3850: Sculpting Your Best Self: How Self-Improvement is Best Done Through Sculpting Others by Michael Mehlberg

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Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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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 3850: Michael Mehlberg challenges the traditional view of self-improvement by revealing a powerful truth: the best way to refine yourself is by helping shape others. Through small, intentional acts of kindness and awareness, you become both the sculptor and the sculpture, transforming lives while uncovering the best version of yourself. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://michaelmehlberg.com/blog/2019/9/7/sculpting-your-best-self-how-self-improvement-is-best-done-through-sculpting-others Quotes to ponder: "You are a block of stone, but you are also an artist etching change into each life you touch." "The words you use and the way you treat people forever alters their life, sometimes in big ways, most times in small, unknown ways." "You are a sculptor of lives, yourself and those around you." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you know what you want for Christmas?
0:02.0	A cute toy.
0:04.0	No, I just want my family back.
0:06.0	That's what I want for Christmas.
0:08.0	We'll see what Santa can do, okay?
0:10.0	It's Christmas, so.
0:11.0	Dear Good share.
0:12.0	Merry Christmas.
0:14.0	Tis the season to watch Tally on Channel 4.
0:16.0	Stream now.
0:22.6	This is Optimal Living Daily.
0:24.5	Sculpting your best life.
0:28.3	How self-improvement is best done through sculpting others by Michael Melberg of Michael Melberg.com.
0:31.5	And I'm Justa Mollick, your host and narrator.
0:34.1	And we keep narrating for you as we optimize your life.
0:41.3	Sculpting your best self, how self-improvement is best done through sculpting others by Michael
0:47.4	Melberg of Michael Melberg.com. You are a block of stone, chipped and cracked and carved by life.
0:57.0	Molded since birth, you now embody a unique shape, reflecting all that you've become.
1:02.2	Your parents were the first to sculpt you using the only tools they knew how.
1:06.4	Tools given to them by generations of parents before them,
1:09.2	they whittled you into the shape they wanted,
1:11.4	or needed, or were proud of, a sculpture of sorts. Their tools may have been blunt, leaving gashes
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