Name: "The Opposite of Courage is Conformity" with Rickson Gracie (from Joe Rogan Experience #524)
Uploaded: 2014-07-26T18:30:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video '"The Opposite of Courage is Conformity" with Rickson Gracie (from Joe Rogan Experience #524)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-07-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video '"The Opposite of Courage is Conformity" with Rickson Gracie (from Joe Rogan Experience #524)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-07-26. Transcript available.

- Hello, freak bitches.
What do you do with your time these days?
Like, what's a typical day for Hicks and Gracie?
- Right now, I'm back to teach in Krohn's place
because I wanted to have him more distressed
with how the academy goes.
So I pick two times a week to teach there,
giving self-defense classes.
At this point, before that, I was doing seminars
once a month, at the most, once, twice every couple of months
to make my living.
And also, because I feel like the best things in life,
money cannot buy, and I feel like the quality of my meals,
the way I eat, the way my relationship, my sleep,
those are very, very valuable assets, you know,
plus the time I have to do things I love to do.
And that's kind of, when this is feel like,
when I feel like I'm everything.
So I feel like I'm happy enough to be my best at service,
because I always try to be at service,
helping somebody with jiu-jitsu, with knowledge,
with nutrition, with breathing.
You know, it's not about the price, it's about the service.
You know, and then I put my head in the, and said,
yeah, I have a nice day, I make a good speech with Joe Hogan,
I have a nice talk with Ed Bravo, it was a great day.
So somehow, in a purpose for the federation,
so I always try to be positive, but I have no schedule fixed,
like I have to wake up, go to, no.
Because at this point, I create a lifestyle which makes me feel good
to engage in different elements like this federation now,
and having classes on Crohn's, and be here, to be full of energy, you know.
Because sometimes, you don't notice, but based on your commitments,
your obligation, you're becoming more like a robot,
and you lose the perspective of what you need to be at your best.
And if you lose that perspective, even though you're still doing your routine,
sometimes you're just minus, you're just 80%, 70%, 60% of what you should be.
So you're not going to be the best husband,
you're not going to be the best father, the best employer, the best employee.
You just, you know, it's just...
So, at this point, I feel like I have to be at my best, physically, do my...
If I feel like I have to stretch, I'm going to stretch, breathe, joke, have fun,
listen, party, whatever, you know.
And then when I feel like, man, I'm so happy, I could not eat.
So, and then I can go and do my service, you know, and...
You know, because the window of life is smaller, now for me, it becomes, I don't
have too much time.
So I don't waste time to do what people expect from me.
I try to do things that are really relevant to my soul.
Like this federation now, when I dream, I don't dream small.
I dream like I make like a very space for a huge, the biggest dream I can dream.
And I see that, you know, that level of need for the community and the level of
position I have to be the reference for that shift in the direction of our
culture and our knowledge.
I feel like I could not be more motivated, more happy to engage on this.
So, and that's always life is about, is just do your best and be excited to be
motivated to the next day.
There's such a refreshing attitude, your attitude, your philosophy on life,
because I think it's very easy.
And I've been, I've trapped myself in it sometimes where you concentrate too
much on making money, concentrate too much on being ambitious, and you forget
the quality of life.
Yes.
Your focus is almost entirely on your quality of life.
Yes, you know, because like I said, man, how much cost your motivation, how
much cost your friends, how much cost your health, how much cost your
intelligence, those things is priceless.
I mean, if you take those of your life, you take your motivation of your life,
it can be Bill Gates, can be the biggest.
So if you, if you ask me if I want to have Bill Gates life, I don't know, I don't
know him.
So it's not a base on his bank account.
It's based on how happy he is, how horny he is, how, you know, how, how, how
motivated he is to wake up and do his thing.
He don't look too horny.
I don't think he's horny at all.
So, so that's, that's a very essential thing, which sometimes slip through
people's fingers and, and the priorities in the daily, you know, in the
payments.
And so I put you in a role where I feel like if you tell me in the past, what's
the courage, what's the opposite of courage?
I want to say cowardness, because either you're tough enough to, to challenge
and to fight or to, or in the new coward and you chicken out.
So that's in the past was like the, the, the, the, the opposite of, of, of
courage is very hard to measure this in those days.
And I believe the opposite of courage today is conformity.
You know, as people get conformed, Oh, I, I don't like my wife the way I used
to like, but I'm never going to divorce because I'm afraid to lose my house or
the situation is so established.
So I'm going to keep, so I don't like this job, but I'm going to keep here
because better than his.
So in, in, in other hands, if you, if you get caught on that kind of compromise
to, to maintain, because you, you're afraid to risk, that's keep you like one
step behind from you.
Follow your heart, follow your ambition.
If you're 18 years old, you don't think twice.
Like I say, Hey, let's go to Australia.
You think, okay, let's go.
Boom.
But when you fifth, you say Australia, what are you going to do there?
Maybe I'm going to, so it's different, you know, and that's kind of hate or
what, where are we going?
Yeah, so that's kind of pretty much where keep you from be at your best,
because if you willing to sacrifice, if you willing to, to broke new, new
challenges, if you willing to, you in the stage of liveness and excitement and
unpredictability who make you feel like you in heaven, you know, every time I
was engaging in a compromise or a fight was something I, I thank you.
Like, I have my routines prior to fight.
One of them is at the day of my fight, I wake up and I thank you God to be
alive and I acknowledge how perfect will be that day if I die today.
Say, fuck, it was going to be a perfect day if I die, because I have, you know,
I accomplished my thing.
I'm in my mission.
I'm representing my family.
So I don't go there to tap.
I go there to die.
The guy had to kill me.
He's not, I'm, I'm never going to tap.
So, but that's not a sport like orientation.
This is a philosophical, uh, owner representation.
You know, it's not something I teach my, no, you should not tap.
No, it's not like that.
It's about how I feel, how I feed my kids, how I follow my tradition.
So in engagement, I'm not going to be the one who's going to quit.
The guy had to kill me.
My brother, he can throw the towel.
But for me, it's unacceptable.
You know, I did give up from my life.
So based on that kind of spiritual guidance, my life is very intense.
My life is very, I mean, directed to accomplish.
Give up is not an option.
You know, I can, I can direct my, my, my focus.
I can give up from something to go somewhere else, but I never will give up
from something
because I feel like I cannot reach there.
I may say, okay, that's not for me.
I go somewhere else, but if I still focus, I will take those falls.
I will take those obstacles as a motivation to just set up a new strategy to
try again.
You know, I'm very competitive in a sense.
I like the perfection of things.
So this is like a situation where put you in a situation where you have no,
either you
go forward or you don't, but don't stay in the middle.
Don't say just waiting for people or waiting for more.
Those are kind of things kind of stuck you back in life and, and just make you
feel like
passing through life as you not, you have, you know, you irrelevant, you know,
it's, it's
very weak.
Thank you.