Tom Bilyeu

MTV just doesn't matter.

MTV was everything for us.

Not every young man plays video games.

What?

Or they play them on their phone?

Huh?

This is so weird.

There was a movie made called 8-Bit Christmas about how hard one kid went to get a Nintendo, which is literally my life story.

That's how we grew up, and it felt like it was gonna be forever.

and it's never forever, culture is always moving.

So people have this sense that it's static, but the world is changing rapidly, it will leave you behind, and the great tragedy of the human experience, and one of the reasons that adults, there's a sadness about adults, is they're just collecting all this scar tissue and,

There is something about the formation of the human mind that will make you love the things from your childhood more than you will ever love anything else ever in life.

Brain development says it is so.

And so if you want to know why nostalgia is such a thing, it's because nothing else will trigger you the way that those things triggered you.

Because of that, there's always gonna be this misunderstanding between youth and things like that.

I beseech adults to recognize that while it is true that the things that were hot when you were a kid, that's always gonna resonate with you,

that you can go through an affinity development process on new things, but you have to go through the process of figuring out why they're cool, understanding them completely, welcoming them into your life in a deep and profound way.

And in doing that, you can find yourself not a stranger in the current culture.

And that I would advise people do because like, for instance, when I hear you say, like, I wanna keep driving cars and I'm thinking, but Drew, we're gonna be flying.

So it's like, it's obviously better.