1 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I am Dramas And this is the Street 2 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: Stoic Podcast, bring you your daily dose of timeless stoic 3 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: philosophy remix for the hip hop generation. Now, with that 4 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: in mind, let's get things started with your daily shot 5 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:38,279 Speaker 1: of inspiration. Now today we are talking all about the 6 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,639 Speaker 1: idea of diminishing your ego, letting things go. And it's 7 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: kind of ironic that the person delivering the first sort 8 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: of quote here on this topic of diminishing your ego 9 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: is Kanye, who is notorious for having a fairly large ego. 10 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: But old Kanye had some bars. 11 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: And this is actually a track off of the College 12 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: Dropout that was never released right he recorded during that 13 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: album process and it was left off of the album. 14 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: It's called Gossip Files. The part of the record that 15 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: I pulled here, Kanye says, I want to be a baller. 16 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: The dream spoilers will fool you hating on you to them, 17 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: Man's on the corners, old folks said, he never make 18 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: it off the corner. 19 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: They are the virus that corrupts the soul. 20 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,320 Speaker 1: They are the cubic zarconia inside the tank carrot gold. 21 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: They get green on you when you get green on them. 22 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: You got to wash your hands of them, get clean 23 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: on them. Somebody told me success is the best revenge, 24 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: so they're going to be fucked up when you do 25 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: your thing on them. And first of all, this is 26 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: just like a genius line even as I read it, like, 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: I love parts of this where he's like, they are 28 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: the virus that corrupts the soul. Now we're talking about 29 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: the people who are hating on you or are doing 30 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: negative things to you. They might literally be trying to 31 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: stand in the way of you and your success, you 32 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: and your greatness. Right, the people that are sadly trying 33 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: to take you down and are not allowing you to 34 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: live your best life just because of their own limiting 35 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: beliefs or because they dislike themselves so much they don't 36 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: want to see somebody else succeed. 37 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 2: Right. 38 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: And this also led me to finding a quote from 39 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: Nathan Panwar, and I thought this was also kind of 40 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 1: a great follow up to it, where he says the 41 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: best revenge is to show them that your life is 42 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 1: getting better after they're gone. And I love this because 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: I think it's easy to see somebody who particularly might 44 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: actually go out and do something to harm you or 45 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: to disrupt your progression. Right, they might go out and 46 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: talk smack on you to certain people and sort of 47 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: try and destroy your character to others. Right, And this 48 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: is obviously frustrating, we've all been there before. But I 49 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: love this idea of rather than trying to get even 50 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: with them and inevitably inviting chaos into your life, allowing 51 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: yourself to just focus in on showing them that your 52 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: life is actually getting better after they're gone. And this 53 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: leads us to a quote from Marcus Aurrelius born of Stokes, 54 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: point blank period saying the best revenge is to not 55 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: be like your enemy. And there's another you know, hip 56 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: hop quot that goes against all that we're talking about today, 57 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: like revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting women, 58 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: we'll say, for the term of not having to get 59 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: crazy on here. 60 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 2: Right now, that's a Tupac lyric. 61 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: Right, But even you think about somebody like Tupac, right, 62 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: let's sort of think about about his sort of philosophy there, 63 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: he's the one saying that quote. Think about the amount 64 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: of chaos that he invited into his life by having 65 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: this feud, by being a part of this East Coast 66 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: West Coast feud, right, And I think that's sort of 67 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: the point of it all. And when we think back 68 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: on it, when you look on those two men's legacy, 69 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: Biggie and Tupac, this feud wasn't worth either one of 70 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: them losing their lives over right, It wasn't based on 71 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: anything really that deep. And then as just fans of 72 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: theirs and music in general, the rest of us all 73 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: being deprived of the greatness that could have come from 74 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: seeing those two men grow in their craft and as 75 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: human beings. Right, And I think that again is all ego. 76 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: I have to respond to this person. I have to 77 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: hold my own I can't look weak in front of 78 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: this person. 79 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 2: Right. 80 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: If they're coming at me strong, I have to come 81 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 1: at them ten times stronger. That's all ego. And again, 82 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: you're inviting chaos into your life. And you know, I'm 83 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: not saying that this is easy by any means, right. 84 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 2: I've had this come up for me recently. 