Have you ever stood at a crossroads, gripped by fear, teetering on the edge of a dream you're too scared to chase? That's where I found myself until Jim Carrey's wisdom, wrapped in his trademark wit, showed me a path less traveled by fear and more by love. In today's episode, we're cracking open the life lessons from Carrey's unforgettable 2014 commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management. We'll laugh and we might just tear up a bit as we navigate through his candid revelations about success, the mind's vast power, and the art of staying true to oneself. Carrey's journey from a simple Canadian kid to a Hollywood icon serves as a beacon for anyone daring to dream amidst doubt.
Did you know that choosing love over fear can reframe your entire life's trajectory? It's a theme that echoes profoundly through my father's safer, more conservative choices and the colorful tapestry of Carrey's life. This episode is brimming with heartfelt stories, a testament to chasing joy and fulfillment in a world that often prioritizes security over passion. We'll explore how embracing our quirks and authentic selves can light up the world in unexpected ways. It's not about the fame or the applause; it's about having the courage to step out in full glory, wielding our unique gifts as a force for good.
As we wrap up our time together, we rest on the powerful notion of belief and choice. With a nod to the law of attraction, we dissect the idea that letting the universe in on your secret desires might just be the key to unlocking them. This episode isn't just about listening—it's about realizing that it's never too late to follow your dreams, whether they take you to the stage, the studio, or beyond. We're rooting for you to pick yourself up after setbacks and charge forward with a heart full of determination. Thanks for tuning into this soul-stirring episode; remember, the moment to capture your dreams is now, and we're here to cheer you on every step of the way.
Have you ever stood at a crossroads, gripped by fear, teetering on the edge of a dream you're too scared to chase? That's where I found myself until Jim Carrey's wisdom, wrapped in his trademark wit, showed me a path less traveled by fear and more by love. In today's episode, we're cracking open the life lessons from Carrey's unforgettable 2014 commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management. We'll laugh and we might just tear up a bit as we navigate through his candid revelations about success, the mind's vast power, and the art of staying true to oneself. Carrey's journey from a simple Canadian kid to a Hollywood icon serves as a beacon for anyone daring to dream amidst doubt.
Did you know that choosing love over fear can reframe your entire life's trajectory? It's a theme that echoes profoundly through my father's safer, more conservative choices and the colorful tapestry of Carrey's life. This episode is brimming with heartfelt stories, a testament to chasing joy and fulfillment in a world that often prioritizes security over passion. We'll explore how embracing our quirks and authentic selves can light up the world in unexpected ways. It's not about the fame or the applause; it's about having the courage to step out in full glory, wielding our unique gifts as a force for good.
As we wrap up our time together, we rest on the powerful notion of belief and choice. With a nod to the law of attraction, we dissect the idea that letting the universe in on your secret desires might just be the key to unlocking them. This episode isn't just about listening—it's about realizing that it's never too late to follow your dreams, whether they take you to the stage, the studio, or beyond. We're rooting for you to pick yourself up after setbacks and charge forward with a heart full of determination. Thanks for tuning into this soul-stirring episode; remember, the moment to capture your dreams is now, and we're here to cheer you on every step of the way.
Hi guys, my name is Fabio from the Fabio podcast and welcome to the. We're gonna talk about this new speech and Well, it's not really new Around 2014, from Jim Carrey. So he made this speech on on on marriage at the Marysha University of Management, and Jim Carrey is An actor or a person who I really admire Because he's truly started from scratch and I don't know. I just would like to understand a little bit better about this speech. He made, I guess kind of around ten years ago and and let's see, let's see. Of course, I cannot replicate. His humor is, as you know, he is unique On his way to, to talk and say stories about it, but at least I'm gonna try to Explain and understand In my best way possible how you know how he felt and what he meant in this speech. So I start. Thank you, bevan, thank you all. I Brought one of my paintings to show you today.
