life. And you are that slide. But that
process is slow. And like I said, that slide affects your actions. So you run
that slide in your head and it starts to increase your comfort zone. And then
you'll start to act like that slide slowly, but surely. And then eventually you
will take that slide into you and it will dissolve into you and it will become
you. But there's a way you can quickly and effectively speed up the process. And
it's to talk to strangers while running the slide. And it's because they don't
have any impression on you. They've just met you. So if you run that slide, acting
confidently and being who you are in that side, living that slide out, then they
will have that impression on you of you. And then that side will become quicker
and quicker to ingrain into you. And so that's what we plan on on doing tomorrow
when we go to the mall. We're going to run that slide of being confident and
comfortable. And then we're going to talk to a bunch of random girls,
strangers that we've never met before. And that will have a double effect. It
will that slide will materialize and it will be quicker to materialize. But we
will also be practicing our comfort zone. So we're practicing in real life, in
reality. But we're also practicing mentally. So it's a double effect. And
tomorrow will be the third. And then on Sunday will be the fourth day that we do
cold approach. So as you can imagine, we are getting closer to being comfortable
around girls. And I actually experienced this this morning in my gym class. So if
you for context, if you guys didn't hear previous episodes, in my gym class, I'm
a senior in high school, by the way, in my gym class, we are in a class called
adventure ed in a unit, our unit right now that we're in is as a kayaking unit.
So we're in the pool. So we're in our pool attire swimsuit shirtless. And it's a
coed class. So the girls are in there too, in their swimsuits. And there's this
one girl in my class that is cute. There's multiple girls, but there's this
one girl in particular that's cute that I hadn't had the privilege to talk to
her until today. And then today we were talking. And I was comfortable. I was
calm and confident talking to her. And so that just shows me how much I've grown
because if I had that same situation two or four weeks ago, I definitely would
not have been so comfortable and calm and confident. And that situation would
not have played out so well. Because it's also another thing. There's a mental
aspect to this. It's that I'm trying to say this humbly, and I'm just giving
context. But this is how I speak to myself. When I'm alone, I just speak to
myself. I'm like, I'm jacked, I can do whatever I want. And I just say that to
myself in response to whenever I feel insecure about certain things. For
example, I felt insecure that I went commando and I wasn't wearing underwear,
but I was wearing shorts. And I was like, I'm jacked, I can do whatever I want. And
then this is just self talk that I talk to myself. And it's completely positive.
It's entirely constructive. There's no toxic around it. And then another way
that I talk to myself is, but I don't talk to myself this way. I just remind
myself that this is what I'm working towards and this is what I need to fix.
And it's that I'm jacked. I shouldn't be uncomfortable in social situations. I
shouldn't be nervous around girls. I shouldn't be not confident. I should be
confident. I'm jacked. I deserve more. I need more. And so that pushes me because
I'm thinking, man, this is embarrassing how I'm nervous around girls. This is
embarrassing how I'm nervous in social situations. And I'm still like this
today. I'm still nervous around girls. I'm still embarrassed in social
situations. And so this pushes me to do the hard things that are required to get
to that point to where I'm no longer nervous around girls and I'm confident
and I'm no longer nervous in social situations. But you got to make sure
that you do it entirely constructive because a lot of the times self talk
can go on its own and go off on its own tangent and become toxic and be to your
detriment. And that when that happens, that's when you fall asleep. You have to
be awake and conscious and present when you're doing self talk. Or else a lot of
the times it can go off to the negative. And once you realize and
you're attuned to that and you realize that, oh, this is negative, just note that
it happened and just switch immediately switch to a more positive or just
immediately clear your mind. Don't beat yourself up that you failed. Because let
me tell you another story. Maybe a month ago, I was, I started being present and I
started learning about this thing. Actually, I learned a long time ago, but
maybe five months ago is when I started actually learning about
Transurfing. But a couple months ago is when I actually started applying being
present and actually realizing that being awake is the next thing that I need
to focus on and actually focusing on it. So let's say a month ago I started waking
up in life. So I woke up five times. That means I woke up from my sleep five
times in a day. And then today, let's talk about four days ago because this is
when I was, I'll talk about this from the perspective of four days ago. Four days
ago, I would wake up maybe 40 times per day. And now I interpreted that as me
falling down and me failing because I realized that I was waking up from my
sleep way more. So I, a month ago, I was only waking up five times. So that means
that I interpreted it as it meaning I was, I only needed to wake up five times
per day. So I was only asleep five times per day. That's what I was
interpreting it as. I was asleep five times per day. But then four days ago,
after all that progress of getting better, I was waking, I was asleep 40 times
per day and I was waking up 40 times per day. That's what I interpreted as that
I was asleep 40 times per day. So I saw that as negative. I saw that as a
downhill growth. I saw that as the opposite of growth, me failing. But then I
came to the epiphany the other day that it's not actually like that. It's a month
ago I was awake. I only had the opportunity to wake up five times per day.
