32: 6 Unexpected Lessons I Learned in Lockdown

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

I’ve been thinking about one of the biggest dangers of personal growth these last couple of weeks.

The danger is this: we learn a crucially important, life-changing lesson, and then forget all about it and move on with our lives.

Any one of us could fall into that trap this year. Like me, you’ve probably had some realizations about your life during this difficult time.

Epiphanies about changes you want to make, or simple truths that you want to take forward even once things return to “normal.”

But the integration of these lessons and truths into our lives going forward is no guarantee.

In fact, for most people, it’s much more likely that nothing will change. Think of that, we were just forced into a giant reset, the likes of which we may never have again in our lifetimes. And yet, most people will go back to living the same lives they were before once the daily stresses, invites, and activities return. We simply cannot let this happen.

So what can we do?

Well, the first step is consciously taking stock of what those lessons are, and codifying them so we don’t forget them. In this week’s episode I reveal 6 of the unexpected lessons I’ve learned in the last 3 months...

Come see if any of mine are the same as yours. And, in the process, write down what yours are. I can’t say this enough: do not move on from this moment in time without bottling the lessons and taking them with you, or all of this pain and struggle will have been for nothing.

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0:00.0	Hello there podcast listeners and welcome back to the Love Life podcast where the
0:27.2	world, Paul, Stephen, Hussie. How goes it then? You know, it's no secret. We are a lot of us are
0:38.2	starting to emerge out of lockdown in various phases. Certain parts of ordinary life are switching
0:46.4	back on. And in this episode, Matt took time to reflect on some of the things he wants to hold on
0:54.7	to some of the new routines, some of the changes in mindset he's made during this time of being stuck
1:04.2	at home, I guess. And just to give you one of mine, which might seem a little weird, but I think
1:11.2	during the lockdown period, I have learned to be the value of being more selfish with my priorities.
1:20.8	And what I mean by that is I realized because I wasn't under social pressure to say yes to
1:29.4	whatever social obligations came my way, you kind of had this perfect, you know, you never had to
1:35.1	have that dilemma. And just having the extra space from not attending social obligations that maybe
1:43.4	actually I'd rather not have bothered with, you know, some obviously give me a lot of pleasure and
1:49.7	fulfillment being with family close friends, you know, important relationships, but just in general,
1:56.5	the pressure to be out and just randomly filling up your time doing stuff when that's been crowded out.
2:04.0	And I've just been able to focus. I've been able to get some extremely higher priority things done
2:10.0	during this time, you know, particular writing projects and reading certain things that I've really
2:16.8	wanted to tackle, big reading projects and just getting certain creative work done that, you know,
2:23.2	is not urgent work, but work I've wanted to actually take some time to plunge into and I just
2:28.7	realized, well, it's because I have all this space where I'm not feeling obliged to fill up all my
2:36.5	free time with social stuff. I am just being able to purely focus and sometimes it's like, hey,
2:43.8	it's Saturday night and I haven't been able to go out and so it's like, it's Saturday night and
2:48.6	I'm going to sit and do some writing and just, you know, write a short story or I'm going to tackle
2:55.0	that big fiction book. I'm going to watch that classic movie. I keep saying I'm going to watch and
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