This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube interview between Sean Whalen and a guest about handling difficult or "shtty" days. Central advice: recognize that dark periods recur, use physical movement (exercise) to interrupt downward spirals, and reach out to peers — focus on solutions rather than ruminating on problems. The tone is candid, experience-based, and action-oriented.
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The rabbit holes are always coming. The darkness is always going to come. There's no way around, right? You have glorious days. You kill everybody, punch everybody in the face, right? What I want to know from you is what you do on those days. Those days, the days you want to burn it down, when nothing seems to be going right. Maybe you made money, you lost money, but even it was just a great day. But you still feel like.
Yeah, you're like, I don't know why.
I feel like, what do you do besides smoke cigars? Because we already all know that.
Yeah, right? Yeah. No, first of all, thanks for having me, Sean. This is a huge honor, man. The biggest thing is it reminds me of football back in the day when I played in high school. That's a long time ago. You got to keep your feet moving. Movement keeps you going. It keeps me out of trouble because when I start getting too calm, like, if I'm like, start thinking about too much, too idle, I actually start getting more anxiety from it. It actually makes me go deeper into the hole. So I just get up and move, man. Hit the gym, smoke a cigar and move. You gotta move, keep your feet moving. It's so important.
Would you agree that the more you do that, the more experience you have in those spaces, like, the easier they are to identify down the road. Meaning, like, you see. Oh, okay, here you are. It's kind of like the song I love Darkness, My old friend. Would you agree with that?
Absolutely, man. You just become a lot more conscious of it because you want to be more proactive, not reactive. Because the reactiveness is where you start making stupid decisions and get overwhelmed so much easier. So this is a muscle, though, man. As you know, Sean, it's a muscle we're constantly working on. Hey, Sean, the big thing is if I could just, like, talk one more second on this, guys. I think another thing too is entrepreneurs and people tend to, like, hold all this stuff to themselves. From my experience, I'm really bad at asking for help or getting involved, like, around people that want to help us. Guys like Sean and groups like this, just your peers inside of this environment. Reach out to them, Let them know, like, hey, man, I'm going through some shit. Don't just talk about it. Talk about the solution. Don't talk about the problem. Too many times we focus on the problem. The problem, the problem. The key is how quickly can we get to a solution. Stop talking about the problem, start focusing on solutions. And it gets so much easier, man.
It does. And having a group of hundreds of people talking about different strategies that they use, different things that they do. You know, what works for me might not work for everybody. What works for you might not work for.
Whatever.
Whatever. Blake. That's the beauty of having this den. That's the reason we share, that's the reason we talk about all this, so.
On and so forth. All right?
I don't think anybody's got any more questions. I love you, bro.
All right, man. Thank you, buddy. Guys, this is not a phone. I know you think it's a phone. This is your lifeline. This is your sword. If you're a samurai, this is your fucking sword. This is how you get shit done. You can check your Internet. You can check. Have conversations with people all over the world. 500 people on that call list, literally 30 seconds, 40 seconds, a minute, two minutes, whatever it is. Stop using this as just a consumption tool. Use it as a tool to communicate, to connect, create opportunity for yourself and everyone else. Get to work. Ra.
