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You know they say, pride comes before the fall.
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But that doesn't mean it has to be that way.
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Wouldn't it be better to humble yourself
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than have the world humble you instead?
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Honestly, regardless of which you choose,
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being prideful can only get you so far in life.
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And that's why today we're looking at a character
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who arguably has one of the best character development
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in present anime.
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And if you haven't guessed already,
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then yes, I'm talking about
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the crown prince of sans, Vegeta.
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Hey, what's going on guys?
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My name is Nate and you're listening
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to the Otaku Liberation,
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a show where we help you break free from the chains
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that are holding you back in your life
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by connecting some biblical principles
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with themes from your favorite anime.
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And without further ado, let's get into it.
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So Vegeta, the crown prince of sans,
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or he so likes to remind all of us, right?
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Vegeta is an interesting character for me, right?
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And when I was preparing for this episode,
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and of course I just did Barra's episode not too long ago,
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and they are very similar,
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but they have different aspects on them
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that make them unique.
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And Vegeta, and to really understand Vegeta,
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you gotta understand the background of the sans in general.
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And so let me kind of walk you through that.
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So again, the sans are an alien race of warriors
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who all they do is conquer and pillage
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and just take over worlds
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and for whoever is over the sans at the time, right?
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And in this case it's Frieza,
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who's one of the main villains of the Dragon Ball universe.
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And the sans are a very proud race inherently,
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but even more so the royal family,
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because they have a monarchy.
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And Vegeta is actually, I believe, the sixth, fifth or sixth,
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I can't exactly remember,
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but Vegeta is the family name more or less.
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Every king is named Vegeta.
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And during the time that,
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around the time when Frieza eradicated all the sans,
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Vegeta was just a prince, he was just a child at that point.
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But again, his mind, he has already been growing up
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and raised as he's the prince, he's the best of the best.
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And unless you're royalty, you're just beneath him, right?
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You just, you literally mean nothing to him
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like some of the feces you may find in the street.
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And I mean, that's just Vegeta, he's very cocky, arrogant.
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So, you know, self-assured and all these things,
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which again, in and of itself isn't really a bad thing.
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But when you take it to such extreme level,
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then it becomes something completely different.
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So again, so that's how he was raised.
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He's the prince, he already boasts a higher power level
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than majority of people that he comes in contact with.
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So that already, that filled up his inflated ego even more.
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And again, kind of this whole thing,
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you say, again, pride comes before the fall, right?
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So it's the same form, the pride, fall,
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and then the redemption.
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And Vegeta's pride, again, is dealing with the fact
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that he's a prince and that he believes,
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and the fact that he is a prince,
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that he has a natural talent,
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that he's already more powerful
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than some of the other characters he's on screen with.
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And he just sees others as being beneath him.
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And on top of that, he's extremely cruel,
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arrogant, and vengeful.
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And there's a couple of times where his own subordinates,
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he treats them with the same disdain
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that he does his adversaries.
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Like the people he's going against,
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he's treating his subordinates sometimes worse than them.
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Case point, Nappa, after Nappa lost to Goku
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and proves that his usefulness was no longer needed,
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Vegeta killed Nappa himself,
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just because he thought that little of the man
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that if he can beat this quote unquote insect,
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talking about Goku,
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then he didn't deserve to be in his presence anyway.
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And I want you to keep that in mind,
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because when we go further along,
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Vegeta's story is interesting to see
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that whole mindset shift.
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And again, it just kind of really made me think,
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how many times have we all been there before
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where even if we're not a prideful person,
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intentionally, like we're,
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if it's just not our personality all the time,
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I can argue that we've all had these type of moments
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at some point in our life.
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And it typically happens more when we're younger,
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like when we're kids and we're still learning,
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how not to be that way.
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But I would say, how many times have you found yourself
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being a little more cocky than you should have been?
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Your ego's a little more boosted than normally
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as you're feeling yourself,
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and it's coming across as being arrogant.
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When you get a compliment,
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do you just feel like you're on top of the world?
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And by you being on top of the world,
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no one else really matters anymore?
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Do you start putting other people down
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so you feel on top of the world?
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Honestly, ask yourself that.
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Is it something that you,
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that you get enjoyment out of
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to be able to put other people down
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so you feel the need to be superior?
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Because in all honesty, that isn't really confidence,
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it's actually insecurity.
