Moment 139: "Your Inner Voice Is Limiting You!" How To Control The Negative Inner Thoughts: Mo Gowdat

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this moment, ex-chief business officer for Google X, Mo Gawdat asks the question, ‘what are the illusions that you are living under’? Mo believes, that for all of us, our view of reality is an illusion, and this can often become limiting or imprisoning. Too often this viewpoint of reality can lead to an identity you form that you feel that you have to stick with and cannot break away from. Furthermore, Mo says that for a lot of people, inner conflict comes when your actions don’t match with the inner feelings you have, so you don’t feel as if you’re fully complete. To overcome this, Mo says that we need to find balance within ourselves and that this balance can be broken down to smaller, more manageable sections that you can improve on every single day, as ultimately, this search for inner balance is a constant journey. Listen to the full episode here: https://g2ul0.app.link/n9c6KH2qlFb Watch the Episodes On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Mo Gowdat: https://www.instagram.com/mo_gawdat/?hl=en https://www.mogawdat.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The basics here, which is the title of the first chapter of your book.
0:08.0	And it feels like the first chapter really kind of introduces some of the inspiration behind you why you wrote the book you talk a lot about your wife and
0:16.1	the illusions that you live under. What are the illusions that you live under or you lived under? Again, let's think about the bigger picture first.
0:27.0	Everything that you haven't visited and investigated
0:31.0	and arrived at a competent,
0:34.3	at a competent conviction that this is your own view
0:39.5	is probably an illusion, okay?
0:41.7	Which is quite striking because for a man like me who spends a lot of his time reflecting, we're
0:49.6	surround, we're submerged in illusions, okay? Everything from the value of a you know a
0:56.0	branded bag all the way to you know what the TV is telling us what the government is
1:01.8	supposed to do and all of that stuff.
1:05.0	Unless you've reflected on it and said, okay, I'm being told this, I'm, you know,
1:11.0	behaving this way, which might be contradicting what I've been told but I'm feeling that way
1:16.5	which might be a third contradiction and where is my reality? It's safe to assume that this was an illusion.
1:21.7	So a big part of that little voice in your head
1:24.9	is an admission of all of the mistakes I made
1:27.8	using that machine in my life, or not all but many,
1:31.4	not even many, but many mistakes that I've made using this machine not all of them there are many
1:36.6	more mistakes one I think the biggest of them was a conviction in my early years that my kids were a burden. My family was a responsibility.
1:47.4	Okay? Which does happen when they come to life when you're very young. I mean I had Ali when I was 25, I was just
1:56.2	26 and I got married when I was 25 so basically you start to feel responsible you
2:05.8	start to prioritize work you start to go out in that treadmill you know the
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