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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5526 MY FALL FROM GRACE!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the speaker explores the concept of downfall in public life, reflecting on their own experiences and society's fascination with others' failures. They emphasize the importance of taking risks and striving for greatness while maintaining integrity. Encouraging listeners to prioritize values over external success, the speaker advocates for making a lasting impact and embracing personal potential. Ultimately, they urge the audience to focus on meaningful contributions and maximize their influence despite external validation.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

People are fascinating. The world is fascinating. I absolutely love and adore all of you and thank you so much for this great life.

0:07.0

So somebody sent me this video. It was really interesting on some form. I can't remember which one it was and it was a bunch of people all clustering around

0:17.2

a screenshot where a video of mine on some a platform had few views like I come under a thousand views or something like that

0:27.6

and there was this feast and people were very thrilled and excited and jackal-like about how,

0:35.0

oh, remember this guy?

0:37.0

He used to have millions of views.

0:39.0

He had millions of subscribers and now look, look what he's reduced to look look look how far he's

0:46.0

fallen and it was just wild I understand it I sympathize with it I really do like I understand the impulse I understand it I sympathize with it I really do like I understand the impulse I

0:54.6

understand the impulse and I'll tell you where it comes from and no hate here no hate at all all. It's just like a really, really

1:04.1

understand where this comes from. So the idea that someone who has

1:10.6

succeeded hugely is not, you know, succeeding in the technical metrics of sort of

1:18.1

of views and downloads. The fact that someone who has succeeded wildly is no longer succeeding wildly is really exciting to people.

1:25.9

And particularly if it's in the realm of integrity, morality, courage, you know, whatever it is,

1:31.4

right?

1:32.4

It's really, really exciting for people, and I understand that, and I sympathize with that, and people

1:37.0

take a great, dark, devilish joy in the fall from grace, which you could call it in terms of sort of prominence or views and so on.

1:48.0

And again, I understand it, I sympathize with it, but it's not a great place that it comes from. It's not a

1:55.2

great place that it comes from. So let's say that everything that people have

2:00.6

said over the years is true, right?

2:04.1

I mean, that I had this big prominence,

2:07.0

this large number of subscribers,

2:08.2

is large views, and it's fallen massively, and of course it has has there's nothing false about any of that

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