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In this video, confidence coach Dan Munro reacts to the big hit song and musical genius that is Hi Ren. This song is an honest dive into the battles of mental illness, and the daily struggle we all go through in dealing with that negative voice inside your head. It looks at how the inner critic constantly discourages you and undermines your confidence and self esteem, even when you’re trying to do the right thing and live with integrity. This reaction video to Hi Ren explores the honesty and vulnerability of Ren, and how he’s created art with simple truthfulness.

Full transcript:

Some of you might already be aware of the smash new hit song “Hi Ren”, by a dude whose name is also Ren. I’ve watched the song like 50 times, I can’t get over it. And today, I want to do a reaction to it, talking about it from a place of honesty.

I want to look at the integrity of the song. This is, as far as I’m concerned, the perfect example of turning honesty into an art form and showing that it isn’t just non-fiction. Honesty can be expressed as art. So we’re gonna go into it if you haven’t seen it yet, you’re in for a treat. Now, I do tend to unpack things quite heavily. So, I’m going to break this up and go through it in different bits and talk about honesty and how it’s been expressed. So, if you’d like to watch a whole video, I recommend you just go to the link which I’ll post below.

Little bit of foreshadowing here: for those of you listening, maybe for the first time, the guitars are a little bit discordan–deliberately. When you find out what this song is about, the theme of mental illness, then you notice that even the guitars are being honest. I don’t know if this was filmed live or not. I know he has a lapel mic on and I know he likes to do one take videos. He likes to do things live and he does them really well live. So, I suspect some or all of this video is done live. The sound we’re hearing in the filming is actually from the video rather than a pre-recorded track.

There’s even authenticity in how this is presented. There are little errors in the guitar and there are also discordant notes that aren’t errors, but they’re a little harsh on the ear which play to the theme of mental illness. You know, mental illness has its imperfection to it. So, you’re going to notice that throughout. Pay attention to the guitar when he’s not singing or rapping and also his voice. These are not errors so much as just imperfections, and he leaves them in there– which is actually what makes the song so perfect and so honest.

Hi there Ren, it’s been a little while, did you miss me?

You thought you’d buried me, didn’t you? Risky

‘Cause I always come back, deep down, you know that

Deep down, you know I’m always in the periphery

The rest of the song is obviously a battle between the voices in his head. I love the way he starts out by sort of saying “Hi again, I’m back! I always come back! I’m always in the periphery! You know I’m always there, even when you have a good time you know I’ll be back!” He acts this out so well. Watch what he does: this voice is like pride, a kind of superiority complex. It’s the side of him that is like “I own you” and I’m backing the sort of sarcasm “Did you miss me?” He just so perfectly embodies that inner critic we all have, that harsh voice we have in our head. He embodies just how superior and sarcastic and devastating this voice is and how it always comes back.

Ren, aren’t you pleased to see me?

It’s been weeks since we spoke bro, I know you need me

You’re the sheep, I’m the shepherd, not your place to lead me

Not your place to be biting off the hand that feeds me

“Biting off the hand that feeds me” not only are his bars just on point, his fucking lyrics are amazing! The implication there is: this is the voice we feed, so this voice is almost like in the host body, it needs us to survive. This inner critic feeds off us and we can’t stop it from doing that, we keep it alive. I thought that was a really interesting insight.

Hi Ren, I’ve been taking some time to be distant

I’ve been taking some time to be still

I’ve been taking some time to be by myself

Since my therapist told me I’m ill

And I’ve been making some progress lately

And I’ve learnt some new coping skills

So I haven’t really needed you much, man

I think we need to just step back and chill

He’s acting so good in this. What he’s showing us here, he’s got almost a timid tone. He’s almost apologetic as he tries to stand up to this voice. Almost like a lifetime of knowing how powerful this voice is, and how reactive it is. When you try to talk back to it, when you try to establish some dominance over it, the way it comes back at you, he can see it coming. He’s  almost saying, “No, we’re all good, leave me alone.” He just knows how this voice is gonna react. The acting in this is so honest, not just the music.

Ren, you sound more insane than I do

You think that those doctors are really there to guide you?

You’ve been through this a million times

Your civilian mind is so perfect at always being lied to

Okay, take another pill boy

Drown yourself in the sound of white noise

Follow this ten-step program, rejoice

All your problems will be gone! Fuckin’ dumb boy

I’m going to break this up a lot. So if you want to hear the full song, just go watch it and give the dude some support.