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I know, it's a big shock, right?
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And the reason it's insecure is it's insecurity,
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is because most insecure people,
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they A, I was to put other people down
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so that way you're too busy looking at
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whoever they just put down and not looking at them
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and what they have going on
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and what they're trying to hide and mask.
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And they want other people to feel like how they're feeling
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and because they have that kind of power over somebody else
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to make them feel less than
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and that empowers them in a kind of twisted way.
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And again, I'm not saying that they're bad people
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because we've all had those moments before.
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Again, intentionally or not, sometimes it just happens.
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We're all human, we all make mistakes,
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we all let our emotions get the best of us at times.
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But the important thing is to not stay there,
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to not be like that all the time
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because again, you'll just wake up one day
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and find yourself all alone.
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And I really, really don't want that
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to be the case for anybody, if they can help in all honesty,
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because it doesn't need to go there, right?
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It doesn't need to go there.
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And, but the saving grace is you will be humbled, right?
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Regardless if you decide to do it yourself,
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you take stock of yourself and really reflect
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or if the world slash God,
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if he decides to humble you, then you'll know it.
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And again, it's kind of going back to that point.
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So when you do have your fall, how do you handle it?
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How do you take it?
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Do you take it in stride and just say,
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okay, maybe I need to change these things
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in order to kind of better myself?
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Or do you get kind of down in the dumps about it
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and then your whole visage of yourself is just shattered
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and you don't even know how to go on anymore?
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Or the third option, you get angry.
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It seems like had everybody else around,
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everyone else's fault that you've failed from grace,
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that you've been dethroned as the best of the best
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or things like that, but in reality,
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you're more angry at yourself.
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So seriously, think about it.
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Take some time, you know,
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it could be now or later after you're done,
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done listening to the episode,
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but take some time and reflect
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and see how do you handle, you know, humility?
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Do you humble yourself?
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Do you take yourself down a peg
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or do you let the world do it for you?
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And when it happens, how do you handle it?
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Be honest with yourself.
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You don't have to tell me,
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you don't have to tell anybody else,
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but really sit and think about it
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and think about it, because honestly,
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when you take the time to sit
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and kind of reflect with yourself and your own thoughts,
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you really start learning more and more and more
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about your own mind and how you act
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and how you react to things.
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And I think that's a good, valuable thing
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for anybody to learn.
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But unfortunately for Vegeta,
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he did not learn that right away
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and kind of go into now his fall from grace, you know,
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in being disgraced and defeated.
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So, again, if you know the story, you know,
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eventually Goku and Ko eventually beat Vegeta
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in the end, the Prince of all Sands,
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who's said to be the best of the best Sands,
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of the, what, five of them that were still alive
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at that point, he was the strongest until Goku showed up.
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And Vegeta just couldn't wrap his mind around
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how Goku, who was this low class warrior,
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this peasant to him, not only was at his level,
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he actually surpassed him.
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That's the key thing.
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That's really the biggest thing that irked Vegeta
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for so many years, and the majority of the story
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is that Goku wasn't just at his level.
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Goku was better than him.
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And it stayed that way up until, like, even recently,
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I think, honestly, in the last year, year and a half,
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they're finally kind of equaling each other
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in terms where Vegeta's not just getting slapped around
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every time, it actually is competitive.
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But his initial loss to Goku was the turning point,
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was the beginning of his obsession with beating Goku.
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Like, when I say obsessed, Vegeta was obsessed by this
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because that was the, it wasn't so much the fact
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that it was the first time, it's that it kept happening
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over and over and over again, mainly because he never
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learned his lesson the first time, right?
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I mean, because again, it doesn't matter
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how much talent you have if someone else is willing
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to do the work.
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Now, I will say that it's not that Vegeta wasn't willing
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to do the work, it was just,
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Goku's better than him, right?
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I mean, I think that's something we all have to accept
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that there are people out there who are better than us
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at some things.
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We're better than other people at certain things,
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and some people are better at us in other things.
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That's just how it is, because none of us are the same.
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We all have different stages of our journey in life.
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We're all, first of all, we're all made differently, right?
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We all have different skills, talents, and abilities
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that we were blessed with, and even the people,
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two people who are blessed with similar abilities,
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how they develop them can be vastly different,
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and it can just look different.
