This is Jockel Podcast number 318 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening,

how come? Good evening. The Native Americans believed that if you gave someone a diagnosis,

it was a curse. It was a curse that can become an identity if you accept it. But a rewiring can happen

when you realize that you are the one creating your own experience. This is a long and truthful

conversation with yourself. How can we learn and evolve from our successes and our failures?

Where do we need to change? How can a person find solace and sovereignty in the face of experience

that has been shaped by such pressure, immense hardship, bad choices, chemical manipulation,

digital stimulation, and sophisticated programming that teaches you to kill?

When the antiquated ways fail and repeat the same answers and produce the same results,

it's time to take charge of change. You are not the victim of this life, but rather the victim of your own choices.

Truth is found within oneself, but to get to that truth, you have to peel back the layers to who you are.

It's self-work and self-knowing that creates profound change.

Today we have an addiction problem. We are addicted to other people's ideas. We become the victim of our

experience. We take magic pills or become convinced by false prophets as to what will fix us or make us happy.

We just want to relieve hurt and make it go away, but running from pain only magnifies the pain.

We are born to honor what is good while striving for our highest self.

You have to be open to everything and close to nothing. The heat, the cold, your weaknesses,

failures and successes, your loss and your regrets face them.

Face yourself. This is the most important and difficult battle you have ever been in.

Alexander, the great one, said, bury me with my hands out of the ground so the world can see

that I left it with nothing. That is the plan. You change your own life from within,

always from within, never outside. It's 100% in you.

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