 Hey everyone! So today it was one of those moments when there was something I was extremely inspired about sharing and there's been a few videos like that in the past from my YouTuber, where's my fingers, YouTuber career and funny enough a lot of them turned out to be very influential or the ones which people really found some important valuable messages I guess because I felt I found something for myself and that was useful to others too. It's funny too that always when I want to share these these kind of highly inspired discoveries I do get a little bit of a doubt of damn should I should I really do this should I really you know go through it kind of happened when I keto versus M&A and with the other videos because it's a bit of kind of exposing yourself being psychologically naked and sharing you know kind of these rough or open almost intimate explorations and but I noticed that that doubt is not always necessarily a bad sign sometimes it's just a sign of change or it's a sign that you know it's just a certain implication which if you don't worry about eventually things just work out so I don't want to get into that dynamic too much with you may be in another video but I guess a disclaimer is whatever I'm gonna share about right now it's been fairly fresh it's not like today I have a philosophy of my own that I need to wait at least a few days before sharing something if I'm or making a decision if I'm like super hyped because sometimes it's just a hype feeling and you know you just feel the rush at the moment and then you do it and you're like why did I do that so usually I allow myself to wait and see okay does this hype stay does this inspiration stay in so that's usually an indicator for me that okay there there may be something there more than just a passing height of the moment so I discovered whatever I'm gonna share about a week ago and I'll tell you quickly how that happened so first of all I'm in communication with a person who we are having a lot of discussions that kind of like sessions and that is bringing me a lot of insights I will tell in the future what that specifically is right now it's we decided it's not yet time for me to share who I'm working with and in what way I guess that sounds weird now but anyway trust me it's all good but yeah I'm kind of being in this coaching relationship with this person and and that person gives me a lot of insights which make me think and give me kind of empower me to discover new things which is awesome but I'll speak about that another time another thing an influential thing that happened among everything else obviously it's been a lot but there's been a lot of changes for the past few years and also months but one of those things is I had a conversation with Dr. Jared Miracle yes Miracle he made a joke about his own surname but that's his surname I love it by the way there's a couple of videos already released with him about martial arts and I will release the full talk soon after this talk but part of the talk which will be released on this channel not yet but will be was about the hero's journey and him as a doctor as a scientist I believe he's an anthropologist by by you know it's that like expertise but just really smart guy you know and has a good head on his shoulders and we spoke about the hero's journey and the importance of symbols and being inspired by symbology all that stuff which you know kind of resonates with me already but a point he made which kind of struck me and made me stop and think is that idea that perhaps the hero's journey is just an idea a powerful one but perhaps just an idea and that almost shook me in a good way but it shook me it made me stop and think because I realized and recognized that deep inside I was hyped and I was believing in the concept of the hero's journey for a long time I I really felt and I spoke about that in in the journey videos if you're if you've watched some of these videos before I spoke about the concept the idea of you know I we all have a mission and and I kind of having a sense of a deeper purpose of serving humanity and and I still like those ideas but that's the thing I stopped and asked myself what if he's right and the hero's journey even and I don't want to push your buttons too much I know this is like for many people this can be a sensitive subject and I'll be doing my best to just share my own process but I know it can push people's buttons too but but that's the question I post to myself what if even a sense of you know higher purpose mission is an idea now I don't want to sound you know like an existential guy who's like oh there's no purpose God is dead or whatever but that's not what I'm aiming for and that that was actually a follow-up of what we spoke with Dr. Jared later right after that because his point was that even if it's not real if it's just an idea per se let's say the hero's journey that was that Joseph Campbell came up with oh no there's music playing shit why I guess I'll just bring the microphone a bit closer I guess you shouldn't pick it up too much let me actually check the sound like I guess and hope that this is not gonna destroy my audio too much I worked hard to place the camera here at this place so position so a point that he brought up that even if it's not a real self-existing thing or the way I understand understood what he said it doesn't matter that it doesn't matter and his point was he also likes Batman which is great that even if Batman is not real we know Batman is not real right he's fictional he's a created character by many different artists and you know authors movies now and so on but it's a fictional character but we're well aware of that there's no apparent Batman in the world historically that we know but that nevertheless that that character that mythical character still creates a huge impact in our life you know I actually I'm turning this window aside because I keep watching at it too much I want to look at you guys and women and girls and everyone so so even if we are aware that it's a mythical character