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And the heartfelt Welcome back to the movement Warrior. Thanks for tuning in this week. It's been a while since we've had the opportunity to share each other's presence. Thank you for being here now. It's also been a while since I've broadcasting to you all from nature. And I'm in this weird space where I'm trying to figure out my new process. So if you go back two years ago, when I first started this addition of my podcast, I've had actually had a couple of podcasts over the years. When I started finally started the Brian Chambers podcast A little over two years ago. Most of my recording was out here in places like this. Um, I didn't record much at home at all. In fact, a lot of the home studio that I had had prior to two years ago, uh, either sold or gave away toe other musician friends and whatnot, because at that time I had gotten out of completely where was getting out of completely the business of making content for social media and the Internet. I was gonna ride off into the sunset and walk away from it, but I had some things kind of call me back in. So most of my podcast in the beginning days were brought to you right from an iPhone, uh, similar to the one I'm holding, Certainly not his high quality, but very similar. Now you're also gonna notice some heavy breathing. Probably during this podcast. I'm out here on my workout trail, which also includes some pretty steep hills. So just be aware that be aware that I'm also out in some semblance of public, Even though I'm in a park so you may hear people, you may hear birds. You are inevitably going to hear a lawnmower before the end of this. It never fails. I have never come outside to shoot a podcast on any day on any time of the year like this is dead of winter. Someone will be mowing a lawn or wood chipping or something along those lines before this show is over. So just brace yourselves for it. I will do my best in the after editing to take those things out for you. So you don't have to listen to them as severely as I'll probably be listening to them. But I also hope that because the rhythm of this podcast has been over the last several months. Monday morning, six AM I'm right there with you in the trenches helping you push forward to take command of your life and make this world a little bit better of a place, right? So I am not? No, I'm not ignorant to the idea that many of you I'm your Monday morning start. Uh, you will never know how honored I am that those of you who have told me that you'll never understand how honored I am that I made it into that space in your life that I made it into anybody's life. Hell, that I convinced a woman to marry me 18 years ago. For God's sake, I am eternally grateful for anybody that gets anything good out of my existence on this planet. So let me say thank you. Also, let me do a quick side note here we are going to get into the main topic, which is going to be me basically dissecting breaking down, destroying and rebuilding this'd idea of motivation that I think Americans in the Western world specifically have gotten addicted to on. I want to stop that addiction today and start teaching people how to be properly motivated. Right? I am not a motivational speaker, despite the fact that people for tens of years have been trying to bid me Bill me is that I've been introduced to that. Hey, this is my friend Brian. He's a motivational speaker. I'll be like, No, I'm not e give to efs about your motivation. 

We will all benefit from taking a more detailed look at the things we think and believe. And before we conclude we are right, we should probably get a few other ideas in our heads from people way more advanced than we are. 

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Here is the partial transcript for today's show with Bryant:

Hey welcome back to the movement Warrior And thanks for your patience and me finally getting back to you on the podcast I've spent the last two weeks both preparing for and then participating in trip that I took with Mikko my wife for our anniversary So I really appreciate you guys giving me two weeks uh to not have to film or rather record and edit a podcast for you guys to listen to if you care The anniversary trip was freaking amazing and fantastic If you follow me on tick tock you probably got to see a little bit of it Also got to catch up on some films during that time I got to see 47 Ronin highly recommended and got to see all three of the John Wick movies Finally I've been wanting to watch those films for years I finally got around to doing it Also watch the movie with Tatyana Ali called Christmas Hotel which if you like corn ball Christmas movies highly recommended it's really good But anyway I do have a topic that I want to discuss with you all this week that I think is really important given the experiences I've had uh on social media especially in the last year As many of you know I've had a presence on social media for a number of years and I've even helped quite a few brands grow their social media and build and grow their businesses using it Um but my experiences have been unique in the last year in that most of what I've produced online even before social media when I had you know my own media website and we were producing content in a couple of different areas Uh yeah all that time producing content was for a much smaller mawr what we call niche audience And in this year apparently that niche audience decided to grow to millions of people So I've had quite a few interactions at a scale that I've never had them before And so it's given me kind of a glimpse into things that are happening in our lives at a level that I've never had it before on I've seen a particular behavior repeat itself over and over and over again in a way that becomes flagrantly apparent when you're talking to millions of people every week Andi we'll get into that and what that is and and how I think we avoided I think the actual solution to this is very simple What I'm hoping this podcast does it just kind of shed some light on the fact that this is happening Because what this behavior that we all have happens at a very very subconscious level If you're not aware that it's happening to you on it comes for all of us None of us are immune to the way our brain works But there are things we can do to defend ourselves from having negative outcomes because of it And so I wanted to talk about that tonight Uh but again just wanted to thank you guys for being patient I know I haven't had a podcast in a couple of weeks A number of you tell me pretty frequently and I take it to heart that you know this is how you start your week You always wanna have Ah good Start to your week You want to set you know Monday off on the right foot So my podcast being there for you at 6 a.m. Monday mornings means something And that's why honestly Why I released it exactly at that time It's because I know Mondays are often hard for many people on its that time in the morning.d

