Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - That Thing Called Life | A Motivational Speech About Not Giving Up

Episode Date: January 18, 2021

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for" - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Montesquieu once wrote that we received three educations. One from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. That thing called life, right? And the more I think about this, the more I get it. The most important rules are the unwritten rules. The most significant boundaries are the ones we learn. to ignore. The greatest tests don't concern what we know, but our ability to move forward when we don't.

It's the real world that shows us we only get meaning through sacrifice and discomfort. That shows us the homes we lived in and the classrooms we learned in were meant to block out the uncertainty and unpredictability of life. They were meant to draw a line directly from effort to result in cause to effect, but the line that the real world draws, well, it isn't so straight. At least not all the time. And it's this third education that shows us how powerful we truly are. Sometimes I think back to the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey, that first year, the writing, the recording, the producing, the editing. The beginnings of a pursuit that I believe to be so important.

looking around and just seeing no result, like none, and thinking, how could this be? You know, I worked so hard, suffered so much, I put all of me into this, only to realize I had no clue what all of me meant. And what I thought constituted life was really just the tip of an iceberg that extended so far underwater that it would take a lifetime to uncover. The real world upon introduction always starts by showing you how much you don't know. And I look back and I don't really think about the financial concerns, although they were very real. I don't remember much of the everyday worry and anxiety bouncing around in my head, although it was definitely there.

I remember learning one of the greatest lessons I've ever learned that life is hard. but it's supposed to be and it's not standing in front of you hands on hips saying you can't have this it's extending its hand out saying my friend if you want this it's yours but understand what that means understand that you'll spend a good portion of your time

unsure about your path that you'll exhaust energy that will a lot of the time go unappreciated. That the easy road is fine, but it caps you way before your best. And if you want to take this on, this road before you, you have to pay a higher price.

They can have predictability and peace of mind and comfort, but this path it takes you to purpose and meaning and an evolved self. And you may think you understand what it means to be proud now But wait until you touch these things. Wait until you look at your reflection, knowing that the person staring back at you could have said no time and time again, but didn't. Just wait, my friend, until you feel what that is like.

Your parents and grandparents can't tell you. No book can't explain it for you. It's the curriculum of life, the real-world education. Where the tuition is temporary discomfort and graduation isn't one but a million little evolutions. It is the stage that's calling your name, the one you're ready for, whether you know it or not.