When you live like this, when you devote yourself to your craft, when there’s a sparkle in your eye to change the world and live your heroic potential you’ll be called a freak, an oddball, a misfit. But just remember this and I say this with great love and respect, if
people don’t misunderstand you you’re not playing at your personal genius. Okay. Let me finish up with two key points.
Number one, when you honor your potential as a life-long student, when you live by this white-belt mentality, always thinking like a beginner, always learning, growing, expanding, this is how you electrify your personal joy. A lot of people ask me on my social platforms or at my live events, “Robin, how can I get more joy? How can I get my spark back? How can I live in the magic of life?” One of the ways is through the passageway into learning. Learning fires your joy. This morning I got up early as I do on most days and I got on the exercise bike but I also listened to an audiobook. And there is just something alchemic that happens when you’re moving your body but also fueling the student, the hungry learner within you. Second thing I want to leave you with. Pain is potential unexpressed. So if you want to life your joy, learn and grow but also remember if you’re spending all your time watching videos and breaking news and chit-chatting and playing with your devices and playing games versus getting in the pocket of world-class and honoring your potential so you live a world-class life and do work that endures the generations …
If you just waste your time and waste your talent. If you betray the genius that longs to see the light of day, well what starts to happen is this psychic pain starts to well up inside you. And more than anything else you start to disrespect yourself at a conscious and subconscious level. This is very profound. I want you to think about this later. If you betray your potential, you start to disrespect yourself and you start to fall into self-betrayal.
And that builds this huge subconscious reservoir of low self-worth. And that’s why you just sort of give up, you have apathy. There’s no sparkle in your eye. You don’t walk towards your fears anymore. You don’t really care that much about your work and your love and your health and your life. And you resign yourself to the cult of mediocrity rather than playing in the place where you and I both know you belong to be, in the rare-air of mastery.