Robin Sharma speaks directly to viewers about safety and wellbeing, urging appreciation for simple pleasures (handshakes, fresh food) revealed by enforced quietude. He reads an excerpt (page 33) from his book The 5am Club that encourages readers to recognise their "quiet genius" and not confine identity to external measures (net worth, social highlight reels). The piece contrasts cyber-zombie busyness with gratitude and calls for idealistic realism and character cultivation.
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Hi, it's Robin Sharma. I hope you and yours are safe and healthy. Well, as I survey what's happening on the planet and contemplate on what's happening.
To our world, I think.
And so we note the simplest of pleasures.
And so we appreciate something as basic.
As a handshake, something as fundamental as a fresh vegetable. And so we note all that we had that we really didn't pay attention.
To in the busyness and frenetic life we were living.
So many of us were cyber zombies, living lives like a five alarm fire. And now, in the enforced quietude of.
True isolation, we appreciate and we feel grateful for those mighty graces that we took for granted.
You know, I want to read page 33 from the 5am Club. Hopefully it'll bring you some inspiration, consolation.
And some wisdom as you move through.
Your days in this interesting time on the planet. So page 33. Each of you carries a quiet genius and a triumphant hero within your hearts. Dismiss these as idealistic words of an elderly inspirationalist if you will, but I am proud to be an idealist. Our world needs more of us. And yet I am also a realist.
Here's the truth.
Most people on the planet today don't think much of themselves, unfortunately. They secure their identity by who they are externally. They evaluate their achievement by what they've collected versus by the character they've cultivated. They compare themselves to the orchestrated and fake highlight reels presented by people they follow. They measure their self worth by their net worth. And they get kidnapped by the false.
Thought that because something has never been.
Done, it can't be done, depleting the grand and electrifying possibilities their lives are meant to become.
I wish you only the best and I'll talk to you soon.