got a question here from one of our 17-year-old buddies. So you know, towards the end of high school, this is definitely one of those transitionary periods in life and he's an A-level student, he says.

So essentially, he's been doing everything that a good boy should be doing up until this point, right?

An A-level student all throughout high school, but he's reaching a point now where he's battling with this problem of procrastination.

He gets everything he needs or is supposed to get done, done, but he waits until the last minute before he does it.

And then it upsets him because he's dragging all the anxiety about having to do the thing, then he friggin does it.

He always does a good job, but he's like, man, I wish I didn't carry, you know, three weeks of anxiety. I wish I just would have done the thing when I was supposed to do it.

Procrastinate with everything, especially the schoolwork.

He's doing well, but he suffers with this inability to get done when it's supposed to get done, right? Except for one thing, when it comes to rugby or playing sports, athleticism, he's right on top of it.

You call rugby, he's there, whistle, he's there, no hesitation whatsoever.

This is the thing that he wants to do. There is no procrastination. In fact, he could probably do it all day long, right? So the question really is, let me just get to the bottom line here is, uh, you know, you have any advice?

you know, I've suffered from depression for about a year after losing someone close to me. Okay, sort of relevant, but I'm not gonna go down that route, but basically, how do I deal with this procrastination?

Really interesting stuff. So essentially, your procrastination is the lion growing in you. I'm gonna tell you what I mean in a moment, but essentially you're becoming a man and you're moving into a new phase in your life where you're beginning to say no, I won't, but you keep it sort of passive aggressive because you can't say that to your teacher, "I ain't doing this classwork.

No, I'm not going to class." You can't, you can't do that, right? Because you're still a camel. I'll tell you what I mean in a moment.

And ultimately, this is a journey to becoming the strongest version of yourself, or from wisdom that is encapsulated in another metaphor, which is the child.

So what am I talking about? What is Elliott talking about? If you've ever read Thus Spoke Zarathustra, there are through stir.

This is Nietzsche, of course. Like, I I can't pronounce half the stuff that he he writes.

But this is this is a metaphor that's used in this book by Frederick Nietzsche, where he describes the evolution, the spiritual evolution of the man, where he goes from the beginning stages of his life, he's physically and spiritually, emotionally immature, and he calls this your camel stage.

I think I said all right. This is the camel stage of your revolution. What is the camel? The camel is a beast of burden.

You basically are at a stage in your life from birth, you know, where you start walking and talking and they start teaching you stuff, they start laying burdens on your shoulders, right?

Society, your parents, teachers, religion, they start loading, putting things on your shoulders. You're a beast of burden until about the age of, you know, about 17, like, kind of like, you know, where you're at right now.

Will you bow down? What does the camel do?

It's such a great metaphor, beautiful, beautiful passage in the book. He bows down and the world is loading his back with burdens.

You're a beast of burden. You're supposed to go to school, you're supposed to pass your tests, you're supposed to do your homework, you're supposed to clean your bedroom, you're supposed, suppose, supposed to, both supposed to, right?

All the things you're supposed to do, all the conditioning and lay it upon you, all the beliefs that you've been given, they're not yours.

A lot of us think we have our own beliefs. I've got my own beliefs. No, you know, no, you have not developed your own beliefs, your own ideas, your own conditioning.

You have not become a lion just yet until that camel at about that age where you start exploring and questioning just a little bit.

If you, if you're a mature individual, you don't question, that means is no, no inclination towards maturity in you. But you're, you know, most of us in this day and age with the internet and, you know, so much ideas being proliferate, of course we're gonna mature right here in all this other and I'm asked to do all this stuff here.

What's going on? Sorry, about 17 years old, you've been all that has been laid on your shoulders, right?

Beasts of burden now travels out into the desert. This is the world you're going to either go to college, you're gonna go and get a career, but essentially you're now sort of free, right?

We've extended college. We have me we could extend college.

That's all you're, you know, 30, 40 years old. It depends on when you want to grow up, but essentially you're now going out into the world.

So that camel stands up, beautiful metaphor, and wanders out into the desert with this giant load on its back and he meets a dragon and the dragon's name is Thou Shalt.

