Can't Be Broken
Can't Be Broken
Stop Scrolling, Start Living: The False Reality of Digital Life
Do you ever scroll through social media and wonder why everyone else's life seems perfect while yours feels like a constant struggle? C - Monster dives deep into this modern phenomenon, exposing the carefully crafted illusions that dominate our digital landscape and impact our self-worth.
With raw honesty and zero filter, this episode challenges our cultural obsession with influencers and celebrities who we elevate to hero status despite knowing nothing about their true character. "Idolize the person that gets up every freaking morning to go to work, to put food on the table and a roof over your head," Sea Monster urges, encouraging listeners to redirect their admiration toward those who genuinely impact their lives—parents, teachers, coaches, and mentors who provide authentic guidance and support.
The conversation takes a revealing look at gym culture, where people film elaborate workouts while barely breaking a sweat, and contrasts it with genuine grinders who are "too busy grinding" to document their journey. Sea Monster delivers the powerful truth that "a good person, a real person, actually works harder and better and does the right thing when nobody is looking." This becomes the episode's core message: character is defined not by what you showcase online but by who you are when there's no external validation at stake.
Whether you're struggling with social media addiction or simply feeling lost in a world of digital smoke and mirrors, this episode offers a refreshing reality check and a path toward authentic living. Subscribe to Can't Be Broken for more unfiltered conversations that challenge conventional thinking and inspire genuine growth beyond the constraints of social expectations.
what up, what up, what up, and welcome to another episode of can't be broken podcast. I am your host, sea monster, and, uh, this is another week of seaamonster's Mindset. Man, it's been good. I had a great episode last week or a couple weeks ago with Angie Quintero Starting off the podcast with Seamonster's Mindset the week before and so just keeping it going. Plus, I reached out to a guy on talk. We'll connect and see if we can get you on here, interviewed and get you to share your story and what we have to offer here so we can help others move forward.
Speaker 1:But today I see monsters mindset. I wanted to talk about how we live in the society nowadays that people post up stuff just to look cool. They post up stuff so other people can see and they work hard when they're on camera, on video and they only do it when that's happening and they're always so happy and smiling and everything's happening and they're always so happy, smiling, everything's great. And so others believe that that's what's real and that they're fucking grinding all the time and that they're happy all the time and they're on vacation all the time and life is great all the time. And unfortunately, that's not reality. You know, I guess where I'm coming from. Is that two different ways. If you use social media to better yourself, to learn, to grow, to, yeah, show some stuff that you think is cool or you want others to see, or whatever, that's fine, that's, that's not a problem. But when you get enthralled in it, when you get overcome and addicted to it and addicted to either seeing too much shit or posting up too much shit it has no relevance of who you are. You're not an and if you're, if you're an influencer whatever the fuck they call them influencer that's bullshit too. The only people that should be influencing you and making you better are either your parents if you have a good relationship with them family, friends, educators, coaches and people around you that are going to drive you to be better and grow and tell you the truth, not a person influencing you to do stupid shit just because they're making money and have a lot of followers, or to put on certain fucking jeans or try certain fucking makeups. That's reality.
Speaker 1:Look it these superstars or Hollywood stars why? Why would we idolize them, even baseball players? Anybody, don't idolize them. Idolize the person that gets up every freaking morning to go to work, to put food on the table and a roof over your head. Idolize the people that are grinding, that are telling you the truth. Idolize those people your parents, that drive you everywhere If you're in some kind of sport, that pay for your lessons, that give you good advice those are the people we should idolize. That we should have baseball cards for that we should have their signatures. That we should have baseball cards for that we should have their signatures. That we should listen to all the time.
Speaker 1:But we get too involved on Hollywood stars and we cry when something happens to them and we get emotionally involved if they pass away and all this shit that really idolize you know what you should idolize their work ethic. I'll agree with that. If they worked hard to get where they are, absolutely. And look at the process and the journey they've been and how they got there and the life they had Great, oh my God. That's badass. They're just another person struggling and worked hard to get there Badass. But there's no way I'm just going to idolize this person. I don't even know this person on social media. I don't even know this Hollywood star who cares, respect and move forward. Give them their props and their attention and then you move forward and create your own fucking story, not so that you can influence, but hopefully you can help and really really touch somebody.
