Proudwhiteamerican I hear you it’s not by any means a part of my life I’m proud of but I fu in my life too it’s not all the drugs or even you’re fault vro
@Proudwhiteamerican But where did that "weak" mind come from? If your weak mind needed 26 years for an basically non addictive substance, you should be able to empathise a little more with an opiode addiction.
You got me, I'm actually a weed addicted Jackass. I got addicted because of the same issues, low self worth and inability to preform in school. Weed addiction can be hard to quit for good, I got no problem with a week at all. I respect you managed to do it. But a "weak" mind is not the same as a traumatised mind like most opioid addicts. A somewhat functional young person doesn't get addicted to heroïne out or weaknesses, and without help will never call it at all. I'm sorry I was rude as your intention was for the good, but the last thing an addict needs to hear, is that he's weak, a hug would help more.
Wtf lol . This quote has to be taken in the context that it was written . You can’t just make shit up . Thoreau was referring to mans disconnection with nature and that our primal instincts wrestle with our new reality.
Took my shot in 07. Took my life savings and invested in real estate. Worst housing market crash in history insued in the next 5 years. Lost everything and entered bankruptcy with wife and 4 kids under 12. Got back to work as a laborer and now 10 years later Im not a rich man but I still have my wife and kids and consider myself lucky. Hang in there guys.
I bet when u entered bankruptcy ur wife began withholding stuff from u. U know bedroom stuff 🤣 and then u became tom sexless🤣🤣🤣 Congratulations on building ur self back up man, many fail to do that
I'm 44 years old and sadly I'm a quiet desperation guy. It all happened because of stupid decisions I made early in my life that I can't begin to tell you how much I regret. I just recently started my own business but if this doesn't work out, well, I'm pretty much finished. Please pray for me guys:):):)
Youre lucky most of us in our 20s will never have the finances to stsrt a business with these shit wages and expensive rent prices so feel blessed buddy
This also needs to be said: As you lift yourself up, you're gonna meet a lot of resistance from people around you who are themselves stuck in quiet desperation and don't want to see you do what they can't do. This is something that always happens on the hero's journey and you gotta learn to persevere and bet on yourself even when everyone else bets against you.
My brother all facts and say it again ! I have been dealing with this for long time and I will never give up on myself this journey / hero’s journey requires lots mental preparation
Jordan Peterson again. But his IQ gives him advantage. Artistic talents give others escape. But the 9 t 5 office worker the bricklayer the factory worker dont have these advantages so dont best down on them.
Consider the things that you desire. Find joy in simple things, people, love, pets. Walk in nature. Read and listen to inspirational videos. Find a narrow path out of negativity. Confront the roadblock in your own mind.
Excited to move out of my small town. Got nothing but love for it, but Joe hit the nail on the head with this. If anyone else is in similar shoes, I wish you nothing but the best on your future adventure.
I listened to him. I took the shots. I up and went. I even took the biggest shot of coming back to try and change the place i left. And now I'm kicking around on a piece of ground in my hometown. Again. Doing it all again is really hard. But don't expect to get it right the first time. Ever. Hope to. Good luck.
This interview. This is what drives me every day. I’ve been planning my escape for 15 years. I’m not happy I got divorced but turns out it was unknowingly the key part to finishing my plan. I was everything Joe says here. Stuck, miserable, no life and suffering quietly. I took control of my life. There is more to life than just existing and working your ass off while others take you for granted. That was my case. I won’t ever give up fighting for what I want, ever.
@@onefastr6 I do everything to escape am not completely out but have avoided some many things by then I don’t even know what I was doing.. I have a plan to become pilot with QR which make me to struggle so hard and save money no kids no wife ! I may not be pilot but I have much money in my AC
I’ve been up and I’ve been down and as an old F at 61, I can tell you that the best thing is constantly being able to morph into something or someone new every x number of years. Keeps me motivated and alive
@Guybrush Threepwood I live in a nice middle class leafy suburb. Grew up in a broken home penniless on a council estate (like US projects) . First world poor. But non of this is relevant to my point.
Guybrush Threepwood I had food but grew up in a trailer park with a meth head father. And a mother who drained all my savings bc she couldn't drink and pay rent at the same time. Could it have been worse? 100% it could have. But that doesn't discount the other problems people have to overcome.
I have never respected Joe Rogan more than I have before this clip. This is a facet of achievement for which a great many humans never strive, and he succinctly and accurately identifies the methodology.
I'm there. Spent my late 30's and all my 40's taking care of my parents and in that time climbed aboard the desperation train, developing habits that have left me a crusty shell of the adventurous person I was. This week I'm going to be offered my yearly contract and this week I'm going to slide it back across the table smiling, "Thank you for the opportunity you provided me and my family." Then I'm gonna get the hell out of Dodge while there's still something left of ME.
@patrick I feel you. I spent my 20s looking after a sick parent and was feeling sorry for myself at 30. Good luck to you my friend. You've given me perspective as well
Know what you mean broheim, In the last year and a half, three excellent people who helped me from a young tot to a grown man have left this Earth, and it's tough. I came back home to spend time with them, but also in the last few years back home, I feel I've lost a bit of that person who wanted to do more, and instead I've been just even working hard to just earn paychecks to make ends meet. The thing though, guys like us, as long as that song and idea is still inside of us, we'll eventually get there, because we'll keep pushing until it happens
This is the single most motivating thing I have heard in my life. Thank you Joe and guest. I am going to get at my life like it depends on it. God help me.
Your life depends on it !! Good luck! & get off your phone & social media while escaping. All the people you look up too didn’t spend a minute a day listening too or watching their idols. They mirrored their habits.
xkeeni That's probably why it was so annoying to me. I just couldn't describe it, thank you. Reminds me of an old teacher I had... I get shivers thinking about her.
What I like about Joe is that he speaks from a place of TRUTH. Most people live lives of quiet desperation. I have been that guy as well in MANY areas of my life (dating was the MOST painful). It is a VERY tragic reality that most people do not live in a place of empowerment day to day. It's never too late to change but he is ABSOLUTELY right when he says that the older you get the more you get LOCKED into situations (mortgage family responsibilities etc) that limit your options. The best way out is to learn how to live a lifestyle of MINIMALISM so your possessions don't OWN your decisions (sell your car just to see that you don't need it), stay the FUCK out of personal debt, and do not EVER perpetuate relationships that have gone BAD due to previous commitments. Good Luck everyone!!!!
I remember watching this 4 years ago. As a 20 year old. I’m a dad now, and I’m trying to escape. I’m building my business from the ground up and now I can relate to this.
Some of us have to make an honest living. It may not be glamorous, but if others want to live these charmed lives, we have to create and maintain that infrastructure.
@Randy Porter You two knuckleheads did not understand. He meant that not all of us can be fking CEO's...some people have to be AP clerks in order for the CEO's to have people to order around...
