what's going on guys how are you all
doing
uh i know that i just finished the last
stream but this video came up
on my twitter someone posted it so if
you're not following me on twitter make
sure you do so i post some fun stuff and
interact with you guys
um yeah okay
i thought you'd enjoy watching this if
you haven't already started watching a
few minutes of it
gotta turn it into a reaction why not i
think a lot of people should see this
uh if you haven't already watch it again
so here we go
and i posted the link to the original
video down below if you don't want to
see my face
let's begin
i actually wrote the story and produced
indiana jones i didn't actually direct
it it was that other guy that looks like
me
i'll give you two things
one which i've answered a few times here
around the table so i figured i'd share
with everybody
which is you know how did i end up where
i am
and when i was in high school
i was a consummate underachiever
uh i hated school
i loved to build things i loved
woodworking i loved
working on cars and engines worked in a
foreign car service
and all i wanted to do was race cars
right before graduation i was in a
terrible automobile accident
and was almost killed and as a result of
that sort of sat in a hospital for a
long time thinking about my place in the
world
and decided that i would give education
another try
and took my very bad grades to a junior
college
and discovered social science
the humanities became very infatuated
with anthropology and psychology
and suddenly found something that i
really loved
and did very well
and then when i graduated and i was
about to go on to
the last two years of college at
san francisco state to get a degree in
anthropology
my best friend who i'd grown up with
since i was four years old
uh said you know come with me to uh
to stockton i have to take a test to get
into usc
and i don't want to do it alone and come
on just take
tests with me so i don't have to be
there all by myself so i said okay so i
went up there and took the test
not thinking that i'd pass but i did
pass and actually i got accepted at usc
and i
said to my friend well now what am i
going to do
i said i really like anthropology and i
think i want to do that he said yeah but
you you wanted to go to art center
you really wanted to be an artist and
you know this is your second choice
anthropology and i did i wanted to be an
artist a photographer i'd done a lot of
photography and i wanted to be an
illustrator
but my father said there'll be no
artists in this family
that's a horrible way to make a living
and if you want to go and be an artist
then you're going to have to pay for it
and he knew me well enough to know that
i wasn't about to do that
i will take the route of least
resistance i had sort of picked up my
grades but i was still
a consummate underachiever and
uh so he said well you know sc they've
got a
a department their photography
i said oh that sounds good he said it's
easier than pee you love it
i said well okay maybe i'll do that so i
went down there
and it wasn't a school of photography it
was a school of cinematography
and it wasn't actually a school of
cinematography it was actually a school
of cinema where you learn to make movies
and i said this is insane you mean you
go to a university and you can learn how
to make movies i never heard of such a
silly thing
so uh and i hadn't really paid much
attention to the movies when i was young
i sort of watched a little bit of
television stuff
went and saw earth versus the flying
saucers and
you know bridge on the river kwai and
things like that but i didn't know
anything about movies
and and i got there my first semester
i had to take a lot of requirements you
know spanish
science that sort of stuff but i got to
take two classes one was a
history of movies um and
growing up in a very small town with one
movie theater i hadn't seen a lot of
movies
and i didn't get a television until i
was 10.
