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Big Sean

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

Honestly, the expense of affecting my soul and changing the person that I was and depleting my body, it shut it off. It creates synthetic dopamine in your brain. So it creates all this dopamine, but your natural dopamine that is responsible for your happiness, for your inspiration or your creativity, who makes you who you are, it shuts off. It shuts it off.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

Honestly, the expense of affecting my soul and changing the person that I was and depleting my body, it shut it off. It creates synthetic dopamine in your brain. So it creates all this dopamine, but your natural dopamine that is responsible for your happiness, for your inspiration or your creativity, who makes you who you are, it shuts off. It shuts it off.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

And after a while you're kind of relying on this synthetic dopamine only. And I remember as time went on, I would go in the studio and I feel like I couldn't do anything without it. And that's when I knew I had a real problem with it. So I went cold turkey and that is like, that was probably the second bout of depression in my life that I went through.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

And after a while you're kind of relying on this synthetic dopamine only. And I remember as time went on, I would go in the studio and I feel like I couldn't do anything without it. And that's when I knew I had a real problem with it. So I went cold turkey and that is like, that was probably the second bout of depression in my life that I went through.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

That was like, that's when I was like wanting to kill myself. Like, I was just like, my mom was playing all these tricks on me. Right. It didn't matter that I had a big ass house in Beverly Hills. It didn't matter that I had millions of dollars in the account. And it didn't matter because as great as a lot of those things are, they're still separate. I'm wearing a Linkin Park shirt.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

That was like, that's when I was like wanting to kill myself. Like, I was just like, my mom was playing all these tricks on me. Right. It didn't matter that I had a big ass house in Beverly Hills. It didn't matter that I had millions of dollars in the account. And it didn't matter because as great as a lot of those things are, they're still separate. I'm wearing a Linkin Park shirt.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

Chester, I can't speak for him, God rest his soul, but who would think that like, oh, that... someone who's one of the biggest rock stars in the world in a band, regardless of what they talk about in their music, would do that. Or Kurt Cobain, all these things, right? It's because it's all separate. And I'm not saying that money can't make you happy, by the way.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

Chester, I can't speak for him, God rest his soul, but who would think that like, oh, that... someone who's one of the biggest rock stars in the world in a band, regardless of what they talk about in their music, would do that. Or Kurt Cobain, all these things, right? It's because it's all separate. And I'm not saying that money can't make you happy, by the way.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

I don't like when rich people get on camera and be like, money isn't everything. It isn't everything, but it's a lot. It's a resource that is very needed in anything you need to do in this world.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

I don't like when rich people get on camera and be like, money isn't everything. It isn't everything, but it's a lot. It's a resource that is very needed in anything you need to do in this world.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

You need it. So it is important. It's very important. I'm not going to sit in here and say it isn't. But it was separate from what I had to deal with at the time. So, yeah, I went cold turkey. And that's when I stopped everything I was doing. And I called my mom, who we weren't on great terms. And she came out and was in my house with me. My mom has always... Shout out my dad, too.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

You need it. So it is important. It's very important. I'm not going to sit in here and say it isn't. But it was separate from what I had to deal with at the time. So, yeah, I went cold turkey. And that's when I stopped everything I was doing. And I called my mom, who we weren't on great terms. And she came out and was in my house with me. My mom has always... Shout out my dad, too.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

My dad is with me today, too. I love my dad. He's like, man, make sure you shout me out, too. I'm going to shout you out, too. My dad is great. But my mom at that point, in those certain points in my life, just a few key points, she knew what she had a solution to offer me always. And I really appreciate that. It's something I hope to do for my kid and kids today.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

My dad is with me today, too. I love my dad. He's like, man, make sure you shout me out, too. I'm going to shout you out, too. My dad is great. But my mom at that point, in those certain points in my life, just a few key points, she knew what she had a solution to offer me always. And I really appreciate that. It's something I hope to do for my kid and kids today.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

And she was like, introduced me to, you know, she was who put me on meditation. She just would always introduce me to certain things. Try this, try this method. And then I started realizing how connected physical, mental, emotional, spiritual are. And I started working out. I started prioritizing myself and started putting me first. Started reconnecting with things I wanted to do.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

And she was like, introduced me to, you know, she was who put me on meditation. She just would always introduce me to certain things. Try this, try this method. And then I started realizing how connected physical, mental, emotional, spiritual are. And I started working out. I started prioritizing myself and started putting me first. Started reconnecting with things I wanted to do.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

Started trying new things. Jumping out of planes. I was doing, going to the gun range. Just trying things out that... I was like, hey, that's interesting. Let me try it. And it really helped me reconnect with myself. I started watching anime again. And then I had to take a break from the studio because I couldn't think of anything. And then I finally got back in and was inspired again.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

Started trying new things. Jumping out of planes. I was doing, going to the gun range. Just trying things out that... I was like, hey, that's interesting. Let me try it. And it really helped me reconnect with myself. I started watching anime again. And then I had to take a break from the studio because I couldn't think of anything. And then I finally got back in and was inspired again.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

And life is the greatest inspiration. But what I can say is to people who are addicted to Adderall and other drugs that... That synthetic high is very temporary and it's at an expense. And it's different when people who have ADHD who necessarily need it, but there are even other ways to deal with that. And I guarantee you, they will take less of your body.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)

And life is the greatest inspiration. But what I can say is to people who are addicted to Adderall and other drugs that... That synthetic high is very temporary and it's at an expense. And it's different when people who have ADHD who necessarily need it, but there are even other ways to deal with that. And I guarantee you, they will take less of your body.