1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I am Dramas And this is the Street 2 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: Stoic podcast, Bring New Ordainly Dose a Time, the Stoic 3 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: Philosophy remix for the hip hop generation. We are combining 4 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: ancient philosophy with lyrics and quotes from something of the 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: greatest who ever grace a microphone. Now, with that in mind, 6 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: let's get things started with your daily shot of inspiration. 7 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: Now today we are gonna be focusing around the stoic 8 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: idea of taking action, and we're gonna go to one 9 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: of my favorites, probably my favorite of all time. This 10 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: is like my my Desert Island Artists of I'm gonna 11 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: listen to one artist for the rest of my life. 12 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: It would be Kid Cuddy and this track right here, 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: enter Galactic. He says, quote, I know it's easy to imagine, 14 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,919 Speaker 1: but it's easier to just do. See if you can't 15 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you? 16 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: And I know that was very like doctor Seus's type 17 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: of like confusion back and forth and contradictory statements. But 18 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: to me, he's talking about pushing past the day dreaming 19 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: phase and forcing yourself into the taking action phase, right 20 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: like like declaring kind of what's the point of having 21 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: an imagination if you never actually take action on your ideas? 22 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: And I think this is something that so many of us, 23 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: myself included, you know, can get wrapped up in him. Right. 24 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: And again, we've we've talked about this before, but we've 25 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: all heard people who are a you know, we'll see 26 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: a song come out or a new idea and invention. 27 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: And big man, I thought of that three years ago. 28 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: I should have done something about it at that time. 29 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: And it's like, yeah, you should have done something about 30 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: it at that time, right, Like all of the greatest 31 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: ideas in the world are worthless without taking action behind it. 32 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: If you have a notebook full of genius ideas but 33 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: you never actually take any sort of steps towards bringing 34 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: them to life, what are they really worth at the 35 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: end of the day, Right, Like, the value comes in 36 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: the action behind your idea. You know, somebody once told 37 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: me that everybody has a great idea, but not everybody 38 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: has what it takes to bring that idea to life. Now, 39 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: this leads itself to a quote from one of the 40 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: stoics from Seneca, and he says, wisdom teaches us to 41 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: do as well as to talk and to make our 42 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: words and actions all of a color. And to me, 43 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: when I read this, he's talking about the idea that 44 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: your talk needs to be followed by action, right. And also, 45 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: I think broader than that, he's talking about the idea 46 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: that your words and your ideas should also go hand 47 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: in hand with action, right, Like it should be an 48 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: automatic thing that happens to me, that's what he's saying. 49 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: You know, they should all be of the same color, right, 50 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: that they are all a part of the same process. 51 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: It's not just you know, Oh, you have a great 52 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: idea and sometimes you take action on it, you know, 53 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: or you tell somebody about something you're going to do, 54 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: and sometimes you actually follow through. No, like, all of 55 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: that is supposed to be one in the same. You 56 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: have an idea, you talk about it, and you take 57 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: action like that that is supposed to be the blueprint 58 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: to your life, right and anything less than that, you 59 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: are are short changing yourself and potentially you know the 60 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 1: world depending on what it is that you potentially could 61 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: be building. Right. And for me, I relate to this 62 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: on various levels because I'm not above it. I have 63 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: a journal full of ideas and business ventures and things 64 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: that I never brought to fruition right, and and for me, 65 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,119 Speaker 1: it's been something I'm challenging myself, you know, as as 66 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: of late, to really follow through on my ideas and 67 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: my goals and not just let them kind of stagnate 68 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: in my journal somewhere in a notebook collecting dust, you know. 69 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: And even recently for me, I've been trying to put 70 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: this into practice with the release of my book that 71 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: I just put out there. You know, this is something 72 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: that I've been conceptualizing for months. I've been writing it, 73 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: you know, for months at this point, and putting it 74 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: all together, and I kind of was getting to the 75 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: point where I was sort of slacking on it because 76 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: I was getting beyond the phase of just it being 77 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: creative and fun, but then having to actually finalize everything right. 78 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: And I decided that if I don't begin to take 79 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 1: action and hold myself accountable in a public way, I'm 80 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: probably never going to actually finish this and be able 81 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: to physically hold it in my hand. So I began 82 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: promoting it on my other podcast, Life as a Grangle 83 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: and telling people it's coming, the pre orders coming, and 84 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: then I put the pre order up online before I 85 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: had even gotten the actual physical sample back from manufacturer yet, right. 86 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: But again, all of this done to hold myself accountable, 87 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: knowing that if I have people buying the pre order, 88 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 1: if it's up, if I'm advertising it, I'm telling people 89 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,119 Speaker 1: I wrote a book, I damn well have to come 90 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: through on that now, right, or else my reputation would 91 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: would be smudged at that point, and maybe even worse, 92 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: people would stop sucking with me because I lied to them. 93 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: So that was me taking action, me forcing myself, putting 94 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 1: a plan in place that said, this is going to 95 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: go beyond just an idea, beyond just words on a 96 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: computer screen. You are also going to follow it up 97 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: with action. And I made sure that I did whatever 98 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: I had to do that would hold me accountable so 99 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: that I can follow through and take action. And now 100 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 1: you know it's done. I have it in my hands. 101 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: I get to enjoy it. I get to share it 102 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: with other people. And ironically, I've been writing a book 103 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: for probably man like a year and a half at 104 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: this point, another book that has never seen the light 105 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: of day. That literally I got past writing probably three 106 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: chapters and the pitch for it for publishers, and then 107 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: I sort of just got cold on it, and I 108 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: never brought it to fruition. In retrospect, I'm not happy 109 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: with myself about that, right that I allowed myself to 110 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: just get obsessed with the idea and then I didn't 111 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: finish taking action on it, and now it just sits, 112 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: you know, wasting away on my computer. And as I'm 113 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: saying that, I'm reminding myself right now that I need 114 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,359 Speaker 1: to hold myself accountable to finish it, to take action 115 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: on actually getting through the entire process of finishing this book. 116 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: But again, I am not above this. I don't speak 117 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: about this to kind of cast doubt on anybody or 118 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: to look down at people as if I'm a holier 119 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: than thou. It's something that I constantly struggle with, and 120 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: I think the problem with that first book project that 121 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: I have that eventually will get finished is that I 122 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: did not create a system to hold myself accountable, to 123 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: make sure that I took it from beyond just the 124 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: idea phase on my computer to then taking it into 125 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: the action phase of actually getting it done and printed 126 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: and physically in my hands and out there to the world. World. 127 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,239 Speaker 1: Now we have heard man the words of Kid Cutty, 128 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: one of my favorites. We have heard from Seneca, one 129 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: of the stoics. I've talked to you about how I've 130 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: recently gone through this myself. Now let's talk about how 131 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: you can make it your mantra for today. But first 132 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and then we'll be right. Then, 133 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: all right, So we have heard from kid Cutty, we 134 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: have heard from Seneca of giving you my own little 135 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: insight into this idea of taking action and have applied 136 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: it to my life. Now let's talk about how you 137 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: can make it your mantra for today. Now, I think 138 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: first and foremost, it's about starting before you're ready. Again, 139 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: as I always say, you apply these these pieces of 140 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: advice within reason. I'm not telling you to quit your 141 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: job if you have no money in the bank account 142 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: because you're tired of working there. But you know, within 143 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: reason of the ideas or things that you want, right, 144 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: you don't have to have done all of the research 145 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: in the world before you begin to bring your idea 146 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: to life. Of course, there's a healthy amount of kind 147 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: of preparing that you should do, but beyond that, it 148 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: just becomes a hindrance when you keep telling yourself, oh, 149 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: I need to learn more. I need to do more. 150 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: There just comes to a point where you have to 151 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: pull the trigger before you're ready, and you have to 152 