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Sometimes it's not just somebody being better than you,
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sometimes they're just using that gift
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that's a little bit differently than you
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in a way that you never thought of before.
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And it let our pride and ego get in the way,
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and it's so easily hurt or just cracked or whatever,
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however you want to put it.
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Then, yeah, you're gonna feel some type of way.
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You're gonna feel some type of way,
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and honestly, no one's to blame, not even yourself.
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It's just how it is.
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The only thing you can do is just take it and strive
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and develop yourself.
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I'll say, okay, how can I push my own limits?
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How can I go to that next level, right?
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But until you get there, then, hey,
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just keep doing what you're doing.
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And in Vegeta's case, his obsession led him to,
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essentially, what will happen to all of us
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if we start obsessing over anything too long
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is that you start losing your sense of self,
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and you start losing what makes you you.
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And what I mean by that is, Vegeta's a perfect example.
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So fast forward after Vegeta and Goku's initial fight
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to the Buu Saga.
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So Vegeta's been living on Earth, he has a family now,
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and things like that, and Goku just came back to life.
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Yes, Goku does that.
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He came back to life briefly for this tournament.
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And Vegeta hasn't had the opportunity to fight Goku
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for seven years, I believe, at this point,
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and he was just itching to get back in the ring
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and to basically test his mettle against Goku.
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And in order to do that, Vegeta felt like he had
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to revert back to his old wicked self.
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Because by this time, again, like I said,
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Vegeta's had a family, he is the wife and the kid,
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and whether he admits it or not,
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he's been kind of domesticated compared
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to how he originally was when he first came to Earth.
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So, I mean, he still has a mouth on him,
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still pretty cruel and mean,
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he's not exactly a loving person,
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but he was not just pure evil like he was before either.
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And he believed that that evilness
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is what gave him strength, right?
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He believed that that wicked aspect of his personality
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is what his strength was derived from.
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So during this tournament, he allowed himself
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to suddenly become a Majin,
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which in terms of the story,
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this wizard gave him an evil power boost
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because all the people who he gave the power boost to
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when they fought, they released this energy
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to help waken up the main boss of the story.
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Just a little bit of background there
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for those who haven't seen the series.
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But in doing that, Vegeta allowed himself
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to be essentially possessed, I say in quotes,
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because he was still conscious of what he was doing,
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but he allowed somebody to make him something
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that he wasn't anymore.
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And what I want you guys to really understand about that
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is that you don't have to A, revert back to old habits
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or who you think you need to be in order to do something.
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You don't have to change who you are at the core
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in order to achieve your goals.
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Now, do I believe in constantly getting better
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and improving yourself?
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Absolutely, because none of us are perfect.
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None of us are perfect.
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We can always try to get better in some form or fashion
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each and every day, but that doesn't mean
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you have to do a whole 180 and change your whole personality
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and what makes you unique either, right?
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You can improve without being transformed, right?
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You can improve without having to put on a mask
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and somebody else, because just like the comparison episode
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with Isagi and during the Blue Vox season,
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he was trying to use Nagi's gift
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in the same way that Nagi used it.
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He couldn't imagine himself scoring a goal
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because that gift wasn't for you.
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He's not Nagi, he's Isagi.
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And the same thing applies here.
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You're not somebody else.
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You don't have to try to use somebody else's gifts
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just to get to that next level.
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Stick to what you know, what you have.
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Learn along the way and learn how you can improve yourself
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without losing yourself.
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And that's the key thing, because in this moment,
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Vegeta was just so, again, back to being obsessed.
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He was obsessed with beating Goku.
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He was willing to try to win it by any means necessary,
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even if that meant becoming somebody that he wasn't.
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And at that point, is it really a true victory?
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Do you really accomplish your goal
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when you sacrifice who you are to get there?
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I don't think so.
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I don't think so, because at the end of the day,
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it's not even you who's achieving that goal anymore, right?
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Because you've become this whole totally different person
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for this one thing, and now that you have it,
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you don't feel satisfied anymore because you didn't earn it.
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You became something else entirely
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that you honestly probably don't even like yourself.
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So why bother?
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Why go on through all that?
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And later on, later on in the story,
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Vegeta does realize that once Majin Buu,
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the main villain at the time, was unleashed,
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and he started killing all these people
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and things like that, Vegeta realized the mistake
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he had made in his pursuit of power at all costs.
