Nuvusan "Podcast"

Hey, what's going on? It's the Noom Vasan podcast and I just want to say welcome back everyone. Thank you for tuning in again to my podcast. I am glad to be back.
I know it's been a couple of weeks, but that's because of my midterms. So, I am glad to upload this episode this week. Hopefully I'll do it again next week.
Oh, and no original music in the intro today or outro, just a clean podcast. We'll see how long this goes for, but today I just wanted to bring up a singular topic, which is resilience. I just want to talk about how it's everywhere.
I want to talk about how it's in the kind of core values we bring everywhere. We tend to believe in it more if you're a writer or an artist or someone who's a thinker. I definitely know because when I talk about resilience, those who thought on it more than those who have, it shows.
Or if you're like a historian, someone who knows history, then you know that different type of people, depending their culture and their background, will have more resilience than others. And that's kind of like what I want to talk about today, is how some people have more of a resilient character than others. Some who won't get let down by a little thing, but will keep going.
A little setback, I mean. They all keep going compared to others who maybe give up for a little inconvenience or gets distracted from the main objective. That's what I want to talk about today.
I know that here in Canada and all the way down south to Chile, from the north to the south, I know that there's so many people. There's billions of people here in the Western Hemisphere. I know everyone's different, but the places where we can relate to most is our backgrounds and our families.
You look at your father, where he's from, and you look at your mother and where she's from. And maybe you're born here. Maybe they're born here.
Maybe they're native to the land here. Or maybe they immigrated, like almost everyone here, from the eastern part of the world. So maybe your history goes back further.
And there is resilience there, for sure, in the eastern part of the world. So the more you look back, the more you'll realize that you're not... If you don't think that you're resilient now, you should look back at who you are. It could be like a blessing in disguise.
If you're trying to figure things out for yourself, if you just need to take that further step, if it's like an obstacle and you just want to understand something about yourself more, then look at your history. Or if your father or mother are around, ask where they're from. But people change.
For example, let's say your grandparents aren't. Your grandmother and grandfather aren't resilient. Maybe they're, like, obedient or something.
But then your parents aren't. They're hard workers. Maybe they've worked harder than their grandparents.
Maybe they've interacted with more people and they're more accustomed to today's society. They'll be more resilient, and it will show. And it will show into their lives, into your life.
So it will show how you deal with society. And that's why you might not be the same as your grandparents or something. Or maybe it's completely the opposite.
It's your grandparents who are the most resilient, and your parents are. And now you feel lost because they're constantly bothering you about everything because they're not living up to their standards. But that's what keeps confronting us.
And it's boundaries, and it's everything. I hope people can relate to being the resilient one and maybe not being so resilient. I'm happy if people are both, because we need boundaries in life.
Imagine if everyone was the same. There wouldn't be a lot of the entertainment and the very specific qualities of life that make things so different and things stand out. Or things that are okay to be left in the background.
You know what I'm saying? For example, my art and my music. I tend to like being left in the background, not to stand out too much. Because the more I stay on the floor, instead of climbing the grandest staircase to the top, I just think of it as I don't have to fall down as hard as the people who climb to the very top.
I stay at the floor, and I'm happy, and I don't have to focus on external. I focus on internal. Which is probably why I brought up this topic in the first place, because one of my examples in my life is my grandparents are resilient, for sure.
My mother's and father's side. And my parents are resilient, for sure. But I'm not really lost.
We are all lost to a point in our teenage years, but we move on. Typically when we're 18, or 17, or 16, or 15. We just move on, and we understand where we are in this world.
So I know where I am. I know where I stand. I know who I am, and I know where I want to go.
I have goals. That's what you can call them. That's what you can do, if you ever feel lost.
Because I know people are different. I know people... And it's okay to start later, if you feel lost. Start later to find yourself, if you feel lost.
Because it's... You know, it's harder on everyone. To be resilient, maybe you focus on money and stability, and then you find yourself later, when you're in your 30s. That's fine.
That's what a lot of people I know do. Or maybe you find yourself first. You set goals.
You live a happy life. In the meantime, after you've completed those goals, because you set yourself out there. For example, you want to do murals.
Downtown LA to Chicago, everywhere. You want to do all those kind of things. You want to live that on-the-road life, being a muralist, a painter, who paints walls of complexes, or just buildings, whatever.
You set goals, and you have the money to do it, and you maintain the money to keep doing it. You live a pretty good, joyful life that way, if those are your goals, and you just set the goals out for yourself. In a way, I'm on the same path.
I've maintained a quality of character and mind, and staying nice helps. Being friendly helps. And it's all in what you do in 24 hours of your day.
