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Thom Pollard (00:02):
Hi, this is Thom Pollard Welcome to the happiness
quotient. The following episodeis a talk about authenticity,
about speaking the truth in ourlives a short life hack episode
that might help you pursue yourcore passion in life. It is an
excerpt from a YouTube videothat I posted on my channel
(00:24):
called Tom Dharma Pollard. Ifyou would like you can go over
there and check it out on thisor the YouTube channel. I'd love
it if you subscribed and clickedlike and commented or reach out
to me and let me know what youthink. As always, thank you for
being here. I truly appreciateyou taking time out of your day
(00:44):
to come and listen to and watchme. It means a great deal. Have
a wonderful day. And here's theepisode.
Unknown (00:53):
Greetings, and thank you for taking the time to stop
by I'm Thom Pollard, welcome tothis channel. First things
first, thank you for stoppingby. If you haven't been here
before, please take a lookaround. And if you have and have
returned and haven't subscribed,please do subscribe and comment
(01:13):
on the videos. Enter into thediscussion. I really want to
know what you think. And we'llrespond to as many comments as I
can. I don't respond to all butI do read them all. This is a
community of what I like tothink is like minded
individuals. Many are drawn hereon the Mount Everest topic, but
(01:34):
it's not all Mount Everest. Itstarted as an offshoot of my
podcast, which is called thehappiness quotient. John branch,
one of my guests on thehappiness quotient. He's a
Pulitzer Prize winning writerand journalist for The New York
Times. He called the happinessquotient Everest centric, and
he's not wrong about that. Butthere's a lot more here more
(01:57):
things like exploration reportsfrom inside Ukraine, stories
about life pursuit of dreams,have a look around and click
subscribe. And then if you don'tlike it, hit unsubscribe or
leave a comment and tell me howI can make my channel better. So
you will stick around. As someof you know, I also have a
(02:19):
membership level here on thischannel, click the Join button
at the bottom and check out whatyou'll get. It's only 99 cents,
it's the least that YouTubecharges for a membership. You
get free badges, whoo, emojis,so when you comment, you can use
emojis. And I also do specialposts for just members. So
(02:40):
recently, I put up a drone shotof the north face of mountain
Everest, that was prettyinteresting. For some of the
members, they got a look of theface of Mount Everest from 2019
that I rarely share. You mightlike that, so check it out.
Anyway, so I was sitting aroundtoday putting together a review
video. And I'm working on thatnow. And there's just something
(03:02):
that's been burning in me that Iwanted to share first before
that review video. So a word ifI may.
When we don't act in accordanceto the central spirit of our
being, we get off kilter in away. And I say that meaning that
we've been put on this planetwith a fire that burns within
(03:24):
us. And and some listen to itand some don't. And millions and
millions of people live theirentire lives never truly
listening to that central spiritor having the opportunity to
foster whatever that centralspirit is that fire some are
kept in slavery or not given theopportunity. But as free people
(03:47):
and I'm imagining if you're hereon this YouTube channel, you
have some level of freedom insome places, no people are even
allowed to watch YouTube fromthe United States. So what I'm
saying is when when those peoplewho are unable to follow that
fire in their heart or pursuetheir central spirit, and they
die, the world becomes a colderplace. And so the people who are
(04:13):
following that, despite thecollateral damage, the people
who who realize that they'regoing to pay a price for
following that fire may beliving a pretty,
not very good life financiallyfor some years as they become an
expert on these certain thingsthat they're pursuing. They have
something in common all thosepeople, and it's authenticity.
(04:36):
We know those people when we seethem, we know an authentic
person, an artist who'sstruggling just to find enough
money to buy enough paint ormoney to buy a canvas and they
keep doing it when they probablycould be a manager even at
McDonald's which is probably notthat bad of a job right? So
those authentic people areheedless to the judgment and
(04:59):
rejectionhave others, because they know
that their central calling isthe most important thing to
their survival to their own wayof I guess transcending the fact
that there's a lot of sufferingon this planet, that there's
sadness, there's death, we'reall going to die. And so knowing
that we might as well follow thethings that we love. And I know
(05:20):
it's not so easy, I know that wehave to pay bills or some people
or have a house or kids, it'snot just quit and get in a car
and drive to Vegas. It's notthat easy. But there are ways
that you can pursue yourpassion. And some of you are
doing that right here bywatching these Everest videos.
