BE HERE IN THE NOW!!! ft. Ozzy

December 2, 2018·45 min·2 clips

Grind ten years for a million dollars and your happiness beats a lottery winner's, because you went through the journey.

1. Unfiltered Minds opens its return after a midterm break with an episode on how to be in the present moment, shifting from earlier relationship topics to self-development. 2. Hosts Ibrahim and Baheer Ahieh are joined by returning guest Osman Ahieh, and all three speak from personal experience such as studying for an exam and living in Minnesota. 3. The core thesis is that "the one time you can control is the present," so the speakers urge listeners to return their attention to the moment whenever their mind drifts to the past or future. 4. One speaker says that worrying about tomorrow's exam wastes today, and that studying now makes the exam, interviews and similar fears "small." 5. Another speaker describes learning to enjoy winter in Minnesota after years of waiting until March or April, saying "I don't have a favorite season because I enjoy life 24/7." 6. The group says knowing who you are comes before presence, rejects personality tests as "somebody else trying to define who you are," and cites Bruce Lee's highlighted line in a book on Aristotle that happiness is a journey rather than an instant thing. 7. They contrast the lottery winner's "joy" with the ten-year grinder's "happiness," cite the claim that children laugh about 300 times a day against an adult's roughly five, and discuss mirror self-criticism, with one speaker urging people to "look at your value." 8. A speaker describes losing weight for himself instead of for other people's opinions, and says he now writes his lifting numbers next to each other (20 up to 50) instead of erasing them, to focus on the process rather than on comparison with someone lifting 150. 9. The speakers debate motivation versus discipline, with one calling motivation "a neurological impulse" and "a hormone," and they add the "three D's" of desire, dedication and discipline. 10. Listeners who want a conversational take on mindfulness, self-development and fitness habits will like this episode.

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