00:01:38.000I know you know exactly what I'm talking about.
00:01:41.000You're going through life and you're driving your car and you're going to work and you're fucking your girlfriend, but nothing feels real anymore.
00:01:48.000It feels like you're in a TV show and all the other people are just characters which have been rendered for you to navigate the matrix, the cosmos, simulation, the multiverse, whatever you want to call it.
00:02:05.000And the main reason nothing feels real is what we're going to talk about today.
00:02:08.000Because it is a modern phenomenon that everybody is suffering from.
00:02:13.000Now, this is in a way a powerful thing.
00:02:15.000When bad things happen, when World War III pops off and they say that Iran is attacking all the Gulf countries, you don't sit there with actual worry.
00:02:25.000You monitor the situation for entertainment, but you don't sit there thinking, oh my God, nukes are gonna fly and millions of people are gonna die.
00:02:31.000You just sit there and go, meh, let me just do memes.
00:02:34.000Let me make some memes because it's not real.
00:02:38.000And then when good things happen to you, if you make some money, Or if your girlfriend tells you she loves you, or it's a sunny day and you're outside walking, feeling the sun on your skin, that doesn't feel real either.
00:02:50.000So you don't have the negative effects of a true root inside of reality, and you don't have the positive effects of a true root inside of reality.
00:02:58.000You're living in this semi dreamlike state.
00:03:02.000You're just kind of floating through life.
00:03:05.000And the saddest thing about this is that life is limited and time is limited.
00:03:08.000And you're going through the world, burning time, without truly experiencing or being engaged with anything.
00:03:17.000The reason I think this is happening is that we're now in a world where we have so much constant input and information, we never for a second do what we previously used to do only a decade or so ago, which is stop and process our experiences, process our thoughts, think about the future, think about things that have already happened.
00:03:41.000Imagine your mind, your personality, the parameters from which you operate.
00:03:47.000Are a house which you have built based on your experiences you've had throughout your entire sentient life.
00:03:53.000You go through life, something happens, that's input, those are bricks, and you take those bricks and you add them to your house.
00:04:01.000You decide that if I go up to girls, they like me, or I go up to girls, they don't like me, or if I go up to girls, they don't like me because I look a certain way, I need to change the way I look, or because I don't have enough money, I need to make more money.
00:04:12.000You take these inputs, you take these bricks, and you add them to your house, and this house becomes who you are.
00:04:20.000It becomes the lens from which you view the world.
00:04:24.000And now we live in a world where previously you would take a brick from an experience, you'd take another brick from another experience, you'd sit and you'd ponder what does this brick do?
00:04:44.000How do I build the best possible house with this brick?
00:04:47.000We've moved on from that now to just endless acquisition of resources and bricks.
00:04:53.000You are constantly running out into the world, grabbing bricks, coming back to where your house is supposed to be, and just throwing them on the floor.
00:05:01.000And then you're going back out and getting more bricks and coming back and just throwing them on the floor.
00:05:04.000You're not thinking about the experiences you're having.
00:05:07.000You're not thinking through in your mind past positive and negative situations to see if you actually made the right choice.
00:05:47.000And when you'd identify the small things you'd never noticed before, or identify the small areas you could have changed to build a completely different outcome, that is how you would take the brick, you'd take the input, and you'd use it in the most effective way.
00:06:02.000Now you don't do that because you don't sit inside of your thoughts.
00:06:05.000If you start thinking of your girlfriend from 11 years ago, within six to seven seconds, maybe two to three seconds, you pull out your phone and you start scrolling for new girls on Instagram.
00:06:50.000If I sit and think about it, do I sit and I think about the air I smelt on the steppe of Kazakhstan when I put my phone away and I smelt and breathed in the air and I looked around and I imagined the Silk Road or I imagined Genghis Khan and his horde charging on their horses?
00:07:10.000At the enemies who they were sure to destroy.
00:07:50.000The last time, even me as a person, seriously sat down and defragged my mind was jail.
00:07:59.000It's the last time I had hours to sit there and go through all of the things I didn't realize still bothered me and come to the conclusions that everybody listens to me to talk about.
00:08:09.000The conclusions I talk about, the things I say, Don't come from me endlessly acquiring bricks.
