 So, the motivational speaker slash guru Jay Shetty just got kind of exposed as being the new Prince EA and we definitely need to talk about this. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel what I try to do is take a look at different topics going on in the YouTube community to try to see what lessons we can pull from them to improve our own mental and emotional well being. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So couple quick things like my schedule is changing this week so I don't know how often I'll be posting. I'll still be posting at least a few times a week but anyways make sure you follow me on Instagram and Twitter because some of you don't even realize I have a podcast and other projects that I'm working on. Best thing you could do is follow me on social media so you don't miss out when I post new content alright. But I will be keeping you all posted over there on Twitter and Instagram. So yeah we're going to be talking about what just went on with Jay Shetty and it's a bummer man. It is a bummer and I really hope like some people can learn from this. There's a few different topics we're going to touch on and the first one we're going to talk about is black and white thinking alright. So I was messaged about this new video from Nicole Arbor alright and I am not a huge fan of Nicole Arbor. So those of you who don't know who Nicole Arbor is you probably do and don't realize it. She exploded by going viral by kind of like just like purposely like antagonizing people with her video Dear Fat People alright and it's just like this kind of thing just blaming fat people for being fat and she got so much publicity based off that I think she was even on the view for it but she ended up making a part two alright and I just didn't really pay pay attention to it even though I am a fat guy but anyways last year was it last year or two years ago she did a video about depression and it was just kind of saying like you just need to toughen up and get over it and there's a bunch of beautiful things what's there to be depressed about and yeah so that was kind of my first real like seeing what Nicole Arbor does but that's kind of just her thing she likes to get people talking about her and get attention like a lot of people do that right. She also did a remake of This Is America by Childish Gambino and she like kind of turned it into this like feminism video but a lot of people were upset about it but anyways yeah let's first talk about black and white thinking. So Nicole Arbor is the one who made this video showing the issues with Jay Shetty that we're going to talk about in a second and like here's the thing like we got to get away from black and white thinking because I saw this I'm like oh no it's Nicole Arbor oh this is gonna be awful and just full of BS right just because I have opinions about it right but it was actually a good video and black and white thinking for those of you who don't know this is an error with our thinking it's all or nothing thinking right it's thinking that people are all good or all bad and that is rarely the case all right like bad people do good things sometimes good people do bad things sometimes all right like one of my favorite sayings that kind of gets me out of black and white thinking is even a broken clock is right twice a day all right so although I'm not gonna be like a huge fan of Nicole Arbor like I appreciate that she did this video and kind of brought light to this situation so moving on to Jay Shetty those of you who don't know him he is huge I think he's bigger on Facebook than he is on YouTube but on YouTube he has about 2.8 million subscribers and I guess you can call him kind of motivational self-help and I kind of see him in the same realm of what I do right even though I've kind of switched to more social commentary while trying to see what lessons we can learn from him like he is somebody who is trying to help people live a better life improve their mental health he talks a lot about mindfulness meditation he says he was a monk and things like that and he says some great things I actually saw him speak at VidCon this year and I remember I was texting one of my friends because it was such a good talk that he gave at VidCon but the room was like empty compared to the Emma Chamberlain talk to who's Justin you know what I mean I'm like man this guy who's actually like trying to help people he has like less of an audience than you know other creators here at VidCon but anyways Nicole Arbor just kind of showed the fact that Jay Shetty a lot of his motivational quotes that he posts on Twitter and on Instagram and on Facebook they're not even his I'm like oh Jay why you got to do this Jay and those of you who don't know this is actually something that Prince EA it got found out that he was doing the same thing and what's what's even more interesting about this is not only have they both been plagiarizing these inspirational quotes but Nicole Arbor even shows a clip of Jay Shetty plagiarizing Prince EA and who knows if Prince EA plagiarized what Jay Shetty ended up plagiarizing you see what I mean and it's just it's a bummer man because whenever we kind of look up to somebody who's like kind of teaching us about self-improvement and things like that like there's some values that go along with it right like honesty transparency you know and things like that so when you find out that they're doing something kind of shady it's like right so let's let's talk about this like is this an issue absolutely it is right but those of you who don't know me I am really against cancel culture and I do think most people deserve forgiveness all right like it's not like Jay Shetty we just