Big Sean

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The School of Greatness · Big Sean: The Scarcity Illusion He Broke for His Family · 20 Jan 2025 podcast
I know I wanted to, and I probably didn't understand if somebody who has made millions of dollars, say, oh money isn't everything it's like well it is everything like it'll change my whole situation but my what what i realized in that situation for me personally is that that had nothing to do with how i felt and it's because one i was abusing i feel like i was abusing adderall at the time and
Adderall, you know, they don't tell you that, but it's really synthetic heroin and all sorts of craziness. There's just a lot to that, a lot of layers to that, right? So I was taking that type of stuff. I was not taking care of myself physically. You know, I was super skinny at the time, too. I was, like, malnourished. I was high a lot, you know. I was drunk sometimes, a lot of times.
Not all the time, but like a very occasional drinker. Not just like I wasn't drinking every night, but like every time there was a function, you know, I would abuse it. Not abuse it, but I would indulge in it. Sure. So all of those things add up and they have a long term effect on your brain.
They have a long-term effect on the dopamine your brain creates that leads to your creativity, leads to your happiness, leads to your living a, you know, your mind. My dad said on my album Dark Sky Paradise, your mind can be a trickster. And it'll make you really believe that you aren't meant to live. It'll make you really feel like you're not who you are. Really? You know what I mean? Sure.
And so at that point in my life, I was confused. I had my head down and was working, working, working so much that I had to be on Adderall, working so much that I had to go from one thing to the next thing to the next thing to the next thing without satisfying myself first by doing what makes me happy. I let go of all of my passions that I love. I let go of no free time.
It's like, this is the time to get money. You know, we come from a place like Ohio, right. Or Detroit or like, you know, the Midwest in general, where when you get an opportunity, it's like, you got to take advantage of it. You got to keep your foot on a neck. You got to like, keep your foot on the gas. Like you don't let up, like don't let the opportunity pass.
And you kind of take that idea and it's implanted in you. And it's one of those things that you just like move forward with. Right. And you take it with you and you're like, I got to do this. I got to do that. I got to do that. I got to do that. Or else I'm going to,
fall off and and go back to be irrelevant or something or yeah whatever we're just go back to living with you know it's like you create these stories like i'm gonna go back to living where i grew up at right like for me i grew up in i grew up in the hood and like i remember when i was analyzed it i'm gonna go back to the point where i analyzed like yeah what if everything didn't work out and i moved back to the hood
I was happy there, too. Like, I'll figure it out still. Like, you know what I mean? So I'm not scared of that. Like, you can't let anything... You can't live a fear-based life for sure, you know? So point being is that, you know, when I... When I realized that all of those things weren't separate, I knew I had to make a change and I just quit doing everything. You know, I quit.
I like canceled everything I had to do, canceled everything that I had coming up. And I was like, I got to figure out why I feel like this.
interesting and it took a long time and somehow the universe was blessing me still like i never like was really low on money or low like the universe was providing its means for me to figure it out and that's how i knew it was in alignment with what i needed to do wow you know it's hard to say no to money sometimes and big opportunities though right it is got this artist or this person or this tv show that wants to do something with you and you say
It is a lot of power. And yeah, because you're not coming from a place of scarcity. You know, your your character, your person comes first. You got to know the order of operations. You know what I'm saying? And you're at the top of that. So, yeah, it's great. You know, there are times where my team looked at me like, yo, you passed up on this amount of money.
because you were, I was like, yeah, I was exhausted and I was this and I had to be here for my son and I had to do that and more will come. I believe in that. I really truly do. And it does. Yes. So you have to have that faith in yourself. You have to have that invisible bridge below you and know that you're going to walk across it and get to the other side.
You're not going to fall flat on your face.
Yes, I really feel like that. I talk about that on a song I have called Break the Cycle with Charlie Wilson, produced by my boy Leon Thomas. And I say, like, one of the cycles I broke in my family is the illusion of scarcity. Because it really is an illusion. And you could be like, no one can, you know, I didn't have any type of advantage coming into the world, you know, necessarily.
Like, I didn't have, like, any padding financially. I didn't have anything. Like I did have a grandma who worked real hard, who was a female black captain in World War II. And then she was a, One of the first female cops in Detroit and then a teacher and a counselor was a historical woman. And she did all these amazing things.
And she worked her ass off to give us a great, you know, the best life that she could provide her and my granddad. But we still financially had a lot of troubles, you know, so I think it was something that. A lot of us get taught early, like, oh, money's hard to come by. That's the concept that's not really true. Even the concept of, man, playing video games is a waste of your time.
It's more than playing video games right now. Making millions right now. Bank. Yeah, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. It's like that really, in hindsight, teaches you that just do what you love. There's a there's a audience pool and a necessity for anything, especially if your heart is attached to it. So my thing is, I had to over time just make an agreement with God that.
i'll never have to worry about that that meaning like like i'll always get provided was what I need. As long as I'm operating from my heart and am of service, then I always have all that I need, period.
Man, I have to give it up to Deepak Chopra because The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.
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