Joe Rogan Experience #193

Joe Rogan: I truly believe that people who steal can’t write. I really do. I think its… I don’t think you can do both. I think something happens when you steal and that this, this, this being disingenuous, this pretending, this bullshit, knowing that you’re not really doing what you’re claiming to be doing and that you’re pretending, that you’re ripping people off and lying, and projecting this false self image which is all ego, which is exactly what shuts you off from the ability to come up with new shit.

Like when you come up with new shit, its not like you thinking about you, you see something and you go, “huh, look at this right here, this is ridiculous”. And you know what I mean, its not you… its you coming up with it, but you’re not involving yourself, you’re not trying to project a certain image, you’re not, you know, making sure that people think of you a certain way. You’re not even thinking that. Because when you do think like that, that’s, that shuts off creativity. 

And when a guy steals, what a guy is doing when he’s stealing is he’s trying to make himself better than he is. He’s trying to pretend that he’s smarter than he is, he’s trying to put out stuff pretending that he figured this out and its really someone else. Its all ego. 

Joe Rogan Experience #193