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Use your despair to find freedom
Use your despair to find freedom
Use your sadness (your sadness)
Loneliness (loneliness), depression (depression) and despair (despair), to buy your freedom

Do you know how to do that?
And by the way freedom feels really good
Here's how
Do you remember that day you were lonely and uh sad and neurotic and anxious and depressed
And every other bad feeling in the world and if only you could talk to that guy or that girl that the person of your affection
If you feel like you're gonna die anyway just do it
You're free, go up to that person that you think is
Going to turn you down and guess what they probably will Doesn't matter, doesn't matter, everybody's failing all over the world all the time

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Be good at a few things that you can control, you can control, you can control
Be good at a few things that you can control, you can control, you can control
Be good at a few things that you can control, you can control, you can control
Find a few things that you can completely control, and control the fuck out of it

There's nothing better for your self esteem than knowing that if you work hard on something
Whatever it is, that you can become one of the good ones
Not the best in the world, but better than other people, but better than other people, but better than other people (become the best in the world at what you do, best in the world at what you do, best in the world at what you do, best in the world at what you do)
And the things that you can control the most are diet, fashion choices, hair cut, fitness

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Low self esteem
Is like a virus
You catch it - from other people
Low self esteem
Is like a virus
You catch it - from other people

You didn't get your low self esteem necessarily because you were born with it
It's gotta be a genetic component here
But mostly it comes from narcissists who have their own broken self esteem and they want you to have a broken self esteem and if you don't have it their going to give it to you
You catch from other people, and you can get rid of it just like you can get rid of (Tom Hanks disease), right
(Tom Hanks disease), right

There’s somebody out here watching this right now, you might be watching it live or somebody might be showing it to you
But, I’m kind of talking to you, talking to you directly
You’re feeling super lonely, might be addicted and you’re trying to figure a way out
And you’re thinking what the hell do I do, I’m trapped I’m lonely
Umm, may be addicted I have low self esteem and all these people who are doing better than me are beating up on me and controlling me
Their opinions are actually just breaking my brain I can’t stop thinking about what they said about me
Is that you?
Yeah that is you
I’m going to give you at least a few tricks
This will just be a start it’s not going to fix anybody instantly
But I’ll give you a few tricks for escaping that, okay?
Some brain hacks, some life hacks and it goes like this
Number one

Two epidemics that are interacting which each other
One is the loneliness, and the other is narcissism
I believe narcissicm has gone from something that people had and you could stay away from them
To something closer to an epidemic
And I think social media has done that
What I’ve learned about this narcissicm thing

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I used to think it was people who thought they were great, thought they were great, thought they were great
I used to think it was people who thought they were great
This narcissism thing
It’s not about people thinking they’re great, thinking they’re great
It’s about people who have broken self esteem
Just completely broken

I tell you one of the, one of the most common things that people say to me as a celebrity type, when they get to know me
They say some version of, "Gosh, you're just like a regular person"
But why wouldn't I be?
There's nobody who's not a regular person
Except maybe Michael Jackson wasn't (ooh ooh)
If you get famous when you are too young you can be kinda weird
But, even Michael Jackson was he weirder then me, probably not, just different weirdness
Was he weirder then you, probably not, just different weirdness
And so there's something connecting this weirdness and self-esteem issue with a massive problem we are having in the country right now
Massive problem

Everybody is someone else's weirdo
Everybody is someone else's weirdo
Everybody is someone else's weirdo
Everybody

Do you ever feel to yourself, man I'm so weird
If anybody found out how weird I am
I'd be in trouble, cause man I'm so weird
Well I would like to introduce to you
The basket case theory
Something I developed when I was a young man
To explain what I was witnessing, and it goes like this
If you meet a stranger, could be someone you want to date
Or just someone you work with, maybe just a friend
When you meet them, don't they seem pretty complete
Have their act together pretty well
Man that stranger (man that stranger)
I wish I could be like that stranger
Because that stranger doesn't have anything weird about them
They've got their act together, and on the inside pretty confident and pretty capable
And then time goes by and you learn more about your date or your friend or your co-worker
And suddenly there's a flaw, oh, I didn't see that on day one but there does seem to be a a flaw, maybe a little weirdness
Day 10 looks like there's more than one flaw, two years later

Take this kiss upon the brow
And, in parting from you now
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day
In a vision, or in none
Is it therefore the less gone?
In a vision, or in none
Is it therefore the less gone?

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All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream