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The Yes Theory Podcast

A Global Identity Crisis

The Yes Theory Podcast

Yes Theory

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Identity...crisis? None of that here. Tune in to hear how Yes Theory deals.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There are an endless amount of variables that make up who we are.

0:17.4

From where we are born, to what kind of parents we have, and what hobbies we develop.

0:22.6

But throughout history, those variables were limited.

0:25.6

We'd be born in a village and likely stay there for most of our lives.

0:30.0

Our hobbies would be restricted to what's around us, and we'd likely end up with a similar

0:33.8

profession to our parents.

0:35.8

And just complete lack of the ability to create a middle ground in any kind of conversation,

0:41.1

because he sees why I love the most as evil.

0:45.2

And he sees my best friends as the best friends.

0:48.8

That's Amar, back in 2018, where he was cornered into making the

0:53.7

extremely challenging and life-changing decision to stand up to his dad who told him to quit

0:58.8

YouTube forever. There was a very large cultural misunderstanding of the essence behind what we were

1:05.6

trying to create. And as a result, Amar's dad cut ties with him and they didn't speak to

1:10.3

each other for three years, and are to this day only speaking on rare and important occasions.

1:16.6

I always knew that it will come where I will have to make the decision between

1:21.2

seeing my family or what we're doing here. I know that what we stand for and the purpose that

1:28.8

we're bringing this world is going to be just worth just making the hardest decision I've ever had to make.

1:43.6

In 2021, for our society as a whole, our identities are growing exponentially in complexity.

1:50.2

Our career choices have heavily expanded, with access to the internet every niche interest in

1:54.8

the world can find a community, and many people are moving to new countries, or have immigrant

1:59.6

parents and are therefore left juggling their culture of origin and their new one.

2:05.2

I just know that I'm probably one out of millions who are one of the same positions.

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