Snapshot · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay Shetty listened to Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement speech every single day for 9 months, calling it the best speech ever given because Jobs knew he was going to die.
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Jay articulates a philosophy he has come to live by: he is not searching for a favourite place, he is searching for favourite people — the ones who take him back to the heart of himself, who calm his nervous system and switch off the active mind. Riz responds by confessing he has carried a lazy narrative about disliking LA for years — a cliché about driving and sprawl and disconnection. But on the morning of this very interview, surrounded by his wife, child, and visiting family, the house full and alive, he woke up loving the city. It was the same feeling as being a child surrounded by clapping aunties. Home is the people. The place is immaterial. He was confronted with the realisation that the lazy narrative had been wrong all along.
The inner critic can drive you to extraordinary success. Then it can kill you. Riz Ahmed and Jay Shetty discuss how elite athletes toggle between the critic — who makes every point feel like everything — and the cheerleader, who can release that point immediately after it's over.
Our brains subjectively experience 50% of our entire lifetime between ages 0 and 8. That's why a single day felt enormous as a child and why years blur past now. The antidote, both Riz and Jay agree, is play — and protecting time for the Velcro-on-the-shoe moments.
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