so in those days one of the main
advantages of being in a film school is
when you take a history class or
something you actually got to see movies
that you couldn't see
it's an amazing thing the world you live
in today you can actually go down to a
store and just get any movie that's
almost
ever been made and you can see it and
then you can actually have the filmmaker
you know in the extra bonus disc tell
you how they made it and everything
that's basically what a film school was
except you were surrounded by a lot of
kids that sort of believe the same thing
you did
so i got there and i learned about
movies which i really didn't know
anything about
in terms of the history movies watching
really great movies
and i had a production class
introduction to animation
uh where eventually they gave me one
minute film
and they said here run the camera you
know follow these instructions move it
to the right move it to the left move it
up move it down
and so i took that little assignment
with my one minute of film and i made a
one minute movie out of it
i took a lot of still photographs and
created a collage and a whole different
way of
doing animation and put a soundtrack to
it
my professor was unbelievably
impressed with it and it blew everybody
away in the film department
and they sent it out to festivals and it
won like 47 festivals
and i said wow i know how to do this
i'm actually pretty good matter of fact
i'm better than anybody here
i love this you know this i want to do
this the rest of my life
and so i was lucky enough to find my
path my passion
before that i had passions you know i
wanted to be an artist
i wanted to build cars i wanted to
create things
um but
and i liked anthropology i really wanted
i was very interested in social science
very interested in why we do things you
know where we came from
all kinds of you know mythology um
and i realized after a few years
you know and then i went to film school
made movies and ended up
being where i am but i realized
that i was following on everything i did
i was following something i really cared
about
something i loved something i was
passionate about
and i kept following that passion
whether it was cars
whether it was anthropology whether it
was art
photography um and
eventually it led me to my huge passion
my real passion which was making movies
which combined all of those things
and i realized that had i gone on to get
my degree in anthropology
i would have probably made
anthropological movies in new guinea or
someplace and eventually
been on national geographic and you know
the history channel and
been then making features and i'd have
done star wars just the same
if i'd gone to art center and become an
illustrator i would have probably
started doing
animation and doing animated films and
making animated things and then
ultimately i would have gone on and been
right where i was
so no matter which route i took because
i cared about all of them
they all led to the same place had i
done what my father had wished me to do
which is to go into these
office equipment business with him which
i knew i wasn't
going to do i knew i hated that my life
would have been
unpleasant and so i think it's very
important
not to do what your
peers think you should do not do what
your parents think you should do
or your teachers but to do what you
inside
or even your culture thinks but do
what's inside you
you know when i went to film school i
would say well you're nuts what are you
going to film school for
you know you're only there's no you
nobody from a film school had ever
gotten a job in the film business just
had never happened
so you were just doomed to be a ticket
taker disneyland
so they was like why would you do that
you know why don't you take a
major that you can actually get a job at
why do i but
once i fell in love with it there was no
going back even though i had absolutely
no chance of making it in the film
business
and i did the same thing when i
graduated i moved back to san francisco
and he said well you can't make movies
in san francisco you're crazy i said but
i don't want to be in hollywood i don't
want to do that i don't like those kind
of movies i want to do different kind of
movies
and they said well you'll fail but it
just never happened
and we managed to make it work in san
francisco
so that's the long story of how i got
here
uh another short story of one thing i
discovered along the way
is that several
speakers that have talked about
happiness and
i've discovered along the way that
happiness you have you live in two
worlds here
happiness is pleasure and happiness is
joy
it can be either one you add them up and
it sort of falls under the uber category
of happiness
pleasure is short-lived uh lasts an hour
last a minute
lasts a month
and it peaks and then goes down it peaks
very high
but the next time you want to get that
same peak you have to do it twice as
much
it's like drugs you know just you have
to keep doing it because it insulates
itself
no matter what it is whether you're
shopping uh whether you're
uh you know engaged in any other kind of
pleasure
that all has the same quality about it
on the other hand is joy
and joy is the thing that doesn't go as
high as pleasure
in terms of your emotional reaction but
it stays with you joy
is something you can recall pleasure you
can't
so the secret is that even though it's
not as intense
as the pleasure the joy will last you a
lot longer
and people who get the pleasure they
