Ric Elias

We have to-do lists.

Everything is a do.

Society rewards us.

for accomplishing things, for 450 podcasts, for this and that, that's doing.

And what you realize when you get to my age is like being, it's like a much better state of mind.

Being is a place where there's nothing to do, where you're actually doing things for no reason at all.

You're doing it because you feel connected to whatever it is.

And it's really hard when you spend 110% of your time doing to find the muscle and find the space

to start being, and wellbeing is a place where you feel really settled inside and you spend the time you want just feeling connected to whatever you wanna be connected to.

And you suspend all the societal bullshit that we give so much power to.

that manipulates the way that we think the world wants us to show up.

So to me, this is like a really interesting journey, and I think I'm early in this journey.

My hope is in the next 10, 20 years is Die Peacefully will be understanding that I became super clear on how to live life the way that I think my soul was intended to live.

How would you assess a peer group, let's say a group of financially successful people that appear on the covers of magazines or something, how many of them are well-

or thinking about this?

I don't know many people that are well.

I think everybody's on a journey, but you and I know a lot of people that are in those magazines.

And it's not that they don't have well moments, and it's not like their good is a bad thing either, but it's just really hard for our egos.

It's really hard for what others may say of us.

It's really hard for society's value to put on us, not to affect us.