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What's up podcast And welcome back to the movement today I'd like to do something collaborative with you and that's because I had a regular podcast recorded for today's session and unfortunately the recording was so God awful I didn't want to put you through the nightmare of having toe listen to that And I did everything I could to try to salvage it with my uh very amateur audio engineering skills but I just couldn't salvage it So we're here and I thought it gave me a unique opportunity to do something with you together and collaborative That thing's gonna have a really positive impact not just on your day today but on your life is ah whole if you use the tool that I'm about to share with you And this is this is an exercise that I've taken God only knows how many people through it you know in my life period But also in coaching relationships with business owners and you name it And I wanna use this tool a za way to basically do a check in with you to see how are you really doing to get you to start thinking about the things in your life that are the way they are and why they are that way and to look at the things that aren't the way you want them to be and to figure out how you are the center of all of that and what adjustments you need to make in yourself to see the manifestations in the world around you All right so this is a tool that I call MEPs Uh I don't know that anybody else calls it that I basically cobbled together It's an acronym and I'll tell you what it means in a second But I'm gonna take you through an exercise called MEPs And that's for mental emotional physical and um spiritual right MEPs mental emotional physical spiritual And so what we do in this check in uh and what I what I've done with clients or just people I'm helping in general in the past is let's do a mental check in and then we move into an emotional check in and then a physical check in and then how are you doing spiritually and then for a lot of people obviously I have to explain what spiritually means because everybody defines that very differently And don't worry we'll get to that But I wanted to do the exercise with you Want to check in on you to see how you're really doing but to to help you see how you're really doing to see areas where you may be doing really well or areas where you might need some improvement or maybe deficient and And let's plus that up today So if we were sitting across from one another on I was to ask you where are you at today Mentally Using words to describe how you are experiencing the world around you in terms of your thoughts and your mental resilience and fortitude And are you at peace You know what are some of the uh you know in mental and emotional Very much go together Right So how are you doing mentally right Are you mentally fatigued Are you exhausted Are you putting in a lot of work Uh into your job your career building a side business How are you doing mentally Right And then the next question is how are you doing emotionally Using words to describe how you feel emotionally right Are you even Are you excited because something really cool is about to happen Are you afraid All right Are you feeling some level of you know anxious anxiety and angst about something that's you think or fear may be coming in the future right How would you describe how you feel emotionally Right And then physically that's a pretty easy one Like are you dealing with any pain or you physically feeling okay.

Today's podcast is taken from a YouTube Q&A  livestream Bryant did while working out last week. 

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what's going on Good people Just in case you're tuning in after the fact while I'm waiting for the rest of the live audience to get here How are you I pray that you're doing well I pray that my message finds you doing well And I pray that something I say today has a positive impact on your life and gives you 10 times the value of the time you had to invest hanging out with me here So if you're here welcome to this kind of live streaming working out thing that I have a tendency to do every now and again Thio attempt if you will to bring in the people who listen to me and watch me and get anything decent out of what I'm saying uh more into a conversation versus me just yelling things at a screen that everybody has to listen to So I do these during my workouts Some of my workouts my weight lifting I can't e can't live stream during weight lifting workouts because that's a nightmare Well it's not a nightmare I just won't be able to do with the level of focus I need to be right when I'm working out I just I couldn't hang out like even when I trained with other people Uh like for example if you came and lifted waste with me you probably think I was an introvert because I wouldn't talk Thio I'd just be focus unless I'm training you then I'm obviously talking to you to get you through the routine But the most part I'm a silent assassin when it comes to training Now when I'm running I could talk when I'm running It doesn't require much focus Plus I hate running So having you guys here for this part I don't mind sprint so much but they still suck But like Mike Tyson said do the things you hate like you love them It's probably why he's the world champion Let's see what you guys were talking about today We got Stephen Harvey is up early What's up man Wisdom walks Hey Hunter you might be onto something there My brother and I don't know where the camera is on this iPhone I think I'm looking at it I don't know what's going on Just let's see Ninja Mao jams Is my family influence bad by It's bad my social early life in printed to just do career And I face difficulties in social relationship my whole life not understanding the cause of my failures Now I'm 37 years old Okay Well Theo good news is you're not or the good news is there's a Most people are like you That's not weird That's that's pretty much all of our stories is that our parents fucked us up because they were stupid and they were like our parents were also equally brilliant and loving Like I talked about growing up in a neglected and an abusive environment That's only part of the story right It wasn't all neglect and abuse Some of it was love and compassion and affection and care and loyalty and helping a person become a man like it wasn't all that it wasn't all the bad stuff But the bad stuff does happen because most of us as parents are ill equipped Children don't come with a manual especially when every human soul personality wise can be very different For example my the mother that raised me and I had a very very strife laden relationship coming up because we're very different personalities in almost every facet but we're very much the same When someone attacks is like if you come at me and you actually pose me a threat like you know obviously someone attacks me that can't do me harm I'm gonna ignore it But someone comes at me say my caretaker who's threatening to hurt me I'm going to defend myself because I need that caretaker as a child to take care of me right.

