Wisdom Amidst Deep Fakes: Part1 — Be Original.
Suppose Tony Robbins does a three-hour lecture and at the end, somebody will still start, “Can you just say something to motivate me, please?”
All this time, he was making pizza? What was that? What was he doing?
Well, how are people consuming skills now? How are we learning skills?
We’re learning it from 30-second TikTok motivations or shorts, right? …….. You know, Brian Tracy will say something or somebody else will say something, and you’re like, “Ah, motivated, right?”. And then you go back to D (Depression) mode. I need motivation…ohh (up again).
Do you know what this is? This is actually a lack of wisdom.
Wisdom means people don’t fall for shallow things. It’s one thing that protects your heart from becoming shallow. Right? An easy example: you posted something online about how you are living a life of patience and spirituality.
People like to post their spiritual status nowadays so that the Angels don’t check you; they now check your Facebook to see if you’re in a state of patience.
So you take a picture of yourself making a prayer. I don’t know how you take a picture of yourself making a prayer, but people do, apparently. It’s all you have left, and then they post that on their Instagram. I don’t know why every one of these videos or pictures and these people’s stories have this slow — It’s supposed to be good music, but it sounds like somebody dying slowly. So they’ll put that up, but now that you put up, of course, you put it up for the sake of humanity. And now that you put that up, you keep checking;
how many likes, how many teary-eyed round yellow faces, how many hearts underneath it, how about you know, and your entire perception of value is now associated with something so shallow.
How many comments did I get?
How many views did I get?
How many thumbs up did I get?
Like, we wanna people wanna broadcast the state of their heart to the world, and this is by the way, on a side note, wisdom means that you don’t get hypnotized by the glitter of this world. One of the major kinds of glitter in the world today, especially for the younger audiences, here you guys grew up, and don’t even know a world that existed outside of social media.
Social media is an amazing tool; it’s an incredible tool. It revolutionized the world, but for many of you, you value yourself based on your virtual existence. Your entire definition of yourself comes from the filtered images you’re putting on and how people are acknowledging your existence online. And if you’re not posting something, if you’re not posting a picture of the slice of pizza that you’re eating, that somehow someone out there is going to cry tears wondering what happened to that slice of pizza.
You must contribute to the world, and this idea that I have to make my presence known, this obsession, is leading you. It’s even shaping the way I think about humanity to where I have to become a “humanitarian influencer” for the sake of humanity. I have nothing to say, I’ve learned nothing, but I feel like — you guys just follow humanity, okay, for the sake of humanity…. hehe hehe…
This is wisdom: you can see something that’s fluff, it’s worthless, it’s just glitter, you know, it’s temporary, and you don’t get caught up in it or like it, it doesn’t attract you; it feels avoid it, you’re not drawn to it.
That’s a pretty accurate description of wisdom.
Spiritual definition — This is one army of God that he puts into the hearts of those who truly know until he removes from their hearts the want of the glitter of worldly things. It’s pretty accurate, you know.
Wisdom means putting things where they belong, putting things in their rightful place, anything, any word, any speech, any counsel that you must act on. These definitions of wisdom, they’re all very close to each other.
The wisdom that comes from inside you is the one that I want to talk to you about a little-bit because you’re like — but I’m stupid, I have no wisdom, and somebody even came to me, they didn’t say they’re stupid. They said, “But how do you get wisdom?”
Actually, how are you supposed to get stronger back?
How are you supposed to get stronger legs?
How are you supposed to get a stronger mind?
How are you supposed to get stronger arms?
How are you supposed to get a better stamina?
What are you supposed to do? Tell me, exercise, eat right.
How are you supposed to get better at mathematics? Practice.
How are you supposed to get better at a sport? Play more, learn more, and exercise it.
But the fun, your legs are already there, they’re just not strong enough, but they’re there. It’s not like you have to create your legs. They’re there. You just have to use them now and start running, and the more you run, the stronger they’ll get, the more stamina you will develop.
Your lungs are already there, but they don’t have a good capacity.
You get on a treadmill for three minutes, and you’re like — uffffh…, right, but it’s not like you don’t have lungs, you have them, but you haven’t exercised them, so they haven’t become stronger.
The straight-way argument would then be you already have the basic wisdom inside you, but you just haven’t strengthened it.
You haven’t enabled it; you haven’t activated it; you haven’t put it to use.
Anything, when you don’t use it, becomes weaker.
God gave me eyes; if I taped one of my eyes for six months, I can almost guarantee you I would be blind in that eye. (Disclaimer: — If you don’t believe in god — I guess, you believe that you might have created yourself. What is there in a dirty sperm and in a woman’s womb that an intelligent person is born like YOU? Accidents only get repeated when someone had planned it.)
So where we were, yeah, the crux of the matter is;
You don’t use it; you lose it.
Patients lying in bed in a coma for six months or a year they can’t stand up after they get up because they have muscle atrophy. They haven’t used that muscle. Our creator has given me something inside me, the ability to make good decisions. Our creator already gave me that, but I haven’t been using it. And the less I use it, the weaker that ability becomes, and then I tell myself, “I don’t even have that ability.”
You know, I’ll say something, or somebody else will say something, and you’re like, “Ah, motivated, right?” And then you go back to D-mode.
“I need a motive, ohh — it goes up right now, you know?”
Do you know what exactly this is? This is actually a lack of wisdom, and why am I saying it’s a lack of wisdom?
That means I’m not driven enough within myself. It’s as if I don’t possess the ability to have a strong will. Somebody has to give me the will and push me forward, and unless they do, I can’t move on my own.
I’m incapable of my own. I need somebody else to inspire me. I need somebody else to push me.
And I ask myself the question, before Facebook, YouTube, and all those social media cultures, what was people’s motivation?
Like, what people used to say before, “Man, I’m feeling really low right now, is there anybody, got a connection, let me just watch some motivational videos, at least a TikTok or something, for example, we want to go up this mountain, it’s getting pretty high?”
Do you know what motivated them? Something inside them that’s powerful was already there for them. You can find many such examples where a single person challenges their entire society, even at a young age.
This is not, is not something that came from the heavens, or they became angle, they were just regular young guys. That’s who they were. Something already motivated them.
You are not following any work ethics and spending hours in motivational videos; it is just a nicer way of procrastinating. You have a guilty feeling inside you and the more you are accumulating guilt more you watch that stuff and the more they are churning money into their pocket by investing your precious time. External motivation tastes nicer like an ice cream, but it also lasts long as the ice cream is, by nature.
I believe this hard-core stuff — “Give reminders, reminders have benefits”, and I meant it only for those who already started their journey to success. Show some commitment and it will start your journey of excellence.
What I’m trying to tell you is it’s actually a very empowering message.
The fundamental wisdom, the fundamental nature, good nature, and the ability to do the right thing- is already inside you, it’s already inside you.
