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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Do you want to hear something absolutely insane?
There is an ancient techniquethat's at least 5,000, maybe 10
or 20,000 years old, that modernsociety is pretty much buried
and forgotten about that won'tjust help you stop drinking
alcohol, but it will help youstop drinking alcohol and forget
about it.
As in, it will become anafterthought, something that was
just in the past.
Imagine that.
(00:20):
Imagine just walking throughlife like alcohol was never a
thing.
Well, this ancient techniqueisn't just gonna help you stop
drinking alcohol, because thisancient technique has been used
to shape society.
It's been used to shape thingslike justice, like morals, like
God.
It's one of the deepest thingsthat you can actually do.
And if you apply this ancienttechnique to stopping drinking
alcohol, your life is nevergoing to look the same again.
(00:42):
And I'm almost 100% sure thatyou will have never heard about
this, especially if you wereborn after the 1950s.
A quick introduction.
My name is Leon Sylvester.
I'm the founder ofsobercleared.com.
I struggled with alcohol foraround about 10 years, binge
drinking, daily drinking, goingto AA meetings, begging God to
help me, nothing worked.
But for the past seven years, Ihaven't touched a drop of
alcohol.
(01:02):
And really in this video, I'mgonna share my secret with you.
I'm gonna show you how I'vestopped drinking myself and
helped tens of thousands to doit as well.
So, what is this ancienttechnique?
Well, the word for it iscontemplation, but don't just
skip off the video now.
Because you might have heard ofthis before, but I can almost
guarantee you've never properlyapplied it.
So, why is this the losttechnique?
(01:23):
Why am I talking about this?
Well, our modern society,especially in the Western world,
has an addiction.
It has an addiction to twothings action and distraction.
We're either taking action tobuild success, to build our
finances, to build our career,to build our families.
We're either doing things andforward projecting, which isn't
a bad thing, or for most of us,we're either doing this action
(01:45):
stuff or we're distractingourselves, be it through
Netflix, through mobile phones,through alcohol, through drugs,
through sex, it can be anything.
We just live in this constantstate of action and distraction.
But what if I told you that afew thousand years ago, this
just wasn't a thing.
In our modern world, people areheld in high regard that take a
lot of action.
And why not?
(02:05):
It's always been like that.
But what the ancient Romans diddifferently is they valued
something else.
They valued something calledleisure time.
Leisure is not action anddistraction.
It's time to contemplate.
To contemplate the big ideas, tocontemplate things like God,
like justice, like morals.
It's to sit and sustain yourthought on one thing and not
(02:27):
distract yourself.
It's to face the hard things inlife.
For an ancient Roman, that wasthe best way you could live your
life.
That was the ideal.
They didn't want to just dobusiness and attack all the
time.
They actually wanted to removethemselves from business so they
can do this contemplation, thisleisure.
Even Seneca, an ancient Romanpolitician and philosopher
called Seneca, wrote a letter toa grain merchant.
(02:47):
And this letter was called Onthe Shortness of Life.
And he really talks about howmost people just squander their
time, you know, going to abarber and complaining about
every hair, or they just burythemselves in work.
And I think this letter is over2,000 years old.
It's around that mark.
But what Seneca did is he wroteto this grain merchant and said,
Your mind, your life, was meantfor so much more than just
(03:09):
busying yourself and managingthe stress of all of Rome having
to get this grain.
And he said that life is short.
And he really encouraged thisman.
He wasn't a grain merchant, hewas a man that managed all of
the grain supply in ancientRome.
And he just encouraged him tojust say goodbye to it all.
Stop chasing this materialsuccess.
He said in the letter thatAugustus, one of the great Roman
emperors, all he ever did waswant a break.
(03:30):
He just always complained andwanted a vacation.
And he said this time and timeagain.
Those people that chase successoften get there and then all
they do is want to break.
They want to go and experienceleisure.
And he was encouraging this manto do something similar.
And what's happened now is withcapitalism and modern society
and how all of these socialmedia platforms are just
designed to get you hooked andaddicted, we have buried this
(03:52):
ancient skill.