Today let's discuss how to overcome fear, resistance, and failure as you follow your warrior's path and your artist's journey.

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Then let's get back to the artist journey or what I call the Warriors path and let's specifically dive into the idea of resistance And let's talk about failure in the context of that resistance And what do you as the warrior as the artist do when those things inevitably come for you.

So the inspiration came from a conversation I was having with Lisa on one of my YouTube streams And if you're not already subscribed to me on YouTube I can't recommend that enough because out of all of the places where I produce content that believe it or not is where I spend the most time And so during my leisure time I will often just say Hey let me do a live stream while I have a little bit of downtime here and talk to the people We play video games we hang out we chat we tell inappropriate jokes But at the end of the day We have really great conversations and Lisa proposed to me She's been getting after it pretty heavily on her warriors path or her artist journey if you prefer And if you didn't already hear the podcast I did on Stephen Press Fields the artist journey definitely give that a listen You don't necessarily need to listen to them in order Like if you didn't already Here it You don't need to stop this talk and go back to listen to that one I just highly encourage you to go back and listen to that one at some point because a lot of what we're going to discuss here will be amplified by having that background information But everything I'm going to say here is not does not require that you've heard or even read the book that I was discussing But I can't recommend enough that you start reading all of Stephen Press Fields books I think I've read five of his God knows how many books he's read I probably won't read his fiction books just because I struggled to read fiction but I recommend the five books I've read which are uh the turning pro The War of art do the work the artist journey and the warrior ethos on I'll get through his other books at another time But anyway today's podcast is dedicated to a conversation Lisa and I were having during a YouTube stream about the podcast referencing the artist journey and what it means to be on an artist journey What it means to answer the call of your muse and to go after the things that you secretly dream about and desperately want to accomplish Now when you make up your mind that you're gonna become the warrior that you're gonna become the artist that you're going to turn pro as Stephen Press Field talks about in his book Turning Pro you also have to get ready for what's in book number two The War of Art It's a little thing called Resistance you know we call it the Devil We call it demons We call it the system We call it the man but it's actually a natural force that exists uh in the universe that I think often manifests in those both animate and inanimate situations Right Resistance is coming for you Struggle is coming for you There is no highly successful person that's supremely happy with their success and Brian Chambers movement Those things are not separable I am not in the business of helping people develop success and make themselves miserable in the process Right I want you to be successful and happy at the same time because I I've had ah lot of success in my life And I'll tell you in some of the places where I've had great success where some of the most unhappy places in my life period and what I don't want for you is to have that similar experience I want the successes that you have to be things that you're ultimately happy about...

This week, Bryant dives into how your genetic makeup, how you've evolved, and your lack of self-awareness contribute to the suffering you experience in life.

Bryant also lays out some practical ways to remove this suffering.

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We pray you are having a great start to your week. 

This week, Bryant returns to his old style of Podcast where he just shares thoughts on his mind at the moment. 

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Bryant takes us through the second book in Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy.

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OPENING QUOTE (P.61) - "Life," says a fine Greek adage, "is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom."

READING (P.64) - The Greek disdain of manual work kept everybody but the listless slave from direct acquaintance with the process of production, from that stimulating contact with machinery which reveals defects and prefigures possibilities; (How does this affect American society?)

