16-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena has a very unique presence on social media. His Instagram is something that barely has any context to it, but he leaves that part the the imagination of his followers. His Twitter, on the other hand, is a place where he shares motivational quotes for people.
While speaking to Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast, John Cena shared where he gets his inspiration for the quotes. The Leader of the Cenation mentioned that he is inspired by others, the things he sees and hears.
“I try to seek wisdom from others. I try to read a lot. Uh… If anything catches my ear or my eye, I jot it down. I have so many backlogged in my Twitter drafts. It’s almost like a journal. I mean… It’s not like every day I have one but there’ll be some days where I’m just thinking about stuff and I’ll write down a bunch of notes. So essentially, my Twitter drafts are my notes.”
John Cena’s tweets are advice that he could use for himself
While talking about his Twitter account, Cena mentioned that his tweets help him be accountable for his behavior.
“And I’ll have these incomplete thoughts that don’t make any sense and I’ll try to understand what I’m thinking that day. And then I’ll come back to it and it’ll come to me. Then I’ll, ‘Yeah. All right. That’s kind of how I’m feeling.’ Or, man, a lot of it is the advice I could use for the day.
“So, if I was too short or unempathetic or if I’m having a hell of a day and I want to give up and throw the towel in, a lot of it is advice that I could use. And a lot of it is me holding myself accountable for behavior that I say that I do. Because once you put out to the world…Uh… Well, Twitter, X is probably isn’t the best example of accountability but I’d like to put it out there so I can be accountable for,” John Cena said.
Cena says he follows everyone on Twitter, but no one on Instagram because he doesn’t want to lead anyone on. He sees Instagram as a more interpretative or curated app, where Twitter is a conversation starter.
“And how do you start a conversation? You follow everyone. People you know nothing about, walks of life you know nothing about, people that don’t share your beliefs, people who speak out harshly against your value system, people who live within your value system. People who’ve pissed you off — like I said, you follow everyone because then people can engage with it.”
Cena said being verified is not foolproof, but it’s a good way to get followed by him. He also said that you don’t learn by being surrounded by yes men or like-minded folks.
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