found out he's the new Jeffrey Epstein or something like that you know what I mean but yeah this was kind of a shady thing and it's something I've been curious about because I've kind of turned my Instagram into a place where I share like quotes and I try to put a little you know like you know almost like a mini blog there and kind of talk about just different mental health ideas and things like that to kind of improve our lives things that I've learned the things that are on my mind right and it's like hard like sometimes it's hard to think of like an Instagram quote to put up there like that sounds really stupid but it's like I'm like this I'm good like how's this you know what I mean so something that actually came up was I've been reading this book called mindfulness all right and I highly recommend you guys check it out so basically what make mindfulness is it kind of sheds a light on people like Jay Shetty or Prince EA and basically it's kind of how this like mindfulness movement and self-help genre has turned into this like multi-billion-dollar industry and in the book make mindfulness like he talks a lot about capitalism and neoliberalism and everything like that and there's definitely some things that I disagree with in that book but like seeing what Jay Shetty's doing like plagiarizing these quotes on Instagram and everything like this this is kind of what the author is talking about right so I am willing to give Jay Shetty the benefit of the doubt and I think this is something that we all need to do because cancel culture outrage culture the hate mob and everything like that like do I think Jay Shetty is an awful person for doing this no I think he did something stupid yeah but here's the thing I know for a fact that Jay Shetty has a team right so and maybe this is just me being ignorant or me you know giving him way too much leeway on this thing but I would at least I hope this is the case that maybe people on his team in order to pump out content were plagiarizing stuff right and I think that like no matter what it is whether it was people on his team or was him here's the thing like it just shouldn't shouldn't be done like like I mentioned I do you know some quotes and stuff like that on Instagram and they're either all mine I think all my recent ones have been mine but if not I credit the other person so here's a couple things like if anybody out there is watching this and you're I don't know in the same niche or realm here's my suggestion like get inspired but don't steal stuff right like sometimes when I'm like oh I want to make an Instagram post or whatever like I'll just kind of like read some stuff or check in some of the books that I have and it inspires me and then I create my own you know quote from it right but the other thing about social media like you don't always have to be like this purely original person you can credit other people like some of you out there you follow people who just distribute content right they share a bunch of good articles or they share a bunch of good quotes like I think a great example of this is what's that account called I think it's called Gold Coast like G-O-A-L coast and their Instagram is just pulling a bunch of inspirational quotes from well-known people right and they're huge they're massive they also do like compilation videos of like people's speeches and motivational talks and everything like that so yeah I just I just don't get why people like Jay Shetty or Prince EA do this right I don't think they'd be any less credible doing what they do if they just shed some light on someone else who had an amazing quote wherever they got it from you know what I mean like so many of these things that we see happen on you know in the YouTube you know community or just just in society in general like so many of them could just be avoided right and this is just something that we need to learn from like if you're watching this you're like what's this have to do with me like listen like college like you might be going off to college right now you might have just started school like don't copy people be creative be original and like feel free to message me I don't know if you guys want me to like talk about this on a podcast sometime but I've been writing most of my life and like sometimes like you know when I'm doing you know freelance writing and things like that like I get inspired by things and then turn it into something of my own you know what I mean and it's completely different so if you want me to like I don't know just kind of help you with that so you don't plagiarize let me know if that's something you'd be interested in because I don't know like I'm not like a phenomenal writer or anything like that but if I can help you with that stuff just let me know I'm here to serve you baby I'm here to serve you all right but do me a favor in the comments down below like compared to everything we've seen in the youtube community from like Logan Paul in Japan y'all know what I'm talking about right from like Jacqueline Hill like in her lipstick debacle and like all these other things happening like where do you rate Jay Shetty on this for plagiarizing quotes and like do you think this is forgivable all right I shared my opinion but I would love to hear yours all right so anyways that's all I got for this video don't forget follow me on instagram and twitter at the rewired soul my schedule is going to be changing a little bit but you can stay up to date with all the news and all the stuff I'm working on when you follow me on social media all right but anyways if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge thank you to 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