Notice there’s also truth in what the critical voice is saying. This is what makes critical voice so devastating. You know, there are bits that the voice is pointing out, some of it has some accuracy to it. Like, “You think pill is going to make all your problems go away?” Of course not. That’s actually true. But, it’s also a way of discouraging you from doing anything that’s helpful. By saying, “If it’s not going to work out perfectly for you don’t even bother”. That’s where the discouraging voice often does to us. Because something will only work six out of ten times. That voice says it’s not good enough. But for the next year, six out of ten is amazing. It’s a huge progress. It’s a massive relief. If you had to take medication for psychosis, for example, you’re not gonna end up being this perfect human being, but it’s going to be way better than having unmedicated psychosis. But, the voice will just tell you, “There’s no point. It doesn’t work. Nothing ever gets you to perfect, why bother?” It’s a way of discouraging you from making any progress. That’s a really devastating little manipulation that this voice does.

Nah, mate, this time it’s different, man, trust me

I feel like things might be falling in place

And my music’s been kinda doing bits too

Like I actually might do something great

And when I’m gone, maybe I’ll be remembered

For doing something special with myself

That’s why I don’t think that we should talk, man

‘Cause when you’re with me, it never seems to help

You think that you can amputate me?

I am you, you are me, you are I, I am we

We are one, split in two that makes one, so you see

You got to kill you if you wanna kill me

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Fuck, he is so good with the lyrics!

Again, the sort of hopeful version of Ren is trying to be shameless about his strengths. It’s one of the hardest things for us to do in terms of honesty: to remove the false modesty and to go “Actually, I am fucking good at something.” I don’t mean I’m good as I’m better than other people. Rather, the thing I do is like a gift. It does well, for other people, I feel good doing it. I have a certain level of talent and skill that I’m proud of and that I’ve earned. The voice, let’s call him “the dark Ren”, he hates acknowledging strengths, you know.

As soon as you try to acknowledge your strengths, it’s going to call–that voice is going to say you’re bragging, you’re somehow harming others and making a fool of yourself–that it’s selfish to embrace these gifts. It’s the kind of voice that talks you into playing down when you’re in a job interview, talks you into not releasing your music or playing something safer, rather than something dangerous and more real. So, if this last little rant, you know, you can amputate me, you have to kill me, kill yourself kill me. Again, the voice will always tell you that you need it. The voice will tell you that.

He’s about to go on, to hear that it’s a necessary voice: the voice that puts pressure on you, the voice that discourages you, the voice that tries to hold you back and tries to tells you to be modest about your strengths. This voice comes with this narrative: this is helpful for you, this is going to make you more successful–you should listen to me. He’s just playing this out really well.

I’m not left over dinner, I’m not scraps on the side

Oh, your music is thriving? Delusional guy

Where’s your top ten hit? Where’s your interview with Oprah?

Where are your Grammies, Ren? Nowhere!

Another way that this voice is gonna destroy you is by always setting the goal far beyond wherever you’re at. I call it the rainbow effect: you never catch up to the rainbow. So, no matter how well you’re doing and however you measure well, you can always imagine better, even if that better is totally fictional, which of course it is. The way this voice really discourages you–it takes all that you have away from you–when you’ve got something–it just wipes off the board by just adding another layer to your success and it only has to be one step better. Often, it goes quite extreme like “You’ve been playing music for six years and you don’t have a Grammy yet! You suck! If you didn’t make it into the Olympics, you’re not a very good runner.” Right?

It does it to me all the time with coaching. It will be like, “Why have you been doing YouTube for seven years, and you’ve only got 3000 subscribers?” Like, okay, well, I guess I suck then. It will take whatever you’ve got and say that’s not enough, because I can imagine you doing more, and other people did more by the time you were here, and so on. In this way, like I said, you get a six out of ten, but this voice just turns it into a zero which discourages you from doing anything. Which is the real secret motive of this voice: to keep you down, to keep you the same, to keep you from doing anything unfamiliar and scary.

Yeah, but, my music’s not commercial like that

I never chased numbers, statistics or stats

I never write hooks for the radio, they never even play me

So why would I concern myself with that?

But my music is really connecting

And the people who find it, respect it

And for me, that’s enough ’cause this life’s been tough

So it gives me a purpose I can rest in

Man, you sound so pretentious

To the voice, to that discouraging voice, there’s nothing you can say that it can’t turn against you. It’s so good at doing that because it is you, and it knows you. Imagine how well you would be able to manipulate someone if you could see inside their mind from the day they were born, and you knew everything about them. I mean, it’s just like typing commands into a computer, it would be a piece of cake. Well, the voice inside your head has been there, the witness has been there your entire life and knows your greatest fears and knows your weaknesses. This voice also knows what moves you the most. So, it always says the exact thing to just destroy you and it comes up with it like that. You can never shut it up no matter what you throw at it. It will destroy it. So, this guy’s basically said “Look, I’ve given up on trying to be a big deal with quantity. I’m just going to do quality for a few people–it gives meaning to my life. Some people have shown that they connect with it and they like it, and respect it. So, that’s enough, man.” I can see, this is me living by my values and doing something good with my life.

The voice straightaway turns on I’m like, “Are you fucking kidding yourself? You’re just pretentious, trying to make it sound like you’re doing something noble, when reality is–you are just needy.” Even when you’re doing things for the right reasons, and that’s your motive, the voice will pretend or challenge you into thinking that you’re not even doing it for the right reasons, that you’re kidding yourself.

So even when you’re trying to live with integrity, it’ll try to convince you that you’re only pretending to live with integrity, pretending to yourself, so you can get away with needy pathetic things that are the real reason why you are doing what you’re doing.

So, when I’m coaching people, and including my own life, when people try to live with integrity, quite often they go through phases where they’re just like, “Is this really integrity or am I just kidding myself”. This voice has just come in and killed them for doing the right thing. Brutal.

Ren, your music is so self-centred

No one wants to hear another song about

How much you hate yourself, trust me

You should be so lucky, having me inside you to guide you

Remind you to manage expectations

Provide you perspective, that thing you neglected, I get it

You wanna be a big deal, next Jimi Hendrix? Forget it

Again, I’m just sort of emphasizing the point where he talks about how necessary the voice is. Yeah, I’m here to guide you. I’m here to give you perspective, keep you in line, stop you from doing something stupid and stop you from taking risks way beyond what you can handle. It is just constantly trying to sell itself as being the reason for your success.

Quite often, the voice will say, if you’ve done well and you feel like you’re under pressure to do well the whole time, that the pressure was good. It will tell you that pressure was a motivating force that keeps you going rather than admitting the truth which is: the pressure slowed you down and you would have done even better if you were relaxed and being kind to yourself.

Man, it’s not like that

Man it’s just like that, I’m inside you, you twat

No, it’s not man, you’re wrong, when I write, I belong

Let me break the fourth wall by acknowledging this song

Ren sits down, has a stroke of genius

He wants to write a song that was not done previous

A battle with his subconscious, Eminem did it

Played on guitar, Plan B did it

Comparison to others–isn’t that the weapon of choice, right? Especially for any kind of talent or performance or skill set. Your brain will always hunt for someone who’s better at this or someone who has done it before you. This voice doesn’t need to even be right on point. So you know, he is comparing himself to Eminem and plan B.

Now, they didn’t do exactly what he’s doing. In fact, what we’re seeing here is really fucking original. You know, I haven’t seen something that’s original since Bohemian Rhapsody. He perfectly demonstrates it in the song, which is actually what makes the song so original, that he’s talking about the difficulty in believing that he’s original. You know, comparing himself to Eminem, I mean, how you were supposed to compete with him. And, if you’re at the point of releasing this video, you’re just a very popular busker.

How unfair is it for his voice to compare him to some superhero in his genre and compete with him unfairly. He’s not doing what Eminem does, Eminem doesn’t play guitar. But, as soon as he says “playing guitar”, the voice says “Plan B Did it!”

Notice that anytime you argue with the voice, it’s got a counter argument, which is a hint. He goes into this near the end. Spoiler alert, arguing with that voice is actually what causes it to get louder.

Man, you’re not original, you criminal, rip-off artist

The pinnacle of your success is stealing other people’s material

Ren, mate, we’ve heard it all before

Uh, “she sells seashells on the sea shore”

Fuck you, I don’t need you, I don’t need to hear this

‘Cause I’m fine by myself, I’ma genius

And I will be great, and I will make waves

And I’ll shake up the whole world beneath us

I’m going to stop interrupting so much because I want you guys to enjoy the flow a bit more than this. What do you notice: the video gives the impression that the voice is “the bad one” and the other one is “the good one”. But actually, they’re both creating waves here. So, one voice says “I’m a genius. I’m going to make a big impact.” This voice is getting a little attached to outcomes. It’s getting a little attached to things beyond its control.

