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#112 - The Incredible Power of Human Will: Jeremy Renner's Journey · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  So, did you know that your human will is a lot stronger than you might at this time understand?
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  Today, we are going to take a look at Jeremy Renner and the story and the recovery
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  that he has gone through after being run over by a snowplow over two years ago.
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  He was on the Joe Rogan podcast the other day and just broke down his whole
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  story and what happened and everything that was involved.
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  And it was at times very tough to listen to for me.
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  Just the things that he experienced was in his recovery is nothing more than
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  I would say than miraculous.
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  My name is Brandon Fogel. This is Evolution. Let's dive into this.
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  So on New Year's Day, 2023, Jeremy Renner was severely injured when a piston
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  bully snowplow he was operating ran over him while he was trying to rescue his nephew.
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  Renner broke over 30 bones and suffered other life-threatening injuries.
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  He has since shared details of the accident and his recovery in his memoir, My Next Breath.
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  So he went on Joe Rogan's podcast and they, I had not seen him for a while.
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  I remember seeing the post of when this happened, when he, that right after
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  it happened to him in the, in the hospital room and pictures taken.
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  And, and when somebody is not in front of you, you tend to like,
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  you know, you don't see him.
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  You only see him when you're, when you go see their movies and everything,
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  but to have him come back and he, he looks like he never experienced anything.
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  It looks like he never went through what he actually went through. It it's incredible.
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  And it gets into some very gory details when he's talking to Joe and just telling
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  him about everything that happened.
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  And Joe starts it off with, man, I'm reading through your book and man,
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  it's given me such anxiety.
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  But Jeremy says, but the relief on the anxiety is I'm standing before you right here.
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  I'm here now, you know, so you know the outcome is good.
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  And I haven't listened to the entire podcast, but so far he attributes a lot
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  of it to his, the human will.
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  And he does say that it was miraculous. And it just goes to show that you do
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  not know the power that you have in determining where you want to go and what you want to get done.
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  You have such just strong potential in you.
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  Everyone does. And it's whether you want to access it is what makes the difference
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  between one person as opposed to another person.
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  You know, there are things that people are just inherently born with,
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  but there are some things that you might have just locked away that you might
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  just need to somehow be aware that it's there and actually try to just pull it out.
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  And sometimes it takes going through something as incredible as what Jeremy
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  went through for him to see this.
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  And because, I mean, a lot of times you don't really want to go through terrible
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  things. We like to be comfortable.
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  We like when things are going good. We don't want adversity.
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  And in this clip we're going to look at, he talks about one of his biggest struggles
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  was getting off the medication that he had to have going through what he went through.
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  And then also he talks about cold plunging. You know, you got to put yourself
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  in tough things so that you come out stronger, you know?
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  We always want to find what is the easiest way. how can I skate through life?
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  How can I not put myself in terrible circumstances?
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  And maybe you don't naturally want to do that, but it's the only way that's
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  going to test your limits.
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  And then when something like this comes along, that is when you were like just
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  compelled and you're thrown into it.
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  But it at least shows you how much power you have inside you just by the sheer
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  will that you have. Everyone's got it.
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  Some more than others. And I would say it could be developed,
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  but it, it is locked inside of you.
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  I would say, are we going to take a look at this, this clip from Jeremy and
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  him just describing what he's come out of.
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  And then also that determination he had and getting off the drugs,
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  which was one of the toughest part for him.
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  Yeah. You know what I mean? Again, like I said, what's the alternative?
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  Yeah, this sucks, but Like, so does a cold plunge, and so does this,
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  and so does that, and so does that.
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  You've got to really test. We've got to test our bodies, our limits,
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  to really have real growth. And especially in recovery, you have to.
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  What else are you going to do, man? You're going to take pills? Right.
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  That was, again, one of the harder things, worse than the accident as well,
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  is getting off OxyContin.
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  And I got off pretty quickly. And like, that's gnarly stuff, man.
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  I'm glad it was there for, you know, the pain for me. But like,
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  I wanted to get off it as soon as possible. So, cause it's highly, highly addictive.
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  And coming off that stuff was gnarly. It's so hard.
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  And not everybody has to go through something like this, but this could happen
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  to anybody, you know, a traumatic event like this could happen to anybody.
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  And I would say, whatever you're going through right now, just know that you
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  have it in you to go out there and get it done.
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  I sometimes, because I fall into the trap myself where I'm always,
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  que sera, sera, what will be, will be. God is in control. Nothing.
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  I have really no power. And this is like the diametric opposite of what Joe Rogan considers it.
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  Because I've listened to Joe Rogan and he is not about letting things just happen,
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  but making things happen.
