Lessons from the Acropolis
Good morning, live from the Acropolis in Athens. Guys, we've gone global with this podcast. I'm now at the pinnacle of Athens at the top where Western democracy, Western philosophy, the way we think started here, like 2,500, three thousand years ago. The way we think, the stuff all came from here and I'll share more about like, you know, Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and stuff, but I'm right at the top of the Acropolis, is if you see me on my Instagram, it's the top part of Athens looking over the entire city, 360 degree view. It's like the raised kind of a raised landmass boat on the top.
Speaker 1:It's stunning. You can imagine this back in the day, it would have been absolutely phenomenal and there's like theatres around here, these people lived at the peak of a civilization, I think a very, very, in a sense, luxurious life, so they had the weather, They had the theater, the drama, which is what all of us love. Basically, we all love drama. We're watching different forms today, but they had a live, and there's big theaters here, and then there's kind of places to shop, and there was the Agora, which had all the other stuff there. And I was speaking to I was speaking to Donald Robertson asking for tips on Athens, and he was talking to me about that Marcus Aurelius, when he talks about the view from above, looking down at the Agora, looking down the bathrooms, looking down this huge it's surrounded with buildings and people.
Speaker 1:He says that when Marcus Aurelius refers to the view from above in his meditations, he's talking about from the view from above from the and what he want and what he what the visualization he does is, like, if you can zoom out and not be so stuck in your own mind over every single it's it's a kind of, like, we wanna live one day at a time, of course, but don't be fixated on how one thing went wrong. But if you zoom out in the grand scheme of things and you look at it from the view from above, it's actually minuscule in the grand scheme of your life. So, you might get embarrassed over something, you feel like, my God, that's it. I mean, I'm I'm done for. But if you zoom out and you look at the view from above, if you can see what I can see right now, can see hundreds of thousands of buildings, then you kind of see how little it matters.
Speaker 1:And then when you think of humanity in a sense humans, he's saying how little we matter than the cosmos, basically. And just because we don't really matter in the grand scale of things, we can use that to our advantage because we think we're so important. We think everything we do is so important, and we live a very egocentric lifestyle where we everything comes through the self, and everything we do is vital, and we have to get everything right and perfect, and if we don't, then it's ruined, we we think of us only, and Marcus, talk Marcus, like he's my mate. And Marcus White talks about how basically he talks about cosmopolitanism cosmopolitan cosmopolitanism. I can't even say it.
Speaker 1:He talks about act like, being he's he's he's a human, basically. Even though he was a Roman emperor, he says, first and foremost, I'm a human being. And he's like, this view he's taking is kind of like would would humble him, essentially, would humble the most powerful man in the world, where he thought, you know, I'm just a human, and Grantsy, we're all humans. None of us are as important as we think we are. Even as a Roman Emperor, you know, his powers were, you know, probably the most powerful man to ever live, and he could influence people's lives for sure, but, you know, he still knew how limited he was even though we still speak about him today.
Speaker 1:He essentially knew that in the grand scheme of things, his life's not really gonna matter, my life's not gonna matter, your life's not gonna matter in the grand scheme of things, but to us, it should matter, and we should really not let one thing, you know, take ruin our days. That one thing we've done bad, oh, that one bad day you had with Macros, one bad day you had, that one embarrassing thing, that one of the questions you asked us if I was silly. And you think, like, oh, my day's ruined, and you're willing to waste a day because you think that that one fixed moment is so, so important. There's loads we want, boss now. Give it a sec.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna So many languages. So many languages. So my friend, Ian, we speak in Welsh, and I was like, we must be the only people. I'm gonna see Leila. So if any of you remember Leila from the Strike and Soul, because it's gone, I'm gonna meet up with her.
Speaker 1:See her speak some Latin, speak some Welsh. I think that'll be the first time in ancient Athens history that Welsh and Larkin have been spoken to in Athens. Don't you reckon? It's quite cool, actually. But yeah.
Speaker 1:So wait until this noise goes. This is not really what you wanna be listening to in the morning. There's a guy who's the hustle and bustle of the Apropolis. But back to the view from above, I think, it's important that a lot of you, you know, come to the event, had a peak, loving life. You know, one one example of me, I'm not this app launched, I knew there'd be bugs.
Speaker 1:I knew that it would there'd be problems. But, you know, when I zoom out, do the do above in this app, you know, is is this week of teething issues really determining the success of this app? Well, of course, it's not. Like, I know for a fact that I look when I look back and I look be from above with this app, it's gonna be super successful. We're always trying to improve it, always trying to make changes, and I'm not panicking over the fact there's bugs and things, and, obviously, it's frustrating for you guys who are having issues, but we get through them as fast as possible.
Speaker 1:There's no panic. There's no worrying. There's just action about it, and I just don't feel any anxiety about it. I don't know if that I'm not not not that I don't care that you guys are paying and you need a good app, but these things are bound to happen with technology, especially new technology when using a lot of new back end algorithms and stuff like that and a lot of moving parts working together. From what I can gather, we're the first app to really bring together mental cycle steps, food, stress, sleep, protein, carbs, fat, automatic, macro adjust, all this stuff into one app, and all the data has to work together.
Speaker 1:Right? And it's it's it's really hard. And when you think of APIs, is calling to Apple Health and calling to Fitbit, and they have their own problems all the time, and they're always never perfect, you know, Shit like this all the time. And there's no need to panic about it. And, guys, you shouldn't panic about it either.
Speaker 1:If you can't use the app for a day, just write down or use another app to track me doing Fridays so you recall that data, and then happy days. And I promise, look, we'll make we you if it's if it lasts more than a week or two weeks where we're having issues with the app, we'll, of course, compensate you guys in terms of not financially because But I don't even know if this voice mail quality is there any good, so I could have been rambling to myself here now. But in the apartment, I was looking like I'm not there for the while. But that's it for today, guys. I don't think there's nothing more that needs to be said on this topic.
Speaker 1:I think today, take the view from above, zoom out a bit, make the most of each day, of course, and don't let one minuscule thing ruin a day. Think about the entire world. It's massive. This the world's huge, guys. I I don't know if it's obvious or not, but when I go traveling places, I realize many people are at different cultures for me and all the stuff and that's just mental.
Speaker 1:So we think, wow. We think we're something the way the ego. But, anyway, I will be doing more podcasts around Athens, and I'll sharing more information from all of the temple of Athena, Mikey. So that's where Mikey got his where's his name from? His close friend, Mike.
Speaker 1:We call him Mikey, but it's actually Mikey, the goddess of victory. Yeah. And he caught if you read the book Shoe Dog, he talks about coming up with the name Mikey, and he talks about he went to visit the Temple Of Nike. I don't if it's that, and that's where the name Nike came from. And now we know Nike as a Healy brand name.
Speaker 1:A lot of stuff's come from here, guys. A lot of people have been up here. Good old Marcus have been up there. I couldn't be standing exactly where he stood, don't I? Maybe you did, who knows?
Speaker 1:But guys have a good day. Hopefully you're the week after the Octagon. I know there's gonna be some issues, membership wise as well, just getting all the links ready and stuff, but make sure it's all sorted. So have a good day. Live one day at a time for God's sake.
Speaker 1:Enjoy every moment, and I'll speak to you all soon.
