1 00:00:07,279 --> 00:00:09,559 Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you. 2 00:00:09,559 --> 00:00:12,709 Once again, welcome aboard my friends to the daily podcast. 3 00:00:12,709 --> 00:00:14,510 Doing them as daily as possible. 4 00:00:14,899 --> 00:00:17,120 I mean that season of life, some of you are going to know 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:18,650 exactly what I'm talking about. 6 00:00:19,070 --> 00:00:22,280 You got young kids flying around in 50 different directions. 7 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:24,350 You got, uh, he got travel. 8 00:00:24,380 --> 00:00:25,040 You got work. 9 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:25,910 It's insane. 10 00:00:25,940 --> 00:00:26,840 I got up this morning. 11 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:28,220 I think it was before 4:00 AM. 12 00:00:28,220 --> 00:00:30,830 I was trying to get a, a 25 K running. 13 00:00:31,460 --> 00:00:32,570 And then things has happened. 14 00:00:32,570 --> 00:00:34,910 It's sort of just, you got to fight to get these things done. 15 00:00:34,910 --> 00:00:35,240 So. 16 00:00:35,630 --> 00:00:36,950 That's my season tomorrow. 17 00:00:37,010 --> 00:00:38,000 I'm back on stage. 18 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,530 I've got a few hundred people in the room tomorrow. 19 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:40,760 Really looking forward to that. 20 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,310 It has been way too long away. 21 00:00:43,730 --> 00:00:45,800 From, uh, the chance to speak. 22 00:00:46,220 --> 00:00:48,200 And to be back with real humans. 23 00:00:48,230 --> 00:00:50,120 So really looking forward to that tomorrow, listen, 24 00:00:50,150 --> 00:00:51,170 make sure you've subscribed. 25 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:52,700 Hit that subscribe button for me. 26 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,140 The podcast is growing. 27 00:00:54,140 --> 00:00:55,190 It's reaching more people. 28 00:00:55,190 --> 00:00:55,700 It is just. 29 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,820 My attempt to daily motivate myself. 30 00:00:58,850 --> 00:00:59,600 Yes, it's true. 31 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,040 I spend a huge amount of time. 32 00:01:01,580 --> 00:01:03,800 Making sure that I'm working on my own mindset. 33 00:01:04,250 --> 00:01:07,940 Uh, I do this stuff because I have to teach it to myself. 34 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:10,820 And then I can hopefully share it with you guys. 35 00:01:10,820 --> 00:01:14,210 So please never ever think that I'm doing this content because 36 00:01:14,210 --> 00:01:15,500 I've mastered the principles. 37 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:19,010 I'm doing this content because I understand the need for the principles 38 00:01:19,340 --> 00:01:22,610 and, um, whatever I'm doing here and sharing with you guys is because I'm 39 00:01:22,610 --> 00:01:27,230 desperately, constantly, consistently trying to put it into my life. 40 00:01:27,230 --> 00:01:29,600 Would you please make sure you have subscribed? 41 00:01:29,930 --> 00:01:32,000 If you haven't subscribed, hit that subscribe button, wherever you're 42 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,630 listening, it makes a big difference and leave a review, share this with 43 00:01:35,630 --> 00:01:37,490 people and go check out the show notes. 44 00:01:37,490 --> 00:01:39,290 You can jump across to the YouTube channel. 45 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:41,090 There's links to book me to speak. 46 00:01:41,090 --> 00:01:41,870 It is all there. 47 00:01:41,870 --> 00:01:44,210 My friends, listen, I'm going to do this quick. 48 00:01:44,270 --> 00:01:46,280 Um, Why because. 