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Jay Shetty PodcastBig Sean ON: "DESTROY Your Negative Thoughts To ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS Today!" | Jay Shetty
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Big Sean on Manifestation, Self-Love, Burnout, and Embracing the Ego
- Big Sean recounts turning down a full college scholarship to pursue rap, enduring a year and a half to two years of waiting after rapping for Kanye West, and relying on books, meditation, and visualization while working on his craft.
- He describes burning out around age 30 by putting everyone before himself, then recovering through therapy, mentorship from Marie Diamond, meditation, journaling, and working out, which he calls the technique of loving yourself.
- He argues that people block themselves with negative self-talk, and that reframing from I have to to I get to, and treating every situation as an opportunity, changes how life feels.
- He shares family stories, including his mother's role in introducing him to spiritual books and alternative health approaches and his father's struggle with trauma and stigma around therapy, plus his current habits like a four-month cleanse, yearly life-changing goals, and voice lessons.
- In the closing Fast Five, he says you can't kill your ego and should embrace it, distinguishes selfishness from self-care, and says the law he would create is to not judge.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasTrust comes before results
Big Sean says he had to trust the process first, like stepping onto an invisible bridge, and only then did things start working, including Kanye eventually reaching out.
Work smarter, not just harder
Having seen his mother work two jobs while in debt, he concluded success is about efficiency and the quality of the product rather than how much you pump out, which required accepting that his ego pushed against this.
Distinguish work for your career from work for yourself
He says he burned out because no one taught him to balance the two, and he put everyone ahead of himself until life forced him to stop everything.
Self-love is a technique
He prioritized meditation, writing down his thoughts and intentions, time in nature, and working out, and says the strength he built helps him handle things that don't go his way instead of being torn down.
Your words may shape what comes back to you
He says saying I can't figure it out or I'm blocked gives that power, and imagines God saying whatever you say I'll give back to you; Jay Shetty adds that repetition becomes vocabulary, mindset, and reality.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesThere's a work that you do for your career, and there's a work that you do for yourself.
— Big Sean
You can't kill your ego. Why would you want to kill a part of yourself anyway?
— Big Sean
When it doesn't go the way that I planned on it going, whatever it is, it's not that it's not working out, it's that it's working out better than I can even comprehend.
— Big Sean
You don't got to do more work than the next man. You get to do more work than the next man.
— Big Sean
That's not selfish. That's self-care. That's self-love.
— Big Sean
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Big Sean
guestDetroit-born rapper and recording artist known for his music career and personal-growth advocacy.
Jay Shetty
hostHost of the On Purpose podcast and author of Think Like a Monk.
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