Aubrey Marcus

When his performance dropped, his self-love dropped to such a critical level that ultimately he was reaching for something that would give him a new level and a reason to love himself. Because the self-love wasn't a priori. It wasn't before antecedent causality, before everything. Right. You know, it was something that was externally validated. And that was the core of his psychosis.

And of course, the medical world would just want to say, oh, he was paranoid schizophrenic. Give him medication. Yeah, this is just the thing. But yes, it was that, but it was something much more mythological and something much more like psychological, not pathological.

And of course, the medical world would just want to say, oh, he was paranoid schizophrenic. Give him medication. Yeah, this is just the thing. But yes, it was that, but it was something much more mythological and something much more like psychological, not pathological.

And of course, the medical world would just want to say, oh, he was paranoid schizophrenic. Give him medication. Yeah, this is just the thing. But yes, it was that, but it was something much more mythological and something much more like psychological, not pathological.

They want to rehab you just enough that you get enough of a benefit, but you come back, repeat customer.

They want to rehab you just enough that you get enough of a benefit, but you come back, repeat customer.

They want to rehab you just enough that you get enough of a benefit, but you come back, repeat customer.

I know this firsthand. I sold my business that I started from scratch, scratched together $110,000 from scratch.

I know this firsthand. I sold my business that I started from scratch, scratched together $110,000 from scratch.

I know this firsthand. I sold my business that I started from scratch, scratched together $110,000 from scratch.

to you know dear friends and scratched that together and started this business you know was at the very end of that amount of money and then formed a partnership with joe rogan started the company on it ran it for 10 years sold it and you know i had little pieces of money and you know some salary and some things that were coming in so i was okay but i wasn't like

to you know dear friends and scratched that together and started this business you know was at the very end of that amount of money and then formed a partnership with joe rogan started the company on it ran it for 10 years sold it and you know i had little pieces of money and you know some salary and some things that were coming in so i was okay but i wasn't like

to you know dear friends and scratched that together and started this business you know was at the very end of that amount of money and then formed a partnership with joe rogan started the company on it ran it for 10 years sold it and you know i had little pieces of money and you know some salary and some things that were coming in so i was okay but i wasn't like

wealthy i was just money was in money was coming out always always like in and out in and out and out i was always looking to know like what the next you know disbursement would be that would cover this next thing and so i was in this kind of constant state of scarcity then all of a sudden wham this huge lump sum of money comes into my bank account and you would think at that point i would be like ah i'm safe i've have plenty of money but it didn't happen

wealthy i was just money was in money was coming out always always like in and out in and out and out i was always looking to know like what the next you know disbursement would be that would cover this next thing and so i was in this kind of constant state of scarcity then all of a sudden wham this huge lump sum of money comes into my bank account and you would think at that point i would be like ah i'm safe i've have plenty of money but it didn't happen

wealthy i was just money was in money was coming out always always like in and out in and out and out i was always looking to know like what the next you know disbursement would be that would cover this next thing and so i was in this kind of constant state of scarcity then all of a sudden wham this huge lump sum of money comes into my bank account and you would think at that point i would be like ah i'm safe i've have plenty of money but it didn't happen

It never happened at all. That's the fucking crazy part. Yeah. Is like, I still couldn't shut off the reptilian scarcity brain. And so I made decisions still based on scarcity. Oh, I got to put this money here and invest it in all of these things. And I was in such a hurry to do this thing because, oh, well, now I don't have a business anymore. So I don't have a salary. So money's going to run out.

It never happened at all. That's the fucking crazy part. Yeah. Is like, I still couldn't shut off the reptilian scarcity brain. And so I made decisions still based on scarcity. Oh, I got to put this money here and invest it in all of these things. And I was in such a hurry to do this thing because, oh, well, now I don't have a business anymore. So I don't have a salary. So money's going to run out.

It never happened at all. That's the fucking crazy part. Yeah. Is like, I still couldn't shut off the reptilian scarcity brain. And so I made decisions still based on scarcity. Oh, I got to put this money here and invest it in all of these things. And I was in such a hurry to do this thing because, oh, well, now I don't have a business anymore. So I don't have a salary. So money's going to run out.

So now I got to create... And I was looking at myself and I'm going like, what is going on? And now I can look back and just see, oh, I never took the time to turn off that reptilian brain and actually take a moment to pause and be like, okay, I'm good. I'm safe. Let me put this in places and let me create a lifestyle where I'm safe.