#368 - Journaling; To Remember* AND Apply*, in Life,

Journaling through video helps me remember life lessons and serves as additional mental repetition for skills ranging from comedy to martial arts. Speaking thoughts aloud as if addressing an audience allows for clearer thinking and better memory retention than keeping thoughts internal.

• Martial arts principles from Marcelo Garcia's seminar focus on three key actions: submit, sweep, escape
• When unable to submit an opponent, work to sweep them to gain advantageous position
• If sweeping isn't possible, focus on escaping to reset and return to offensive strategy
• Organizing complex thoughts into simple frameworks makes execution more effective under pressure
• Marcelo Garcia exemplifies effectiveness through simplicity despite his smaller size
• Size disadvantages make victories more impressive when embodying true martial arts principles

Remember to capture your meaningful experiences and lessons—whether through writing, audio, or video—to ensure you build upon them rather than losing them to time.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what's up?
Beautiful people.
So here's the thing you know,you ever have like a really
great day at the gym or you dosomething really good in life.
I feel like the only time whenyou take notes is when it's like
job related.
But personally I feel like morepeople I know this is what I do
specifically, right, I journaland I do it in the form of video

(00:23):
and it helps me to remember notjust life lessons, but it's
like one more repetition.
It could be for wrestling andjudo or jujitsu or comedy,
especially comedy, 100% forcomedy.
And the only thing is, if Ithink like I'm talking out loud
to somebody, I can reallyproject my thoughts and think

(00:43):
about a lot more.
I can get more complicatedthoughts worked out that are in
my mind and out, and I think youshould do that too.
I feel like everybody should dothat, because it's a great way
of remembering things.
If you're driving right, like Iam now, I'm actually at a
stoplight, but whatever, itgives you an opportunity to
externally say your thoughts andremember it, and that's been

(01:05):
one of the biggest contributionsto me and my success.
Whether it's on the stock marketor again, comedy, jujitsu, life
, whatever it is, I mean askyourself, when was the last time
you actually wrote somethingdown that was an accomplishment
or a lesson that you learnedLegitimately?

(01:25):
When was the last time you hadlike you learned it was like a
good life lesson or somethingand you wanted to build off of
that.
And what do you do?
You just continue to walkforward in life and you just you
don't really take again, takenote, take note of it, right?
So that's why I love my podcastso much, because it it instills
good memories, good repetitions, life lessons and stuff like

(01:47):
that.
And if I think I'm talking tomyself which right now I'm in my
car and by myself, okay,that'll kind of mess myself up,
because you usually don't talkout loud and have a conversation
with yourself.
But if I act as though and I amif I'm talking to you, the
listener, I am still thinkingand I also get to hear my own
positive thoughts, that positivereinforcement.
So anyway, that being mentioned, today I learned a huge lesson

(02:14):
as far as jujitsu and wrestlingand judo.
When you do martial arts, whenyou want to take a guy down and
you want to finish him, because,again, it's a martial art, it's
supposed to be effective, it'sa combat, right, it's a combat
system of fighting.
You want to be able to finishyour opponent, bob Ables,

(02:37):
marcelo Garcia, in Dallas, texas, and the emphasis was three
principles, which is essentiallyof the seminar that I went to.
I went to a seminar like twoweeks ago.
You want to be able to submit aperson.
If you can't really submit them, sweep them.
If not, sweep them, you want toescape.

(02:57):
Plain and simple, right.
And why that's important toknow is because you always want
to finish every opponent, plainand simple.
You want to finish them.
And if you're in a certainposition and you're not
finishing them if you are onbottom, for example, and their
body weight is on top of you,you want to, while staying

(03:22):
connected, okay, get their bodyweight off of you and for you
essentially to land on top, youwant to sweep them, just like a
broom, right, you're takingsomething from the top and
you're bringing it to the bottom, right.
So there's attacking, which islike submitting, and then if
you're in a certain position andyou're not submitting them, if
you're not finishing them, inthat position maybe you're on

(03:43):
your back and the guy's on topof you you want to sweep them,
but if you can't really get themoff of you.
You need to get your body out.
You need to escape.
So, submit, sweep or escape.
You have to be able to do thoseelements A, b and C to every
position, okay, and if not, youneed to move to the next part.
If you are not submitting them,you need to sweep.