00:08:15.000They come from me getting a brick and inspecting it so carefully and so closely that I can see all the nooks and crannies that other people don't see.
00:08:25.000You're never going to feel like your life is real until you slow down, until you start taking two hours a day away from screens, away from your phone, away from most activity.
00:08:38.000Maybe you can hit the gym, lifting weights isn't too difficult cognitively.
00:08:42.000And to just think about whatever comes into your mind.
00:09:12.000Everybody is just scrolling, looking for more and more information, more and more junk, without deeply processing any of it.
00:09:20.000The true experience of being human isn't just living experiences.
00:09:26.000The true experience of being human is not just what is lived, it is what is thought about.
00:09:29.000You think back to history, you think of these philosophers and these kings and these historians, you read Napoleon's memoirs.
00:09:37.000It's not just about the battle he was in, it was about how he saw the battle, how he felt during the battle, how he felt after the battle, what he believed he should have done different at Waterloo.
00:09:49.000Napoleon spent years thinking about the day he lost that battle.
00:10:57.000And I'm not even talking about this to try and make you guys successful.
00:11:02.000I'm not telling you all of this so you can make as much money as possible like I normally am.
00:11:05.000I'm telling you all of this so you can feel happier.
00:11:08.000So, you can feel like you're actually alive instead of just wasting entire days.
00:11:14.000Because that's what you're currently doing.
00:11:16.000You're going for a walk, then you're going to the gym, then you're starting your work, then you're messaging some girls, and then you go out with the girls, and you go for dinner, and the day ends, and you never really felt anything the entire way through.
00:11:26.000You need to take a little bit of time throughout the day.
00:11:28.000You need to take a little break where you sit there and go, okay, what's coming into my mind?
00:14:59.000And that's just having three or four months away from screens.
00:15:02.000Just from understanding that I can't get new bricks, I can't get new information into my mind right now.
00:15:08.000So I'm just going to go through the information that I currently have.
00:15:12.000I'm going to go through what's already there, and I'm going to process it.
00:15:16.000What I'm going to do on our next emergency meeting is go through the tweets that I was writing on a napkin and giving to my lawyer to give to Tristan's cousin to tweet while I was in jail.
00:15:27.000I'm going to go through and I'm going to talk about these tweets that were coming to my head while I was sitting in a Romanian jail.
00:15:33.000And we're going to analyze them and we're going to see why I was thinking the things I was thinking.
00:15:38.000Because now, I consciously am forcing myself to detox.
00:15:46.000But I notice, especially as I do it more consciously, that nobody else around me even thinks of these things or does them.
00:15:53.000Everybody is permanently staring at a screen.
00:15:56.000Everybody is living in anxiety about what's going to come in the future.
00:16:00.000Everybody believes that a day will come where their problems will go away or they'll be rich and then they'll be present and then they'll be happy.
00:16:09.000Unless you learn to sit and allow your brain to do what it wants to do, unless you learn to allow your brain to hit a neutral state and to process the information it has and to put it all in order and to put the Lego bricks together and to build your house, unless you do this, you're not even learning from the things that happen to you.
00:16:28.000Probably the only silver lining to the bad things that happen to you are the lessons.
00:16:43.000The bad things happening to you, you're getting your phone out to distract yourself.
00:16:47.000You're learning nothing, and you're continuing like a blundering idiot, stumbling through life with no new insights, no new knowledge.
00:16:59.000You're the same moron who made the first mistake, trying to distract himself, believing that if he gets enough bricks, enough new pieces of information, that he'll be okay.
00:17:31.000And our minds are already prepared for this because we're already living in a false digital state.
00:17:36.000You're more concerned about messages you have on Telegram than you are about the trees outside your window.
00:17:41.000You're more concerned about girls you've never met with filtered pictures on Instagram.
00:17:45.000Than the girlfriend who you see every day.
00:17:47.000You're more concerned about possibly trying to make new memories than enjoying and truly processing the old memories that you've already experienced.
00:17:54.000You're so concerned with, ah, I wanna go Saint Tropez this summer, I wanna do this.
00:17:58.000Why don't you think about the nice things you've already done?
00:18:01.000Why don't you truly get the juice from the orange?
00:18:03.000Why don't you actually squeeze the juice from the experiences you've previously had as opposed to constantly chasing more and more and more and more and then getting in a loop where you don't actually enjoy any of it?