Speaker 1:People go to the gym and put their video things up. I recently just went to the gym. I went two times in like the last two months, out of my house here I went and I'm like I'm going to go visit the gym Gold's Gym, cronus Gym, melly Fitness and God, there's so much weird shit going on in there sometimes, from people putting up video cameras and doing interviews while they're lifting to doing martial arts while they're in between sets, to talking on the phone while they're trying to grind, saying that they're working out like beasts. It's sad I fucking sat there looking going. This is why I don't fucking come here, because Everyone wants to be a beast. They want to get tattoos of a lion, they want to get tattoos of their life experiences and how crazy they are and how fucking hard they grind, how hard they are. They fucking post up all kinds of crazy shit on social media so they can get more likes and people can fucking follow them, and the real beast are so focused on their purpose and intention that they rarely post up shit. They might, might post up after, maybe in between, but you never really see them grinding because they're too busy grinding. And sometimes they don't even post up because they're too busy grinding, putting their intention and effort into their purpose of where they want to be.
Speaker 1:I don't need to show you what the fuck I do all the time. You don't see every time what I do during the week. You might see the finished product. I ran a marathon. Here it is. Did you see that I woke up at 3 am in the morning and put in 18 miles when I was training? Did you see that I was up at 4 or 5 in the morning putting in some grind and work when I was doing the high rocks? You just saw the event, the finished product. But the journey, the grind, the in-between, the process, that's what you got to be in love with.
Speaker 1:And not everything needs to go on social media. Not everything needs to be posted. And by all means, just because it's not doesn't mean you don't work fucking hard or harder. People just do and work hard. When it's 15 seconds of social media time, forget that shit. Work hard all the time, because a good person, a real person, actually works harder and better and does the right thing when nobody is looking. That's a true person.
Speaker 1:If you're only working hard or doing the right thing when a camera's working or looking when people are looking, when the teacher's looking, when a coach is looking, then you're fake and you're just doing it because of external factors and because you're doing it because of them. And because you're doing it because of them, not because you're supposed to do the right thing. Be in love with the process and remember there's no free lunch. Nobody's going to hand you anything. You got to earn everything and when you do, that's going to last longer than anything else that you don't earn. So please do me a favor. Stop posting up some shit Of what you're eating and how much fun you're having by toasting micheladas On weekends or going to the gym and fucking putting up a Ten minute video Of your chest workout. Gives a fuck, you did chest Great. Say what, what you said, or say how many sets you did, how you did it, how you got that chest, and maybe post up here and there a little bit of how it works and and if people have questions, and great and help and learn, but fuck constantly.
Speaker 1:Let's move forward. Let's be better by not idolizing some people we don't even know either. Let's start listening to real people that are real, that have been there in our lives, that have helped us. That's the way you move forward and that's the way you become a better person. I know many people might have a little problem about the way I say things or the way I come off, but I'm a little bit older. A little problem about the way I say things or the way I come off, but I'm a little bit older, a little bit more experienced and I'm just coming here to try to help people.
Speaker 1:Sometimes we go too far in certain things and we need to hear it.
Speaker 1:We need to hear somebody fucking tell us the truth, whether you like it or not and maybe you don't agree with what I'm saying, that is fine too. I'm telling you I'm not too far off by saying that we should stop idolizing certain hollywood people, certain athletes, certain things that we think that we put them up on this pedestal and we want to live like them. We don't even know them, we have no idea. Idolize and respect their journey, their process. If they worked hard and they earned it, that's it. But shit, your hero should be your family, your parents, the people that fucking supported you, your friends, family, your close circle, coaches, teachers, anybody that influenced you to be a better person, to do the right thing when nobody's looking thing when nobody's looking. I hope you guys took a little bit of something from this conversation here, or from this monster's mindset, and I wish you all nothing but the best and love and respect. Make sure you guys go and earn it, but remember you can't be broken.
