Defining Freedom in a Way that Serves You With Ryan Moran
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Moran joins us to talk about defining freedom in a way that serves us, learning to separate ourselves from our stories and much more.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Breaking away from the Beliefs of Our Past and Upbringing
- Navigating a Painful Identity Crisis
- Rebuilding Your Life after and Identity Crisis
- How Absolutes Get in Our Way
- Being Informed vs Defined by Other Perspectives
- Why We’re More Wired for Certain Tendencies
- Letting Go of Our Attachments to Success and Failure
- The Choice Between Taking a Red Pill and Blue Pill
- Lesson Learned from Losing 100,000 Dollars
- Separating Yourself from the Results in Your Life
QUOTES
There’s no getting it wrong. There’s just what is. (Click to Tweet)
We’re only defined by things we choose to be defined be. (Click to Tweet)
The pain comes in when you confuse the story with what actually happen. (Click to Tweet)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | being really honest about who you are and what you don't like, |
| 0:09.2 | that ain't easy. It is not fun to uncover all of the junk in your life. I had the same |
| 0:19.7 | counselor who told me I had mommy issues, you know, what I'm offering you here is a red pill blue pill. |
| 0:28.0 | If you take the blue pill, you can go on on meds and you can do on meds and do some counseling and get back at it and you can look back at this and say, |
| 0:38.0 | I was just being a wimp and I was going through a hard time but I'm fine now. |
| 0:42.0 | Or you can take this other pill and you're going through a hard time but I'm fine now. |
| 0:42.8 | Or you can take this other pill and you're going to go down the rabbit hole |
| 0:46.5 | of what really drives you and what's really going on in your life and you're not going |
| 0:50.4 | to like what you see and it's going to be more painful than how you feel right now, |
| 0:54.0 | but at the end you're going to be a different person. |
| 0:56.0 | And I took that pill. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built driving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely |
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