THE BEST OF JOE ROGAN MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH [MOTIVATION 2018]
I went to Mass Bay Masbate Community
College I did it after a whole year I
took a whole year off like that was the
big cloud that was always hanging over
everybody’s head what are you doing
after high school what are you doing
after high school and it was like this
impending date of doom that was coming
up so everybody was scared all the time
yeah and everybody wanted to be they
wanted to be a man every but they wanted
to prove themselves they wanted to be
something special no one felt special
you know everybody felt like a loser you
know we’re all like waiting waiting to
become an adult so you get a job because
of the people you knew that were around
you or escape or figure out a way to
escape and I just I only went back to
school because I didn’t want people
thinking I was a loser so I did like
maybe one semester of Mass bad don’t
think I finished the semester and then I
left and went to UMass UMass Boston had
this like adult education program we
didn’t have to have a GED or a not JD
SAT cuz I never took my SATs
hmm it’s when I graduated from high
school I’m like I am never going to
school again like fuck this I got so
tired of feeling like a fucking loser
like when I tell people I was taking I
would always say I was taking a year off
mm-hmm but it really I just had no
direction all I was doing was like doing
martial arts and competing and I just
was so terrified of what the fuck the
future lead and so I went to UMass for
like three years but not like three full
years it’s like there was still a lot of
credits to be acquired if I was gonna
graduate and I just was wasting my time
I was barely paying attention I wasn’t
doing
I was completely half-assing whatever
project we had and then I was realizing
like what am i why am I wasting my time
yeah and then I got some letter saying
that I couldn’t come back with the
grades that I had unless I came up with
some very compelling reason so they
wanted me to make an argument for why
they should include me back in the class
and I wrote out in handwritten because
back then no one had a fucking
typewriter this total bullshit letter
it’s ridiculous like a persuasive
bullshit e letter about how important
education is to me and I’m poor like how
important it means and and then I
realized like the amount of effort that
I put writing this bullshit letter to
keep these people from kicking me out of
their school which I wasn’t paying
attention to far exceeds any effort that
I ever put on any project ever in class
yeah and then I realize okay whatever
I’m gonna do with my life is to not get
involved doing this yeah it’s not gonna
involve
someone else dictating my schedule yeah
well I had a conversation with a science
teacher his science teacher and it was
the same kind of thing i mocked him in
class not necessarily mocked him but i
brought up something that was contrary
to what he was teaching he was talking
about a Lake Erie being a dead Lake and
I said this man they had a documentary
on PBS last night about Lake Erie making
a resurgence and his scientists have
figured out these new ways to minimize
water pollution and all this shit
and he got pissed at me he got really
pissed at me he said you’re undermining
my class and this night I go hey man
you’re teaching old shit yeah how you
teach all this is on TV man this on TV
like yesterday yeah and I had a
conversation with him afterwards and
because I had to talk to him in order to
get back at the class accuse me out of
class and he said two things he said one
he said first of all I don’t know
whether or not that was the case whether
or not was true and if I allow you to
just interrupt my class and chime in
something like that and it’s not true I
have in fact checked it you’re telling
the whole class and I don’t know if
you’re right or you’re wrong or you’re
making things up but you’re interrupting
my class that’s the point if you have
something to tell me about it maybe you
could tell me about it after the class
and then I can go and look it up and
then maybe I can correct the class and
he owes but to and interrupting the
class you showed yourself to be more
articulate and more intelligent than you
ever showed ever in the entire semester
so you’re totally half-assing everything
you do your writing and everything you
paper you turn in every test you do
every time I call upon you for a
question totally have to half-ass that
but when you wanted to correct me on
something all sudden you knew all the
words you knew how to form the sentence
correctly you’re going to say it with
the right impact so you just beat us
your focus is off and it’s like god damn
that dudes all the money mm-hmm and I
realize I’m like you yeah so I’m not
stupid right I just can’t I can’t listen
I can’t do it their way I gotta do it my
way right but I could I just didn’t I
grew up not having any direction yeah so
someone doesn’t tell you what to do all
your life essentially you just out free
I would go fishing I’d hang out my
friends in the woods we just go find
shit to do and then all sudden you’re in
school and they’re telling you
everything you have to do all day like
