Addicted To Information - Life, Lessons, & Laughter

It’s easy to become addicted to information today. Whether it is overloading yourself with the negativity of the news, or filling up on all the self help you can get. In this episode, Glenn describes the dangers of becoming addicted to constant information overload.

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Welcome to Life Lessons and Laughter with your host Glenn Ambrose.

Hello.

Welcome to the show.

We're here to tell you about the podcast,

The Time of Your Life.

Absolutely.

The Time of Your Life.

And if you're watching the video version of this podcast,

You're going to notice that it looks a little different.

Glenn,

You are not in Florida anymore.

No.

You are not in Kansas anymore.

No.

I am in the Dominican Republic.

Yeah.

How's that going?

Awesome.

Awesome.

There's another episode of the podcast where we're going to talk more about that.

What are we talking about today?

Today we're talking about getting addicted to information.

I think we've touched on it before.

We have.

We've definitely touched on it in the Q&A because it's something that a lot of people have struggled with that they've talked to us about,

Especially the self-help information.

It's something you've been warning about for six years,

This cycle of self-help and then loving the feeling that you get of the self.

We've talked about it before,

But never this in depth.

How do you know?

What are your thoughts on whether or not you're getting addicted to the information?

There are a lot of ways.

Really,

The reason I decided to do this is because somebody sent me an email about a specific thing that we'll touch on a little later.

It gave a bunch of examples and it gave me a couple of different aspects to ways to come at it,

Which I thought was cool.

We're going to expand into that,

I think.

Do you want me to read some of the email?

No.

I'll just give an overview first and then we'll go into that.

That's just a version of what we're talking about.

Getting addicted to information,

It can take a lot of ways,

A lot of looks.

There's so much information out there.

We literally live in the information age.

A lot of it is actually really good,

Which is cool.

The thing of it is we do get a pleasurable feedback from doing anything good for ourselves.

If we expose ourselves to something good,

Like if you just expose yourself to love,

You're going to feel some level of pleasure as opposed to if you expose yourself to hate,

You're going to feel some level of negativity.

It's the same thing with information.

If anything has a high vibration to it,

A helpful vibration to it,

An enjoyable vibration to it,

A self-help vibration,

Then you're going to experience some level of pleasure most likely.

I mean,

Unless something triggers you or you don't like the way the person speaks or something like that.

When things are clicking with you,

You're going to experience a pleasurable experience,

Which is wonderful,

But it can be addictive because it's like,

Oh,

I like the way I feel when I do this.

I must have done something good.

Very rarely do we slow down enough to really understand what we're feeling or thinking or why it's happening.

We're just habitual beings.

If we do things consistently and we feel better after,

We just keep doing them.

A lot of times,

It's like,

Well,

Is that good for you?

Well,

Yeah,

I feel great.

How is it changing your life?

I think one of the best ways to really see if you're addicted to information is to really just slow down and think back like when did you start taking in information?

When did this process start?

For a lot of people,

It's six months,

A year,

Two years,

Five years,

Ten years.

It can be extended periods of time and you have to look at how much your life has changed over that period of time.

I mean,

If you're just not as miserable as you were before,

You can make greater progress than that.

I imagine,

Would you say that it's tricking yourself into thinking that you're making progress?

If you read a book about exercise,

You feel like you're doing something good for yourself,

But if you're not doing those things,

If you're watching YouTube tutorials about clean eating,

But then you're going to McDonald's that day,

Is it perpetuating your own?

Is it giving you enough of a good feeling to not do the things that you should be doing?

Yes,

Because basically what it is,

Is it's not true sustenance.

It's not spiritual sustenance.

It's egoic food.

Not all aspects of the ego are bad and it's not this evil thing.

It's just how we run when we're running unconsciously.

It's egoic.

When you're functioning egoically,

It means you're functioning unconsciously.

You're really not aware of what you're doing,

Why you're doing it,

And on a deep level.

I don't want people to think it's a complete negative connotation.

