"Dream Food" And Other Lies About Fulfillment

Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Courses, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Culture teaches us that scrambling up peaks of achievement is a worthy goal—and that when we reach the pinnacle of success, we'll finally be happy. The problem is, not everyone can reach the very top. And even for those who do, achieving that goal doesn't make them happy. Wondering how this could be? Martha and Ro offer a theory: We're climbing the wrong mountain! Join them for this fun episode as they break down the cultural myths surrounding success and fulfillment and point you toward true happiness.

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0:00.0	So, Rowie, hey. We just finished an episode of bewildered. We did, and it was such a fun one, I thought. I had fun. We were talking all about how, like, what we think of as happiness and fulfillment if we listen to
0:16.4	what the culture is trying to sell us what it really is is an unnatural state of
0:22.0	hysteria.
0:25.0	And even our dictation software turned what we were saying into something culture bound you will hear all about it.
0:35.0	Yes, I think we've got a good spin on achievement and fulfillment for you today.
0:42.0	Hope you enjoy the episode.
0:44.5	You know, what I'm seeing out in the world
0:46.4	is a lot of fear and a growing amount of despair.
0:51.2	Maybe you're feeling that way too because the ways our culture has taught us to navigate the world to navigate our lives they are failing us
1:01.1	We need a new language. We need a new set of tools to find our way individually and as a group.
1:08.0	And I know we can still do this. I put everything I do know about it into Wayfinder Life Coach Training and the tools that I teach there are to help people redefine how we relate to each other, how we make a living, how we do community. We can only change the world
1:25.8	for the better if we redefine how we think and the world needs wayfinders now more than
1:31.9	ever. So please go to Martha beg.com and you'll find
1:36.7	your way. Hi, I'm Martha Beck.
1:45.0	And I'm Rowan Mangan, and this is another episode of Bewelded, the podcast for people
1:49.8	trying to figure it out.
1:51.8	Yes, indeed. What are you trying to figure out today, Row? Well Marty, it's funny you should ask that.
1:58.2	It's not really. It's part of, it's a convention of our show. We do it every week. It's not funny at all. Yeah. It's one of our little things that people either love or hate about it.
2:08.0	Even love or hate. Make good choice folks. There's like two people out there right now going, wait this stuff is
2:14.8	like planned out in advance. They seem so natural.
2:18.3	Look here it is. We live in the age as you know of the internet. Oh really? Yeah and what I want to talk about today is how
2:29.0	Your son my stepson Adam Berg and I I, Rowan Mangan, are very alike in one aspect of our use of the internet.
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