So, what exactly iscontemplation?
Well, it's the ability to sit insilence and contemplate one
specific topic or idea for aprolonged period of time.
You're not reading, you're notstudying, you're not watching
YouTube videos, you're sat therewith your own thoughts.
You are simply thinking deeply.
In fact, some people argue notto take notes.
Socrates never wrote anythingdown.
(04:14):
But what happens is you startgetting questions.
If you contemplate the idea ofstopping drinking alcohol or
just alcohol in general and howit impacts your life, you're
very likely to just be filledwith more questions.
But you know what thosequestions do?
Is they lead to breakthroughs.
This is how people achieveenlightenment.
They contemplate this idea ofwhat am I or who am I?
(04:34):
And I promise you one thing.
If you can contemplate the rolethat alcohol has in your life,
you won't need to read any stopdrinking books or read any
scientific literature or evenlisten to my YouTube videos.
You can probably stop watchingthem because you will come to
the same conclusion that I havecome to.
Because I have actuallycontemplated this topic for
thousands of hours.
But the difference in my life isthat I was forced into
(04:57):
contemplation.
Let me explain.
See, what happened in my life isI was a heavy drinker.
I would binge drink.
And some of the hangovers that Iexperienced after a bad binge
were disastrous.
And what ended up happening is Icouldn't take action because I
was so hungover.
And eventually, after eating abunch of junk food and watching
a bunch of TV and messing aroundon my phone, eventually I get to
a place where I didn't even wantto distract myself.
(05:18):
And I might go for a bath orsomething like that or just lie
around.
And then I would be forced tocontemplate.
I'd be forced to contemplate thedisgusting hangover.
I'd be forced to contemplate howbad I feel, how much money I
wasted the night before.
And I always came to the sameconclusion.
Alcohol is not helping.
And because I couldn't takeaction or be distracted, I was
just forced to sit there and askmyself, what the f is alcohol
(05:41):
doing for me in my life?
And I spent multiple hundreds ofhours doing this before I
stopped drinking alcohol.
And I've spent way over athousand hours, multiple
thousands of hours doing thisafter I quit drinking.
See, for my videos, I don'treally listen to anybody talk
about alcohol.
I don't watch any stop-drinkingmaterial, I don't read any
stop-drinking books.
Sure, I read them at thebeginning of my journey, but
then I realized I don't need toread this stuff.
(06:03):
A lot of the videos I've made onthis channel are just off the
top of the dome.
I literally just write a fewbullet points of my own thinking
on this topic and just pressrecord.
Now don't get me wrong,occasionally I do need to do
research, I need to readscience, because that's what
people want to hear about.
But when it comes to myunderstanding of alcohol and
what it is, the science doesn'treally influence me either way.
I've done my own thinking.
(06:23):
I don't need to really go andlearn anymore.
Because I am so sure thatalcohol adds nothing to my life
that why do I need anythingelse?
I've come to my own conclusion.
So why do I say you don't needbooks, you don't need to study,
you don't need to do anything?
Because it's obvious.
If you sit and truly think aboutalcohol and contemplate this
topic for a prolonged period oftime, and alcohol has had a
negative impact on you and yourlife, then you will come to the
(06:45):
same conclusion.
You will see alcohol for what itis.
Because what is it?
A poison, a carcinogen, it'sethanol, and it destroys pretty
much every cell it comes intocontact with.
But when you realize this foryourself, then guess what
happens?
Not drinking alcohol becomes alogical decision.
You don't want to control it,you just don't want it, which is
true control.
External voices can play a rolein triggering this for you, but
(07:08):
nothing will beat contemplation.
Even people that go through mystop drinking program, and I'll
explain the ins and outs of thatin a minute, so you can kind of
apply the same mental model.
But even people that go throughit, I show them a new way of
thinking, I show them whatalcohol is, but I can't make any
decisions for them.
I just force people tocontemplate the ideas that I've
already discovered through myown contemplation to get the
same conclusion.
(07:28):
So, how do we do this?
Well, the ultimate way to dothis is we use first principles
thinking.
We break the problem down intoits component parts, and you do
this through contemplation.
