E65 - Mike Posner: How To Claim A Powerful Life of Abundance, Freedom & Fulfillment
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Grammy-nominated artist and songwriter Mike Posner vulnerably shares his personal journey of achieving success at young age and what made him wake up beyond it.
From the disillusionment of fame to transformative experiences, today Mike explores topics like purpose, resilience, and personal growth. With captivating stories of walking across America, facing death, and meeting Ram Dass, this podcast offers profound insights and daily practices for living a meaningful life.
Mike also shares his tools for healing the past, finding your why, and living a life that you love every day.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
3:11 Becoming Successful & Waking Up to the Reality of It
7:59 Experiencing the Disillusionment of Fame
11:15 Why Mike Took a Pill in Ibiza
20:39 Meditation Retreats, Shadow Work & Apologizing for the Past
30:04 Why the 'Work' is Worth It
33:56 Finding Your ‘Why’ to Live
39:33 The Importance of Holding a Vision For Your Future
44:47 Walking Across America
48:58 Getting Bit By a Rattlesnake, Facing Death and Deciding to Keep Going
1:05:27 The Power of Choosing Challenge
1:09:20 How Big Sean Changed Mike's Life
1:14:17 A Transcendent Experience of Meeting Ram Dass
1:21:43 Daily Practices: Waking Up with Depression & Choosing Happiness
1:34:10 Mike Shares a Poem: I Believe
1:38:06 Conclusion
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Mike Posner:
Since 2009, International multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY-nominated artist and songwriter Mike Posner has quietly become one of the world’s most successful and recognizable voices. From his 2016 sophomore full-length album, At Night, Alone, which included the ubiquitous RIAA 4x-platinum smash “I Took A Pill In Ibiza’ which made history as “one of Spotify’s Top 10 Most Streamed Songs of All Time” with 3 billion streams and earned Mike a 2017 GRAMMY® nomination for “Song of The Year.” To his most recent and fourth studio album A REAL GOOD KID and 2019 mixtape release Keep Going, featuring special guests Logic, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Talib Kweli, ‘Keep Going’ chronicled and commemorated his well-documented and celebrated 3,000-mile hike across America. His most recent return explores depression, self-loathing and isolation by way of a 36-minute rap opera titled Operation: Wake Up.
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| 0:00.0 | Your depression, your anger, your frustration, your sadness are a function of your love not being |
| 0:07.2 | expressed. At a younger age the most, I was given more material success than one could ever really |
| 0:13.6 | imagine, but there was just this feeling of like sadness, loneliness. If it wasn't fame and the |
| 0:20.1 | success that was going to change my moment to moment experience of |
| 0:24.4 | life, then what? People ask me all the time, like, why did you walk across America? I want to feel |
| 0:32.1 | what it's like to be challenged in a real way and then choose, I'm going anyways. It's the only way we grow. |
| 0:40.7 | Because you try to walk 3,000 miles across America, something's going to go wrong. |
| 0:44.7 | Mike Posner is recovering from a rattlesnake bite. This is a fucking crossroads. I'm either going to go |
| 0:49.6 | back and be this like shell of myself, shell of my potential, |
| 0:56.2 | I'm actually going to become somebody I'm proud of. |
| 1:01.0 | There's probably millions of people out there right now that have a feeling like they have more to give than they're giving. |
| 1:06.5 | We have to have the courage to look where we're scared |
| 1:09.2 | and put something in front of us that inspires to go, hey, if I got to the other side of this, man, how cool would my life be? |
| 1:15.9 | I like a goal that's so big. |
| 1:17.8 | If I get it, it obliterates all my other goals because it's going to change who I am if I get there. |
| 1:22.7 | Countries are wide, mountains are tall, but the man that I becomes my best album of all. |
| 1:33.6 | Hello, beautiful beings. Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast where every single |
| 1:37.4 | week we get the honor and privilege to sit down with a brilliant mind, a beautiful soul, |
| 1:41.8 | to see how we can learn more about the true nature of self and the world around us at deeper and deeper levels. Our guest today is a very accomplished |
| 1:49.2 | artist Grammy nominated whose songs have billions of streams. I've gotten to know him as somebody |
| 1:55.0 | that just lifts the energy of the room when he walks into it. He's somebody that I'm sure, |
| 1:59.8 | as you will feel today, |
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