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: just start getting out there and trying things, and you're 153 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: going to make mistakes and it's going to teach you 154 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: lessons and that's a part of being creative. But the 155 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: thing that you have to be able to rest your 156 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: hat on is the fact that you took this idea 157 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: beyond being something in your mind or beyond being in 158 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: your journal or your computer, but then took the action 159 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,719 Speaker 1: to bring it here into the real world, right, And 160 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: that's what it's what it's all about. Like again, when 161 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: I bring that book example up, I probably should have 162 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: or could have come up with a marketing campaign beforehand 163 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: and tried to hire all the professionals in the world, 164 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: you know, to prepare for this big book launch for myself. 165 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: But I also knew that I would probably just keep 166 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: putting it off if that was the case, right, I 167 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: would keep giving myself reason as to why it's not 168 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: the perfect time, why it's not the perfect situation. And 169 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: I'm okay with the fact that I started before I 170 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: was ready. I'm okay with the fact that maybe I'm 171 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: playing a little bit of catch up right now, because 172 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: I'm more proud of the fact that I actually took action. 173 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: I didn't allow this to become yet another idea of 174 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 1: mine to just uh, you know, never have gotten past 175 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: the pages of my journal. And now as I am 176 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: playing catch up and trying to do things the right 177 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: way and get the word out there, I'm able to 178 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: again still be proud of the fact that I can 179 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 1: hold the book in my hands like I did, that 180 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: I had an idea and I brought it to life. 181 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: That's what all of this is about. Now to some 182 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: of what we've been talking about today from the words 183 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: of Kid Cutty, you know, to me, he's talking about 184 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: the idea of like, what good is your imagination without action? Right? 185 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: What good are all these ideas that you have? Be 186 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: it great? What value do they actually have if they 187 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: never become a real thing, if they're never actually brought 188 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: to life in a tangible way. And then when it 189 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: comes to Seneca, I love where he talks about the 190 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: idea that our words and actions need to be of 191 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: the same color, right, and again, to me, this is 192 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: our words, our ideas, and our actions need to be 193 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: of the same color, meaning that they all need to 194 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: be of the same family that when you do one, 195 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: that means you followed up with the other, that you're 196 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: not just imagining something but then never actually sharing your 197 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: ideas or talking about how you can make it happen, right, 198 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: and that you're then from there, not stopping just at 199 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: an idea or a conversation you had, but then following 200 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: up with action. Again, they should all be intertwined with 201 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: one another at all times. And then for me, you know, 202 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: when I talk about this idea of putting out the 203 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: book before I was ready, of course there are mistakes 204 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: that happened. Of course there are things that could have 205 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: been done better. But again I was able to achieve 206 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: my end result of bringing my book to life. I 207 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: didn't allow it to just be something that stayed in 208 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: the back of my mind that I told myself I 209 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: would get to at some point. I didn't allow it 210 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: to just be ideas that took up space on my 211 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: hard drive on my computer. I followed through. I allowed 212 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: my thoughts and the things that I was saying, you know, 213 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: the words that I was speaking to anybody who would listen, 214 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: to hold myself accountable. I then followed it up with action. 215 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: I allowed them to all be one in the same, 216 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: to all be a part of the process, and that's 217 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: what we need to do. We need to be taking action. 218 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: We need to go beyond just the idea and understand 219 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: that we are doing ourselves a disservice if we never 220 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: get to hold or see the thing that we're dreaming 221 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: about in some sort of tangible way. That's what life 222 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: is all about. Now. With that said, thank you so 223 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,079 Speaker 1: much for checking out the Street Stow Podcast. Do your 224 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: best to apply these constants that we discussed today into 225 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: your everyday life, and I'll catch you next time. The 226 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: Street Stow Podcast is a production of Ihearts Michael Tura 227 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: Podcast Network.