How to Balance Passion and Profit (The Circle of Serving)

Summary

現代において、私たちは情熱と利益の間で選択を迫られることが多い。情熱を追求して少ない収入を受け入れるか、経済的安定を優先して情熱を脇に置くか。このジレンマを解決する方法として、情報革命に参加し、独立した個人として生きることが挙げられる。情報経済の中で自己と他者を交互にサービスする『サークル・オブ・サービング』を実践することで、情熱と利益を融合させ、愛することをして良い収入を得ることが可能となる。このビデオでは、そのフレームワークと具体的な方法を紹介する。

Takeaways

• 💼 現代社会では、情熱と利益のどちらを優先するかの選択に直面する。
• 🌟 情熱と利益を統合する方法が存在し、情報革命に参加することで実現可能。
• 📚 過去のビデオで「大きなジレンマ」と「主権個人」の概念を説明した。
• 🔄 主権個人は自己認識、自己表現、自己給養を通じて成立する。
• 🌍 人類は農業革命、産業革命、そして現在は情報革命を経験してきた。
• 🛠 情報経済では、スキルを学び、それを他人に教えることで収入を得ることが可能。
• 🔁 サービスの循環は、自己奉仕と他者奉仕を交互に行うことで成り立つ。
• 🌱 自己奉仕期間はスキルや視点の成長を促し、他者奉仕期間はスキルやリソースを共有する。
• 💡 主権個人は精神的独立、物理的独立、経済的独立を達成する。
• 📈 情報経済に参加することで、情熱を追求しながら収益を得ることが可能。

Q & A

現代社会での「大いなるジレンマ」とは何ですか？

「大いなるジレンマ」とは、情熱と利益の間で選択を迫られることであり、愛することをして収入が少なくなることを受け入れるか、それとも経済的安定を優先するかの選択です。

なぜ「大いなるジレンマ」は重要なのですか？

この選択は、人生の進路や時間の使い方、出会う人々、住む場所、価値観、収入によりアクセスできるライフレベルに大きな影響を与えるため、非常に重要です。

「情報革命」とは何ですか？

「情報革命」とは、インターネットの接続性やソーシャルメディアの能力のおかげで、情報の自由市場がかつてないほど存在するようになった現代の経済的変革を指します。

「主権個人」とはどのような人物ですか？

「主権個人」とは、外部のコントロールから自由に存在し、自己を知り、自己として行動し、外部の力に頼らずに生きることができる人です。

「奉仕のサークル」とは何ですか？

「奉仕のサークル」とは、自分自身と他人に交互に奉仕することで、愛することをしながら多くの収入を得る方法を指します。

「奉仕のサークル」を通じてどのように収入を得ることができますか？

自分自身に奉仕することでスキルや視点を得て、それを他人に教えることで収入を得ることができます。また、他人に奉仕することでスキルや評判を築き、その結果として収入を得ることができます。

なぜ自分自身に奉仕することが重要なのですか？

自分自身に奉仕することは、スキルや視点、エネルギーを得るために重要であり、これにより他人に奉仕する能力が向上し、最終的には収入も増加するからです。

「情報革命」に参加するために必要なスキルは何ですか？

情報革命に参加するためには、現在の生活や他人のために問題を解決するスキルが必要です。もし価値のあるスキルがない場合は、自分自身に奉仕してスキルを学び、それを教えることで収入を得ることができます。

「主権個人」になるための3つの主な要素は何ですか？

「主権個人」になるための3つの主な要素は、精神的独立、身体的独立、そして経済的独立です。

「情報革命」に参加することで得られる利点は何ですか？

「情報革命」に参加することで、自分の好きなことをしながら収入を得ることができ、精神的、身体的、経済的に独立した「主権個人」になることができます。

Outlines

00:00

💡 パッションと利益の大きなジレンマ

現代社会では、パッション（好きなこと）と利益（お金）のどちらを優先するかという選択が私たちに迫られる。この選択は、人生の道を大きく左右し、長期的に時間の使い方や価値観、人間関係に影響を与える。しかし、今ではこの2つを統合する方法が存在し、情報革命に参加することで、好きなことをしながらお金を稼ぐことが可能になるという。

05:02

📚 情報革命と自由な個人

情報革命は、歴史的に農業革命や産業革命と並ぶ社会の大変革である。この革命により、情報が商品として売買される市場が形成されている。インターネットとソーシャルメディアの登場により、かつて独占されていた情報経済が解放され、誰でも情報を交換できるようになった。著者はこの情報革命に3年間参加しており、その詳細について説明するビデオシリーズも作成している。

10:03

🌍 自由な個人とサークル・オブ・サービング

自由な個人とは、外部からの支配を受けずに生きる人を指し、自己認識、行動の自律性、経済的自立がその特徴である。そして、新しい概念「サークル・オブ・サービング」は、自己と他者を交互にサービスすることで好きなことをしながら収入を得る方法である。これは自己充足と他者貢献の両立を図り、個人の成長と経済的安定を実現する手法である。

15:03

🎨 自己充足と他者貢献のサイクル

他者を助けることでスキルや評判、満足感、収入を得るが、自己を見失う可能性がある。そのため、自己充足の期間を設け、自己探求と成長を図ることが重要である。このサイクルを通じて、自己の成長と他者への貢献が可能になり、結果的に収入も増加する。著者はこのプロセスを経て、自己と社会に対する理解を深めてきた。

20:05

🚀 情報経済への参加と自立

情報経済に参加するためには、スキルを学び、それを他者に教えることが有効である。スキルがない場合は、自己充足の期間にスキルを習得し、それを活用して他者に貢献することで収入を得ることができる。このサイクルを繰り返すことで、精神的、身体的、経済的自立を達成し、パッションと利益を統合することが可能になる。

Keywords

💡情熱と利益のジレンマ

このジレンマは、好きなことをするか、経済的安定を優先するかの選択を指す。人生の大部分を占める職業選択に大きな影響を与える。動画では、このジレンマを解決する方法として情報革命への参加を提案している。

💡情報革命

情報経済の変革を指し、インターネットとソーシャルメディアを通じて情報が自由に交換される時代のこと。過去の農業革命や産業革命に続く大きな変化とされ、自己実現と収入の両立を可能にすると述べている。

💡主権個人

外部の影響を受けずに自己を確立する個人を指す。精神的、身体的、経済的自立が重要な要素であり、これを達成することで情報革命に参加し、自分の好きなことをしながら生計を立てることが可能になるとされている。

💡サークル・オブ・サービング

自分自身を大切にしつつ他者に貢献するサイクルを指す。自己への奉仕と他者への奉仕を交互に行うことで、成長しながら収入を得ることができるという考え。動画ではこのサイクルが情熱と利益の融合を助ける方法として説明されている。

💡経済的自立

自分の経済的なニーズを自分自身で満たす能力を指す。動画では、主権個人としての生活を築くために重要な要素として強調されており、情報革命への参加を通じて達成できるとされている。

💡情報経済

情報が価値を持ち、売買される経済の形態を指す。動画では、情報革命により自由市場が形成され、誰もが情報を提供することで生計を立てる機会が増えたと説明されている。

💡スキルと評判

他者に奉仕することで得られる能力と信頼を指す。これらは自己成長と経済的成功の基盤となり、動画ではサークル・オブ・サービングを通じてスキルを磨き評判を築くことの重要性が説かれている。

💡精神的自立

他人の影響を受けずに自己を理解し、自己の価値観を確立すること。動画では主権個人になるための重要な要素であり、自分自身を深く理解することで他者への奉仕も効果的になると述べている。

💡自己探求

自分自身を理解し、成長させる過程を指す。動画では、自己探求を通じて新しいスキルや視点を得ることが可能であり、これが他者への奉仕に繋がると説明されている。

💡財務教育

個人の金融知識を向上させる教育を指す。動画では、社会が提供する財務教育の不足を指摘し、自身がこの分野での教育を行うことで社会に貢献したと述べている。

Highlights

The great dilemma: choosing between passion and profit has significant implications for life.

Importance of financial security often leads people to prioritize profit over passion.

Merging passion and profit is possible through the information revolution.

The concept of the sovereign individual allows merging passion and profit.

Humanity has experienced several economic revolutions: Agricultural, Industrial, and now Information.

The information revolution disrupts the information economy, creating a free market for information.

Historical monopolies on information include religious institutions and educational institutions.

The internet and social media have democratized access to information.

A sovereign individual has mental, physical, and financial independence.

The circle of serving alternates between serving yourself and serving others.

Serving others helps gain skills, reputation, fulfillment, and income.

Serving yourself leads to personal growth, new skills, and perspective.

Balance between self-serving and serving others is crucial to avoid burnout.

Income is a byproduct of effectively serving others, not the primary goal.

Engaging in the information economy allows teaching valuable skills for money.

The information economy includes a wide range of content like education, art, and media.

Achieving sovereign individual status helps solve the great dilemma, merging passion and profit.

Transcripts

in the modern world many of us face a

choice between either passion or profit

do we do what we love and accept less or

no money as a result or do we put all of

that aside and instead prioritize

Financial Security I call this Choice

the great dilemma because it has very

large implications for our path in life

I mean this is probably one of the most

important decisions that we will ever

make what we do for a living this will

dictate how we spend the majority of our

time for 30 plus years of our life and

it will also influence who we meet where

we live what our values are and of

course what levels of Life are locked or

unlocked to us due to our incomes again

massive implications but fortunately

today there exists a way to merge these

two worlds of passion and profit to be

able to do what you love and make a lot

of money in the process now I'm sure

there are many different ways to do this

but I can only speak to the one that

I've been able to successfully do in my

own life and the way to do that is to

become a sovereign individual who

participates in the information

revolution now in my previous video I

broke down both the great dilemma and

the concept of the sovereign individual

and in the video before that one titled

Financial Independence is a huge trap I

broke down the information revolution

going forwards I'm going to be putting

all of these videos on this particular

topic into a playlist so that you can

benefit from the sequential nature of

these discussions but we'll go over a

quick refresher today because it will be

very important for the next part of the

framework that I would like to introduce

you to so first let me introduce you to

the entire framework then we will

Refresh on the components that that I've

already talked about and then I will

introduce you to the new component which

is called the circle of serving so the

framework for today is to solve the

great dilemma you can participate in the

information revolution as a sovereign

individual and you become a sovereign

individual by following the circle of

serving now let's break down each part

individually so as I mentioned earlier

the great dilemma is the choice we are

faced with between either passion or

profit and inevitably most of us choose

the path of profit because we are going

to be prioritizing Financial Security

over basically everything else we put

our dreams aside and say let's be

realistic you know I I want to have

Security in my life I want to be able to

have a stable relationship I want to be

able to be held in high esteem by my

friend and family and colleagues I want

to be able to have a stable life with a

home and maybe a family so I'm going to

play it safe and just stick to a regular

career path I myself made this choice

for the first few years of my career but

I was always looking for a reasonable

and pragmatic way out and eventually I

did find that way out now I'm not going

to tell that story here today in detail

because I've already done it several

times elsewhere but the important point

is it wasn't until recently that I

realized exactly what I had accomplished

and that was participating in this thing

that I think of as the information

revolution and participating in it as a

sovereign individual so now that we've

refreshed on the great dilemma let's

Refresh on the information Revolution

essentially Humanity has experienced a

series of Revolutions in terms of the

economic organizational structure of

society thousands of years ago we

experienced the Agricultural Revolution

which radically changed how we lived by

causing us to become settlers instead of

Nomads we domesticated plants and

animals while they also domesticated us

this massively disrupted the food

economy after that we experienced the

Industrial Revolution which again

radically changed the economy this time

disrupting the manufacturing sector

because up until this point rates of

self-employment were high and business

ownership was quite decentralized there

were many many many small businesses and

relatively few large ones but the

Industrial Revolution changed this

because it introduced massive scale on

the manufacturing side of the economy

and as a result many small businesses

could not compete so they had to close

up shop therefore self-employment rates

went down and business ownership became

much more centralized fast forward to

today and my conception is we are

currently experiencing another

Revolution this time as it pertains to

the information economy and that

Revolution is the information revolution

you see you probably never really

thought of the information economy as

something that existed right is

information really like a commodity that

can be bought and sold yes I think it

very much is except up into this point

today there has not been a free market

for us to exchange information in fact

over the past couple hundred years or

you could even make the case going back

even further that there have been very

various monopolies who have had

basically Soul Reign Over the

information economy historically that

could have been religious institutions

monarchies printing presses but more

recently it has been education

institutions like colleges and

universities and with monopolies comes

the ability to charge extremely high

prices for your products since you are

the only place that somebody can get

your product

fifty to a hundred thousand plus degrees

ring any Bell unfortunately for those

monopolies thanks to the connectivity of

the internet and the abilities granted

by social media we now have the closest

thing we have ever had to a free market

for information this is the information

revolution and I've been participating

in it for the past three years or so

doing what I love and making a really

good living as a result now if you want

more context on this whole information

revolution again I would check out the

new playlist that I've made and go to

the first video in it as there is a much

longer Deep dive into the specifics of

this Revolution and how it is disrupting

the information economy or of course

just continue to follow along because I

will be talking a lot more about it now

let's Refresh on the sovereign

individual so then we can finally get to

the circle of serving so a sovereign

individual is someone who is able to

exist in the world free from external

control and there's three main

components that make up this concept a

sovereign individual is someone who

knows themselves who operates in the

world as themselves and does not rely on

external forces for their subsistence

and with these Concepts we can actually

simplify it a bit to just say that a

sovereign individual is somebody who has

mental Independence physical

Independence and financial Independence

these are the traits that allows one to

be self-reliant but not only for their

own benefit as you'll see as we keep

going here it is very much for the

benefit of others as well now this

brings us to our New Concept the circle

of serving the circle of serving is the

idea that you can can do what you love

and make a lot of money by alternating

between serving yourself and then

serving others in a cyclical fashion

let's dive into what this means because

I think this is a really powerful

concept because it is able to bridge

these two worlds that normally are apart

from one another these worlds of passion

and profit so first let me give you a

bit of a back story on how this idea

actually came about in my mind I think

this will provide some really helpful

context to really grasp the significance

of it two weeks ago when I was having

calls with a number of you one

individual in particular told me this

really interesting story about this

journey that they were about to Embark

upon they were about to leave their very

successful career behind to move far

away perhaps live in a secluded cabin

and then just spend every single day a

focusing on their art and their

creativity writing and making films

naturally I was very excited to hear

about this journey that this individual

was about to Embark upon because it is a

journey that I myself am very

sympathetic to but then I recalled

experiences in my own life or stories

that I heard or came across from the

financial Independence community of

individuals who placed all their

happiness and meaning and fulfillment on

this notion of being able to explore

themselves for example I had the idea

that I myself was going to retire

sometime in my 30s and then I was going

to move out into a cabin and then just

spend my days meditating doing martial

arts chopping wood baking bread writing

you know just doing all the stuff that I

wanted to explore and cultivate within

myself but then I realized well can't I

kind of do a lot of this stuff right now

anyways

and then I realized

yeah I can and then so I did and I do

today and that's when it really clicked

for me that this was not the full

picture of what I really wanted and I

would suggest that it might not be for

you either and that's because you've

forgotten about a full half of this

circle you've forgotten about the part

where I think it is very important to

serve others in my opinion fulfillment

or a sense of purpose or meaning will

not come from a self-cultivation alone

it will come from a cyclical

relationship between serving yourself

and then serving others not only that

this cycle also reveals a pathway that

you can use to participate in the

information economy and make a really

good living as a result here's what I

mean let me make this a little bit more

tangible and

grounded in reality by giving you an

example of how exactly I was able to do

this in my own life when I first started

posting videos online my intention was

to serve others for those of you who've

been around this entire time you'll

remember that back then my channel name

was Cash College and it had a mission to

make Financial education more accessible

I had a professional and personal

background in this subject matter and I

realized that there was this really big

problem in society where Society did a

really bad job of equipping us with

basic Financial education so I thought I

could try and help by making videos

about personal finance in a more fun and

unintimidating way and so I did and it

was successful

but

the thing about serving others is if you

continue to do it too long

I think you begin to lose yourself in

the process you see just as you can

become too self-indulgent by exploring

yourself I also think that you can give

up too much of yourself by serving

others in my case I knew that Financial

knowledge and power was just the first

problem in my life that I wanted to

solve it was like the first rung of

Maslow's hierarchy if you're familiar

with that so ultimately it was just a

stepping stone it was not my entire

identity but actually a very small part

of it it was a tool in my toolkit it

wasn't the only thing that I had

distinct knowledge or experience in and

it certainly was not something that I

wanted to dedicate the rest of my life

to I could never imagine myself being

the type of person who just talks about

the same thing for years and years I'm

I'm a generalist I'm I'm not a

specialist and I have a very strong

desire to be constantly evolving

constantly growing I mean if I thought

the same thing I did about a particular

topic five years ago and still think

that today

something's probably not quite right

there my My Views should be constantly

evolving so I recognize that it was

probably time to take a period to serve

myself to explore to experiment and to

make things just for me I should take

this opportunity actually to thank all

of you who have been extremely

supportive throughout this entire

process because honestly a very big part

of me thought that my entire Channel

might just burn to the ground as I

progressively made more and more videos

about distant topics from personal

finance

and I was prepared and okay with that

actually happening but it turns out it

did not so

big thank you to everyone who's been

extremely supportive throughout that

entire process what actually happened

was I was able to connect with those of

you out there who actually relate to me

I should say also has a side note

personal finance Financial Independence

all of this stuff is a very integral

piece to this entire holistic puzzle

okay it's not just something that's now

going to be forgotten put on the back

burner

it is still such an essential piece of

this entire thing but it is a piece of a

holistic picture anyways as a result of

taking this time to serve myself I have

grown so much in such a short period of

time I mean we're talking about years of

growth packed into a very short expanse

of time growth in my mentality growth in

my spirituality growth in my physicality

I have never been in a better place

within my internal self but now

after having a successful period of

serving myself it is now time to turn my

attention once again back to serving

others integrating everything I've

learned from serving myself and so

there's this incredible interplay within

the circle of serving that goes

something like this when you serve

others you gain skill you gain

reputation you gain fulfillment and you

can gain money

but you also give yourself and you can

imagine there being a finite amount of

this if you give too much there's not

enough left for you and negative

consequences can come about so before

that happens we can cycle into serving

ourselves where we also gain skill we

gain perspective fulfillment and energy

but in this case we may be giving up

money and other resources and of course

this too is finite so therefore we have

to be careful not to become too

self-indulgent that we run out of

resources it has a certain seasonality

to it right when we serve others we're

gaining these things and we're gaining

resources which we can then use to

secure us for a period of time to focus

on serving ourselves where we also gain

things from that process but this entire

time

we are gaining skill in both of these

phases we're gaining fulfillment in both

of these phases so after each completion

of the circle you should be a better

person and in a better position to help

someone than you were before and because

of those two things being a better

version of yourself and increasing your

capacity to help others

as a byproduct it inevitably results in

the increased capacity to earn income

something I've mentioned and something

I'm going to keep harping on in these

videos is that I strongly believe income

is a byproduct it should not be the goal

I don't even really pay attention to my

income I couldn't tell you exactly what

it is I don't really look at that stuff

that often and I haven't set a goal on

it in a long time income is not actually

something that's under our control at

least directly it's indirectly under our

control but that's very different from

being directly under our control and in

fact another piece to the whole

sovereign individual concept

that we'll talk about in a future video

is this idea of only focusing on things

that are within your control and then

relinquishing things that are not

basically what is directly under my

control is my ability and my capacity

and my execution of serving others and

if those things are strong then as a

result most likely my income will be two

whether or not I have a goal set on it

or whether or not I even really pay

attention to it of course we all want

and we all need money partially because

of the way Society is constructed and

partially because we all have desires as

humans but I hope it's clear that this

is an effect of a cause that we are

trying to create if we do our best to

focus on controlling the causes then the

effects will fall where they may as a

result so to put this all together the

circle of serving is a method that can

be used to navigate the information

economy if you have some type of skill

that you use today to solve problems in

your own life or for others you can

teach others that skill for money now if

you do not have a valuable skill you can

spend some time serving yourself to

learn a skill and then use it to solve a

problem in your own life or for others

and then again you can teach this skill

to others in exchange for money for

example the person who I mentioned

earlier who is leaving behind their

career and going off to be able to

explore themselves that's fantastic

because they were entering this serving

themselves phase of the cycle and once

they come out of that they should have a

whole bunch of really valuable things to

share with other other people at minimum

they can share the story of what they've

done and the journey that they've been

through they can take people along with

them throughout it which I think

actually adds a lot of depth to their

artwork that they're going to also

hopefully share with others instead of

just sharing the artwork alone it

provides this wonderful and interesting

and intriguing backstory to it all

because there are definitely tons of

people out there who want to do the same

thing tons of people out there who want

to be able to leave their careers behind

just go off and explore themselves and

so they would be very interested in

hearing about how that process went and

getting to know this individual on a

deeper level I mean I personally would

like I hope I I really really hope that

they share all of this I would love to

see it either way if you want to

continue improving impact more people

positively and make more money as a

result you cycle between these two

distinct phases after a certain point of

doing this you will be able to satisfy

the criteria of being a sovereign

individual you will have mental

Independence because you will have spent

time exploring yourself to the degree

that you have a very good idea of who

you are what truly matters to you and

what your values are independent of

everyone else you will have physical

Independence as you've probably been

taking good care of your physical body

as a healthy physical body is very

conducive to a very healthy mind which

is absolutely essential for being able

to successfully

participate in the information economy

and on top of that physical Independence

also means that you have location

Independence you can live in various

locations you are not tethered or bound

to a particular spot and finally you'll

also have some degree of financial

Independence as you've been exchanging

your information with others for money

and just to add a little bit more

context here by information I do not

just mean education information can be

education it can be teaching someone

something but I would say information is

a much more Broad and general thing

information can be art it can be music

it can be poetry it can be a film it can

be anything that makes you feel

something or makes you learn something

it's just media that gets transmitted to

another person and impacts them in some

way whether it's in the head or the

heart wherever doesn't really matter

it's all the same thing and this

exchange this exchanging it with

somebody else can lead to earning income

as a result of participating in the

information economy and Revolution so

then finally from becoming a sovereign

individual in this way you will solve

the great dilemma in your own life you

will be able to merge the Two Worlds of

passion and profit you will be able to

do what you love and make a good living

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