And I'm not even talking aboutMount Everest right now. So
(05:43):
thank you for hanging in thereand listening to me, because
it's so important. We have tolook at those authentic people
who've gotten up the courage tolive the life that they were
born to on this earth, andunderstand that somewhere deep
within them, there's gratitudefor everything that happens in
their life, the good, the bad,the ugly, and the indifferent.
(06:05):
And, and I can't necessarily saythat about all of them.
But but when you fail, or whenthere's a mistake, there's a lot
of learning in that. So wewelcome I, as if I'm included in
that I think I'm somewhatauthentic. I try not to lie as
the train. Oh, looks as thetrain in the background goes
(06:27):
peepee. Maybe that's an omen,right? Maybe I'm, I try not to
lie i lying. This is what I'mtalking about today. So students
come up to me after apresentation that I do. I've
done a lot of Everestpresentation for students or
corporate presentations at salesmeetings at events and things.
(06:48):
And students and adults willcome up and they'll say, Tom,
you're so lucky to have thislife. And the very first thing
out of my mouth every singletime is there is no luck. This
is not luck, not even my gosh,it's the opposite of luck. You
know, I just saw something thatI wanted. And I went after it
and I paid the price. I lostrelationships, I guess you could
(07:09):
kind of say my marriage didn'tsucceed. Because of my pursuit
of Mount Everest and explorationand adventure. I've given up
really pretty decent jobs whereit was either stay on the job or
go on an adventure, I quit a jobto go to Mount Everest in 1999,
six weeks after I've actuallybought a house with my wife at
(07:31):
the time,slept on couches. So I've had
times where I've rolled $2 worthof nickels to put enough gas in
my car. So I could get two a daygig filming on a piece of crap
camera to make 150 bucks thatgot me through a week or two,
you know, anyway, when one wins,the community wins. It's that
Ubuntu thing that African ideaof Ubuntu when one wins, the
(07:53):
community wins when onesucceeds, or one loves or when
love wins, the communitysucceeds. And imagine what a
world that would be if we werejust to encourage every other
human being every day, in thesmallest way that it would be
impossible to encourageeverybody every day that but
(08:14):
let's put it this way. I have avery, very close friend. She's a
middle school teacher, sheteaches literacy and English to
seventh and eighth graders. So12 ish, 13 years old, and she
comes home. And sometimes at theend of the day, and she says
sometimes they sit therethinking, Gosh, this kid has
lives in a bad household or hisparents or her parents aren't
(08:35):
encouraging him or her to goafter his or her dreams. And
and I thought can you imagine?
Can you imagine just if, if oncea week, or every 10 days, each
teacher in the world, made surethat every single kid in that
classroom heard how beautifuljust said, Young man, young
(08:57):
lady, you know how beautiful youare, you know how perfect you
are, you have the power to doanything you want in your life,
you can do what ever you want.
Can you imagine if every childheard that, or even every adult
heard that just once everycouple of days. And so my son
(09:19):
watches me at the checkoutcounter of the supermarket. He
goes Dad, dad, you have a way ofmaking people feel better. And I
was like, I don't do itnecessarily for that. But human
decency is such an easy act, andit makes each feel better. You
know? Soas I wrap this up, that the
(09:39):
thing that cripples people is,is that they're fearful of going
to that place of courage toembrace the central spirit of
what burns within them. And sofor maybe for a kid who has a
parent tells them they're goodfor nothing or they're never
going to amount to anything.
You know, my parents were prettycool.
(10:00):
So I didn't have to worry aboutthat. They were always like, go
for it, what the hell you'redoing but okay, you know, that's
pretty cool, right? But theirkids are out there goes home, go
home at the end of the day andtheir parents tell them your
piece of crap, you're nothing,you're good for nothing. And
they believe it because peoplebelieve what they hear if they
say it long enough, you know,you can do great things, all you
(10:21):
have to do is embrace thecentral spirit of what burns in
you. Take your time, hold on toit, listen to it, listen to the
calling, make your plan, don'tjust jump in the car, as I said
earlier, and go to drive toVegas.