But four days ago, I had the opportunity to wake up 40 times per day. So I was up
eight times more than I was a month ago. And that is growth. And then once I
realized that my mood in the day immediately shifted. It was actually
crazy because the whole morning I was down and I was just going through the
motions of the day. And I was asleep a lot of the day because of my low mood. But
then once I realized that I was interpreting the whole thing absolutely
wrong, my mood shifted just like that, just in an instant. And then I had a
positive outlook into life and I was positive. I had a positive mood. So when
you start, and this is one of the things that I started being conscious of after
that experience, I started every single time I wake up, I would be, I would always
interpret it as good. I wouldn't interpret it as I failed because that's, that
was the negative mindset I had a couple weeks, a couple days ago actually. I would
always interpret me waking up as a failure because that meant that I was
asleep before. But now I shifted my mindset and now I always interpret me
waking up as good because I woke up. So that alone is good. Before I was
interpreting the fact that I was asleep. But now I disregard that. I know that I
was asleep and I know I have work to do. But I always interpret the fact that I
woke up as good because that means my inner guardian was working and it was
vigilant. So that's another tip for staying present and staying awake in
life. Always interpret, always always always interpret waking up as good. If you
wake up in any situation it's good. Even if you're asleep the entire day, 12 hours
long and you only wake up once in that day, that's good. Now it's not good that
you were asleep 12 hours but it's good that you woke up. Always interpret it as
good. And then if you were asleep for 12 hours straight you got some work to do.
Just know that. It's all about your mindset. Everything in life, every self
improvement thing is all about your mindset. That's why I'm focusing so hard
on mindset. A couple months ago, maybe five months ago, I bought reality
Transurfing in March of 2023 and right now is August of 2023. I bought reality
Transurfing because I knew at that point I was focusing on my physical, my health
and I was focusing on my conditioning, my weights, my physique. I was focusing on
all these physical aspects. My body was in very good shape. I was healthy, all of
that. But I knew that my mind was not as good and I didn't pay enough attention
to my mind. So then I slowly but surely started to learn more about my mind and
it took me five months to get to this point. And to be honest, I didn't actually
start getting results and getting progress until the past maybe month or two.
So it's a long journey but it doesn't have to be. Maybe it does, I don't know.
But just know that it'll take a little bit. And I'm not sure if that's
the best advice to give but it's just what I'm thinking at the moment.
Let me get some water.