READING (P.66) - Aristotle gives us science, technical, abstract, concentrated; if we go to him for entertainment we shall sue for the return of our money. READING (P.67) - The first great distinction of Aristotle is that almost without predecessors, almost entirely by his own hard thinking, he created a new science--logic. READING (P.68) - Logic means, simply, the art and method of correct thinking. it is the logy or method of every science, of every discipline and every art. "Nothing is so dull as logic, and nothing is so important" - Will Durant"If you wish to converse with me," said Voltaire, "define your terms." - Will Durant

READING (P.68,69) - How shall we proceed to define an object or a term? Aristotle answers that every good definition has two parts, stands on two solid feet: first, it assigns the object in question to a class or group whose general characteristics are also its own--so man is, first of all, an animal; and secondly, it indicates wherein the object differs from all the other members in its class--so man, in the Aristotelian system, is a rational animal, his "specific difference" is that unlike all other animals he is rational. Aristotle drops an object into the ocean of its class, then takes it out all dripping with generic meaning, with the marks of its kind and group; while its individuality and difference shine out all the more clearly for this juxtaposition with other objects that resemble it so much and are so different. 

READING (P.70) - We have always goodly stock in us of that which we condemn: as only similars can be profitably contrasted, so only similar people quarrel and the bitterest wars are over the slightest variations of purpose or belief. The knightly Crusaders found in Saladin a gentleman with whom they could quarrel amicably, but when the Christians of Europe broke into hostile camps there was no quarter for even the courtliest foe. Aristotle is so ruthless with Plato because there is so much of Plato in him;

READING (P.76) - Hence the almost "eternal recurrence," in civilization after civilization, of the same inventions and discoveries, the same "dark ages" of slow economic and cultural accumulation, the same rebirths of learning and science and art. No doubt some popular myths are vague traditions surviving from earlier cultures. So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. 

READING (P.80) - Everything in the world is moved by an inner urge to become something greater than it is.     - Or at the very least "other" than it currently is     - This is where our drive comes from     - And if life has punched us in the mouth too many times, we retreat from this and it kills us

READING (P.80) - The mistakes and futilities of nature are due to the inertia of matter resisting the forming force of purpose--hence the abortions and monsters that mar the panorama of life.     - So as a cruel joke, God commands us to grow and be like him, and then gives us a nature that resists this very growth process. Why? All strength, power, and love come from struggle.

READING (P.83) - The soul is the entire vital principle of any organism, the sum of its powers and processes. In plants the soul is merely

This week, Bryant is joined by a dear friend, Brian Phillips, founder of The Grove, Grace Ops and Sons of Valor to discuss how a warrior finds his or her true identity in their own personal hell, or, the wilderness. 

The Law of Compulsive Behavior - The Laws of Human Nature

How to Determine the Strength of People's Character

"When choosing people to work and associate with, do not be mesmerized by their reputation or taken in by the surface image they try to project. Instead, train yourself to look deep within them and see their character. People's character is formed in their earliest years and by their daily habits. It is what compels them to repeat certain actions in their lives and fall into negative patterns. Look closely at such patterns and remember that people never do something just once. They will inevitably repeat their behavior. Guage the relative strength of their character by how well they handle adversity, their ability to adapt and work with other people, their patience, and ability to learn. Always gravitate toward those who display signs of strength, and avoid the many toxic types out there. Know thoroughly your own character so you can break your compulsive patterns and take control of your destiny."

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READ Page 102 Highlights
     - How to Avoid Toxic People? (Never engage with them in the first place)
     - How can you gravitate toward people who show signs of strength? (recognizing your own strength)

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     - Why are we captivated by appearances? (Snap judgments and Heuristics)
     - The world is Instagram. How do we see through the facade to the real? (By looking first within ourselves HONESTLY)

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     - This is why the Bible needed Christ. Humans are so bent on repeating ineffective strategies when we don't have something better that it takes an outside person with a different perspective to help us

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     - Take a look at the areas in your personal and professional life that are not going your way. I bet you can tie that circumstance back in some way to the people you keep company with (Tell story of Mother-in-Law)

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     - Read about 3rd & 4th layers and freestyle

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     - Become masters of the read (This is how Toxic people never make it into my life. I know the symptoms and avoid them)

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     - Freestyle. Standalone Point

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     - Weak character means they also probably lack critical thinking skills

     - Start talk on Toxic types (The Hyperperfectionist)

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     - The Relentless Rebel

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     - The Personalizer (Narcissism - Woke Brigade)

     - The Drama Magnet (I dated one of these back in the day

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     - The Big Talker 

     - The Sexualizer

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     - The Pampered Prince/Princess

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     - The Savior
     - The Easy Moralizer

READ - Pages 127, 128, 130
     - Freestyle