#159: Learning from History (AKA You Aren't Special)

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, DC and Adam dive into the lesson that inspired the show – why we all need to learn from history. Unfortunately, this is a lesson that's hard to learn and one that DC found especially difficult to internalize. Despite what we're told as children, we're not inherently special. The lessons learned by our parents and grandparents do apply to today. Tune into the full episode to learn how you too can prioritize learning from history. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends. You can connect with DC and his co-host, Adam Schoenfeld, on Twitter @dcancel @schoeny @HYPERGROWTH_Pod For more learnings from DC, check out his weekly newsletter, The One Thing. You can subscribe here: https://www.drift.com/insider/learn/newsletters/dc/

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0:00.0	And we're back. Seeking Wisdom is back. So I'm here with the Young Jedi, Adam Schoenfeld. And we are going to talk about some interesting topic today. If you don't remember Seeking Wisdom is the universe's only certified six-star podcast. And I can't wait to
0:23.1	get into something today. How are you doing, Adam? What are we talking about? Doing well. We're
0:26.9	doing a mini-series here. I think people have started to pick up on these 20-ish lessons that you wish
0:31.9	knew and you were younger. And this one's about prioritizing learning from history, aka you aren't special.
0:38.8	Tell me about that one.
0:41.0	Oh, man, this is a good one because this is the one I think that's had the most impact on me,
0:47.6	and it is the reason that I agreed to and started seeking wisdom was because of this.
0:52.7	And it's also the reason that's fueled my obsession
0:55.3	with books. So this is the most meta and most important lesson that we can be talking about.
0:59.9	That took me the longest to learn. And I'm still learning it. So it's good to do a podcast on it.
1:05.4	So the idea behind this is, and it took me a long time to learn this, that we as humans believe that we are
1:13.1	special. And we are taught from a very young age, probably your mom and dad and your grandparents
1:18.0	and everyone around you taught you that you were special and that you could do anything you want,
1:22.5	you could achieve anything you want in life. That's not true, but that's a whole other episode.
1:27.1	But the intent was good.
1:28.8	And this idea of being special and being this idea of times changing, technology accelerating,
1:35.6	and it being very different from the time that your parents grew up and your great-grandparents
1:40.6	and your great, great, great, great-great-grandparents gives everyone this false idea that
1:45.7	they have to learn everything on their own because they believe that they're operating in
1:50.6	entirely different contexts. And if you believe that, then you kind of assume that any of the
1:56.9	lessons that your parents learned and the great-grandparents learned aren't applicable anymore.
2:02.6	And so I believe this for most of my life.
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