and that was the point of Jared that the impact that that character has is real the belief you could say like the belief in the values in the narrative and the story that it delivers even when we know it's not real it's still the belief and the impact it has is very real it makes us do things like I released a video recently about how Dragon Ball Z made me overtrain and part of that it's great because it gave me a lot of motivation but part of that was you know very real results I feel that's still in my back shoulder and knee because I were trained and injured myself but but so the impact was very real in a bad way there but but that's also that kind of shows my point is that what we believe in can be super powerful I guess you know hello I guess that's already evident but but I'll make a different point soon but but so what we believe in is is can be very powerful very impactful but that's the question is what do we choose to believe in and that is my keyword and this is where the real story begins for me I was already playing with this concept with this idea which I call choice belief and that's the idea the concept of what if I kind of pose myself a question what if I can choose what I believe in because the trouble I had with the hero's journey for some time now and kind of almost like like a pest almost like a potential crisis in my life because for the past couple years I was so invested into being into being irrational thinker critical thinker I was so invested in wanting to make sure everything I believe in has proof that everything I believe in you know has evidence and then I I realized that that kind of incapacitated me because suddenly I don't have the proof that hero's journey is real I don't have proof that I have a purpose like I'm not that I came across like some solid legit proof right and then I have trouble in believing in something I cherished for a long time the concept the idea of a hero's journey that each one of us are meant to become the hero of our story to make this world greater that was a strong belief in me but I had this contradiction this very rational logical voice in me saying what if it's not true how do I know if it's true can I really allow myself to believe in if I'm not sure if it's real and that was kind of a difficult struggle in me inside because I couldn't really come to terms I couldn't really make a decision so what what do I choose what so what do I do then and I could inspect them that more but but I really want to make you know this video whole rounded and add as much clarity to the whole picture that I can so so moving on from there that's where I came up with the idea potential idea of choice belief and choice belief meaning does that was the question asked what if I can choose to believe that as long as it works as long as it's functional and you can see the influence of my hero's journey here right the functionality aspect if yours during that I just see here is your name in martial arts journey of what I explored on my martial arts journey channel with martial arts I kind of apply the same logic to my personal life asking myself shoot what if I as long as the belief works and it doesn't hurt anyone else it has positive influence even if I'm not even if it's not evidence-based but if it works what if I have the right to choose to believe in it and if for it to guide me of course given with rational thinking and the open-mindedness of potentially being proven wrong you know if somebody will tell me if somebody will prove me wrong I will always be open to feedback I love feedback and if I choose to believe something and somebody will prove to me oh look this is actually hurting others fine I will let go of it but until then if it works for me if it gives good results for me if it gives good results wherever others why not choose to believe something again I repeat myself but even if it's not evidence-based for me it's just such a mind-blowing idea and concept that that's why I just like you know I'm so hyped about now coming back to the talk with Jared I he brought it the he kind of very rationally explained the chance of the hero's journey being not real but having real impact thus it's stating that it's worth believing in it he even presented the idea of of introducing the hero's journey in schools so that that potentially could decrease the suicide rate later on in the children's lives because we do need to believe in something we do need to choose to believe in something and so during this talk you know he's a science guy he's a doctor and topologist etc very smart I was listening to him I was thinking damn this is smart guy providing this this this idea which is actually kind of close to what I was believing and so maybe I should pursue and even further dig into the concept and idea of choice belief and you know what I am gonna move I'm concerned that the sound is not good here I'll snap the video and you'll see me in a different place all right so you just witnessed the downside of living in the city center where there's always something happening and somebody's making noise but but I think the noise here is better so let's continue so the talk with Jared inspired me to pursue this concept even more and and I decided to do something quite drastic I guess quite extreme which is a bit of a part of my personality I sometimes do extremes with doing my best to stay you know smart about it but so I sat down took my notebook and which I used to like to do a lot and just you know dig into myself self analyze so I decided to go for it and to question everything I believe in this is the extreme part right I decided to ask myself what are the fundamentals fundamental things that I believe in that you know they're they're my core fundamental beliefs what I believe even without thinking about it like something that I in took on and decided this is real this is my reality and something that in my subconscious influences my actions all the time and as already kind of made a hint at at the beginning of the video a lot of that was the hero's