49 00:01:47,030 --> 00:01:48,590 Because I've got to, I got. 50 00:01:49,070 --> 00:01:51,530 Prep for tomorrow, it's going to be a big downstage. 51 00:01:51,530 --> 00:01:52,730 So I just wanted to get this out. 52 00:01:52,730 --> 00:01:54,500 I didn't want to miss an episode. 53 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:55,970 I wanted to try and give you some gold. 54 00:01:56,330 --> 00:02:01,130 And, uh, in the previous episode, I was sharing a beautiful insight from Uttar. 55 00:02:01,130 --> 00:02:04,130 Hargan the, um, American theater teacher. 56 00:02:04,730 --> 00:02:08,299 And she was really talking about the need to be authentic, to be who you 57 00:02:08,299 --> 00:02:12,920 are, because otherwise you run the risk of a life, lived in mediocrity. 58 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:16,009 You know, that any life can be mediocre in and of itself because 59 00:02:16,009 --> 00:02:17,959 every life is so unique and precious. 60 00:02:18,499 --> 00:02:22,729 But it's possible to live under a set of assumptions and beliefs that allow 61 00:02:22,729 --> 00:02:26,299 us to lead a life where we don't get to contribute everything that's within us. 62 00:02:26,749 --> 00:02:28,099 I wanted to follow that up with a book. 63 00:02:28,099 --> 00:02:30,679 I started reading yesterday by Chris Brady. 64 00:02:30,679 --> 00:02:31,909 It's called Rascals. 65 00:02:32,509 --> 00:02:35,449 And it's an exploration of the kind of mindsets of people that 66 00:02:35,839 --> 00:02:37,640 really walk their own path. 67 00:02:37,669 --> 00:02:40,549 And in the video version today, you can click through on the links 68 00:02:40,549 --> 00:02:43,609 here, but the video versions, I really went to town on this. 69 00:02:44,239 --> 00:02:48,049 I really want to, I guess, be clear that I'm not talking about arrogance pride, 70 00:02:48,049 --> 00:02:52,729 you know, that kind of self, relentless, reckless self promotion, or, you know, 71 00:02:52,999 --> 00:02:55,309 Uh, imposing our will over other people. 72 00:02:55,309 --> 00:02:59,809 That's basically Nietzschean psychology, which has been highly destructive 73 00:02:59,809 --> 00:03:01,879 in the, uh, 20th century alone. 74 00:03:01,879 --> 00:03:05,329 So we're not talking about radical self-assertion we're not talking about. 75 00:03:05,719 --> 00:03:09,349 Thinking that we are better than other people, but we are is different. 76 00:03:09,649 --> 00:03:11,449 And this is what this quote is going to remind us of. 77 00:03:11,449 --> 00:03:13,579 Listen to this quote from Chris Brady's book Rascals. 78 00:03:13,579 --> 00:03:14,599 Doesn't it seem. 79 00:03:15,049 --> 00:03:19,489 That the most interesting characters in a novel play or history tale are 80 00:03:19,489 --> 00:03:22,129 the ones who walk their own walk. 81 00:03:22,399 --> 00:03:26,029 Go their own way and seem to resist right for it. 82 00:03:26,299 --> 00:03:31,819 The compliancy pressures of the world in video today. 83 00:03:31,819 --> 00:03:32,899 I love that term. 84 00:03:33,319 --> 00:03:35,119 Compliancy pressures. 85 00:03:35,539 --> 00:03:37,189 I believe from the youngest stage. 86 00:03:37,249 --> 00:03:42,109 Compliancy is a perfect tool of late stage capitalism, late stage 87 00:03:42,140 --> 00:03:46,489 capitalism thrives, basically on two things, debt and consumption. 88 00:03:46,489 --> 00:03:46,789 Right? 89 00:03:47,269 --> 00:03:49,009 So many of you know that in the last few years, 90 00:03:49,399 --> 00:03:52,369 Uh, I went, you know, deep down the role of the whole rabbit 91 00:03:52,369 --> 00:03:56,209 hole of global macro finance and central banking theory, as you do, 92 00:03:56,569 --> 00:03:58,669 everybody's got a secret backup career. 93 00:03:59,029 --> 00:04:02,479 Um, but late stage capitalism really thrives on a debt based 94 00:04:02,479 --> 00:04:05,419 monetary system, but then on consumption right for the system to 95 00:04:05,419 --> 00:04:07,069 continue, it requires consumption. 