In It Together: Nobody Opts Out of the Human Condition
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
We tend to think that once we get to a certain place in life, everything just gets all dreamy. And, that makes us sometimes hold those who we look to as teachers and leaders to a different standard. But, what if we're all just in it together? What if life happens, humanity and all of its stumbles and struggles, highs and lows, grace and grind, no matter how far we get into a path of discovery? Nobody gets to opt out of the human condition.
What if leading and living a good life wasn't about learning and practicing our way out of the realities of day-to-day existence, but rather owning the fact that, no matter what may come our way, the essential ingredients for a meaningful existence are here, in front of us, in each moment? Even the hard ones. What if a good life is not a place at which we arrive, but a lens through which we see and create our world?
That's what we're talking about in today's GLP Riff. And, as part of that discussion, we offer a question to ask that just might guide better decisions as we tell the story of our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm sitting here today and I'm kind of tired and it's been a challenging few days |
| 0:12.2 | or maybe even a few weeks capped off by some tech meltdowns and some all sorts of different |
| 0:19.1 | small things that have added up to struggle. |
| 0:22.8 | And on the guy who goes out there in the world and says, you know, there are ways and |
| 0:27.5 | practices on the failure three good life buckets guy, you know, like deep into connection, |
| 0:33.4 | make that bucket overflowing deep into contribution and overflow it and fill that vitality bucket. |
| 0:40.4 | And you know, there's this interesting thing that happens in the world of spirituality |
| 0:46.9 | and quote self help personal development, positive psychology, living your life well. |
| 0:55.6 | And that is, I don't know, for lack of a better word, this thing that I call shiny happy |
| 1:01.0 | life syndrome. |
| 1:03.4 | And it's this notion that, you know, just because you're on the path where you're devoting |
| 1:12.4 | a substantial amount of your time and energy to figuring stuff out, somehow you get to opt |
| 1:17.4 | out of the day to day reality of they're being awesome days along the way. |
| 1:24.2 | They're being moments of profound elevation and connection and deep and meaningful purpose |
| 1:30.8 | and contribution and elevation and also moments that just outright suck. |
| 1:39.5 | And we're not supposed to own that, right? |
| 1:42.2 | You know, when you're in this space of writing books or speaking about it or for those |
| 1:46.6 | who coach or for those who are professionals or practitioners in the space, they're supposed |
| 1:51.0 | to be like this wall. |
| 1:53.2 | And I wonder sometimes whether we're doing a disservice because everyone I know who |
| 1:59.9 | is out there trying to do good work as in some way, shape, or form a professional who |
| 2:05.5 | is helping who is trying to mentor to coach, to speak, to think, to lift to God. |
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