When you start thinking aboutalcohol and the role that it has
in your life, questions startpopping up.
For example, well, hang on, howdid I get hooked on this?
How is it portrayed in themedia?
How is it marketed to me?
When these ideas start cominginto your mind, these are the
(07:51):
topics that you break down intotheir component parts.
And you really start to realizethat we've all been manipulated
to see alcohol a certain way.
It's one of the most addictivedrugs known to man.
But essentially, you do firstprinciples thinking through your
own contemplation, and then youcan then start to study these
individual component parts, oryou can just contemplate them
further.
Some people do need additionalresearch, but once you've done
(08:12):
that base foundation ofresearch, that's it.
You don't need any more.
Now, you can do this alone.
It might take 50, 100, maybe athousand hours.
If you're unfortunate like me,you're often forced to do this.
Actually, looking back, it'sprobably more fortunate rather
than it for it to drag on myentire life.
Maybe it was a blessing indisguise.
But you can do this on your own.
The quicker way to do it is togo through my program, is to go
(08:35):
through the contemplation thatI've already gone through, where
I started to just see alcoholentirely for what it is, and
that will force you to do yourown contemplation.
If you want information on that,then you can just go ahead and
click the link in thedescription.
You can actually apply to jointhe program where we'll jump on
a free call to see if theprogram is a good match for you.
We typically work for businessowners and professionals who are
motivated to change.
If you want to see if that's agood fit, go ahead and apply by
(08:56):
clicking the link down below,then booking a free call, or you
can go to soberclear.com to reada bit more about the work that
we do.
But I promise you, this is thelost skill.
It's shaped civilizations and itcan reshape the way that you
view alcohol forever.
And once you've done this, youwon't need me.
You won't need any stop drinkingbooks, you won't need any of
these scientific things,whatever.
You won't need anything.
You'll rely on your ownunderstanding of this drug.
(09:18):
And if you click the video onthe screen now, I'm gonna show
you some of the warning signsthat might force you into a
state of contemplation.
So definitely check this one outnext.
Do you want to hear something absolutely insane?
There is an ancient techniquethat's at least 5,000, maybe 10
or 20,000 years old, that modernsociety is pretty much buried
and forgotten about that won'tjust help you stop drinking
alcohol, but it will help youstop drinking alcohol and forget
about it.
As in, it will become anafterthought, something that was
just in the past.
Imagine that.
(00:20):
Imagine just walking throughlife like alcohol was never a
thing.
Well, this ancient techniqueisn't just gonna help you stop
drinking alcohol, because thisancient technique has been used
to shape society.
It's been used to shape thingslike justice, like morals, like
God.
It's one of the deepest thingsthat you can actually do.
And if you apply this ancienttechnique to stopping drinking
alcohol, your life is nevergoing to look the same again.
(00:42):
And I'm almost 100% sure thatyou will have never heard about
this, especially if you wereborn after the 1950s.
A quick introduction.
My name is Leon Sylvester.
I'm the founder ofsobercleared.com.
I struggled with alcohol foraround about 10 years, binge
drinking, daily drinking, goingto AA meetings, begging God to
help me, nothing worked.
But for the past seven years, Ihaven't touched a drop of
alcohol.
(01:02):
And really in this video, I'mgonna share my secret with you.
I'm gonna show you how I'vestopped drinking myself and
helped tens of thousands to doit as well.
So, what is this ancienttechnique?
Well, the word for it iscontemplation, but don't just
skip off the video now.
Because you might have heard ofthis before, but I can almost
guarantee you've never properlyapplied it.
So, why is this the losttechnique?
(01:23):
Why am I talking about this?
Well, our modern society,especially in the Western world,
has an addiction.
It has an addiction to twothings action and distraction.
We're either taking action tobuild success, to build our
finances, to build our career,to build our families.
We're either doing things andforward projecting, which isn't
a bad thing, or for most of us,we're either doing this action
(01:45):
stuff or we're distractingourselves, be it through
Netflix, through mobile phones,through alcohol, through drugs,
through sex, it can be anything.
