A Lesson on Emptiness

Hey guys, what's up? This is Brian. I got another video real quick. So I literally just told Emerson about this. I'm looking at my. We sent out an email, right, announcing how I'm setting goals for 2023, 2025, 2030 and 2051. Pretty excited about it, right? So we got this little YouTube video. You go to the website and then, you know, whatever. We link to YouTube. So I'm like, oh, let me check it out. Make sure that. Let me just go look, right? And I'm looking at the comments and so I'm reading the comments and this guy says, five minute planner. Appreciate you. Thank you. I love the official videos for greatest year ever, etc. But I think I love these behind the scenes videos. Flowing where it flows, you know, even more. It's the hanging out in the kitchen at the party equivalent. Amazing and inspiring goals for 2023. Good luck. And they're with you. So love it, dude. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Frankly, I was self conscious because I kind of went off, right? And I went over here, then over there and I'm like, shoot, man, I could have been a little more structured anyway. Then I scroll down and I see the exact opposite comment. I would have preferred a more structured and shorter video. This one is kind of all over the place and I stopped watching it. Bless you. I appreciate your candor and I totally get it, dude. I had the same feeling and I just was struck by the literal opposite expressions to the same exact video. And I've talked about this a lot. It's something that I've come back to because Phil Stutts and I have talked about it too. Where his book, he's got one comment after another. This is the best book I've ever read. And the other one's like, you are such an idiot. I can't believe they published this book right next to each other. So everything is empty of meaning. And I should be fair here that both have partial truths. Yes, it could have been more structured and awesome stoked. You like the spontaneous flow, etc. Anyway, check out the app because I talk about this in the Buddhists call it emptiness. Everything is empty of meaning. So that video didn't have any inherent meaning or any inherent strengths or weaknesses. The individual will perceive what they want to perceive on it. And again, both perspectives are partially true. But we want to be mindful of the fact that our perspective is partial. Really important distinction. So I talk about this in a number of plus ones, ink, blobs and emptiness. You know an ink blob. A Rorschach test tells you more about the individual than it does about that blob of ink. It's empty of meaning. And then I talk about how I used to walk on the trail with bare feet. Check out that beard. And three days in a row, I had three different responses from three different people. One person was like, wow, that looks really awesome. Like, you're working out your feet. That's great. Another person was like, wow, that looks insanely painful. And then another person said something like, watch out. You're gonna step on a hypodermic needle or something. It was awesome. Anyway, everything is empty of meaning. That video captures that truth, and I wanted to capture this truth with you real quick while it was fresh. Just shared it with Emerson, and we'll laugh with my wife about it as well. Check it out how Brian is setting goals for 2023. That's a little weird to talk about myself in the third person. 2025, 2030, and 2051. And then check out greatest year ever as well. There you go. More than enough.