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Hope you guys are gonna be able to see it. Okay, it's not one of my bigger pieces, so you you might want to move down front to get a look at it. I was already laughing and, as you Maybe most of you don't know about it Jim Carrey really likes to. He likes art, he likes to paint, so sometimes he likes to live in a Solitude way, just making painting, paint and paint and Solitude in his, in his way, anyway, you know. So he said faculty parents, friends, graduating class of 2014, and all the dead baseball players coming out of the corn to be with us today After the harvest. There is no place to hide, the fields are empty, there is no cover there. I'm here to plant a seed that will inspire you to move forward in life with enthusiastic Hearts and a clear sense of wellness. The question is will that seed have a chance to take a route or Will I be sued by Monsanto and forced to use their seed, which may not be totally Ayurvedic? Excuse me if I seem a little low energy tonight today. Whatever it is, I slept with my head to the north last night. Oh man, oh man. You know how that is right. Kids Walk up right in the middle of pita and couldn't get back to sleep till butter roll around. But it didn't freak out. I use the time to eat a large meal and connect with someone special on tinder. If doesn't happen to you, it happens for you. How do I know this? I don't, but I'm making sound, and that's the important thing. That's what I'm here to do. Sometimes, I think that's one of the only things that are important Just letting each other know we are here, reminding each other that we're part of a larger self.
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I used to think Jim Carrey is all that. I was Just a flickering light, a dancing shadow, the great nothing masquerading as something you can name, dwelling in forts and castles made of witches, wish sorry, freudian, asleep there, seeking shelter in caves and foxholes, dug out as Astley Narcher searching for his target mirror, begging to be enslaved, bleeding for my chains, planted by longing and tripping over paradise. Can I get an oven? You didn't think I could be serious, did you? I don't think you understand who you're dealing with. I have no limits. I cannot be contained because I'm the container. You can't contain the container man, you can't contain the container.
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I used to believe that who I was, and, at the age of my skin, that I had been given this little Vehicle called the body from which to experience creation, and so I couldn't have asked for a Sportier model. It was, after all, a learner and would have to be returned. Then I learned that everything outside the vehicle was a part of me too, and now I drive a Convertible top-down with wind in my air. I'm elated and truly, truly, truly excited to be present and fully connect to you at this important moment in your journey. I hope you are ready to open the roof and take it all in. How the doesn't react Okay, four more. The four more years then, and then there is the love. I Want to thank the trust as administrators and faculty of Mom for creating an institution worthy of my issues, ideas of education, a place that teaches the knowledge and experience Necessarily to be productive in life, as well as enabling the students, through Transcendental meditation and ancient Vedic knowledge, to slug off twice a day for an hour and half.
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I don't think you're fooling me, but I guess it has some benefits. It does allow you to separate who you truly are and what's what's real from the stories that run through your head. You have given them the ability to walk behind the mind's elaborate set decoration and to see that there is a huge difference Between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that is going to eat you. That may sounds like a big deal, but many never learned the distinction and spend a great deal of their lives living in fight of light Response. Here's start on ready, you know so. So, guys, at the start it was just joking and Making jokes simply to make comfortable the people. Then he, he started to Indirectly and softly go inside the brain of the people, right and Still in his comfort zone, still in his way to make chocolate. But here he made already a Big distinction. So he'd say there is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and An actual dog that's going to eat you. That may sound like no big deal, but many never learned the distinction and spend a great deal of their lives living in fight or flight response. So what he's tried to say here even if evidently it was some love is that we, most of the times we strongly in our life, we struggle. Think about what, what I do, what about what I should do. You know about what I'm doing right now and what I think it should be good for my path. So this is great, this is great distinction. It's still so beautiful that in this speech he tried to joke about it, but it was actually going very into.
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I like to acknowledge all you wonderful parents. Way to go for the fantastic job you've done, for your tireless dedication, your love, your support and, most of all, for the attention you've paid to your children. I say, beware the unloved because they will eventually hurt themselves or me. But when I look at this group here today I feel really safe. I do, I'm just going to say it. My room is not locked. My room is not locked.
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No doubt some of you will turn out to be crooks, but white collar stuff, wall Street, yana, the type of thing, crimes committed by people with self-esteem, stuff apparently can still be proud of in a weird way. Also, here he mentioned the family. The family, the parents of the people who are supporting their children, maybe too much. So words, phrases like I have a say, beware the unloved because they will eventually hurt themselves and phrases like stuff apparently can still be proud of in a weird way. You know so these phrases are so important, are so there is so much meaning behind, right? How much a father or a mother can be proud of us in a weird way. But you know it's maybe it's not what the child wants. You know, maybe he wants something else. And just another small note he was very smart because he didn't say this directly, so he didn't offend no one, and but how can I say he says something about two people who were very sensitive about what he was saying, but maybe some of them for sure most of the parents didn't catch what he meant. That's how I'm reading. Maybe one day Gingari is gonna call me or text me, is gonna say no man, listen, it was just like a joke or something, or maybe no.
