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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5315 RESPECT YOUR EMOTIONS! Locals Question Answered

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

Objectivist, Freedomainradio, Objectivism, Freedom, Conservative, Politics, Pacifism, Atheism, Liberal, News & Politics, Republican, Anarchy, Joe-rogan, Democrat, Atheist, Philosophy, Libertarian

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

"Hey, Stef, would you elaborate more on success anxiety, please? When I reach a new level of success, there's a brief high followed by a lot of anxiety. Or occasionally, I will envision a new endeavor going perfectly, and when it doesn't, I berate myself for even trying, even if I was successful overall."

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0:00.0

Well, good morning everybody.

0:01.0

Steve Tammel, I'm all on you from Freedom,

0:02.6

Sorry, I forgot to get to this question the other day we got.

0:06.5

Hey, Steph, would you elaborate more on success, anxiety, please?

0:10.9

When I reach a new level of success,

0:12.3

there's a brief high followed by a lot of anxiety.

0:14.4

Or occasionally, I will envision a new endeavor going perfectly, and when it doesn't, I break myself

0:19.3

or even trying, even if I was successful.

0:21.3

Overall, that's a great, great question.

0:24.6

And there's a lot of depth to this issue of success anxiety.

0:30.5

It's really, really fascinating.

0:33.0

So to me, I say there's a lot of depth,

0:35.8

I'm going to break it into two general categories

0:38.6

and see if this makes any sense to you.

0:42.1

And by making any sense to you, I don't mean that, will you understand it?

0:45.5

I mean, I hope it makes sense.

0:46.5

I hope it makes sense as a whole.

0:48.0

So here we go.

0:49.5

Now, I have some experience in this, gone from again sort of like welfare

0:55.8

trash heap to you know some decent success over the course of my life.

0:59.8

This success anxiety is a big thing. So there are two levels at which success anxiety

1:07.4

kicks in. One is the personal and the other is the political, believe it or not.

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