96 00:04:07,309 --> 00:04:08,689 How do you get mass consumption? 97 00:04:08,959 --> 00:04:11,689 Well, you know, I guess you create products and services that are useful to 98 00:04:11,689 --> 00:04:13,219 the largest possible number of people. 99 00:04:13,219 --> 00:04:16,190 But the other thing you need to do is to be able to advertise 100 00:04:16,190 --> 00:04:17,450 and market effectively. 101 00:04:17,450 --> 00:04:18,800 You have to homogenize your. 102 00:04:18,829 --> 00:04:20,000 Our target markets. 103 00:04:20,390 --> 00:04:22,729 You have to use compliancy pressures. 104 00:04:23,030 --> 00:04:25,400 You have to get people to at once. 105 00:04:25,580 --> 00:04:29,150 One level think that they are wildly free individuals. 106 00:04:29,150 --> 00:04:32,210 I mean, look at the early marketing of apple, you know, this kind of, 107 00:04:32,599 --> 00:04:35,570 you know, think outside the box, think differently, kind of be your 108 00:04:35,570 --> 00:04:37,789 own radical culture change agent. 109 00:04:38,270 --> 00:04:41,210 But at the same time, we need vast numbers of you to think 110 00:04:41,210 --> 00:04:42,049 and believe the same thing. 111 00:04:42,049 --> 00:04:44,000 So you buy the same products cause you were trout at you. 112 00:04:44,419 --> 00:04:46,520 Attributing ascribe value to those things. 113 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:47,690 So you see what I'm saying? 114 00:04:48,260 --> 00:04:49,039 As a culture. 115 00:04:49,340 --> 00:04:50,599 And I always say with culture, we can. 116 00:04:50,809 --> 00:04:53,719 There's plenty of negatives, but you know, I always like to say having 117 00:04:53,719 --> 00:04:56,780 a flushing toilet puts us ahead of about every culture in human history. 118 00:04:56,780 --> 00:04:59,210 So I'm pretty happy with that as I'm sure you are. 119 00:04:59,510 --> 00:05:03,049 So there are benefits to our culture, but we have to see the emperor's new clothes. 120 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:04,369 You have to see the emperor's naked. 121 00:05:04,549 --> 00:05:05,780 We have to see through the veil. 122 00:05:05,780 --> 00:05:07,729 We have to see some of what's actually going on. 123 00:05:07,940 --> 00:05:10,549 And some of what's actually going on in these compliancy pressures. 124 00:05:10,849 --> 00:05:13,039 We get it in school, we get it in our families. 125 00:05:13,039 --> 00:05:16,640 We get these things fit in, do this thing, this dress this way, 126 00:05:17,090 --> 00:05:20,330 you know, I got teenage kids, you know, it's, it's what you want. 127 00:05:20,359 --> 00:05:24,469 For them as a parent is radical individualism, not selfishness, but 128 00:05:24,469 --> 00:05:26,419 you want them to be who they are. 129 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:29,479 And one of the fears that, you know, you can have as a parent is that your kids 130 00:05:29,479 --> 00:05:30,919 are going to do dumb stuff, doing what? 131 00:05:31,099 --> 00:05:33,919 Trying to be like someone else, trying to be like everybody else. 132 00:05:34,250 --> 00:05:35,150 I mean, look at the dumb things. 133 00:05:35,150 --> 00:05:37,219 Most of us did going through high school and stuff. 134 00:05:37,250 --> 00:05:37,460 Right? 135 00:05:37,489 --> 00:05:39,469 Most of that stuff was a chronic desire. 136 00:05:39,890 --> 00:05:40,400 Two a. 137 00:05:40,669 --> 00:05:42,650 Accommodate compliancy pressures. 138 00:05:43,219 --> 00:05:46,280 So, what I love about this book from Chris Brady, what I love about this 139 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:50,960 idea is let's acknowledge that the characters that we love in literature, 140 00:05:51,020 --> 00:05:55,520 art music, Ah, the radical different people that walk their own path. 141 00:05:55,580 --> 00:05:56,869 Here's one that just comes to mind. 142 00:05:56,900 --> 00:05:57,710 Johnny Cash. 143 00:05:58,099 --> 00:05:59,419 My son, he's 12. 