The Profound Power of Personal Commitment with Kamal Ravikant
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
If we make a practice in our lives, like going to the gym or eating healthy, if you want to lose weight and be fit, or you want to be chiseled, you’ve got to make a practice. It’s a daily practice. You can’t go to the gym for a week and eat cake for 30 days nonstop and say “hey what happened? I was getting in shape.”
Whether you’re feeling bad or feeling good, that doesn’t matter. It’s just your practice, like when you wake up and when you go to sleep. There are certain things you do. It’s a fundamental practice. Just like you talk about with writing. It’s a practice. Then you hit the flow state. Same thing in life. You make it a practice. Life hits a flow state.
Things in life happen. People die. Nothing we can do to stop that. People we love die. Things happen. When we hit that flow state we bounce back much faster. The things that used to bring us down don’t bring us down like before. Then it’s only the real tragedies in life that bring us down. When a loved one dies, it’s a real tragedy and that should bring you down. It’s good to have loved someone that way and feel the loss. But the other stuff, the other garbage, the 99 percent of the stuff that brings us down that doesn’t matter lessens and its power over us lessens. So, I would say to someone who is either down or up, what matters is a fundamental daily practice of working on your inner self that keeps you in your personal flow. – Kamal Ravikant
Kamal Ravikant is a venture capitalist and author of best-selling books such as Love Yourself Like your Life Depends on It, Live Your Truth and Rebirth: A Fable of Love, Forgiveness and Following Your Heart.
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| 0:00.0 | If we make a practice in our lives like going to the gym, you know eating healthy if you want to lose weight and be fit or you want to be chiseled, you got to make it a practice. It's a daily practice. You know you can't be like you know go to the gym for a week and then eat cake for 30 days |
| 0:15.6 | You know not stop and say hey what happened? I was getting in shape you know |
| 0:19.2 | So if you do that whether you're feeling bad or whether you're feeling good. That doesn't matter. That's just |
| 0:25.8 | your practice. Like you wake up or you go to sleep, certain things you do. It's a |
| 0:29.6 | fundamental practice. Just like you know you're talking about writing. It's a |
| 0:32.2 | practice and then |
| 0:33.0 | it starts to you hit the flow state same thing in life you make it a practice your life |
| 0:38.0 | hits a flow state and you know life happened things in life happened like look you know people die you know nothing we can do really |
| 0:44.9 | can stop that at least in human history hasn't and you know like people would love |
| 0:49.8 | die or people come out of lives, things happen. |
| 0:53.0 | So I don't think we can stop that in life, |
| 0:55.1 | but what we can do is so we hit that flow step. |
| 0:57.2 | First of all, we bounce back much faster. |
| 0:59.9 | And second of all, it does, like the things that used to bring us down don't bring us down like they |
| 1:04.8 | used to before. |
| 1:06.7 | That's also huge. |
| 1:07.7 | Then it's only the real tragedies in life that bring us down. |
| 1:11.0 | Losing a loved one, you know, die a real tragedy and that should bring you down. |
| 1:15.6 | I mean, really, you should feel. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.0 | And it's good to feel, it's good to have love someone that way that's, that, you know and and feel the field of loss but the other |
| 1:26.3 | stuff the other garbage that 99% of the stuff that brings us down that doesn't |
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