85 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: You know. Somebody that I was very close to started 86 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: coming for me, like personally but also in sort of 87 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,840 Speaker 1: a bigger way in my career, right and saying some 88 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 1: really denigrating things that weren't true about me. And I 89 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: had to make a choice about how I was going 90 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: to handle it. I knew that if I played fire 91 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: with fire, it's just going to continue on this sort 92 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: of nonsense until it escalates beyond the point of return. Right, 93 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: and again, that's that chaos that I would be inviting 94 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: in by responding to this person by acting the way 95 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: that they have decided to act, right, instead putting my 96 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: ego aside and saying, I'm not going to respond to 97 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: this right, it's not worth my energy. I'm going to 98 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: keep doing what I do. And anybody that knows me, 99 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: anybody that follows me, that is a fan of mine, 100 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: that supports what I do, or is partnered with me 101 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: in some sort of way, they know the type of 102 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: person I am and they're going to make their judgment 103 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: based upon that. It's not worth your time or your energy, 104 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: and it's not going to really change anything for you. 105 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: You have to put your ego aside and think about 106 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: what's best for you. Now, with that said, we have 107 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: heard from Kanye, you have heard from Nathan Panwar, We've 108 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: heard from Marcus Aurelius. I squeezed in a random tupac 109 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: lyric in there, giving you some insight into my own 110 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: personal dealings with this idea of letting go and not 111 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: letting your ego force you into thinking you have to 112 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: respond to everything. Now, let's talk about how you can 113 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: make it your mantra or today. Well, first to take 114 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: a quick break and then we'll be right back. All right, soday, 115 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: we're talking all about diminishing your ego, but more specifically 116 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: just letting things go. We've heard from Kanye, We've heard 117 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: from one of the Stokes, Marcus really is I give 118 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: you some insight into my own life. Now let's talk 119 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: about how you can make it your mantra for today. 120 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: And I really want to harp on. 121 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 2: This idea of chaos thanks to yourself. 122 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: What unnecessary chaos am I allowing into my life? Because 123 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 1: life is chaotic as is right, Life is always gonna 124 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: be throwing some nonsense at you. There's always going to 125 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: be some stupid thing that you have to deal with 126 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: that is incredibly annoying that you don't want to deal with, 127 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: that you shouldn't have to deal with, and you invitement 128 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: more of that chaos into your life. It just sounds crazy, 129 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: Like it really sounds crazy when you think about it, 130 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: Like with no emotions whatsoever, like, my. 131 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 2: Life is already difficult. I have a lot of things 132 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 2: I navigate. 133 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: Why the hell what I want to add more obstacles? 134 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 2: Right? 135 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: Why would I want to add more hoops to jump 136 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: through just to make it through my day? And that's 137 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: what you're doing when you allow yourself to move from 138 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: a place of ego feeling like you have to respond 139 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: to every single naysayer, every single person talking bad on you, 140 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: everybody who has decided to do something negative to you. 141 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: When you feel like you have to respond or one 142 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: up them or hold them accountable, you are literally inviting 143 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: more chaos into your life and more obstacles that you 144 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: then have to duck and dodge. 145 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 2: That's what's happening. 146 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: And maybe you're gonna get some small satisfaction in the moment, right, 147 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: your ego is going to be very happy with the 148 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: fact that you owned this person, or you put them 149 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: in their place, or whatever it might be. But I 150 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: promise you it, generally speaking, never ends there. Those moments 151 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: of satisfaction, they don't last for very long. Generally speaking, 152 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: they invite more nonsense into your life. And talking about 153 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: what Kanye is saying on here, right, I love the 154 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: idea of retraining your brain right and looking at these 155 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: people as a virus, a virus that corrupts your soul. 156 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: If you allow them to write you responding, you, giving 157 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: your energy towards negativity is inviting that virus into your soul. 158 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: And instead of actively putting any energy towards them, just go. 159 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 2: Harder at what it is that you do. 160 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: Trust me, that will put them in their place far 161 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: more than any comeback you have or any sort of 162 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 1: response you could ever give them. It's like Marcus really says, 163 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: the best revenge is to not be like your enemy. 164 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: Reminding yourself that in this moment, you despise that person, right, 165 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: you have angst towards that person, that person rubs you 166 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: the wrong way. 167 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: Why the hell would you want to be anything like them? 168 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: When you allow your ego to take hold and you 169 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: feel like you have to respond, you have to get 170 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 1: them back, you have to retaliate, you've inevitably become just 171 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: like the very person that you hate. And again the 172 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: idea of chaos that I want to drive home for me, 173 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: I've personally been dealing with a situation like this, But 174 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: what I can say is I'd rather just take that 175 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: energy and move it towards advancing my life and career. 176 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 2: I know they're watching right because. 177 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 1: They're commentating that they're making negative, disparaging remarks about me 178 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 1: to other people. So why not give them more things 179 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: to watch, more things to get upset about, rather than 180 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: responding and giving them more ammunition to come after me. 181 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 2: That's how you have to look at this stuff, right. 182 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: It's again, what are you inviting in by being a 183 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,599 Speaker 1: part of this Remember, in these moments, you have a 184 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: choice of whether or not to invite more chaos and 185 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: more obstacles into your life. Do not allow your ego 186 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: to get you down a road where your energy is 187 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: being drained and you're being taken further and further away 188 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: from the life that you add actually want to live. Now, 189 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: with that said, thank you so much for checking out 190 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 1: the Street Stoke Podcast. Your best to apply these concepts 191 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: that we discuss into everyday life, and I will catch 192 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: you next time. The Street Stoke Podcast is a production 193 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: of Iheart's Mika podcast Network.