I’m not ready for
there’s a real movement right now
towards minimalism or where people are
trying to pair the life down as much as
possible what do you really appreciate
what’s important to you what’s really
important to you you know because you
don’t have forever right so what is
important to you because you only have
24 hours in a day so what’s important to
you find out what that is and do more of
that yeah and try to figure out like how
to how to make enough money so that
you’re not starving that you’re doing
well yeah but don’t just chase that
chase what you’re trying to do I did the
point system attached to it the monetary
point system get you to working like 12
hours a day 13 hours it’s about what to
get more stuff to get better stuff to
get more prestigious stuff to get stuff
that you know all your other stuff
having friends are really jealous of
your stuff
good to treat other people the way you
would like to be treated yourself it’s
like a golden rule and there’s a reason
for and that reason is that we’re
connected in some strange way that we
don’t totally understand unless you are
good to other people around you unless
you’re a kind and friendly and warm and
loving you’re not gonna enjoy this life
you’re just not you’re gonna be problems
everywhere you go you’re gonna have
problems everywhere you go you got to
figure out a way to enjoy this life it’s
not because of Jesus it’s not because of
Moses it’s not because of anybody that
may or may not have ever existed it’s
because that’s how you fit in better in
the world that’s how you stay positive
and it doesn’t have to be something that
was written 5,000 years ago on animal
skins that doesn’t have to be the golden
rule because it’s old
you know that’s dumb we need to figure
out like now today what what is you know
the best way to live your life what is
that you know there’s got to be a way so
you can be putting forth the most
positive energy I mean we know
objectively what’s causing pollution we
know objectively what’s causing birth
defects and you know and we’re taking in
too much chemicals and not enough
vitamins we know objectively all this
stuff we know how to organize our world
and yet we don’t do it we know how to
organize our health and you have very
few people do it we know all these
things the right path to like being like
a happy healthy person is to do all this
we already know you’re supposed to do
take care of your body take care of your
health take care of your mind your
stress meditate be kind
you ask anybody they know how to get by
and to be the the most evolved version
of you that you can be I mean it’s not
like a magical checklist if you talk to
people about it you said okay here you
got a person you want to
them one of the things you’re gonna do
though okay well if I was a wife coach
the first thing I would say is this
guy’s got to get on a diet that makes
them healthy
I need a diet just to lose weight I mean
just healthy foods in your body need
many many vegetables vegetables a lot of
good good quality protein a lot of water
stop the sodas stop the Bulls start
working out your body and get a better
sense of like how this machine feels
when it’s moving it’s flowing better
there’s less tension in it your mind
feels like relaxed and you enjoy every
single moment of the day better
step one everybody knows that step right
what’s step two be cool to people be
nice to as many people as you can smile
as many people as you can have them
smile back at you tip well when you go
to restaurants just do the most you can
be as nice as you can you know and just
still manage to have people walk home
just get through the size of these
noises what else do you wanna do with
your life
be doing something you don’t enjoy don’t
do something that’s don’t get locked
into you know a car that you can’t
afford and do something crazy because
you need the money don’t don’t do that
do what you want to do do what the visit
that you really want to do cuz if
someone else is doing it you can do it
you know I mean everybody makes their
own path through this world but a lot of
people don’t follow the path that they
really feel pulled to you know it’s for
whatever reason in a negative
programming you know when they were kids
someone told them that could do it or
told her to take the shortcut or or take
the the shore route that’s a sad thing
man when you talk to dudes especially
like talented dudes and they don’t
follow up with what they want to do you
know bunch of people that will say yeah
why the family said you know it’s a
great idea for you to just go out there
and go crazy you have people to support
you listen stop Santa
stop saying any of those things every
single person who has ever done anything
worthwhile or exceptional or difficult
or extraordinary anyone whether it’s
great artists or authors or
mathematicians or whatever the it is
everyone encounters difficulties there
is no easy road it does not exist it is
impossible
everyone has issues if you have time to
pursue a hobby if you have time to do
anything in your life you can better
yourself and here’s one way you never
better yourself when you come up with
excuses for what other people are