For example, my father does not know who dafuq Roe Jogan is...he couldn't give a fk less....so Roe Jogan needs people like you and me in order for him to rack up the dough, just for speaking...
I still have no idea what to do with myself and I'm 30. Ever since middle school when we did career searches I never knew what to pick. Quiet desperation is right.
I've done this 2 years ago and its almost a year now I'm doing what I love doing ! I really went for it . Now I'm slowly climbing the ladder as a full-time archer. BOW HUNTING full time in new Zealand 🇳🇿. I don't have much but I love my life !
I come back to this video weekly. I'm 27 I have worked 50.5 hours a week the last 6 months after moving out on a minimum wage and leaving an abusive household. I've gone from £300 in my bank to now having several months of money for rent. I don't drink smoke or anything but save and now i feel is the time to make that extra push. I've begun renting a small cabin for a very good price each month along with secuirity and have bought some good entry range 3d printers and plan on using the 3d modelling skills i aquired at university to have a go at it and make something of it that isn't this horrible job i currently work.
This is spot on. Currently saving the $$ and have a plan. I have about 18 months to go before I make the switch. It's absolutely scary as fuck, but I can't live in this depression anymore. I only got one crack at this life.
Smash it mate. Make sure you reach out and seek advice from people you respect so you don't make the same mistakes others have. Get information from as many sources as you can, take all the good bits and formulate your own plan.
I think it also needs to be said that I knew i didn’t want to be stuck doing what I am now...But I also had no idea what I wanted to move to and didn’t want to make the wrong choice for fear of the same thing happening again
@@damjanjagodic2943 playing games is never risky, except if you think that life is a game then you are bound to fail. If you don't change than your addictions will consume you...
One of the single most motivating 3:42 videos on UA-cam. Should be a requirement for all people under 20 (or older) to watch every day. This hits home for a lot of people.
I'm 29 and try to limit all my commitments. I'm single. Cheap rent. No car. No mortgage. No student loans. Some money saved up. Alright 9-5 job. I'm not wealthy by any means but i do feel richer than some of my "settled down" friends just because i have less responsibilities.
Complacency kills the chance to thrive and staying comfortable will get you no further than where you are currently. Push through the worst part of your life so that you can blossom in your future. Know that you're strong and use that to push yourself. That's how I communicate to myself and I hope someone finds it helpful.
I couldn’t have said it any better. Mom and dad said,”Save your money!!!” “Stay in school and save your money,work the first year,living with your parents,pay off your debt,throw them something for putting up with your crap,and split…live and love life because it’s very short. I was 24 once. I’m 50 now and live in quiet desperation.
I've heard and known of stories of people who one day, in their 30s, 40s or even 50s, completely change their lives, its never too late. Its difficult, and time will never come back, but if there's a will there's a way
This video changed my life I was 22 working at a deadend warehouse job living life check to check not seeking change, i set a plan saved my money and chased my dreams to be truck driver, it took lots of work sacrifices and effort but I fought like if my life depended on it I’m 24 and officially a truck driver for a oil field company I think the biggest satisfaction out of my path was the risk and commitment I did 2:29
I went for it and failed . Now I’m older and wonder if it’s to late for and I already missed my window. I’ve not given up but there is always that voice in the back of my mind saying it’s not gonna happen .
Joe describes this perfectly! When a man/women gets to this place in their life you can either suffer for decades or fight like you life depends on it to break out of it because it does! Anyone who feels like you soul is dying or dead - go fight for what you want even if it’s 1 hour a day to get their and while your fighting you WILL feel more alive than you have in years!
This clip inspired me to quit my dead end job. I've spent the last two weeks printing out resumes and applying for jobs everywhere. This was the push I need to start anew
Joe is absolutely f*cking right. As 30 years old man, I spent 9 years in a career that I don’t like, which I followed based on parents and older people advice. However with a year and a half hard work enough saved money I was able to escape that hell and find the job I like
im 41 and i spent the past 20 years saving up for a house to move out of a bad area. i first bought a small house for cheap, recently flipped it and made 50k off it and with the other amount of money i had saved i finally moved out of a bad area to a country area that is extremely safe. people dont lock their doors. i bought a 3k square ft house. but now im 41. you know what womena re out there for 41 year olds? they are the ones who fucked up their lives in their 20s and now the hard working men who spent the past 20 years building a stable life only have these unstable women to pick from. 4 kids, no jobs, no cars, all content creators which means they sell patreon, live with their parents still. because i chose the right path in life to become stable before stupidity of being stuck in the ghetto forever and worked my way out of it, i have no one to share it with. and im going to die alone. and thats not a boo hoo moment, its a moment thousands of men are living right now.
Finally a message that has set me free! I hope whomever watches this video could also say the same! Stay strong brothers! We are all going to make it! 💪🏽
Great quote! Joe is half right. Quiet desperation is from the rat race of life. You go out into the world and make a bunch of money. From that, you increase satisfaction by raising your standard of living. But then you acclimate to it and strive for more. It becomes a continuous cycle until you’re a slave to your wants and responsibilities. However, Thoreau’s point wasn’t to take the the unsafe path or be ambitious while you’re young. It was to simplify your wants to the basic fundamentals, and find satisfaction in simple things. This keeps you out of that rat race.
Things in life could always be better, regardless of your circumstances. Things could equally be worse as well. The memories you make with family and friends is all you're taking with you.
"you gotta be caffieinated and motivated... and you gotta go! and you need discipline.. most people dont have that" - every young person needs to hear this.
I took the "chance" at 24. And other chances along the way that could have ruined me or made for a kick-ass life in my middle years. It worked and it really is the difference.
Been going through this for years now smh I hope who’s going through any hard time emotionally one day gets better, and live a life you dreamed of or an just happy life. ✌️💙 to everyone.
I'm only 23 and am already in a huge rut. I'm American but living in Europe. I love living her temporarily but my job is sucking my soul out of me. I want to pursue music, but part of me is holding me back out of fear of not making it. Every year I go through this. I can't scratch the itch or shake the feeling that it's what I need to do in life. Though it's such an uncertain field. Idk.. I feel that's my whole generation. "idk"... "what if"... "I _could_"... "I _should_".... "I would".. It's like a spell that we're cast under... And I personally attribute it to technology's distractions, though I won't shift the blame. Of course I'm responsible.
I think about this a lot. I'm almost 23 and I work at a warehouse. A friend from high school is now a senior at University and recently got an offer to intership at NASA. Meanwhile I have wasted 5 years of my life doing low level jobs. I was always the smart one at school and it burns me inside knowing that my friend gets to hang out at NASA meanwhile I chill at a warehouse with a bunch of people i dont want to talk to.
