Pt 2: Accepting the Death of Your Former Self | Jordan Stephens

Pt 2: Accepting the Death of Your Former Self | Jordan Stephens

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Pt 2: Accepting the Death of Your Former Self | Jordan Stephens

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Pt 2: Accepting the Death of Your Former Self | Jordan Stephens

Pt 2: Accepting the Death of Your Former Self | Jordan Stephens

Tuesday, 24th September 2024
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then. So Jordan, thank you for joining me and

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for bringing the dogs along as well. They are

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literally so well behaved. Second walk of the day

1:50

for them. Well, I mean, they have a

1:52

big walk in the morning normally. What

1:54

why, um, it's on the dog dog's point is probably

1:56

the title as well the book. Why?

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Yeah, I would try. I try. I

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try, you know, like a laptop. There is a

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movement towards that though. People are starting. There are

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people, I've seen a few people like, ironically, online

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saying that they like, other than absolute necessity of

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like, even as the coach, like bricks. Yeah, I

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do think online, like, you know, I know people

22:15

who just have a YouTube. That's right. But

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you know, but I also do consume a lot. I don't know. But

22:22

yeah, no, just to your point. Yeah. Game

22:26

changer. There was somebody incredibly close to

22:28

me actually, who was really

22:30

low a few years ago, like really

22:32

low. And you

22:35

know, me and Jay were just like, have

22:37

the dogs. Two months, we just gave

22:40

them the dogs. And when

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I tell you that when this person came back,

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they were completely different. The whole energy, the

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way they held themselves, they had been walking

22:50

for hours. I literally believe

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it. And these dogs have just got them out.

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They've healed this person. It's like you said, it's

22:56

love. It's like most of people struggle. This is

22:58

an absence of love, either to oneself or

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being surrounded by that. But I think there

23:03

is something unconditional about dogs. Like pretty much

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unconditional. But when you treat them kindly, they

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love. Yeah, with respect to

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respect you back, man. It's like we're no

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better than dogs, mate. We're not like, you

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know, I've been using example of dogs to

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this when I've been engaging in like, kind

23:19

of gender discussion sometimes because I get asked

23:21

a lot about men generally. And

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I wonder, you know, if we

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do sometimes lean into the negatives of men

23:28

a little bit too often,

23:30

because like when I was training

23:32

Mimi, you know, the

23:34

golden rule of dog training is you reward

23:36

good behaviour. You don't punish bad behaviour. Because what

23:39

happens when you punish bad behaviour is they

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are aware of the repercussions.

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So they accept them if they feel

23:46

like what they want is more important.

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So it's like, if they know they're going

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to get hit, I think I could eat

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a slice of pizza and get hit. I'll

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take it. But if

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you if you go to the dog, oh my God, you didn't eat.

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the pizza that's incredible here's a tree are

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they gonna eat the pizza no you know

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and I wonder if we're like we've

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over complicated that basic understanding of

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how people work. Do you think

24:12

men are more lost it says?

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Yeah yeah I

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mean I would I would

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firstly I think people are more lost you

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know like it's again we are we're living

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in a hyper individualistic society we've totally lost

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touch of community I think community is we

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are in desperate need of it

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there's constant division sown on on

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quite reductive concepts I

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think gender in some cases being one

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of them you know but

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I think men I think men can do

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with with building up a better relationship with

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themselves and understand that they can love themselves

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if they'd be you know and not

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be a kind of ashamed of that.

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I think sometimes there's

24:56

like shame now around people being

24:59

a man can sometimes feel shameful in itself. Yeah

25:01

I think yeah look I

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think life life is tough for many

25:05

people and there are many circumstances that

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can that can I can

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push someone into a space of desperation and that

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I'm not even sure if man and woman is

25:15

the best way to even look

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at that investigate that might be like you

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know we live in a world that crushes a

25:22

person who doesn't have enough money to

25:24

get themselves out we live in a world

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where we charge people for having no money

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in the bank do you know how insane

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that is it just fundamentally doesn't make sense

25:32

you are stepped on under in this in

25:34

the capitalist system if you aren't fortunate enough

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to get yourself just above water you know

25:39

I mean so yeah I think in those

25:41

environments there'll be all types of factors that

25:43

contribute to people acting up and

25:47

yeah look I really hope about this stuff all the time because I'm

25:49

interested you know one

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example of how love could be an

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antidote and of course I say this I put

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this on my tiktok actually but I say this

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with a caveat that it will seem ridiculous in

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the context of modern society. But yes, there are

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some, I guess, more

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communities that have held traditions

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for a long time. That,

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for example, if someone, if

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a man in the village steals something, he's

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not punished for stealing, he's taken into the middle

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of the village, surrounded by

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the other members of the community, and

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they tell him what they love about

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him until he cries, until

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he's brought back in the line, because they

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believe that that person is just out of

26:33

alignment. They weren't born to damage their community.

26:36

They had just been brought out of alignment,

26:38

and they're brought back in emotionally. Now, obviously,

26:40

it seems extreme, but like I'm saying, we

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live in a punishment-based society. How's that working

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for us? Yeah, well, that's- Josh and then

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it asks people, how is that working? Yeah,

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that's the point, isn't it? Does it work

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well? And I genuinely hear people's answer to

26:53

our punishment-based society is to make the punishment

26:55

worse. That's the answer is, yes,

26:57

you know, people behave more if you just gave them

27:00

more of a bad punishment. Like, come on, man. It's

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in the fabric of our, we've

27:05

fucked with the fabric of humanity. So

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we've come to the end of part two. I guess, a

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question I have just from, you know, from the perspective of

27:12

you now, all the kind of work you've done, therapy,

27:15

but also experiences and stuff as well, what

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would you say to someone that is perhaps

27:19

amongst chaos, or perhaps even amongst darkness, who

27:21

is running that kind of wheel of just

27:23

trying to exist, but deeply is going through

27:25

a lot? What would you

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give us, like, a message of hope, but also perhaps how

27:30

to approach that now? Where

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to start? I honestly think if

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people are going through chaos, you just gotta walk every day. You

27:37

gotta get outside and walk. Go outside. Try

27:40

and drink lots of water. There's six tent

27:43

poles, I'll talk about these until the day

27:45

I die. I

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learned about these on a thing called the bridge, a

27:50

course called the bridge run by Donal Lancaster. And

27:53

the six tent poles are solitude

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and community in equal

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measure, creativity. nature,

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sleep, nutrition and

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exercise. Exercise. They're pretty

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solid. And genuinely, if you're

28:09

feeling out of sorts, have a look

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at those six tempos and ask yourself

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genuine, like realistically. There's the first solitude

28:16

and community in equal measures are really

28:18

powerful. Yeah. A lot of

28:20

people can't be alone. But

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equally some people, I'd say

28:24

particularly, I think kind of may

28:26

struggle to make sure that you

28:29

are actually seeking community. Yeah. My

28:31

move is towards solitude. I'm

28:34

probably on my own too much. Yeah. To

28:36

be honest. And then to the point where then

28:38

you're going and being with other people and new

28:40

people feels scary. Scary. Yeah.

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Totally. It's a problem for me, but I'm

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working on it. I'm working on it. But we'll come down to part

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two there. We will come back to the photo I mentioned at the

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end of part one and part three. So guys, we'll see you all

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