In this brief motivational address, the speaker frames September 29th as a “moment of yes,” focusing on the contagious nature of emotion and the dangers of mob mentality. He cites recent examples—the American fans’ abusive behavior at the Ryder Cup and the infamous Steve Bartman incident—to illustrate how ordinary people can be swept up by collective anger and cross the line into hate speech. He then shares a personal observation of a fight that erupted after a St. Louis men’s game, using the scene to highlight how quickly emotions can flare in a charged environment. The core message urges listeners to stay internally grounded, recognize their emotional state, and deliberately keep their external responses calm, thereby choosing to be part of the solution rather than being carried away by the crowd. The talk concludes with a call to apply this self‑regulation throughout the week.
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Good morning. Here's your moment of yes for Monday, September 29th. We are quickly approaching October. Not there yet, but we're quickly approaching October. Uh, your moment of yes for today is, um, is that energy is contagious. We know this. The, uh, the mob mentality concept is real. We saw it in play this weekend at the the Ryder Cup with the American fans who took, you know, cheering for the Americans way too far, yelling expletives at the European players, personally insulting the families of the European players, calling players on the European teams fat, like just crossing this line from playful trash talking into— Hate speech. Despicable behavior, really, that the fact that it became like a national story. Um, but it's like, you know, it's, it's— I'm sure there were a group of people there that are just kind of like normal good people, and you kind of get swept up in the environment around you. Um, it happened with Steve Bartman at the Chicago Cubs game years ago, right? Normal people who get swept up into the emotion and they, they They start behaving, you know, differently than how they would on their own. That's sort of that mob mentality. That's that emotion is contagious. And I got to experience it firsthand this weekend, Saturday night, after the St. Louis men's game. Kind of a fight broke out on the field between the 2 teams. Nothing major, but sort of when you're in the middle of it, you can kind of feel it, right? When you're in the middle of that chaos, you can sort of feel it. And so it always comes down to when you find yourself in the middle of emotionally chaotic, emotionally charged, emotionally heightened situations. Are you part of the solution? Are you able to regulate how you're feeling and how you're doing? And are you part of that solution, or are you so detached that you let yourself get swept away? And so, as you know, internally we can be feeling those emotions. We can be feeling, you know, an escalated or an elevated level of emotions, but externally You know, are we conscious of what's showing up? Because how we show up externally is going to have an impact of what's going on around us. So, you know, it is contagious, but what's most important is how are you grounded internally? It doesn't mean that you can't respond until your emotions and feelings are calm. You can notice that they're not, but make sure that your external response is calm. A little easier said than done, but I think a great opportunity for us currently today, and it looks like for the immediate future, is to make sure that we're not letting ourselves get swept away. That's your moment of yes for today. Have an awesome week, everyone.
