The Mindset Mentor - Shift Your Perspective on Life

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. And if you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so that you never miss another podcast episode. Today, I'm going to try to put your life into perspective and make you think deeper about the problems that you have going on, your worries, everything that's happening around you, and see if we can shift your perspective a little bit to make you realize how grateful you should be to be here and maybe the role that you play in the universe. So I want to give you some perspective real quick. The earth itself has been around for 4.5 billion years. Okay. And if you were to take that 4.5 billion years and make it one calendar year, just one calendar year. So

Starting point is 00:00:53 4.5 billion years is equivalent to 365 days with midnight, January 1st, representing the very first second that the earth is actually this thing called the earth. December 31st, you know, about to be, you know, January 1st of the next year is this current moment. So December 31st is right now, this present moment that we're in. Each calendar year would be equivalent to 12, I'm sorry, each calendar day would be equivalent to 12 million years. Just take that into, just think about that for a second. Each day would be the equivalent of 12 million years. If you were working with that in mind, of each calendar day being 12 million years,

Starting point is 00:01:44 simple bacteria, the first life on this planet, would pop up around February 25th. So it would take about 55, 56 days times 12 million years for simple bacteria to exist. Simple life forms would turn into more complex life forms, but simple life forms would dominate the earth from February 25th. And complex life forms such as fish wouldn't arrive until November 20th. So the majority of the year is already gone, and there's not even complex life forms. Now, like I said, fish would arrive somewhere around November 20th. Plants on land would arrive a couple days later around November 22nd, Thanksgiving time, you know, right around Thanksgiving time,

Starting point is 00:02:27 November 24th-ish, dinosaurs would arrive and then they would be extinct around Christmas day. So they'd be December 10th through December 24th or December 25th. And our first ancestors would not arrive until December 31st, 1136 PM. Let me say that again. Out of all of the time, the 4.5 billion years, the entire year, 12 million years per day in this calendar year,

Starting point is 00:03:01 humans, our ancestors would not arrive until the very last day, December 31st, at 1136. So humans have only been alive in this equivalent that we're talking about for 24 minutes out of the entire year. And everything that has happened in all of recorded human history, thousands and thousands and thousands of years, would have happened in the very last minute of the year. Is that mind-blowing to you like it is for me? Literally, all of recorded human history, everyone that you've known, all of the industrial revolution, all of the wars that have been fought,

Starting point is 00:03:42 the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, all of that, thousands and thousands of years, would be the equivalent to the very last minute. And let me give you another perspective. Another perspective that I've heard is if all of the earth's history were to be a 108-story building, basically the equivalent of what the World Trade Centers were, the original World Trade Centers. They're about 108 stories. And that's all of history on this earth in everything that's there. Human recorded history and how long we've been around would be the equivalent of the sheet of paint that they would put on the roof. So out of 108 story building, human history would be the equivalent of a sheet of paint on the top of the roof. Now, why do I say that to you?

Starting point is 00:04:34 Is it to make you feel insignificant? Is it to make you feel like nothing matters? No, not at all. The actually the opposite, because you can listen to that and go, oh my God, well, my life doesn't matter. Nothing matters. This is depressing to listen to. It's not. I actually think the exact opposite because what can listen to that and go, oh my God, well, my life doesn't matter. Nothing matters. This is depressing to listen to. It's not. I actually think the exact opposite because what it shows you is that if nothing truly matters, then what we're worrying about are fears that are holding us back from the life that we want. The judgment that we're worried about others, the opinions of others, none of those things actually even matter. If we're literally just the last minute of the entire year is the past few thousand years, then why don't we just go out and live the best freaking

Starting point is 00:05:13 life we can? If nothing truly matters, which I don't think that it does, you know, it's, it doesn't, it doesn't. That's what's awesome about it. It's this weird, you know, uh, complete opposites that we're working with. Like it doesn't matter at all, which makes it matter even more, right? Like that's the funny thing. But if you think about this and you really dive in deeply and you think about it, you go, man, this thing that I've been stressed out about for two weeks or a year or five years or whatever it is that it might be, does it actually even matter? This, you know, conversation, this argument that I just got into with this person, does it actually even matter? The people who are judging you on Instagram, does it even matter? The people that don't have the same opinions as you, does it even matter? The person that's going

Starting point is 00:05:56 to be voting for a different president than you, does it even matter? And the best part is, no, it doesn't. And with it not mattering, it makes it even more empowering. And the reason why it's more empowering is because now you can just play. Right now. I think that one of the greatest tragedies that ever happened to humans, and hopefully we can shift it in some sort of way, is that if you live in a city, you have lights on all the time, not just in your house, but I'm talking about like if you go outside, there's street

Starting point is 00:06:30 lights, all of that. And what that causes you to do is it causes there to be light pollution. And light pollution is basically means that at night, you know, it lights up the night sky, which means that you can't see the universe, the stars, the galaxy, everything as much as you could if it weren't there. And you know, we're in Sedona right now. And Sedona has this ordinance that at nine o'clock, everybody has to turn their outside lights off. Like it's an ordinance so that there's a lot less light pollution. Now is it perfect? Of course not perfect, but you walk outside and you look up and you go, holy shit. That's literally the first thing that comes out of your mouth. You're like, what?