144 00:05:59,630 --> 00:06:00,530 We used to sit out the background. 145 00:06:00,559 --> 00:06:02,599 Around a fire and I used to play Johnny Cash and he was 146 00:06:02,599 --> 00:06:03,830 probably the only 12 year old. 147 00:06:04,309 --> 00:06:06,409 Really honest to a Johnny Cash, his back catalog. 148 00:06:06,469 --> 00:06:08,299 Now, Johnny Cash was a chicken dude. 149 00:06:08,299 --> 00:06:10,429 Like he had a really different eclectic. 150 00:06:10,669 --> 00:06:11,210 Background. 151 00:06:11,210 --> 00:06:15,409 He was a wild guy, and then he had a sort of spiritual conversion 152 00:06:15,409 --> 00:06:19,039 in life as well, and is really full, interesting, different life. 153 00:06:19,039 --> 00:06:19,880 He was an addict. 154 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,020 He was this, he was that. 155 00:06:21,619 --> 00:06:21,950 We could. 156 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,979 I'm not picking on in particular, I'm just saying you could pick anybody. 157 00:06:24,979 --> 00:06:28,070 You've all got people that you can look at and say, you know what? 158 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:29,330 That's a big life. 159 00:06:29,359 --> 00:06:32,690 That's a life just lived using those unique talents. 160 00:06:33,260 --> 00:06:36,200 And just living their life to the fullest fullest, where they possibly could. 161 00:06:36,530 --> 00:06:40,429 So my message for you today is we all got to get better at this part. 162 00:06:40,429 --> 00:06:42,349 We all got to get better at the self-censorship. 163 00:06:42,380 --> 00:06:47,450 Now, again, by self-censorship I don't mean being rude or aggressive or saying 164 00:06:47,450 --> 00:06:49,700 things that are needlessly upset people. 165 00:06:50,059 --> 00:06:54,530 But self-censorship, if you look behind, it will almost always be fear 166 00:06:54,559 --> 00:06:57,229 based behind self-censorship is fear. 167 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:57,890 Why? 168 00:06:58,039 --> 00:07:00,890 Well, I'm not saying what I think I'm not doing what I want to do. 169 00:07:00,890 --> 00:07:02,330 I'm not wearing what I want to wear. 170 00:07:02,359 --> 00:07:05,330 I'm not going where I want to go, because if I do that, I will 171 00:07:05,330 --> 00:07:07,070 probably offend or upset somebody. 172 00:07:07,070 --> 00:07:09,500 That's the nature of the fear behind self-censorship. 173 00:07:09,859 --> 00:07:10,700 So listen friends. 174 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:12,530 Look for that. 175 00:07:12,530 --> 00:07:14,630 Look for that filter of self-censorship. 176 00:07:14,929 --> 00:07:17,119 Now I'm all for courtesy and I genuinely am. 177 00:07:17,119 --> 00:07:20,479 You know, I think it's really important to be conscious of and 178 00:07:20,479 --> 00:07:22,400 respectful of people's feeling states. 179 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,210 And to not ever cause needless harm suffering to others. 180 00:07:26,630 --> 00:07:30,049 But we've also got to be as authentic as we can possibly be. 181 00:07:30,049 --> 00:07:30,440 Why? 182 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:31,969 Because the world needs this. 183 00:07:32,239 --> 00:07:34,219 We're living through this moment, friends. 184 00:07:35,150 --> 00:07:37,700 Where the forces of technocracy biomed. 185 00:07:37,940 --> 00:07:41,929 That I mean, the forces of the merging of late stage capitalism. 186 00:07:42,409 --> 00:07:46,969 The state and mainstream media are kind of coalescing into one big unit. 187 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,150 That's kind of getting us all to think and believe the same things. 188 00:07:50,150 --> 00:07:53,270 Trust the experts, trust the experts go where we say, do what we want you to 189 00:07:53,270 --> 00:07:55,010 do believe what we want you to believe. 