Hang around and spend time withpeople who support that if you
have a friend who tells youaround your mind, that you're
(10:42):
crazy, or you're stupid, that'snot your friend, you want people
who support you challenge youwho actually honor you for the
truth and authentic person youare, that's the easiest way to
find out who your friends reallyare. So one way that we can
improve our lives immediately,is by embracing the truth. And
(11:05):
how do we do that one of theways that we embrace the truth
is to speak the truth. So how dowe speak the truth? We start by
not lying? And that's achallenge. Sometimes how you
feel in great lie? Or how do Ilook great lie, you know, oh, so
and so's a jerk or whatever,that's probably not a lie
(11:27):
sometimes. But that's judgment.
And we can do that in anothervideo. So one of the ways that
we can embrace truth is justmaybe by not opening our mouth
when we feel a lie coming on.
When we tell a story, that's nottrue. And in so doing, we start
to let the truth be revealed,and it rises to the surface. And
(11:48):
as we go through time, we startto understand our own true
authenticity. So sit, why wouldthat so the way to live properly
is to not lie to oneself or toanother to others, allow the
truth to shine through, notallowing oneself to be condemned
or judged by those we pass byeach day. And that includes the
(12:11):
person we're looking at in themirror. There's a lot of people
that want to see other peoplefail, we don't want to be around
them. We don't want to judgethem just don't spend a lot of
time around their presence. Sowhen we start to embrace the
things that come from the truthof who we are, and why we are
put on this planet, we becomesurrounded by people who are
(12:33):
doing the same thing. That's allour life is going to get better
in that moment.
If you're still here listening,bless your heart. Thank you very
much. Thank you for yoursupport. I'm going to talk about
Mount Everest in the next video,promise. Take care, have a great
day and bless you just for beingyou.
Hi, this is Thom Pollard Welcome to the happiness
quotient. The following episodeis a talk about authenticity,
about speaking the truth in ourlives a short life hack episode
that might help you pursue yourcore passion in life. It is an
excerpt from a YouTube videothat I posted on my channel
(00:24):
called Tom Dharma Pollard. Ifyou would like you can go over
there and check it out on thisor the YouTube channel. I'd love
it if you subscribed and clickedlike and commented or reach out
to me and let me know what youthink. As always, thank you for
being here. I truly appreciateyou taking time out of your day
(00:44):
to come and listen to and watchme. It means a great deal. Have
a wonderful day. And here's theepisode.
Unknown (00:53):
Greetings, and thank you for taking the time to stop
by I'm Thom Pollard, welcome tothis channel. First things
first, thank you for stoppingby. If you haven't been here
before, please take a lookaround. And if you have and have
returned and haven't subscribed,please do subscribe and comment
(01:13):
on the videos. Enter into thediscussion. I really want to
know what you think. And we'llrespond to as many comments as I
can. I don't respond to all butI do read them all. This is a
community of what I like tothink is like minded
individuals. Many are drawn hereon the Mount Everest topic, but
(01:34):
it's not all Mount Everest. Itstarted as an offshoot of my
podcast, which is called thehappiness quotient. John branch,
one of my guests on thehappiness quotient. He's a
Pulitzer Prize winning writerand journalist for The New York
Times. He called the happinessquotient Everest centric, and
he's not wrong about that. Butthere's a lot more here more
(01:57):
things like exploration reportsfrom inside Ukraine, stories
about life pursuit of dreams,have a look around and click
subscribe. And then if you don'tlike it, hit unsubscribe or
leave a comment and tell me howI can make my channel better. So
you will stick around. As someof you know, I also have a
(02:19):
membership level here on thischannel, click the Join button
at the bottom and check out whatyou'll get. It's only 99 cents,
it's the least that YouTubecharges for a membership. You
get free badges, whoo, emojis,so when you comment, you can use
emojis. And I also do specialposts for just members. So
(02:40):
recently, I put up a drone shotof the north face of mountain
Everest, that was prettyinteresting. For some of the
members, they got a look of theface of Mount Everest from 2019
that I rarely share. You mightlike that, so check it out.
Anyway, so I was sitting aroundtoday putting together a review
video. And I'm working on thatnow. And there's just something
(03:02):
that's been burning in me that Iwanted to share first before
that review video. So a word ifI may.
When we don't act in accordanceto the central spirit of our
being, we get off kilter in away. And I say that meaning that
we've been put on this planetwith a fire that burns within
(03:24):
us. And and some listen to itand some don't. And millions and
millions of people live theirentire lives never truly
listening to that central spiritor having the opportunity to
foster whatever that centralspirit is that fire some are
kept in slavery or not given theopportunity. But as free people
(03:47):
and I'm imagining if you're hereon this YouTube channel, you
have some level of freedom insome places, no people are even
allowed to watch YouTube fromthe United States. So what I'm
saying is when when those peoplewho are unable to follow that
fire in their heart or pursuetheir central spirit, and they
die, the world becomes a colderplace. And so the people who are
(04:13):
following that, despite thecollateral damage, the people
who who realize that they'regoing to pay a price for
following that fire may beliving a pretty,
not very good life financiallyfor some years as they become an
expert on these certain thingsthat they're pursuing. They have
something in common all thosepeople, and it's authenticity.
(04:36):
We know those people when we seethem, we know an authentic
person, an artist who'sstruggling just to find enough
money to buy enough paint ormoney to buy a canvas and they
keep doing it when they probablycould be a manager even at
McDonald's which is probably notthat bad of a job right? So
those authentic people areheedless to the judgment and
(04:59):
rejectionhave others, because they know
that their central calling isthe most important thing to
their survival to their own wayof I guess transcending the fact
that there's a lot of sufferingon this planet, that there's
sadness, there's death, we'reall going to die. And so knowing
that we might as well follow thethings that we love. And I know
(05:20):
it's not so easy, I know that wehave to pay bills or some people
or have a house or kids, it'snot just quit and get in a car
and drive to Vegas. It's notthat easy. But there are ways
that you can pursue yourpassion. And some of you are
doing that right here bywatching these Everest videos.
And I'm not even talking aboutMount Everest right now. So
(05:43):
thank you for hanging in thereand listening to me, because
it's so important. We have tolook at those authentic people
who've gotten up the courage tolive the life that they were
born to on this earth, andunderstand that somewhere deep
within them, there's gratitudefor everything that happens in
their life, the good, the bad,the ugly, and the indifferent.
(06:05):
And, and I can't necessarily saythat about all of them.
But but when you fail, or whenthere's a mistake, there's a lot
of learning in that. So wewelcome I, as if I'm included in
that I think I'm somewhatauthentic. I try not to lie as
the train. Oh, looks as thetrain in the background goes
(06:27):
peepee. Maybe that's an omen,right? Maybe I'm, I try not to
lie i lying. This is what I'mtalking about today. So students
come up to me after apresentation that I do. I've
done a lot of Everestpresentation for students or
corporate presentations at salesmeetings at events and things.
(06:48):
And students and adults willcome up and they'll say, Tom,
you're so lucky to have thislife. And the very first thing
out of my mouth every singletime is there is no luck. This
is not luck, not even my gosh,it's the opposite of luck. You
know, I just saw something thatI wanted. And I went after it
and I paid the price. I lostrelationships, I guess you could
(07:09):
kind of say my marriage didn'tsucceed. Because of my pursuit
of Mount Everest and explorationand adventure. I've given up
really pretty decent jobs whereit was either stay on the job or
go on an adventure, I quit a jobto go to Mount Everest in 1999,
six weeks after I've actuallybought a house with my wife at
(07:31):
the time,slept on couches. So I've had
times where I've rolled $2 worthof nickels to put enough gas in
my car. So I could get two a daygig filming on a piece of crap
camera to make 150 bucks thatgot me through a week or two,
you know, anyway, when one wins,the community wins. It's that
Ubuntu thing that African ideaof Ubuntu when one wins, the
(07:53):
community wins when onesucceeds, or one loves or when
love wins, the communitysucceeds. And imagine what a
world that would be if we werejust to encourage every other
human being every day, in thesmallest way that it would be
impossible to encourageeverybody every day that but
(08:14):
let's put it this way. I have avery, very close friend. She's a
middle school teacher, sheteaches literacy and English to
seventh and eighth graders. So12 ish, 13 years old, and she
comes home. And sometimes at theend of the day, and she says
sometimes they sit therethinking, Gosh, this kid has
lives in a bad household or hisparents or her parents aren't
(08:35):
encouraging him or her to goafter his or her dreams. And
and I thought can you imagine?
