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When is the last time that you sprung out of bed, full of passion, full of excitement, you were ready to start the day.
L.S. Author reflects on lost passion, hustle culture, and facing mortality to inspire living with urgency and true purpose.
Key Takeaways
- Hustle culture is not the answer; true fulfillment comes from living congruently with your values.
- Many people feel burnt out because they have lost connection with their authentic selves and passions.
- Facing mortality can inspire a deeper appreciation for life and motivate urgent, meaningful action.
- Digital overload and constant distractions prevent self-reflection and living fully present.
- It’s essential to pause, reflect, and realign with what truly matters to live a passionate, engaged life.
Summary
- The video challenges hustle culture and questions if viewers' lives align with their values and passions.
- L.S. Author observes widespread dullness and burnout, especially among young men, attributing it to lost congruence with self.
- He distinguishes between laziness and a deeper issue: a disconnect between values and daily living.
- Many people today don't know who they are or what they truly want due to overwhelming external influences.
- The creator shares his personal health struggle with beginning heart failure, which motivates his message about mortality.
- He emphasizes the urgency of living fully and with passion, rather than passively consuming content or going through motions.
- The video encourages viewers to pause, reflect on their true selves, and reconnect with what matters most.
- L.S. Author warns against addiction to phones and constant digital noise that distracts from self-awareness.
- He advocates for living intentionally with congruence between values and actions.
- Ultimately, the video is a heartfelt call to reclaim life’s excitement and meaning before time runs out.
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You wanted to start the day because you had this this goal.
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This extreme drive to get something done and you took serious action on it.
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Before you get it twisted, this is not going to be a hustle culture type video at all.
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It's really not.
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I'm going to be talking and I kind of asking you, is your life where you wanted to be?
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You know, is is your money where you wanted to be, is your diet where you wanted to be?
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I'm going to be asking these types of questions and we'll be looking at these types of things.
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But man, it is not um, it is not coming from a place of like the hustle culture.
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I just look around, I look around in my daily life and I see so much dullness behind people's eyes.
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There's so many young men who just look like burnt out and hollow and empty.
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It breaks my heart.
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Like if I keep looking down, it's because I have some notes.
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I said I like I see this dullness behind the eyes where there should be light.
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You know, there should be this gusto, this freaking excitement.
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This passion.
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And I know it's it's not laziness, it gets chalked up to laziness and people get, you know, dumped on all the time.
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Like do do more.
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That's the hustle culture thing of like, you're not grinding enough.
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Where where's your network?
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Where's your where's your pipelines?
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Dude.
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It's not really laziness, I think it's that we've we've lost this ability to be congruent with ourselves.
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And so that and congruence being that connection between what we know and what we value and and how we live.
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And that ability, that connection to be in line with our values and how we live is just it's not happening these days.
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And I think to me what I'm seeing is it's it's two it's twofold of an issue.
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It's not even that like, oh, I know what I value, I know what I want, I know, you know, I know these things, but I can't seem to live up to it.
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I can't seem to live in congruence.
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Because that is hard enough.
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That is a lifetime of challenge.
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That is a struggle.
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But it's like in this generation, in this new era, man, we've got a secondary problem.
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We don't even know who we are, what we value, what we want.
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We don't really, this is how I I I wrote it in my notes again.
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Looking down.
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But we don't really know our passions anymore.
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We wake up, we look at the phone and a thousand voices tell us who to be, what to want, what to think.
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Even this video right here, I mean, this is this is particularly and precisely the reason that I stopped making videos on this channel.
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Originally this channel was called saved for more.
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And I did these kind of videos a lot.
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And then I turned it kind of into a writing channel and then I was like, you know what?
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Why do I need to be another voice out there telling someone else how to live?
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Who am I?
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Like, let me figure my own stuff out, you figure your own stuff out.
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Because that's how I mean, I think there's a lot of that lost in the today's age, day and age.
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It's not like I don't care about you.
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I'm literally a counselor.
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But this whole over flooded market of just a billion, trillion voices in your face all the time is not good.
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You know, it I mean, the analogy is easy enough of like drinking water, awesome.
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Drinking water out of a fire hose, not awesome.
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Not awesome.
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And that is kind of what we're doing when we wake up.
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Crack our eyes and instantly have a phone in our face and then I don't know if you're like me or if you're lying or if you're just way better than me.
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But that phone is in our hand and our face way too much for during the day.
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Way too much.
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Even the days where I'm like, you know what, not going to look at that thing.
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Not going to look at that thing.
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Well, here I go.
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Gone.
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It it I'm addicted and I'm trapped and I'm stuck in it and I imagine you are too.
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But it's really it's destroying a lot.
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It's just it's destroying a lot for us.
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Um, so I I again, I'm not saying this from a hustle culture perspective.
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I'm I'm saying this as a counselor and I'm saying this as someone who's facing his own mortality.
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Uh, if you follow me on Instagram, LS_author, you saw that I put out that health update that they told me I'm, you know, beginning heart failure.
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I've got this heart condition and heart failure is beginning.
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And I'm on this new heart medication.
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I have to do cardio all the time.
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It sucks.
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But I the point is like that is that is where I'm coming from.
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Is the fact that I think we need to be taking life way more seriously.
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Because I'm I'm now facing death and I'm seeing the clock run out and I'm realizing, oh, this isn't it, dude.
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This isn't it.
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And you're in my boat too.
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You don't maybe you don't have the heart condition and the heart failure, but your time is running out as well.
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You need to start taking it a little more seriously as well.
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You need to realize that you're worth more than than what you're doing right now.
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Like rolling out of bed and and and the listlessness and just having no passion and just going through the motions and and just kind of like putting the proverbial fireplace on in the background with YouTube videos just buzzing in your ear all the time.
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You're better than all of that.
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You're worth a mission, you're worth passion, you're worth excitement about life, you're worth, you know, it's worth it to to get in the throws of your challenge.
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A challenge that you've chosen that you're excited about.
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We just pretend that we don't, you know, that we're not all facing death at all times, but we are.
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So I'm asking you, when's the last time you lived up to that kind of urgency?
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You lived with that kind of urgency.
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When's the last time that you remembered what it feels like to be alive, not busy, not productive, but like alive, like fully invested, engaged and excited by your life.
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Fully just present in your life.
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I think maybe turn this video off.
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Sit in the quiet.
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Try to remember who you are, what you want and what matters.
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All right, guys.
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See you.
Topics:passionhustle cultureburnoutself congruencemortalitymental healthdigital addictionlife purposemotivationL.S. Author
