The Dark Side Of A Decade Of Hedonism - Dan Bilzerian (4K)

What happened to you? Where did you go?

(laughs) You mean, in the last, like, four things I flaked on, or for the last two years? (laughs)

Pick, pick whichever you want. (laughs)

Um, well, you know, I kind of pulled out a little bit when I did the book, right? That was, like, two years. And then came back pretty strong for, like, a year. I was going back into the whole thing. Um, and it was funny because when I did the book, I realized that the whole hedonism thing wasn't really, uh, my bag and just wasn't making me happy. So, I came to that realization, much like I came to the realization that money didn't make me happy, and then still chased money for a long time. Um, but yeah. I just, I kinda wanted to get off the hedonistic treadmill. And, um, I came back after the book. I mean, there's a lot of, like, people that were talking shit and whatever, and I kinda did a little bit for Ignite, and also just 'cause I was kinda bored and COVID was over. Um, but I definitely realized after going... You know, I did, what was it? I did France, and then we did South Africa, we did South America. I did Dubai. Kinda like a, you know, a whole tour. Maldives, and then I did Thailand. I just realized, like, I didn't wanna travel around with 12 girls everywhere that I went, and I didn't wanna dedicate my whole life to my sex addiction. So, that was just the end of it.

Why? Why didn't you want that? What, what were you believing previously that you sort of disillusioned yourself of?

Um, well, the belief part of it, I would say, that pleasure will make you happy, and that hedonism was the answer, and that if I got a ton of pussy and had a bunch of money and did all this stuff, that that would make me happy. And it did, it was fun. Like, don't get me wrong. It was fun to fuck hot girls and do all that stuff. But I just went to the edge of the earth with it, and I think there was a point, I, I mean, there was definitely a point. I was on a yacht, 300-foot yacht, 30 girls, and I'm just like, "I should be stoked." And I wasn't. And, like, my energy was being sucked in a bunch of different directions. Um, I just remember just being way happier surfing with my buddies, doing a couple vacation. Like, all the stuff that I'd kinda done before Ignite. So, I think 2012 'til 2016 was probably the craziest. That was, like, the Motley Crue, Rock Star, like, drug, sex and rock and roll. Like, that was it. I, you know, became famous. It was like chicks were, you know, fucking me in bathrooms. It was just, like, the crazy shit, and it was new and it was fun. And I did that, I did that for a long time. Um, and then I got a girlfriend in, like, '16, and I was just, like I said, much happier doing the couple vacations, surfing. You know, the guys would do the guy shit. Would work out during the day, and then, you know, play cards, whatever. I could fuck my girlfriend at night. There was no distractions, no stress, no headaches, no bullshit. And I was just like, "Fuck, you know, this is much better." And then I decided to do Ignite because I just kinda didn't want to be taking pictures in parking lots for the next 30 years with every asshole that came up to me and not have, like, something to show for it.