I'm a wise fool

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Hey, it's been a minute. Uh, it's been a while since I uploaded a video. I think it's been a couple of months. Uh, I think it's the longest period of time in which I have not uploaded a video. It's going to be a nice experiment to see what happens with the algorithm in YouTube. Maybe this video is going to get barely any views. Um, but anyways, the reason I've not been uploading for a couple of months is related to the topic of this video, which is that I've been questioning a lot the things I believe to be true. There's a quote that I read I believe in January or December in a book that really really stuck with me.

[00:00:35]Basically the quote said that to see what doesn't burn you have to set everything on fire. And basically what that quote means and what it's referring to within the context that I read it is that in order to find the truth you need to put everything to the test but to to to an extreme test. Right? So if you were to test, as the quote says, what doesn't burn, the best way to actually do it is to burn everything and then see what's left, right? See what is not affected by fire. And for the last couple months, the things that I've been considering, the things that I've been questioning, the things that I've been wondering whether they're actually true or not has been everything. You know, uh many of the things that I've been questioning are the things that I usually discuss on this channel. The overall philosophy that I have here, what I have on my website, right? Those are like the core things that I believe in life. I've been questioning many of those things as well. And then even questioning things about myself and who I believe to be. Um things about my personality, a lot of things. Honestly, it's been like a very excruciating process. Now, in terms of the channel and the ideas that I usually discuss here, I think that most of them still hold. But I believe that and for those of you who've been watching my channel for a while, I think something that's important for you to to understand is that even though a lot of the things that I talk about might sound very convincing, especially on my website, I would say like my website might be the best piece of work that I've put out there, better than my YouTube videos. As convincing as it might sound or as as as convincing as it might read, everything is up for grabs. you know, everything like five years might go by, 10 years might go by and then I might look back at it and realize that there was a bunch of nonsense there and I might disagree the whole philosophy that I have of like dividing life into these four pillars and health and wealth, relationship, spirituality, all that stuff might change. And I feel that it is a very dangerous game what we play when we share our opinions online and the way we see life and our philosophies because I think what happens to a lot of people who do that like what I'm trying to do which is just put your ideas out there put yourself out there especially when you encapsulate it under your personal name which is what I've done in this YouTube channel. It's like slowly without realizing you start to set like these clear walls and these very strong labels of who you are, what you stand by, what you believe in that without noticing slowly you start to box yourself into this belief system that maybe today it holds true. But as I was saying, like maybe five, 10 years down the line, you might have put yourself in a prison that's actually not that good for you and that it might be wrong and false, but since you've invested your whole person, your whole personality into it now, it might be very difficult to to get out of. And in fact, there's someone that a friend of mine really likes. This guy has a YouTube channel. I don't remember his name. I think the YouTube channel is called like Dakota of Earth or something like that. It's basically a guy that built an entire YouTube channel I believe based on psychedelics.

[00:03:56]But recently my friend sent me one of his videos in which he basically was sharing that he had in a way this epiphany, this realization that psychedelics are not the way, right? like they can take you up to a certain point, but now if he wanted to continue moving on in his spiritual progress and his spiritual path, that's something that he actually had to leave behind. And he had this incredible video in which he shared this radical change and his new view on how he wanted to cons continue pursuing his spiritual spirituality.

