Do you actually want it ?
Summary
TLDRThe speaker, a content creator and former football player, reflects on his journey from the field to music and content creation. He emphasizes the importance of self-honesty in pursuing dreams, highlighting the sacrifices and discipline required for success. Drawing from his own experiences with guitar and piano, he encourages embracing the chaos and difficulty of life to achieve one's goals, and shares a snippet of his original music to inspire viewers.
Takeaways
- 🎯 The speaker emphasizes the importance of being honest with oneself about desires and the willingness to take action towards achieving them.
- 🏈 The speaker shares a personal story about giving up on football due to injuries and a bad relationship with coaches, valuing their body and finding a new path.
- 🎵 The speaker's passion for music and content creation is highlighted, showing a strong willingness to work hard in areas they love.
- 💪 The speaker acknowledges the physical demands and risks of professional sports, and their decision to avoid them in favor of less physically demanding pursuits.
- 🌟 The concept of suffering for one's dreams is introduced, drawing parallels between superheroes' backstories and the hardships one may face in achieving goals.
- 🔥 The speaker encourages embracing the chaos and difficulties of life, viewing them as necessary for growth and success.
- 🎸 A personal anecdote about the struggle to become proficient in playing the guitar is shared, illustrating the value of persistence and discipline.
- 🚫 The speaker warns against the pitfalls of laziness, explaining how it can make the present easy but the future difficult.
- 🛠️ The importance of discipline is underscored, suggesting that it makes the present hard but eases the future.
- 🎼 The speaker is working on a song and teases an upcoming release, showing their ongoing commitment to their craft.
- 🔚 The video concludes with an outro tune played on the guitar, symbolizing the speaker's journey and the joy found in pursuing one's passion.
Q & A
What is the speaker's current profession?
-The speaker is a content creator who practices music and has a background in football.
Why did the speaker stop playing football?
-The speaker stopped playing football due to an injury and a bad relationship with the coaches, which led to a loss of love for the game.
What is the speaker's view on the current state of football?
-The speaker believes that the players in today's game are getting bigger, faster, and better every day, and he is not willing to endure the physical demands of the sport.
What does the speaker value more after his football injury?
-The speaker values his body more and has found a new path in life after the injury.
What are the speaker's current passions?
-The speaker's current passions include music, content creation, and acting.
Why does the speaker say he hates football now?
-The speaker hates football because he no longer enjoys watching it, and the physical demands of the sport are not something he is willing to go through.
What is the speaker's advice on pursuing dreams?
-The speaker advises being real with oneself, understanding if one is truly willing to suffer for their dreams, and embracing the chaos and difficulty that comes with pursuing them.
What personal experience does the speaker share about learning guitar?
-The speaker shares that he initially neglected learning guitar because it was difficult, but later decided to practice more and endure the pain to become good at it.
What does the speaker suggest about the relationship between discipline and success?
-The speaker suggests that discipline makes today hard but tomorrow easier, implying that short-term suffering leads to long-term success.
How does the speaker feel about his past decision to quit football?
-The speaker does not regret quitting football; instead, he provides a perspective for others to be real with themselves about their own decisions and passions.
What is the speaker's final message to the audience?
-The speaker's final message is to embrace chaos, be real with oneself, and go after what one truly wants without giving up on dreams.
Outlines
🎸 Pursuit of Passion Over Physical Rigor
The speaker, a content creator and former football player, shares his journey of transitioning from the physically demanding sport to a life of music and content creation. He explains how an injury and a deteriorating relationship with coaches led him to quit football. Despite occasional nostalgia, he acknowledges the reality of the sport's increasing demands and his unwillingness to endure the physical hardships it entails. Instead, he finds joy and fulfillment in his current pursuits, emphasizing the importance of being honest with oneself about one's true desires and the sacrifices necessary to achieve them. He uses the metaphor of superheroes and their painful backstories to illustrate the point that significant achievements often come with great suffering. The speaker concludes with personal anecdotes about learning to play the guitar and piano, highlighting the discipline and perseverance required to excel in one's chosen field.
🎵 The Creative Process and Embracing Chaos
In the second paragraph, the speaker briefly discusses his current involvement in songwriting, providing a snippet of a song he is working on. He mentions his intention to release the song soon for his audience to enjoy. However, the main focus of this paragraph is lost as the speaker admits to forgetting the original point he wanted to make. He humorously acknowledges the oversight and playfully ends the video, suggesting that the audience stay tuned for the next installment. This paragraph touches on the theme of embracing the creative process and the inherent unpredictability and chaos that come with it.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Content Creator
💡Dream
💡Reality Check
💡Passion
💡Suffering
💡Discipline
💡Laziness
💡Chaos
💡Music
💡Guitar
💡Piano
Highlights
The speaker emphasizes the importance of being honest with oneself about desires and taking action.
As a content creator, the speaker shares personal experiences with music and football.
Injury and a bad relationship with coaches led to the end of the speaker's football career.
The speaker found a new path in life after valuing their body more post-injury.
Despite reminiscing about football, the speaker acknowledges they do not want to return to the sport.
The speaker discusses the physical demands and risks of modern football and their unwillingness to participate.
A shift in focus from football to music, content creation, and acting as a means of living.
The speaker is willing to go to great lengths for passions like music and content creation.
The concept of suffering for one's dreams and goals is introduced.
Superheroes' backstories as an analogy for the hardships one must endure to achieve greatness.
The speaker challenges the listener to assess their willingness to suffer for their dreams.
A personal anecdote about the struggle and eventual commitment to learning the guitar.
The importance of discipline and the consequences of laziness in achieving one's goals.
The speaker's journey of embracing the difficulty and chaos inherent in life and music.
A call to action for the listener to either pursue their dreams or let go if they are not willing to suffer.
The speaker shares their perspective on giving up football and the importance of self-reflection.
An outro tune played on the guitar, showcasing the speaker's musical talent and passion.
The speaker teases an upcoming song, indicating ongoing creative projects.
Transcripts
yo you got to be real with yourself do
you really want it right cuz if you
wanted it you would really be doing
something right now about it and I'm
going to give you some context to
further explain my point but me right
now as y'all can see I'm a content
creator all those guitars in the back I
practice music got a piano over there I
used to play football though football
was my dream I got hurt um I had a bad
relationship with the coaches after that
they switched up on me and my love for
football was taken away and I stopped
playing football I valued my body way
more after being injured and I found a
new path in life but sometimes I do
reminisce about playing football listen
to those old songs and it just puts me
in that mod but I can't make it for that
and you want to know why because I don't
want to I'm not willing to the people in
today's game are getting bigger and
faster day by day and if if you look
look stay patient with me just listen to
what I'm saying really watch this it
will help you you can transfer this
concept everywhere but the people of
today's game are getting bigger and
better every day I value my body I don't
want to be hit by these dudes right
there's people who are three times my
height three times my weight and they
run faster than me they're stronger than
me more powerful than me I'm not willing
to go through that I'm not willing to
wake up at 5: in the morning and run and
throw up and go through all that weight
training and all this stuff for a game
anymore I hate football I never like
watching it I always like playing it but
I still do have love for it but with
music with content Creation with acting
just being myself being me for a living
I'm willing to go to the ends of Earth
for that and that's why I'm succeeding
that's why my life is being more
plentiful and I'm filled with joy
because I'm doing the things that I want
to love and you really have to be real
with yourself if you want a certain
lifestyle or you want to achieve a
certain goals or dreams and stuff are
you willing to suffer are you willing to
suffer you want to be the hero right but
are you willing to suffer all these
superheroes have the worst Back stories
their fathers di parents they lost their
girlfriend they got blown up they got
scars on their face their bodies got
torn apart someone put them back
together they've been through
hell are you willing to walk through the
fire are you willing to go through what
it takes to get to where you want to go
and that is the start of your journey if
you're not willing then give it up cuz
you're just wasting your time you're
wasting your energy I wanted to be good
at guitar I um I think I got into guitar
like 7 years old my parents bought me
guitars and I broke them I thought it
was a rock star so they stopped buying
them so once I got older I bought my own
but I neglected guitar because it was
difficult and I wasn't willing to put in
the work but I got more sick of not
being good at guitar people like oh you
you got guitars how good are you I'm
like I suck then I bought a piano got on
it and I I I made progress fast I
started having fun and I started playing
it but I hated the fact that I wasn't
good at
guitar I hated
it so what did I do I started practicing
more and practicing more and practicing
more and going through the pain going
through the suffering hands cramping
getting calluses bleeding fingers all
that because I want to be great at it
and I won't have it no other way I will
not get to the end of my death I mean
the end of my life and on my death bed
and say oh well wish would have did that
and I wish I would have did I'm going
suffer now discipline makes today
hard but tomorrow easier and it's the
other way around laziness oh it makes
today easy we're going to sit inside eat
ice cream we we ain't worried about our
dreams but tomorrow when you got to go
to work in the morning you got stomach
ache or you can't run in the morning all
that stuff that that happens you know it
it never stops so if you want to change
your life put in the work it's it's
going to be difficult that's what life
is about difficulty overcoming
difficulty and adversity and embracing
chaos everything in life is chaos nature
is chaotic music is chaotic but it's
beautiful and it's necessary so Embrace
chaos
Embrace everything man and if you really
want it go get it cuz I'm never going to
tell you to give up on your dreams I'm
never going to convince anyone to give
up on football because I gave up on
football all all I'm going to do is
provide you with a perspective that I
have and hope that it influences you to
either be real with yourself and drop
something that's not good for you not
good for your energy to being thrown
into or make you bounce up and go for
it how you want it
dog that's all it is man so I'll give
yall a little outro tune I'll pick up
the guitar and play a little outro tune
cuz cuz why not you know what I'm
saying why
not we just going to strum a few cords
man can y'all hear
that it was only last June when old man
ran away yall know nothing about
[Music]
that
[Music]
oh no look so the last little riff I
just played the little
chords that's a song I'm writing I'm
going to post that song very soon cuz I
want y'all to hear
it but
um I forgot what I was going to say this
video is over man hold on I'll see you
on the next
[Music]
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