keep saying well if i can just get
richer and get more cars you know i'll
never
you'll never relive the moment you got
your first car
that's it that's the highest peak yes
you can get three ferraris in a
new uh gulfstream jet and maybe you'll
get close
but you have to keep going and
eventually you run out and you just
can't do it it doesn't work
so if you're trying to sustain that
level of peak pleasure
you're doomed it's a very american
idea but it just can't happen you just
let it go
peak great pleasure it's fun it's great
but you can't keep it going forever
just accept the fact that it's here and
it's gone and maybe again it'll come
back and we get to do it again
joy lasts forever pleasure is purely
self-centered
it's all about your pleasure it's about
you
it's about it's a selfish self-centered
emotion that's created by a
self-centered motive of greed
joy is compassion joy is giving yourself
to somebody else
or something else and it's a kind of
thing that is
in its subtlety and lowness much more
powerful than pleasure
you get hung up on pleasure you're
doomed if you
pursue joy you will find everlasting
happiness so with that i'm gone bye-bye
thank you
wow okay
i got a lot to say but i'm kind of
dumbfounded at the same time
i could i could listen to him talk
forever
the thing i uh there's a few things here
one of the main things is
of course when he talked about how he
wanted to race cars and build cars
and this night and gone to a very bad
car accident and it put him in the
hospital and you know he almost died
life has a funny way of doing these kind
of things where
you think you're headed down a certain
path and this happened to me as i'm sure
it's happened a lot of you in the chat
you're so adamant on a certain path you
think you're you're on the right
direction you're going the right
direction everything
and you're hit with a massive curveball
who would ever think okay i'm gonna get
in a car accident
uh okay yeah i'm almost gonna die okay
yeah this is gonna change that's gonna
change
there have been so many different points
in my life where i thought
this is the way it's going to be it's
just going to keep going this way
but then i'm hit with this massive
curveball that completely just shifts my
alignment of
what i want to do and what i'm going to
do in my future and
turns me in a completely different
direction
take the channel for instance this was
never intended i was never intended to
be a youtuber
to be doing what i'm doing today i
it was never a thing uh you know
so what whatever you're doing i think we
can take some inspiration from what
mr lucas tells us here and which is that
if you're hit with a curveball
sometimes i think that's life's way of
saying hey
why don't you check out some different
avenues i got this one buddy who
was an amazing amazing baseball player
scholarships everything injured his knee
all done it's all gone and i think
that that's maybe life's way of telling
him that hey
i think you're destined for something
else there's another path out there for
you that can take you into a different
direction that
is the will of the force you know not
not to get all
sci-fi and and fictional like qui-gon
would say or whatever but
in a weird sense if george had gone and
not gotten in that accident i mean maybe
he would have continued doing what he
was doing
building cars and racing cars maybe he
would have opened a track and done that
if he didn't go with his friend to take
that random test
ended up passing and then had his friend
convince him to go and do this
who knows where he'd be
he didn't even know that he could take
those kind of courses in school when he
got accepted so i mean
everything was lined up like a domino
and it led him to where he is today
which internally do you guys hear
stopping you from doing whatever you're
supposed
to otherwise would be doing maybe right
now
i don't know i don't want to get too
weird or anything but maybe right now
some you'd be doing something else and
that could lead to
a different turn in your life right but
you're here you're watching this video
and it's all because of what george did
and if george didn't make star wars if
he didn't go the path that he went
i wouldn't be here who knows what i
would be doing maybe i'd be dead maybe
i'd be doing something
i'm just miserable in and i don't really
enjoy because honestly i've never been
more happy in my life doing this
ever in the beginning so many people
comments people i know in person they're
just
oh you'll never you'll never make it
like when i was
when i was gung-ho on like
making my channel my thing
like once i started it and i was like
okay wow i really enjoyed this and i
kept going
and i started to gain some subs and i
was like oh wow
she's going to keep going with this and
the sleepless nights working
literally around the clock sacrificing
everything
literally everything you guys know the
story i had so many people would be like
yeah
you can't do it ah you're gonna kill
yourself ah you shouldn't do it oh it's
just it's a one-time thing ah whatever
you can't listen to people you know
and that's not to say that you should
just be hell-bent on what you think you
should do because sometimes what you
think you should do
is garbage like it's literally going to
lead you down the wrong path
so you got to really have that gut
feeling and know like is this really the
right
thing for me and when life hits you with
those curveballs it's a good
opportunity for you to pause slow down
