Motivation And Inspiration Aren’t Drugs Or Porn

I was just watching this video on YouTube by the channel, Absolute Motivation. It’s a video featuring Jim Carrey.

Sounds super clichéd right?

A channel that aims to motivate people.

A video featuring a celebrity.

All of it constructed to push you to do make shit happen for your life.

However, this video is a little different.

If you noticed of late, the advice by Jim Carrey has been rather weird. Google him and you’ll know. It’s controversial, to say the least.

In a pinned message in the comments section of the video, the channel owner wrote this:

“Motivation is essential in life but motivation on its own kind of becomes like a drug or like going on a porn site to get an emotion rush and then going on about your day. This is the reason I try my best to focus on putting a mixture of philosophical content within the motivational stuff. It is all about balance.

I myself don’t agree with everything Jim Carrey says or even does. And that’s okay, we don’t need to idolise him to see that some of the stuff he says has objective value. Try to keep an open mind. There is so much in this world that we don’t know and that not even science can answer or religion so, instead…