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And it was in that moment that Vegeta really started
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to turn around and started going through his redemption,
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because he sacrificed himself to save his child
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in an attempt to take down Buu
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and to save the world in the process.
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And unfortunately, it didn't pan out that way,
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but that was a, it's a glimpse into the man
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he was starting to become later on.
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And the biggest thing that happened
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the biggest thing that really helped drive
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that change in him is his relationship with Bulma, his wife.
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Because back when he first met Bulma,
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obviously he was the antagonist.
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He was there to kill everybody, right?
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So needless to say, they didn't have the warm
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and fuzzies when they first met.
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But in the time after Goku beat Frieza on Namek
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and they all came back to Earth,
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Bulma let Vegeta stay with her for,
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I think it was like a year,
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I think it was a year before Goku came back.
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And you know, come to find out they have a kid together,
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right?
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So it was a shock to everybody, including the audience.
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But that wasn't enough to really change his heart
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to really obviously make him open up.
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So they were still, they were still cold
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and kind of cold and distant from each other.
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But throughout the years, throughout the time,
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they became closer and closer as a couple and as a family.
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I mean, up until the point where he,
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you know, recently he just, he screamed, you know,
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that's my Bulma when she was attacked.
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And if you know Vegeta, he doesn't do affection.
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He doesn't do affection at all.
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Like he doesn't even hug his own son half the time.
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But you just see, have him cry out his wife's name
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when she was assaulted to him showing up to kill everybody.
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It's just a huge, huge difference there, right?
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And that really speaks volumes to me
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because it shows that no matter how bad you think you are,
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no matter what you've done, no matter, you know,
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the type of thing you feel like you can never come back from,
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you can, you honestly can.
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And it starts from within.
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Like you have to, A, forgive yourself, right?
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Whatever it is that you feel like you need,
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you feel so bad that you need to prove yourself
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to X amount of people or whatever it is,
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just let it go and just allow yourself to be vulnerable,
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to be humble, to be, you know, to be bad at something, right?
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Dare to be bad at something because you really learn more
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about yourself when you're bad at something
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versus when you're just good all the time.
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And once you accept that and you learn to move past it
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and use it to push you forward, oh man, you have no idea.
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You have no idea the type of, the type of just blessing
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you're gonna have on the other side of that.
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And in Fiji's case, it was his relationship with Balma.
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He has a family now.
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I mean, he has a son and a daughter
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and he cared about, you know, more than anything.
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And it was through that, first of all,
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understanding the loss from Boo and Boo
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actually killed his family.
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He killed his son, killed his wife initially.
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And it was at that moment he really understood
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the type of loss he was inflicting on other people
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throughout all the years prior.
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So that was really what solidified in him.
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It was like, I'm not gonna do this anymore.
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I'm going to move forward
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and not be the same type of person that I have been.
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Now, needless to say, you get it, it's still pretty cocky.
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He used to be cocky and arrogant when he gets into a fight,
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especially when he thinks he can win.
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But it's a different spin on it, right?
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It's not to the detriment of other people
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or those around them.
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It's just honestly just confident in himself.
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Sometimes a little too confident,
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but hey, again, we've all been there, right?
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But if you look at how he is now,
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the fair to wear he was in the beginning of the series,
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it's almost like he's not even the same character anymore.
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In the last, because a little tidbit
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I want to say about his redemption and what he went through
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and what significantly changed from Mozilla
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where before his whole reasoning for training
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and getting better was for his obsession with beating Goku.
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He had just one guy that he had to beat at all costs
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to really testing his own limits, right?
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It went from having somebody who he just had to beat to say,
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okay, I'm just going to beat myself.
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I'm going to be better than I was before.
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I'm going to train to test my own limits
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rather than to surpass Goku,
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to surpass this person who's better than me in this field.
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But X name here, you know who it is for you.
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But in the end, it's just a simple mindset shift
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because you can still have the same work ethic,
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you can still have the same things
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that you do each and every day to get better,
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but the goal is different.
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It's more intrinsic than extrinsic.
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It's more internal for you.
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I'm just going to want to be better
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because I want to be better.
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I mean, just plain and simple way.
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I don't need to have this grandiose reason
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and if you do, then that's perfectly fine.
