DailyJim: I believe the world needs me to be famous

Hello everyone, welcome to another Daily Gym. Today is Wednesday, November 6, 2024. I missed a few days and what consequential days those were. Today what I want to talk about is, I believe the world needs me to be famous. I was going to say I need the world, I believe the world needs someone like me to be famous or I believe the world needs people like me to be famous.

But then I think I can tend to avoid and hope and wait for other people to jump into the space.

And for those of you not aware I believe Donald Trump was elected last night I don't know if the final results are in but most people seem to believe that's what's happening and when he was last elected in 2016 I said to myself I need to start a media channel I need to be much more famous. I need to put my message out there. I need to start spreading what I'm talking about to a much larger audience. And I didn't do it. And then 2020 came around, Biden got elected. I had actually wanted to run for office and I didn't have the money to do it. And so I didn't run. And now 2024, Trump gets elected. And I actually spent the last month working on something called Keyboards for Kamala, trying to help Kamala get elected. I went knocking on doors, trying to help Kamala get elected. And I think what I realized is that so often we are looking for a superhero to come into the presidency and to bring us together emotionally, to help us resolve conflicts that we have been avoiding. And I don't think either candidate does it that well. I think Kamala would do it much better than Trump, but I don't think either of them does it very well. I think what happens very often is that these political candidates that we lift up tend to demonize, tend to dehumanize people on the other side.

I think people that we prop up on the left, whether that's Harris or even Biden to an extent, they would...

You can't bring people together, you can't resolve conflict if you call somebody a Nazi or a fascist or a racist or a misogynist or whatever term we use to simplify that we think they're bad people. If you think someone's a bad person, they're probably not going to want to resolve conflict with you. Now, from the other side, if you call somebody a libtard or if you call somebody an elitist, if you call somebody a, my God, there's so many other phrases that I don't even know that they use to, again, assume that the person on the other side is a bad person, they're not going to want to resolve conflict with you. And if we get into places like this where we are believing that we are surrounded by quote unquote bad people, or if we believe we are surrounded by people who aren't even human, if we believe that we are surrounded by people who don't care about us, why would those people care about us? You know how much it hurts for someone to say, I know you don't care about me. You know how much that hurts. Has anyone ever said that to you? Now imagine this is the conversation we're having politically, that we're going around saying that a good percentage of the population doesn't care about us. One side maybe says it more than the other, but regardless, there are people saying, hey, you know, you're a bad person and you don't care about me. I'm tired of hearing this messaging and I'm tired of waiting for other people to step up and change it because if we want to get really good at resolving conflict in our lives if we want to get really good at learning how to love not just other people but ourselves we have to learn how to deal with conflict we cannot continue to avoid conflict we cannot continue to.

Take the quote-unquote easy way out which actually ends up being the really hard way out in the long term, by avoiding conflict. Conflict will build on itself until we address it. It doesn't go away just because we pretend it's not there. Maybe we don't feel it until we get angry again. And then the anger comes out from five, six, seven different directions that we've pretended weren't there. But who's talking about this? Who talked about COVID? How many people died during COVID? How many people lost jobs? How many people lost people in their family who provided all the income? How many people made a lot of money and then after COVID made a lot less money and became afraid? How many people gained a new fear and new insecurity, a new anxiety over what would happen in the future based on a global pandemic that we're not talking about?

So I think we need people who will step up in the public eye and have these really difficult conversations and to say the things that people don't necessarily want to hear, but maybe need to hear.

And I don't hear a lot of people doing this. And I have been waiting and waiting and probably hoping because maybe my own fear of throwing myself into this gladiatorial ring and taking the slings and arrows of so many people and the hugs and admiration and all this idolization and stuff that happens when we jump into an arena and really deal with lots of different conflict at the same time. But who else is going to do it? I'm so tired. I'm so tired of waiting for other people. I think I am much better at this than most people. I've worked on this stuff for many years. And I want to become more famous, more in the spotlight. I want people to hear these conversations. I want people to see that there's a different way to behave. There's a different way to interact with people. There's a different way to love each other and to love ourselves. There's a different way to fight for each other and to fight for ourselves. We don't have to keep giving up on people just because other people have given up on us or because other people have given up on themselves. How do we keep fighting?

So if you're hearing this, I could sit here and I can complain and be like, oh no, Trump won. And what are we going to do now? And yeah, I honestly, I'm quite scared. I'm quite worried that the level.

Of despair, maybe, or resentment or whatever he's feeling, the level of loneliness, the level of people don't care about me. I'm worried that that is going to spread and that people are going to give up more and more and not want to have the difficult conversations. Because, you know, it's much easier just to label someone as a bad person than it is to actually talk with them and find out that they're struggling. Because if we find out that our enemies are struggling, then maybe we're going to cry too, and we don't want to cry. So I can go on and on about that. But what I realized is, If I'm not willing, if nobody else is willing to do it, who is? I got to step up. Somebody's got to step up. So if you can, please, please share my podcast with others. But more importantly, I don't think it's going to work by my podcast being shared. Please invite me to other podcasts. Tell me about other podcasts. Tell me about other TV shows. Tell me about other journalists. Tell me about other people on the radio. I want to be interviewed. I want to have conversations. I want them to be recorded. I want them to be public. I want people to see that there is a different way to interact with our fellow human beings, especially when we disagree with them, that we can still do it in a very kind and loving way, that actually being kind and loving is much more effective and requires much more strength than labeling people as less than human, than labeling people as bad, than avoiding conversation, than avoiding conflict. It takes a lot more strength to be able to engage in the conflict, to engage in the fight and to fight for each other than to give up on each other. So if you're hearing this, please, I am begging you, please put me in contact with people who host podcasts or TV shows or YouTube or anyone. I don't care. IG Live, people say, what's the audience? I don't care. Human beings need to hear these things. I want people to get better at resolving conflict. I want people to learn how to fight, to fight in a way that we're fighting for each other. We're not giving up on each other because I am tired of seeing global culture shift in that direction where we are slowly giving up more and more on each other and ourselves. I just don't want to see it anymore. I want people to stand up and fight, not fight against, but fight for. So if you can, please, please, I'm begging you, reach out to me. Put me on some of these shows and let me have these conversations in front of a much larger audience. I wanna start gathering a crowd so people hear that there's a different way to live life and maybe gain some hope, maybe gain some strength. And from there we can start shifting society and shifting culture in a different direction. Thank you.