journey again the belief that I have a mission a purpose that I have to serve people and notice the word have to that was that was there's a dog that was a that was the important discovery that I made because yes those are those were court my core fundamental beliefs of serving people and you know having a mission and it gave good results because it always pushed me for more it always pushed me to do things which are sometimes not really comfortable things to do it always pushed me to to go out of my comfort zone and and again even to do something which I feel is right even if that's against my own better good which includes you know like like the acuto versus in a video that that belief system led me to do it even when I knew that damn I might lose my students this is this maybe this may end up being crapped everybody's gonna hate me but I have to do this now it's important so it empowered me in many ways but when I brought that up and questioned it and questioned the functionality of it I realized there's also a dark side to this there's also a negative side to this belief while it drove me to do great things it also drove me to stress it also drove me to to feel pressured from inside like like because I would have that belief that I have to do better for the sake of humanity again emphasis on have to I would notice that if I would take a weekend off and would not work by Monday I would feel an internal stress an internal pressure of man I didn't do anything for three days and even if it wasn't wasn't like conscious belief I would recognize subconsciously that in my subconscious that pressure was built up so I was putting internal pressure upon myself both consciously but even more so subconsciously that I did not serve humanity enough and now I need to serve you know now I need to do something I need to work that time back which I gave to myself and I realized damn it's causing actually a significant amount of stress especially if I you know don't put in the work and then when I stop and kind of brought that up and put it in front of me that core belief and asked myself what if it's not real like what if it's not true and there's no have to and that was just like blowing my mind first of all it was a very tough process because I feel it's my kind of consideration that we do need to believe in something right or need to I now we're pointing this word but but there's but a belief you know it's like a support structure it helps you feel sane it helps you feel grounded even if that belief you know is not a good one it gives you a sense of confidence but when you question your core fundamental beliefs holy crap for a moment you have nothing to rely upon and that was a bit of a freaky place to be I was just sitting there I was like holy crap and I felt like I need to I need to find an alternative I can't just stay in a place where I suddenly challenged my core belief in a hardcore what level asking myself that potentially this is not true something I believe in for years and that drove me and guided me good part of the thing is I worked my ass off for like four days in a row I was just like all day long just writing stuff and asking questions and answering and sometimes I would take breaks you know sometimes I would sit there and listen to music and put the sky you know I was saying in cafe and sometimes I would go back home and play God of War great game I love it I would sleep well as well when I understand for better I feel like oh man okay I exhausted my brain I need a break I would take a break I dressed and I would come back at it again and I kept going like this again and again day after day until eventually the concept of choice belief came back came up and I deeply asked myself again what if everything I believed in is potentially not true and I have the full right to choose what I believe in and base it on functionality based on what works because that's that's what I started to ponder and consider that against so many beliefs we have most of them are not really inherently ours most of them are set up and taught to us early on through some kind of education you know whether that education is a cultural education you know from the early days religious education so many we learn in school we pick up pieces and bits and pieces of the beliefs which are out there and we decide okay this this makes sense to me this makes sense to me or somebody tells us that this is real and some of it kind of works like even religion as I think it's quote from Sam Harris that I heard from Matt Fortin it's doing the right thing for the wrong reason you know religion can make you into a good person I've met some religious people who are awesome you know they are caring and giving but there's a chance that they are caring and giving because no I'm saying I'm not saying that about particularly these people but there's a chance they're doing it because they're afraid that they will go to hell you know or that God is watching them so it's kind of doing the right thing for the wrong reason per se potentially right let's not get into religious wars here yet but so so you take that belief so but you're taking also the the parts which are functional and good but you're also taking the parts which are questionable and potentially negative having which have negative results I realized that happened with what I learned from my Ikea instructors my teachers some of it was good but a lot of it really shaped my mind in a bad way which I had to kind of look in question and be like holy crap those beliefs that I took on they're not very healthy so there was good but also by taking the good I also took the bad and that was not really mine I don't know if you really see what I'm pointing at I hope you do and I'm sorry for you know for being so kind of rough edged about it because this is fresh and new and I'm still working on it but I just felt I felt that this may be so big this may govern a lot of my life from this moment on whether it will or not I don't know but there is that chance I feel already it's been