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So nothing feels real anymore.
I know you know exactly what I'm talking about.
You're going through life and you're driving your car and you're going to work and you're fucking your girlfriend, but nothing feels real anymore.
Feels like a simulation.
It feels like you're in a TV show.
And all the other people are just characters which have been rendered for you to
Navigate.
the matrix,
the cosmos,
simulation,
the multiverse, whatever you want to call it.
And the main reason nothing feels real is what we're going to talk about today.
because it is a modern phenomenon that everybody is suffering from.
Now this is
in a way, a powerful thing when bad things happen.
When World War III pops off and they say that Iran is attacking all the Gulf countries,
You don't sit there with actual worry. You monitor the situation for entertainment, but you don't sit there thinking, oh my God, nukes are going to fly and millions of people are going to die. You just sit there and go, meh.
Let me just do memes. Let me make some memes.
Because it's not real.
And then when good things happen to you,
if you make some money.
Or if your girlfriend tells you she loves you,
or it's a sunny day.
and you're outside walking, feeling the sun on your skin, that doesn't feel real either.
So you don't have the negative effects.
of
a true root inside of reality and you don't have the positive effects of a true root inside of reality. You're living in this
semi-dreamlike state.
You're just kind of floating through life.
And the saddest thing about this is that life is limited and time is limited.
and you're going through the world
burning time without truly experiencing or being engaged with anything.
The reason I think this is happening
is
that we're now in a world where we have so much constant input and information.
We never for a second do what we previously used to do.
only a decade or so ago, which is stop and process our experiences, process our thoughts,
think about the future think about things that have already happened
Imagine your mind
your personality,
the parameters from which you operate,
are a house which you have built based on your experiences you've had throughout your entire sentient life.
You go through life, something happens,
That's input, those are bricks, and you take those bricks and you add them to your house.
You decide that if I go up to girls, they like me, or I go up to girls, they don't like me, or if I go up to girls, they don't like me because I look a certain way, I need to change the way I look, or because I don't have enough money, I need to make more money. You take these inputs, you take these bricks, and you add them to your house, and this house becomes who you are.
It becomes your entire mentality.
It becomes the lens from which you view the world.
And now we live in a world where
previously.
You would take a brick from an experience.
You'd take another brick from another experience.
You'd sit and you'd ponder,
What does this brick do?
Where did it come from? What shape is it?
How do I add this brick?
to my house in the most effective way? Where should it go?
How do I build the best possible house with this brick?
We've moved on from that now.
to just endless acquisition of resource and bricks.
You are constantly running out into the world
grabbing bricks,
coming back to where your house is supposed to be and just throwing them on the floor.
And then you're going back out and getting more bricks and coming back and just throwing them on the floor.
You're not thinking about the experiences you're having.
You're not thinking through in your mind past things.
positive and negative situations to see if you actually made the right choice.
You're not contemplating the future. You're not daydreaming.
You're not sitting there and just imagining what could be. You're not doing anything.
You're just constantly grabbing more and more bricks.
from the simulation itself.
You never see anybody sit inside of their faults anymore.
And when you were sitting inside of your thoughts, this is when you were building who you actually are. This is when you were thinking back to that girlfriend from 11 years ago.
Why did she pop up now? Or that failed business deal from eight years ago.
Why did it pop up now? And you'd sit there for an hour.
Just think about it.
And when you'd identify the small things you'd never noticed before,
or identify the small areas you could have changed to build a completely different outcome.
That is how you would take the brick, you take the input and you'd use it in the most effective way. Now you don't do that.
because you don't sit inside of your thoughts.
If you start thinking of your girlfriend from 11 years ago,
within six to seven seconds,
maybe two to three seconds, you pull out your phone and you start scrolling for new girls on Instagram.
That's it.
So nothing is real.
You're not living in a dream feeling like, "Oh, I live in a dream and the problem is me." No.
You are actually in a dream. You're not in some kind of delusion. You're in a dream because you are not giving anything to anchoring.
that it needs to feel real.
I could talk about this myself.