and really think
about your next steps
it's very insightful video i wish this
would get
crazy views not for my sake
i wish the original video would get some
crazy views because i think only a
quarter million people saw it
but probably one of my most important
videos and
interesting videos with you guys to talk
about because i feel like at the end of
the day sure we all
enjoy star wars but we all have a life
path right we all have
we all want to do extraordinary things
with our lives no one wants to be a
loser no one wants to
uh just fail everyone wants to see their
dreams fulfilled
and to succeed because as humans that's
just what we
it's programmed if we were programmed to
fail and not really care then
we wouldn't really be here we probably
would have been dead or extinct
something else would have beaten us
so that being said i mean i'm not saying
totally disregard what your parents
saying this and that
for the most part they know what's up
but
also you always have to listen to
yourself
and what you truly want because at the
end of the day no one
is going to be able to know more about
you and
your interests
than you there's no point doing
something for
money if you're miserable there's no
point doing something if you don't
really enjoy it
or because someone tells you to do
something and we see that all the time
with people
right you're kind of like ah yeah i'm
just thrown into this
category this job because i just feel
like that's just kind of where life led
me it's like well
sure but is it truly what you were happy
doing and this is something that i don't
know where i heard this from but i feel
like people should
people should turn their hobbies into
their careers and not necessarily from
like a money standpoint like oh
even if you got a job right now and it's
making you know a lot more money than
if you're making a lot of money right
now but you're miserable what's the
point
i'd rather you make money a decent money
but be extremely as he said
full of joy because
at the end of the day money can only buy
pleasure and
that's short-lived as george said you
always got to try to
outdo the last buy the last purchase
so if you can do something that you
truly enjoy we wake up every day and
you're really happy
and you're genuinely in your gut you're
happy
to be doing what you're doing you're
thankful to be doing what you're doing
you're winning i don't care what the
paycheck is you know
you're absolutely winning now the
paycheck is huge and you're happy well i
mean
hey you know what more can you ask for
and you're healthy what more can you ask
for you know
but i would say the the biggest joy is
probably
you know what my biggest joy is is is
when i
give uh
when i find like i donate or i i i you
know
give something to my parents or
someone i care for it's it's it gives me
so much more enjoyment
and happiness than
anything else and there are a lot of
things that can make me happy you know
but
so i i think the more you focus on
i don't want to say just focus on others
but the more you focus
the less you focus on intrinsic things
selfish things as george said i think
the happier you're going to be in life
if you're happier in life you're on a
higher elevation and you're just going
to do better
no matter what you do because everything
you do you're approaching it from a
different viewpoint
and this is really kind of my what i've
been training my mind to do
since i was a kid it's just keep the
negative away
the dramatic away all the bullshit away
and just go for what you want
as long as it's you know it's not
hurting anybody and it's hurting you and
this and that just go for what you want
in the most positive way that you can
because it's really all that matters
so i think this video is absolutely
beautiful
let's see what you guys are saying
hello from saskatchewan what up man
you remember meadow thanks man you just
watched this this morning
i love how george talks about pleasure
pleasure versus joy such a wise man he
really is
she made a youtube channel he just like
talked that'd be cool
she like talked about his experiences
and like making movies and like stuff
it's always insightful hearing
um educated people talk about things
this is a very important message for
everyone life has a way of changing our
perspective
i'm a proud music writer photographer
graphic designer and much more
you're an amazing voice star wars theory
thanks man i'm sure you're amazing at
what you do
and i'm sure or maybe you maybe you know
you were lucky enough to know what you
wanted to do and start writing for me
i started um the first job i wanted
i kid you not first job i ever wanted
was to work at lucasfilm
as a vfx specialist
and then it later you know transformed
into an astronaut as every you know
child does and then uh or most child
most children and then it was um
i wanted to work for nasa for the
longest time i wanted to program robots
and send them to space
emailed nasa asking you know what books
and courses to read and take
in school and this and that when i was
in eighth grade and i think
for you americans it's what a junior
is it a junior is it a sophomore i don't
know
i don't know anyways
life's an interesting thing
blink and you could miss it that's
really all i wanted to talk about
um hope you guys enjoyed this stream
hope you took something from what george
said
and uh i'll see you in tomorrow's video
more fanfictions to come
love you guys we're all in it together
i'll catch you later