In addition to just doing this for the right reasons, it also wants to be this thing and be big. It actually provokes the other voice. So, the more you say “I’m gonna be great, I’m gonna do these great things and call your shots”, that makes the other voice go “Nay, you are fucking not right.” And so, there is again, there’s some truth when a darker voice is saying “You’re trying to control things you can’t control. You’re calling shots that aren’t yours to call. You’re focused on things that aren’t yours to control.”

There’s an element of truth to it. If you said “I’m just gonna write music and hope some people like it”, the voice is gonna attack you on that as well. But yeah, it’s just interesting. Both of these voices are aggravating each other and battling it out. As the song plays out, you’ll see where that goes. I’m gonna stop interrupting us so much and just let you enjoy it a bit more, but I have more say as well.

That’s right, speak your truth, your fuckin’ God complex leaks out of you

It’s refreshing to actually hear you say it instead of downplay it

“Ugh, music Is all about the creative process and if people can find

Something to relate to within that, then that’s just a bonus”

Fuck you, I’ma fuckin’ kill you, Ren

Well fuckin’ kill me then, let’s fuckin’ have you Ren

I’m a do it, watch me prove it, who are you to doubt my music?

‘Cause I call the shots. I choose if you die

Yeah, I call the shots, and so I who choose who survives

I’ll tie you up in knots when I’ll lock you inside

I don’t want to interrupt the next bit, so I’m gonna let that play out in full.

Well, what I love here is this iIf you keep fighting with the darkness for long enough, eventually you really kind of provoke it. And, it does a full blown takeover. We’ve all experienced that, where we’re so battling with that inner demon, constantly trying to do the right thing or trying to achieve something, and going against the voice and arguing with it in various ways. Then it’s almost like we push it too far and it just explodes on us. We get full blown depression or apathy, we have a stress burnout, we get into this funk, where we just hate ourselves and hate everything for a sustained period of time. We’re really irritated by everything, we can’t see the good in anything, we’re really pessimistic.

You just can’t poke the beer that much without it eventually eating you. And he’s about to do the same and show that kind of process where the voice just takes over and makes a case for itself to say, “There’s no point arguing with me, everything is as negative as I say it is because I’ve been there since the beginning and I understand it all.” He’s also going to do some commentary here on how this voice is just human nature. We’ve always had it. It’s what all the stories are about. And gives you a hint that maybe this is just a normal thing that we all experience. Also, I saw another person react to this and they talk about the pride in his voice. He’s such a good actor, the pride when he does this little bit just listen to the pride.

News flash

I was created at the dawn of creation

I am temptation, I am the snake in Eden

I am the reason for treason, beheading all Kings

I am sin with no rhyme or reason

Sun of the morning, Lucifer, antichrist

Father of lies, Mestophilies

Truth in a blender, deceitful pretender

The banished avenger, the righteous surrender

When standing in-front of my solar eclipse

My name it is stitched to your lips, so, you see

I won’t bow to the will of a mortal, feeble and normal

You wanna kill me? I’m enteral, immortal

I live in every decision that catalysed chaos

That causes division

I live inside death, the beginning of ends

I am you, you are me, I am you, Ren

I mean, the bit at the end is just poetic genius. It’s worth looking at the lyrics when you see how well he’s thought this out and how many references to various themes: Christianity, Satan and so on. But right the bit “I am you, you are me.” This idea that this isn’t some separate entity. You know, this voice in our head is always horrible to us. This isn’t some alien and fiction.

This is the human mind. This is how it functions, you can’t help but have this duality. We all have a discouraging voice. It seems like that’s its job. I won’t go into the details here, but my basic theory of it is that we have some evolutionary fear designed to keep ourselves safe. Over the years, it’s manifested into this voice. This kind of constant, contrarian voice that doubts all the time, discourages all the time, criticizes all the time, constantly, battles for taking the easy way out and playing it safe.

Because you know, 200,000 years ago, that would have been a really helpful guiding voice because we’re very high risk, we’re middle of the food chain, we die very early for often. It’s very rare to die of old age, it’s usually something else that got us–other tribes and so on. Resources were fought over and sometimes scarce. It’s a voice designed to keep us in check and not get too fucking ahead of ourselves at a time where we would get killed.

For being a musician, there’s no risk, but the voice doesn’t know that. The voice still thinks that you’re trying to take on the chief of the tribe, or that you’re doing something that’s gonna get you ostracized, or that you’re walking into saber toothed tiger territory or something like that. It’s trying to keep you safe. But, the way it comes across is just criticism of any idea that you have. And we take it seriously, if we take it on the content, like “Oh, you’re not a very good musician. You are not original.” We think that’s what it’s talking about. But, all it’s really saying is “You’re trying something new and unfamiliar and that freaks me out.” That’s all it’s ever saying.