some time that I'm adapting this this this this this belief system this idea of what I call church's belief and it's already having really powerful effects on the I can I can see them they're already like manifesting in actions and decisions and how I feel my stress levels went down so I see the potential and part of it and I just felt I guess I just feel an urge to document it because who knows if this is something that really will be influential for a big part of my life I want to record it while it's still fresh and and share it with you and who knows maybe I'll be wrong maybe I'll be like oh you know that actually sucks but so far this is really interesting so so let's let's just pass a few more moments of looking at it so the last few things I wanted to say here although this is endless but you know again it's rough dead I still need to work on it and purify and crystallize it but something I wanted to bring up it's kind of the follow-up step because I don't want to suggest to you I'm not suggesting anyway anything you know this is my process please don't you know please don't copy me this is not my aim I'm just sharing my process and you take whatever you feel works you know don't be as extreme as I am but so yeah the first part I question my core fundamental beliefs consider what if they well that's you know that's the effect I'm like I feel you know shivering I feel shivers going through me that that consideration of what if everything I believe then is potentially not real and there's nothing I have to do there's not and again emphasis on have to there's nothing I have to do yes now the follow-up is there are consequences I am not saying you know and to a degree yes I don't have to pay taxes but if I won't pay taxes I'll probably go to jail or pay a big fine and I don't want that so I choose to pay taxes but in many people's psyches the idea is that you have to pay taxes and that's a very different narrative that's very different structure which has a different effect there's a there's a very big difference in empowerment when I say I have to versus I say I choose to and we and I noticed myself there were so many things I considered I have to do I have to show a good example they have to make videos they have to create positive influence but the next step is what if I don't have to do anything so as a huge stress reliever and blank page and this is the exciting part I can choose to do what I feel works and even better I choose to do good I choose to do things which are good not only for me but also for others I choose to continue my journey and even sometimes sacrifice myself you know for the better of others but but it's not because I have to but it's because I choose to what if I choose to be good because and this was one of my key points because why not why not why wouldn't I just decide to be good it's my choice if I can do anything in life obviously with all the consequences why not just choose to be good and to do good for others and myself so the mentality almost stays but the game field is very different right and I don't know if you see the difference but it just feels so different it is so different because now I'm fine if I need to take a week's break I can especially you know we financially that allows that I have that capacity you know if I if I now if I feel like it's important now to spend time with my girlfriend and not be like in a padding mode oh I didn't do enough work and I'm sitting there with my girlfriend that actually I'm in the back of my mind I'm thinking I need to work I need to work you know life is waiting for me to work that's kind of that kind of sucks but if instead instead I decide to you know what I choose not to worry about that right now I will give I will choose to give to humanity later now it's time for me to be with my girlfriend now I choose to to cherish that relationship I choose to rest I choose to take a break I choose to try and I choose to fail and I choose to experience the consequences as long my only pointer so far is as long it does not hurt anyone else for me I choose that I choose that as the core line it's still fundamental to me I just choose it and if you ask me like you know what's your evidence what's your proof why do you know what makes it smart it's like like why not why not why not choose not to hurt others why not why not choose to be you know honest and good and and do good for others so I choose that but I choose it with great sense of power that it's my choice and I choose it on my terms I'm not doing it because of some supernatural thought on or deep religious belief you know or Buddha Jesus or anyone I choose it because you know what it feels nice to be good it feels nice to do good shit why not and even even more so you know sometimes they get gets rewarded and I do you want to do good in a way which has positive info I mean which which which supports me you know I choose to do it in a way where hopefully it will you know not yeah I choose to do it in a way which will give me some financial benefit as well so I could survive and I could continue doing it that's smart but I'm not doing it just because of money that's my not my main priority well anyway I could speak endlessly but I feel I'm starting to go in circles because you know I'm trying to just make the same point and I hope the point came across came through there was one last thing I wanted to say here and yes okay this is the final final message here final idea final consideration and that is in and one of my previous videos I spoke about a couple of videos I spoke about my concept of creating a movement what was that word I really had a really nice phrase for this but you could say I guess okay let's let's play with this right now because that's the first thing that comes to my mind is I want to create a movement of a culture right that was the other way I want to create a movement a culture of people living not only for themselves but also for others trying working there working working towards becoming their best selves you know always improving