Listened to this wearing my steel-toed boots and hardhat. Sweating my balls off for peanuts. Truer words have never been spoken. Crazy how well Joe understands things like that, having himself not struggled or been tied down in a long time.
Actually he is. He lives in a crazy expensive area and has a lot on his plate with his wife and kids. Not as stressful as the common man but he gets it.
Dammit Joe. Why did you just spill my entire existence currently? Damn insurance. I work 5 days a week selling insurance 40 miles one way from home and do basically full time side hustle some week nights and EVERY weekend just to pay for my wife’s education. And I’m TIRED. I’m tired of my wife griping that I never have time for her or our child yet it’s all I can do to keep the bills paid. Blessed to be able to make it but wow. This hit HARD.
People are desperate because wealth and freedom is slowly being stripped away from the working class. Similarly, we are losing our sense of community. People are just cogs in a corporate machine
Yup best way ive heard it described. Isnt amazing how people just go with it and never question it? Now i really know how history happened such as nukes, nazis and even america!
Corporate, political, and religious machine. It's a trident of bulls*** keeping people falsely unified in disorganization, where everything floats up to the top while all the rubes on the lower levels fight each other
Invest in yourself by ditching alcohol, stop wasting your life away by watching sports (it’s all fixed) and do things that make you better whatever that is.
44, wife, 2 kids under 12, mortgage, cars, kinda stuck in my job. Yes, this is the situation many of us are in. I have this constant feeling of things could be so much worse, but life is drudgery on a day to day basis. Carrying the light is hard, but that's all that keeps me going. That and trying to give the kids a chance!
When the senior pga tour started, the commentators were confused as to how these nobodies came out of the woodwork and were giving the likes of Jack Nicklaus a run for his money. They were great golfers in their 20's, but had responsibilities and took the safe route. Couldn't gamble on a sporadic payday on the road. Got real jobs and lived their lives playing golf on the side. There are people with amazing talent at all sorts of stuff who just can't afford to take the risk.
When people say people will have nothing to do when the automation gets going hard, this is what I counter with. It's a tragedy that peopel have talents in sport and otherwise that are simply underused because they need consistency in a paycheck.
Wal mart job, potbelly, mortgage, unhappy marriage, horrible sons, maxed out credit cards. Had a profession before covid. Used to be a competitive bjj practitioner. ( Purple belt), even coached a little. Now the 9 in nightstand seems more appropriate.
WORDS OF ABSOLUTE WISDOM. The sooner you realise, the better your life will be. The system we live in keeps you distracted so you will NEVER start the process of setting yourself free unless you are a toughtful individual.
Somebody has to work for the insurance company. Somebody needs to design dishwashers. Somebody needs to mill lumber. Some needs to install toilets. The world only needs so many comedians. There's a lot of real work that needs doing.
You don't have to be a comedian. I think he's just advocating for doing something that you're actually into and enjoy. Some one could very well enjoy designing dish washers.
@@Hazegod - do people enjoy working at the water treatment plant? do they enjoy mining? do they enjoy commercial HVAC? do they enjoy corporate tax law? they don't. noone does. they do it because it needs to be done & it puts food on the table. I think Joe's views on work are too simplistic and poorly thought out
Mortgage cleared last year after working 12 hour shifts for 10 years.. now im free to do what the heck i want. I started my own business now and its so so good to be your own boss.
I'm young and don't have any serious responsibilities but still feel this way. What I worry about at least is what I should be doing with my life and not having the resources necessary to fulfill my desires/falling behind/being seen as a loser etc. It can definitely see how it can get worse with age though given the way our society is run and familial obligations. You have less escape routes the more responsibly you have.
I was just watching one of his videos for the first time on my brothers phone and all of a sudden I get the video in my home feed ON MY PHONE. THEY’RE LISTENING TO US!!!
Right at the end of the video she said that people get this thought in there head of I must change, I’m at that point right now but terrified of what I should do about it
When its time to change, it will feel right. You will know when its time to give up old ways and become reborn. Godspeed my friend, may you find everything you are looking for and more.
It gets to a point where what can you really do other than develop better habits and wake up with a better headspace than you did before. Reading writing music it all flows together now working a better 9-5 is where the pain lies but all of the things above make it so that it’s at least in a better light and more bearable
To who needs to read this: You're not alone, bro. There's millions of us just like you. You matter. In the face of adversity, you will grow to be a mighty oak. Plan it out and hit it one step at a time. I believe in you.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say.Home Home again I like to be here When I canWhen I come home Cold and tired It's good to warm my bones Beside the fireFar away Across the field Tolling on the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spell
Are you ok pal? 8 years ago I was like this & one day when my soon to be wife was at work I just packed my clothes, threw my phone away & moved to another country & started a new life, , I feel bad for walking out on everyone but I was feeling suicidal at the time & I didn't have any kids.
Left our 5 bedroom, 3 full bath, 3 car garage, pool , acre of land and bought a small mobile home. Wife and I are debt free.. working for retirement but our 401ks are crap now.
It's not that most people avoid risk, most people don't beat risk. It's a minority who don't take any risks, the majority take risks which don't work out and an extreme minority like Joe, take risks which pay off. Joe was lucky in the sense that he was in the entertainment industry at a time when television work was extremely lucrative even at entry level and he was photogenic enough to get cast in a series of TV roles. He would still be working poor if he had only ever been a stand up comedian. The moderate success he has with his stand up is due to the success he had in other fields.
@@indegruv I think you have missed the point, he is saying that for every Joe Rogan there are dozens more people who took the same risks and worked just as hard or maybe even harder than Joe yet never went anywhere.
@@mezzaninex Precisely. Plus I don't think Joe would have gotten the UFC commentating job if he didn't already have TV fame. How much of his early Podcast audience carried over from his TV and UFC fame? Joe has enough IQ (95th percentile), general health (98-99th Percentile), work ethic etc that he was never gonna end up homeless but to say he's successful because he took a risky path is a little naive. Some would even argue he 'sold out' and took the easy path by committing to so many seasons of network television. I wouldn't... that would be silly.
@@rainman11985 I'd recommend checking out Chris Hedges, he has a brilliant analysis of how that type of thinking is an insidious undercurrent that is destroying society. ua-cam.com/video/SOJYtaiTvr8/v-deo.html
I literally did exactly what he explained. I have prepared and educated myself to do civil engineering work. 3 years of experience and 4 years into college and 2 years left. I am 22 and just got my biggest interview this week. I really hope I get the job. Pray for me please.
