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Yung Pueblo

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“My rich life would be being able to meditate as much as I want to do more of these consecutive long courses and still be able to amply support my parents, like take super fantastic care of my wife and, you know, my children's or if my siblings or my wife's siblings or parents need support that I'm just like I can just give without any sort of worry and being able to sit is what you know we call it being able to meditate and still be able to give without worry. I think that's like that's the place where I'm trying to get to is I've had a lot of success, but I've also I also know that I'm still in a building stage, like I'm still growing.”
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“It totally does. That's beautiful to hear because I've been learning that I can do it my way. Like the same thing that you were just saying, you know, I can do it my way. I don't have to be like the people around me. I can learn from them, you know, have role models, but I don't need to be exactly like my role models. I can just, you know, just figure out how to, you know, achieve well in the way that works best for me. And I think coming to peace with the fact that There are just some things that I'm good at and other things that I'm not. And, like, when there are some things that you're not good at, like, I don't need to get an MBA. I need to hire out an MBA.”
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“And I found that to be really useful to just say, this is what I can do for you, but not how long I'm going to work. And also never be in a situation where someone's my boss. Like it's always equal partnerships.”
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“Um, I, you know, I want to get into the sort of the technical aspects of like. How you manage your time. You know, because I've been noticing one thing where now that I'm doing multiple things at once, when I go into a new project, Never specify how many hours I'm going to work on it. What I do specify is what I can do for you, like what I can bring to the table, and what I'm going to be able to deliver on, which is very different from saying, I can give you 20 hours of my time. Because that doesn't mean anything. Sometimes when you create a project, you put things together and they happen like quick, you know, and a bunch of the rest of the time you are not using that time that well.”
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“I could speak I probably have everybody meditate with me. I'd have them. Aware of their breath and then die peacefully. I was then when you first asked, I was like, I'd say nothing, I'd just be meditating. But if there are people waiting for something, then we have to meditate together.”
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“are done on an individual basis by some people, but if you scale it up to the human collective, we don't know how to do these things at all, right? We're terrible at sharing with each other, we're constantly hitting each other through all these wars that we're fighting. We're not kind to one another. We're lying to each other like systemically as one humanity, we have not mastered the fundamentals that we were taught as children. That's really, you know, I wanted to basically put that frame because I really believe that society emerges from the individual and from a relationships, right? Our society is a reflection of these relationships. So I thought, you know, let me spend a lot of time talking and writing about personal development because hopefully if people do develop self-love, like real self-love, then they're going to be much less interested in harming each other.”
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“All over Latin America, but from where I come from, it refers to the masses of impoverished people. When I started meditating, I realized I'm incredibly immature. But the world is immature too, because I've always loved studying history and I've seen how The basic things that we were taught as children to clean up after yourself, to share with each other, to tell the truth, to not hit each other, to generally be kind with one another. These things”
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“I think how healing changes the world because I think people like, oh man, I read review of lighter and it's funny because the feedback that I got from the book from the audience was so like they love the last two chapters. And I remember writing that book. And I was like, okay, the purpose of this book is for me to put everything together that I believe is important for personal transformation. So I cover the whole thing, you know, self-love, letting go, the challenges that you face, emotional maturity, how that change ripples outward. But when I started going outward, you know, that's the whole purpose of my pen name. My pen name is Young Pueblo. Like my real name is Diego Perez, but I wanted to write within a particular frame. And young Pueblo means young people. Like Pueblo is just a, you know, a Spanish word and it has different definitions.”
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“So to be able to look at your life and say, you know what, I just can't answer any more emails right now. I don't feel good. Like I need to go for a long walk. I need to sit down and meditate. Like I need to take some time for myself. It's absolutely a radical act and it's necessary because if you're trying to live a life of thriving, like a good life, then you need to be able to live that life at your own pace. If I'm trying to match your pace, then it's not going to work for me. You and I are very different people. We can both be productive in different ways, but we have to do it in a way that honors our internal system. And we're just not going to be the same.”
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“Yeah, I think it's something that's so challenging because the demands are intense and they're just keep raising. You know, everyone is trying to reach these incredible levels of productivity and capitalism is just geared that way where it's just pushing for growth, growth, growth, growth, and not internal growth like material growth.”