Now we’re going to hear from the other side, the voice that actually gives us the ideas in the first place.

Hi Ren, I’ve been taking some time to be distant

I’ve been taking some time to be still

I’ve been taking some time to be by myself

And I’ve spent half my life ill

But just as sure as the tide starts turning

Just as sure as the night has dawn

Just as sure as rainfall soon runs dry

When you stand in an eye of the storm

I was made to be tested and twisted

I was made to be broken and beat

I don’t want to interrupt this bit too much, but it goes epic. There’s a couple of key things that he pointed out here and that is there are seasons to all of this shit. No matter how shit the life is, you know, night always ends and dawn comes again. If you can look at it that way, if you have the patience for the bad luck to do its course, if you have the patience for the injury to heal.

This guy, he was really sick. He had Lyme disease and psychosis. Lyme disease is a fucking nightmare, right? Like you’ll go from doctor to doctor to doctor, they’ll all tell you a different thing. They’ll all give up on you. Nobody will fucking diagnose it. You can be sick for a very long time. It’s one of the worst chronic illnesses you can have simply because it’s so confusing for medical professionals, just very few of them are able to pick up on it. And nobody even really truly knows what it is to this day. Because you run someone through the tests and they seem to be fine on paper and yet they can’t get out of bed. They start being told that they’re making it up or they’re psychosomatic.

So, this guy’s been sick for a very long time. If you want to check out he’s got video blogs from when he was sick. He was just a teen boy, in the depths of despair, one step away from suicide, trying desperately, clinging to the world with his fingernails. Saying “Hey, I really want to live, but I don’t think I can anymore.” It’s brutal to watch. It’s quite amazing to see where he’s at now. He’s so healthy now. It’s just like, “Yeah, fuck it, you made it!” Now, his storm lasted a long time. For a decade, he was sick, as far as I understand. He said “I spent half my life ill.” A lot of us don’t realize that just because the storm has been going on for a very long time, it doesn’t mean it will never end. It’s just when you’re in it. It seems like a long time.

You know, when my baby’s crying, because she can’t get to sleep and she’s crying. After comforting her and after it’s done, I’ll come out of the room and say to my wife “Fuck, I was in there for an hour.” My wife will be like, “No, it was like seven minutes.” Seven minutes! God, it’s worse than exercise time! When you’re in the darkness, it feels way longer than it is, and even when it is a long time like when he was sick, there would have been moments of joy. But the dark voice would have plastered over those moments and said, “It’s all shit”. If you can take a moment to just keep an eye out for when the sun comes through the clouds a little bit, so to speak, you’ll notice that it actually happens quite often. It always eventually happens. This is the bit he sings about. Now, I’m gonna let him finish that. And, we’ll finish out the song.

I was made by His hand, it’s all part of His plan

That I stand on my own two feet

And you know me, my will is eternal

And you know me, you’ve met me before

Face to with a beast, I will rise from the east

And I’ll settle on the ocean floor

And I go by many names also

Some people know me as “hope”

Some people know me as the voice that you hear

When you loosen the noose on the rope

And you know how I know how I know that I’ll prosper?

‘Cause I stand here beside you today

I have stood in the flames that cremated my brain

And I didn’t once flinch or shake

Didn’t once flinch your shame–there’s a part of you, if you can tap into it. The most honest part of you, this observer. This kind of benevolent “I” that a lot of people would think of as God that watches you from the inside. It’s been watching you since the start, since the day you were born. So, the only thing that hasn’t changed since you were born, your whole body’s changed, your brain, your beliefs, everything has changed since you were born–it all changed many many times. But there’s one thing that has watched you, that has been constant, the observing I.

There’s a bit where, you know, you’re ashamed of yourself. “There’s something wrong with me. I’m a bad person. I’m different. Nobody likes me. I’m unlovable. I’m not good enough.” And yet, there’s a dim awareness we usually have that something’s watching us. And, this ‘something’ just feels nothing but compassion and knows that all of our doubts are bullshit. It knows there’s nothing wrong with you and it knows that you’re just a human, and that everything you’re doing is your best effort: given the circumstances, given your upbringing, given your genetics, you can’t do better than this. There’s a part of you that knows that–the observer knows it. That observer really speaks in the whisper; it’s very hard to hear it and we very rarely hear it. I mean, I often think of mental illness as being out of touch with that voice really.