190 00:07:55,309 --> 00:07:56,780 Friends that's totalitarianism. 191 00:07:56,809 --> 00:07:57,559 We don't want that. 192 00:07:57,559 --> 00:07:59,299 What we want is authentic freedom. 193 00:07:59,510 --> 00:08:03,380 What we want is to be who we are, what we want to push back against structures, 194 00:08:03,380 --> 00:08:07,489 structures in our own mind that hold us back structures, uh, you know, political 195 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,200 power structures that hold us back. 196 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:11,179 I know for some of you, you think in Jonathan, what have 197 00:08:11,179 --> 00:08:12,020 you been drinking today? 198 00:08:12,020 --> 00:08:12,799 Well, friends, nothing. 199 00:08:12,799 --> 00:08:15,559 I had a little bit of Pepsi max before I came in the studio, but that is the 200 00:08:15,559 --> 00:08:17,539 sum total of what I've imbibed today. 201 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:19,640 But I'm passionate about these things. 202 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,630 I think the things that, that force us to comply the things that force 203 00:08:23,630 --> 00:08:27,440 us to think and believe and say the same things, the destructive forces, 204 00:08:27,710 --> 00:08:31,669 because ontologically at the essence of being at the level of the ground of 205 00:08:31,669 --> 00:08:33,440 being of who we are, of what we are. 206 00:08:33,860 --> 00:08:37,280 These things we were, we were creatures created for freedom. 207 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:38,480 We're creatures. 208 00:08:38,959 --> 00:08:43,760 Created to manifest the unique attributes that the creator made us with. 209 00:08:43,970 --> 00:08:47,150 So the more that we homogenize, the more we cave into compliancy 210 00:08:47,150 --> 00:08:50,780 pressures, the list we're living, living the truth of who we are. 211 00:08:51,230 --> 00:08:52,069 And that's not cool. 212 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:54,740 And I just sort of say that the way you look at it is to say, look at your kids, 213 00:08:54,740 --> 00:08:56,300 you got kids, what do you want for them? 214 00:08:56,449 --> 00:08:57,770 You want them to be who they are? 215 00:08:58,010 --> 00:08:59,839 And some of you'll go, well, I want them to fit into society. 216 00:08:59,870 --> 00:09:00,380 Sure. 217 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:01,550 But at what costs. 218 00:09:01,850 --> 00:09:03,829 How much fitting in, do you want them to do. 219 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:05,720 I mean, how much would be too much. 220 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:06,050 Right. 221 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:07,699 I think we can all work that out. 222 00:09:07,699 --> 00:09:10,939 It's part of the complexity and mystery of life, but we've got to start doing 223 00:09:11,270 --> 00:09:15,199 who we are being, who we are bringing those gifts to bless other people. 224 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:16,250 All right friends. 225 00:09:16,819 --> 00:09:17,270 That's it. 226 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:18,410 Please make sure you subscribe. 227 00:09:18,470 --> 00:09:19,220 Go check out the links. 228 00:09:19,250 --> 00:09:20,270 You can book me to speak. 229 00:09:20,569 --> 00:09:22,520 On a whole range of interesting topics. 230 00:09:23,030 --> 00:09:23,329 Who. 231 00:09:24,290 --> 00:09:25,550 Can I have some more Pepsi max now. 232 00:09:25,699 --> 00:09:26,780 All right, God bless you, everybody. 233 00:09:27,020 --> 00:09:28,010 My name's Jonathan Doyle. 234 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:29,540 This has been the daily podcast. 235 00:09:29,540 --> 00:09:31,430 You and I are going to talk again tomorrow.