This Should Blow Your Mind
Welcome to the one day at a time podcast with your host and the future leader of The Republic Of Wales, Sveldfjer. Now this might be the only podcast in the world where you actually have to reduce the speed instead of increasing it. However, what I wanna get over to you is that the past is gone. The future doesn't exist. So if you wanna make the most of your life, you've gotta make the most of these moments every single day.
Speaker 1:And this podcast is gonna help you live a healthier, more fulfilled life, hopefully, giving you some wisdom to take away every single day. So I'm gonna shut up now so you can get on with listening to the next episode. Good morning everyone and before I start this podcast I want to give a massive pre episode shout out to the new sponsor and that is Marcus Friedius. He's back from the dead and he wants you to know that his book, The Meditations is on sale on Amazon for 99p so you better grab her up and listen to his thoughts. Thank you Marcus for that.
Speaker 1:You still owe me 500 naira so so get on with it but everyone gone by The Meditations by Marcus. I really is. Now on with the show. And another note before I start, show a podcast people listening who've got podcasts, stop spending half your time promoting people on your podcast. I was listening to one on the weekend trying to find ones by its author, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
Speaker 1:I'm reading a book called The Old Way, The Story of the First People. I found a podcast, I swear to God. I was I was going insane. I was walk I I'll go on a nice walk now. Listen to this podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah? Nice little walk. Half of it was him promoting in his release, American accent about the the sponsors of the show. Right? And it made me not ever wanna buy those brands ever again.
Speaker 1:So if those brands are listening, you might actually be doing damage to your brand, being getting marketed by people like that because they're really annoying, aren't they? And I'm gonna finish because I could go on all day for that those annoying people. But back to this episode. It's a very important one. I think we can take a lot.
Speaker 1:So like I said, I'm reading this book, the old way, the story of the first people by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Unbelievable book. And what blew my ugh. This blew my mind, honestly. So our lineage.
Speaker 1:You know we have evolved. Our common ancestor is the chimpanzee and the gorilla. How how so? How are they? How how are we the same?
Speaker 1:How? We can kind of see it, but do we believe it? She talks about this. Okay? Back in the day, I'm talking way back in the day, we were all in rainforests.
Speaker 1:Were all same. Our ancestors all same, climbing trees, eating fruit, enjoying living our life, swinging from trees, you know, just doing what we were doing. Right? Then the climate started changing and these rainforests, some of them started deteriorating and at one part you had the our our whoever we were then enjoying. They were they were like, no, we're gonna stay here mate.
Speaker 1:Happy days. The rest of them were like, wow, our climate's changing here. We need to move on. Right? And find a different place to get food and stuff.
Speaker 1:Right? That decision, right, that split, the ones that stayed in the rainforest became the modern chimpanzees and the ones that left became us. How nuts is that? Honestly, think about that. That decision to move on from that potentially would have been overcrowded little rainforest area to go move on, but it was it was hard.
Speaker 1:It was oh my god. It's uncertain. What are gonna do? They ended up in the Savannah. And obviously, the Savannah, there was no trees trees to climb.
Speaker 1:And that's why we we evolved to have like taller step a posture to run. So we were runners. Oh my god. Think about how nuts that decision is. That decision to leave those groups of people.
Speaker 1:I can't get over it I read it I was like this is this is nuts no way no way but then it clicked I was like of course we are we are the human race is a story of us going through really tough times and adapting to whatever comes our way And we didn't remain in the same place. We kept moving. We're explorers. We kept going. We kept evolving.
Speaker 1:That's our story. Go back February to the Greeks, they spoke about the choice of Hercules. One side, there was a god or whatever it was or an angel is like, Hercules, mate, come this way, give you all the pleasures, you love it, I swear down everything you want, easy life. Then the other one was like, don't listen to her, she's a liar, she's lying. If you come this way, it's gonna be really bad, hardcore, but you're gonna feel more fulfilled, you're gonna be the person you're gonna be.
Speaker 1:Of course Hercules took the tough tough tough tough path, 12 labors, and he became Hercules. He wouldn't have been Hercules unless he went through all that tough times, right? He wouldn't have been anyone if he just stood there in comfort, right? So we've this story of us deciding to go the tough way all the time is ingrained in us somehow I think my theory is this is like we know this is our story, this is us, we are agents of change, we do it. So we're on the savannahs right, we're on the savannahs and there was these antelopes.
Speaker 1:Some of them are faster than the others but there was one kind of antelope, big boys, too hairy, right, way too hairy, that they could sprint away. They weren't that fast. They were faster than us, but not too fast. They would sprint away, but they couldn't sprint for and they'd stop. But we'd keep running after them.