00:18:14.000We need to break ourselves out of the dream.
00:18:17.000We need to break ourselves out of the illusion because if I want to be an optimist, I think the internet is dying.
00:18:23.000I think AI and bots, and because it's hard to tell what's real and what's fake now, it's getting more and more diluted with absolute slop.
00:18:32.000And perhaps if I were to take the positive look on life, the people who are going to win in the next decade are the people who are the most human.
00:18:43.000And to be the most human, you need to be able to think and feel things like a human does.
00:18:48.000And to do that, you need to dedicate a little bit of time.
00:18:51.000So, from this emergency meeting, I would like all of you, and you feel free to email me or tweet at me for the next week, to take one hour a day away from all your phones, away from any kind of input.
00:19:02.000Not meditate, don't have to sit in a dark room.
00:19:38.000Instead of trying to always do more, we should take an hour or so to sit and process and think.
00:19:44.000And I think that staying human in this world is one of the largest and most difficult challenges.
00:19:49.000And I like to believe, because the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice, the people who manage to achieve this very difficult task are going to be somehow monumentally rewarded.
00:19:58.000Maybe financially, but certainly as soon as you start to enjoy your life more and enjoy your experiences on this planet more, you've already felt the reward.
00:20:10.000I don't allow Wi Fi on my private jets for this reason.
00:20:19.000When I was broke, I always dreamed of flying private, and then I started flying private, and then I started flying private, and it wasn't fun anymore, and then I spent the entire time on my laptop.
00:20:29.000Because I'm a busy man with a large empire and lots to do, and I'm working.
00:20:40.000Unless I'm going to sit and experience the boredom of just sitting here, I want a jet, I'm just going to sit here, just think, look out the window.
00:20:50.000Think about this you're flying 35,000 feet above the planet, and you don't even look out the window anymore.
00:20:59.000When I used to fly when I was younger, everyone wanted the window seat.
00:21:15.000We can see entire continents from the edge of space, and we're not interested because we're on our phones.
00:21:21.000Texting the same people we texted were on the ground, or playing a video game, or scrolling for dopamine on Twitter.
00:21:28.000Isn't that sad that you don't even look out the window?
00:21:31.000Look at all the cars driving past, understanding that each one of those are an individual person with their own thoughts and dreams and hopes, with a completely separate and unique worldview, with a family, with a mother, with a father.
00:22:20.000Well, no matter how much money you have, you feel like you need more.
00:22:23.000And I would argue that when you have hundreds of millions of dollars, you're more stressed about money than the person with $1 million or $1,000.
00:22:31.000Because you have a whole bunch of moving parts and a large empire and you don't want to lose your lifestyle.
00:24:06.000It's amazing what beautiful things can happen when you're just present, when you're just cognitive, when you turn your mind on and just think about things, you know?
00:24:13.000And then when you go home, you can go, that was such a nice day.
00:24:39.000All of this can happen if you think about things.
00:24:41.000If you just sit on your phone and you don't think about the fact she was constantly playing with her hair, you may not say the right thing.
00:25:08.000If you're going to be on your phone, at least be inside of the real world so that you are making money, as opposed to making money for other companies.
00:25:15.000Every time you scroll Twitter, you are making them money.
00:27:52.000Those guys are living a better life than you'll ever live.
00:27:55.000You can have Lambos, Ferraris, you can have pussy, you can have money, you can go on private jets, you can have yachts, you can go to Saint Tropez.
00:28:01.000These guys don't even have a passport.
00:28:02.000They just sit around, five or six of them, with cigarettes and some beers and just talk, watch cars go by, looking at the people driving, looking around.
00:28:15.000They're not thinking about what they have to do tomorrow, they're not thinking about what's coming up, they're not thinking about what they need to get hold of.
00:29:12.000Let's pretend I don't get to leave this room ever again.
00:29:15.000Let's think back on the life I've lived.
00:29:18.000And I think back of all the girls I've had, all the cars I've driven, all the places I've been, how important I've been, all the receptions I've had from thousands of adoring fans, all the amazing work I've done.
00:29:29.000All the times I challenged myself and won, challenged myself and lost, I think about it all and I go, I've had enough life.