You’re 22 years old my guy. What can you possibly know about quiet desperation, you haven’t even lived your life yet. Come back when you’re 30 and have some credibility 👌🏼
@@anonymousonly3382 When you've looked down the barrel of a rifle pointed at your face and continuously see the same image in your head every day feeling like you're about to die during the flashback, it becomes painful to live. And watching your father have a stroke in front of you and having flashbacks from that doesn't help either. I may have been 22 at the time but I was doing everything I could to help support my father in getting back to doing his job on his own while I tried to study full-time and pay my way through college. Not every young person gets to live an easy life. I never made excuses, I have only adjusted my lifestyle so that I could accomplish my goals whenever I hit another obstacle. There were times in my life when I was living in quiet desperation while trying to help my family meet their needs and struggle to understand how to alleviate symptoms of PTSD.
I was in one of those jobs for decades, i had 4 kids in debt and miserable... Stuck!! I created a business as a contractor that i loved as a side hustle to make a fraction of my MAIN job… Just for some chump change. My job that i worked for 20 years eventually laid me off and i lost everything! Being unemployed i had time,i was able to turn my side hustle into a better career/money and eventually work on my time owning a business. Funny enough the company that laid me off ended up hiring me as a contractor. Every once in a while i sincerely thank them personally for laying me off. The worst day of my life losing my job, ended up being the best thing in my life . Always have a back up plan and be ferociously relentless if you want something.. it’s yours. I’ve lived a life too long of quiet desperation.
I think this is a huge reason for the opioid epidemic and for drug use in general. When you can’t escape your life, you just escape reality instead.
Hawya Doin 100% true..coz I am one of them
Bam The Secularist choose your cell even accomplishing you author dream will leave you wanting and imprisoned
Proudwhiteamerican I hear you it’s not by any means a part of my life I’m proud of but I fu in my life too it’s not all the drugs or even you’re fault vro
@Proudwhiteamerican But where did that "weak" mind come from? If your weak mind needed 26 years for an basically non addictive substance, you should be able to empathise a little more with an opiode addiction.
You got me, I'm actually a weed addicted Jackass. I got addicted because of the same issues, low self worth and inability to preform in school. Weed addiction can be hard to quit for good, I got no problem with a week at all. I respect you managed to do it. But a "weak" mind is not the same as a traumatised mind like most opioid addicts. A somewhat functional young person doesn't get addicted to heroïne out or weaknesses, and without help will never call it at all. I'm sorry I was rude as your intention was for the good, but the last thing an addict needs to hear, is that he's weak, a hug would help more.
One of the most important things Joe has ever said on this damn podcast.
I've listened to this man since 2013, you are dead on.
True realest shit he's said
Wtf lol . This quote has to be taken in the context that it was written . You can’t just make shit up . Thoreau was referring to mans disconnection with nature and that our primal instincts wrestle with our new reality.
@@roughhabit9085 Right but they were also talking in the context of the pink Floyd quote which was to do with doing something you hate every day.
@@roughhabit9085
Maybe so.
But we all like Joe’s interpretation better….. more profound and relevant to our lives.
“Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way....”
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd have something more to say...
@Joseph Gemin First album I listened to on ACID.
@@lelemsays Home, home again...
I was waiting for someone to post that.
@@HigherPlanes Same here brother.
The only thing worse than quiet desperation is seeing a small glimmer of hope and having it destroyed in front of you time and time again.
felt that :/
That's why this is hell, if there is one
Sounds like Guts.
100%, but you have to keep moving forward (even if it feels like backwards). Push through despite the hope-destructive trauma.
that is life, you need to brush it off and continue.
Took my shot in 07. Took my life savings and invested in real estate. Worst housing market crash in history insued in the next 5 years. Lost everything and entered bankruptcy with wife and 4 kids under 12. Got back to work as a laborer and now 10 years later Im not a rich man but I still have my wife and kids and consider myself lucky. Hang in there guys.
the gaps in between is where life HAPPENS for us ! Happiness is found In those memories made in the peaks and valleys of life . .
Hope you are doing well
You dont sound like smart guy tbh especially with 4 kids lol
respect but shocking how well you got married. her commitment wasnt an act seemingly
I bet when u entered bankruptcy ur wife began withholding stuff from u. U know bedroom stuff 🤣 and then u became tom sexless🤣🤣🤣
Congratulations on building ur self back up man, many fail to do that
I'm 44 years old and sadly I'm a quiet desperation guy. It all happened because of stupid decisions I made early in my life that I can't begin to tell you how much I regret. I just recently started my own business but if this doesn't work out, well, I'm pretty much finished. Please pray for me guys:):):)
Youre lucky most of us in our 20s will never have the finances to stsrt a business with these shit wages and expensive rent prices so feel blessed buddy
did you make it?!
be willing to do something completely new
Hang in there.
How’s the business?
This also needs to be said: As you lift yourself up, you're gonna meet a lot of resistance from people around you who are themselves stuck in quiet desperation and don't want to see you do what they can't do. This is something that always happens on the hero's journey and you gotta learn to persevere and bet on yourself even when everyone else bets against you.
My brother all facts and say it again ! I have been dealing with this for long time and I will never give up on myself this journey / hero’s journey requires lots mental preparation
Jordan Peterson again. But his IQ gives him advantage. Artistic talents give others escape. But the 9 t 5 office worker the bricklayer the factory worker dont have these advantages so dont best down on them.
@@Ksvtjhyb7what are you trying to say?
wow referencing the heroes journey
I agree. But in my personal experience. The greatest enemy can come from within oneself. As well as one's greatest ally.
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything" - T. Durden
First Class Citizen Hellyeah
Absolutely
Long View Hellyeah it’s from the movie “Fight Club” (1999). One of my favorites 💯
KAYZER SOZE
Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose" - Kris Kristofferson
Three jobs, no time, no prospects for improvement. Because I have responsibilities I can't give up. I barely exist.
This is just bad
I'm legitimately sorry for that, hopefully something changes for you
YEA WELCOME TO HELL. THIS PLANET IS RUN BY THE DEVIL
Peak Capitalism
Consider the things that you desire. Find joy in simple things, people, love, pets. Walk in nature. Read and listen to inspirational videos. Find a narrow path out of negativity. Confront the roadblock in your own mind.
My quiet desperation is slowly cracking away, he is 100 % correct
Sorry to hear.
michael palmisano, so if your qd is slowly cracking away, your becoming free? Power to you!!!
Sorry to hear that too.
Not 100%... He might still have some way to go himself.
@Tristan O'Rogan why the fuck do you write something about it then?
Excited to move out of my small town. Got nothing but love for it, but Joe hit the nail on the head with this. If anyone else is in similar shoes, I wish you nothing but the best on your future adventure.
Same brother good luck
Get after it mate, the world is what you make it.
After being born and raised in so cal I want a quiet farm life in a small town . . .
do whatever it takes to never ask "what if?"
I listened to him. I took the shots. I up and went. I even took the biggest shot of coming back to try and change the place i left.
And now I'm kicking around on a piece of ground in my hometown. Again. Doing it all again is really hard. But don't expect to get it right the first time. Ever. Hope to.
