Brian Johnson uses the Golden Buddha, a gold statue hidden under clay for centuries, to argue that laziness isn't real. What looks like lack of progress is layers of limiting beliefs and excuses covering your actual potential. Chip them away through discipline and self-reflection.
George likes to say we each have a masterpiece within. Quit getting in your own way. Remove the things that are blocking you. The story briefly is there's a huge golden statue of Buddha. So what they did was they basically put clay and plaster and other stuff on top of the golden Buddha so it looked like a clay golden Buddha with no apparent worth. Well, the invading army comes in, they conquer the land, but they don't think anything about that big clay mud statue, right? And a piece of it breaks off. A piece of the mud, the clay breaks off. And lo and behold, underneath is pure gold. They chip away, chip away, chip away, and the thing's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So that's the Golden Buddha. That is the masterpiece within. That is what you and I need to do. Chip away at the things that are in the way so we can express the best within ourselves.
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