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  So in your own life, are you making things happen or are you letting life hit
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  you in the face? It's so easy.
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  It's so much easier said than done that I'm going to go out there and get it.
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  I'm going to go out there and hunt. I'm going to make my own way as opposed
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  to just floating through life because it's so simple, so easy to float through
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  life and just let whatever happens happens.
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  And I would say he, he touches on cold plunging.
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  I've got into a little bit of that, not necessarily the getting like actually
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  dunking myself, but doing cold showers.
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  And I would say that itself. And that's why I really, I want to go out there.
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  I would, I want to go out and actually jump in, you know, Lake Michigan and
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  all that, you know, when it's December, because people do that,
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  you know, it's in the same thing goes for working out, working out and cold plunging.
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  You're putting yourself, your body in just strenuous places because it makes
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  the rest of the day almost seem easy.
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  You almost got to fake your body, trick your body because you have something
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  in you that is greater than you, then you could even it's mind over matter.
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  Your mind is stronger than you even have any idea or understand.
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  And I think Jeremy going through this, because this has been a road,
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  a long road to recovery, because this happened over two years ago,
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  and just the things that he just went through, because everything was just crushed
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  under this whole snowplow, and it is gruesome at times what he talks about.
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  If you listen to the podcast, and I put a link there in the description,
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  but I would say what he has gone through has made him, I don't know if he would
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  wish to wish it to happen again, you know, wish it to have happened if he could
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  do it all over again, but it's definitely changed his life.
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  It's definitely shown him how strong he is, you know, and I almost want to get across to you.
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  Don't wait till something traumatic or devastating happens to understand that
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  you have it in you now to actually go out there and get whatever it is you want.
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  If you want to make it happen. Go out and make it happen. You have it in you.
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  And it's putting yourself over and over tough, tough situations,
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  whether that's working out, whether that's doing cold plunge,
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  because that like the what I have done of doing like cold showers, it definitely is tough.
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  It's very tough because it puts your body in a terrible it doesn't like it.
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  You don't naturally like it, but you feel so much better after you've done it.
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  And Joe Rogan, he talks about that as well, doing cold plunges.
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  Joe Rogan, there's so many things about him that are just incredible.
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  And it's awesome that he talks, he's always about working out,
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  just driving at his body and pushing his body to the limits because he knows
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  that he doesn't get a big head.
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  He purposely just beats his body down. And that goes into the.
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  Into biblical. You know, it's Paul the apostle talked about, I beat my body.
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  I buffet my body so that, you know, my body is not the master of me, but I'm the master of it.
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  You know, your will, what you have inside, that's really you.
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  You can say your body is you to an extent, but you're who you are inside your spirit and your soul.
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  That is really you. And it is mind over matter.
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  It is stronger than your body could ever be. So this, this example of what happened
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  to Jeremy, and I'm so glad he has recovered and it's still, it's not, it's not said and done.
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  Nobody has ever arrived. We have not arrived ever in this life. We never will.
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  And that's why it's such, it's so tough at sometimes because I'm always like,
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  I take things so for granted. I get what I'm chasing.
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  And then immediately when I get it, I've reached it.
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  I forget it the next day. I don't even care about that anymore.
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  And I fall into this sad, depressed state of, I want that now. I want that.
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  As opposed to being content with what you have, but also staying hungry.
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  So there's this balance, being content, but also being hungry.
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  There's so many times that I'm just demoralized because I don't have what I
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  want and I forget all the many blessings and things that I have been given already.
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  And whatever I'm chasing right now, I'm going to get to that point and I'm going
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  to be like, I'll have it and I'll just forget about it.
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  Instead of over and over being grateful, giving thanks to God for everything
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  he has given me, as opposed to telling my kids, be thankful, be thankful.
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  And then the next second I'm just complaining and just bitter over what I don't have.
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  It's so easy to complain. It's so easy to not be content.
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  And it's so easy to forget how much strength we have in ourselves and just let
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  the world just hit us in the face.
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  And we become just little thing, little tumbleweeds in this journey that we
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  have life as opposed to going out and making things happen.
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  We have to realize it's within us and then go out and just conquer the world,
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  conquer your day, whatever you're going into.
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  Because you've got power within you and you have no idea the power you have within you.
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  So go out and do it. This Jeremy Renner story, it's a reminder and I hope it's
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  been a blessing to everyone to see in action the mind over matter that this
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  man had and what he's gone through in his daily recovery that he's experienced.
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  So I'll leave that with you. If you like this video, make sure you smash that
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  like button and subscribe to this channel.
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  My name is Brandon Fogel. I do this every day, 7 a.m.
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  Central Time. So have a great day, everyone.