Guy Ritchie "You Must Be The Master of Your Own Kingdom" - The Joe Rogan Experience

hello freak I'm getting fascinated by the way your brain works because for you it's important that the person want to wear the suit and have a feeling that that's sort of that's symbolic of how you feel about life itself like the person has to want to be doing what they're doing they have to want to wear that suit it has to be an authentic gesture um did you ever read a book called extreme ownership written by a couple of Navy SEALs that's Jaco willing great no no that's I think it is is it Jacques book yeah yeah yeah I've had jock on the show a bunch of times important books I've read mine once before when we're talking about a bunch of times no I wear them once but but a little book yes right now there's lots of books that I picked up on this theme but they were very eloquent about it if you don't own something you're not the boss you have to take full responsibility for everything that you do why be subservient you must be the master of your own Kingdom philia makes a lot of sense you've gotta own that you can't just walk into things with your eyes half open you're walking to things with your eyes fully open you've got to know what you're getting into you have to take possession of your life this is a thought process you have to constantly reaffirm there's something I did exactly that it's exactly that you drift on this point right and it is whatever form of meditation or mantra that you decide to espouse there needs to be some period in your day where you remember that there's a world out there trying to tell you who you are and as a world in here that's trying to tell you who you are now where do you want to put your X because the world outside is very noisy and very tempting and as all the razzamatazz as all the tinsel and all the glitter it's called the toys but that's because you don't think you're enough in the first place you don't think you're enough in the first place the whole idea of the world to sell you stuff is first of all they have to make you feel bad about yourself less than in some way and I don't resent this system by the way it is the system but what's the expression about don't hate don't hate the player hate the game don't hate the game love the game because you're in it mate mmm so own the game accept the rules and move on into the rules so the world will try and tell you who you are and you have to tell yourself who you are and there's this ongoing battle and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two but in the end you've got a ball the eggs in your basket there's also an ongoing internal battle though isn't there there's the you that you want people to think you are and there's a you who you are and trying to figure out like how do i how do I figure out who I am like mm do I have a correct assumption of how the people are perceiving me and how I actually am objectively or am i bullshitting the world with this suit and pocket square yeah I would say it's exactly the scenario we're talking about there's essentially only two two worlds is the inner world of energy in the outer world of energy there's there's two identities one's real one's false the external world is I'm asking you to tell me who I am that's what we're all playing it and as soon as you start play that game we run into a source of trouble calling the ego call it whatever you want to call it but that's the dynamic that we're in and somehow we have to give ourselves enough confidence to reassure ourselves that we are enough however I into the game because I've got to move on in the world without crack on in the world and I know there's loads of temptations that come along the way so I will own the suit under the way the soup I'm going to own the soup now don't mean by paying for it I mean by owning it it's now mine sooo it's my idea to put on this suit I have to personalise it in some way I have to understand a narrative that allows me to own that suit and thereby I've got my suit of armor and I come out into the world and guess what I'm in a good time because I'm owning the suit now there's a very rock-solid philosophy there something you've ever written down it's what the essence of narrative I'm storyteller the essence of Niro is only about this dynamic there is nothing else in a story other than this dynamic so the struggle between other people's perceptions in your own wants and desires and who truly are your your significant real self that's it that's all there is you tell me a story that didn't that we engaged in that famous that's not about this journey I could be an example the prodigal son parable Christian seems religious didn't really make my sense so you know the story sure but one should lay it out so there's a father he has two sons an old son a younger son and he says to them who wants to spend their inheritance the younger side says me Dada can't spend it and the younger son takes all the dough and he runs off and sniffs coke off strippers tits for a number of years until he realizes this is getting pretty boring and I'm in a lot of trouble he ends up feeding throwing food to pigs that's his job and he can't even eat the food that he gives to the pigs at which point he says dad will you take me back dad then goes - they don't meet this somehow happens not through telephones it just happens at which point dad goes to the fatted calves has killed the fatted calf older sons hold on dad what's going on I've stayed with you since the beginning I've been loyal to you and I hear the stories of my younger brother coming back who's been sniffing coke off strippers tits for the last habit from those how many years and you'll prepare to kill the fatted calf what's the SP dad I want another story this is your right son don't worry about that you take a look slide a little step to the side you'll always be with me you're a good boy at which point it goes out to me the prodigal son the wasteful son the wasteful son returns and he says you were lost and they have found that's the end of the story it's quite hard to make sense of that in a literal sense you get old and was a bit unfair me you should have been kind to the oldest son because he never ran off and did anything but the essence of the story is that you are the father you are enough your older son is your intellect says all Daniel is been doing that is trying to reconcile make sense of a prosaic and material world the younger son being the wild feral entity that he is once go out the world and find out what it's all about so in his recklessness and sense of adventure he finds that you can't escape himself so he has to return to himself and at which point he has to accept who he is which born intellect is left out the equation pretty much is the older brother because he can't understand the