“Deteriorating Vessels of Flesh”- Practicing Martial Arts at 56, Joe Rogan Proudly Endorses His Passion While Disclosing His Motivation to Follow MMA

Joe Rogan has been doing what he loved most for ages. It started when he first became a part of the UFC in 1997. So those were the days when just about nobody knew about it. With years of experience and understanding of the art of the fight, now Rogan has a multi-million dollar podcast.

On The Joe Rogan Experience, the host recently opened up about how he feels about passion and doing what you want to. He clearly has pursued a way of life that suited him best. Even at this stage, the podcaster only invites guests that interest him the most. In the latest episode, he told his guest Jimmy Carr about his mindset.

Joe Rogan on pursuing his interests

Rogan and Carr started speaking about mastering a skill. There’s a popular conception that spending your time with a certain skill and spending 10,000 hours doing it can help you achieve mastery. While the two agreed that that can’t be entirely true, Rogan pointed out how doing something for that amount of time can make you a professional. He then dove into how he ditched every other pursuit because mixed martial arts was the one for him.

“When I got into martial arts, then I realized, like oh I’m not lazy. I’m just not interested in those other things,” started Rogan. “I was also not around people that were following their passions,” Rogan continued later. “. . . we lived in a blue collar community and it was surrounded by a white collar community . . . But I looked at them as like these deteriorating vessels of flesh that were barely getting by in the world and I didn’t want to do what they were doing.”

Rogan cited how he found martial arts changed his worldview. He noted that seeing people do something that they loved, and teaching it while watching them thrive took his mind by storm. It was then that he decided that that was his “path”. And it looks like knowing what he loved did him great wonders in the greater scheme of things.

Today, Rogan’s MMA experience has him thriving just like the people he saw back in the day. More importantly, he has been able to overcome the social situation he grew up in. Carr pointed out how finding what you love can be an incredibly lucky thing if it happens in time. And it looks like everyone’s favorite host just got a bit lucky.

Rogan found his path and now helps others push theirs

Jimmy Carr is a famous comedian. Joe Rogan himself tried stand-up for quite a while and now owns a comedy club in Texas. The podcaster mentioned how MMA was his true calling. He is a trained fighter and has also competed at various levels of BJJ.

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“My path was competition and teaching,” said Rogan. And it made sense to Carr because even Rogan’s career in comedy has opened him up to other comedians. His comedy club “lowered a rope” for other comedians to come up and do their thing. In this way, Rogan has set an example in multiple disciplines all while doing what he loved.

A fortune not many can ask for. Or is it so? Share your thoughts down below!

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