Motivation Daily by Motiversity - YOU NEED TO QUIT ALCOHOL - One of the Most Eye Opening Motivational Speeches Ever

Episode Date: August 8, 2023

Countless people including Tyson Fury, Dr.Jordan B Peterson, Rich Roll, and Niall Horan, explain how alcohol is destroying your life, and why you need to get rid of it entirely from your life."All alcoholic drinks, including red and white wine, beer, and liquor, are linked with cancer. The more you drink, the higher your cancer risk."Speakers:Tyson FuryDr. Jordan B PetersonNiall HoranSteven Bartlett: https://twitter.com/StevenBartlettRich Roll: https://twitter.com/richrollShowtime SportsMusic:Epidemic SoundSoundstripe▶Subscribe for New Motivational Videos Every Week:http://bit.ly/MotivationVids▶DOWNLOAD our Top 100 Quotes of All Time:https://bit.ly/topquotesfreepdf▶JOIN our Newsletter for Exclusive Updates, Discounts, and Deals: https://bit.ly/Motiversitynewsletter▶READ our Weekly Blog -https://bit.ly/motiversityblog▶SHOP Official Motivational Canvases and Apparel -https://bit.ly/motiversityshop▶BECOME A MEMBER of our loyal community!https://bit.ly/motiversitymembers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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because I was 100% certain I was going to hit the floor and die. The only thing I could think about was my kids having no father growing up. And that was it. Nothing else really mattered. Alcohol is an extraordinarily pernicious drug. And if you're inclined towards it, you can be inclined towards it because you're sensitive to its anxiety, reducing properties, or you can be sensitive to it because it enhances social communication,

or because it produces a psychomotor high like cocaine, or all of those at once. And if you're particularly predisposed to alcoholism, you can experience all three at once. Having a lot of time, I think a lot of people had this same sort of thing, alcohol. It was getting earlier and earlier. Easier and easier to go to. It was a situation in which, no matter what I did, you didn't quite get the validation that you were seeking, so you're always chasing it a little bit more, a little bit more, to the point where, unbeknownst to me or on an unconscious level, like, I needed to escape that paradigm.

And my first escape was through drugs and alcohol. Every time I had done something or said something that I regretted, it was when I was drinking. And I thought at one point, maybe I don't want to live a life where I'm continually wishing that I hadn't said or done something. And I just spiraled out of control. I didn't care. I didn't want to live. I'd lost a passion to live. So nothing meant anything.

A boxing career, well, that was the last thing on my mind. But when you wake up the next day, you're even more depressed than you started. Because whatever is in the alcohol puts you in a bad state afterwards. I didn't care. It was like, oh, you've worked all your life for this. He's not bothered my wife, I'd say. I'd say, no, I don't care if I had nothing. I don't care if I was dead.

In the world of alcohol, you're either a victim or a perpetrator. traitor, and both roles lead to destruction. Alcohol-fueled environments breed chaos, leading to tragedy and suffering for those involved. Alcohol is the one in control, and for those who abuse it, you're but a mere host. It has a cruel way of altering behavior, turning yourself into someone unrecognizable, and turning loved ones into strangers. Alcohol, because it enhances, and also suppresses anxiety is a good social anxiety medication. But the problem is you don't learn how to conduct yourself as a sober individual in social circumstances.

And you learn very rapidly to rely on the alcohol, not only as a social lubricant, but as the basis of your social behavior. And I would say to young people who are watching listening, that's a stupid plan. You should learn how to be in a social group with others when you're sober so that you bloody well know how to do it. I had a friend in Montreal.

They had this monkey ranch on St. Kitts. And they used to go down there and study the effects of alcohol on green monkeys, which 5% of whom would drink to coma on first exposure. And they had videotapes of these damn monkeys drinking. And it looked like a frat party, you know. But 5% of them on first exposure would drink to coma. And those were the monkeys that had a biological predisposition to alcohol, to alcoholism.

