311: How to find inspiration & cultivate purpose | Light Watkins, meditation teacher & bestselling author
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🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Light, welcome. So great to have you back and congrats on knowing where to look and incredible |
| 0:07.0 | book. Congratulations. Thank you, man. You cut your hair. I did. I did. I did. I shaved the whole |
| 0:13.0 | thing and it's growing back now. So the process is growing back, but it will grow back. It's growing back. |
| 0:18.0 | See, look at this. It's growing back. I've got a piece of my book about cutting hair about how I cut my own hair once. |
| 0:24.0 | One of the things I really like about the book is you talk about exclusively living from inspiration. |
| 0:35.0 | And so can you talk a little bit about what inspiration means to you and what did your relationship with |
| 0:42.0 | inspiration begin? Where did it begin? |
| 0:44.0 | You know, I had a moment in when I was probably nine or ten years old and I have come from a family of six. |
| 0:57.0 | So we were always kind of on top of each other. Three brothers were all within like five years of one another, both parents. So it's |
| 1:03.0 | and hindsight is a really good childhood. My parents were there. My brothers were all there. We were all very close. We all played together. |
| 1:10.0 | But it always felt like there were so many people around. And I remember one day, just one random afternoon, getting a feeling |
| 1:21.0 | that go for a walk by myself just to kind of get some time to myself. And I went for a walk and I went to the corner. |
| 1:29.0 | And then I walked down to a few other corners from there. And then you know how when you're a kid, you kind of have your known universe. |
| 1:38.0 | And these are the areas where I normally operate in right my bike here. I play here. Well, I went to the edge of my universe. |
| 1:47.0 | And then I decided to keep walking. And I kept going and I kept going. And then probably maybe ten miles later, I ended up at this |
| 1:58.0 | shopping center in Montgomery, Alabama where I grew up. And I was like, wow, I was kind of I was like pushing my own comfort zone. |
| 2:05.0 | And again, this is this is in the 19. I was born in 73. So this was a bit in like early 80s. And there were no cell phones or no. |
| 2:13.0 | You had quarters in your pocket for the pay phone in case you had to make a call. And you knew everybody's number off the top of your head, of course. |
| 2:23.0 | And so I call my mom. And I remember her freaking out because I was so far away. And I didn't announce that I was going to be walking this far. |
| 2:32.0 | But two things, the fact that I kind of left my comfort zone and that she freaked out really intrigued me. Maybe maybe curious about other areas of life where I could push the envelope. |
| 2:48.0 | And then I remember later on in high school, I was realizing that, hey, I'm spending so much time thinking about what I'm going to wear to school today. |
| 2:59.0 | And I wonder if anybody's even looking or paying attention. So then I ran this experiment. I didn't tell anybody. I just decided I'm going to wear the same thing every day and see if anybody notices. |
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