 So I made a stats on Facebook the other day about how people always come up to me and be like hey, man What's your favorite TV series? But you'll never get someone coming up to you and saying your man. What's your favorite book, son? You see people in this day and age have their priorities all fucked up, right? Chasing pleasure and forgetting all about fulfillment forgetting about knowledge, right? You see I used to be one of these people that back in the day I used to play hundreds and hundreds of hours of video games like Elder Scrolls for oblivion RuneScape I used to really enjoy that that used to be my thing. I wouldn't mind spending eight hours a day Just consumed in the video game, but these days I can't even Spend 30 minutes maybe joking. I can't spend 30 minutes playing any game because the gimmick is gone Amusement's gone. It says if like You kind of see the game for a trillion years, which is almost a waste of time I'm not saying you shouldn't play video games if you enjoy them or if you shouldn't watch TV if you enjoy watching TV You should be able to watch all your favorite shows like Game of Thrones, you know walking dead, whatever But you should never allow the you know consumption of this media to Take up the majority of your time you should this should not be your main priority in life Watching these TV shows or playing these video games should be out there on the pursuit of knowledge, right? Knowledge it should be out there Trying to learn about maybe Marcus Aurelius about, you know, the Epicureans And stuff like that philosophy how to make money. How does the world really work? Why are these, you know Guys in Syria doing what they're doing What's going on really? You see when you start devoting yourself to building your brain and you know excelling that way it stops becoming really enjoyable like I In this day and age will enjoy sitting down and reading a good book and broadening my mind Something that makes you question things something that makes you, you know go wow something that really Mind fucks you then playing a dumb down game And if you can get through the initial inertia of making this a habit pursuit of knowledge you I'm telling you will enjoy This more than your previous addiction of video games and TV series And when you have a conversation of people, they will really be able to Tell that this is an exceptional person this person is well-read and knows what they're talking about And that's a really good quality So try make that habit doing small steps Maybe read for 10 minutes every night or watch a documentary or something It just challenges you a bit more than dumb down media because dumb down media is gonna Get you exactly what you deserve also There was a story of a man that had to fix this big intricate device, right? They Called up heaps and heaps of technicians hundreds of technicians offering Money for her because of the problem people tried all sorts of different things that I learned from the University and One on what they learned from school what they learned from the experience and no one could fix it But they called this one old man who had been working at the factory Where this machine was established for about 30 or 40 years He walked over to a particular boat and tapped it three times and the machine started working so He asked for a million dollars, but the person said what should I give you million dollars all you did was three taps The guy replied is because I had a knowledge to fix this the other people did not have So if you have knowledge people will pay for it. That's the gist of the story. So go get that knowledge People that know things are who make the world run peace