successful in you’re not that’s
dangerous when you give yourself an
escape yeah well that’s easy for you to
say you know you do do do-do-do and to
trust me
everybody has a hard road I wanted to
jump out of windows several times during
my young life I wanted to jump in front
of a train just ended because too much
pressure not really but you know I’m
saying theoretically we all go through
hard times we all go through depression
we all do go through doubt and then
moments in your life where it’s really
difficult and you’re trying to figure
out what the fuck your path is gonna be
it’s hardest but it’s definitely I we’re
talking about this before the podcast
starts that that is what makes you a
person and those difficult moments are
what build your character show me a
great man who’s the son of a great man
that’s what we’re saying these kids that
are born billionaires your
if you’re never going to be a self-made
person you have a backup trust for your
backup trust for your trust and your
demand fascinated by martial arts I’m
fascinated by comedy I’m fascinated by
many many different things I don’t
understand when people say they’re bored
because if I had the time to live a
hundred lives I’d be speaking different
languages I’d be living in different
countries I would I would trial a number
of different careers because I think
there’s a lot of unbelievably
fascinating puzzling complex things that
you could study in this world
that’s just me and my personality but
that’s a personality also that I’ve
cultivated over years we like that as a
kid too while I was involved in martial
arts very early and I think that is one
of the things that motivated me to
explore difficult tasks because through
difficult tasks you learn an incredible
amount about yourself and you through
through the fire of competition you get
to understand you get to understand
motivation you get to understand the
resistance that you have inside your
mind to doing the hard work you get to
understand the rewards of discipline
like you don’t truly appreciate
relaxation unless you’ve worked hard and
that is the yin and the yang of life and
I’ve said this to to the point of people
getting sick of it but one of the worst
decisions a man can make I go and speak
for men
is to be comfortable I don’t think you
should try to be comfortable I think
what you should try to do is try to earn
comfort and if you if you can get a day
off where you you you’ve worked hard and
you’ve accomplished goals that day off
will be so sweet when I work hard and I
sit in front of TV I enjoy the shit out
of it I put my feet up I have a nice
drink you know I enjoy those fears that
mids your back or something
do you have one of the Tyrians are great
right and I’ll use it that much stuff so
I’m more of a worker hog than I should
be probably if the balance was I
probably should relax more than I do but
I never feel like I earned it but that’s
our part of the reason why when I do
feel like I earned it I can enjoy it
this is because I am more connected to
the idea that I need to accomplish
things and to internet is not like for
anybody else’s benefit other than my own
or anybody else is a pool
I just when I have a task whether it’s
today I’m gonna write a thousand words
you know or two thousand or whatever the
number is if I don’t do that write
things down like I’ll write down a list
of things that get accomplished that day
and if I don’t accomplish that I’ll get
sick like I’ll it’ll drive me crazy if I
can’t fill out that list that drives me
nuts you know but that’s what led me to
be a championship-level martial artist
and that’s what led me to achieve it’s
like that
it’s the reinforcement of those goals
like understanding that you can achieve
those goals it’s gonna be difficult
you’re gonna push through the difficulty
and then you’re gonna understand what
difficulty truly is and how much of it
is just mental how much of it is just in
your mind this adversity to to difficult
tasks or to struggle you know and a lot
of people have that they’re scared
they’re scared of complications they’re
scared of failure failure is a big one
that people are afraid of but failure is
one of the most important things you
could ever have as far as like the
motivation to do things differently
one of the reasons why I think that I’m
good at friendships and relationships is
because I failed at them in the past one
of the things that I’m good at
comedy’s cuz i’ve bombed on stage one of
the reasons why i’m good at work is
because i finished
worker in the past and i know the the
feeling of failure the feeling of shame
of being like a weak non motivated lazy
person it’s a weak feeling it’s a you
don’t respect yourself you know and I
have this phrase that I use all the time
to people to try to motivate people I
say that be the hero in your own movie
pretend that if your life was a movie
and your life started now what would the
hero do well with the person that you
respected what were the person that you
admire person that inspires you what
would they do we’ll do that and if you
do that you slowly build momentum you
like today I did what I wanted to do
today I started a class in yoga I did
this I did all these things that I was
