And I'm interested how many people are able to continue chasing mastery without relying on the toxic fuel that was there in the beginning. >> What happens when you've spent that fuel tank? Because you can keep using it, but over a long enough time period, it is toxic. >> Well, cuz then you've got to go and produce more of the fuel. >> 100%. I have a a a I know of a a couple of guys recently who have basically manufactured enemies. >> They've they've this situation a
bunch of situations actually did not need the level of friction canankerousness uh divergence, uh disagreement. It didn't need that. These enemies have been confected, concocted, confabulated out of nowhere purely so that this person has something to push up against. >> Yeah. Sophisticated, unarticulate. I'm I've been guilty of that. >> I'm going to make an enemy. You're going to make an enemy to give me more of this fuel that I worry I'm dwindling out of. >> I reckon 50 Cent's guilty of that. >> Who? What? What?
Which enemies has he done? I don't know. But no, by the way, I have I have no interest in in sort of speaking on another man's journey. It's just an observation. Um if I talk about myself, which is all I understand, um I just see similarities, right, that I can relate to. And what happens in the streets is there's some scary individual that would like to take you off the face of the planet if they could. >> And it's down to, I don't know, jealousy, hatred,
anger, whatever the reason is, but it it fires up something in you. >> That also happens in boxing when you walk into the boxing gym and the coach says, "I've got you a fight." Really? Yeah. you're going to be fighting this guy. He's had this many fights and it's real. You're going to be having a fight that'll have this have a similar effect on you. And what it is is these um there's this sort of final destination in your mind if you're not careful whereby the
worst can occur like you can really you can lose and in losing you can lose your identity, you can lose your selfrespect. There's so much on the line and it just brings out a new version of yourself. You'll do the extra run. >> You'll go to bed early reading a book. You know, you'll and and and I I experienced that in the streets. You have a problem with a scary individual. You you'll take making some money more serious cuz you're like, I can't be out here
forever, man. M >> um so that being said, I'm guilty of trying to initiate the production of that toxic fuel. >> Yeah. Just because a professional career kicks in in entertainment and some of the lines are blurred. >> It's like I'm a rapper. What does that mean exactly? You know, so you got to create your own framework. You've manufactured enemies and rivalries because >> well they're sort of there, right? But they're just not as interesting as they were once were. >> Yeah. >> Actually, you your
pride's not on the line. You don't care what they say about you. >> But you can open that part of your mind and be like, "What did he say?" M >> and that brings out a version of you that you're like if I bump into him and he thinks cuz I'm famous, he's going to do something to me and I'm not going to take self-defense serious that you know and that'll just bring out a version of yourself that that turns up with a solid physique, >>
turns up focused, has been reading before bed. And so there was a lot of that in that there's a world out there where there's a lot of jealous people, a lot of people that are probably upset with things I've said, things I've done. Um, and there's been versions of events where I've actually looked at that. Let me see what these people are thinking and provoked myself, >> got myself a little bit nervous, thinking, "Oh, is he out there >> and he would like a problem with
me if he could?" All right, for sure. And then you become the version of yourself that is prepared for that challenge. >> What do you think about that? Because I I can see both sides of how useful and and adaptive and functional that could be. In one way it is free fuel for you to push yourself harder to become better and in another way you are manufacturing like just creating out of thin air antagonism against the world. Well, it's it's energy essentially. You're farming energy, but
it's a crutch. Also, you're relying on something external to create energy. >> In the same way as you were saying, you want to be able to be the best that you can without people around you bigging you up and telling you that you can be better. >> You've got to go through this season of isolation, man. It's just not spoke about enough. >> Oh, we're going into winter. That's the winter arc, right? >> Yeah, man. and and have the confidence in yourself that you'll come out
the other side, man. And in and in that, you will let go of all crutches. I don't need some negative individual that would love to have a problem with me cuz it prospers his life, but >> hinders mine. It doesn't matter. I don't need the fuel from that to get up and get to the gym >> and lift heavy, you know, or go sparring and let it fly, you know. So you you you'd learn to look within and um as opposed to take toxic fuel, find
the real fuel, the you know your essence and really it comes from a place of love. That's what the real fuel is. >> Yeah, man. It's love, man. Why am I interested in my purpose? Well, it's because I remember being 12year-old looking at a documentary when we were kings about Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. They go and fight in in Z was it the rumble in the jungle and um and I was just I was surrounded by complete dysfunction and I was desperately looking for sources
of inspiration and that's what I served as in a ma in a major major way. >> You know there was suicide on my mind at them times. It was, you know, I was in a dark place and um from a place of love, tapping into that abundant energy source of love. >> I know that kid's out there and I know that that kid is taking strength from what I do next. So therefore, that's all the strength I need to maintain it in that if I fall
off, I let that kid down, >> you know, and I could have saved a life there. And that's I I I think when you you've got a very dysfunctional family, there's this internal battle that sort of goes on where you're like you got to let go of people and you're like, am I not loving? Have I have I gone cold? There's a song called Prisoner and I talk about it. I'm saying I'm afraid that I've gone cold. And that's the question I'm sort of asking myself.
Sort of writing like my diary in in this particular song. And in asking yourself that question, you have to look at your relationship to human beings in general. Because I'm really willing to cut people off, man. Like if regardless to the title of an individual to preserve my inner peace, I'll really let go, man. I don't care who you are, what it is. If you're not going to take accountability and you're going to lie and be disrespectful or whatever it is, I'm I'm going to leave
you over there. I'm just going to keep walking my own journey. M >> when you then look at your relationship to human beings and you meet an individual that is accountable or from a dysfunctional background but is trained and that's where you see what what's going on in your heart and it it turns out that there's lots of love in my heart. >> Yeah. And and actually I'm more open than I than I thought I was. I'm just triggered by people that have the same traits,
similar traits to the ones that I was sort of brought up, exposed to, and sort of firsthand witnessed the destruction that comes with how them people are, >> you know. Do you know why I think that is? Uh, so there's a a a type of illness called uh SRS, chronic inflammatory response syndrome. And if you live in a house that's got um toxins, biotoxins in like mold and microbes, your immune system begins to learn that that's a threat. It's slowly over time breaking your immune system
down. And chronic inflammatory response syndrome means that if you ever get reexposed to that kind of environment, almost immediately your immune system switches on. It's like a warning alarm. This is familiar and dangerous >> and it's an immediate response. So, if you have SR and you walk into a building, even if you've been out of a toxic environment for uh 12 months, let's say, >> you walk into a house that's got mold spores in it, similar to the ones that you were exposed to in the
past. Your neck will go red. You'll be inflamed. You'll get a ringing in your ears. You'll get brain fog. You might feel sick. You might lots of things happen. Immediately, this thing switches on. And I think what's happening there is your body has learned that a very familiar but dangerous kind of pathogen >> Mhm. >> is around. >> And I think that this is somewhat similar to what you're seeing here, which is I know that archetype. I know that kind of person. I understand the mentality,
the background, the worldview. And there is a psychological immune system that kicks in which goes if I spend too much time around this person I might go back there. I don't think that it's fully conscious but I certainly see it myself. There are patterns from my childhood people that I spent time around um lessons that I learned or observed people that I saw in the modes of behavior. I'm like that was imprinted so deep into the source code of who I am that I do not
want that in my life. I don't want his relationship with gambling. I don't want the way that he cheats on his wife. I don't want his lack of care for his kids. I don't want the fact that he uses alcohol in order to be able to deal with his problems. And anytime that I see something that sometimes isn't even that, I like incorrectly pattern match in the same way as chronic inflammatory response syndrome. You can go into a building and it's 1/1,000th or 1/100th of the
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