That’s the voice of your core values to your integrity. The way he just said “I never once flinched your shame”. It’s kind of like a parent, a very loving, healthy, parent watching their child and the child does something wrong with the drawing and is like “I’m so stupid!”; and the parent just goes “No, you are not! I know you think that, and I get why you think that, but you’re not. You’re fine. You’re perfect, you know?”

Tap into that voice if you can, at least for a brief period. I don’t think I’ve ever sustained the feeling beyond a brief period. You can just feel the sense of just warmth and compassion washing through you. Letting you know that everything is fine.

I had a moment once, I won’t go into details because I’m gonna stretch this out too much, but I was really in the pits, just like “Fuck, what is wrong with me! I am always doing this fucking thing!” And then, I was like “Oh fuck, I am so broken!” I was just really down in it. And then, this voice just kind of laughed at me, and said, “Yeah, you are fucked up dude. It’s fine.” It was a really compassionate voice. It was just like “You are fucked up, of course you are fucked up. Everyone’s fucked up. What are you complaining about? Just be fucked up. It’s fine.” It was one of the greatest moments of self-compassion thay I have ever had in my life, where it’s just okay to be fucked up. It’s okay to not be okay. He’s really tapping into that here. Okay, I’m gonna shut up now, we’re gonna get through all the way to the end.

So cower at the man I’ve become, when I sing from the top of my lungs

That I won’t retire, I’ll stand in your fire, inspire the weak to be strong

And when I am gone, I will rise, in the music that I left behind

Ferocious persistent, immortal like you, we’re a coin with two different sides

Here comes some wisdom from someone who suffered. This is worth listening to.

When I was 17 years old, I shouted out into an empty room

Into a blank canvas, that I would defeat the forces of evil

And for the next 10 years of my life, I suffered the consequences

With autoimmunity, illness, and psychosis

As I got older, I realised that there were no real winners

And there were no real losers in physiological warfare

But there were victims and there were students

It wasn’t David versus Goliath, it was a pendulum

Eternally swayin’ from the dark to the light

And the more intensely that the light shone, the darker the shadow it cast

It was never really a battle for me to win, it was an eternal dance

And like a dance, the more rigid I became, the harder it got

The more I cursed my clumsy footsteps, the more I struggled

So I got older and I learned to relax

And I learned to soften and that dance got easier

It is this eternal dance that separates human beings

From angels, from demons, from gods

And I must not forget, we must not forget

That we are human beings

We do forget, don’t we? We forget there quite often. So, he’s really nailed the kind of conflict that most people go through here, which is, instead of understanding that you will always have periods of darkness and light, easy and hard. Even if you do everything right it’ll go like that. It’s an unstoppable, breathing rhythm of life. If you fight against it, it swings harder and you have more highs and more lows. Eventually the lows are so devastating. You don’t even enjoy the highs. So, that’s when you crash into depression, we get bipolar type effects happening.

What he’s saying is: most people battle when they should just dance. When the darkness hits, when times are rough, rather than thinking “I must have failed, there must be something I need to solve this problem, this needs to be fixed”, one could think “What’s a good way to play this out? What’s a good way to react to this?”

You know, this too shall pass. You can say this both in good times and bad times. You know, when having a real rough time, this is gonna pass. You’re crushing it at work. This is gonna pass, you know. You’re suffering from the depths of mental illness and just want to kill yourself. Wait long enough. It’s gonna pass. You really experiencing a high, everyone loves you, you’re fucking winning everything. Yeah, that’s gonna pass too. So, if you just learn to cruise with it, as best as you can just go “Okay, it looks like we’re settling down for a winter. What’s a winter activity: read more books, spend time with loved ones, relax, try to just sort of breathe through it all, tone down the to-do list.” And then, when things are abundant and going well, okay, well, let’s make some gains. Let’s use this but not resisting when the pendulum swings.

That’s what he’s talking about here. I think that he just stopped resisting the swings. Now, I’m sure that when he’s on a high, he writes heaps of music and does well, or maybe just performs it. Then, when he’s on low, maybe he writes, maybe he taps into that darkness and comes up with some epic shit. He spends time with family, just tries to eat healthy and just, you know, pass through to them.

So, a brilliant portrayal of honesty as an art form. I really love this. I hope this guy does well. He’s going to be a great influence on the world.

Thank you for watching my reaction.

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