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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 156 minutes

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0:00.0

Yeah, so long story short, I was born and I grew up in China and I so when I was growing up,

0:10.9

my parents were they were always very, I was like focused.

0:18.6

It's probably not the right word, given their behaviors and they really like throughout all my childhood they compared me to you know all the other kids growing up and then my grades were always the worst and then they use that as an excuse to like always

0:41.4

you know beat the fuck out of me actually.

0:44.0

And after that, I mean, I'm giving like a summary,

0:49.7

so if you need any elaboration.

0:52.1

Now, if you give me as much information as. If you need any elaboration, feel free to stop.

0:53.0

Give me as much information as you feel as necessary.

0:56.0

I've, more is usually better.

0:59.0

Sounds good.

1:00.0

Sounds good.

1:01.0

So, long story short, they felt like I, so my grades were always terrible because I never really, as a kid I never really saw any, I would say a purpose in studying in learning, especially the stuff that they were teaching at at the time and then they sent me to the US at the

1:27.9

age of 13 14-ish. So I finished high school here in the in the US, went to college here,

1:41.5

here, got a job I and then I taught myself how to code.

1:46.0

And, you know, over the years, I have,

1:52.0

I got a lot of you know I distant myself a lot of for my family because it just you know it's always been feeling like they wanted to, like they wanted to, like they

2:10.8

wanted to control me instead of, oh, you know, here's what's best for my kid.

2:18.0

And I would, you know, and then I focus on myself a lot over the years that I've been in the US.

2:29.2

And yeah, so when I first got here, I didn't speak any English. So I, you know, had problems making, you know, friends. I had, you know, extreme difficulty in, you know, to

2:46.2

socialize with people. Um, so I actually locked myself in isolation for seven years.

2:54.8

So seven years I didn't have any meaningful friendships.

3:00.2

So like I actually one of my best friends right now I met in high school but then our friendship didn't really take off until I got a job after school and And yeah, so I struggled a lot with self-esteem, you know, during the first few years I was on my own, you know as you can probably guess developed a huge you know

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