1.5M Q&A - Joe Dispenza, Daily Routine & Online Negativity - #724

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What's happening, people? Welcome back to the show. It is a 1.5 million subscriber Q&A episode. It's been a while since I did one of these. It's been a busy few months, so I apologize for the absence. But we got thousands and thousands of questions. I've tried to compile them. There were a lot that were kind of similar, so I've tried to put a bunch together, and I'm gonna get through as many as I can. So let's get into it. Beyond the mic, how do you deal with negativity on the internet?
This has been the year that I've tried to rail against cynicism. I hate it, I hate it so much. Reminds me of all of the sort of narrow-minded, very defeatist mentalities that I really didn't like. It's all the worst parts of the UK, and I don't like it. I deal with it on the internet by following as few people as possible. So on Twitter, I think I follow 100 people. I don't spend that much time scrolling Instagram, and my YouTube feed is relatively well curated. So I just try not to see it. That being said, when it comes to comment sections and stuff, it's difficult. I wrote this thing the other day, which might be, I guess, interesting, at least, to listen to. Fame doesn't change you, it just changes everyone around you, is this quote from Lewis Capaldi in a documentary, and I reflected on it a lot this year. Identity lags reality by one to two years. There's a lot of psychological fallout from a rapid change in status. That's from Mark Manson. It's jarring when everyone else tells you how great you're doing because you don't feel any different. But the world now sees you differently. It's like identity dysmorphia. And because you forget compliments, but remember insults, any increase in exposure mostly just feels like an increase in criticism. At no point on the journey to becoming heavily scrutinized does anyone teach you how to deal with scrutiny. There is no training course for fame or criticism. You're just as vulnerable to it as you were when you started. But people presume that you accepted the deal of criticism when you decided to build a platform, you didn't. And that's kind of how I feel at the moment. Criticism is rough and negativity on the internet doesn't feel very good, especially not when it's directed at you. So it is a learning process, I suppose. And that's like perfectly true. What I just said there, there's no training course. There's no point between having 150 subscribers and 1.5 million where someone came along and like bestowed on me the skills to be able to deal with negative things. You just like, I don't know, hope for the best along the way. But I appreciate all the people that are positive because you really do help.