So I want to talk about reading. As I was talking about earlier in this episode,
the next stage in my life will be unlocked through reading. And that's
because this guy had lived eight years and written all of these
experiences and all this knowledge from he got from eight years worth of
reading and living life in one book. And all of these other books are knowledge
that these people have lived throughout their lives. So reading really, so think
about like this. If you're in a situation that you're not happy about, that's
because, so for example for me right now, I'm happy about this situation I'm in
but if I could go back I would change it for the better. So let me explain what I
mean by that. I'm 17 years old right now. For the past 17 years I've been
molded and my brain has been molded and my life as a result has been molded
because your thoughts and your thinking affect your actions. So the society has
molded my brain. Now we all get to choose what we want in life. So we choose
where we get in life but to be able to choose you have to actually choose. And
what society does is it molds your brain to where you choose worse. You choose
less. You choose not good. And so for the past 17 years of my life and still to
this day society is molding my brain to its benefit not to mine. Society is
molding my brain to hold me down to keep me back to keep me down. And now that I'm
become conscious of this I'm going on this journey to reshape my brain and
shape it to how I want and shape it to allow me to achieve whatever I want. Now
this won't take this will this will take a long time. This won't be an easy
this will not be a quick process. And I started doing it maybe five months ago
and I'm starting consciously doing it right now because I know that
Transurfing is the foundation to what I need to what I need to live the human
experience the ultimate human experience. And then all these 180 books are the
castle on top of this amazing strong foundation that I'm building. So that's
why I'm finishing Reality Transurfing the second time while studying it. And then
I'm getting right into these books because reading shifts your brain reading
molds your brain. This is already a known thing. Your subconscious takes that
stuff in and then helps you make better decisions. And it actually shifts your
worldview. Transurfing reading Transurfing shifted my worldview. So now I make
better decisions and I'm able to make better decisions. And I just have a
beginner worldview. My worldview is still mostly 17 years of society's conditioning.
So now in the upcoming future in the neck over the next year or two I'll be
reading these books and re shifting my brain re shifting my worldview my
mindset and it will change me it will slowly but surely change me if you look
at me now and then you compare me to one year from now you will see the
difference. But if you look at me now and then look at me tomorrow you may be
able to see the difference but it will be minor there will be barely anything
you probably won't even be able to see the difference. That's what it is it's
over the long term. And one year is not even that long it's just reading and
plus I will still be living my life because I don't look at my phone anymore
I don't spend time on my phone I don't waste my time anymore. I used to spend
hours every day on my phone wasting away. Now I don't spend any time on my phone
and now I spend hours every day reading. That's not a waste. I don't want to talk
about the unity of the heart and mind that I touched on earlier. That's that's
one of the that's how you use outer intention at your will by unifying
your heart and mind. So if your heart agrees and your mind agrees on something
that will come true. But in order to for your mind to agree on something it has to
fit into its worldview. So your heart can agree that you can make an apple up here
or your heart can agree that you can move that pen on your desk to the side
without touching it. But your mind will definitely not agree because that's not
in its worldview. Your mind knows your mind thinks that that's not possible
because its worldview of 17 years. I'm just using 17 year old as an example like
myself. Your it's worldview of 17 years says that it's not possible. You have to
actually pick it up and move it with your your hands if it want if you want to
move it. Your heart could agree that your heart could know that it's possible but
your mind does not. And so that's another reason why I want to read because
reading changes your worldview and adds things in. If you read all about how
doing the impossible is possible then that will slowly but surely be
incorporated into your worldview and then you will begin after a while you will
begin to believe in that stuff so then you're you will be able to get your mind
to agree. So your heart will agree that you can move that pen to the side. Right
now your mind cannot but in a year in two years in ten years your mind will
agree finally after all of this change of your worldview your mind will agree that
you can move it and then it will move. And this I was just using the pen as an
example but this is so much deeper than just a pen. This is all about getting
what you want in life choosing your lot in life. This is all about living of your
own accord. This is all about doing what you want living life. Do you want life to
live without you or do you want to live with life? Because right now most people
are kind of just strolling by but you need to bow if you want if you know
there's more if you know there's more to the world and there's more for you out
there you need to start waking up and you need to change your worldview start
shaping it and it will not be easy. You need to cut off all of your electronics
and I hope I'm not scaring you. You need to cut off your phone. Don't don't you
don't need to cut off everything and you don't need to do it abruptly. Just
slowly but surely it took I when I first got into reading I was still using my
phone I was still watching YouTube but I was reading and then I realized that I
wanted more time to read. I wanted and then slowly but surely I was making
tiny little changes over time unconsciously. I was not conscious about
most of this stuff and I didn't realize how it all was connected but then slowly
but surely eventually I cut out my phone and then I I still haven't cut out my
phone I still use it every once in a while but I'm only using it at most
once a day. I don't bring it to school anymore I leave it in my basement all
the time and just this stuff won't happen instantly. You have to slowly but surely
change things and this is something I have to keep reminding myself as well
because I'm still on the grow I'm still on the journey with you guys. I still want
to grow I still am striving for growth. I may or may not be ahead of you or
behind you but the thing I'm trying to say is that you have to have patience
and it does not come instantly. Let me get some water.