Thou Shalt is this dragon and on every one of his little pieces of, you know, dragon scales, there's a Thou Shalt, there's a belief, there is a, there's an admonition, there's something that you, you're supposed to do, all these supposed to that the world tells us, it's all over this dragon here comes this dragon, Thou Shalt.

Thou Shalt in your way, you're carrying this burden that the world has laid upon you and it is your responsibility as a maturing individual to slay that dragon because one of two things will happen: you either bow down and you continue to live your life as a beast of burden and you allow Thou Shalt to control you.

So now that dragon rules your life. A lot of us live that way or you slay that dragon, right?

This is kind of where you are right now. All that procrastination is because you feel this anxiety between you know, all this stuff is being laid upon me, but I really don't want to do this.

You started, you started, you're sort of out there and you're meeting this dragon, Thou Shalt. Thou Shalt. Your responsibility at this point, and I know it's your responsibility, this is your plight because you're asking me this question, is to slay that dragon.

And by slaying that dragon, you become a lion, and that lion's name and his attitude is, I will and no. So the no goes towards all the things that the world has told you you're supposed to do.

Thou shalt. You destroy the dragon with your no. No, no. See, right now you can't do it that way because you're still living in the confines, you're still bowed down, you're still you, but you're about to get up.

You're still bowed down as that camel, but you're about to get up. Remember this, my friend, the now as you're walking is you're on your own four feet as that camel and out into the desert, and at this point no one can do this for you.

Your parents are not there for you anymore because you're becoming a man. Your most powerful position against the dragon of thou shalt is your no. And once you slay that dragon with your no, you begin a new journey in your ever spiritual evolution as a man, and that is your I will.

Now, how many of us even make it that far that become a man of I will? Now you go out there and the lion is completely hysterical, he's rebellious, he's angry, ah it was at everybody's heads off, heads off, and he just uses pure will.

That's why his new power is called I will. You're living out of your, you're living out of this part of your body right now.

This is where your will is. Of course, I'm talking about other things, but follow me, this is your heart, this is your breathing, this is your solar plexus, that which combusts and manifests in your body, does so in your life.

Now it's the will, you build up your will, you go out there and you do have a, you wanna do, you go and you choose the type of woman you want, you choose the type of career you want, you step your business you want, you choose whether or not you want to go into business, you decide you want what type of poetry you want to involve yourself in, type of art, you go out there now and you exert your will the way you want to and thou shalt has already died, so you do it out of your own sense of purpose and strength.

And this is where you'll be for quite a while, and this is where you'll find your greatest successes and your deepest hurts when you become that lion and you need to go through it.

You need to go through those very difficult and treacherous times, challenge, discomfort, hunger as a lion because a lion doesn't bow down to nobody, right?

He'll starve for he bows to the other animals ain't bowing, he killed that dragon for a reason.

Kill me or I'll starve. That's the attitude of the lion. This has been my attitude and the attitude that I've been sharing with you guys through these videos for the past several years.

It's the attitude of the lion that I will the know that you used to slay that dragon and the I will but you'll carry with you to succeed in that next evolution of your life.

And I can't speak very, very eloquently or in any type of coherent way about the next phase, which is the child to become.

a child again, it's a full circle, but it's not an immaturity as in, you know, baby child. There's a sense of peace and joy and pleasure, but also grounding associated with all the things that the society has taught you.

You know how to read and write, a baby doesn't have to read write.

Read and write, know how to calculate and how to think. You know how to, you've got wisdom. It's the wisdom of the child, but it's a full circle type wisdom.

Just for perspective, me in my life at this point, that's sort of where I feel myself going.

I have all, very quickly, thirty-four years old, and I'm the lion is kind of almost dead in me or has growing into that child.

But that's me. Keep watching my videos for the next ten years and I'll talk to you about that next evolution.

Watch these ones, right? This is ten years after this video has been created. Watch this one and know that if you're 17, 18 up till about 27, perhaps thirty-four years old, you're in a lion phase right now.

What you're experiencing is the is the dissonance, this is comfort between the the old passing away in the new coming forth.

How To Become A LION Amongst Sheep

How To Become A LION Amongst Sheep

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