You're not feeding your ego like you think you're better than everybody.

You're just feeding your ego to give yourself pleasurable feedback.

What that does is it obviously minimizes your suffering.

Suffering is usually the thing that drives us towards large change,

Not because it has to.

It's just because we don't pay attention to anything else.

If we're suffering greatly,

Then usually that pushes us to actually make active changes and implement new things into our lives and change.

If you can go have a bad day and every time you're feeling uncomfortable,

You just take in a little bit of positive information and then you go,

Oh,

Yeah,

I'm doing something good for myself or,

Oh,

Yeah,

That was a really nice way to look at that.

Oh,

I feel better.

It's just a momentary,

It's like sugar,

It burns off real quick.

Then what do you have?

Then you have something that you need to give more fuel to.

Like,

Oh,

Then you start feeling,

I don't feel good.

Then you just take in more,

Oh,

Yeah,

I feel better.

You never suffer long enough to go,

Hey,

I really need to change my life.

You just get caught up in that addictive cycle.

Yeah.

Now,

How do you break out of that cycle?

How do you actually do the work?

How do you get out of the awareness?

Because when it feels good,

You want to keep going.

That's something that you've talked about since the beginning of this podcast is when something feels good,

We don't feel the need to change it.

Right.

We do what works on some level.

It's just like I think alcohol is a good example.

Everybody thinks alcohol is the problem and alcohol is actually a solution.

It's not a problem.

The problem is that it's a crappy solution.

When somebody is addicted to alcohol,

They're taking in alcohol because they're maladjusted to life.

They're not interacting with life in a way that is pleasing to them and they anesthetize themselves so they don't feel the pain and the suffering.

The problem is that you're not living your life properly and you're maladjusted to it.

You don't really understand how it works and stuff like that.

The problem is you're maladjusted to life.

The solution is alcohol,

Which makes you not feel the suffering of the fact that you're not interacting with life well.

It prevents you from feeling all the suffering so it does its job.

It solves the problem.

You don't feel the suffering.

You're like,

Okay,

Good.

The problem is alcohol can destroy everything else.

It can destroy your body,

Your relationships,

Your life,

Your job.

It can destroy everything else in the process,

But it still does solve the problem,

The initial problem to some degree.

This is the same thing.

It's like we can get addicted.

If you slow down,

The answer is always awareness and slowing down.

If you slow down and disconnect from,

Yeah,

But it feels good.

Well,

Maybe you shouldn't.

Yeah,

But it feels good.

I feel good.

No,

It's good to take in information.

No,

It's good.

Yeah,

But no,

It's good.

Stop for a minute.

Slow down.

Disconnect.

We know it feels good.

There is even pleasurable aspects from taking in information,

But we're in a culture that thinks if a little is good,

More is better.

Again,

Alcohol is a good example.

Not always true.

If you slow down and go,

Okay,

Well,

Am I just anesthetizing myself to get through and not actually making any life-altering changes?

Has my life actually changed or am I just not aware of the suffering that I'm in so much?

Then if you can slow down and notice that if your life really hasn't changed,

Then you're not implementing what you think you're learning.

You're just anesthetizing yourself with information.

The other piece I think it's important to understand that this is how our brains function because this is how society functions.

We're just used to doing stuff like this.

When you go to school and they teach you how to do math or they teach you English rules and how to write properly or whatever you learn,

It's linear.

They teach you this and then this and then this and then you know how to do it and you're good.

Then they go,

Okay,

You're good.

They send you on your way.

There's a graduation date and everything.

Life isn't like that.

There is no graduation date.

There's nobody telling you you're done.

You can take in information forever.

This is why I did that podcast years ago about be who you're becoming.

Stop and be who you've been working so hard to try to become.

We have to be taking in this information and implementing it.

If you're taking in information from 10 different teachers,

It's confusing because there's so much overlap in spirituality that you can come in the same topic in 30 doors.

To understand the concept,

You don't have to know all 30 doors.

It's not important.

It's not linear like learning things on this plane.

It's spiritual.

All it is is a doorway into a room.

Once you're in that room,

You're good.

You don't need to go explore why other people use the other 29 doors.

It doesn't matter.

You're in the room.

You got there.

You got there.

But people get addicted to learning new ways to get into the same room.

The point is to get in a room and you're there.

From there,

You can start living your life differently.

That's what really changes everything.

I think that's one of the reasons why we get addicted to the information.

The other aspect that I've seen is where people unconsciously think that there's a key.

They think if they're not happy yet,

Then it's because they're missing information.

That's not why you're not happy.

If you're not happy,

It's because you haven't implemented information.

It's not because you don't have it or you're missing the right piece most often,

Especially if you've been studying this stuff for a while.

If you've been learning about it,

Of course,

It can be a learning curve.

You could take a little while to take in some information.

But at some point,

You got to draw the line and just go like,

I have to stop.

You're never going to learn enough to make you happy.

It doesn't work that way.

You can take one piece of information,

Implement it and become happier and then take another piece of information,

Implement it and become happier or more peaceful or whatever.

But you're not going to someday acquire 6,

322,

500 pieces of information and then you'll be ready.

Then all of a sudden,

You'll wake up one day and go,

The podcast I listened to last night must have been the last piece because I woke up just exhilarated today.

Finally,

I've done it.

What role do coaches and therapists and trainers and doctors and stuff,

Like influencers,

What role do they play in the perpetual nature of this both in perpetuating it and then also in stopping the perpetuation of it?

When people sign up for a life coach,

Is the thought that you're going to have a life coach for the rest of your life by signing up for it?

Is the thought that there's a part where I have enough information and I want to go on?

Is there a part where you're constantly.

.

.

Yeah,

I know what you mean.

It's really about the way that counselor,

Therapist,

Psychologist,

Psychiatrist,

Life coach,

Spiritual teacher,

Whatever,

It's how they work which is usually based on their belief systems,

Not on their title because there are wonderful people that do wonderful work in all those areas and I bet you could find somebody.

.

.

Obviously,

I think what I do is a good thing,

Otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.

I guarantee you,

You could find people with every one of those titles that I mentioned that work very similar to the way that I work that have different titles but I'm called the life coach or spiritual teacher.

So it doesn't matter what the title is,

It matters how they work and I think that one aspect,

I think people have to be very.

.

.

Self-help is really fashionable right now.

Like before,

If you told somebody you're going to a therapist,

They'd be like,

You're going to a head shrink?

What are you,

Crazy?

Now it's like,

Oh,

I have an appointment with my therapist and they go,

Oh,

That's good,

Good for you.

You're working on yourself.

That's excellent.

Oh,

Who's your therapist?

This is my therapist.

It's very in right now.

So the problem is like just going to a therapist,

It's like what happens is if we don't change anything in our own lives,

We go out in the world,

We live dysfunctionally,

Which builds up an issue within us.

We go to the therapist,

We throw up all of the therapist or the counselor or whatever.

So we puke it out and there's a pleasurable sensation we feel from getting it off our chest because that's step one.

And then they,

You know,

Some people sit there and listen and they go,

Yeah,

Okay,

Wonderful.

Glad you feel better.

And then you leave for the day and you think you actually accomplished something,

Which you didn't because you go back out in life,

You create more controversy.

You go back the next week or two weeks later,

You throw up,

You purge,

You feel better.

Then you go back and you do it again.

And some people make their living listening to people do that for 20,

30,

40 years.

To me,

Oh my God,

I couldn't do it.

I couldn't do it as a life coach.

I couldn't do it as a client.

I mean,

Like let's freaking solve something for the love of,

You know,

So I,

That is what you need to,

If you've been with a therapist for 10 years and nothing has changed,

You need to get away from that therapist.

They are not helping you,

You know?

So just look if your life's not,

And I mean,

It's with anyone.