And alcohol is a really bad drug, you know. 50% of murders take place in an alcohol-fueled environment, either the victim or the perpetrator or both is drunk. It's almost the sole cause of domestic abuse. It's almost the sole cause of so-called date rape. If you dig into criminal behavior deeply enough, well, hell, you don't have to dig much at all before you find alcohol. It's also the only drug we know that actually makes people more aggressive.

Think about that for a moment. Such a staggering statistic should be alarming. It should frighten us and surprise us to say the least. But we all know it. We hear 50% of domestic abuse and fatal crimes are due to alcohol, and likely we are surprised to learn that the statistic isn't higher. 70% makes more sense. 80%. If it's such a commonplace piece of knowledge,

why do we keep returning to the bottle? We know it causes harm. We've all seen it one way or another. This should serve as a harsh reminder, because there is an undeniable connection between alcohol and violence. There is a connection between intoxication and destruction. But we still return to the bottle.

My business partner, when we started the business, became an alcoholic about three, four years in because it was just too tough. And then he had like severe side ideation. He actually didn't tell me at the time. And this is why when I was reading about your story, I could relate to so much of it because I didn't say what I was going through to him. He didn't say it to me. And then it was like after we'd sold the business,

that he was like, I used to stand on the train platforms and think about jumping in front of the train. I didn't know what alcoholism or really mental health was at the time, but I'd go downstairs at 3am in the morning and I'd open up the laundry room and he's in there with a bottle of wine at 3am. The lights are off and he's just drinking it, sat on the clothes. And I read similar thing, similar sort of story or narratives in your story where, you know, you were having moments of that kind of like ideation. You were having moments of style ideation and...

Yeah, I mean, there's some stuff that I've definitely like never. I'd never spoken about to do with it. There was really, really, really severe. And it was a problem. And it was only until I saw myself after that I was like, right, I need to fix myself. It was like few pictures of me on a boat, and I'm all, like, blow it out.

And I call it pills and boo's face. And I was like this. Like, my face was just like 10 times more than it is now. And I just didn't like myself very much. Then I made a change. The problem we had in the band, and I don't blame anybody for this. I don't want to seem like I'm whining or moaned.

Oh, my God, look at my life. Whatever. But it feels to me like, when we were in the band, the best way to secure us, because of how big it got was just lock us in our rooms. And of course, what's in the room? Mini bar. So at a certain point, I thought, well, I'm going to have a party for one.

And that just seemed to carry on throughout many years in my life. And then you look back how long you've been drinking this before. You're like, Jesus Christ, that's a long time, even for someone who's, you know, as long as I was. It doesn't matter how you got to this point of the road. It only matters how you get back home. Alcohol. It may have seemed like a temporary escape. But in reality, you know that it's a lot.

long-term trap. Whatever it takes to break free, that is your task. It's your responsibility. I knew I was just spiraling out of control. The only thing I could think of to make it better go away for a bit was getting drunk. Wow. And that just led to problems after problems after problems. So the answer to that question is nothing can make it go away except medical advice.

I live in the moment because that's the only thing we have in our lives. So moments in time. And as soon as I've gone out of that door, we can never reverse back. and play it again because it's real life. It's not a dress rehearsal. So I don't really care what happens five minutes ago. I'm just going to keep going today and living today and enjoy myself because I know what God gives God can take away in the flash of a second.

It can all be turned upside down and I've experienced it. But I believe it was a massive test because sometimes in life when everything's going great for you and you don't know good from bad, you need to experience a little rain sometimes so you can enjoy the sunshine again. Overcoming the struggles of addiction makes you see. stronger than when you started. Don't make alcoholism who you are. Make it who you were. Make it the story you tell when you refuse your next drink. Your decision to quit alcohol is not just about removing something from your life. It's about creating space for something new.

And you can do it too if you let yourself. It actually makes people more aggressive, not merely because they don't know what they're doing. We did experiments at McGill showing that if you took drunk people and put them in a competitive environment where they could be aggressive and had them keep track of their aggression, so they were actually conscious of it, they became more aggressive even rather than less. So yeah, alcohol's bad news and it can turn perfectly good people into quite the impulsive and dim-witted monsters.