Someone said that. The Student Association of my Algonquin college was one of the first people I've heard say it out loud to a crowd of people when I was there reporting and covering her event at the Student Leadership Association conference meeting. She said, it's what you do in your 24 hours, because time goes by pretty fucking fast.
That's what she said. I just wanted to bring up three practical takeaways on how to build resilience. I want to talk about how accepting the unpredictability of life and channeling struggles into creativity and finding community and shared experiences.
It's all similar to what I was talking about. It's what your groove is, what your history is. You're from India, they get into those Indian communities, know how to cook family recipes that tie all the way back to your origin.
You're from Nigeria, same thing. You're from Kenya, same thing. You're from Ireland, same thing.
Learn the qualities of people. Learn how to dance the way that your culture dances. You're from Japan, same thing.
Learn the math and science and geography, all of those things. Learn all of the important qualities. You'll find that you'll love yourself more because you've accepted who you are, where you come from, and now all you need to do is think about how you're going to survive in this day-to-day society.
That's where channeling struggles into creativity steps in. Once you've figured out who you are and where you come from, you stop asking who you are anymore. Once you learn the science behind it all, now you just find ways to cope because maybe there was a genocide in your recent history or slavery, wars, everything.
There's always a history in every country and there's always a struggle in every race in the world. There's always a struggle and there's always different ways to cope with it. Positively, not negatively like drugs and alcohol.
Positively, I mean in family support or delving into creative endeavors. There's also the thought and the control of the unpredictability of life. That's the biggest step, I think, is death because the unpredictability of life is just death.
You can't control it. It's a demise. You can look at it like it's at the end of the tunnel, like you got tunnel vision or something.
You can only look at it. Before you get there, you have to just accept it or rebel against it or overcome it or love it. Love it, I mean in family.
Raise a family, get old, look out for yourself and those you love. What did I say? Overcome it? Overcome it in professionalism. What are you going to do? Do something groundbreaking in society, you know? Being a scientist, a doctor, you know? In religions, they have saints and all that.
Those people apparently did groundbreaking shit. So that's what I'm talking about by overcoming life itself. And rebel against it means similar to overcoming it because you are relevant to those who have a hard time accepting it or finding their path.
So in a way, it's what I'm doing. And if you listen to my other episodes, I don't usually follow the same tempo as podcasters and I don't have the same rhythm as musicians. It's all whatever I want because I'm rebelling against it.
It's my way of staying relevant and helping those who need help, finding comfort in just being themselves. I wish I could be myself more online and in presence, but I can't because society has limitations and rules. I'm not saying dressing up like a clown works.
I'm not saying changing my name every day or just becoming unrecognizable. I'm just saying being creative means whatever you want it to mean without breaking and burning bridges. And there's also the last one, which is accepting.
I find accepting it means... What does it mean? Maybe you don't do anything. You just work. You just ignore it.
Ignorance is bliss for those people, I think. All right. When you stop resisting the chaos and start working with it, you find a new kind of strength.
When you stop resisting the chaos and start working with it, you find a new kind of strength. Yeah. I think so.
Like I said, you can fall in love with the chaos. Work and rebel against it, you know? It's all love in the end of the day. Just don't tire yourself out, you know? It's a big... You know what a rabbit hole is? It's like a big, you know, an iceberg.
It looks short on the top but long on the bottom. It's just like this big pill to swallow. And you got to just make it look sexy.
That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm trying to say here. You just got to make it look sexy, you know that? Kechak Lamar song element.
I just try to make it look sexy. You just got to make your life look sexy to yourself. You just got to do it how you feel it, how you express it.
You just got to do it. And you got to look sexy. You got to feel sexy.
You got to feel confident. But you don't have to stand out like a... I don't know. I was going to say a cheap hooker.
You got to just like... blend in, know it works for you, understand the vibe you give off. And if you fuck up a lot, tell others like, Hey, I'm sorry. I forget names a lot.
Or I don't know how to... Without it being like you're complaining. You just kind of say, Yeah, I'm not really that good at this. It's about knowing the deepest parts of you.
And learning from them. Or never doing them again. It's like you're a guitar player.
You just got to get in with the licks. Like you're a jazz guitarist. Nice flow.
That's all you got to do. It's not time to go fast. It's not a rush song.
It's a slow paced song. That's what I'm saying. Resilience isn't about being unbreakable.
It's about how you were built. Whether it's through art, connections, or sheer determination. It's what allows us to keep moving forward despite the odds.
I hope this episode inspires you to see challenges not as obstacles, but as opportunities for growth. Thank you very much. And have a good day.
That was the New Asylum Podcast. And I hope everyone has a good day.