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“but that are intentionally building their products in a compassionate manner. Like whenever it is that they're trying to do, you know, whether it's in the well-being space or not, they build in a way where they think about the user and they think about the mental well-being of the user. Like, are they going to be hurt using this program? Like, are they going to be hurt using this platform? And let's make it in a way where it provides the service that they want, but Keeps them sane and balanced as much as possible”
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“Suicide rates, how teenagers feel about themselves these days, and what's coming out about the impact of social media on young minds, it's pretty dangerous. And I mean, I've seen it. It's quite rough. Like I see it in myself and I've seen it in young people around me too, but the internet that we have now, like it has to be reformed with compassionate design. You know, we have to think about the way that we build our products with the user's well-being in mind. And I mean, that's why we decided to build wisdom ventures like myself and five other friends from Silicon Valley who all worked in different areas of the tech world. We came together and we basically wanted to create a venture capital firm that focuses on funding precede and seed companies, so brand new.”
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“But do you see the paradox in that, right? Where, like, I'm not trying to shame your friend or anything. Like, so much love to him. I'm sure he's a homie. Um, but if you spend that much time on your phone, a tool that's supposed to make you connect it, you're actually incredibly disconnected, like totally, because you spend that much time looking here And the whole world, like the whole, your life is happening around you, but you're not plugged into it. So there's no presence there. That's hard”
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“I think because my mind was like my attention was totally consumed on running away from myself. And that's what made me hyper self-centered at that time. Like I was only worried about what I craved, only worried about what I wanted to watch on TV, what I wanted to eat, you know, what party I wanted to go to next. And like I couldn't, like I didn't have the mental space to actually think about other people well.”
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“I think with courage. Because at that time, I hadn't done a lot of work. This was like two, three months after I almost died. And I just was examining time with my emotions and examining like, you know, what am I doing with my wife? Like, what's, you know, what's going on? Like, why does my relationship with my little sister suck? What more can I do? And then when I came to my dad, I was like, yo, like. Our relationship is stale, and I need to, I want him to know how much I love him because this man works so hard, like he should know, you know, he gave me life. And I'm so grateful.”
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“There were a lot of things happening inside him, but he's changed a lot since that. Like he used to be hard like a rock, and now he's so open with what he feels. And he wasn't open with his feelings at all before. And that might have been because we were very, very young. And now that, you know, we're adults and we can properly hold space with each other. But I remember that moment being like a clear, like I changed the play, you know, and I was just like hugged him. Was just like, I love you. And now, you know, we text each other all the time and it's deeper and we're solving problems together. Like we solve family problems together where it wasn't quite like that before. And like he cries, you know, I'll hold space for him. And it's a real, real relationship. And before it was just totally surface level.”
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“I was like, my relationship with my dad, it sucks. But what can I do to make it better? And, you know, the first instinct is like, you need to change. And it was like, no, no, no. I was like, I need to change. I need to switch the game up because we have this play going on between the two of us, but I keep doing and saying the same thing. So let me switch it up. And I remember one day he comes home from work, you know, super tired. And I was like, you know what? Fuck it. Let me just give him this huge hug. And I remember hugging him because we weren't that affectionate like that, you know? I remember hugging him and being like, I love you, man. And like, dude, let me tell you that totally changed our relationship. And it was, you know, I don't want to give myself too much credit, but.”
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“Totally, man. So I learned this between me and my dad. So like my dad, he is like just hard, hard working individual. Like that's how he shows your love for you. He's going to break his back so that he can support you by giving you the monetary things that can help you. So my dad has been busting his butt, just working, working, working. But I realize that I love this man. Like, I don't know what it is. Like me and him have a deep connection, but our relationship was so stale and it was the same. It was like the same light topics that we would talk about. And I specifically remember this was like in that first year when I started my personal growth journey.”
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“I think, yeah, if you're always meeting at a bar, don't meet at a bar. Go out, meet in the park, meet in the, you know, go for, if you live in New York City, walk fifty blocks together, just like just do different things that you can do together. Because if you get stuck in that same mode of doing it the way that you're familiar with, then you're going to be saying the same things over and over and your mind's going to want similar things so you won't be open to fully embracing a person as they really are. And the added third thing is just throw away perfection. Like you got, you got to like, you're looking for something and like.”
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“So I think there has to be a self analysis where is there a part of her that's afraid to actually bring in that next level of vulnerability where we can like develop something beautiful together the other aspect of it I would say like the dating that's fine but Make sure that you are not stuck in a loop, like that you're answering questions the same way, that you're asking the same questions over and over, that you're not sort of like stuck in this system that your mind has created about what dating is like break that habit, like create something new. Make it into a different play between you and the other person.”