So far, I've been to 21 countries this year. This morning, I was in Kazakhstan. Now I'm in Dubai. I came into Dubai during the war, World War III. I've been to New York, Miami, Uzbekistan, all around the world, Istanbul, Bucharest, etc. Does any of it feel real?
If I sit and think about it, do I sit and I think about the air I smelt?
on the step.
of Kazakhstan.
When I put my phone away,
and I smelt and breathed in the air and I looked around and I imagined the Silk Road
or imagine Genghis Khan and his horde
charging.
on their horses.
at the enemies who they were sure to destroy. Then it felt real. But if I was just going from place to place just on my phone, okay, what's next? What's next? Let's go here this meeting that meeting. Okay, give me the money. Give me the money. Okay, I've got the money. Okay, next flight. Boom, boom, boom.
You know,
Whether I was in New York or Miami or LA or Istanbul or Bucharest or Dubai,
the entire time.
I was on WhatsApp.
So people would say to me, where are you now? And I'd say, I'm on WhatsApp.
And they say, no, no, but where are you?
I'm on WhatsApp.
It doesn't matter where my body is. My mind is stuck talking to the same people I talk to no matter where I am on the planet.
This is why nothing feels real.
The last time
Even me as a person,
seriously sat down and defragged my mind was jail.
So last time I had hours to sit there and go through all of the things I didn't realize still bothered me.
and come to the conclusions that everybody listens to me to talk about.
The conclusions I talk about, the things I say, don't come from me endlessly acquiring bricks. They come from me getting a brick and inspecting it.
so carefully and so closely that I can see all the nooks and crannies that other people don't see.
You're never going to feel like your life is real
until you slow down
until you start taking two hours a day
away from screens, away from your phone, away from most activity.
Maybe you can hit the gym, lifting weights isn't too difficult cognitively.
And to just think about whatever comes into your mind. This is how you build yourself. This is how you build your personality. This is how you build a version of reality that you believe to be true.
You can fuck the most beautiful girl in the world.
But the second it's over, you jump back on your phone and start looking for new girls. It doesn't matter.
It doesn't mean anything. This is why love is gone. This is why friendship is gone. This is why nobody cares about the news anymore. This is why no one cares about politics. This is why nobody cares if aliens come. Nobody cares. Everybody is just scrolling, looking for more and more information, more and more junk without deeply processing any of it.
The true experience of being human
isn't just living experiences.
The true experience of being human is not just what is lived, it is what is thought about.
You think back to history, you think of these philosophers and these kings and these historians,
you read
Napoleon's memoirs,
It's not just about the battle he was in. It was about how he saw the battle, how he felt during the battle, how he felt after the battle,
what he believed he should have done different at Waterloo.
Napoleon spent years thinking about the day he lost that battle.
years.
he thought about every single little detail and he wrote it down.
That is why he felt alive. And the reason you don't is because
You haven't sat and thought about any of the experiences you've lived in the last year for more than five to six seconds.
And everybody does it.
A lot of it, I think, is a coping mechanism.
I'll be honest with you.
Men do it, but women are fantastic at this also. Women will go out, get drunk, be a whore, sleep with someone, and the next day be like, yeah, whatever, scrolling on TikTok, replying to DMs, yeah, no, no.
Don't think about it. Didn't happen. Block it off. And then to her next man in her DMs, she says, yeah, I need a man who really takes care of me. I need a Lambo. I wouldn't sleep with a guy for free.
complete delusion.
Because she hasn't sat there and analyzed, why did I do what I did?
Did it even make me happy?
Was it the right thing to do?
How do I make sure it doesn't happen again?
What was my goal? What did he say to me that convinced me it was a good idea?
No self thought.
No self-reflection.
And I'm not even talking about this to try and make you guys
successful. I'm not telling you all of this so you can make as much money as possible like I normally am. I'm telling you all of this.
so you can feel happier.
So you can feel like you're actually alive instead of just wasting entire days.