saying I wasn’t gonna do and now I feel
momentum and the momentum is a very
important point in people’s lives that’s
why some folks don’t like to take days
off because they feel like they’re
losing momentum and they sort of have to
restart the wheel up again after a
vacation and there’s a lot of folks that
live life on a cushy cloud of
marshmallows and bullshit and then one
day something goes wrong and I mean
that’s why spoiled kids are so sad like
a spoiled young boy is one of the
saddest things ever a young boy that
becomes a man and can’t take care of
himself
and it’s datas to keep on rescuing in
his dad has to keep on bailing them out
of situations and giving them money I’ve
met guys like that and that is a
crippling affliction when they don’t
have the character themselves to be able
to get by in life they constantly need
someone to help them and bail them out
even as a grown man I’ve met guys in
their 40s that still need help from
their parents I’m like what the man
you’re never gonna get it right because
somewhere along the line they didn’t
face enough of the adversity to realize
that there’s sometimes you just got
and gets done there’s sometimes we have
to pull yourself up and you have to push
forward even if you want to stay in bed
and if you don’t do that you just keep
calling on your daddy and your daddy
keeps rescuing you
you never develop those tools you never
develop that ability to recognize what
you’re doing wrong with your life cuz
you’re you’re soft you get a cushiony
you got a safety net a safety net for
safety net say if you had like a 20 year
old and he just don’t doper or a wakin
bakes and doesn’t get anything done he’s
just always like hanging out with his
friends and playing video games and he’s
just a loser I wish there was a way you
could show someone like that like I know
that you’d getting some comfort and
satisfaction I just laying around doing
nothing eating getting fat but your life
would feel better and richer if you had
a goal you chased that goal you
accomplished some things you would get
this boost of confidence you get this
boost of self-esteem like whatever it is
that you’re going to do maybe you’re in
a drawing comic books maybe you’re into
it now by making pottery or sculpture
but fine whatever that is and pursue
that instead of doing nothing like the
people that are doing nothing those are
the real people but doing something
might be as simple as like that Alex
Honnold guy which clunge rocks but he’s
world-class soft fun it’s something but
it’s also a go of citizens us of the
best yes yeah
those those people smoke pot all
D’Angela those also the guys who hate on
Jolin for being in shape you know I’m
saying are being disciplined or get on
Kevin Hart’s Instagram and to hate on
you know I’m saying cuz they don’t it’s
their own insecurities I see what you’re
saying
but I would assume they would get
motivated by seeing other people do
something with their lives like that
should be motivating not ya mess you up
if you grew up with losers and you’re
around a bunch of booze yeah –
especially if it’s in your household I
was very lucky then both my mom and my
stepdad they’re now they’re not they’re
the least fader people I’ve ever met my
life they’re just not haters in any way
like if someone’s doing well though I
was like wow look at this guy or like
wow look at her Wow look at him there
was never any hate in my house in terms
of other people’s success but if you
grew up with a dad and your dad’s like
caddies all these rich assholes just do
you think she’s a badass and ISM you
know there’s people that look at other
people’s success instead of saying wow
a lot of work the way I’m a successful
person but the way I look at Kevin Hart
he exhausts me you know or the
Rock those guys exhausted me but Jesus
Christ I feel lazy next to those guys
like they do so much like those guys are
so overbearingly ambitious you know but
some people they see that and they
compare themselves and they don’t like
it so they get started getting really
and it’s like a natural feeling to try
to chip away at that person the worst
people that you know are the people that
don’t have a good self judge that
everything they do is awesome
is it those never grow anyone right and
that’s a huge issue with comedy when you
run into people that have terrible
comedy sets but think they did great
like we would always do great for teens
and I would always talk about that it’s
like open my curse like there’s people
that hear phantom lamps like they think
they’re doing great and they have this
delusional self opinion where everything
they do is awesome they don’t know why
they’re not successful already they
don’t know why they’re not famous and
those people I believe I mean it’s some
sort of a weird in our sophistic way you
could look at it this way that those
people are there to teach you this is
the consequences of not feeling that
awful feeling when you fail I was
talking to her a couple weeks ago he did
a set at The Comedy Store and I saw part
of it it was he was killing and then I
ran into him in the hallway and I go out
man main room show was great right and
he goes yeah up at the end though I