[00:04:31]And one of the things that I told my friend is like I don't know if people realize how incredibly difficult that is to do. Not just as an individual because most people don't change. Most people don't realize when they have been a fool which there's nothing wrong with being a fool. But most people don't realize when they've been wrong. Then out of those who realize it to then be able to change that is much more difficult than we believe. But then on top of that, you add the extra layer of difficulty, which is like you've built this online persona of being this person and then being able to go out there and tell the whole world or hundreds of thousands of people like I was wrong and I'm changing directions and I'm going down in a completely new path. That's even more difficult. So that's a great video. If you want to look it up, go watch it. I I really liked it especially considering like my background with psychedelics and where I am also with spirituality. I I also believe he has a point there and I do kind of agree with him. I haven't taken psychedelics in a really long time now and my interest in psychedelics has been rapidly diminishing. You know, I'm not interested in psychedelics as much as I used to. Even though one of my favorite videos in this YouTube channel is the one that I have on the biggest psychedelic trip I've ever had. I really like that video. But that being said, I don't think psychedelics for the time being and in the near future are going to be a big part of my life. And one of the things that during these couple months of me taking a break and analyzing myself a lot and my life and what I believe and and everything, my whole life philosophy and even the things that I talk about on this channel is that I realize that in a way I am a wise fool, right? Like there is so much that I don't know which is not like a new epiphany. It's not like obviously I know that I don't know a lot of stuff and this is nothing new to me. I've known it for years, you know, but it's like the depth to which you understand that truth, the depth to which you understand that you don't understand a lot of things, right? And it's something that over the last few months has been growing on me a lot. And not just that, but also at the same time some of the things that I've been getting into the things that I've been studying, learning, researching has also been like so deep that some of those I I also wanted to share on the channel, but it was somewhat challenging to put it into words. Sometimes I feel like also in order to learn and absorb something, you need to shut up a little bit. Uh because like if I'm just putting videos out there, it's just like outputs, outputs, outputs. And it's difficult to sometimes take things in, you know. So, it's actually great to shut up for a while, not post anything, go missing, and then actually do dabble into these new things that maybe you hadn't had enough time, energy, or clarity to get into. And that's one of the thing like honestly like I really see myself like that as a wise fool because it is true. And I know it's going to sound like narcissistic or arrogant or whatever you want to call it. If you know me, if you're new to this channel is the first video you watch of me, of course, what I'm about to say is not going to make any sense to you. Uh, but for those of you who know me, especially my friends who know like some of the personal projects that I've worked on, things that I've done in my life, things that I've achieved, yes, like you could say that I'm very wise and I know a lot of stuff and not just like within one single domain or one single industry, but like across many industries. across many fields in life, many areas in life. I've done very well in so many of them. But at the same time, again, as I was saying, it's like the foolishness of it all of the things that I do not know. And and it's funny like this, I don't know if it's called a dichotomy or this contrast of like simultaneously feeling like so smart and so intelligent and so wise and so knowledgeable. Um because I do see that on a day-to-day basis like how I keep being more resourceful and more insightful and me being able to help more and more people or do things better and have better results in every single area in my life.

[00:08:51]But so that part of me is growing like how how much wisdom and experience and knowledge I have like that is ever expanding. But at the same time it's so interesting because what's ever also expanding is how much of a fool I am like how how to the extent that I can realize that right I I see myself simultaneously more and more as more stupid and more wise simultaneously and that is such an interesting dynamic but I think it's actually very beneficial you know because you have the good side of realizing like how much you're learning and your learning capacity um and that is encouraging and it makes it fun but also at the same time like realizing how much of a fool you are. I think it keeps you humble and open to the fact that you might be wrong about a lot of different things and to keep exploring and as I was saying questioning everything that you've learned so far especially with the whole thing like that quote that I really like which has been like engraved in my brain for the last last six months the whole thing of like in order to see what doesn't burn you have to set everything on fire. I think that's honestly, at least for me personally, I don't want to preach for other people, but for me personally, I think that's such a great quote to live by if what you want to find is the truth. Now, it might seem like all of these things that I'm saying to question and all of these things that I'm saying, like all these things that you're learning and all these things that you don't know, it might sound as if I'm talking about external things, which I am for sure, right? knowledge or wisdom when it comes to like health or business or relationships or life in general, you know. But there's also this other area which is like inner wisdom about yourself, about who you are, about how to manage you and your personality and how you operate and your brain and all that stuff. Um, and that I would say is even more difficult. That is even more tricky. It is very easy to well not very easy but it's easier to question what you know about health about business about like relationships and how to deal with people and all that stuff but when it comes to self- knowing that is that is taking this whole concept to like a whole new level and something very interesting that I've noticed is that when you first take a peek about a part of yourself about a side of yourself about a part of yourself that you were not aware And then you see that you were wrong about who you believe to be and maybe something about your personality or your identity or who you are. Sometimes at first that can hurt and it's like very tough to accept that. But I think that at least for me what happens I don't know for other people but for me what happens is that when you see that and then you keep poking at it poking at it and and it's like you're opening this thing like it's becoming more and more apparent like okay yes there's this thing about me at first it hurts and it's like something that sometimes you might even get the thought like I wish I hadn't seen that about myself but then if you keep like opening it up opening it up and then you just sit with it.