Because that's what you're currently doing. You're going for a walk, then you're going to the gym, then you're starting your work, then you're messaging some girls, and then you go out with the girls, and you go for dinner, and the day ends, and you never really felt anything the entire way through.
You need to take a little bit of time throughout the day. You need to take a little break where you sit there and go, okay,
What's coming into my mind?
Why do I feel the way I feel?
A bunch of you feel anxious.
I get messages and emails all the time about anxiety.
You don't even know why.
I'm anxious all the time or I'm nervous all the time. I think I need money. I don't know. I'm stressed.
You don't even know why.
Because you haven't sat and thought and analyzed it.
The second you feel stressed, you get your phone out.
and you look for more information.
More bricks, more bricks. You're not building anything.
And this is the biggest mistake you can make.
Because you may think you're stressed about money, but are you?
I mean, obviously it's easy to say, yes, I want more money. Everybody wants more money, but maybe it's not stress about money.
Maybe you're stressed about status.
Maybe you're stressed that your mother is sick.
Maybe you should take your mother for a walk.
Maybe you should sit and go, I'm really stressed because I can see my mother is getting old.
And I don't have money to send her to the best hospital. You know what I should do? I should go on an hour walk every day with my mom.
and try and encourage her to live a more active lifestyle.
And maybe that will cure some of my anxiety. And maybe me and her will have a deeper connection. And maybe I can stay off of my phone. And maybe I'll have some time to think once again.
Nobody is thinking.
We are all trapped in the matrix.
completely lost in our minds.
In a haze of new information and endless dopamine, in a haze of chasing and not appreciating any of the things we have,
Everybody is already plugged into the system.
Neuralink is coming and it's not going to be a hard sell. You're already plugged in. You're already staring at your screen all day. You already don't think about anything. You don't think about your past experiences. You don't recall from memory. You don't daydream. You don't imagine.
You don't think about your dead parents. You don't think about people you used to love who are now dead for more than two seconds without getting your phone out.
You don't sit in a waiting room.
You don't look out the window of a car as it drives.
and just admire.
the new or familiar scenario you're in.
You don't pay attention to any details whatsoever.
and it's getting worse and worse.
The human mind
has evolved for long periods of sedation, long periods of doing nothing. You would go on a hunt
You would do something that day, and then you would sit with your friends and talk about it,
And the reason you talk about these experiences is to get new information to make sure you haven't missed anything.
to get new inputs to help dissect it as a group,
And then you'd sit and you'd analyze it.
What did I do right? What did I do wrong?
and then you felt happy.
Guys.
I have to be honest with you.
Jail.
was fantastic.
I was so present.
in jail.
Food has never tasted so good.
when they put on a movie in the corner of the room in Romanian,
A language I don't even speak, I could watch the whole thing now.
I could watch the whole thing from start to finish. Now I can't even watch the most entertaining movie on the planet.
In English, without getting my phone out my pocket. I can't go to the cinema.
My brain's fried. I can't do it. Neither can you.
I could sit and watch an entire movie.
I could have a phone call.
and be excited
to just talk.
Me and Tristan would talk for five or six hours.
I don't even remember what about. It doesn't matter. We would just talk. I've never laughed at jokes like I laughed at those jokes. I've never slept so well.
I've never dreamt so vividly. And that's just having three or four months away from screens.
Just from understanding that I can't get new bricks. I can't get new information into my mind right now.
So I'm just going to go through the information that I currently have.
I'm going to go through what's already there.
I'm going to process it.
What I'm going to do on our next emergency meeting is go through the tweets
that I was writing on a napkin.
and giving to my lawyer to give to Tristan's cousin to tweet while I was in jail.
I'm going to go through and I'm going to talk about these tweets that were coming to my head while I was sitting in a Romanian jail.
And we're going to analyze them.
And we're going to see why I was thinking the things I was thinking.
Because now,
I consciously
I'm forcing myself to detox.
But I notice, especially as I do it more consciously,
that nobody else around me even thinks of these things or does them.
Everybody is permanently staring at a screen. Everybody is living in anxiety of what's going to come in the future. Everybody believes that a day will come where their problems will go away or they'll be rich and then they'll be present.
and then they'll be happy.
