E15 - Ammar Kandil: Yes Theory's Success, Self Love and Will Smith
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Ammar Kandil of Yes Theory shares his evolution through self love, success, and building an empire with his best friends. He explains what it truly means to Seek Discomfort, and why the hardest thing he's ever done is face off with his own mind. He also tells his perception on success, and the Will Smith/ Oscar's scandal.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
3:50 Yes Theory’s Evolution
12:23 Building an Empire with Friends
20:13 Seeking Discomfort
24:40 Hardest Thing I’ve Done: Dark retreat
37:16 Childhood Trauma & Self Acceptance
42:10 Be Who You Are & Walk Freely
56:32 Yes Theory’s Big Moments
1:01:20 Will Smith: Our heroes are human
1:08:43 Happiness and success
1:14:53 Power of No
1:20:36 Vision for the Future
1:27:49 Conclusion
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Ammar Kandil:
Ammar Kandil is a filmmaker and content creator, who co-founded Yes Theory - a YouTube Channel dedicated to seeking discomfort. Together they launched a global movement with a community of over 10 million followers across multiple platforms, which creates films, viral videos, and tools to inspire.
https://www.instagram.com/ammar/
Yes Theory:
"Project Iceman" Film: https://www.theicemanfilm.com/
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/YesTheory
Website: https://yestheory.com/
Seek Discomfort Merch: https://www.seekdiscomfort.com/
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| 0:00.0 | All of a sudden, this thing that we've worked on for like a couple years now is being acknowledged by the biggest movie star on the planet. |
| 0:05.4 | We're getting to do something that's never been done before. |
| 0:21.9 | And it was like the pinnacle of, you know, success and achieving, you know, manifesting a dream. But at the same time, like, the person who matters the most is not, doesn't see any of it. When you go through your worst fear and you make it on the other side, |
| 0:22.1 | for me at that point it was like losing a relationship with my role model and hero, my dad. You |
| 0:26.5 | really get to have a more fearless attitude and an approach towards life. You know, for me, |
| 0:31.8 | sometimes I feel stuck in feeling like I haven't evolved at the same rate as my dreams and my accomplishments happen. |
| 0:38.5 | That's been a tough place to be. |
| 0:41.4 | No matter who you are or how much you've accomplished, |
| 0:44.2 | if there's something unresolved deep within you, it will come up sooner or later. |
| 0:48.1 | If we don't become who we want to be in the pursuit of the things that we want to accomplish, |
| 0:52.1 | then what is it even for? |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. in the pursuit of the things that we want to accomplish, then what is it even for? Hello, beautiful beings. |
| 1:01.1 | Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast where every single week we get the privilege |
| 1:04.6 | and opportunity to sit down with a beautiful soul and an open mind and open heart |
| 1:08.7 | and to see what we can glean from the insights |
| 1:11.1 | that they've learned in their life to help us, me included, live a more liberated joyous |
| 1:15.8 | human experience. Today I'm excited for this podcast, this interview this conversation with |
| 1:20.7 | a dear friend of mine, Amar Candle. He is somebody that is an entrepreneur, a filmmaker, |
| 1:25.6 | a visionary, a way shower, I believe in what he's been |
| 1:29.6 | able to live and accomplish in his young life is actually very, very impressive and inspiring |
| 1:35.0 | for me. And millions of people, he co-founded Yes, Theory, which is an amazing community with |
| 1:41.2 | a vision to build community and, you know, has garnered over 10 million |
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