I mean,

If somebody is working with me and their life isn't getting better,

They should leave me.

Right.

I'm not going to take it personally.

It's okay.

Maybe it's my fault.

Maybe they just need information a different way.

Maybe there's a block that they need to get through a different way,

Whatever.

Rock the boat.

If you're going year after year after year and your life isn't getting better than,

You know,

There's a problem.

So that,

That's what they have to look out for.

And I think it really just depends on,

You know,

Most people that I know nowadays that work in this type of capacity,

Um,

Do not just sit there and allow people to,

You know,

Not change their lives year after year after year after year.

Right.

And I think that like,

You know,

There's,

There's the accountability.

Like you're not working out.

I know like from my experience working with you and whatever,

You're not working on the same thing year after year.

You're not like,

If there's no progress,

You know,

Taking on new information is great.

Like you always,

You always say on the podcast,

Like there's like 11 spiritual laws at the foundation of everything and,

And everything else is just like stuff that you build on top of that or details.

Um,

But like your,

Um,

There's,

There's nice accountability in it,

But it's not getting the,

I think that this is why a teacher is better than a video and a teacher is better than just a podcast because it's,

There's some accountability of it compared to the addiction loop of the addiction information loop.

Right.

And you can get called out on your stuff.

Yeah.

Like,

You know,

Like if somebody,

You know,

There's a feedback.

So like if you take in it,

If we're having a conversation and I say something and you go,

Oh yeah,

I'm good with that.

Right.

And I go,

No,

You're not.

Exactly.

Exactly.

That's a,

That's a big point.

Whereas if you're watching a video,

You can be like,

Oh,

I got that.

Yeah.

That's exactly what we tell ourselves when we don't want to look at something,

You know,

So a life coach getting to know you personally.

Yeah.

It's,

It's very helpful.

And I think,

You know,

I think guides,

Teachers and stuff like that,

I think are wonderful to have.

I think they,

You know,

I didn't have one early in my journey.

I mean,

I had one like the first year and then I didn't have one for many years.

Um,

And then I had one for a little while again.

So I've,

You know,

I I've kind of experienced different aspects of it and I made much greater progress much faster when I had a teacher,

You know,

Working with me because it's,

It's hard to see your own stuff.

There's emotion around it.

So it's,

It's,

It's very valuable.

I just don't think that we should have 30 teachers.

You know,

You just don't need information coming in on that many flavors on that many levels.

It's,

It's confusing.

Nobody can,

That's like studying every version of math at once,

Like all at once.

Like,

You know,

So every day you read a book about algebra,

You know,

And geometry and calculus and like every day you read it all at once,

You know,

And,

And for years.

It's like your head's going to be spinning around,

You know?

So it's,

You just work with,

I,

You know,

I think one teacher at a time is appropriate.

Sometimes,

You know,

I mean,

There's no set law.

Sometimes it's good to work with two at the same time or work with one and then,

Um,

You know,

Have a book going or follow one or two podcasts.

I mean,

You can take in other information here and there.

It's just,

It can't be.

You just have to see how you're implementing it in your life.

I think that's the biggest piece.

How are,

How is your life changing?

Because if it's not,

You're just spinning around in the same spot.

Right.

And how would you,

So how is there a way,

How do you gain the awareness of,

Am I in this situation,

Uh,

You know,

Where it,

Oh,

This is probably just a positive feedback loop and I feel bad and I watch something or I listen to something and then I feel a little bit better,

But then I don't do anything.

Like how do you know other than going like,

Oh,

And now it's been four years of this,

You know,

Like,

Well,

If you slow down and you're honest with yourself,

It's really not that difficult to be honest with you.

It's you know,

Which is,

But this is,

Uh,

I don't know,

Man.

I think I'm going to just change my,

My like title to slow down teacher.

Like that's what I'm gonna be because everything comes down to that.

