The Golden One - November 30, 2021


Your Greatest Victory And Your Greatest Mistake

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Marcus Follin
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Aristotle
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Excellence is a habit, which is the most important habit you can have in your life. I have been a content creator for 8 millennia and have been on my own path of enlightenment for 8.5 millennia, and in that time I have had many great breakthroughs, but I have never had one that really took off. I ve never had a viral video which took off, but what I ve had over all of these years has been a consistently good enough quality to facilitate growth. And that quality has been good enough consistently over a long period of time and that has enabled me to have a consistent progression in all areas of my life, which has allowed me to achieve my greatest triumph and greatest mistake.

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00:00:00.000 Greetings my esteemed supporters! I am checking in from a beautiful and cold
00:00:05.280 Scandinavia. I am braving the cold because I have the greatest insight, the
00:00:13.120 greatest teaching, the greatest advice possible to give to you and I have, you
00:00:20.160 have probably seen me quote Aristotle many times over all these years and his
00:00:26.220 best quote and what basically sums up this fine video is excellence is a habit so
00:00:34.460 I titled this video something along the lines of your greatest victory your
00:00:41.160 greatest triumph and your greatest mistake. Now you might look now you might
00:00:46.500 look at certain things why certain things happen to certain individuals and you
00:00:53.640 might wonder why that is and I can tell you that it's basically all about your
00:00:59.040 habits it's all about your routines your habits you have in your everyday life so
00:01:06.840 if you look on I can take a few examples from my own life if we're talking about
00:01:12.960 gaining an audience on social media gaining many subscribers on a video
00:01:20.280 platform I've never had one video which really took off I've never had a viral
00:01:26.280 video but what I have had over all of these years I've had a consistently good
00:01:33.000 enough quality to facilitate growth now of course there are many better video
00:01:39.300 makers than myself I can say that Dauntless is a better book than the
00:01:44.220 majority of books and I can say that my podcast is better perhaps than many other
00:01:48.360 podcasts I'm not so narcissistic when it comes to the videos because I understand
00:01:54.900 that yeah there are better video makers but the quality has been good enough at
00:01:59.520 least to it's been good enough consistently over a long period of time and
00:02:05.360 that has enabled me to yeah for you to see this right now so it's never been once
00:02:11.220 I've had a you know home run shot or anything like that it's been a consistent
00:02:17.580 progression over all of these years it's been a habit to I do try to make videos I
00:02:22.680 do try to give some insight that might improve your life that is my approach to
00:02:28.460 making videos so it should be a hopefully a pleasant video to watch I am yeah that's
00:02:34.400 why I like to make videos in nature so you can look at a nice blue sky and yeah you can
00:02:40.660 hopefully gain some insights that you can incorporate into your life so that is
00:02:45.640 my perspective when it comes to video making it's not about one single video
00:02:50.440 which really made me take off or anything but it's a consistently good
00:02:58.420 enough quality so that is in terms of video making it's a habit I have tried to
00:03:05.700 get into my video making and of course I've also tried to make the videos
00:03:12.700 better I've tried to continue my own path of enlightenment to be able to give better
00:03:19.140 insights and stuff like that which actually brings me to my own greatest victory I
00:03:25.900 would say at least when I analyze things it's probably that I got into the habit of
00:03:32.120 reading at an early age because that has helped me especially when it comes to
00:03:38.000 content creation now I've been a content creator for eight millennia my spirit has
00:03:47.300 lived for so long as a venerable ancient so have I've read a lot of books perhaps my
00:03:54.620 spirit was actually present in the library of Alexandria when it was still up and
00:04:02.000 running who knows anyway point being is that I have been I am supremely thankful
00:04:08.240 for having gotten into that habit because it has helped me tremendously when yeah
00:04:14.280 during my my journey as a content creator you know posting stuff on social media for
00:04:20.480 eight years you you need to have a lot of content in your mind to share so and a little anecdote
00:04:29.160 here back in the day I had a gym friend we were walking through Uppsala and we went
