5345 CAN YOU REALLY HELP SIBLINGS?
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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My brother is 27. He has been working as a forklift operator in a warehouse. Despite family support and encouragement he hasn't done much with his life since he finished highschool. He is dating a 32yo woman for a year now. She is single, very attractive, no kids and works in upper management in a corporation and compares to him she is financially successful.
This relationship seems unsustainable and I am worried about her true intentions, because of their status incompatibility. I would appreciate your thoughts on that.
Recently you said that one of your listeners has a clownish relationship with themselves because they used the expression 'barf my thoughts out'. I have a similar issue of not taking myself seriously, not approaching life with all the respect that it requires. I don't do it all the time, but have a tendency to downplay the importance of my thoughts, in public and to myself, to laugh at things that aren't funny (and to laugh precisely because these things are very serious). Do you have any advice on how to break out of this pattern?
Why is going to the strip club worse than watching pornography? They seem to be equally morally abhorrent, except one is sort of out in the open and one is usually kept hidden.
Do you have any advice on helping motivate my almost 6 year old to do her schoolwork? We homeschool and she struggles to pay attention to her memory work (she is supposed to memorize two verses a week) and to do her arithmetic practice (it's 100 addition and subtraction problems everyday). Everything else she gets done without issue. Maybe this is just how it is, but if you have any advice for me, it would be much appreciated! Thank you
What do you think of Daniel Mackler's claim that one ought not have children until they are perfectly healed. Is such a thing even remotely possible?
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| 0:00.0 | All right, more questions from freedom and locals.com. I hope you would check out. |
| 0:04.9 | The site, it's a great community. Join today, freedom and locals. |
| 0:08.9 | All right. My brother is 27. He has been working as a forklift operator on a warehouse. |
| 0:14.0 | Despite family support and encouragement, he hasn't done much with his life since he finished |
| 0:18.0 | high school. He is dating a 32-year-old woman for a year now. |
| 0:22.0 | She is single, very attractive, no kids and works in |
| 0:24.7 | upper management in a corporation and compares him, compare to him she is financially successful. |
| 0:30.8 | This relationship seems unsustainable and I am worried about her true intentions because of their status incompatibility. |
| 0:37.0 | I would appreciate your thoughts on that. |
| 0:40.0 | So this represents the big challenge of inertia versus energy. |
| 0:45.1 | So there are some people in life who can't slow down and there are some people in life who can't |
| 0:50.0 | seem to speed up. |
| 0:51.4 | Nothing. It's not good or bad. |
| 0:53.0 | It's just an observation of different, in a sense, soul metabolisms. |
| 0:57.9 | In general, human beings work for sustainability and then stop. Right? This is our nature. Our nature is to work for |
| 1:06.2 | sustainability and then stop. Why? Because we evolved without fridges. We evolved without the ability really to store long-term food. |
| 1:17.0 | There's no point coming home with five deer. |
| 1:21.0 | I mean I guess you can salt it or various things like that, but for the most part, like in terms of our evolution, you work to get your food for the day, or maybe you could stretch it out for two days, or maybe even three days. But you would work to get your food, then you'd stop. |
| 1:36.0 | I mentioned this before. My father was in charge of a mine in South America. |
| 1:40.0 | He was charged with improving the productivity, so instead of putting the workers on salary, he put them on... he was |
| 1:45.0 | the product to get the workers on salary, he put them on peace work. |
| 1:46.0 | And all they did was they worked to get the amount of money they had before and then they stopped working. |
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