always and that's actually another part of my philosophy which I'm developing now is is always putting in effort not and always this is strong word but putting constantly regularly effort to be capable of getting value which will be beneficial for others and I think the more unique value then it's greater but it doesn't even have to be unique but but you're doing but your life is not only about you it includes you but it's not only about you so I'd love to create a culture and mindset of more people living like that I think life would be awesome if that would happen life would be awesome you know and that's I think that's where I started this new journey where I was not able to communicate that from the get-go with you know my weird new outfit and so on but I think that was what I was already aiming for intuitively because it would be so awesome to to have people who you know that that they're they're most sincerely living life not only for themselves but also for others they choose this is where tourist belief comes in and this is where I have I see it has potential towards that that vision I choose to believe that it's good to do good now that life is not I choose to believe that life is not only about me and then if you would you know you would somehow recognize these people and you would see them walking around you're like oh yeah look there's a you know there's a there's a choice belief guy you know I and obviously you know there's other things which can come up and then how do we make sure that they're not egomaniacs they're not narcissists how we make sure you know that they're not taking advantage of that those are all different questions which may we may cover in the future but just just you know play with me for a moment stick with me for a moment with this just idea you know I see a guy walking and you're like crap that's a guy who built who's you know who's living not only for himself but also for others let's sit down and have a coffee or he's like hey man you know I also believe what you believe in or maybe you know we believe different things but but we both believe that it's good to do something good for not only yourself I know that he's putting that effort it's for me it's like seeing Batman or Spider-Man you know you see Batman or Spider-Man in the street like like that's what the Spider-Man mythology does sometimes point out you know you see Spidey just going for and oh crap that's Spidey or that's Superman that's kind of the concept the idea of Superman is that you know he's the hope giver right he's he's the symbol of hope that you see him flying by and you're like oh he's working his ass off he's working hard to make humanity better that reminds me that I should do that too you know that's kind of the message of the Dark Night Rises which I'm not a big fan of but but it's a nice message right so what if though if people like that would be around people that you can trust people that remind you that life is not just about ourselves or that we choose to believe that life is not about ourselves us included but not excluded excluding others and and I just ran a little tiny bit more you know usually our circle the way I recognize it is you know first of all it's me then it's me and my girlfriend or me and my wife and it's me and my children then it's me my parents then it's me and my you know and that's how I used to define maturity the bigger the circle of care is the more mature we are no mature and the mature person is care cares only about himself mature person cares about the more he cares the more mature he is so you know Gandhi care about the whole humanity it's a high-level you know selfless there's a high-level maturity Martin Luther King cared for you know the the future of at least America and and you know his race and he was willing to you know sacrifice his life for it's I'm not saying to push that push it that way but I'm just getting examples of maturity you know there are people who care for their country there are people who care for you European Union and there are people who care for the world and so yeah I could go endless with this but but it would be awesome to have people that you know that they choose to believe in that and they choose to live respecting that honoring that and doing something about it again and there's so much space so much stuff to navigate around here you know making sure that things don't go astray but there's potential there that I see and and this last point that I wanted to make is interesting enough so far from me the idea of choice believe seems to be like a potential player in this exploration meaning that if if I allow myself to question my beliefs including hopefully you know dark beliefs such as my race is superior you know based on people you can define whether people are good based on big or good or bad based on their sexuality stupid shit like that if you if you question that and you ask does this dysfunctional this is really help and you let go slowly of the harmful beliefs and you choose to believe in something greater something something that benefits you and benefits others and you place power and empowerment that type of empowerment into your hands making sure that in the meantime you're not hurting anyone else wow it's an interesting potential and that's what I wanted to record in this video today so let's not make this endless I am ready guilty I hate that word let's not use that word you know I already you know couldn't make videos quite long I'll stop here thank you for watching this long I know I ran to the bit I went in circles and that was kind of the point of this video but man oh man I hope you're you find some interest in what I'm exploring and share your thoughts you know let me know in the comments what you think about this I have a feeling I might come back to this and share it in more defined better way but heck this is the recording of the first time of me sharing and who knows if this will be the last one or not who knows what I will choose okay let's end here thank you see you later