Collaboration Over Competition | Dr. John Delony EP 562

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dr. John Delony believes that narcissism and self-interest are on the rise because we've abandoned traditional values and narratives that bind us together. He advocates restoring a sense of service, collaboration, and "us over me" to find fulfillment, create warmth, and build stronger relationships. Delony uses an evocative analogy - comparing relationships to the 9/11 towers - to argue that we must let go of the past and build something new after hardship. Overall, he makes a thoughtful case that wholehearted service to others and community provides meaning and purpose.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	There seems to be a trend of narcissism, self-interest, and my feelings and my beliefs are the things that matter most.
0:22.0	So you need to change, this system
0:23.8	need to change, everything needs to change to fit my feelings and protect my
0:27.3	feelings. Why do you think that is happening? We've clipped all of the common strings that bind us together with a common story.
0:35.7	However long you think the Earth has been around, our relationship to our gods told us what we're going to wear,
0:41.2	what your role is, what whose job is what job, what our values are, what you do and don't do,
0:47.0	there's been tons of oppression, I'm not saying it's all great, I'm just saying that's the way it works.
0:50.0	And then we cut all the strings. None of that's real guys.
0:53.7	If it can't be randomized control double blind
0:56.7	studied, it's not real.
0:57.9	It doesn't exist.
0:59.5	And so as beings created to worship, whether you're an atheist or not, as beings created to be in service of something.
1:07.0	If there's nothing to be in service of other than the self, then you are the supreme ruler of your world. You're a
1:14.7	Sarah universe. You're a pharo. You will bow before me and we have a whole
1:19.7	generation of people saying you know you bow before me no no you bow before me.
1:22.4	Then you get
1:23.5	chaos which is what we have instead of saying what if we all just went to the
1:27.2	moon can we figure that out all right do that it's going to the moon and what if we, how can I love you today instead of, this is how I'm wired?
1:37.1	I give answers.
1:38.3	One of those ways you're going to end up sleeping outside by yourself.
1:41.6	One of those ways creates warmth in your home right and so what
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