(04:06):
If not sweeping them, you needto escape.
And when you escape, what doyou do?
You go back.
You always start back at thetop.
You want to go back tosubmitting.
That simple principle of submit,sweep, escape is so
quintessential, it's soimportant that finally, finally,

(04:30):
today, about two weeks later, Iimplemented it.
My roles were 100% moresuccessful, and I truly not just
Rob, this great, great blackbelt friend, et cetera, and more
.
He's so smart.
Um, in Dallas, marcel Garcia,in Dallas, the place that I went

(04:54):
to, marcel Garcia himself.
It's such a huge principlebecause if you can just think
about taking your thoughts, likeI am now, and making them the
most organized, simple thing toremember, okay, it makes
complicated things seem easy.
The second, that you can slowdown and think, everything

(05:15):
becomes more crystal clear.
Because if you're in a combatsituation or a pressure
situation or stand-up comedy orwhatever you want what you're
doing to be simple, concise andeffective.
Right, and that's the power ofnot just jujitsu, but it really
is the power of Marcel Garcia.
That's like it's.
Marcelo's biggest emphasis ishow simple and effective his

(05:40):
everything is.
Marcel Garcia, in my opinion, isthe most effective jiu-jitsu
fighter ever, because heembodies the material of
jiu-jitsu and a lot of othersports too wrestling and judo
right, and a lot of other sportstoo wrestling and judo right
and I say that because he's nota big guy and he's defeated big
guys.
Little guy beating the big guyis always a huge emphasis.

(06:04):
I think he has more recordedsubmission victories than
anybody else ever.
Okay, and the time, the amountof time that he finishes fights
are almost always the fastest aswell.
Now there's a great who'sarguably now the best ever.
But no disrespect, just becauseof the weight.

(06:26):
I give him less credit justbecause Gordon Ryan right.
Gordon Ryan right, he isarguably the best ever.
But is it always moreimpressive to see a guy who's
five feet zero do a slam dunkcompared to a guy that's six
foot four?
Of course, so I really do givethe weight of the situation a

(06:51):
big factor when I just when Ithink of the greatest ever.
Okay, because for him to beatthe people he would have to be
smaller and get those victoriesfor him to be equally or more
impressed.
So again, I'm not takinganything away from him.
Anyway, I'm digressing a littlebit, but the point is this guy,
marcel Garcia, all right Ifyou're bench pressing 100 pounds

(07:12):
or 500 pounds and you weigh 100, you know, anytime you do
something that multiplies morethan your body weight, I'm
always more impressed Right, butnot digressing about the
excellence and the greatness ofarguably the best ever, gordon

(07:33):
Ryan.
Marcello, he made my jujitsu somuch better, more effective.
These principles that I'mtalking about now are also
different.
Maybe because he's a smallerguy compared to a bigger guy,
gordon Ryan, his matches canlast like 30 minutes or 20
minutes or no time limits, butthat is not the style that

(07:54):
Marcelo ever did.
Maybe it's because of the ruleset.
Maybe he would have changed his, the way he fought.
But from meeting him more thanonce and listening to him, the
best way to win a fight is time.
Beat them as fast as possible,use all your energy to finish
immediately first, and if you'renot finishing, you want to

(08:15):
sweep them.
You'll get to an advantageousposition to where that's what
step two is Getting to like theadvantageous position to go back
to step one and finish them,and if you're stuck, you either
need to sweep them, go back tonumber two, or the last step,
which is escape.
And if you escape, you need toescape, to go back on the attack

(08:36):
, not on the defense.
So for some of you this maymean nothing, for some of you
this may mean everything.
But to Marcelo Garcia and RobAbles, I thank you so much, rob.
You're an amazing guy, marcelo,the best ever in my opinion.
And shout out to Gordon Ryanbecause he's phenomenal.
I take nothing away from him,you know.

(08:56):
I just give more credit whenpeople are looking at
accomplishments, when someone isless physically imposing,
because that really does embodythe principle of martial arts
the literal guy beating thebigger guy.
So, rob Ables, marcelo Gordon,thank you guys, I appreciate you
.
This has been Joel Dunn.
I'm out, peace.