00:04:36.920 past the English bookshop and I pointed to it and said that's my favorite shop in all of the
00:04:43.560 world and he looked at me disbelievingly and he said I can't imagine you sitting down calmly to
00:04:49.240 read a book now he had only seen me basically in the gym when I was all hyped up I wanted to do
00:04:57.700 some heavy deadlifts so it's a completely different energy you bring into the gym of course then you
00:05:03.040 when you are home with a book anyway that was a little anecdote point being that I am supremely
00:05:11.740 thankful for having gotten into the habit of reading at an early age so it was not a single book
00:05:20.200 or a single video or a single documentary that that triggered my path to that enabled my my great
00:05:30.940 enlightenment I apologize for sounding very narcissistic here when I say how enlightened I am but yeah I'm
00:05:38.120 sure you understand what what I mean when I say that so anyway that is one thing and I'm also trying
00:05:45.080 to on yeah here in when I make videos and when I post book reviews to my site when I post pictures of
00:05:54.860 books I'm also trying to get you into the habit of reading because I know it's supremely important and
00:06:00.080 the more you read the easier reading gets so you can start off by reading easier books and then when
00:06:07.280 you get into the the rhythm you can delve into deeper esoteric materials so it's a bit like the gym
00:06:17.000 you start with a lightweight and then you work your way up speaking of which of course the yeah perhaps
00:06:22.880 the most important habit I have ever gotten into is the the temple of iron and same thing here I've
00:06:29.360 never had one particular session that's been extraordinarily good I have had many sessions that
00:06:37.100 were extremely good many of them are yeah you can search on my channel for deadlifts or whatever you'll see
00:06:45.800 some epic sessions but the point here is that I've gotten into I got into a good habit a good routine
00:06:53.300 early on over 10 years ago now what a long time I've been at it but yeah the victory for me was not
00:07:03.580 any particular competition or training session it was getting into the habit if you search on my channel
00:07:11.300 for the golden one strongman you will actually get to a strongman competition for students
00:07:20.580 that I won but the victory itself was actually that I made a cool video out of it the victory was not
00:07:28.740 that I got a medal the victory was that I could post it to youtube and also that wasn't even my most
00:07:35.700 popular video because I made more popular training videos so my point is that it's the habit it's the
00:07:43.860 routine it's consistently putting out good stuff that is the victory itself same thing if we're talking
00:07:52.900 about business or whatever it's not one product that really sets everything off it's a consistently good
00:08:00.660 output of great products like this fine wool sweater for example so it's again it's a habit
00:08:08.740 of excellence so anyway that was my own my own experiences with habits if I look at the good
00:08:17.380 things I have it's because of habits and I made a video a while back saying semi-jokingly but yeah it's
00:08:25.380 actually true that most people at least that most people at least they do like me why yes it's because
00:08:33.060 I have a habit of being kind and polite to people and that is when you go in with that habit if you
00:08:39.940 have a habit of treating others in a nice way they will respond and treat you in a similar way and yeah
00:08:48.580 this is a bit of a tangent but I want to emphasize it as often as possible that you should always be kind
00:08:54.900 and polite to people who are working in professions where they have to deal with a lot of people
00:09:02.900 so always be nice to the waitress always be nice to the bus driver always be nice to anyone at the cashier 1.00
00:09:12.740 because chances are that they have to work an entire day dealing with a lot of idiots who are rude and 0.99
00:09:20.340 unpleasant so then you have a good opportunity to bring some light to those individuals and you 0.99
00:09:26.820 will notice if you are a bit polite and kind they will respond and yeah enhancing your day as well
00:09:33.780 and ultimately it costs you absolutely nothing to be kind and polite to someone but it will make you feel
00:09:39.380 better it will make someone else feel better and if you believe in karma yeah it's what comes around
00:09:45.860 goes around so the universe will treat you better if you treat others in a good way so if you wonder
00:09:51.300 how someone can be popular and well liked it's probably because they have a good attitude they are
00:09:58.100 yeah again I repeat I repeat myself because it's important kind and polite so anyway that's something
00:10:05.060 you can keep in mind now on to a more negative there are of course many negative
00:10:13.300 habits I talk a lot about porn I do it because it's a no matter how much I talk about it I know that
00:10:21.460 many guys say that oh I stop watching porn but I also know that many guys they're still watching porn
00:10:27.540 it's not because they don't respect me it's not because they don't understand it's bad but it's because
00:10:32.740 it's a habit again keyword for this entire teaching is habit they have a habit of watching porn
00:10:42.740 so you have the contents of the yeah the pornographic contents itself and then you have the habit
00:10:52.660 so you have two things to defeat habits are hard to defeat whatever habit it might be and it becomes
00:10:59.940 especially hard when it's something like pornography so if you want to to stop watching pornography you
00:11:06.980 have to first figure out a way to replace your habit replace your routine of doing things then
00:11:16.900 of course when you haven't done it for two weeks you have won that's your victory so the victory is when
00:11:21.940 you have successfully implemented another habit that takes the place of your porn habit so as i might
00:11:29.300 have said before you can use gaming as a substitute for porn so if you have the habit of watching porn at
00:11:36.660 a certain time each day instead do play a game that requires you to focus intensely and then you play that
00:11:45.220 until the the time frame has passed for you to um yeah the the usual time for you to watch pornography
00:11:52.820 when that has passed then you can stop gaming then of course i don't necessarily endorse gaming per
00:11:58.260 se but it's a hell of a lot better than to watch pornography so main point is try to substitute your negative
00:12:05.540 habit with a less negative habit something else i've talked about many times because it's such a common
00:12:12.420 thing is your amount of caffeine some guys they are addicted to energy drinks and that's not really
00:12:20.980 good because it's too much caffeine and i say this as a proud owner of a coffee brand i said that you
00:12:27.460 should drink less coffee i do it because ultimately i must be as honest and clear with you as possible i drink
00:12:35.540 one cup of coffee each day now sometimes i go after two cups each day but now one cup and i do recommend
00:12:44.180 that you yeah you drink less coffee or caffeine or energy drinks so if you are used to drinking
00:12:52.900 three energy drinks over a day yeah try to cut down to one at least and try to just get out of the
00:12:58.580 routine and the habit because all of these things when you do it over a long period of time
00:13:04.100 it will have a massive impact for the worse so just as you can have a good routine you have a good
00:13:12.180 routine of getting eight hours of sleep each night you can also have a bad routine which is to
00:13:20.180 stay up gaming until 12 or one o'clock in the morning so you might say how can i be as productive
00:13:27.140 as possible and i say the greatest victory is for you to get into a habit of going to bed a bit
00:13:34.340 earlier to sleep a bit more doesn't sound particularly heroic or dramatic it's not perhaps some thing you
00:13:43.700 would read from homer it's not something you would see in the iliad perhaps that everyone to great care to
00:13:51.380 get their beauty sleep but it has an impact it has a huge impact in terms of being productive
00:13:58.100 now anyway i think i have rambled on for long enough i hope it's been insightful i hope i make sense
00:14:06.420 main point your greatest victory is when you get into a good habit when you get into a good routine
00:14:13.940 that is the victory then victories per se might come as a result of that but the important thing
00:14:21.460 if you want to transform yourself to a force of nature of ultimate enlightenment it's all about
00:14:28.020 habits it's all about you getting into the habits of things so if you want to as i mentioned in
00:14:35.540 the greatest glory podcast episode you can award yourself glory points when you've done something
00:14:43.220 good so these victories award yourself a glory point if you go if you get into a good routine or
00:14:50.580 indeed if you are replacing a bad habit with a good habit so you replace whatever habit it can be
00:14:59.460 you replace a bad food choice with a better food choice instead of eating whatever it might be
00:15:08.180 something bad you replace it with eating some liver that's a good it's a victory if you get into the habit
00:15:14.420 of eating liver for example so my point here is that the greatest victory is for you to get into a good
00:15:22.260 habit your greatest mistake is to have bad habits or to not have good habits so try to get into as many
00:15:32.020 good habits as possible and you will see that that the universe it works more in your favor you will
00:15:40.980 see more opportunities come to you and you will also be able to to pounce upon the opportunities you
00:15:46.420 will be able to do a lot more if you are prepared to if you have the capability of acting on opportunities
00:15:54.100 thank you for watching xxo boom