[00:12:01]Eventually you get to the point like you accept it and that's when you can start working with it and then eventually you're glad that it happened. You know, so it's like a lot of difficult things that happen in life. You know, there's a lot of problems that I've had in my life or challenges that when they happen, you're like, oh my god, why did this had to happen? Like this is so unconvenient.

[00:12:19]I wish it hadn't happened.

[00:12:22]And yes, for sure, uh you could make the argument like, oh, it would be nice if it if this bad thing didn't happen. But at the same time, when you're challenged by something like that, then eventually you learn from it. You become better.

[00:12:33]And then something that at least for me happens when I look back at all the problems that I've had in my life is that I'm glad that all of those problems happened because they help me develop myself and get better and be wiser. So that is kind of like a similar thing that I'm talking about which is like questioning all these things is difficult. Burning all these things is difficult. I think about it like and that's why I like the quote so much right because you don't want to burn everything. You don't want to set your whole life or your whole belief system on fire. Like of course it's going to be painful because there's going to be fire. It's going to be hot. You're going to get burned.

[00:13:10]But again, like the things that are going to burn is like the trash. It's the junk, right? The gold doesn't burn.

[00:13:18]You're going to be left with the gold.

[00:13:20]So even though it is painful during the process and difficult to do, after you've done it, you're going to be very glad that it happened. Now the challenge with this is that I would love to say something now like I invite you to question what you believe about the world or yourself or whatever you know any any type of belief spiritual belief health belief relationship belief I don't care right it will be incredible and to say it to give you that prompt and then you go now and you think about it but it's like I don't know to some extent I believe like these things I wonder to what extent you actually choose them to happen. I think sometimes these things just happen and it's not so much of a conscious choice that you do because it's like how can you question something that's not true about but like you you you don't know where to begin with right like what what is the decision process for you being like oh I'm going to question this belief or that belief right if you say like question everything that can be challenging I know you might need a starting point but I think that the starting point is something that life is going to give you right I think life, the way it works is based on tension and friction. Uh that that's kind of like a long topic that I'm not going to get into this video, but there are things that are going to happen, right? There's problems that you're going to face and you're going to be challenged there. And I think it's out of those problems that then you can start to like go down that path. Um there's an expression in English that I don't remember like pull that thread. I think that's the expression, right? So when when you have any problem in life, any challenge that makes you uncomfortable or things didn't go as expected, I think that's actually the prompt for you to go and then question that thing and burn it. You know, set not everything. Maybe you cannot set your entire belief system on fire, but maybe that little area, the little pocket in which that problem arised, maybe you can set that on fire and that little fire and then find a little bit of gold, right? Maybe you're not going to find like the whole chest, but a little bit of it. And I think basically the point of this video is for you just to be open to that idea so that when it happens, when the world gives it to you or when God gives it to you, whatever you want to call it, then you're open to playing with the fire, burning something and trying to find the truth instead of just continuing to live in delusion, you know, and and actually playing the role of the wise fool, Right. I think the power of realizing that one is a fool, as I was saying, is that then you're open to seeing the truth and the humbleness to see it and approach it and learn it. And you can make the argument that the fool is actually the wisest person in the room. So I think that might be the role that you have to embrace in order to find the truth and to become better. You have to be a wise fool. So anyways, I think that's it for this video. This was completely improvised, which is different than how I usually make my videos. For those of you who don't know, like I usually sit down to write a lot uh from my videos and brainstorm ideas and exactly what I want to explain and how I want to explain it and the order of points and everything. This one I had no clue. Um I just wanted to come it out from the heart. That's it. Improvise it.

[00:16:48]Um so yeah, let's see what happens. Been a couple months without uploading. I hope all of you are doing great. Um, and that's it. If you're new here, subscribe if you want or go watch some of my other videos or visit my website. I think that's some of the best stuff that I have. Also, feel free to join my Telegram group. Uh, it's completely free. I'm there. You can talk with other people who follow these channels, similar beliefs, all that stuff. It's great for discussions. You can ask me questions there. And um, and that's it.

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