 I want you to picture that you have nothing at all. Absolutely nothing at all. You don't have a house, you don't have a job, and you have zero dollars in the bank. What are you gonna do? I know it's probably a tough exercise for a lot of people, but it's a good exercise. And it's an exercise that Stoics have been talking about for a thousand years. It's about projecting yourself in a certain circumstances and how you would respond in that circumstances. It prepares you mentally to be battle ready when times are difficult and times are difficult right now. And it's up to you to figure out how you're gonna build your mental aptitude. Listen guys, like I did a video earlier today talking about the job loss. Yeah, we're in a fucked up position. And it's not gonna get better until you start working on yourself. Rumi had a saying, yesterday I was clever, I wanted to change the world. Today I'm wise, I wanna change myself. You gotta start with yourself. There's too many people out there who are in the group think, as Renee Rajar talks about, and they're in the fear mindset, right? You have the two pathways. You have the sympathetic system versus the parasympathetic system. You have fight or you have flight. Both of them, depending on the situation, is beneficial. But in this moment right now, when you are confronted by the realities of the world, when you're confronted, where you just lost your job, what do you do? You don't run away. You fucking fight. You use this as an opportunity to figure out, man, what do I do now? And there's so much opportunity. The one common denominator in this world is you. It doesn't matter if you're living here, if you're in Africa, China, and Russia, you are the common denominator. And for you to think that there's an external entity, such as government help, or a secure job, or a salary that's gonna be your safety net, you're fucking delusional. The only safety net is you. You need to upgrade your psychology. You need to upgrade that mental fucking toughness. We complain today? We complain? Holy shit. People have gone through World War II, been in gulags. If you lived during China, a mousing tongue, if you were in like any fucking war in the world, like Jesus Christ, we in the West, we have a fucking easy. We've created a very weak society, extremely weak, extremely fucking dependent on systems that we can't even fucking take care of ourselves. So I want you to practice these stoic philosophies. I want you to put pen to paper to create a plan on how you can upgrade your skills. And this is the fucking time to upgrade your fucking skills, man. If I had fucking nothing today, I remember I fucking come from nothing, guys. Man, 12, 13 years ago, I had nothing. Came out of fucking jail, bro. Like what the fuck? Nothing. Who the fuck's gonna hire me? Get the fuck outta here, man. I have to build everything myself, become self-independent. I've always been that way. But still, no one's gonna help me out. No one's like, well, here we go, mirror. I'm just gonna give you all this up. No, man, I fucking fight for everything, every inch of it. I fucking go up there and fucking fight for it. And that's what you have to do. And so if in this circumstances right now, if you had nothing, what are you gonna do? You're gonna upgrade your skills. And there's so much opportunities to upgrade your skills. So many fucking opportunities. I have so many projections, I think it's gonna, I think trade work is gonna explode. I think if you get into trades right now, they've been saying this forever about trust me. Now is the time to get into trades. If you're thinking of starting in some computer programming, get into computer programming, start fucking upgrading your skills. Most people, most people are mediocre. They go to their job and be like, what the damn, what the, you're a fucking commodity. Who gives a fuck? No shit. Why would I hire you? What skills do you have? Why are you so beneficial? You're not. I'm gonna burst your little bubble. You're not beneficial. You're cogging the machine. You know, as they say in the matrix. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Go in the subway, go to work. Just there for a paycheck, come back. Oh, I love, my life is so good. And here you are. And here we are, I should say, because we got ourselves in this mess. The only fault is our fault. And so I want you to fucking challenge yourself, guys. Start thinking more stoic. People in our past have gone through so much more turmoil and trauma. But yet we're complaining here. The government's fucking helicoptering you money. Obviously with conditions, never fucking forget that. There are conditions with that. And yet we just cry and sulk. I can't do nothing. Enough of this shit. Enough of this shit. Time is very limited. It's the only resource that's fucking non-renewable. Yet we wasted all the fucking time. All the fucking time. We just wasted. We just sit down and we think things will happen for us. Things will pop into our lap. You must be insane. The whole notion of I will believe it and things will come true like that secret bullshit. Oh yeah, I'm gonna think, I'm gonna dream about being a billionaire or whatever the fuck it is and poof, here it is. Come on, that's a scam. Get with it. It takes fortitude, hard work. It takes so much ingenuity, focus and accepting the fact that it's a journey and accepting the fact that you will fail numerous times over and over again, but you get back up and the experience you went through molds you into a strong, powerful being and a being that can take pain, the being that can fight back, a being that understands the life is suffering as the Buddhists say. But not in a negative connotation, in a positive connotation. People associate suffering in negative connotation. In fact, it's a positive connotation. It's a teacher. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. There's teachers all around us all the time. We're just blind to it. We're always blind to it. Until one day, the universe comes up, bang! Or reality comes up, bang! Hits you in the head. You're like, oh shit, man, I got no choice, but to wake up. And you need to wake up. You need to start focusing on yourself. You need to start disconnecting from social media. You need to start disconnecting from people like crabs and the bucket who pull you down, who don't propagate you up, who don't support you, who don't push you, who don't tell you, or who you literally need to cut all these people out that aren't positive in your life. And this includes family. I'm not saying cut out as don't ever talk with them, but you are the product of your environment. The time that you spend with people around you, those people influence how you think, is group think. You need to spend time with people who have that mental fortitude, who have that positive outlook, who understands that life is a challenge, that life is suffering, that there's lessons all around us. And are you gonna learn from these lessons? Are you gonna adapt with these lessons? And we have that very small, finite amount of time in your life. And you need to grasp this and understand that you will blink and you will become older, all of us. We cannot escape that, not yet. And so make the most of this opportunity right now in this quarantine or wherever you are in the world and upgrade yourself physically. Go do fucking 200 pushups a day. Read a book, write something down and make yourself better. I'll leave it at that. If you have a question for me, leave a comment below this video, subscribe, hit the notification bell and I'll talk to you soon. Peace out.