Being average in this day and age is significantly lower than being average in ancient Greece or
ancient Troy. In modern-day society, being average is normal and it's accepted and it's actually
not forced but we're in a society where we're conditioned into being average. We go to school
that conditions us into accepting mediocrity and we're surrounded by material things like phones,
music, all this technology that is forming our minds and shaping us into mediocre citizens.
So I want to get on here and talk about the difference between ancient Greece and modern-day
America. The difference is insane. Ancient Greece, they were extremely rigorous in their training.
They founded the Olympic Games and they had this term, I'm pretty sure it's called areto.
I'm not sure if I pronounce it right but pretty much it means excellence and everyone strives
for individual excellence in ancient Greece. Now there's nothing like that in America. There's
nothing like that. We live in a society where everywhere you look, just walk outside and the
first couple of people you see will be doing bad habits, I guarantee you. And this is not a knock
on these people. This is a knock on the system we live in. This system is to such a degree that
everywhere you look people have bad habits and even if you have good habits like let's say you're
going out on a run, there are still bad habits ingrained into that. For example, wearing airpods,
listening to music and even if you are still, you are completely no airpods, no music, no
anything, more than likely this person is not present. And I know this because I go on a run
and I'm not present completely the whole time and I'm working on this. I'm actually working on
developing this skill. I believe that the system we live in destroys the control that we have over
our minds. It actually trains us not to control our minds. That's why people I read in a book in
Napoleon Hill, he wrote, failures allow their thoughts to run wild. And we live in a society
full of failures because they're allowing their thoughts to run wild and early on at an early age
our society conditions us into ending our control over our thoughts. Early on you hear parents say,
look at this, they say to their child, oh, look at this, oh, don't do that, oh, do this, do that.
Look over here, look over there. And so the child is controlling his thoughts. This child is holding
their attention in between the outer and inner. But when the parent tells the child to look over
here, they're slowly but surely conditioning that child to be immersed and to fall asleep and to lose
control over their attention. And when you lose control over your attention, you don't even have
control over your personality, your soul. Your attention is the most valuable asset that you have.
Because it's a well known, it's a well accepted saying that your time is the most valuable asset.
Like don't like time is more valuable than money. It's very accepted, common for people to say that
your time is extremely valuable. But the thing is, the quality of that time actually matters.
When you're sitting around immersed, watching TikTok, endlessly scrolling, and your mind is
numb, you're a zombie, that time is not actually high quality. That's extremely low quality time.
So in that sense, that time is being wasted. So yes, you have that time, you're experiencing that
time, but it's not to its fullest potential. And so I said that your attention is actually the most
valuable asset more valuable than time. It's because our attention has been trained to be immersed
in the outer or the inner. That's why you see people immersed on their phones. That's why you see
people immersed deep in thought overthinking. That's why you see people angry, low awareness.
And when you're immersed, that is low quality time. When you're immersed, you're not actually
controlling your attention. So you don't have your attention when you're immersed. Someone else is
controlling your attention. Somebody else is controlling your soul when you're immersed.
And like I said, we're conditioned to be immersed. So I guess this is a wake up call.
Some to wake up and actually start focusing on your mind, develop self control. One of my favorite
quotes from Napoleon Hill's book, The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons is self control is solely
a matter of thought control. Self control is solely a matter of thought control. So then,
develop impeccable self control.