 Pressure makes diamonds. If you put coal under pressure for long enough, it will turn into a diamond This analogy matters so much when you are an activist If you're advocating for social change if you're putting yourself out there if you're putting everything online To be criticized to be ran through a ringer people will attack your character. They will Question your values. They'll question your motives. They will say that you're in it for the fame You're in it for the money. You don't really care about animal rights. You're a Clout chaser, whatever all of these things, right? They will say you're not doing it good enough You're not you're not a good enough activist You could be doing this or you should be doing it this way or you're putting people off or or you were too You were too apologetic or you need to be doing this form of activism that form of activism And I could do it way better and then you go to the page and they're doing nothing But they will criticize you run you through a ringer and you'll have stresses of life You'll have family troubles. You'll have you'll get sick, but you have to be an activist Put yourself out there and continuously fight for the animals because let's face it, right? No matter the pressure that you'll put under as an activist The animals are in a farrowing crate with their baby piglets dead beside them or being forced into a gas chamber and suffering Horrifically to death, right the most extreme pain and suffering and struggle happens to these non-human animals in these farms and abattoirs Horrible horrible sick disgusting hell they have to go through, right? But I'm saying this to to activists and advocates mainly and vegans who have to deal with friends and family and have to deal with social Situations that are uncomfortable pressure makes diamonds the more I'm put under pressure The more I'm criticized the more a full flat on my face and everyone has it something to say about it The more I just get back up and keep grinding and keep focusing and focus on the animals on the job at hand Okay, having massive perspective you will get stronger You'll be able to deal with stress and criticism and and you know all the things that come with it, right? You have to keep Charging through and and sooner or later like all of these things that used to really get to you They used to really get you they just start nagging at you You know this like nagging you're not gonna stop. Are you but what I do often see is That the people with the biggest opinions about what I should do how I should do it They don't do nothing. They don't do anything, right? They got the bit. I'm I always will I always fight for that You're doing it wrong and go to this their page, right? Well, why isn't your whole life dedicated to animal rights like mine is? I'm not saying I'm better than anyone else and some people have life situations and this and that But you're not doing anything and you've got the audacity to attack my character my values and my motivations, right? Because if it's so easy, right if it's so easy to do what I do, why aren't you doing it? Why aren't you putting your stuff online to get criticized and to get you know ran through a ringer constantly? No, you know no privacy nothing just constantly people either put you on a pedestal Or they knock your offer and your ego is taking a battering constantly Why aren't you doing it if it's so damn easy if you can do it so much better? If you're such a better person a better human and got such better values and you care so much more about the cause Why aren't you doing it then show me how it's done if you don't talk about it in my comments section Don't say all this that the other do it You know why you won't do it because under the slightest pressure, right under the slightest pressure you give up You will give up on the animals So don't you dare don't don't dare question my values because I know where my values I don't care what any of you think right? I know where my values are I know what my motivations are and I drag myself to do things I don't want to do because it's the right thing to do and I constantly do it and I've been doing it since 2015 putting myself in uncomfortable situations. I come from a life of drugs Alcohol mental health issues and I put myself in the most uncomfortable positions and I'm not I'm uneducated I educated myself as I when I left the gangs and got sober I educated myself and I have social anxiety And I had all of these issues, right? But it didn't matter because the perspective was if a dairy cow is having a calf taken Separated in a calf shot in the head and she's having to give milk and get raped by a dairy farmer and be Mutilated and suffering and lame and limping and then has to go to a slaughterhouse to be minced up into a burger That is way worse than anything I can experience by being an activist The perspective is what kept me an activist now What really pisses me off? What really pisses me off is the people who think they know it all don't do anything because the ones who do do something Actually have a little bit more respect because they know how difficult it is to be an activist for years and years and watch animals Suffer and be and walk through factory farms covered in shit Watching animals suffer to death on their faces, right? When you can't even help them and then people go, well, why don't you save them? look listen there's There's a great saying and David Goggins a guy who's a motivational speaker. He said this saying it's really good Even if you walk on water Your haters will say it's because you can't swim The people who are going to hate and criticize are always going to do that because you reflect inside of them Something that they aren't doing that's what it is You you actually by you doing these things it makes people feel like well I I should be doing that but I there's something inside you you're holding yourself back And don't don't attack me because you don't have the courage to stand up for what you believe in and don't say go in The comments or or you should do it this way that way or