Good luck.
why does she whisper when she speaks lol
Theres something sexy about it
To sound non-threatening
not sexy to me, kind of repulsive, to each their own
Вяеиdаи Sнеа Сфииеllу I love it
@@rml4289 haha enjoy
This interview. This is what drives me every day. I’ve been planning my escape for 15 years. I’m not happy I got divorced but turns out it was unknowingly the key part to finishing my plan. I was everything Joe says here. Stuck, miserable, no life and suffering quietly. I took control of my life. There is more to life than just existing and working your ass off while others take you for granted. That was my case. I won’t ever give up fighting for what I want, ever.
Wich episode is this, may I ask?
I’m stuck too homie. Tons of responsibilities and expectations and zero happiness. Pray for me.
@@onefastr6 I do everything to escape am not completely out but have avoided some many things by then I don’t even know what I was doing.. I have a plan to become pilot with QR which make me to struggle so hard and save money no kids no wife ! I may not be pilot but I have much money in my AC
@@edgarceja8333JRE #1299 - Annie Jacobsen
@@onefastr6you got this man keep going!
I’ve been up and I’ve been down and as an old F at 61, I can tell you that the best thing is constantly being able to morph into something or someone new every x number of years. Keeps me motivated and alive
I like this mindset! Thanks
I love hearing wisdom from people with life experience. So motivating!
Damn she's genuinely new to the idea of spending your life working even though that's 90% of the population
Because she's never experienced true hardship & poverty
@Guybrush Threepwood I live in a nice middle class leafy suburb. Grew up in a broken home penniless on a council estate (like US projects) . First world poor. But non of this is relevant to my point.
@Guybrush Threepwood *1% of gays lol*
Guybrush Threepwood Just because most Americans have bellies full of garbage food, doesn't mean that other problems can't be present.
Guybrush Threepwood I had food but grew up in a trailer park with a meth head father. And a mother who drained all my savings bc she couldn't drink and pay rent at the same time. Could it have been worse? 100% it could have. But that doesn't discount the other problems people have to overcome.
She interviewed joe rogan
YUP
She's gonna write a book called:
MMA, DMT, Chimps and Elk: The 21st Century Man
Joe just never shuts the fuck up.
Smart woman...inquisitive...
I have never respected Joe Rogan more than I have before this clip. This is a facet of achievement for which a great many humans never strive, and he succinctly and accurately identifies the methodology.
Joe Rogan has always talked about these topics over the years.
Yes but he is clueless to the meaning of the quote.
@@roughhabit9085you are clueless
I'm there. Spent my late 30's and all my 40's taking care of my parents and in that time climbed aboard the desperation train, developing habits that have left me a crusty shell of the adventurous person I was. This week I'm going to be offered my yearly contract and this week I'm going to slide it back across the table smiling, "Thank you for the opportunity you provided me and my family." Then I'm gonna get the hell out of Dodge while there's still something left of ME.
good on ya, Pat!
Best of luck to you!
All the best to you 😁
@patrick I feel you. I spent my 20s looking after a sick parent and was feeling sorry for myself at 30. Good luck to you my friend. You've given me perspective as well
Know what you mean broheim, In the last year and a half, three excellent people who helped me from a young tot to a grown man have left this Earth, and it's tough. I came back home to spend time with them, but also in the last few years back home, I feel I've lost a bit of that person who wanted to do more, and instead I've been just even working hard to just earn paychecks to make ends meet. The thing though, guys like us, as long as that song and idea is still inside of us, we'll eventually get there, because we'll keep pushing until it happens
This is the single most motivating thing I have heard in my life. Thank you Joe and guest. I am going to get at my life like it depends on it. God help me.
Your life depends on it !! Good luck! & get off your phone & social media while escaping. All the people you look up too didn’t spend a minute a day listening too or watching their idols. They mirrored their habits.
How’s the plan going?
This clip hit me so hard. I thought I was the only one to feel like this .
there is a "quiet desperation" about her voice.
Colin Weiss kinda annoying, that quiet whisper.... just me?
Nah she needs to talk like a real person. Its an act to make her seem more authoritative
xkeeni That's probably why it was so annoying to me. I just couldn't describe it, thank you. Reminds me of an old teacher I had... I get shivers thinking about her.
Seriously. The breathing into the mic is unsettling. I can practically hear the cortisol.
She sounds like a npr person
What I like about Joe is that he speaks from a place of TRUTH. Most people live lives of quiet desperation. I have been that guy as well in MANY areas of my life (dating was the MOST painful). It is a VERY tragic reality that most people do not live in a place of empowerment day to day. It's never too late to change but he is ABSOLUTELY right when he says that the older you get the more you get LOCKED into situations (mortgage family responsibilities etc) that limit your options. The best way out is to learn how to live a lifestyle of MINIMALISM so your possessions don't OWN your decisions (sell your car just to see that you don't need it), stay the FUCK out of personal debt, and do not EVER perpetuate relationships that have gone BAD due to previous commitments. Good Luck everyone!!!!
“You have to get after it like you’re saving the world” thank you for this, gold
I remember watching this 4 years ago. As a 20 year old. I’m a dad now, and I’m trying to escape. I’m building my business from the ground up and now I can relate to this.
She needs to take a chance and change her job from a science fiction writer to an ASMR God
She could just read her book, and every few paragraphs she taps the cover or flips the page up to the mic. Easy money.
See, I was a bit concerned for her, because of her breathy, unsupported way of talking
@@MrTurtleThief You mean whisper her book aloud? I would listen to that tbh
@@Herfinnur Is that bad for your voice?
Lol...so true
Some of us have to make an honest living. It may not be glamorous, but if others want to live these charmed lives, we have to create and maintain that infrastructure.
What is "honest" about your living then? The fact that you "honestly" can't do anything better with your life?
@Randy Porter You two knuckleheads did not understand. He meant that not all of us can be fking CEO's...some people have to be AP clerks in order for the CEO's to have people to order around...
For example, my father does not know who dafuq Roe Jogan is...he couldn't give a fk less....so Roe Jogan needs people like you and me in order for him to rack up the dough, just for speaking...
StephenKingz why can’t we all be better and improve as a whole why do we have to stay stuck in the same broken system
@@indegruv He's keeping the world running. Shut up, kid.
I still have no idea what to do with myself and I'm 30. Ever since middle school when we did career searches I never knew what to pick. Quiet desperation is right.
Have you figured it out yet? All the best man! 👌
Look up Sadhguru on (this topic), watch a few videos and come to your own conclusion. The wisdom this man spits is thick
Dont fuck around with utube vdo
Me too
Give it time!
I've done this 2 years ago and its almost a year now I'm doing what I love doing !
I really went for it . Now I'm slowly climbing the ladder as a full-time archer. BOW HUNTING full time in new Zealand 🇳🇿.