So I started reading a book called The Alchemist and I'm reading it for multiple
reasons. One is because I've had a desire to read this over the course of a
couple months but I never wanted to because it was fiction and I just wanted
to focus on nonfiction but this and I also wanted to read it because it was
on Hamza's reading list. But the reason why I am reading it is because I have to
read a book for 20 minutes a day two times a week. We get reading time in my
class for English two times a week so I am taking advantage of that. I'm not
reading Transurfing during that because I want to have focus and I don't want to
be distracted while I'm reading it. I just want to read Transurfing at full
focus and I'm not reading Expert Secrets for the same reason. So that just leaves
well I also am reading the Alchemist because my teacher is requiring a
novel so I am doing that and yeah I actually think that this book will be
good for me because so far I've seen some pretty good pieces of knowledge and
pieces of wisdom from it. One of the things that I learned about in it was
the most extraordinary things in life are always the simple things. Now I may
be butchering that quote but in the beginning the first I believe it was
page 22 on the book when he was talking to the fortune teller woman or the dream
the dream meaning woman. He was meeting with a woman an old woman who could
interpret dreams because he had a reoccurring dream and the dream was about
the Egyptian temples so in the beginning of the dream he was at his home
which he doesn't he was actually at let me get some context first. He is a
shepherd so he travels around with his flock of sheep so in the dream he was in
a prairie with his sheep and a kid started playing with the sheep and then
the kid grabbed him by his hand and took him to the Egyptian temples or the
Egyptian pyramids and when I read that I immediately thought of the fourth or
fifth book on the reading list which is about the Egyptian pyramids so I'm really
excited to read about those but I also remember outer intention and how they
built the pyramids through outer intention but he took him to the pyramid
and I'm pretty sure he said there's a treasure waiting for you or something
like that and that was the end of the dream he never he woke up before the
dream ended every time so when he went to this woman to interpret his dream the
woman basically said this dream means that you need to go to Egypt and go get
the treasure and he was mad because he wanted an actual interpretation because
he thought there's more to it now I'm just in the beginning so I don't know
what happens I just finished reading that part but the woman said it's always
the simplest things in life that are the most extraordinary or some variation of
that phrase and that really made me realize that that is true because nature
is simple but it's the most extraordinary thing ever and I don't know
anything about it I've never I never got I never really got to experience true
nature and to be honest I never really had a longing for it until recently
especially recently when I realized that it's gonna be gone soon so now I have a
longing to experience nature that's not and that's another motivational factor so
this is this is another thing that I've been another slide that I've been running
trying to get better at podcasting I have a slide where I imagine myself knowing
exactly what to talk about and exactly what to say exactly when to say it
exactly how to say it and I don't really run that slide very often but that is
one of the things that I've been thinking about and I'm on episode 37 I've
recorded 38 episodes I've posted and I've recorded 14 episodes that I haven't
posted before I started recording so I work I've been recording every day for
the past 51 days so I've been practicing every day for the past 51 days and I've
recorded 51 episodes no 52 52 days 52 episodes so that's honestly 52 days very
good practice and I didn't actually start record I didn't actually start doing
one hour long episodes until episode 15 so it's been 22 I probably have 30 to 40
hours of practice on podcasting so right now I'm at 30 to 40 hours of practice
probably even less to be honest maybe 30 hours which is not that much 30 hours
over 51 days
honestly I'm on episode 30 37 I'm really looking forward to I'm on I'm really
happy with my growth things are looking good future is looking great the world
is taking care of me to wrap things up don't forget to download your favorite
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