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“Yeah, and I think that there needs to be two things there needs to be self-analysis on her part, like what is going on, right? Because I'm sure out of those hundreds, like there's probably a few people who are ready to build something. Let's build something together. Just if you're playing the game with numbers, you know, like there's definitely someone who's like, yeah, you know, let's go on a second date, a third date, let's go on a trip, let's, you know, build something together.”
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“The second part of it is craving, where I've seen with a number of friends and just kind of like what's happening out there is like you'll have a relationship for an X number of months. But then there's the craving it's like, oh, there might be something better out there for me, you know? But it's always going to be like that. So how many fantastic relationships have been ruined by this idea that, oh, there might be something else out there that's better for me? And then you just throw away a fantastic thing.”
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“There's two main problems perfection and craving oftentimes we Want the person that we're going to be with to be so incredible. There's never a problem with them. Always good times. You know, they know how to support us perfectly when there is a moment of struggle. And it's just not going to be like that. You know, to be able to develop a good rhythm with each other means that your flaws are going to come up, that you're going to be such clear mirrors for each other that you're going to see parts of yourself that you have to face and do something about. So being able to throw out this idea of perfection, especially when date one, day two, day three, and then the first disagreement happens, it's like blank, you cut it, you know.”
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“Absolutely, but you're not going to have victory without challenge. Like these two things go hand in hand. Like, you're not just going to be given peace. Like, no one's going to be like, oh, you're free now. You know, like you have to put in the work. And sometimes the work is pretty scary, you know, to really go in there, to like sit there with yourself while all this anxiety or panic attack energy or like whatever it is you know like this like this deep stuff starts coming up And you're with yourself and you're calm and you're patient and you're loving yourself through it. Like, I think there's really no other way, especially if you're trying to just build a new structure in your mind and come out with, you know, peace at the center of it.”
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“It's totally distraction. It's just you're just sugarcoating the situation, but you're not really going to the depth, going to the root problem. So I think self-love is using that energy to healing free yourself to really go deep within yourself and basically discover like, you know, you go, you walk through your own inner forest. Like there's so much. Like when you turn that lens inward and you start examining, like, what have I gone through? Like, what have I overcome? Like, where do I struggle? Where are my blocks? And you learn to learn, you know, you learn from that and you accept it simultaneously. It's beautiful the way the evolution can really flourish from there.”
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“On Instagram, like everybody was trying to explore what does self love really mean? And I asked myself the same question back then. And to me, the way I learned to define it was that it's doing what you need to do to heal and free yourself. And I think of it as an energy. Like it's the energy that you use to evolve. And I wanted to sort of put that definition out there because I'm like, that's how I'm enacting self-love in my life. And it's very different from what I was learning from, you know, the materialistic sort of consumer side of self-love was just like buy yourself whatever you want, take a bubble bath, like all these external things that I personally think don't, they don't, you know, definitely treat yourself well, but like that's not going to add up to that much. Like the problem is in your own mind, in your own heart.”
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“No, there's a lot more to that. Come on, Steven. Yeah, no, I think when I started asking myself the same question that the whole internet was asking itself back in 2015, 2016, when self-love just burst onto the scene, like, I don't know if you remember that time, but.”
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“Yeah, no, and same thing. Like, we're not perfect. We still argue, have conflict, but it's way less dramatic than it used to be.”
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“Breakup, get back together, and it was we were always, it always felt like we were at square one. Like we were never really flowering and blossoming together. And when we started meditating, we started noticing like our fights got a little calmer, right? The screams got a little lower. And we started in the switch was very slow where when the fight would happen, it wasn't like you did this, you did that, it became. How do you feel? Like, what's happening? What are you seeing? And then I explain what I'm seeing. And it's like, we're trying to understand each other's perspectives as opposed to making each other say sorry and like winning the argument. It went from fighting as a thing for victory to like fighting as a moment that we can develop understanding like what's happening with you. Let me tell you what's happening with me.”
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“I mean, between the two of us, if you were to add up how much emotional maturity there was, it would be zero, like during that time. Like zero self-awareness, zero emotional maturity. Like if one of us got upset about whatever, you know, whatever it could be, it would immediately be finger-pointing like this is your fault, you know, like, and this is why you need to change. And if you change, then I'll be happy. But when we started meditating, we started realizing it was like, oh, wait, this isn't about you at all. This is between me and myself. And I'm actually just taking these dense emotions and allowing narratives to be built around them that somehow just take the blame away from me so that I take no accountability. And it was rough, man. Like when we first got together, like the connection was there, but there was no willingness to grow. There was no emotional maturity to really hold it. So we were like constantly fighting. We break up, get back together.”