We don't the re because if you look at spiritual,

Spiritual loss,

Spirituality,

Absolutely everything that I teach,

If you look at it,

Slow down,

Just really slow down and look at it and have a logical conversation either with yourself or someone else.

You can see it makes perfect sense and it's not complicated.

It's very,

Very,

Very,

Very simple.

And if you do the same thing with the way you are living your life,

The way that society tells you to live your life,

It makes zero sense.

None whatsoever.

It just,

And it's very simple.

It's foolish.

We most things in our lives that society has told us to be doing are ridiculously foolish.

And it's,

So it's,

It's not,

So one makes sense and one is completely foolish.

It's really not that difficult if we slow down and look.

So you know,

So if you're doing something that like is just repetitive and you're not getting much out of it,

Your life isn't improving.

How do you know?

You just stop and look at it and you go,

Am I doing something repetitive that's not improving my life?

Yes.

Oh,

Oh,

Oh,

Bingo.

You got your answer.

Or you go,

No,

I think I,

I think I,

My life is improving.

Oh,

Well logically,

What's the next question that comes after that?

Well,

How would I know?

How would I know if my life is improving?

Well,

You'd look at your life and see if it's getting better.

That's how.

So you look at your life and if you can go,

Oh,

Well this is better and this is better and I implemented this here and that's better.

Oh,

My life is getting better.

Bingo.

You got your answer.

So it's official.

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All right.

So how do you tell your friend that you think that they might be addicted to positive information?

Gently.

Okay.

Yeah.

Just slow down,

Slow down and have,

I always tell people like,

You know,

Start with yourself if you can,

Like if you can find,

I don't believe in lying,

But if I think most of us,

If we look at our lives,

Honestly,

We can find a way that we have done the exact same thing.

So you just use yourself as an example.

Hey,

You know what I realized?

I was doing this,

This,

This,

This,

This,

And I was just addicted to the information and you know,

And sometimes they'll pick up on it and go,

Wow,

That's interesting.

You know,

I think I'm doing the same thing or there'll be like,

Yeah,

You really shouldn't do that.

That's,

That's stupid.

You know,

And then they'll keep going.

We can't control others,

So it's all right.

We should get to the,

That example that was emailed.

Yes.

From our friend in Melbourne,

Australia.

Absolutely.

I was wondering about your ideas on,

Or your views on labeling ourselves and others with the use of star sign traits,

Personality tests,

Et cetera.

I have read up on and,

And,

And done so many,

Including astrology,

Enneagram,

Myers-Briggs,

Strength test via character testing,

Love languages,

Empath test,

Introvert,

Extrovert,

Ambivert,

Four tendencies quiz,

Spark type,

Just to name the ones I recall as interesting and often very accurate as they can be.

Are they an excuse to cop out sometimes or is it a judgment when you identify someone else with a particular label?

I know I have offended by some people,

Some people by asking what star sign they are,

Or is it a good way of learning who you are?

Yeah.

So,

You know,

One of the reasons that I wanted to bring this up,

Um,

Was because it said,

You know,

What are your views about labeling ourselves and,

You know,

Labeling ourselves is,

You know,

That's,

That's it.

You don't want to put yourself in a box.

There is no label that's going to describe what we are,

You know,

Because I mean,

If you go,

Um,

I am Glenn with brown hair and blue eyes and I grew up in Massachusetts,

That's who I am.

Most people are going to,

You know,

That are leaning in a spiritual direction are going to go,

Glenn,

That's not really who you are.

It's just your egoic identity,

You know?

Right.

It's not like that.

So,

But if you go,

Well,

I'm a Leo and I was born under the sign of,

You know,

I don't know all the specifics,

So I can't go on to indefinitely,

But like,

You know,

And this is my Myers Briggs and this is this.

And then,

You know,

Some people are going to go,

Wow,

You've done a lot of work on yourself and you're very insightful.

No,

It's just another label.

It's just another,

You know,

It's just another way to,

Um,

Put,

Try to put yourself in a box and because we're looking to feel comfortable and to feel safe.

