Dr. Phil on Freedom, Family & the True Meaning of Independence | The REAL Story
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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What does it really mean to be independent? Do we take it for granted, because we don't want to take risk? Dr. Phil asks how you - how we as a nat- truly exercise our independence, and if we living our lives to the fullest.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I never know when I'm going to wake up thinking, feeling philosophical. |
| 0:05.7 | And with July 4th upon us, I kind of feel like just having a conversation with you |
| 0:11.6 | about surprise, surprise, independence. |
| 0:15.5 | Not just necessarily Independence Day, but independence. |
| 0:26.7 | So today, the real story is I woke up thinking what it really means individually, family-wise, culturally, to be independent. And I was wondering if I think about it enough, if I appreciate it, can I even really define it? |
| 0:46.7 | And a big question, I guess, that jumps out is do I exercise my independence? |
| 0:52.0 | And obviously, I ask you the same. Do you? And how do you exercise, |
| 0:58.9 | live and experience your independence? I'm not asking this rhetorically. I'm really asking, |
| 1:04.5 | do we really live independently? Or do we just kind of wake up and jump into a river of life and just flow |
| 1:13.0 | wherever it takes us? You don't really make choices. We don't really exercise independence. |
| 1:18.2 | We just are reactive. Now, three things hit me. Number one, I take it for granted. It's so easy to get in a comfort zone. Now, what do I mean |
| 1:32.2 | about comfort zone? I've done a lot of research on this over the years. I've talked to a lot of |
| 1:37.1 | groups about it. And one of the things that's most limiting is we do get comfortable. We get comfortable in our lives |
| 1:45.6 | and we do what's easy because we don't want to take risk. But think about it. How about we all go |
| 1:55.2 | back and do the third grade over again? That'd be easy, right? It would be comfortable, right? But we already know how to do |
| 2:02.1 | everything that's in the third grade. That would be comfortable. It wouldn't challenge us. |
| 2:06.7 | We wouldn't grow from it. We would just go in there, and it would be so boring. It wouldn't |
| 2:12.5 | challenge us. Are we doing that again? I mean, think about your life. |
| 2:18.6 | Is each year stretching you to something new? |
| 2:23.8 | Are you doing a new year next year than this year, or are you doing the same year over and over again 20 times in a row? |
| 2:33.9 | And you really have to think about what I just said. |
| 2:36.5 | I'm thinking about what I just said. If we're doing the same thing year after year after year, |
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