869 | Morty Lefkoe: “Events Have No Inherent Meaning.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
THIS is one of the most important things anyone can ever learn: It means what you make it mean. On today's episode, Morty Lefkoe discusses the fact that the events of our lives have no inherent meaning. Just the meaning we give them.
Source: How to Stop Suffering: Morty Lefkoe at TEDxHoboken
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QOD is, events have no inherent meaning. |
| 0:06.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:30.9 | Welcome back to the QOD of the day show. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm your host, Sean Crox and it's Sean Crox. |
| 0:35.9 | It's dot com. |
| 0:36.8 | We got a brand new speaker on the show today. |
| 0:38.6 | His name is Morty, left. |
| 0:40.3 | Cohen today. |
| 0:40.9 | Morty is going to share some of the greatest wisdom, I guess, |
| 0:46.4 | I'll call it. |
| 0:47.1 | I've ever gotten in my whole entire life took a seminar. |
| 0:50.6 | Maybe sheesh. |
| 0:53.3 | Damn 12 years ago. |
| 0:55.3 | And the biggest takeaway from this seminar was this. |
| 1:00.7 | That human beings are meaning making machines. |
| 1:05.9 | And the events in your life, they mean whatever you make them mean. |
| 1:10.8 | And just knowing that, just reflecting on that, accepting that gives you a new |
| 1:19.1 | vantage point from which to look at your life and the things that happen. |
| 1:23.7 | It allows you to step back and just ask yourself, what am I making this mean? |
| 1:29.3 | Is there another way to look at this? |
| 1:31.9 | Can it mean something else? |
| 1:33.9 | Or do I have to cling to this meaning that I'm giving it that's making me feel terrible? |
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