Choosing the Right Problems
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero
4.9 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
As much as we are inclined to live problem free lives, Mark Manson suggests that life is not about removing problems as much as it is about choosing the right ones.
Happiness is growth, and in essence, positioning yourself to face and conquer the problems that mean the most to you.
In this episode I dive into the task of removing that which doesn't serve you and exhausting precious time and energy only on that which does.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Pinero. |
| 0:03.5 | In this episode, we're going to take a common misconception, right? |
| 0:06.3 | The need to remove problems in life and examine how maybe it's not removing them, but surrounding yourself with the right ones. So there's a basic human tendency when, you know, things feel rocky, when there's |
| 0:33.2 | story loops unresolved, when life feels uncertain, when there are problems, right? |
| 0:42.6 | Our instinct and our inclination is to want to remove them, right? |
| 0:48.5 | To mitigate all that does not serve us, to create the calm and serenity that we hope to achieve. |
| 0:57.0 | And this is another poll from Mark Manson's book. |
| 1:02.4 | And, you know, basically his thought on this, which I love and I agree with 100% is, you know, |
| 1:10.5 | life is not about removing problems. |
| 1:13.7 | One, because they'll always be there. |
| 1:17.1 | And two, because they are fundamentally what makes humans happy. |
| 1:23.3 | We just don't realize it. |
| 1:25.6 | Right. |
| 1:26.0 | It's life is problem solving, right? Happiness is growing. We just don't realize it. |
| 1:30.3 | Life is problem solving, right? |
| 1:32.0 | Happiness is growth. |
| 1:35.6 | And growth is the culmination of problems that just get bigger and bigger and bigger. |
| 1:37.6 | And we become more and better equipped |
| 1:39.8 | to deal with these problems as they grow |
| 1:42.6 | and as they present themselves. And so life is not, |
| 1:47.3 | as he says, about mitigating problems, but it's about choosing and being methodical about which |
| 1:54.5 | problems you want in your life. What are you going to allow in your life? Where is your focus |
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