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So, and to the graduating class of 2017, minus three, you didn't let me finish. Congratulations. Yes, give yourself a round of applause, please. You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness and you wave an evasioción of possibilities. On the other side of that door, there is a word starving for new, for new, for new, for new, for new, for new leadership, new ideas. I've been out there for 30 years. She's a wild cat. Oh, she'll rub up against your leg and pour until you pick her up and start petting her and, out of nowhere, she'll swat you in the face. Sure, it's rough sometimes, but that's okay, cause they got soft. Serve ice cream with sprinkles. I guess that's what I'm really here to say. Sometimes it's okay to eat your feelings.
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Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about your pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decision we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear. Let's analyze this sentence. Fear is going to be a player in your life. You know. Fear, failure and all these thoughtful and weird situation that can catch our brain, sometimes right, and our spirit can have a big play in our life. But then you say you have to decide how much. So you have to decide how much fear you can have in your life. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts. So you know, you can just think about, you can just think about your dreams, and dreams that you will never achieve because you have too much fear to go through, worrying about your pathway to the future. But all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.
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Guys, this phrase is so powerful. So the fact that we are here, the fact that we are here in this moment, right, is based in either love or fear. Okay, love of. For me it's still related to the parents yeah, to the parents, and more. There is so much more here, so which are based in either love so it can be love to the parents or fear to the parents, but can also be love of yourself and fear of yourself. You know, maybe in all your life you have been so much good in school, let's say in math, and but at the same time you have another passion. Okay, but you love so much about what you do, but at the same time you have a fear about the fact that if you leave watch are comfortable right now, maybe you are gonna choose something that perhaps is gonna make you happy, but hey, you are good in math, you know, and maybe it's where you supposed to be. So much meaning here. And it doesn't say directly it's all behind, it's so intimate, you know, it's so nice.
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So many of us choose our path out of fear. Discussed as practicality, what we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it. Exactly. I'm saying I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it, please, and if it doesn't happen for you right away, it's only because the universe so busy fulfilling my order it's party sites.
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My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant, and when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive, and here is where we are based in either love or fear. So the father loved to in this case, the father loved to, maybe to be a comedian, right, but he had fear to go through and realize his dream, so he decided for something else. I learned many great lessons from my father not the list of which was that you can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. That's not the only thing he taught me, though.
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I watched the effect my father's love and humor had on the world around me, and I thought that's something to do, that's something worth my time. Also, this that's something to do, that's something worth my time, and you always have to find something that awards your time. You know, it's too much easy to say, yeah, I want to become an actor because I can make money from it. Yeah, maybe this kind of thought can lead you for a while, but after a while, I mean, you need to do something that makes you happy, and only in this way you can make your time worth. Otherwise, let's say that you decide something only to make money. Then you don't realize that achievement, that goal, that you give up. Then you have the feeling that all the time you spend wasn't worth. You know what I mean. If you actually do something, that you like it, it doesn't matter when you achieve the goal. I don't want to say if you achieve it, yes or not, all right, let's say that you give up. Of course you don't achieve it, but the point is that the time was worth.
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Okay, it wasn't long before I started acting up. People would come over to my house and they would be created by a seven-year-old throwing himself down a large flight of stairs. They would say what happened and I would say I don't know, let's check the replay. And I would go back to the top of the stairs and come back down in slow motion Jim Rennox coming down the stairs in slow motion. It was a very strange household. My father used to brag that I wasn't him, I was the world peak and he treated my talent as if it was his second chance.