I don't have much but I love my life !
I come back to this video weekly.
I'm 27
I have worked 50.5 hours a week the last 6 months after moving out on a minimum wage and leaving an abusive household.
I've gone from £300 in my bank to now having several months of money for rent.
I don't drink smoke or anything but save and now i feel is the time to make that extra push.
I've begun renting a small cabin for a very good price each month along with secuirity and have bought some good entry range 3d printers and plan on using the 3d modelling skills i aquired at university to have a go at it and make something of it that isn't this horrible job i currently work.
Joe "You have a wife that you have to feed" Rogan
LEATHER SANDALS saying this was seriously dumb on his part. And btw, quiet desperation is not based on gender.
Mans got cattle out back and a wife to feed
@@TheStonesQT93 I think he was just generalizing. Relax buddy.
Because today’s women have no clue how to cook....
TheStonesQT93 Yeah you think that, but its not true. Not in the same way anyways.
Be careful not to get sucked into this noise.
Live the struggle, it's where you'll find your real self.
Amen
This is spot on. Currently saving the $$ and have a plan. I have about 18 months to go before I make the switch. It's absolutely scary as fuck, but I can't live in this depression anymore. I only got one crack at this life.
Smash it mate. Make sure you reach out and seek advice from people you respect so you don't make the same mistakes others have. Get information from as many sources as you can, take all the good bits and formulate your own plan.
I wish you the best. Go get it.
Awesome. Doo itt!!
From my current soul-sucking job that I got stuck doing, to something that I hope will be more fulfilling in my life
I think it also needs to be said that I knew i didn’t want to be stuck doing what I am now...But I also had no idea what I wanted to move to and didn’t want to make the wrong choice for fear of the same thing happening again
No risk
No reward
Oliver Man true, i tell that to myself when i play 8ball for 1k instead of 100
@@damjanjagodic2943 playing games is never risky, except if you think that life is a game then you are bound to fail. If you don't change than your addictions will consume you...
Bolt thrower
Unless you're born with great wealth
One of the single most motivating 3:42 videos on UA-cam. Should be a requirement for all people under 20 (or older) to watch every day.
This hits home for a lot of people.
I'm 29 and try to limit all my commitments. I'm single. Cheap rent. No car. No mortgage. No student loans. Some money saved up. Alright 9-5 job. I'm not wealthy by any means but i do feel richer than some of my "settled down" friends just because i have less responsibilities.
Wow!
What if less is more, and more is suffication?
I hope you're actually using your free time for something useful and not just for entertainment tho...
I just love how Joe is always in touch with reality nomatter how rich he gets 😊
Its because of the DMT.
@@mrnopy6707 Maby
Yeah that's true he actually knows this coz he was once where we all are
Complacency kills the chance to thrive and staying comfortable will get you no further than where you are currently. Push through the worst part of your life so that you can blossom in your future.
Know that you're strong and use that to push yourself.
That's how I communicate to myself and I hope someone finds it helpful.
I needed this Sir. Thank you!
I couldn’t have said it any better. Mom and dad said,”Save your money!!!” “Stay in school and save your money,work the first year,living with your parents,pay off your debt,throw them something for putting up with your crap,and split…live and love life because it’s very short. I was 24 once. I’m 50 now and live in quiet desperation.
I've heard and known of stories of people who one day, in their 30s, 40s or even 50s, completely change their lives, its never too late. Its difficult, and time will never come back, but if there's a will there's a way
This video changed my life I was 22 working at a deadend warehouse job living life check to check not seeking change, i set a plan saved my money and chased my dreams to be truck driver, it took lots of work sacrifices and effort but I fought like if my life depended on it I’m 24 and officially a truck driver for a oil field company I think the biggest satisfaction out of my path was the risk and commitment I did 2:29
Congrats! And Don’t stop there!
I went for it and failed . Now I’m older and wonder if it’s to late for and I already missed my window. I’ve not given up but there is always that voice in the back of my mind saying it’s not gonna happen .
How did you go for it? And how old are you?
Joe describes this perfectly! When a man/women gets to this place in their life you can either suffer for decades or fight like you life depends on it to break out of it because it does! Anyone who feels like you soul is dying or dead - go fight for what you want even if it’s 1 hour a day to get their and while your fighting you WILL feel more alive than you have in years!
Bills? Like, financial bills? Ladies out of touch.
Yeeeeah.. big time.
Thanks, I went back to hear if she really said that with a straight face, she did
yeah this bitch has never had a single struggle in her life. Always funny watching rich white people discuss reality for the rest of the population
maybe she doesnt value money?
energeez that’s not the point.
I'm a fan of Joe rogan just because of this interview.. this helped me a lot in times that I felt lost.... Im planning my escape.. its going great😊
This is the most profound Joe Rogan video I've ever seen. He is able to so deeply tap into the reality that most people live. 🍻
What’s the guest called?
This clip inspired me to quit my dead end job. I've spent the last two weeks printing out resumes and applying for jobs everywhere. This was the push I need to start anew
Joe is absolutely f*cking right. As 30 years old man, I spent 9 years in a career that I don’t like, which I followed based on parents and older people advice. However with a year and a half hard work enough saved money I was able to escape that hell and find the job I like
What job is that?
@@lucid.manifestthe bleaches anuses
@@lucid.manifesttprolly coding
im 41 and i spent the past 20 years saving up for a house to move out of a bad area. i first bought a small house for cheap, recently flipped it and made 50k off it and with the other amount of money i had saved i finally moved out of a bad area to a country area that is extremely safe. people dont lock their doors. i bought a 3k square ft house. but now im 41. you know what womena re out there for 41 year olds? they are the ones who fucked up their lives in their 20s and now the hard working men who spent the past 20 years building a stable life only have these unstable women to pick from. 4 kids, no jobs, no cars, all content creators which means they sell patreon, live with their parents still. because i chose the right path in life to become stable before stupidity of being stuck in the ghetto forever and worked my way out of it, i have no one to share it with. and im going to die alone. and thats not a boo hoo moment, its a moment thousands of men are living right now.
No wife, no kids, no debt, no pets. Freedom!
Finally a message that has set me free! I hope whomever watches this video could also say the same! Stay strong brothers! We are all going to make it! 💪🏽
Great quote!
Joe is half right. Quiet desperation is from the rat race of life. You go out into the world and make a bunch of money. From that, you increase satisfaction by raising your standard of living. But then you acclimate to it and strive for more. It becomes a continuous cycle until you’re a slave to your wants and responsibilities.
However, Thoreau’s point wasn’t to take the the unsafe path or be ambitious while you’re young. It was to simplify your wants to the basic fundamentals, and find satisfaction in simple things. This keeps you out of that rat race.
