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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6242 Why Have THE TALK with your Parents!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Molyneux looks at why it's worth talking about childhood experiences with parents, pointing out how these talks can help with self-understanding and ease a sense of scarcity. He describes a scarcity mentality as seeing resources as fixed, which holds back personal growth and broader progress, and he pushes for open conversations about how parents shaped us. Drawing on his own stories and some history, Molyneux moves to supporting an abundance mindset that encourages new ideas and working together. He also focuses on taking charge to handle difficulties and owning up in evaluating oneself. Wrapping up, he urges people to get involved in life, think about the attitudes they've picked up, and step up with responsibility and action.

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0:00.0

So exhibit lot 6, 6, 7, ladies and gentlemen, on why you should talk to your parents about issues that you had with them when you were a child.

0:13.2

And all parents have this.

0:15.3

I said this in the show the other day.

0:16.7

Even if you're a perfect parent, then your children are maladapted to a crazy world,

0:21.8

so they're going to have some challenges and some criticisms.

0:25.2

And that's all, you know, fair and right and valid and good.

0:28.0

But so another reason why, though, it's important to talk to your parents is that it helps

0:37.0

avoid the scarcity mentality. So scarcity mentality is left-wing

0:43.7

thinking, it's middle of the winter running out of food thinking, it is zero-sum thinking,

0:48.9

if someone has more, someone automatically has to have less, it's childish thinking, it's immature thinking, right?

0:56.7

If there's two cookies and your brother gets two, then you get none, right?

1:02.0

So there's that aspect of things.

1:06.6

And it is primitive, and it is when you have non-cultivated or fixed resources, it's very easy to fall into that kind of thinking.

1:17.2

So if you live in the tropics, there's a banana tree, it is produced 10 bananas, then if somebody takes the 10 bananas, you have no bananas.

1:27.2

It is not capitalistic. It is not self-generated. then if somebody takes the 10 bananas, you have no bananas.

1:29.5

It is not capitalistic.

1:31.9

It is not self-generative.

1:38.3

And it in particular does not take into account things like intellectual labor, right?

1:41.3

If I write a book, I haven't stolen a book from you.

1:49.8

If I write a song, then that song has not been stolen from anyone else.

1:56.3

So when there is a fixed amount of assets, generally because they're found assets,

2:03.5

then you have a scarcity mentality. So of course, if you think of two tribes that are hunting in the same area,

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