 Listen to me. If you have lived through some horrible suffering or injustice and you survived, just realize you are now in possession of one of the greatest of all treasures. Contrast bias. You now have the ability to be truly happy because you know how bad it can be. Someone who lives this shelter life will never know any of that. They do not know what it is to be happy because they don't know what it is to suffer. And when you do that, then all of a sudden the lemons turn into lemonade, all the suffering, all the trauma, all the unfairness you're upbringing. Now becomes a pro, not a con. And you've got two choices in this life. I think it was Einstein or great physicists who said, you know, mankind has two great choices to decide whether the universe is a friendly place or a hostile place. This is kind of my non-physicist version of that. Like you can now look at the past. I mean, time is probably an illusion. Most of the smartest, say 50 to 60% of the smartest scientists alive don't even believe that time exists as we know it. They call it the block theory of time. Maybe everything's happening at once but us humans have these little brains and so we perceived our past. This bad thing happened to us and now we're moving forward or trying to or now we're suffering. No, forget all that. Perceive your past trauma and suffering as something you have now turned into a great good. You now know what it is to be happy. Only the person who truly has faced hell and death knows what it is to be alive. Somebody you take who got cancer was told they would be dead in six months. Miraculously persevered, fought through and survived. Oh, that person is truly alive. That person truly alive. And as they walked through, they see all the people just taking for granted their health, their happiness and thinking, I don't even know what they're missing. My mom used to tell me, she said, Ty, the youth is wasted on the young. And I didn't, you know, when I was little, I didn't know what she meant. Now I realized my mom was saying young people don't know what they have because they've never been old. The greatest gift that could happen to any of us would be like Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt movie. You start out old and then you become young and then you're like, whoa, every day is getting better because you remember what it was like to be 80 and have arthritis and now suddenly you're 30 and you can run and you can jog. But yet the whole world wastes their talents. You see, I saw some documentary, some video, and I know a guy, he's like six foot five, you know, he's got green genetics. This is like whatever he do wishes they were tall. He's not a bad looking guy. But he's the lazy. He eats bad. He wastes the gift that he has in life, right? Because he always had a good. That's why the high school popular kid usually fails in life. They never had any suffering. They were always popular. So they just tried to cruise through life and got the first job and married the first person. It was too easy. So if the recreate the narrative that you live by and most people's narrative is especially now is everybody whining about their past and their trauma and their suffering and continually going to therapy and look, there's nothing wrong with therapy. But you can overdo anything. And I was like, there's nothing wrong with yoga. But if you're doing yoga nonstop eight hours a day is probably out of balance. And so now people are moving through their trauma and continually healing. I'm like, when are you ever going to heal? I mean, behind me. I'm still feeling from what happened to me at nine. We're all suffering out here. But as the saying goes, there's two types of people. One perceives the universe as friendly and one perceives it as hostile. And what's bad about social media is in general the hostile universe is what goes viral in videos. If you look, go look with the critical eye through social media and you'll notice besides like goofy funny videos, what goes viral on Twitter X and it was a conspiracy theories about how the world is kind of an evil place. And it's them against you and like that's a fundamental question. The physicist asked, have you decided to see the lemons as lemons or the lemons eliminate? Let's say there is a conspiracy on the right, on the left, on the Illuminati on whatever it is on the them, the them, the them. You have a choice. Do you perceive that as you're in an eternal battle and an eternal you want to be an eternal battle? All people want to be an eternal battle. You've ever been to war? been to war? You were seeing people getting shot? You want to be an internal war? My first childhood memory growing up in Long Beach is my mom was five, four or five on my first memory. Some again shot in the heart right in front of me and my mom was a wedding mate and I believed her on my uncle. I've seen like I was always happy to not be around that anymore when I got older. So I mean, that's the problem with watching the news is that's the perspective that the universe everything's unfriendly. That's what the news is they're freeing you to unfriendly all you know what's happening here, these two countries. Well, this genocide this and there's nothing wrong. By the way, I'm not saying being an over optimist and just walk with your head in the clouds and ignore the suffering and pain of others. No, I'm saying we have no choice. There is pain and suffering in the world. But if you see it as I said in the beginning of this as I'm now in possession of contrast bias, I now know how bad it is so I can be truly alive today when that stopped. But some people go no, my life sucks. I wish I had not had that happen. I wish I had been like them. But if they're sheltered, they don't even know they're happy. Rich kids ain't happy. They don't know they're rich. You have to have been poor to know you were rich. The only benefit of being rich is to have been poor at one time because by being poor, you're now in possession of the greatest of all treasures that is the contrast bias. You know how to appreciate having money. Because you're no longer broke and the rich kid born in Beverly Hills doesn't know that. That's why half of them sadly end up in rehab because all life's too tough. I'm gonna take drugs to escape the pain and all the people who I didn't grow up in Beverly Hills. I was born in the ghetto. My dad was in Terminal Island. My dad's from Harlem. My dad had tougher me too. But my dad was pretty happy guy. So everything was uphill after he came through Harlem. He was like, I remember when he got out of prison in Terminal Island, he lived in Long Beach. He's like, Ty, I love this place. I walk on the beach. And it wasn't even a nice beach. But then my dad come from Manhattan, Harlem, no grass, no central park, but dirty, no real beach. Even a dirty beach of LA made my dad happy. That's the simple things. So reframe your narrative. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the only way. By the way, if you have a better way, let me know. This combination of what I've learned and like it might sound insignificant, and maybe you already know it, great, you're already in possession, but not everybody is. So everything has to be reframed. Or else you ain't gonna make it through this life. I can tell you, in this universe out there, it's easy to perceive it as a dark and cold place. And so it's better to live delusionally that it's a friendly place, in my opinion, than to go down that dark road. Don't let the mind go through there. Spin things, baby. Spin it, spin it into something else. Whatever happened to do, spin it. Like Tolstoy said, if you're still alive, you have hope. So I don't care what's happening to you right now, spin it into something better. Spin it into some narrative of the friendliness of this universe towards you. You'll thank me one day. If you like these, I'm recording these rants people call them every once in a while, so if they offer some value, subscribe, follow, talk to you soon.