But that's not the case.
unless you learn
to sit and allow your brain to do what it wants to do.
Unless you learn to allow your brain to hit a neutral state...
and to process the information it has and to put it all in order and to put the Lego bricks together and to build your house
unless you do this
You're not even learning from the things that happened to you.
probably the only silver lining
to the bad things that happened to you.
are the lessons. That's what they say, right?
It's never a loss.
It's always a lesson.
So, you're supposed to sit down and go, "Okay, I need to learn something from this bad thing that happened."
but you're not learning anything.
the bad things happening to you,
You're getting your phone out to distract yourself.
You're learning nothing, and you're continuing like a blundering idiot
stumbling through life.
with no new
insights
no new knowledge,
You're the same person
moron who made the first mistake.
trying to distract himself believing that if he gets enough bricks
enough new pieces of information that he'll be okay.
The point of life as a man is empire.
You're alive to win.
but you're also alive to feel alive.
And we're living in a really interesting point in history where we are slowly, slowly becoming machines. There's no doubt in my mind in the next hundred years we will all be half machine.
will all be cyborgs.
And our minds are already prepared for this because we're already living in a false digital state.
you're more concerned
about messages you have on Telegram.
than you are about the trees outside your window.
You're more concerned about girls you've never met with filtered pictures on Instagram.
than the girlfriend who you see every day.
You're more concerned about possibly trying to make new memories
than enjoying and truly processing the old memories that you've already experienced.
You're so concerned with, ah, I want to go to Saint-Tropez this summer, I want to do this.
Why don't you think about the nice things you've already done?
Why don't you truly get the juice from the orange? Why don't you actually squeeze
the juice from the experiences you previously had, as opposed to constantly chasing more and more and more and more. And then,
getting in a loop where you don't actually enjoy any of it.
We need to break ourselves out of the dream. We need to break ourselves out of the illusion because if I want to be an optimist, I
I think the internet is dying.
I think AI and bots and hard, because it's hard to tell what's real and what's fake now,
It's getting more and more diluted with absolute slop.
And perhaps,
If I were to take
The
positive look on life.
the people who are going to win,
in the next decade are the people who are the most human.
and to be the most human,
you need to be able to think and feel things like a human does.
And to do that, you need to dedicate a little bit of time.
So from this emergency meeting, I would like all of you, and you feel free to email me or tweet at me,
for the next week to take one hour a day
away from all your phones, away from any kind of input,
Not meditate in a, don't have to sit in a dark room.
Just put your phone away. Next time you're in a car, just go, you know what, for the rest of this journey, I'm not going to touch my phone. I'm just going to look out the window.
and see what you think of.
You'll be amazed what pops into your mind.
You might start to like it. You'd be amazed what observations you'll come to. You'd be amazed what lessons you'll learn.
You already have lessons in your head you haven't unlocked, you haven't decoded.
And perhaps those...
lessons will help you in future in a similar scenario. Perhaps you'll become a better person. Perhaps you'll love your partner better than ever before.
Perhaps you'll be smarter, perhaps you'll be more interesting and more insightful.
Perhaps you'll have more to say.
Instead of trying to always do more, we should take an hour or so to sit and process and think.
And I think that staying human in this world is one of the largest and most difficult challenges.
And I like to believe, because the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice,
the people who manage to achieve this very difficult task are going to be somehow
monumentally rewarded.
maybe financially,
but certainly,
as soon as you start to enjoy your life more.
and enjoy your experiences on this planet more, you've already felt the reward.
I don't allow
Wi-Fi.
on my private jets.
for this reason.
When I was broke, I always dreamed of flying private.
And then I started flying private.
And then I started flying private and it wasn't fun anymore. And then I spent the entire time on my laptop.
Because I'm a busy man with a large empire and lots to do, and I'm working.
typing, typing, typing. And I thought, you know what?
I don't even appreciate this anymore.
The fact that I have air taxis and I can private jet around the world.
You know what, unless I'm going to sit and experience the boredom of just sitting here,
I'm on a jam. I'm just going to see her.
Just think, look out the window.
Think about this.
You're flying 35,000 feet above the planet.
And you don't even look out the window anymore.
When I used to fly, when I was younger, everyone wanted the window seat. Everyone would look out the window.
But now all the planes have Wi-Fi.
Who do you see looking out the window?
Nobody.
We're not even born to fly. We're born to walk.
and we have a bird's eye view. We can fly higher than an eagle.
we can see entire continents from the edge of space
and we're not interested.
because we're on our phones, texting the same people we text if we're on the ground, or playing a video game.
or scrolling for dopamine on Twitter.
Isn't that sad that you don't even look out the window?
Look at all the cars driving past, understanding that each one of those are an individual person with their own thoughts and dreams and hopes.
with a completely separate and
unique worldview.
with a family, with a mother, with a father.
We don't do any of that.
We don't think about anything anymore.
And I think
in the coming decade.
The most important thing for us to do is to try and keep hold of our humanity.
And for me, the easiest way to do that is just to take a little break and take a little time.
Now,
Let's get realistic.
It's easy to take an hour away from your screen.
if you have lots of money.
Totally understand that.
Because time is money.
So when you spend time doing something,
You are effectively spending money doing something.
So for that reason, it's easy for you to sit and say, oh, Andrew, you have hundreds of millions of dollars. Of course, you can take time off. Well,
No matter how much money you have, you feel like you need more.
And I would argue that when you have hundreds of millions of dollars, you're more stressed about money than the person with one million dollars or one thousand dollars.
Because you have a whole bunch of moving parts and a large empire and you don't want to lose your lifestyle. So if I can do it, you can do it.
But,
I know you would like to experience what it's like to have hundreds of millions of dollars. I know you would like to experience it at the other side.
Totally understand, don't blame you, life's great if you're
Rich?
I've never said life's any different. You should be trying your very best to be as rich as possible, and you just want to make sure you enjoy it.
For that reason, there are two things you should do.
First, you should join the real world. If you're already a member, fantastic. I'm about to read out Super Chats if we have any.
And secondly, you can download the Rumble wallet for free
The Rumble wallet, we're going to put the QR code on the screen. It's completely free. Download it now. Something is going to be happening in the next few weeks, which will allow you to make some money. And perhaps you can take that money, buy an ice cream, go for a nice walk in the park.
Walk in the park with your ice cream.
Enjoy the ice cream. When's the last time you enjoyed an ice cream, you ungrateful fucking...
mouth drunken.
shouldn't swear.
This is a happy emergency meeting. I shouldn't swear, even though you deserve it. When's the last time you enjoyed an ice cream?
sat in the sun and enjoyed an ice cream. When you were eight, you did.
But you can't anymore, can you? You don't enjoy the ice cream.
inhale the calories and get fat for no reason whatsoever.
What did it taste like? Dunno.
*claps*
Thank you.
Chill.
It's chocolate. It's double chocolate.
It's double chocolate, nigger.
Chill out.
Enjoy the double chocolate. It's a sunny day.
You know?
You got a beautiful girl by your side. She's got strawberry ice cream. Maybe you can make a joke. Maybe she'll stop hating you.
Maybe you'll get your pee pee wet.
It's amazing what beautiful things can happen when you're just present, when you're just cognitive, when you turn your mind on.
And just think about things.
you know?
And then when you go home, you can go, that was such a nice day.
Wow.
I didn't get my pee pee wet, but that was because I didn't compliment her hair, because I'm thinking about that day.
I'm thinking about how she was looking at me. And I was thinking about her constantly adjusting her hair. She kept adjusting her hair. And now that I think about it, I realize it. So next time I see her, I'm going to say,
I love your hair. Your hair looks beautiful.
Because that's what she was conscious of. And now she feels more comfortable with me. Now we're in love. Oh, look, a beautiful child. All of this can happen if you think about things.
If you just sit on your phone and you don't think about the fact she was constantly playing with her hair, you might not say the right thing. You may not get your pee pee wet.
You're not enjoying the double chocolate ice cream. You're wasting your fucking life.
Do you understand what I'm saying to you? You are staring into the abyss.
The machines, the algorithms, the matrix is designed to addict you. You are addicted to it. It is extracting from you. It is not paying you any money. You are giving it your life force.
If you're going to be on your phone, at least be inside of the real world so that you are making money.
as opposed to making money for other companies. Every time you scroll Twitter, you are making them money.
They're not paying you anything.
Download the Rumble wallet for the same reason.
If you use your phone, use it to make money, not to be extracted from.
And then enjoy your own brain. Enjoy your own mind. You know what I'm going to do after this? I'm going to go sit on my balcony.
I'm going to get a cigar and sit on my balcony.
I'm just going to look out.
from my $30 million penthouse, I'm going to look out on my balcony for 45 minutes.
Might get some double chocolate ice cream.
might get some bitches.
might make some babies.
might say, you have beautiful hair, baby.
Really? You like my hair?
Sure.
Sure. Whatever it takes.
Love your hair.
Get your tits out.
It's a beautiful world.
Let's appreciate it a little bit more.
Thank you.
Let's do some super chat. Ah, never mind. Are we here? Are we live?
Amen.
We're back. Cool. Let me get the logins for the super chats. One second.
Because for some reason, I keep getting logged out. I don't know why.
*whistling*
*whistling*
One second.
Not done yet.
Pretty good.
Man, that's back on. Yeah, I just need to do the super chats.
Because I'm not at my normal Mr. Producing studio. I'm here at my penthouse in Dubai. But I felt like talking to all of you. I felt like just telling you, you know?
Life's not all bad.
I know you're not me and you're like, "Ah, life sucks. I'm not Andrew."
But don't kill yourself.
You know, I know you're not me, but don't kill yourself.
Just sit a little bit.
Have some fun.
Thank you.
You know,
I was in Kazakhstan this morning.
Beautiful country.
So surprising.
I expected Kazakhstan to be
not what it is. It looks richer and more modern than basically all of Europe. Incredible.
And in all of these countries, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Romania used to be but not so much anymore.
Balkan countries, Eastern Europe. You know the groups of old men you see sitting around on the street corner? There's just groups of men sitting around smoking cigarettes.
And they sit there all day.
Those guys are living a better life than you'll ever live.
You can have Lambos, Ferraris. You can have pussy. You can have money. You can go on private jets. You can have yachts. You can go to San Tropez. These guys don't even have a passport.
They just sit around five or six of them with cigarettes and some beers and just talk.
Watch cars go by.
looking at the people driving.
Looking around.
They're experiencing their life. They're not thinking about what they have to do tomorrow.
They're not thinking about what's coming up. They're not thinking about what they need to get hold of.
They're living.
My dad said something to me before he died. He said,
There is something so much better
than having what you want.
and that's not wanting anything.
Because once you have what you want, you're going to want something else. And once you have what you want, you need to fight to maintain it.
And then you get caught in the loop.
of endless anxiety and endless work and endless obligation. But if you just don't want it,
Your brain is clear. Your mind is clear.
Oh.
So,
Sometimes I sit and think, you know, I've had such a fantastic life. I've done so many amazing things.
Let's just pretend my life's done.
Let's pretend they lock me up now for the next 30 years. Let's pretend I get killed.
Let's pretend I don't get to leave this room ever again.
Let's think back on the life I've lived.
I think back of all the girls I've had, all the cars I've driven, all the places I've been,
how important I've been
all the receptions I've had from thousands of adoring fans, all the amazing work I've done,
All the times I challenged myself and won, challenged myself and lost, I think about it all and I go,
I've had enough life.
I don't need any more life. I need to just sit and think about the things I've already
and appreciate them.
Thanks for joining me on this emergency meeting, friends.
I look forward to seeing you soon, and don't forget,
Double chocolate ice cream.
And if you tell her her hair is nice,
You might see your tits.
Music.
*music*