Stuff Won't Make You Happy: Having Goals Will | Joe Rogan and Brendan Schaub

I've never felt more pressure in my life to come up with new, become a better comic than when I released my special. Of course. I'm like, oh shit, now the work starts. That was whatever. Dude, how the work starts. Never satisfied with myself more than like 15, 20 minutes a week. I wish I had 15 minutes where I was. I couldn't tell you. I thought 15, 20 minutes a week I'll have a glass of wine, I'll put my feet up, I'll kick back. And then that little voice in the back of my head, it's like, are you doing everything you can do? Get up. Come on. It's kind of a demon though, isn't it Joe? 100%. One of my dreams was to buy the car that I bought and I bought it and we're in bed and my girl goes, how do you feel? I went, exactly the same. I think material things, they don't matter at all. And then the next day we wake up, I get up with my son every morning and we always watch cars on YouTube and she goes, what the fuck? I'm watching a different car. She goes, what the fuck are you doing? I'm like looking at the next car. She's like, there's no way. I'm like, I need goals. As soon as we bought our house, I swear to God the next morning. She goes, what are you doing? I'm like, look at the next house. I don't know what to do. No, no, that's normal. My message to Dustin was enjoying this. But don't get, the thing about stuff though, as opposed to like goals, is like stuff, you could always just keep buying stuff and making money to buy stuff. And then you find yourself being one of those people that just does stuff for money. Cause you want to buy the stuff. I've never done that though. But there are people like that out there, right? You know, I've heard Steve Harvey talk about money, like how much money you want to make per year. And, and someone was making fun of it. And I was thinking, well, he's in this vibe where he's trying to get stuff and make money and you got to make money to get stuff and you get sort of in this game of accumulating more and bigger and better things. For me, the most important thing is the stuff that I put out if people like it. Like if I do a podcast, let's say if I do a UFC and I suck, if I stumble through something or I make a bad call or it's not, that shit will fuck me up for days. And there's nothing you do to fix it. Nothing I can do to fix it. You'd be getting a Lamborghina fry. It's not going to feel that way. It wouldn't do a damn thing. So same with a podcast. If I do a podcast, it doesn't go well. If I do a set, the set doesn't go well, or I stumbled through a joke. All I care about is the stuff that I do in terms of progress. I focus all my progress on that. I'll distract myself with stuff, but like, look, this watch costs like 50 bucks or something. I don't know. Yeah. Is that a Todd Hoyer? That's a Taser. Not 50, but I hear you. It's a military watch. Well, it's like 300 bucks, maybe. But you know what I'm saying? But it doesn't matter. Whether that's 500 or 300 bucks or this is 22 grand, not a big deal. 22 grand. But it doesn't matter. American money? Yeah. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Like, watch out for cash. Not a big deal. Rolex. Just make that from talking. Yes. Talking shit. You're just talking shit. Just talking shit. But my point is, is this like, that doesn't make you happy. It doesn't make you feel anyway. This doesn't make me feel any way. No, none of it. The more I learned, the more I accumulate these material things, it doesn't mean shit not. The only thing that means shit is your friends and your loved ones and what you're trying to do with your life. Bob Dylan said it best. He said, he they said, uh, you know, what's what's success to you? He goes, not having to work for assholes, and waking up and going to bed, doing exactly what I want. Boom, sad match. You're already doing that, right? I'm already doing that. The only time I ever felt, I guess, somewhat successful, I really don't, but the only time I felt a little successful is when I turned down a big gig on a major network to do TV, I went, nah, I'm kinda good, man. I'm good doing what I wanna do, and I own all this stuff, and I'm not pressed to do it. Do you imagine what it would be like if you had a boss? Remember the shit that you guys were dealing with at Fox, we were telling you to stop cursing on the fighter and the kid. Hilarious. Just imagine how bad that advice is. Think about how many fucking millions of downloads of the fighter and the kid have been out there. How many humans on the planet Earth, have you seen an overhead map of all the people on the planet, a light went off, every time a dude was listening to the fighter and the kid, he'd be like, holy fuck, it would freak you out to see that number. And that Fox guy was like, let's clean it up, boys. You know what that guy told me, too? I started arguing with him, and he kinda got my face and went, just like you have your black belt in the octagon, I got my black belt in TV. Oh, God. Let's cool the shit. Did he really say that? Yeah. He's got his black belt in TV. Let me tell you. Well, he got fired from Fox, by the way. Of course he did.