You Should Be a Monster - Akira the Don

I read this New Testament line

Decades ago

I could never understand it

The line is «The meek shall inherit the Earth» and I thought

There’s something wrong with that, that line it just doesn’t make sense to me

Meek just doesn’t seem to me to be a moral virtue

Meek is not a good translation

What it means is this

Those who have swords and know how to use them

But keep them sheathed will inherit the world

Will inherit the world

Those who have swords and know how to us them

But keep them sheathd

Will inherit the world

That’s a big difference, it’s so great

You should be a monster

You should be a monster

You know 'cause everyone says well, you should be harmless, virtuous you

shouldn’t do anyone any harm, you should sheath your competitive instinct,

you shouldn’t try to win, you don’t wanna be too aggressive, you don’t wanna

be assertive, you wanna take a back seat and all of that

It’s like, no

Wrong

You should be a monster

You should be a monster

An absolute monster

And then you should learn how to control it

Like is there something wrong with being competitive?

There’s nothing wrong with it

There’s something wrong with cheating

There’s something wrong with being a tyrant

There’s something wrong with winning unfairly

All of those things are bad

But you don’t want people to win?

What’s the difference between trying to win and striving

You wanna eradicate striving?

One definition of a winner is someone who never let losing stop them

Never, never let losing stop them

Never, never let losing stop them (Bucko)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

Life isn’t a game

It’s a series of games

And the right ethic is to be the winner of the series of games

And part of that means, well, you have learn how to be a good loser ‘cause

you’re not gonna win every single game

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You can pick your level of competition like to some degree

So let’s say you pick a level of competition where you’re always winning

Well, all that means is you picked the wrong level of competition

Let’s say you’re a grandmaster chess player and all you do is play amateurs and

every night you go home and congratulate yourself on what a genius you are

Because you just stomped these people left, right and center

It’s like you’re not a genius, you’re a dimwit

What you should be doing is playing people who are beating you like

As much as you can tolerate

You wanna be on the edge

Where your skills are being developed

Where loss is always a possibility

Where loss is always a possibility

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)

You should be a monster

(You should be a monster, you should be a monster)