Wow 🤝
Things in life could always be better, regardless of your circumstances. Things could equally be worse as well. The memories you make with family and friends is all you're taking with you.
Unless you get Alzheimer's
@@Vitalinformation101 Solid point, that's a horrible disease when you think about what it's taking from you.
Amen
she's like how do people not afford stuff? I don't get it?
she doesnt get it because she was never a loser who did nothing with their life
@@williamperez492 I guess you would know.
Jimmy Turner goteem
@@TehUltimateSnake lol
@Guybrush Threepwood you just gave 2 opposite opinions
"you gotta be caffieinated and motivated... and you gotta go! and you need discipline.. most people dont have that" - every young person needs to hear this.
Wife and I just turned 30, gonna try and do the best we can. Gotta get out of this town
Run man, run while you can.
The longer you stay, the harder it is to get out.
@@RussTeeTrombone Yeah gotta save what I can to put towards getting out
Here have a poem: Buddy Wakefield - My Town
How are you bearing up?
I took the "chance" at 24. And other chances along the way that could have ruined me or made for a kick-ass life in my middle years. It worked and it really is the difference.
Please, tell us more
Been going through this for years now smh I hope who’s going through any hard time emotionally one day gets better, and live a life you dreamed of or an just happy life. ✌️💙 to everyone.
I’m in this process now! I am so ready to run for my sanity!
wish u peace man
I'm 30 with no kids, and I make roughly 40k a year in San Diego, should I focus on having a family or my financial freedom.
I'm 39, just running out the clock until I die.
Mick Resistor lol werd
don.t say that man, and don.t give up
@@danr154 i think there is a shit ton of guys like us out there we are just quiet and keep it to ourselves
We're just young men at the old mans bar, waiting for our turn to die.
I'm 17 and I feel that way
Never listen to anyone who speaks with a spiritual inflection...
The Lecture Room hey man this sentiment interests me. Could you elaborate? Just curious.
Mars Rover essentially it’s an attempt for one to control another...
The Lecture Room agreed. Thanks.
TRUE
Very big brane
I'm only 23 and am already in a huge rut. I'm American but living in Europe. I love living her temporarily but my job is sucking my soul out of me. I want to pursue music, but part of me is holding me back out of fear of not making it. Every year I go through this. I can't scratch the itch or shake the feeling that it's what I need to do in life. Though it's such an uncertain field. Idk.. I feel that's my whole generation. "idk"... "what if"... "I _could_"... "I _should_".... "I would".. It's like a spell that we're cast under... And I personally attribute it to technology's distractions, though I won't shift the blame. Of course I'm responsible.
I think about this a lot. I'm almost 23 and I work at a warehouse. A friend from high school is now a senior at University and recently got an offer to intership at NASA. Meanwhile I have wasted 5 years of my life doing low level jobs. I was always the smart one at school and it burns me inside knowing that my friend gets to hang out at NASA meanwhile I chill at a warehouse with a bunch of people i dont want to talk to.
Do something about that then
Bro, you're still mad young. Go to school if that's what you want, you have plenty of time to turn it around, but don't waste any of it
Who here is between 20-25? What are you guys doing?
BenAddict19 have no fucken idea
Apprentice stonemason now, university was useful in some ways but largely a very stressful time consuming detour
School, job soon, chasing girls. Could be worse.
Hell
Lunch time fpr me
Listened to this wearing my steel-toed boots and hardhat. Sweating my balls off for peanuts. Truer words have never been spoken. Crazy how well Joe understands things like that, having himself not struggled or been tied down in a long time.
Actually he is. He lives in a crazy expensive area and has a lot on his plate with his wife and kids. Not as stressful as the common man but he gets it.
Clicked the link, seen it was the hoarse-whisperer and stopped it immediately.
Dammit Joe. Why did you just spill my entire existence currently? Damn insurance. I work 5 days a week selling insurance 40 miles one way from home and do basically full time side hustle some week nights and EVERY weekend just to pay for my wife’s education. And I’m TIRED. I’m tired of my wife griping that I never have time for her or our child yet it’s all I can do to keep the bills paid. Blessed to be able to make it but wow. This hit HARD.
People are desperate because wealth and freedom is slowly being stripped away from the working class. Similarly, we are losing our sense of community.
People are just cogs in a corporate machine
Yup best way ive heard it described. Isnt amazing how people just go with it and never question it? Now i really know how history happened such as nukes, nazis and even america!
Corporate, political, and religious machine. It's a trident of bulls*** keeping people falsely unified in disorganization, where everything floats up to the top while all the rubes on the lower levels fight each other
Went from a town of 8000 people to Alaska on my own at 23, feelsgoodman
Leslie Moore how’s you do it??
You live in a state where there are like 6 males per every woman ... No thanks...
I feel like this was about me. I cannot stand another day like this.
Invest in yourself by ditching alcohol, stop wasting your life away by watching sports (it’s all fixed) and do things that make you better whatever that is.
44, wife, 2 kids under 12, mortgage, cars, kinda stuck in my job. Yes, this is the situation many of us are in. I have this constant feeling of things could be so much worse, but life is drudgery on a day to day basis.
Carrying the light is hard, but that's all that keeps me going. That and trying to give the kids a chance!
I have heard this a million times and I have finally started an e-commerce business and I have about to finalize everything.🙏
When the senior pga tour started, the commentators were confused as to how these nobodies came out of the woodwork and were giving the likes of Jack Nicklaus a run for his money. They were great golfers in their 20's, but had responsibilities and took the safe route. Couldn't gamble on a sporadic payday on the road. Got real jobs and lived their lives playing golf on the side. There are people with amazing talent at all sorts of stuff who just can't afford to take the risk.
When people say people will have nothing to do when the automation gets going hard, this is what I counter with. It's a tragedy that peopel have talents in sport and otherwise that are simply underused because they need consistency in a paycheck.
There is no “safe route”…no such thing…just choices and your commitment to them…..love is God
I’m caffeinated. Motivated? Not so much.
Wal mart job, potbelly, mortgage, unhappy marriage, horrible sons, maxed out credit cards. Had a profession before covid. Used to be a competitive bjj practitioner. ( Purple belt), even coached a little.
Now the 9 in nightstand seems more appropriate.
WORDS OF ABSOLUTE WISDOM. The sooner you realise, the better your life will be. The system we live in keeps you distracted so you will NEVER start the process of setting yourself free unless you are a toughtful individual.
42 year old and watching the JRE in my underwear eating cold pizza...
That' s lifeee
46
Preach on brutha, preach on
I don't get it. Why don't you just say 'brother'?
Somebody has to work for the insurance company. Somebody needs to design dishwashers. Somebody needs to mill lumber. Some needs to install toilets. The world only needs so many comedians. There's a lot of real work that needs doing.
Not for long they don't have to mill lumber.
