the zurkie show - why you shouldn't give up

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

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It's because it's not supposed to be easy. When you challenge yourself, it's supposed to be hard. When I told people that I was going to Georgia for college, everyone told me, don't do it. What is there in Georgia for you? Why are you going out of state when you could do the same thing in state? Why? It was because I wanted a challenge. When I got dropped off at the University of Georgia, I remember feeling so excited.

It was like I was given my first taste of freedom and it was a decision I had made on my own. And as I waved goodbye to my parents, the one thing I didn't know was that a couple months later, I would be on a FaceTime with them begging to drop out because I had no friends, because I didn't know who I was and I was at the lowest point in my entire life. Sounds so dramatic. But it was true. I'm not going to sit here and act like it didn't happen. It did.

And I remember they told me something that kept me going. That gave me faith in what I was doing, was going to make me a better person, was going to develop me as a person. And then in the end, I was going to be okay. They said, Zorki, it won't be easy. What?

What do you mean it won't? be easy. This is supposed to be the best years of my life and majority of them I'm spending in my apartment alone distraught and upset at myself because I have no friends because I don't know what to do because I feel like I've made the wrong decision. What do you mean it won't be easy? Every challenge that makes you grow as a person, it won't be easy. In the moment you'll wonder, Why is this happening to me? Why am I dealing with this? I'm supposed to be living it up.

I'm supposed to be having a brat girl summer. Why does it feel so wrong? It's because it's not supposed to be easy. When you challenge yourself, it's supposed to be hard. It's supposed to be challenging. If you're doing the work to put yourself out of your comfort zone, it's not going to feel easy. Anything that you're striving towards, whether that's picking up a new language, right, whether that's training for a sport that you really want to get better at, whether that's

like reading, right? Just picking up the habit of reading, it won't be easy. It won't be easy. Some things will come to you easier. Some things will make you go into your flow state. But some things, they're going to fight you. No Jake Possible. Mike Tyson, they're going to fight you and it's going to be a K.O. They're going to knock you on your on your butt, on your boondah, and you're going to have to make a decision. Do you stay down or do you get up? Do you stay down or do you get up? Do you let that moment of challenge get in the way of you making progress towards something you actually care about? Do you let the fact that, sure, You have no friends.

You feel alone. You feel like you're second-guessing yourself. Do you let that get in the way of the goal, which is to grow? Or do you use it as motivation? At that moment, when I was on that call with my parents, the decision to me was clear. I can either relish in being unhappy or I can do something about it. Because I know the baseline is it won't be easy. That's something I know.

predict us, right? It's already not easy. So if it's not easy, I can either get going and get to a, or I can stay down and crumble. No cookie. And listen, a crumble cookie is good once in a while. Okay, I know they have new flavors all the time and all that, but there is so much to learn and to experience when you go into the pain and into the discomfort. Because you, you know, you you realize it's really not that bad. Maybe the hard thing is going to lead you to the thing that you actually want to do. Maybe going to Athens for me and studying at UGA allowed me to learn that I can live anywhere. I'll be able to make friends anywhere. I'll be able to be fine on my own. Rosen lasagna, medium power, 15 minutes. Sounds like Ojo time. Let's play.

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What's the fun in watching a team get blown out? There's no fun in that. After like the seventh goal, you're like, bro, turn it off. I already know what's going to happen. The good games are the ones that are close. That you win by a margin. It comes down to the wire. Those are the moments we live for.

It's the same thing in life. If this was easy, it'd be boring. I don't play Minecraft on peaceful mode anymore. I don't. Give me hard difficulty. Give me survival mode. Because the stakes are higher. And when you make progress in those stakes, it hit different.

It hit different. So challenge yourself this next year. Do something that's out your comfort zone. If you don't know what it is yet, spend some time. Think about it. What's something that makes your spine kind of shrivel up and be like, oh, I don't know if I want to do that. Maybe that's flying on a helicopter.

Getting a pilot's license. I don't know, but just know whatever you do. It won't be easy. And that's beautiful. There is so much beauty and it not being easy. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment. Imagine how good you're going to feel. After six months of consistency, after a year of consistently going to the gym and eating right,

imagine how proud of yourself you're going to be. I'm so proud that I stuck to it, that I went to this school and I gave it my all because I left my impact. I did. I did things that I didn't even imagine I could do. I met people I didn't even think I would meet. All because I understood it wasn't going to be easy, but I got going and I did it anyways.

Because however much thinking you do, it's not going to change the fact that it won't be easy. Like, this stays the same. It comes with, it won't be easy. That's like, it comes stock with it, right? So if you want to think about it, that's fine. But you at least know it's not going to be easy. So at least let's get to it.

Let's figure something out. Everyone in this life that is in a position that you want to be in, they knew it was not going to be easy. But they did it. So why can't you? We all don't start on an even playing field. It's a sad reality of life. But if we want to change that, if we want to get to a better place in our lives, we have to do something.

We all have to do something. Unequivocally across the board. And that's something, it probably won't be easy, but you will be happy that you did it. Zerky Show. Doon, dun dun dun dun dun dun. I love you. I love you so much. I hope you know that.

I hope the holidays are treating you very, very well, and I hope you're spending it the way you want to spend it. If you're tapped into the Zerky Show, you already know what I'm going to say. We are in unprecedented times, but the one thing we know for certain is that the Zirky Show, the Zirky Show is here to stay. If you want to watch it, if you want to listen to it,

here you go. Do the things that bring you joy, because this life is too short to do anything. else. Zirky's show, nature is awesome. Peace.