We just live in this constantstate of action and distraction.
But what if I told you that afew thousand years ago, this
just wasn't a thing.
In our modern world, people areheld in high regard that take a
lot of action.
And why not?
(02:05):
It's always been like that.
But what the ancient Romans diddifferently is they valued
something else.
They valued something calledleisure time.
Leisure is not action anddistraction.
It's time to contemplate.
To contemplate the big ideas, tocontemplate things like God,
like justice, like morals.
It's to sit and sustain yourthought on one thing and not
(02:27):
distract yourself.
It's to face the hard things inlife.
For an ancient Roman, that wasthe best way you could live your
life.
That was the ideal.
They didn't want to just dobusiness and attack all the
time.
They actually wanted to removethemselves from business so they
can do this contemplation, thisleisure.
Even Seneca, an ancient Romanpolitician and philosopher
called Seneca, wrote a letter toa grain merchant.
(02:47):
And this letter was called Onthe Shortness of Life.
And he really talks about howmost people just squander their
time, you know, going to abarber and complaining about
every hair, or they just burythemselves in work.
And I think this letter is over2,000 years old.
It's around that mark.
But what Seneca did is he wroteto this grain merchant and said,
Your mind, your life, was meantfor so much more than just
(03:09):
busying yourself and managingthe stress of all of Rome having
to get this grain.
And he said that life is short.
And he really encouraged thisman.
He wasn't a grain merchant, hewas a man that managed all of
the grain supply in ancientRome.
And he just encouraged him tojust say goodbye to it all.
Stop chasing this materialsuccess.
He said in the letter thatAugustus, one of the great Roman
emperors, all he ever did waswant a break.
(03:30):
He just always complained andwanted a vacation.
And he said this time and timeagain.
Those people that chase successoften get there and then all
they do is want to break.
They want to go and experienceleisure.
And he was encouraging this manto do something similar.
And what's happened now is withcapitalism and modern society
and how all of these socialmedia platforms are just
designed to get you hooked andaddicted, we have buried this
(03:52):
ancient skill.
So, what exactly iscontemplation?
Well, it's the ability to sit insilence and contemplate one
specific topic or idea for aprolonged period of time.
You're not reading, you're notstudying, you're not watching
YouTube videos, you're sat therewith your own thoughts.
You are simply thinking deeply.
In fact, some people argue notto take notes.
Socrates never wrote anythingdown.
(04:14):
But what happens is you startgetting questions.
If you contemplate the idea ofstopping drinking alcohol or
just alcohol in general and howit impacts your life, you're
very likely to just be filledwith more questions.
But you know what thosequestions do?
Is they lead to breakthroughs.
This is how people achieveenlightenment.
They contemplate this idea ofwhat am I or who am I?
(04:34):
And I promise you one thing.
If you can contemplate the rolethat alcohol has in your life,
you won't need to read any stopdrinking books or read any
scientific literature or evenlisten to my YouTube videos.
You can probably stop watchingthem because you will come to
the same conclusion that I havecome to.
Because I have actuallycontemplated this topic for
thousands of hours.
But the difference in my life isthat I was forced into
(04:57):
contemplation.
Let me explain.
See, what happened in my life isI was a heavy drinker.
I would binge drink.
And some of the hangovers that Iexperienced after a bad binge
were disastrous.
And what ended up happening is Icouldn't take action because I
was so hungover.
And eventually, after eating abunch of junk food and watching
a bunch of TV and messing aroundon my phone, eventually I get to
a place where I didn't even wantto distract myself.
(05:18):
And I might go for a bath orsomething like that or just lie
around.
And then I would be forced tocontemplate.
I'd be forced to contemplate thedisgusting hangover.
I'd be forced to contemplate howbad I feel, how much money I
wasted the night before.
And I always came to the sameconclusion.
Alcohol is not helping.
And because I couldn't takeaction or be distracted, I was
just forced to sit there and askmyself, what the f is alcohol
(05:41):
doing for me in my life?
And I spent multiple hundreds ofhours doing this before I
stopped drinking alcohol.
