the zurkie show - just place the next brick

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

the building will come, but first you need to make sure you're placing the blocks correctly.sending you all lots of love and peaaaaaaaaace!https://linktr.ee/thezurkieshow

I was what you called a Lego boy. Legos were my childhood. Every Christmas, in my beautiful Chicago suburban home, I would run down the carpeted stairs right to where the Legos were, and I shook them, and I was trying to figure out, what is this? Is this the Lego Star Wars Star Destroyer? No, the box is a little small. Is this a building?

The Cafe Corner from the Modular Series, maybe. I was in deep, but it's funny. In all those years of building Legos and having Legos at my house and getting upset when my friends would come over and just destroy them because they could. Legos actually taught me an insanely important lesson that has defined the way I see progress and the way that I build my life. And that is all things in life that you want to achieve. You have to build on it. you have to build on it. How? Well, we often think that we will get what we want if we just want it. We often think that if we go to college, if we go to a new city, if we challenge ourselves, we will automatically get what we desire.

Going to college, you think you're going to automatically meet your best friends until you realize you're in a school with 20,000, 30,000 people. and you have to build on your relationships. You don't just get them for free, for the famo. That's not how it works. Sometimes you think you're going to move to a new city, and it's going to solve all of your problems, like all of the things that you left in your hometown that you kind of, you kind of ditched them,

but there were some issues that were more internal than they were external. You're going to be able to fix them in this new place. I tried that one. You got to build on it. And this time you got to build on it, usually alone. Oh, pardon? You want to be in a relationship. I've heard it before.

And you get in one. You go on a hinge date. It goes well. That's awesome. Great. You two both like Fleetwood Mac. Dope. But guess what?

you quickly realize that just because you like the same bands and you got the same taste in I don't know cool tattoos it does not mean that you have the foundation for a good relationship and you have to build on it if you want things to work you have to build on them that is the rule of thumb and building on it is not glamorous it is the equivalent of when you're building Legos and you're looking at the box and you have this. I mean, it's laughable is what it is, right? But you want to build the Concord. Or you want to build

the, you know, Lego Ninjongo set. Like, you see the vision, but what you have in front of you is a whole lot of Schmidt. I think we have sailed into the important thing that Legos have also taught me patience. You need patience. Things take time and oftentimes they take a lot more time than we think they do. And I get it. I'm impatient. I want to know right away. I want to, you know, be able to just get it tomorrow. Why do I need to wait a week?

Why can't it just come to my door tomorrow? Fine, I won't order it. But all of the good things that are lasting and that are able to bring you support, kindness, love. You have to build them. Need a vehicle that isn't afraid to make a splash? That's the Volkswagen Touse.

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You have to build them, and guess where you have to build them the most. Within yourself, which is insanely hard. It is insanely hard. It is insanely hard to stay consistent. Have you tried to stay consistent with something, going to the gym consistently? It's difficult. It's so difficult.

Have you tried to stay motivated to wake up at a certain hour of the day? I want to wake up at 5 a.m. Okay. Sorry. That's not happening for me. But you've wanted to do something. You've wanted to change yourself. It is insanely hard.

And usually it's because we expect that if we just tell ourselves we're going to change, it will happen. No. Sorry. You can't tell the Lego set to build it. self and it will be built. No, you got to get your hands dirty. You got to step on a few Legos and think that you're, you know, you're going to go to the hospital. But you know something that's really interesting about Legos when I look back at all my favorite sets that I built was the person I built them with. And that is my dad. Me and my dad built a lot of those sets.

And by me and my dad built, I opened the box and I would watch him build it, or I would would get bored halfway through and leave him to build it all by himself. I'm sorry, my bad, bro. My bad. It was interesting because when we tackled a Lego project together, man, it made the process of building all of that schmid a whole lot easier. It's like I didn't even think about the end goal. The end goal was going to happen.

I knew that eventually. But it was about the time that. that I spent with him. And in a similar sense, when you are going to be building these things in your life, whether that is, right, building your education,

going to a good school, building relationships that are important to you, building yourself as a human being, learning, having an eagerness to learn information and dive into your passions and be,

present with who you are, you'll actually realize that the company you are around is as important as the things that you do. And I can't stress it enough. Having my dad made that process fun, when I did it alone, it's kind of like, boring. Having accountability partners to build with it takes you so much further than doing it all alone. And we're tempted to do it all alone because there is this all lure to getting it on your own and making it happen on your own. But every beautiful solo goal that you see on the highlight reels, right, it all came from a pass. Someone had to pass the ball in order for that person to go on and have their brilliant run. crime at he Nazar, a Chelsea.

Real ones will remember. Come on. The company is so important. The company is so important. The company is so important. Have good people around you. How do you find these good people? You have to find other builders. Because there are people that will try to destroy what you build,

and there are a lot of them out there. I'm just being real. I don't want to scare you. I'm just being real with what it is. and the way that they destroy what you've built is by taking advantage of you and your time. Amazon presents Jeff versus Taco Truck Salsa, whether it's Verde, Roja, or the orange one.

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Don't squander it. Don't spend it doing things you don't want to do. Don't spend it with people that you find uninteresting. You have free will for a reason. Exercise it. You aren't chained to anybody. If somebody is not filling your cup, not making you smile, not making you feel like there's more to this world, more to explore, you don't really want to spend time around them. And every time you do, you're drained, you're like, oh my goodness, goodbye.

