0:00 [Music] so on the JK Instagram I got a message from this guy longtime fan really really great dude uh but he's going through a really huge uh crisis in his life right now he was a professional boxer that he had dreams of like making it as a boxer but he's already a professional boxer uh he was on the path Prof and then he sustained some kind of injury I don't know specifically exactly what it was but it's had something to do with his eyes detach retina it could be yeah you kind of need those things yeah so now he's facing this kind of identity crisis with like he's always viewed himself as someday I'm going to be this great boxer this is my dream I don't want any other alternative paths this this this and now
0:50 he feels like his dreams are over and he's hitting this massive plummeting depression and uh he messaged and just said what do I even do now dreams are overrated I'll tell you what I told him what you tell before yeah just I I gave him kind of my story about how like when I tore my ACL meniscus on tour and the whole thing went kept going without me yeah it feels like really crazy but I was able to reapply um some of the knowledge that you gain while you know striving for a specific goal you kind of underrate that and I kind of took everything that I was good at and tried to reapply it to I guess like other facets of dance where it's not like just me dancing so I was like are there ways that you could be a educator or some kind of like technical coach or like how can you take what you know and still use
1:40 it without being the guy you know be a ████ commentator dude boxing commentator easy mode and if they don't take no for an answer show up with the karaoke machine at people training and just start ████ commentating live commentating on people that aren't asking for it it's funny cuz there's this one guy there's one corner yeah there's one guy that imitates Bruce Buffer and he just goes up and he goes can I just do a fighter intro for you and they're like uh okay and he'll just do the whole thing and he's done it so much yeah with the mic he's done it so much where everyone's like all right well you want to announce this next fight boom I me there it is he's in eggs in one basket like situation yeah but like Freddy roach his story is kind of similar where his his whole thing like all he knew was to be a boxer all he knew was like I'm going to be a boxing champ all this stuff he just couldn't make it and if you watch this whole story
2:31 his whole thing is that like he knows boxing that's all he knows but what he's good at is coaching and that was his real thing and he made the best ████ Fighters right so it's like there's so many stories like this where it's like you think you're going to be the number one top ████ fighter or athlete but then you work in the industry still cuz you know the industry you can do something really well in the sport of boxing I feel like productive people take L's and turn them into W's like force them through willpower into W's and I think that this is just the obstacle you were given and you have to figure out how to make it into a huge win for yourself it's always about flexibility and pivoting and being able to adjust when you see opportunity like our main channel was just kidding films
3:21 and that was our main dream is to make shorts and whatever and film like stuff like but what ended up happening was JK news worked really freaking well and it people like that one and I don't mind doing it right but then it became the main Channel and even before that like my number my first love and create creative things was music I wanted to do music right and then I'm taking this route toward music but what people really like me for is being dumb you're so good at it too and it's and I play that ████ like a ████ flute you know and so like see so he's still doing music to in entertainment the thing is no matter what I'm still in entertainment I'm still entertaining people ████ foot exactly King Kings would have killed you
4:11 back in the day I know to amuse themselves you to Li head they would have your head or I would have been the court gesture yeah that's what I'm saying I do think what Ryan was saying is such like a a a huge thing for people to expand their mind on because it happens all the time whether like your your road gets altered or whether like you lived your life and then like it's it's not like you'd be able to box forever anyway no matter what you're going to have to answer this question anyway you know what I mean so it's like you know just like dancing too like if if I really really love dancing obviously I'm not going to do it when I'm super old but if I'm still either creating or if I'm still like coaching or if I like open a studio or if I do this there there's so many different half steps around the thing that you're passionate and in love about that you can still find a huge and tremendous amount of success in if you like really love that thing so much cuz it's not just like loving being like the guy
5:02 who's throwing punches that that will only last so long like there if you really love the culture of it and the lifestyle there's so many different places around that you know what I mean people could probably make way more money off of just like being a bookie to fights you know what I mean or like the Live commentators or whatever it is so just if you really really love that culture there's a bunch of things in that space or around it you don't have to leave the sport yeah you don't have to leave the sport at all you can find a huge amount of success Mike Tyson left boxing did a weed podcast do a weed podcast boom I saw this one interview from was it Ethan Hawk the guy that was in training day with d that I was like oh that's powerful and he was talking about how like if you the most important thing in life is to do what you love and he said that um if you get into acting and you're not ready to be that 65-year-old
5:53 acting teacher at a random high school and no heard no one ever heard about you got into acting for the wrong wow that's what he goes you can't control Fame he's like some of the best actors I know literally no one knows them but you see their performance like it's ████ powerful he goes why am I famous is I don't even know the universe is going to happen that's true and you can't control the universe you can only control doing what you love so he's like if you you're not ready to be that random 65-year-old High School teacher teaching acting goes don't even get into it you're not doing it for the right reasons I love that that's really great yeah cuz maybe they got into it for fame and then but you just got to be honest with yourself why did you do it you got to ████ just dig deep and then you got to go well actually maybe I just wanted attention maybe I just wanted people to love me or feel like hey I did something great and then people look up to me like what is
6:43 the main reason and be honest cuz everyone's always saying ████ like oh no it's not about the fame or the money you know I just want to I love the skill I love the sport bull ████ ████ like why like if you really did want to then why why are you competing on that stage cuz there's a lot of great Fighters you could compete against and privately you go fight homeless people right priv that's what I'm saying that's what I'm saying if you're going to be a professional boxer your physical capabilities just as a human and athlete probably have to be at like already the top like 1 2% in the world like even in the fitness world there's like space and opportunity for you if you were that like obsessed with wanting to be that good you know so like there's there's space also when you're doing something something sometimes too when you start doing something you realize how much you
7:33 don't like it like oh yeah there's that too like dude acting to me I think it's ████ boring cuz you're just sitting there on set the whole ████ day waiting to act and you don't really get to do it very much like you have to wait for a project to get green lit and all these different things have to happen then you finally get to do it and then it takes forever to do and you can do it for like such a short period of time compared to how long you're on set it's like I realized it wasn't end of that oh I like doing live stuff way better oh I have way more fun it's way more like exciting for me change your dreams that's it cuz there's nothing really you could do you know kind of like even what Ethan Hawk said like the universe is going to happen the way it's going to happen like what Steve said like like even GSP right one of the greatest considered one of the greatest uh MMA fighters of all time he said he loves training hates fighting M like absolutely hates it he goes into the Green Room the day of the fight he's ████ crying he's scared he's nervous
8:25 he has to make weight he has to do all the things about fighting that sucks sucks that he ████ hates and then but he loves martial arts he loves training and I think once you really enter into a space and you do it repetitively you start to learn about yourself like cuz I love boxing is huge it's bake do I like fighting cuz some people do like the fights or do you like training or do you like the environment or do you like the sweet science like what do you actually do you like watching tape there's defensive offensive coaches out there just watch tape and take notes and what you the more you do it the more you learn about what you like and don't like and I think that actually gives you a chance to make your dreams even better than what you would have done if you if you're just like 10 steps away from doing Anthony do you love dancing or do you love being a human basketball hoop
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