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The Misadventures Of A Professional Struggler — Mishka Shubaly Just Wants To Be Better

The Rich Roll Podcast

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Writing a Memoir

i'm guilting a friend of mine into writing a memoir. And one of the things that i told him is that am not everybody can do what what you can do, what we can do. Writing shows us that other people exist, and there are other worlds out there in other lives. Am fixing my back and fixing the chronic pain that i've had so i can run again. Fixing my health, like, while i'm on this health cake, and make sense to to do that for my brain as well. It's time for me to get back to putting the oukno pen to the page for an hour a day. I mean, i don't know,

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Speaker 2
And i think for you to not be writing is for you to, ah, i is for you to betray not just the gift, but yourself.
Speaker 1
Yes, you're totally right, you know. I mean, i am, i'm guilting a friend of mine into writing a memoir. And one of the things that i told him is that am not everybody can do what what you can do, what we can do, this gift of stringing words together and having it create meaning, or create create a story, or to be able to write a page and have somebody else read that, and then they can be in the same room that we were in in our head, feeling what we felt. And a, and even if it's not inspirational, even if incredibly depressing, just that experience helps, because for them to read it, they're likeh another person felt what i felt. Or, there is another person in the world. I need to practise empathy. I need to practise compassion. I need to know that, you know, that communicates to us that we're not alone. You know, writing shows us that other people exist, you know, and that there are other worlds out there in other lives. And a, yes, i just seam to suck it up, and just like, i've been licking my wounds about it for as long as i can, and, ah, it's time, okno, to just try again.
Speaker 2
And you can't, you can't transmit something you haven't got. So you can't try to convince some friend of yours to write a memoir, or get up in front of students at yale and tell them how to do this or that, if you're not doing it yourself. There isnt inote inauthenticity to that. And disconnect that you need to resolve. And it will make you a better it will make you a better teacher. Ye make you a better writer. It will make you a better servant. But i think that there's some dissonance a, you know, in yourself right now around this issue. And if you can heal that and resolve it by just committing to the page and showing up for it, without, without knowing what that's going to look like, i think that is a huge, also, a huge part of your healing process that goes hand in hand with these other things that you're doing to be more gentle to yourself and your health.
Speaker 1
Yes, you're right. I mean, it's time for, you know, i went out there and like, beat myself up in every regard, you know, physically, mentally, emotionally. And like, well, i'm fixing my back and fixing the chronic pain that i've had so i can run again. Fixing my health, like, while i'm on this health cake, and make sense to to do that for my brain as well, and get back to, ah, you know, just just that little daily workout of, you know, putting the oukno pen to the page for an hour a day. I mean, i think that's a, i don't know, i think, i think it will totally chang, i know, it'll totally change where am in my head if i cant do that fin atday. Am, the a, one of the other things i've started doing, and you'll get a big kick out of this, is that i've been speaking at high schools about a, drug and alcohol, have ye use yes and and give me that tech, and how to succeed, and how how to fail. A am, i mean, one of the things is that i think we know now that to, ah, to preach abstinence to kids is not going to work, because they're smarter than that, and they have access to information.

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