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When I was about 28, after a decade as a professional comedian, I realized one night in LA the purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern, like my dad. When I realized this, I adopted my new devotion, the Church of Freedom from Concern, the Church of Fee, ffc, and that dedicated myself to that ministry. What's yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That's all you have to figure out. As someone who has done what you're about to go do, I can tell you from my experience. The fact you have on others is the most valuable corrents there is, because what really important in this world is how much value you can give to the person in front of you. If you give value enough, then you spend your time in a valuable way, seeing you getting life with rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
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My choosing to free people from concern got me to the top of a mountain. Look where I am, look what I get to do everywhere I go, and I'm going to get emotional because when I tap into this. It really is extraordinary to me. That is something that makes people present their best selves to me. Whatever I go, I am at the top of the mountain. The only one I hadn't freed was myself, and that's when my search for identity deepened.
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I wonder who I'd be without my fame. Who would I be if I say things that people didn't want to hear, or if I defeat their expectations of me? What if I showed up to the party without my Mardi Gras mask and I refused to flesh my precious for a handful of pits? I'll give you a moment to wipe that mage out of your mind. But you guys are way ahead of the game. You already know who you are and that peace, that peace that we're after, lies somewhere behind the personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention, discourse, even beyond effort itself. You can enjoy the game, fight the wars, play with form of all you want, but finally you are peace. You have to let the armor fall. You need to accept and can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through. This form Risk being seen in all of your glory. A sheet drops and the Rebels Jim's painting, applause. And then he say the painting is not big enough. This painting is big for a reason.
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This painting is called High Visibility it's about picking up the light, of daring to be seen. Here's the trick part everyone is attracted to the light. The party the party host up in the corner refers to the painting who thinks in caution as this bliss and is always offering a drink from the bottle that empty you. Misery below her, who despises the light, can stand the way you are doing well and wishes you nothing but the worst. The Queen of Diamonds who needs a king to build her house of cards. And the all low one who clings to your legs and backs. Please don't leave me behind, for I have abandoned myself. Even those who are closest to you and most love with you, the people you love most in the world, can find clarity confronting at times. This painting took me thousands of hours to complete and thank you because people are plowed in him. Yes, thousands of hours, I'll never get back. I'll never get them back.
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I worked on this for so long, for weeks and weeks, like mad men alone in a scoffalding, and when I was finished, one of my friends say this would be a cool black light painting. So I started over. All the lights go off in the dome and the painting is showered with black light. Whoa, welcome to Burning man. Applauses some pretty crazy characters right. Better up there than in here. Points to head.
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Painting is one of the ways I free myself from concern, a way to stop the world through total mental, spiritual and physical involvement. But even if with that comes a feeling of divine dissatisfaction, because ultimately, we're not the avatars we create, we're not the pictures on the film stock, we're the light that shines through it. All else is just mock and mirrors, distracting but not truly compelling. I have often say that I wish people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame, so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out in the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize there is nothing bigger than myself. People here are laughing guys, but he said something beautiful he said like many of you, I was concerned about going out in the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. So the point here is that there is nothing bigger than ourselves. You know, if someone make you realize this is so smart, if someone make you realize this, someone is smarter than he's self, but at the same time he make realize to Jim that there's nothing bigger than he's self. So it means that generally there is nothing bigger than ourself, and that's the reason why you have to go through.
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Maybe sometimes we feel too much small, you know, to the world, to the people around us, but we have so much value. We have just to show to ourselves that we have this value and we have to believe it. We have it and show to the people around us in a way that we can impact their life in the best way possible through our skills and and our way to you know, to lead them for something that maybe you know can be, can be, can be interesting. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul, one anific field of not indensing for no particular reason except maybe to comfort and entertain itself. As that shift happens in you, you won't be feeling the word, you'll be felt by it. You will be embraced by it. Now, I'm always at the beginning. I have a reset button called presence and a righted button. Constantly. Once the button is a function in your life, there is no story the mind could create that will be as compelling. The imagination is always manufacturing scenarios, both good and bad.
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The ego tries to keep you trapped in the multiples of the mind. Our eyes are not only viewers, but also projectors that are running a second story over the picture we see in front of us. All the time, fear is writing the script and the work in Tato is I'll never be enough. You look at a person like me and say how could we ever hope to reach those kinds of heights, jim? How can I make a painting that's too big for any reasonable home? How do you fly so high without a special breathing apparatus? This is the voice of your ego. If you listen to it, there will always be someone who seems to be doing better than you. No matter what you gain, ego will not let you rest. It will tell you that you cannot stop until you left an indelible mark on the heart, until you have achieved immortality. How tricky is the ego that it would tempt us with the promise of something we already possess. So I just want you to relax. That's my job relax and dream up a good life.
