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You know, I wish somebody would have pulled up and said, "Let me share with you five life principles that you'll need to know." The same thing would have been like, "If you have any kind of notoriety or fame, here's what's going to happen to you and just expect it." Do you have I know I'm making you do it off the top of your head, but do you have five for somebody who goes through that experience?
I'll make them up right now. I don't have them written down. Well, just generally is the number one is hate. is that hate um really messes with people's minds because it undermines their idea of respect and status and you know um their relationship with the world and I know in being in these private chat groups with a bunch of people who are famous that they really are really bothered by it the hate that they receive. Okay. Exactly. And so one is you you I think that you it's not good enough to just even become neutralized with it, right? You really I think you really want to embrace it and find uh energy from it, right? For me, it's a power source. It it's an energy source. And so I'd say first is you have to really reconcile like what is that hate? What does it mean to you? How do you leverage it and turn it to power versus how do you hide from it? Because if you hide from it, it's going to make you a weak person. You're always going to be running their scripts in your mind versus your scripts of moving forward. And so you become owned by them.
Uh then two, I'd say that, you know, when I made money at age 34, one of the lessons that I wish I would have learned, and this would apply to what I've learned now again, is when there's a power differential with money, everyone around you now wants that money. And it just is like it doesn't matter even if their intentions are good. The money changes your relationship with the world. Everybody around you, friends, family, loved ones, everybody. And so you just have to be aware that that's changed and that over time even your best relationships may go sour because that is now a complication. Even with yourself, it changes. So that is amplified dramatically with fame. So now I have wealth and I have fame. And so it's a double whammy. And so it's almost amplified where I it's become so challenging for me to be in social environments that the smallest of things get me in trouble. Like the things I make like the comments I make, you know, that are trying to be like messing around, having fun, they blow back on me in some way. So it really is isolating. So you in that isolation, you need to find a tribe that you can be yourself, be calm, like be open. But I understand why uh wealth and power and and fame put you in these clusters. It's just very very hard and it's just um it's honestly sucks, right? Cuz I don't want that to be the case. But even yeah, being out and about now in the public like I just can't go anywhere uh without being stopped dozens of times. And of course on every interaction I want to be kind and I want to be thoughtful and I want to like make eye contact and say how are you? What's happening and or whatever. But it's just it gets really complicated really fast like so those would be two is just like understand that complication two have a powerful relationship with hate uh like under make it but three is uh understand that fame is I would rather have fame than wealth.