Can you imagine just if, if oncea week, or every 10 days, each
teacher in the world, made surethat every single kid in that
classroom heard how beautifuljust said, Young man, young
(08:57):
lady, you know how beautiful youare, you know how perfect you
are, you have the power to doanything you want in your life,
you can do what ever you want.
Can you imagine if every childheard that, or even every adult
heard that just once everycouple of days. And so my son
(09:19):
watches me at the checkoutcounter of the supermarket. He
goes Dad, dad, you have a way ofmaking people feel better. And I
was like, I don't do itnecessarily for that. But human
decency is such an easy act, andit makes each feel better. You
know? Soas I wrap this up, that the
(09:39):
thing that cripples people is,is that they're fearful of going
to that place of courage toembrace the central spirit of
what burns within them. And sofor maybe for a kid who has a
parent tells them they're goodfor nothing or they're never
going to amount to anything.
You know, my parents were prettycool.
(10:00):
So I didn't have to worry aboutthat. They were always like, go
for it, what the hell you'redoing but okay, you know, that's
pretty cool, right? But theirkids are out there goes home, go
home at the end of the day andtheir parents tell them your
piece of crap, you're nothing,you're good for nothing. And
they believe it because peoplebelieve what they hear if they
say it long enough, you know,you can do great things, all you
(10:21):
have to do is embrace thecentral spirit of what burns in
you. Take your time, hold on toit, listen to it, listen to the
calling, make your plan, don'tjust jump in the car, as I said
earlier, and go to drive toVegas.
Hang around and spend time withpeople who support that if you
have a friend who tells youaround your mind, that you're
(10:42):
crazy, or you're stupid, that'snot your friend, you want people
who support you challenge youwho actually honor you for the
truth and authentic person youare, that's the easiest way to
find out who your friends reallyare. So one way that we can
improve our lives immediately,is by embracing the truth. And
(11:05):
how do we do that one of theways that we embrace the truth
is to speak the truth. So how dowe speak the truth? We start by
not lying? And that's achallenge. Sometimes how you
feel in great lie? Or how do Ilook great lie, you know, oh, so
and so's a jerk or whatever,that's probably not a lie
(11:27):
sometimes. But that's judgment.
And we can do that in anothervideo. So one of the ways that
we can embrace truth is justmaybe by not opening our mouth
when we feel a lie coming on.
When we tell a story, that's nottrue. And in so doing, we start
to let the truth be revealed,and it rises to the surface. And
(11:48):
as we go through time, we startto understand our own true
authenticity. So sit, why wouldthat so the way to live properly
is to not lie to oneself or toanother to others, allow the
truth to shine through, notallowing oneself to be condemned
or judged by those we pass byeach day. And that includes the
(12:11):
person we're looking at in themirror. There's a lot of people
that want to see other peoplefail, we don't want to be around
them. We don't want to judgethem just don't spend a lot of
time around their presence. Sowhen we start to embrace the
things that come from the truthof who we are, and why we are
put on this planet, we becomesurrounded by people who are
(12:33):
doing the same thing. That's allour life is going to get better
in that moment.
If you're still here listening,bless your heart. Thank you very
much. Thank you for yoursupport. I'm going to talk about
Mount Everest in the next video,promise. Take care, have a great
day and bless you just for beingyou.
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