And I've spent way over athousand hours, multiple
thousands of hours doing thisafter I quit drinking.
See, for my videos, I don'treally listen to anybody talk
about alcohol.
I don't watch any stop-drinkingmaterial, I don't read any
stop-drinking books.
Sure, I read them at thebeginning of my journey, but
then I realized I don't need toread this stuff.
(06:03):
A lot of the videos I've made onthis channel are just off the
top of the dome.
I literally just write a fewbullet points of my own thinking
on this topic and just pressrecord.
Now don't get me wrong,occasionally I do need to do
research, I need to readscience, because that's what
people want to hear about.
But when it comes to myunderstanding of alcohol and
what it is, the science doesn'treally influence me either way.
I've done my own thinking.
(06:23):
I don't need to really go andlearn anymore.
Because I am so sure thatalcohol adds nothing to my life
that why do I need anythingelse?
I've come to my own conclusion.
So why do I say you don't needbooks, you don't need to study,
you don't need to do anything?
Because it's obvious.
If you sit and truly think aboutalcohol and contemplate this
topic for a prolonged period oftime, and alcohol has had a
negative impact on you and yourlife, then you will come to the
(06:45):
same conclusion.
You will see alcohol for what itis.
Because what is it?
A poison, a carcinogen, it'sethanol, and it destroys pretty
much every cell it comes intocontact with.
But when you realize this foryourself, then guess what
happens?
Not drinking alcohol becomes alogical decision.
You don't want to control it,you just don't want it, which is
true control.
External voices can play a rolein triggering this for you, but
(07:08):
nothing will beat contemplation.
Even people that go through mystop drinking program, and I'll
explain the ins and outs of thatin a minute, so you can kind of
apply the same mental model.
But even people that go throughit, I show them a new way of
thinking, I show them whatalcohol is, but I can't make any
decisions for them.
I just force people tocontemplate the ideas that I've
already discovered through myown contemplation to get the
same conclusion.
(07:28):
So, how do we do this?
Well, the ultimate way to dothis is we use first principles
thinking.
We break the problem down intoits component parts, and you do
this through contemplation.
When you start thinking aboutalcohol and the role that it has
in your life, questions startpopping up.
For example, well, hang on, howdid I get hooked on this?
How is it portrayed in themedia?
How is it marketed to me?
When these ideas start cominginto your mind, these are the
(07:51):
topics that you break down intotheir component parts.
And you really start to realizethat we've all been manipulated
to see alcohol a certain way.
It's one of the most addictivedrugs known to man.
But essentially, you do firstprinciples thinking through your
own contemplation, and then youcan then start to study these
individual component parts, oryou can just contemplate them
further.
Some people do need additionalresearch, but once you've done
(08:12):
that base foundation ofresearch, that's it.
You don't need any more.
Now, you can do this alone.
It might take 50, 100, maybe athousand hours.
If you're unfortunate like me,you're often forced to do this.
Actually, looking back, it'sprobably more fortunate rather
than it for it to drag on myentire life.
Maybe it was a blessing indisguise.
But you can do this on your own.
The quicker way to do it is togo through my program, is to go
(08:35):
through the contemplation thatI've already gone through, where
I started to just see alcoholentirely for what it is, and
that will force you to do yourown contemplation.
If you want information on that,then you can just go ahead and
click the link in thedescription.
You can actually apply to jointhe program where we'll jump on
a free call to see if theprogram is a good match for you.
We typically work for businessowners and professionals who are
motivated to change.
If you want to see if that's agood fit, go ahead and apply by
(08:56):
clicking the link down below,then booking a free call, or you
can go to soberclear.com to reada bit more about the work that
we do.
But I promise you, this is thelost skill.
It's shaped civilizations and itcan reshape the way that you
view alcohol forever.
And once you've done this, youwon't need me.
You won't need any stop drinkingbooks, you won't need any of
these scientific things,whatever.
You won't need anything.
You'll rely on your ownunderstanding of this drug.
(09:18):
And if you click the video onthe screen now, I'm gonna show
you some of the warning signsthat might force you into a
state of contemplation.
So definitely check this one outnext.
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