Joe Rogan Gives Brutally Honest Answer on His MMA Journey as He Shares a Secret About His Techniques: “Nothing I Do Is Original”

Joe Rogan has several reputed credentials, including that of a highly skilled martial artist. The longtime UFC commentator holds black belts in two different martial arts disciplines. In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, he explained in detail the mentality that helped him grow and achieve success in martial arts. In episode #1905 of JRE, Rogan hosted the popular fitness personality Derek from the YouTube channel, ‘More Plates More Dates.’

During their conversation, the world’s leading podcast host went deep into the mindset during his early martial arts days. He also spotted how it was different from the mindset people had in Hollywood.

Joe Rogan explains his martial arts mentality

While talking to Derek, Rogan reminisced about the learner’s mindset he had back in his days of training martial arts. The 55-year-old stressed the importance of having elite training partners. He said you elevate yourself by trying to hold up to their standards and techniques. The BJJ black belt also mentioned the “iron sharpens iron” mentality.

The former Fear Factor host explained how, in his younger days, they valued people who were highly skilled. He said nobody pretended to not give them credit and acknowledged people who were the best at what they did and learned by imitating them or asking them.

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Speaking of his own martial arts journey, he said, “Like, most of my martial arts techniques that I learned, all of them I learned from other people. I never learned anything on my own; never figured it anything on my own. Nothing I do is original. Everything that I learned how to do, somebody had to teach me how to do it. So I needed someone who was really good at something, that could show me how to do it.”

The stand-up comic also observed how that was vastly different from the mindset in the world of comedy.

Rogan on the mentality in the world of comedy

After explaining the mentality in the martial arts world, Rogan told Derek how it was starkly in contrast to that in the world of comedy. According to Rogan, it was shocking to him that people denied other people’s value and questioned their success. However, Rogan said he maintained his martial arts mentality in the world of comedy as well.

“I wanted to compliment them. I’m like ‘dude, how you do that is amazing. Like, what? do you consciously do that? Like, how do you write?’ I wanted to treat it like I’m supportive. And in the weird world of television and comedy, it was the scarcity in a famine mentality.”

Rogan attributed the hostile mentality to the limited number of jobs in Hollywood. He mentioned that your friends from the same field might end up being your competition or barriers on the road to success.

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What do you make of Rogan’s martial arts mentality? Do you think he was right to maintain the same in an ultra-competitive field like Hollywood? Share your thoughts in the comments below.