Starting point is 00:07:07 I don't ever see this. And I'm in a city, you know? So if you go even further out of a city, like one of the things that we really want to do is we want to go to Big Bend, which is in Texas. It's, you know, just kind of in the middle of nowhere. It's 151 miles away from the nearest city, I believe. And some people say like there's no light pollution because you're so far from any near city that you could see everything. And I think that when you look up at the stars and you see them and you see how much space,

Starting point is 00:07:35 and we can't even comprehend how much space there is in space. It just doesn't make any sense to our human minds. It doesn't make any sense that something could never start and never end. Like there is no beginning. There is no end. There is no, you know, and it's constantly expanding. Like our brains can't understand that. And I love thinking about these things. I love thinking about how long human have been around. I love thinking about the universe and how far the, you know, that the, the sun is 93 million miles away from us. Like I can't even comprehend 93 million miles.

Starting point is 00:08:08 And it takes seven to eight minutes for a beam of light to go from the sun to us, 93 million miles. It takes seven to eight minutes. And some of the stars that are out there that you're looking at are billions of light years away. And you could be looking at a star that burnt out billions of years ago, but the light is still coming to you. Like all of these things are just mind-blowing. And I love to think about these mind-blowing things because it really puts your life into

Starting point is 00:08:36 perspective. And it makes you realize that nothing matters. And when nothing matters, it makes everything matter more. When your problems don't matter, when your worries don't matter, when the people that have the judgment don't matter, when your fears don't matter, all of those things make life a playground. I truly believe that this is a playground for us and that we're here to learn and grow in this playground and to have the best time that we can. Do we get caught up in playing in the toilet, which is what most people tend to be doing? Yeah, of course we get caught there. You know, I remember one time I was listening to a podcast and they basically said, you know, once you have your first real, you know, awakening or eye-opening experience or, you know, like a big psychedelic

Starting point is 00:09:18 experience, whatever it is, it might be a quote unquote awakening for you is it's basically like realizing that the entire time you've realized that you, your entire life, you've realized that you were at a water park, but you've been putting yourself through all of these things, these worries, these things that don't matter. And it's basically the equivalent of being at a water park. And instead of going out and playing and having fun on the rides, you've been sticking your head inside of the, inside of the urinal and flushing it, thinking that you were inside of a water park. And that's, that's the mental anguish that we put ourselves through of things that actually truly don't even matter. You've been flushing

Starting point is 00:09:51 the toilet on your own head. And then once you have this big spiritual awakening or psychedelic awakening or whatever it is, you know, that could happen to you. It could be somebody that you know, or someone that's really close to dies. And it like, boom, shifts your whole perspective on life. or someone that's really close to dies, and it like, boom, shifts your whole perspective on life, something like that happens, is it wakes you up and you go, oh my God, I have been looking at life in the wrong perspective this entire time. And now I can look at it from a different perspective and go, you know what? Do I want to keep flushing my head in the toilet? Nope, I don't. I don't want to keep flushing my head in the toilet. I'd rather walk outside of the bathroom door and go, oh my God, look at this incredibly beautiful, amazing playground that we get to live in. Like if you look outside at what nature is and

Starting point is 00:10:31 how complex and ridiculously complex, like we take for granted how complex and amazing nature is. Like I go for a hike and I see how symbiotic everything is and how everything's perfectly working together. And we think our BS technology that we're creating with virtual reality and all these things is cool, but it will never, humans will never be able to create anything as incredibly complex and perfect as nature is. And so when you go outside and you see those things, you start to realize nothing matters, which means that everything matters. It's a playground. It's beautiful. How can I go outside and enjoy it more? How can I

Starting point is 00:11:09 be more present with my children? How can I get on conversation with people? You know, even if they're across on the other side of the earth, the other side of, you know, the United States and get onto a FaceTime with them and spend some time and love and, and spend time doing the things that make me truly feel like I'm alive. Because if you look at the entire earth's history, we're literally in the last minute is all of human recorded history. And literally the time that we've been alive is like a millisecond of that entire year. So nothing matters, which means that everything matters even more, which means that you can fully extract the beautiful things out of life every single day when you put yourself into perspective and ask yourself the question, is what I'm worrying about right now or what

Starting point is 00:11:53 I'm focusing on right now, am I going to remember it in five years? And if you won't remember it in five years, don't spend more than five minutes worrying or thinking about it. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share with someone that you know and love. I would greatly, greatly, greatly appreciate it. Once again, we only grow when you guys continue to share this. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for always sharing this and helping us grow.

Starting point is 00:12:18 And when you do share it on your Instagram stories, go ahead and tag me in it. Rob Dyal, J-R-R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R. And I'm gonna to leave it the same way I leave you every single episode, make it your mission to make someone else's day better. I appreciate you and I hope that you have an amazing day.

The Mindset Mentor - Shift Your Perspective on Life

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