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Whatever it is that pushes you,
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but it needs to start from within.
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It needs to start there because otherwise it's going to,
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A, you're probably never going to make it
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because you're going to burn out and give up
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or just be frustrated, be on relief.
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And you're just going to be, you know,
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you're not even going to be wanting to be around yourself.
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But if it's internally, if it's based on the sense of self
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that, okay, I want to get better for me.
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I want to get better because I want to get better.
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And when I do get better at this skill, at this job,
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at whatever it is, then I'm going to go to this level.
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And then once I'm here, finally learn some more,
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improve and then go to the next level.
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So once you're there, you learn some more, you improve
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and then not just improve on the good things,
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but also try to eliminate some of the bad too,
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whatever it is that's holding you back.
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And I mean, that's pretty much it.
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That's all we want to do, right?
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We all try to get better in life.
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None of us want to go backwards.
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And very few of us typically want to stay the same
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each and every day.
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So, I mean, I really encourage you guys to really,
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to test yourself, push your own limits each and every day,
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do something outside of your comfort zone so you can grow.
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It can be something small, you know,
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it can be like if you're not a morning person,
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you know, trying to get up five minutes earlier, you know,
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something simple like that.
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But for me, I don't like taking cold showers.
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So I make myself take cold showers and they're terrible.
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Like they suck so much, but it's that repair the process.
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You're training your mind to get used to being uncomfortable
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so you can go to that next level.
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So you can, you know, push through whatever this wall
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that you're going through, because you will,
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we all go through it.
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And being comfortable is honestly the enemy of progress
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is because it's honestly where genius and innovation happens
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when you're uncomfortable and you,
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and something has to change so you make it happen, right?
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And if you take the small things each and every day
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to help get used to it, then when the big things happen,
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you're like, you know, this is easy, I got this.
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And the verse that I was studying
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when I was doing this episode
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is actually Proverbs chapter 22, verse four.
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It says, humility, the fear of the Lord results in wealth
513
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honor and life.
514
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,600
And the key part in that is humility, right?
515
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,920
In our case, it's humility being the fear of the Lord.
516
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,160
And kind of the term about fear
517
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,560
I would have translated to respect, right?
518
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:51,680
You respect the Lord.
519
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,840
And then with that, it's gonna come
520
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,320
the wealth, honor and life for you.
521
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,080
And wealth can be anything.
522
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,120
It can be little treasures or whatnot.
523
00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:04,840
It can be just having good people around you
524
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,040
and your family and friends.
525
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,160
Cause in Magida's case, that's what his wealth is.
526
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,080
His wealth is his family.
527
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,160
And it'd be gradually his friends
528
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,440
and whether he calls them that, his friends or not.
529
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,360
And his wealth, his life, like his actual literal life,
530
00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:21,880
he's alive because of sacrifice and, you know,
531
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,160
in the story of Dragon Ball,
532
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:24,480
no one's ever really dead dead.
533
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,400
And it's kind of a running joke,
534
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,400
but he has his life and his honor.
535
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,960
And his honor, so he's no longer this dishonored Prince
536
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,080
who was essentially a slave to a Frieza.
537
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:43,080
And now he has a new goal in life, right?
538
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,920
He's not, he has things that he actually cares about
539
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,880
and cares about enough to protect.
540
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,840
And that's honestly makes him even more dangerous
541
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,720
than he was before.
542
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,680
So yeah, that's pretty much it.
543
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,760
So again, thank you guys for tuning into today's episode.
544
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And I pray that you got what you needed out of it
545
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and that you learned something new about yourself.
546
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,040
I mean, I know I did kind of going back through this
547
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,840
and reliving some moments in my life
548
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,000
where I might've gotten too big for my britches
549
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,840
and needed to sit down somewhere,
550
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,800
but hey, again, we're all human.
551
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,440
And then guys, feel free to leave a comment and subscribe.
552
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,360
Cause again, I want to improve this each and every day,
553
00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:23,600
each and every episode.
554
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So if you guys have any suggestions or anything like that,
555
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,440
please feel free to leave them down below.
556
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,520
And yeah, that's pretty much it.
557
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,800
So guys, I just want you always to remember,
558
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you are the main character of your story
559
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,880
and that story doesn't end until he says so.
560
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All right, be blessed.
561
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And I'll see you guys next time.
