Someone I Would Be Afraid of - Akira the Don, Joe Rogan

: We’re gonna go back to Boston

Okay

: Okay.

So you said that’s really where things started for you.

So you moved

there when you were 13. First of all, like what kind of kid were you in school?

If ADD is real, I certainly had it

And I was very, very interested in what I was interested in

I was very uninterested in people telling me what to do

Essentially couldn’t wait to get out of school

But I would excel at things that I had interest in

Initially, it was art.

I wanted to be a comic book illustrator, until I really

got into martial arts

Then martial arts became the focus of my life

Around 14, 15 years old, that’s when I really became massively obsessed

And it was really the first thing that I ever did where I really didn’t feel

like a loser

Like I really felt like, «Oh, I actually have some talent.

I actually can be

exceptional.»

It’s like something

Because you know I grew up constantly moving, didn’t really have a lot of

friends, I would be new in this town, I’d get picked on, I wasn’t a big kid

And there was a lot of issues with that psychologically

I didn’t like being afraid of other kids.

I didn’t like not knowing what to do

if I ran into a kid, and they were gonna bully me and pick on me

You know, martial arts changed that 180 degrees

And then I became someone

Who I would be afraid of

You know, I became the opposite of what I was

And then I became someone

Who I would be afraid of

You know, I became the opposite of what I was