tried to hang in there too long in the
last bit bomb like he was just it was a
rotten at him that the last bit like he
goes I hung in there too long I should
have got off with a bit before that like
but you know when I was in there he was
killing you know but that wasn’t in his
mind the success was not in his mind
this is the what was like okay whatever
that happened at the end don’t do that
again right but that’s why he’s bill
burr that’s why he’s really good you’re
alone with your thoughts you get an idea
of what your thoughts actually are if
you live your life just acting
constantly on the momentum of other
people’s expectations of you wanting to
be liked by these other people you can
run into a trap and you you you set up a
life that you didn’t really want you’re
you’re you’re you’re trapped in this
situation where you have a mortgage
you’ve got credit card bills you’ve got
student loans you have to pay you have a
bunch of going on you have to continue
to feed and all that and especially if
you have a family and you have to feed
them oh my goodness then you’re fully
locked in you can’t take any chances
whatsoever and oftentimes people make
the mistake of getting stuck and it is
just a tactical mistake just like it
would be a mistake if you got stuck on a
video game just like it would be a
mistake if you followed a map
incorrectly and you get stuck in the
woods your life is certainly some sort
of a journey it’s certainly some sort of
a journey and we have to all be aware
that when we’re making journeys we’re
not gonna always make the right steps
and sometimes you have to back up and
try again
and if you’re in a position where you
can’t back up and try again
you’ve trapped yourself and the system
will set out honey pots for people to
get trapped in the system will set out
the ideas of retirement the ideas of the
golden years providing you benefits
providing you a healthy work environment
why well because they want people to
work for them they don’t want people to
realize their own dreams and escape if
those in the ass you gotta hire more
people and train them and they want to
set it up so that you stick around stick
around some sort of an unsatisfying
world it’s up to you to see that video
game problem to see that issue as it
comes up on the map no and I think this
is a right turn to see all the problems
that could potentially lay in front of
you and calculate your your future and
then also look around all the people
that didn’t do it and look at the misery
that they’re in and
wanna be like that and then look at the
people that have kind of taken chances
navigated their way what do they do
differently what what what objectivity
do they have that maybe you lack what
insight into their own mistakes are they
willing to delve into that you’re not
that you step back because you know I’ll
stomp I still want to look at myself
that closely but the person who’s able
to look at themselves the closest it’s
gonna get the more rational results the
things that’s causing this funk to
people around is that we’re living our
lives many of us at least and these very
unfulfilled ways or you’re going to this
office with artificial light and you’re
doing something you don’t want to do all
day long and then you get home and
you’re tired and on top of that you’re
eating shit you’re eating potato chips
and you’re drinking soda and your body
is just like what in the is this we’re
supposed to be out in the fields we’re
supposed to be walking up hills we’re
supposed to be looking for animals or
gathering vegetables we’re supposed to
be doing all these things that our
bodies designed to do was supposed to be
in nature yeah and nature is like a
medicine like it literally is a medicine
to you but people people to go you don’t
have to go hunting you don’t have to go
fishing just go hike man just go hike up
to the top of a mountain
you know there’s a reward that you get
from that that is intensely like soul
filling just like something about like
when I was in Colorado and there was
this this area of Boulder when you drive
up one of these roads and there’s this
area where you could park and it was
this incredible view man but these
people just Park and just go out there
and just look but you get there any
parking goes cuz you would see you only
see the Continental Divide these
snow-capped mountain isn’t so high in
July it’s coupled with snow for whatever
reason most people their associations
are to avoid anything that’s
uncomfortable but it’s so illogical
because when you look at comfort and you
look at success and progress and that
eventual the feelings of accomplishment
and of getting past certain hurdles and
in terms of like how you feel about life
a lot of those are connected to
discomfort like discomfort is your
friend it really is like discomfort and
and not being happy and content with
certain situations in life or certain
feelings in life there are massive
massive motivators and they’re they’re
amazing at facilitating change and yet
our instinct is to avoid those and just
sit on the couch and watch some reality
show about do to make moonshine with our
jaw open like we its with bizarre
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