So if we can label something generally that makes us feel like we know what it is.

And if we think we know something,

Then we're like,

Oh,

Okay,

Now I can relax because I,

You know,

Not knowing is very uncomfortable for a lot of people.

And it's,

That's what we need to try to reverse.

Not knowing is the best thing ever when you get comfortable.

Um,

I'm a,

I'm a Libra INFP.

Okay.

Congratulations.

I don't,

I don't know.

I have no idea what that means.

So I mean,

You know,

You know,

There are,

There like some of this stuff can be accurate,

But you know,

Like,

You know,

A lot of these tests have,

You know,

Four letters in it.

Okay.

Well that's four different character traits.

So you can have two people that have the same four letters that are a little more of one letter than the other letter.

And there's millions of combinations and gray area as in each letter next to each letter as to how much of them you are as that.

So it's,

You know,

And the astrology,

I mean,

Yeah.

Okay.

Well,

You know,

Before years ago it was like,

Oh,

I'm a Leo.

This is who I am.

Now it's a Leo born under the sign in a setting sun of a moon and at a certain time and the like,

And I'm not like making fun of any of this stuff.

I think that there's some validity to it,

But what it is is there's so many aspects of it.

You can't just sit there and if you ask an astrologist,

I think that they would probably say that I'm right.

If you say,

Okay,

Well,

If you just minimize all of astrology and say,

Glenn,

You're a Leo,

So you're just like every other Leo,

You would not be getting the full picture.

I think astrologists would agree with me on that.

And that's all I'm saying is that within the house of Leo,

There are many variations within that and with everyone.

So this stuff,

The one thing is don't get attached to it with a label.

Don't try labeling things to make yourself feel better.

Not knowing something is when you feel the essence of it.

If you look at somebody and you think you have them figured out,

All of a sudden you just close your mind off to what they are capable of.

So when you see a little child,

This is how I always visualize it.

When I see a little child see a dragonfly for the first time,

That is cool,

Man,

Because the dragonfly is like hovering there and the little kid's like,

And they don't have a label for it.

So they don't know what to say.

They don't know how to describe it.

They've never seen something move like that.

They're pretty colors on it.

There's so much essence to that dragonfly.

They can't even speak.

There's so much joy and excitement in them that it's overwhelming and they feel it through their entire body.

That is cool,

Man.

That is life.

And that is essence.

That's what happens when we see the essence of something.

So like when we label something,

We go,

Oh,

It's dragonfly.

No,

You don't.

No,

No,

No,

Honey,

Honey.

No,

It's okay.

It's dragonfly.

Oh,

My God,

Don't say that.

You just suck the essence right now.

Oh,

You know,

It was this amazing,

Wondrous,

Beautiful,

Alive,

Joyous thing.

But now it's just a dragonfly.

You know,

Do you see how labeling something just takes the essence out of it?

So we have to steer clear of the labels and thinking just because we can label something,

We know what it is because we don't.

You know,

So coming from that aspect,

I think it's important to touch on the validity of some of this stuff.

You know,

I think that I've been around this game too much and too long to think that there's no validity to,

You know,

To the stars and the planets.

Like I've seen stuff,

Man.

I've seen patterns.

I've seen I felt things where I'm like,

What the heck?

And then all of a sudden I read some astrology thing that happens to pop up in my feed and I'm like,

Oh,

My God,

That's exactly what I'm experiencing.

And I don't,

You know,

And I don't live my life by that.

So there's no way I could have like manifested it.

You know,

It's just so I've seen that stuff too much.

Numerology I've seen insane.

Like my friend down here,

Tahira is a number seven and I'm a number seven and she's really well versed in the numerology aspect.

So and we are so alike in so many ways.

It's not.

So we're just like talking about something and she's looking at me,

She's going,

Yeah,

We're sevens.

Yeah,

That's seven.

That's a seven trait.

See this,

That,

This,

See?

And I'm like,

Wow,

Man.

You know,

It's cool.