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“Yeah, yeah, basically came out of the friends that way. Oh man. But I think it's the intuitive click plus the willingness to grow. I think that's what really can make a relationship healthy and productive because like we're all in different starting points. But if you have the willingness to grow like I'm here, like I want to learn from myself, I want to learn from you. Like how can we both do this better? I think that you can make real magic from that.”
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“I realized my deeper feelings, and I was like, no, no, no. I was like, I actually have feelings for you. I want to be with you.”
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“Would actually simplify it. I think it comes down to the intuitive click. I think that there are some people like when my wife and I, when we physically came across each other, was 18, I was 19. She was a freshman, I was a sophomore, like literally from the moment that we met, we both come from very different backgrounds. Like I grew up in the city, she grew up in the Burbs. Our idea, right? Like our list of like what we wanted in a partner was not each other. But there was just this incredible pull to just like discover like, who is this person? And like we spent like two, two and a half months being friends. And then the moment that I saw that other guys were trying to pair up with her and be her, be their boy, be, you know, get together with her. I was like, oh no. I was like, and that.”
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“And I was just like, I couldn't. So to me, like a story like that. I can actually feel, but when I see the numbers, like I can't even pretend to imagine what a million is. But I keep going because, you know, I want to be able to take care of my parents and I want to be able to give to good things. And to me, that feels right for right now. Like I'll see what that looks like five to ten years down the line.”
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“I can wrap myself around stories. Like, you know, I just talked to someone the other day. I was speaking at an event in San Francisco, and this woman was telling me like, you know, how these three books that I wrote, like they saved their life. And I was just, I was like talking to her. And I'm like, what? Like, what? I'm like, are you okay now? Like, are you like, are you good now? And she's like, I'm good.”
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“Yeah, it's wild. It's wild. But those are just numbers. Like, I don't, I can't imagine a million. Like, I don't know what that really is.”
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“I keep going like on a Mondane level, like I only write books if I actually have something to say, if there's another topic that I want to cover. So I don't do them for like the big check. I do them to really be able to be of service. And in terms of building companies, all of the companies that I have invested in with Wisdom Ventures, they're all companies that are trying, basically trying to prove that compassion is good business. So to me, that feels really critical. On a deeper level, right? Like why I even put myself out there, I think it's just to have the ability to give, honestly. Like just to be able to give. I think like I don't gain my self-worth from being a number one New York Times bestseller from selling over a million books or all that stuff. It's like that's over a million.”
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“Dissatisfaction of that of like, oh, like, you know, what happens next? But it was like, okay, let me just be with it as it is.”
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“But there's still more. There's still something else to want because we live in this situation, the way this universe works where we can continue ideating into infinity. We can continue like developing more knowledge. There's more books to read. There's more to understand. So we're functioning almost on an infinite spectrum, even though we ourselves are very finite. And I think that creates a situation where things can be so dissatisfying because you never quite get there. And like I've been trying to accept that understanding into my life and seeing people ask me, how did you feel after you became a number one New York Times bestseller? And I'm like, oh, well, you know, it was really nice for like a few minutes. And it was like, yeah, that was cool. And then it was done. Like it was like, well, you know, what happens after that? It was like, well, you just keep living your life, you know? And I could have got wrapped into this sort of the deeper existential.”
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“What I want to point out to you that so if you bring that up. One of the most challenging truths to accept is that life is inherently dissatisfactory. This is one of the things that the Buddha pointed out. He pointed out these three major truths that everything's changing, that there's suffering, which can also be translated into dissatisfaction, and there's no self, right? Your ego, not real. But that second one, I think it's a difficult one to totally embrace. But once embraced,”
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“It absolutely answers it. And you know, One What I'm noticing from that trend of what you just described is you realize that these five things that you lined out and the chaos versus stability, that all of that to me sounds like this is essential for your mental health. Right? That it's almost like it's giving you reason that's, you know, to keep taking steps forward and to do so in a way where life doesn't become a mess. So I think that's pretty cool.”
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“Can I ask you something I'm quite curious. Not like I've seen your success, you know, and I really commend you. I think it's quite beautiful and I think you're inspiring so many people. But knowing your background, knowing this shame, like coming from a place of not having everything, like now that you do have so much, so much success, all the material things you can just buy whatever you want. Why do you keep going?”
