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Joe Rogan challenges Matt Walsh on the idea that same-sex marriage somehow damages the institution of marriage. Walsh argues that marriage is fundamentally a procreative union. Rogan pushes back: what about couples who love each other but cannot or simply do not want to have children? His point is simple: how does two gay people getting married change the bond between a straight married couple? Walsh says marriage is an institution with a specific purpose and argues that removing procreation from its definition changes what marriage is. Rogan isn’t convinced. “If we decide that gay people can get married too, I just don’t see how it damages anything.” The debate eventually comes down to one question: Is marriage defined by its traditional purpose, or by the commitment between two people who choose to build a life together?
gomi1,990,976 görüntüleme • 23 gün önce
She literally explained that the discomfort of discipline is nothing compared to the pain of regret.
gomi1,394,892 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Joe Rogan hears one of the most fascinating vampire theories ever created and it completely changes the mythology. The theory starts with one question: what if vampires weren’t supernatural monsters at all? What if they were a predator species, 10x more intelligent than humans, that evolved for one purpose: keeping the human population under control, the same way lions keep prey populations in check. Instead of surviving on gallons of blood, they only need a single enzyme found in human blood. Everything else about their diet is normal. The most brilliant part is something called the “crucifix glitch.” Their brains evolved to detect patterns in nature, where right angles barely existed. But when humans began building cities, temples, and churches filled with horizontal and vertical lines, their visual cortex started malfunctioning. What people thought was a vampire being repelled by a cross wasn’t religion. It was a neurological defect triggered by right angles. The cross became a myth because nobody understood the biology behind it. As humans built more cities, the environment itself became hostile to the species. They couldn’t hunt, couldn’t adapt, and eventually disappeared. The theory gets even darker. The story imagines a pharmaceutical company bringing them back through dormant DNA hidden in human genetics. But once the creature is recreated, it’s immediately smarter than the scientists who created it. It’s like a herd of cows genetically engineering a wolf. The wolf has no intention of staying inside the cage. It’s one of those sci-fi concepts that completely changes how you think about vampire folklore.
gomi350,065 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
He literally explained why you can't focus and how to become more focused.
gomi1,047,640 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Tony Robbins explains why most people never reach their potential and it has nothing to do with talent. Robbins: “The Holy Grail between somebody taking action or not is one word: certainty.” You can have enormous potential and still do almost nothing if you don’t believe your actions will produce the result you want. Potential → belief → action → results. Then the results reinforce the belief. If you believe it won’t work, you take small action. Small action produces small results. Those results become “proof” that your original belief was correct. Robbins: “You go, ‘See, I told you this was a waste of time. I told you this wouldn’t work.’” Now the loop feeds itself. Less belief. Less action. Worse results. Even less belief. A self-fulfilling downward spiral. But the same mechanism can run in reverse. If you become certain that you will find a way, your perception of your own potential changes. That produces more action, which creates better results, which strengthens the belief. Robbins: “If you get yourself in a state of certainty that this is going to work… then you have a lot more potential.” This is why Robbins says certainty matters more than motivation. Motivation can make you act once. Certainty makes you keep acting when the evidence hasn’t arrived yet. Roger Bannister is his example. For centuries, nobody had broken the four-minute mile. Then Bannister did it. Within two years, 37 other people had also run a mile under four minutes. The human potential hadn’t suddenly changed. The belief about what was possible had. That is the real danger of believing something is impossible. You don’t just predict the outcome. You change the amount of action you’re willing to take—and eventually produce the very result you expected.
gomi146,772 görüntüleme • 25 gün önce
Joe Rogan is fascinated by what one of the smartest animals ever studied asked right before it died. It may be one of the most human questions ever recorded from a non-human animal. PALMER LUCKEY: “Alex, the African grey parrot, understood grammar, numbers, colors, and could even ask for food he wanted tomorrow.” LUCKEY: “Right before he died, he asked two questions he’d never asked before.” “What’s happening?” “And where am I going?” ROGAN: “Wow.” It would make Alex one of the only known non-human animals to spontaneously ask what sounds like an existential question. LUCKEY: “Alex had a tiny bird brain, yet his intelligence was on par with a human toddler.” LUCKEY: “That suggests you can get by with very little brain if it’s organized correctly.” ROGAN: “Wow.” LUCKEY: “Imagine genetically modifying an African grey to have a slightly larger brain with more folds.” LUCKEY: “I think it could be capable of having a normal human-level conversation.” ROGAN: “Wow.” LUCKEY: “Artificial intelligence won’t just teach us how machines think.” “It may finally teach us how the human brain actually works.”
gomi213,375 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Jordan Peterson on the 7 domains that give life meaning: 1. Most people want an intimate relationship. don’t just hope for one. define what it would actually look like. picture an ordinary dinner with the people you love. if you’re going to have 10,000 dinners in your lifetime, you might as well get them right. 2. Put your family in order. listen to them. repair what can be repaired. if someone refuses every attempt at communication, walk around them. but don’t neglect the relationships that can be saved. making your family a priority has cascading positive consequences. 3. Surround yourself with people who celebrate your successes and genuinely support you when life gets hard. if someone keeps pulling you down while you’re trying to aim higher, it may be time to let them go. choose friends who encourage your growth instead of rewarding your excuses. 4. Whether it’s a job or a calling, have a plan. become the kind of person employers want to bet on. learn new skills, improve your resume, prepare for opportunities, and keep putting yourself out there. people become successful every day. one of them could be you. 5. Never stop developing yourself. keep learning. stay on the edge of your abilities instead of settling into comfort. invest in your education so you’re always becoming more capable than you were yesterday. 6. Treat yourself like someone you’re responsible for. take care of your body and mind. don’t let your habits or temptations decide the direction of your life. decide the kind of person you want to be, then build habits that move you toward that person. 7. Develop a vision for your life. if you don’t write your own story, you’ll become a character in someone else’s. without a clear aim, you’ll be driven by your impulses or by other people’s expectations. a meaningful life begins with deciding what you’re aiming at.
gomi196,586 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
In 2018, Stanford professor Matt Abrahams gave a masterclass on why most people fail to communicate well.
gomi407,547 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
Most people don’t give up on their dreams because they lack talent. it’s usually the weight of ordinary life that does it. Joe rogan knew a carpenter whose dream was to make it as a musician. Every Monday he’d come back to work saying he was going to get his life together. Then the weekend would come and he’d go right back to drinking and cocaine. The problem wasn’t that he didn’t have talent. It was that chasing the dream became exhausting. You work all day, get home tired, force yourself to band practice, someone doesn’t show up, you make no money, and people keep telling you to get a real job. Eventually the dream starts feeling impossible and escaping reality starts feeling easier. He then talks about watching older people dance to songs from their youth. It’s not really the music they’re chasing. It’s the feeling of being young enough to believe anything was still possible, before bills, obligations, and responsibilities narrowed their choices. Most people don’t become unhappy because they get older. They become unhappy because they slowly stop building a life they’re excited to wake up to.
gomi36,915 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
luck is being prepared when the opportunity appears. every one has luck. not everyone is prepared.
gomi28,132 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
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