Speaker 1:And they see us again. They go, oh, the humans are these fuckers, keep coming. They sprint off again. And they keep doing this for about three hours and in the end, they'd overheat and just collapse and die and humans just walk up and we're like, nice job. We just chased them to death.
Speaker 1:Right? We would run after them to die and we'd have this juicy fat meat from the antelopes. Right, what's interesting is she talks about this age when humans and they talk about how over time males and females were equal as well by the way which is awesome. The females knew that if you were skinny, you couldn't menstruate and you couldn't have kids, So they knew that. But they also kind of like looked up to the antelope, kind of like not like a God, they were like, this has given us life.
Speaker 1:And they looked up to the antelope, was fatty, it was fat meat. They liked the fat. They knew that the fat was important for their own bodies because if they were too skinny they couldn't reproduce. But also they thought that if you didn't have a fatty body, were lazy. So they saw the skinnier versions of themselves as lazy because they didn't have enough fat because fat was this kind of life to them.
Speaker 1:It was life to them because if they didn't have enough fat, they couldn't reproduce. And it was life because the antelope was full of fatty meat that give them enough food to survive on. Right? How cool is that story in a sense? Right?
Speaker 1:But today's it's it's the opposite. People think that people who are overweight are lazy. I'm not saying that's true, that's what people think now. It's just like weird how it's like, you know, it's flipped now. And we think fat's bad.
Speaker 1:But fat to them was fat was life. Fat was life McDonald's and Hugh saying. So I'm gonna read obviously keep going through his book. I think it'd be a good one for book club. I just think it's fascinating, our origins and the stories and what we had to go through and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:And I think it's important that we realise that we probably should go down the tough path so if you're thinking I've got a decision to make should I I do the easy one and stay put or should I do the hard one, go for the hard one just do it. It's our story, it's who we are, it is who we are and I think if we go through, if we think of the choice of Hercules I think that's an important thing to remember all times like there's always that path and you go down the tough path and change happens slowly down that path. You can't see it day to day but after a hundred days down that path, three hundred days, five hundred days, you are a different person. So if I asked you now, look, five years ago, you're the same person, you're going, obviously not. I'm completely different.
Speaker 1:I'm changed. I'm better, whatever. And people say, I can't imagine the evolution. How does it happen? How does change happen?
Speaker 1:How did we how were we the same as how how were we at one point the same as the modern chimpanzees? And it's like, well, if you think about the choice of Hercules and you think about that path we went down when we went into a completely different environment to evolve, we're not gonna see the evolution from one day to the next. Like, we don't see change in ourselves one day to the next. You think you're gonna do a workout today, eat well today, and tomorrow you're gonna look completely different. No.
Speaker 1:It doesn't work like that. We know it doesn't work that. It takes time and you can't even see it, it's like an invisible change but it happens. Like if you spent all day with someone every day for the year you might not even see change in them. But if someone else from outside saw them every six month interval, they would easily see the change.
Speaker 1:And that's why you see an old friend sometimes go, wow, you changed. Like, have I? I don't have a change. And they're like, yeah, yeah, you have. It's the thing we have to trust the process that the change happens incrementally, but we have to go down that path for that change to happen because if we don't go down a path, it never will happen.
Speaker 1:Will it? So you're thinking now, should you go down that path? Yeah. Will change happen straight away? No.
Speaker 1:It won't. It never has. It never has, but we trust that it does. And it does. You put work in every day as well.
Speaker 1:And I think that's a lesson for today. So think if any of you got big decisions to make, I'm not saying rush in and go the hardest one straight might not be the most sensible in all cases, use your rational mind. But in most cases, challenge is what makes us basically. It is what makes us and I think we should, you know, like I mentioned last week obstacle is a way another way of seeing seeing this. The choice of Hercules, oh god this is our story, this is our story.
Speaker 1:But get on with it let me know if you do have any changes or decisions it'd be interesting to see and just a quick one on the challenge starting the week today, dance challenge. If you haven't signed up, obviously do it. Macros app. Macros app. Macros app.
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Speaker 1:I'm joking. Honestly, I'm never gonna do that. And see you tomorrow. Remember, one day at a time. And that is it for today's episode.
Speaker 1:So hopefully, you took something away from it. If you didn't, here's what we need to take away. Stop wasting time on social media. Stop wasting time gossiping. You've only got a day to live.
Speaker 1:Today's the only day you ever have. So if there's anything to take away from this podcast, even if you can't understand the word I say, even if you didn't resonate with the wisdom I try to deliver, this is a reminder of you daily to live one day at a time. Give your moments meaning today and don't be fooled by thinking you've got unlimited amount of days. But if you can make the most of today, I'm telling you, you'll have a fulfilled life. So enjoy your day and hopefully I'll see you back tomorrow.
