 know a lot of you out there are going through rough times and I've got this question multiple times from many of you talking about how to build grit how to build a strong stoic mindset now there's no easy answer there's no magic button now there's a saying the best things in life can't be top you have to experience it a lot of you I don't know if you're familiar with it many of you are I've had my fair share of interesting stories in the past many times run into the law when I was younger into jail I've been shot I've been stabbed I've had to oh these probably more than fuck seven times near-death experiences like real near-death experiences so I've gone through all of it I've been broke million times have a shit ton of money a million times ups and downs mouths and frowns and so I've gone through the ringer and whether it's me or the other million people in the world the common denominator and Victor Frankel talks about this is the response to your stimulus a lot of people when confronted with a challenge their response becomes a reaction of the spare which is normal I get it but that the spare doesn't take you anywhere that the spare creates a victim and that victim creates a victimhood mindset or when you enter the victimhood mindset that's when you become a slave that's when there is no hope that's where you view the world in scarcity where you do where you view the world in a fearful state where there is no room to grow and this is what we are seeing today there are a very clear divide among two types of people there are people who are self dependent individual sovereign to people or people who want to be sovereign who want to provide for themselves I find it funny I remember the stories rest in peace my dad my mom still and you know they came they escaped former Yugoslavia Titoville and everything was provided by the state it was a Communist Party but majority of people didn't want to die from the government it was frowned upon there's an honor in the fact that you can provide for your family and you can take the honor out of it I'm not big on honor I'm big on skills in mindset there's a power you have when you know you can provide and that power is applicable anywhere in the world I mentioned my video earlier the one superpower that you can have is meta learning and the ability to adapt in different circumstances and so yeah right now it's difficult right now there is a lot of unknowns going into the future and there's a lot of despair right now but it's up to you to decide what you're gonna do with your time right now it's up to you to decide what type of person you're gonna be just think about all the people in your past that have gone through much worse circumstances World War two World War one Vietnam war Iraq war Yugoslavian war you name it there's been a million wars bombs dropping over your head hiding behind a door or hiding in your bunkers eating a shot by a sniper this is serious and so we're an economic collapse let's be honest I'm a realist we're entering a recession to depression now as opposed to us hiding in a cave or like an ostrich we put our head in the sand use this opportunity use this opportunity to grow to learn become a stoic you know Gary Veevan talks about this if you had nothing what will you do as opposed to relying on the government you need to rely on yourself I'm a huge proponent I'm really digging in deep and asking yourself the tough questions and number one tough question is why do I behave this way why do I think this way if you are thinking in a fearful state and you're expecting other people to solve your problem why you why are you thinking like this there's a fundamental reason why you're thinking this way it's because of your childhood your parents your upbringing of course the reason that we are today or the reason that you are who you are today is majority of how you were brought up where you're brought up makes you who you are and obviously genetics I've got done videos about this but the beautiful thing is we can rewire how you think I've had to rewire myself numerous times and I'm gonna constantly rewiring myself there is no truth but there is one fundamental common denominator the yearning and the ability to become an independent sovereign person the love of learning the love of pain the love of being able to adapt and it's never been easier to be honest if I'm being honest with you the tools that we have today the accessibility to the internet social media the things that you know that we can't our parents couldn't fan it like my parents they came from black and white analog time like TV wasn't even there cars weren't there they come from a small fifth it's a mind fuck for me when I think about it horse and carriage no no technology to now we're talking about AI artificial intelligence it's like 80 years it's crazy until it's never been easier but it's on you it's on you you complaining doesn't change the fact it doesn't change the position that you're in I actually applaud people that don't complain in our contempt where they are actually applauded for that but the people that constantly complain but don't change their behavior that's a problem listen let's all agree it's a fact that 90% of people are economically affected cool no not cool but okay it's a fact it's a fact that there is no foreseeable straight line to how the future is gonna be great never is never will be there's no fun in life that way but what is a common denominator the most important thing is is you mm-hmm it's you stop clinging on to old narratives of the past stop clinging on to the stories that you were in most likely I would say 95% of time inherently given you know the stories of money was inherently given to me by my parents this you know the reason why I'm more libertarian type of mindset is because of my parents it's no surprise and so you need to ask yourself if you are complaining and you're not doing something about it why why why you like that and then ask yourself the people that are successful and you have your own definition success the people that are successful most likely most people don't like that you know there's a saying I first I read it from Christian j Krishna Murthy which if you guys haven't please go into his stuff like way way out of his time any time that we see somebody and and right away we have an instinctive reaction that we don't like him or her it's a reflection of things that we don't like in ourselves and so if you see somebody that is successful that's rich or whatever and you don't like that individual that there's a huge hidden truth in there that you don't like yourself you know we go we can get into dualities of talking about when you and I are what there is no division it's all illusion it's it's a hologram to be honest with yourself you know biocentrism and so you need to really be honest with yourself that's it man you have to be honest with yourself you know there's no easy answers I had to you know looking at my past the things I had to go through the pains I have to go through and the pains I will go through but that's the beautiful thing about being a human being Joseph Campbell said at the best it's not the end of matters it's the journey it's about falling in love with the journey falling in love with learning falling love with the process and not giving up right remember what I said about fail first attempt at learning listen yeah you have so much potential you have so much opportunities don't waste it you will blink and you will be 80 years old and you will die Muhammad Ali had a saying before was like a man who views a world of seven the same as he did as 40 has lost 30 years and then Abraham Lincoln has a saying it's not the number of years of matters but the life in the years of matter and time flies by really fast I'm 35 I'm gonna be 40 soon and time is the most important resource we have on the planet non-renewable and I just see so much opportunity for everybody to help each other out so much opportunity everywhere like it's endless like endless opportunity but it's the fear narrative that they use to hold us down right just just keep that in mind there's always a narrative fear this is how they control you to put you in a depressive state when you're depressed what happens cortisol levels rise sleep decreases you put on weight and you become dependent dependent on pharmaceutical drugs dependent on bad foods dependent on the government but if you are happy and healthy you got good testosterone good estrogen good serotonin good dopamine you become independent you eat healthy foods you don't rely on pharmaceutical drugs you don't rely on the government and this is the most dangerous things to organized institutions self-sorbent individuals people who don't follow the herd but it's not easy and it's never gonna be easy but you just gotta face the fact and fall in love with the process and I'll leave it at that if you guys have any questions for me leave a comment below and I'll talk to you guys soon peace out