Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Pinero. And in this episode, we're going to talk about a subtle yet incredibly important distinction. Not being led by people, but by ideas. So what do I mean by that?

Not being led by people, but ideas.

Well, what I mean is people, every single one of us, right, pushing eight billion on this planet, are flawed. And we are

self-interested. And we are human. We are not perfect and we never will be.

And I think there's a tendency in a lot of areas of life, right?

Particularly the political realm, but, you know, entertainers that we idolize or we look up to.

Maybe it's, you know, teachers, family members, just people in our lives that we follow

blindly. We believe what they believe. And there's a significant distinction between following a person

and following ideas. Following a person means that you stand for what they stand

for. It means you're more likely, you're more inclined to rationalize their mistakes. It means

you shape your world and your reality based on theirs. Following ideas means you need to be in touch with yourself. It means you need to look in the mirror and know what you stand for, what matters to you, what you value. And then you place people around you, or you allow people into your lives that share those common values.

And when they don't, you move on, right?

But you're not offering yourself up to someone else's rubric for life.

In the denial of death, Ernest Becker talks about, you know, because of the chaos that

exists in humans, right?

Our struggle juggling the, just the infinite potential of our minds and then the very

earthly dying bodies that it lives in, right?

We have a hard time juggling that dynamic.

And so we're trying to make sense of life.

And what he calls transference is putting godlike features into human beings.

And there's comfort knowing that if we place someone higher than us,

there's this little world that makes sense. There's a right and a wrong. And finally,

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