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I had a substitute teacher from Ireland in the second grade that told my class during the morning prayer that when she wants something anything at all she prays for it and promises something in return, and she always gets it. I'm sitting at the back of the classroom thinking that my family can't afford the bike, so I went home and prayed for one and promised I would rest the Rosary every night in exchange. Broke it broke the promise. Two weeks later I got home from school to find a brand new Mustang bike with a banana seat and an easy rider handlebars From full to cool. My family informed me that I had won the bike in a raffle that a friend of mine had entered my name in without my knowledge.
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The type of thing that has been happening ever since and, as far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and working toward it, while letting go of how it might come to pass. Of course, love attraction. Your job is not to figure out how it's going to happen for you, but to open the door in your head. And when the doors open in real life, just walk through it. Don't worry. If you miss your cue, there will always be another door opening. That keeps opening.
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That's truly the low attraction philosophy. So the low attraction says to believe and to be open. It doesn't say to you struggle to search the signals I believe there are signals around us that we have to catch still. But the low attraction doesn't say to you like, struggle to search a way to work for a home because that's what you want. No, it says to you believe it, believe that you can do, believe that you can have. I'm just making an example. Believe that you can make 3,000 euro per month. Write it, write it and say as mantra every day believe it and we will come, maybe via signals, maybe via apparently via mistake, like happened to Jim with the bike.
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And when I say he said life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you. I really don't know if that's true. I'm just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way. You'll come up with your own style. That's part of the fun.
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Oh, and why not take a chance of faith as well? Take a chance on faith. No religion but faith. Not hope but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it. You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world and after you walk through those doors today, you will only ever have two choices Love or fear.
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Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart. Thank you, je guru d'ave. I'm so honored. Thank you Beautiful. So the distinction between love and fear, right, maybe you know.
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When I was reading the first part, that is said I'm going to look for you guys. So you know what I mean. Yeah, when you say it, but all there. I would like to understand better here, but all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear. Okay, who knows, maybe the example of the mathematician wasn't good, because then I read all the story, so that what he meant is that simply try to do what you love. Do what you love, all right, because if you don't do what you love, then it means then you, you know the fear Was around you to to stop that love. I tell you something now I liked to To be a singer.
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I like to be a singer. Like to be a singer that was mom in my life. I like to be an actor and I don't know. I really want to go through, but I Don't know. I was, I had fear, fear, I don't know. Maybe because I wasn't good enough, maybe it wasn't no event that, let's say that may was my environment. You know, my environment Catch me, not in a very, very Positive way for my Journey at that time, because right now I am happy where I am. But you know, if I think about that time, you know there was the fear around me that was looking me at the end he catch me. Maybe the fear to disappoint my family, maybe the fear that was Was a dream Of a child. But I mean, even if it was a dream of my, of a child, it was my dream. It is my dream Because, let's be honest, I can still Be. I can still become a singer if I want. I can still become an actor if I want. You know what I mean.
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There is always time. You are alive, you are here. You are here. You are alive and you can achieve so many good things in your life. You can dream and you can achieve it. It's never late.
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It is something that my fiancee taught me a couple of years ago, two, three years ago. When I used to say to her, yeah, well, you know, like I could, I could be, she said no, you always have time. You always have time 20, 30, 40, 50. It's just a number. You can achieve whatever you want. You can start tomorrow to do Still talking about the acting and the Sing way you can start tomorrow, or I can start tomorrow to do some, you know, some acting class.
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If I really want that, if I know that it's it's, it's worth my time, why not? You know, I'm doing this for you, this podcast, and for us, for me, for everyone, because I want the people understand that If you love something, you have to go through, you have to realize your dream, and what Jim Carrey said here it's totally right. Like there are two options here Love. So I choose something because you are loving it, but if you don't do Exactly the moment that you don't do, it's because you are. You have a fear from it that you cannot do for so many reasons. You know why you are here. You are here, you love something and and remember that failure it's part of the process, and remember how to Stand up when you fell in a very proud way. Go through, go on and you can achieve Everything. We can achieve everything. Hmm, and guys, that's it. Thank you so much for being here in the Fabio podcast journey to success and see you next time. Cheers you.