Monday Motivation – A Hilarious Look at Patience, Perspective, and Anger

If you’re in the mood to listen to someone hilariously ranting about stupidity, then this is your lucky day!

A friend posted this clip on Facebook a few days ago. It’s from a little while ago, but it’s still great:

In the video, comedian Louis CK rants to Conan O’Brien about how much people take things for granted nowadays. If you have four minutes, you should watch the clip. If you don’t have four minutes, you should make the time because it’s hilarious.

The premise of the rant is that, “everything is amazing right now, and no one is happy.” Even though technology makes life easier and easier, people seem to get less and less happy.

Louis’s rant is not only funny, but also has some definite food for thought we can all learn from:

Develop Some Patience

“Give it a second! It’s going to space! Can you give it a second to get back from space?”

Just a few days ago, my internet connection was acting wonky. I started to get frustrated at just how slow my Google searches were taking.

Let me repeat that. I was getting frustrated at how slow my Google searches were taking.

How ridiculous is that??

It wasn’t that long ago that to get an answer to a question you would:

• Look it up in a giant encyclopedia
• Call a friend who hoped knew the answer (and then call another one to verify the first one’s answer)
• Call into a radio talk show for advice
• Go to the library and try to use a non-keyword based “card catalog” to find a book that would have your answer.
• Give up and ask your parents and, even though you knew with 100% certainty that they had no idea what they were talking about, just accept their answer.

Here I was, getting frustrated at a search for taking 30 seconds to return an answer, when just a few years back the same search would have taken me 1.87 years (that’s an estimate).

Technology is awesome, but it is turning people into a mass of low attention span impatient Morlocks…

The world would be a better place if we could all just learn to pause, breathe, and relax a little

Take Nothing for Granted

“You’re sitting in a chair in the sky. Here’s the thing: people say there’s delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours. That used to take thirty years to do that. And a bunch of you would die on the way there.”

We live in the most technologically advanced time in the history of the world. I know that’s not all that impressive since, barring an apocalyptic event that sets us back five hundred years, every day will be just a little bit more technologically advanced than the day before it.

Still, it’s pretty cool, and there is a ton of stuff to appreciate in the world. However, it gets a lot easier to bitch and moan when the stuff we take for granted doesn’t work.

I understand, once you get used to something you have an expectation that it will continue to work properly, and when it doesn’t, that’s a bummer.

Just remember from time to time amongst your complaining to appreciate all the amazing things you can do now that you could not do just a few years ago.

Save Your Outrage for Things that Matter

“How quickly the world owes him something he knew existed only ten second ago.”

This is my favorite part of the interview. Louis C.K. talking about a man complaining when the in-flight internet connection stops working. He didn’t have access to this ever before, and now he is pissed that he can’t access it.

You see this all the time: people getting outraged over really stupid, really inconsequential things.

There are definitely things in the world worthy of your outrage. There are probably more things that you (or people around you) get outraged about that really should be let go.

Like the boy who cried wolf, the more you express your outrage over stupid things, the less anyone will pay attention to you when you talk about something serious. And then a wolf will eat you. And then a couple of brothers will write a story about you, mocking your stupidity.

Louis C.K. is a comedian, and sure, he was ranting to get people to laugh, but that doesn’t mean there’s not some validity to what he is saying. The next time you get impatient, angry, or feel entitled, think back to his rant and remind yourself, “Everything is amazing right now…”

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