significance of the journey of the wasteful brother in the end you have to leave yourself to understand the value of yourself you have to lose stuff before you realize that all the stuff that you're losing is ephemeral and transitory it's not yours you're enough you're always enough but you've got to somehow prostitute yourself before you realize your own value that is the essence of all stories dad's deep Garrety so tell me you think about all the time was this I mean there's like a cemented philosophy lip so King Arthur story you just made a man is a king has a son a son the father is runs into a bit of a Grove the son jumps into a little boat a little skillet and he's not skillet that's what you cook your chops on internet yeah I'm skiff little skiff the skiff takes off down the river he gets found by prostitutes he's brought up in a brothel he understands the ways of the street he becomes a king on the street he works his way up at different ladders and then he pulls a sword from a stone at a certain point his life a certain point of evolution and then from there he goes on to be the king a little bit tassel or along the way lots of wrestling matches and the nd Feist and his demons it becomes the king so what's the significance of this narrative that every man in himself is eros necrotic there he is his own king he takes us adjourn into the material world has to climb up all the different runs on the ladder and ultimately has to return to himself the significance of the extraction from the sword from the stone is the stone is the material world the material world which seems will solid because it controls you whilst you're projecting your sense of identity upon it the extraction of the stone is taking back your own Authority your own divinity your own authority your own identity whatever it is that you've got to call it your own power you're no longer looking for a sense of self outside of yourself and then you have to face the demons that you've created in your history by facing them and fighting them and owning them you put them in the face of who you are and that's a wrestling match you'd have to take away all these crutches and that's all that we struggle from in life is taking away our crutches oh please tell me I am all please give me a bit more money so other people think I'm clever or when then I have a nice cut on people think I'm clever you've got to take away all these crutches and spand as the man that you are and you're liberated from your whole thing that is the story King Arthur there's not just the story yeah it's the story of all narrative do you think that most people that are watching the film are going to get that though they're just going to get an entertaining story they're just going to see a bunch of cool stuff some drama play out but this is fascinating that you're operating so many levels underneath it if I'm storytellers my business so I'm in the business a store I might as well understand story and do you need to understand all that I'm not sure if you do depends where you are on the ladder so you can just go along have a nice bit of entertainment good guy bad guy everything is literal there's nothing wrong with literalism it is what it is it's the game you can glean what you can glean when you're ready to glean what you're ready to glean are you Joseph Campbell fan I am a jose california yeah that mean that's a reoccurring theme in his work the hero's journey as the hero's journey this underlying sort of narrative that just really guides all all stories and all ancient tales and that there's something inherently human about them important about these stories they resonate with our wants and needs and goals and even also maybe the structure that we really truly need in our own life yeah I mean all the stories from whatever period I'm sympathetic to this particular to Joseph Campbell's philosophy on this but he's not the only one right right the weird thing about religion is religion has done to this spiritual significance of narrative what the businessman did to the suit he's literal eyes dit didn't realize that putting on a suit is putting on a suit of armor he's putting on something that's rather spectacular it's just doing it for convention you're doing for others you're not doing it for you and in our literal mind we look at a narrative and we see the narrative for what we believe it to be the exterior aspect of narrative so we completely we see the world upside down we don't we're not actually interested in the essence of the narrative because we're so busy pandering after the approval of others so everything that we see every narrative that we listen to every film that you see you're not really interested in its soul you're interested in its body because that's what we correspond to it's fascinating that you're comparing it to suits because it resonates like when you think of a guy showing up for work or getting ready for work he doesn't want to go and he's putting on a suit and it's just dredging through it and putting it on and all you think about a guy who is crisply tucking in his collars and putting on his cufflinks and tightening up his tie and it feels empowered by the whole process of it it's very it's very appealing like if you see it in a film - it's very exciting this is a man of purpose they did it in mean streets so though you remember Harvey Keitel getting dressed to go up on a Friday getting dressed to go out the Friday night and affected a whole generation of people about the way they dress because he owned it yeah yeah I never really thought about that until this conversation so because I just I don't really wear suits occasionally look very very careful that you've been robbed I've been robbed you've been robbed there are so many aspects of life food for a long time ago robbed from us and we've slowly managed to claw that bags true um but clothes really you're a 45 year old geezer and you're still dressing like an 18 year old house is a lot about well some people like to be comfortable though I get that by the way and they like that look comfortable your subscriptuin comfortable yeah you can get poured into this completely deconstructed on the inside maybe by that chap called Brunello knows what he's doing so these are all handmade it's sort of won't be handmade tailored no you bought this off the shelf and I had only a couple of things tweaked but it's as comfortable as a pair of pajamas really yeah see again you have to broker a deal you can't put on things are uncomfortable because guess what happens in the morning you're looking through you soon as you go on like that one but unaware and what a comfortable one ah so they all have to be comfortable well you know play the game I [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 14min 19sec (859 seconds)

Published: Fri May 05 2017