That one I have no idea what I am.

So it can be cool.

It can help give us insight.

Sometimes if we have some vague ideas about somebody,

Especially,

So we don't have to again,

Don't try labeling everybody,

But if you,

If you have a partner in your life and they are a seven and sevens tend to I don't,

I don't even know because I'm not as well versed as she is.

Let's just say sevens shoot off at the mouth and then they calm down later.

Let's just say that's a trait,

Which I don't know that it is.

But,

Um,

If you know that about somebody and you,

And you go,

Hey,

He's a seven,

That's a trait.

And actually I've seen him do that a bunch of times.

So it's a trait that he actually embodies on a consistent basis.

Then that can help give you an understanding of a trait of that person.

And then if they shoot off at the mouth,

You might go,

Just,

I'm going to be a little bit extra patient with this one because he's a seven and I'm just going to give him a few minutes and he'll come right back down around.

So I don't need to correct him every time he shoots off at the mouth because it's kind of his personality.

So in ways like that,

If we use this type of information to,

To,

You know,

Interact and we hold things loosely,

We tend to,

Again,

You know,

We try to grab onto things like it's the answer or the key,

Or once we know we can relax.

No,

When we don't know,

We're never going to know.

And it's sometimes the seven is going to act like a five and that's going to throw your whole system off.

Yeah.

So don't attach to it too tightly.

You know,

That's what I mean.

And and I wanted to touch on her because I know we gotta be getting close to time,

Right?

We're seven minutes over almost.

Oh,

Okay.

So yeah,

I want to just touch on that last aspect of what she'd put.

So yeah.

As accurate as they can be,

Can it be an excuse or a cop out sometime?

Yeah.

If you overly identify with somebody with a particular label,

It can be a problem.

Offending people by asking what star sign they are.

Yeah.

That sounds like it's their problem.

But also for a cop out,

If you're,

You know,

I guess if the seven is shooting off at the mouth too much,

You know,

Then you got to hold them accountable for that.

Or if you're,

Or if you're like,

This is just who I am,

This is what I do.

And like you excuse yourself for bad behavior then.

Yeah,

Exactly.

Exactly.

And that's,

Yeah,

Not,

That was,

That was actually the,

The point I was kind of scanning to see if there was anything else,

But that was exactly the point that I wanted to touch on.

Yeah,

I thought so.

Yeah.

We talked about it before.

I was leading you back.

So the cop out,

It's like,

Yes,

It can totally be a cop out.

You know,

We have to take responsibility for our actions and,

You know,

Just because like if,

If I'm,

If I'm a,

If I shoot off at the mouth too much,

Well then I think balance is a good way to,

To find peace.

So yeah,

Maybe,

Maybe I'll always lean in that direction too much.

Yeah.

You know,

But like if,

If I'm conscious of it and know that I do it a little bit too much and I have a tendency to do it a little too much,

Then I should be conscious.

You know,

Hopefully that consciousness around it will help me do it less so I can use it to my,

You know,

So it can help us to know ourselves better and it can help us to,

To minimize things that we may do too much and get back into balance a little bit.

Yeah,

We can't use these things as an excuse for other people's behavior or our own behavior.

There is no excuse,

You know,

Like nobody,

Nobody makes a jerk.

Like there's no archetype that's a jerk like that.

They don't make those jerks are created.

Jerks are earned,

You know?

Um,

Yeah,

So,

So yes,

We cannot lean on it as a cop-out.

So I think the overall,

To sum it up is information can be good.

Learning about yourself through archetypes or,

Or astrology or numerology or other things,

It can be good,

But just hold it loosely.

And there is no replacement for going within.

Going within is where you find the true answers.

Yeah.

Make that a quote,

Dude.

Is that what you're doing?

You're writing it down.

Yeah.

There's no replacement for going within.

So don't attach to things,

Hold things loosely and you can use them to benefit yourself a little bit,

But don't use it as an excuse or latch on too tightly.

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