do it way better Do it me do it and show me how long how long you last all right now I'll get a lot of support and I'm extremely grateful for that But obviously if I didn't I'll still be doing it because it's not about any of you It's about the peak. You can't say thank you. All right, that's why we're doing it That's why we put ourselves through Absolute crap constantly in for in farms at 3 a.m. Watching piglets die And you can't even euthanize them because and they just suffer and die And I'm just gonna get smashed to death by a farmer in the morning And you got to walk out the footage hoping that you're gonna make a difference and you got in a comment section You got meat eaters anti-vegan is constantly running me through a ringer But you know, I don't really care that much about what they say because they're there I Understand that they're gonna hate right I understand that they're gonna hate But people who claim to be animal rights activists who say they're vegan right who aren't doing shit They're coming to my comment section question my values and what I stand for and and claim and I don't care about animal rights Now you're trying to know now you've got a problem now Because I don't go you know if I don't like a certain activists I don't start questioning their values right because you're mind reading at that point, but but what does what will test you What will really test you is when you get put under pressure and when when you're not getting the thank yous And and when you do something that no one knows about and you'll never speak about but you do it Because your conscience is watching and then you put up something and you know You put your heart into it and then you get slammed by your own the people who are on the animal side, right? but The people who have the strongest criticisms ain't out there doing it because they're like those lazy People who criticize sports people and go oh, why aren't you you know I would have done that better Oh, you did a bad job you get out there and do it you can't do it You can't do it or you don't have the fortitude to withstand the pressure now now that's a little rant for those people who I'm talking about and Everyone can do a little bit look this isn't a but this isn't about being a hero Oh, I'd do so much more than as if there's this look everyone can take on as what they can take on But also being charitable being looking at the bigger picture, right because yes You might we might think oh well you didn't perform that well that time or you didn't do that well that time That's okay because I've got years ahead. I've done years of work and I've got years more to do But if you if some of these people spend more energy more passion More more of their intellect more of what they've got to give actually focusing on Doing the thing that they think they're so smarter that they think they know better at if they spent more time Like doing that thing you'd probably be a lot more productive a you'd be a lot more productive, but this is a Video about pressure making diamonds, right? So anyone who is under the under pressure no matter what is you're gonna have a lot of pressure things happen you will be stronger you will get stronger and I Say this in my speech, and I think it's great Start where you are use what you have do what you can All right, and don't give a damn what anyone thinks about it because people are just projecting their insecurities onto you You know they might feel oh you're making me look bad because I'm a vegan and I don't like how you were a little bit aggressive They're all that yada yada yada yada yada whatever right at least I'm out there doing it And I'm doing an okay job doing my best and a lot of activists do their best right and the last thing activists need All right, which we're gonna get it and there's no way of stopping this the last thing activists need It's I'm know it all going are you like just coming from your own corner? And I know no one's we're not all gonna agree at all times Sometimes we're gonna misinterpret miscommunicate, and I get that but and it's fine Like if you were out there giving it your best and that and then you but you know What I find is that the ones who are out there giving their best are too focused on their own projects are too focused on The animals right to give a damn what other people are doing Right unless it's completely horrible and problematic and needs to be spoken about but the ones who are the they're sitting on there on their chair On their phone in the comfort of their house Right and they've got all the right answers and they've got all the criticisms and they've got all of this But no action. They're the ones. I'm talking about so I'm not talking about You know supportive people who are like, you know, they don't you know, they can't they can't get out there They've got life things happening. They do their best. I'm talking about the know-it-alls who try to bring activists down When that's the last thing we need but pressure Keep coming keep it coming pressure makes diamonds So stress and pressure makes diamonds and I bet you that the minute that you that these people who know it all They'll do a little bunch of this and that the other the minute you get a bit of pressure back You'll fold you'll fold and then we'll see who's really dedicated We'll see who's really dedicated and who's still here in 10 years. Who's still here in 10 years time I know activists that have been activists for 40 years 40 years, right and they're still here in Plantsville pain and still investigating and still they are absolutely Amazing people, right and we all come from different walks of life. We're not always going to agree on everything, right? but I'm specifically These People that do this that aren't out there doing it less doing this more action and if you're coming up with stress adversity and pressure Keep going because you're just gonna be stronger for it You're just gonna be a lot stronger for it and no matter this is kind of universal. You can use this philosophy all throughout your life pressure makes diamonds