Read time 3 minutes. What Seth Rogen’s The Studio Season 1 gets right about creative pressure, and, of course, Kool-Aid Man.
In Season 1 of The Studio, Seth Rogen is struggling to straddle the line between making money and making great art.
Between maintaining creative integrity and keeping the theaters open.
Of course, we’re not going to talk about that.
Yeah—we’re going to talk about the Kool-Aid Man instead.
You see, Seth’s character Matt Remick quickly learns that satisfying the desires of the studio owners is the #1 priority.
And so, project Kool-Aid Man movie is born—Oh Yeah!
What’s that Kool-Aid Man so happy about?
What’s he know that you don’t know?
(It’s definitely not the taste of Kool-Aid, am I right?)
No, Kool-Aid Man is decidedly not Zen. Or is he?
Sure, he has a tendency to break stuff when he shows up.
(Everyone knows that’s just the cost of selling fruit drink.)
But he keeps it simple. He breaks barriers.
(Work with me here, people.)
This isn’t actually about Kool-Aid Man.
Matt Remick is all about trying to elevate the art of moviemaking.
We are all about achieving a higher state—and effortlessly maintaining it.
Kool-Aid Man: Accidental Zen icon
Elevate your state of mind with an “Oh Yeah” of your own.
Then forget the “Oh Yeah” and let your mind stay up there.
In The Studio, the head execs stumble into the power of this.
Time after time they face a no-win situation.
They conjure a delusional, cockamamie scheme.
Then they collect themselves and head into the fray,
armed only with a desperate plan of action and a brief affirmation.
Unfazed—
Oh Yeah!
Here at Greatfruit Zen Mind, we do not make mantras a priority.
But if you’re going to have one, why not make it an awesome one?
Just don’t get caught up in the mantra itself.
The mantra gives access to a field.
When you enter that field, everything changes.
Life and its challenges start to look different.
You move through it more effectively.
With confidence.
Spiritual practice is remembering—
remembering not to forget.
Suddenly you go from a place of lack and limitations to a place of infinite possibilities—
The truest, wisest version of yourself.
You are not going to do your best work or be transformed from a negative space.
When you inhabit your elevated state—it’s business time.
So how about this?
Say “Oh yeah” to yourself.
Then momentarily envision yourself busting through a wall and bringing the funk.
That’s one way to get there.
Make a game out of it. Say it when you walk into a room.
Turn it into an inside joke and say it with your friends.
You may have noticed some changes around here.
We are creating our own language.
The restless mind has its own thoughts and ideas.
We are here to challenge them.
Not with a new program.
With a deprogram.
(And we bring the funk.)
Oh Yeah!
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Kool-Aid Man not doing it for you?
How about some Macho Man Randy Savage instead?
Oh Yeah! Snap into a Slim Jim.
That’s right—sugar water and beef jerky.
Go ahead and dip that shit right in there.
We’re not here to judge.
(And somehow that takes us into next week’s lesson—
See you then…)
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