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“I don't, you know, that's a really good question. I think definitely there have been some incredible, high-achieving people who are totally driven by craving, dominated, but were they happy? Like, were they okay inside? Like, what is their karmic situation? Genghis Khan, like people who conquered the world, it's totally possible to conquer the world with no morality. But I wouldn't want to live like that. Like to me, it's like I'd rather be super intentional and aware of how I'm moving about in the world so that I don't cause myself harm or other people harm. Like that's my thing now. It's like compassion's really powerful. Like you can create businesses in a compassionate manner and still be super successful. Like you can do the work that you want to do in a compassionate manner and be a high achiever.”
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“It's the moment when you don't get it. It's the moment that if you don't get what you were craving and you're super stressed out and it just makes you so upset, then you're like crying and, you know, you were craving. Do you can even feel that tension in your mind? You're like, you're wanting that ice cream so bad.”
2023-06-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Yung Pueblo: How To Let Go Of The Past, Connect With The Present, & Expand The Future · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I don't want to live with a mind that's craving. I'm a householder, right? I'm not a monk. I have a wife. Someday we're going to have kids. Like I have a mother and father that I need to help take care of. I have to have goals, right? When I write a new book or when I start a new venture or do something like, yeah, I want to do my best. But I try to do that as calmly and as balanced as possible without stressing myself out that much in the process. I'm not perfect at it, but to me, it seems like a much more effective way to live than just like making myself stress all the time.”
2023-06-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Yung Pueblo: How To Let Go Of The Past, Connect With The Present, & Expand The Future · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you're like, okay, it's okay. Let me go back to the drawing board. Let me re strategize. Let me figure out how to do this better than before. And you do all that without crying, without being super upset, without punching the wall. You just keep diligently working and moving forward. Possible. The other side of that is craving, is doing everything with craving when your energy is all knotted up, when your mind is super tense because craving is basically the combination of wanting intention, like you're really craving something bad and you're sort of, the mind is rippled with stress in the moment of craving something and in the moment of like even worse when you don't get it, when you don't get what you were really.”
2023-06-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Yung Pueblo: How To Let Go Of The Past, Connect With The Present, & Expand The Future · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, totally. And it's not the same as wanting. I think that there was a big issue when, especially when the Buddhist teaching came over to the West where it was translated as desire is the cause of suffering. Can look at it that way to some extent, but what seems much more approachable to me and makes more sense is craving. Like craving is not the same thing as Wanting something, right? As having a goal because there's a difference between having a goal and having a craving, you can have a goal and put your mind to it, put a lot of work in, but then the moment that you don't get what you want,”
2023-06-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Yung Pueblo: How To Let Go Of The Past, Connect With The Present, & Expand The Future · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sort of the externality of that, right? Is that you become incredibly creative? Like you don't need to be in film or writing or whatever. You can be in whatever field that it is. You can be an engineer. You can be a doctor or a dentist. But you become so much more creative because your mind isn't as stress as it used to be and it's able to make connections a lot more quickly because your mind is sharper. And understanding that creativity and understanding how it impacts your relationships that makes them so much more deeper than before. I think it gives you an access to new beauty in life and why not? Why not spend that time on yourself?”
2023-06-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Yung Pueblo: How To Let Go Of The Past, Connect With The Present, & Expand The Future · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The issue, it's like you have to experience it for yourself. And I think a lot of people go into meditation for like its initial goals, you know, for liberation, for you to be free from suffering, which The most important goal. Like, that's why I do it. I don't meditate to be a better writer, right? I don't meditate to for anything else other than to take small steps forward on the path of liberation, to truly try to cease the mechanism in my mind that's causing me suffering.”
2023-06-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Yung Pueblo: How To Let Go Of The Past, Connect With The Present, & Expand The Future · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you put four, five, six years of serious work into it, and you get really good at Spanish. It's the same thing with meditation. So one thing is accept that it's going to be extremely hard in the beginning and it will humble you because you're like, damn, I suck at this. Good. Then you keep going. And the second part of it is. It's an investment. You're making a huge time investment that produces incredible results inside of you in the way that you see the world, in the way that you talk to people, in the way that you create whatever it is that you want to give to the world. I think you, but you have to give it time. You have to give it time to really be able to see the results.”
2023-06-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Yung Pueblo: How To Let Go Of The Past, Connect With The Present, & Expand The Future · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT