How to Balance Passion and Profit (The Circle of Serving)
Summary
TLDR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
💡 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。
📚 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。
🌍 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。
🎨 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。
🚀 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。
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Keywords
💡情熱と利益のジレンマ
💡情報革命
💡主権個人
💡サークル・オブ・サービング
💡経済的自立
💡情報経済
💡スキルと評判
💡精神的自立
💡自己探求
💡財務教育
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
doing so the audio for these types of
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