444: Stop Trying to "Find Yourself." Preston Morrison on the Misconceptions Keeping Us Immature, the Separation Caused by Pride, Navigating Midlife Transitions, and Embracing Wilderness Seasons
Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness
Christopher Cook
4.9 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In a culture obsessed with self-discovery, the pursuit of "finding yourself" often leads to more confusion than clarity. Preston Morrison, Senior Pastor of Pillar Church and host of The Leader's Cut, challenges this narrative by exposing the misconceptions that keep us spiritually immature. He delves into how pride creates distance and separation, the pain inherent in midlife transitions, and the transformative power of embracing life's wilderness seasons.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.2 | I just don't think we have an awareness of how detrimental the flesh is to our everyday life. |
| 0:08.6 | If you want real confidence that you are following the guidance of the Holy Spirit, |
| 0:13.0 | more than you are walking the flesh, here's a great litmus test. |
| 0:16.6 | What percentage of the time are you doing the things you least want to do? |
| 0:22.6 | Helping you design your roadmap to wholeness from the inside out. |
| 0:27.6 | This is Win Today. |
| 0:30.8 | And now, here's your host, Christopher Cook. |
| 0:35.2 | Hey friends, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm so glad you've joined me today. You've heard the message |
| 0:40.1 | a thousand times. Go find yourself. Or maybe it sounds like go find yourself. That's in my mind how |
| 0:45.8 | the Instagram, the woo-woo life coaches on Instagram sound. But okay, I don't want to get distracted. |
| 0:51.8 | Chris, pay attention. You guys, but what if that journey has become a detour? |
| 0:57.7 | For real. |
| 0:59.1 | What of the obsession with self-discovery and find your truest, highest, most authentic self? |
| 1:04.1 | I cannot stand that saying, by the way. |
| 1:06.4 | What if that obsession is actually making us more fragmented, not more whole? It's a conversation I think |
| 1:13.4 | we have to explore. So this week, Preston Morrison joins me to confront one of the most deeply |
| 1:18.5 | embedded lies in our culture. That maturity is about discovering who you are. But what if the |
| 1:27.0 | goal is not to find yourself, |
| 1:28.5 | but instead to lose yourself in something greater, |
| 1:31.1 | rather someone greater? |
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