3476: 2 Quotes That Will Reshape Your Approach To Life by Benjamin Hardy on Taking Action and Fully Committing

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3476: Benjamin Hardy, PhD, explores the transformative power of deep desire and immediate action. Drawing from the movie Gattaca and Socrates’ lesson on wisdom, he emphasizes that true success comes from an unwavering commitment to one’s goals. Instead of waiting for the "perfect" moment or external motivation, he urges readers to put everything into the opportunities at hand because the only time to start living fully is now. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://medium.com/mind-cafe/2-quotes-that-will-reshape-your-approach-to-life-194ce05586fd Quotes to ponder: "You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back." "When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you desired that breath of air, then you shall have it." "There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today." Episode references: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Starting-Something-Stupid/dp/1609070097 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is Optimal Living Daily, two quotes that will reshape your approach to life.
0:36.3	By Benjamin Hardy of Benjamin Hardy.com.
0:39.0	I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick, reading you articles every single day of the year, including
0:43.1	holidays. And without further ado, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:52.2	Two quotes that will reshape your approach to life by Benjamin Hardy of benjaminhardy.com.
0:58.9	In the movie Gattaca, young man Vincent is born with every disadvantage imaginable.
1:04.8	It simply isn't his fate to have the life he wants.
1:08.1	But he doesn't accept that fate.
1:10.7	Instead, he does everything, even risks his very life to have the life he wants. But he doesn't accept that fate. Instead, he does everything, even risks his
1:13.0	very life, to have the life he most deeply desires. One scene in the movie is particularly moving.
1:19.5	Vincent and his far genetically and mentally superior brother, Anton, swim out from the shore of the
1:24.5	ocean as far as they can. The first one to turn around and head back for shore loses.
1:30.3	Thus, they must keep in mind the energy they'll need for the swim back.
1:33.8	All throughout their lives, Vincent and Anton have had this competition.
1:37.5	Every time, Vincent was the one to turn around first and swim back to shore.
1:41.3	However, at the end of the movie, Vincent is changed. One last time,
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