Joe Rogan: Success Without Love is Like Cement Without Water

Human experience, it's just wonderful. How we wake up in the morning, human identity, you know, the electrochemical. Love, how about love? Just our ability to communicate, our ability to see friends and the beautiful feeling it gets when you hug a friend. Is it just pheromones? Is it just chemical? Is it just something more? Is it just something more? Yeah, that's right. And love is what should drive us. We are here to give and receive love and once we figure that out, the world's going to be a lot better. If you don't have that, everything else is horseshit. You can have a hundred million dollar house and a private jet. If you don't have love, you don't have anything. You're missing the key ingredient. That's right. You know, it's like having cement but not having water. That's right. You know, you have the mix, but you don't have the water. You have nothing. You ain't building any house, motherfucker. Yeah, no. And you know, we, and unfortunately there's so much lack of love in the world for other people and other, you know. And there's so many people that want to, instead of propagate love, they want to propagate anger and they want to propagate hate. And it's so easy to do. And so many people are dissatisfied by their own existence that they want to do that, but they don't understand that by doing that, you are perpetuating this whole terrible cycle that you've been caught up in yourself. If you go out there hating on everybody and being shitty to everybody and throwing all this anger out there in the world, that you are literally poisoning yourself. There's a wonderful quote about jealousy that I think also applies to hate, is that it's one of the rare things that is ineffective on the person who's your target but works on you instead. Like if you're jealous, if there's a person out there like, oh, I wish I was living her life and you're angry at her, like it's not hurting her. It doesn't even affect her. No, that's like pissing in the wind. You feel the poison. It's poison that works on you. You piss in the wind, that piss is going to come right back on you. It's just hard for people to understand that there's techniques and there's strategies and there's philosophies that can help you steer through this world with a happier life. And that is a big part of it. A big part of it is embracing love and friendship and camaraderie and being nice to people. I think it's much easier to be nice than to be mean. It's hard for some people because they're not even nice to themselves. Well self-love is where it all starts. You don't like yourself, you ain't going to do too well with everybody else. Sometimes I wake up in the morning, I don't really like myself or what I've done the day before or in the past, but in the end I got to love myself enough to get up and get going and keep going. Just don't get too much of this wild crystal vodka in your system. No, everything in moderation.