Goodbye. Good riddins. You don't have time for these kind of things, especially if you want to build. just won't. There's also a lot of distractions like, listen, you can build those Legos, right? But if you build them watching a TV show, oftentimes it's going to be slower than if you just focus on building them. Now, you can focus on building the Legos and take a break and check out the TV show. You get me? But doing things at the same time, it's difficult. And oftentimes, like, we try to put on a lot on our plate, and it's like building 10 different Lego sets at once.

That's a lot of different bricks. That's a lot of different movements, different instructions. Focus on one. Really make it a mission to focus on one. What is the most important thing right now that you need to build on? What is it? Is it your sleep schedule? Is it your habit of self-sabotage?

You don't want to do that anymore. Is it your relationship? Have you kind of been a bad partner? Have you kind of been absent? Have you kind of been in the passenger seat of your relationship? Okay. It's okay to admit that. But hey, it's time to build on it.

Another thing you've got to be really mindful about is where is your focus? Because if your focus is on the end goal, is on the set, that's on the box, right? Like you see it and you're like, I want that thing. But the actual experience of building it isn't fun. It's a drag for you. You don't enjoy it. I would argue that it's not worth it.

The journey has got to be worth it for you. The journey has to be one that kind of is challenging, but it inspires you and it makes you want to keep going and not quit. Because if it doesn't do that, then you're just, you're going to be. fighting an uphill battle and every kind of distraction that you get, you will take it naturally. Why wouldn't you? If you're not enjoying it, if you don't feel like you're suffering, because it is kind of suffering, right? Even building a Lego set, it's supposed to be fun, but it is kind of like, bruh, I can't

find this brick and there's only one of them, bruh, right? There's a lot of that. if the experience of building on it is just a drag, how can you expect the end goal? You're not going to get there. You're not. And I think this is where this idea of like being realistic with yourself comes into play. But I think that realism, like being realistic with yourself also is used as a defense mechanism.

I think a lot of people use that to deflect hard work and to also just like cut their wings. before they've even soorn. RBC Training Ground has discovered potential in over 20,000 Canadian athletes and counting. Your story could be next. If you've got the drive, they'll help you find your path to the Olympics. Let's see what you've got. Sign up for free at rbc trainingground.ca. Just be careful.

That's all I'm saying. Just be careful. But build on it. Find things to build on. Find people to build with. Man, I mean, the beautiful thing is that we're all constantly building. That's like the one thing we can all really agree on, at least the people that are actively trying to. And although somebody might

have like a Lego Friends set or a Lego Pirates of the Caribbean set, like you can still relate to them because you've built your own things. And you can share experiences and share knowledge from how you've been able to build things. There's really a lot of merit to having people around that are also about the same things that you are about, but are in a completely different field or do something completely differently. We often isolate ourselves to our own little pocket.

We think these are the only people that we can be around because we do the same things. We hang out in the same groups. Broaden your horizons. Find other bricks to build with. Man, it doesn't need to be the prettiest thing. it can just work. But I would argue that the more diversity you have in your perspectives, in the way that you see your life,

in the way that you do things, in the way that you act and the actions, that is really where you're going to build the best things for yourself. You're going to look back and be like, whoa, like this is cool. This is sick. It's just food for thought, but the act of building, the act of building. is a labor of love. It's a labor of love. It's a labor of sacrifice.

It's a labor of understanding that, like, dude, if you want to fix your sleep schedule, you can't stay up on Discord until 2 a.m. You can't. I mean, you can. You can do that. But building takes sacrifice. Takes your time.

A Lego set takes your time. You wanted to play FIFA. Okay, you can't. You got to build Legos. You know? so just keep that in mind and don't be afraid of the work don't be afraid of the work if you have not started the work this idea that like oh man like how do i even get started being in shape or training to be on varsity next year for soccer start it start it you you make the end goal

into this monster in your brain sometimes when we look at the at the set that we're building it's like, oh my goodness, this is, this is too much. How am I going to do all of this? But it's all in the tiny steps. It's all in the tiny steps and the tiny bricks that you put together. If the step for you is getting better at your financial game, because you're Loki spending a lot of money at Panera bread or something, I don't know. You're getting at Mike's way all the time.

Okay. Maybe step in the right direction is instead of going to Chili's every day of the week and racking up $300 in credit card debt. cook something at home one of those days. All right. I won't. You can have a triple dipper, okay? Five days out of the week. Maybe one of them you can

do something else, okay? Do something else. Make some mac and cheese. Make some pierogi, some bigos for all my Polish homies out there. Shouts out to you. But the main thing is like the small step, the small step is underrated. Like

building the Lego set. some of those tiny little, you know, blocks that I placed onto my weird structure that wasn't the finished structure, right? My work in progress. Those were my favorite pieces to, like, look at and, you know, play around with and use. And I look back at that excitement that I had for the Legos when I would run down during Christmas. And now I have that same kind of excitement for a lot of things and a lot of the habits I've built in my life. own life. You know, I'm a huge advocate for journaling. I love journaling. And I now have, I think, roughly like four journals from age 16, 17 to 24. And these are like physical pieces of media that I can look through and they show something about my life. You can do something similar.

It doesn't have to be a journal, but you can do something similar within your own life where you will look back and be very, very happy and excited about what you did and the time that you spent doing it. But be careful. It has to be genuine, I'm telling you, because if you are chasing after something that you do not like, if you are trying to build a set that you don't really care about, you won't be able to build on it. So be mindful, Zerky Show, because the way you spend your time, it matters. Today's episode of The Zirky Show was filmed in beautiful Cripple Creek, Colorado. If you're ever in the United States, man, come out to Cripple Creek, Colorado.

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