Source: Me, working in mill automation
@@kanucks9 - that's an interesting fact, maybe I'll use a different example. What do you thin of the broader point I'm making?
You don't have to be a comedian. I think he's just advocating for doing something that you're actually into and enjoy. Some one could very well enjoy designing dish washers.
@@Hazegod - do people enjoy working at the water treatment plant? do they enjoy mining? do they enjoy commercial HVAC? do they enjoy corporate tax law?
they don't. noone does. they do it because it needs to be done & it puts food on the table.
I think Joe's views on work are too simplistic and poorly thought out
@@bw4500 can you really say with absolute certainty that no one enjoys those jobs?
Mortgage cleared last year after working 12 hour shifts for 10 years.. now im free to do what the heck i want.
I started my own business now and its so so good to be your own boss.
I agree I paid off my mortgage at 37 it was the most freeing thing I ever did
This is the realest clip I’ve ever watched. As joe talked, i began to cry
I'm young and don't have any serious responsibilities but still feel this way. What I worry about at least is what I should be doing with my life and not having the resources necessary to fulfill my desires/falling behind/being seen as a loser etc. It can definitely see how it can get worse with age though given the way our society is run and familial obligations. You have less escape routes the more responsibly you have.
He's right. A stash of cash and a plan, then run like hell towards the goal post.
Ive never related to anything more in my life than this vid
Best interviewer ever, being interviewed. Brilliant, just brilliant.
I was just watching one of his videos for the first time on my brothers phone and all of a sudden I get the video in my home feed ON MY PHONE. THEY’RE LISTENING TO US!!!
Right at the end of the video she said that people get this thought in there head of I must change, I’m at that point right now but terrified of what I should do about it
Same
Think long and hard before you pounce on an idea, then go hard at it, no rush but set a timeline scary shit i know
When its time to change, it will feel right. You will know when its time to give up old ways and become reborn. Godspeed my friend, may you find everything you are looking for and more.
On the same boat brotha and it’s a crossroad that must be crossed soon. Scares the shit out of me too! Best of luck bro
It gets to a point where what can you really do other than develop better habits and wake up with a better headspace than you did before. Reading writing music it all flows together now working a better 9-5 is where the pain lies but all of the things above make it so that it’s at least in a better light and more bearable
To who needs to read this: You're not alone, bro. There's millions of us just like you. You matter. In the face of adversity, you will grow to be a mighty oak. Plan it out and hit it one step at a time. I believe in you.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.Home
Home again
I like to be here
When I canWhen I come home
Cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones
Beside the fireFar away
Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell
Thank you sir.
Needed to hear this this morning. I already watched the interview but I needed to hear this part again.
Are you ok pal? 8 years ago I was like this & one day when my soon to be wife was at work I just packed my clothes, threw my phone away & moved to another country & started a new life, , I feel bad for walking out on everyone but I was feeling suicidal at the time & I didn't have any kids.
Left our 5 bedroom, 3 full bath, 3 car garage, pool , acre of land and bought a small mobile home. Wife and I are debt free.. working for retirement but our 401ks are crap now.
“Bills, like financial bills???!!!????!!!”
Wtf?!?
Joe Allen lol maybe she was thinking abt buffalo bills and their upcoming season lol
Duck bills
It's not that most people avoid risk, most people don't beat risk. It's a minority who don't take any risks, the majority take risks which don't work out and an extreme minority like Joe, take risks which pay off. Joe was lucky in the sense that he was in the entertainment industry at a time when television work was extremely lucrative even at entry level and he was photogenic enough to get cast in a series of TV roles. He would still be working poor if he had only ever been a stand up comedian. The moderate success he has with his stand up is due to the success he had in other fields.
yeah well all that other stuff he found "luck" or success in all happened because of his willingness to follow the stand up path.
@@indegruv I think you have missed the point, he is saying that for every Joe Rogan there are dozens more people who took the same risks and worked just as hard or maybe even harder than Joe yet never went anywhere.
@@mezzaninex Precisely. Plus I don't think Joe would have gotten the UFC commentating job if he didn't already have TV fame. How much of his early Podcast audience carried over from his TV and UFC fame? Joe has enough IQ (95th percentile), general health (98-99th Percentile), work ethic etc that he was never gonna end up homeless but to say he's successful because he took a risky path is a little naive. Some would even argue he 'sold out' and took the easy path by committing to so many seasons of network television. I wouldn't... that would be silly.
@@rainman11985 I'd recommend checking out Chris Hedges, he has a brilliant analysis of how that type of thinking is an insidious undercurrent that is destroying society.
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I agree with you a large part of what leads to success no matter how talented, is luck
I literally did exactly what he explained. I have prepared and educated myself to do civil engineering work. 3 years of experience and 4 years into college and 2 years left. I am 22 and just got my biggest interview this week. I really hope I get the job. Pray for me please.
Best of luck, hope u get the job
Hope you got it buddy!
Did you get the job?
You’re 22 years old my guy. What can you possibly know about quiet desperation, you haven’t even lived your life yet. Come back when you’re 30 and have some credibility 👌🏼
@@anonymousonly3382 When you've looked down the barrel of a rifle pointed at your face and continuously see the same image in your head every day feeling like you're about to die during the flashback, it becomes painful to live. And watching your father have a stroke in front of you and having flashbacks from that doesn't help either. I may have been 22 at the time but I was doing everything I could to help support my father in getting back to doing his job on his own while I tried to study full-time and pay my way through college. Not every young person gets to live an easy life. I never made excuses, I have only adjusted my lifestyle so that I could accomplish my goals whenever I hit another obstacle. There were times in my life when I was living in quiet desperation while trying to help my family meet their needs and struggle to understand how to alleviate symptoms of PTSD.
I was in one of those jobs for decades, i had 4 kids in debt and miserable... Stuck!! I created a business as a contractor that i loved as a side hustle to make a fraction of my MAIN job… Just for some chump change. My job that i worked for 20 years eventually laid me off and i lost everything! Being unemployed i had time,i was able to turn my side hustle into a better career/money and eventually work on my time owning a business. Funny enough the company that laid me off ended up hiring me as a contractor. Every once in a while i sincerely thank them personally for laying me off. The worst day of my life losing my job, ended up being the best thing in my life . Always have a back up plan and be ferociously relentless if you want something.. it’s yours. I’ve lived a life too long of quiet desperation.
You can only excape it by fostering the ability to be grateful.
Its easier to succeed today than ever before, especially in America.
Minimum financial responsibility, maximum freedom. The end.
Very true Joe, sometimes ya just got to go for the dangerous route and take a shot at getting out of the routine.
This is by far one of the deepest 3:00 minute videos I’ve ever watched. Literally giving genuine advice on life. Feel woke
"Chance makes a plaything of a man's life." - Seneca