Robert Greene: Learn the Laws of Human Nature, Master Your Darkside, and Learn to Understand People Better & More
Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Impact Theory
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🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Self-awareness is that thing many people claim to have but in no time at all you know this person is completely unaware of themselves. Our versions of reality seem to fall in line with the narrative and stories we constantly remind ourselves of, but the truth is, we’ve constructed a reality shaped and influenced by emotions that were never truthful from the beginning. Robert Greene, just released another book, The Daily Laws, and he joins Tom in this episode to share his profound wisdom and understanding of human nature. He beautifully peels back the layers of complexity around how we are able to perceive the world around us and the way in which we fit into our own stories. The main point Robert drives home is the power of detaching yourself from the emotions and egos to take an honest assessment of what you are truly experiencing.
Robert Greene’s last episode on Impact Theory: https://youtu.be/4EtN3DM74Ko
Check out Robert Greene’s new book, The Daily Laws: https://amzn.to/3Bpmmk9
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 | Introduction to Robert Greene
0:51 | Reading Words and Behaviors
5:06 | Unhealthy Relationship Loops
9:25 | Developing Awareness
12:21 | Detaching Emotion & Ego
16:33 | Self Analysis & Illusion
24:33 | See the World As It Is
30:35 | Shift from Blame to Power
34:30 | Untruthful Emotions
41:42 | Change Attitude with Belief
48:42 | What Is Sublime
59:02 | Experiencing the Sublime
1:12:22 | Daily Struggle for Joy
1:18:00 | The Problem with Hope
1:25:58 | Abilities Taken for Granted
1:30:30 | Processing Data Quickly
1:36:29 | Envy & Comparison
QUOTES:
“Deal with the world the way that it actually is, and not the way that you wish it were.” Tom Bilyeu [0:26]
“We completely take appearances for reality. That's sort of the source of our problems and our misery to be honest with in life.” [1:10]
“When you're very young you're extremely vulnerable, you're extremely open to the energies of other people in ways we don't understand right now.” [6:38]
“So awareness is everything, the ability to look at yourself, realistically, and understand you're saying, see things as they are, see the world as it is. It begins with yourself, seeing yourself as you are.” [11:28]
“If we saw completely into ourselves, we would hate ourselves so thoroughly, we wouldn't get out of bed, we would all be killing ourselves, you do need a degree of illusion, you need a degree of self esteem and confidence” [20:14]
“We're so attuned to what's cool, to what other people are doing out there, what other people are saying that we lose kind of an intuitive grasp of who we are.” [22:50]
“The source of your power in life is your attitude towards the world.” [25:17]
“When you take 100% ownership, and you look at your life and say, My life is an exact reflection of choices that I've made. Now, if I want it to be different, then I just need only make different choices” Tom Bilyeu [32:39]
Follow Robert Greene:
Website: https://www.robertgreene.co/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-greene-0294962/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertGreene
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertgreeneofficial/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm super excited. I love your work beyond all reason and measure. I have loved everything |
| 0:14.3 | of yours that I've ever read. What I like about the approach that you take is you and |
| 0:21.4 | I are obsessed with a very similar idea, which I think is critically important for people |
| 0:25.2 | to understand, which is deal with the world the way that it actually is and not the way that |
| 0:30.0 | you wish it were. I think there are a few people that are able to look unflinchingly at |
| 0:36.4 | both sides of the human experience, the sublime, which you're getting into in your new book, |
| 0:41.2 | which you certainly touch on in this one, and then the dark side, the power struggles |
| 0:48.2 | and all of that. Help us understand what the world is really like. What do you think |
| 0:55.6 | is that key thing that people misunderstand? Well, the key thing is it goes back to our |
| 1:01.7 | nature and how we evolved as conscious animals. The key thing is there's an animal part |
| 1:08.2 | of our nature, which is we completely take appearances for reality. That's sort of the |
| 1:13.5 | source of our problems and our misery to be honest with in life. The front that people |
| 1:20.0 | present, the way they look, the way they talk to us, their words, we sort of take it |
| 1:25.5 | face value. Although we might think, or we might know from reading a book, whatever, |
| 1:32.6 | that you can't always trust appearances, it's kind of a cliche. We can control ourselves. |
| 1:38.8 | What makes us extremely vulnerable to charming people, to charlatans, to con artists, to |
| 1:45.3 | politicians who say one thing, who do another, to relationships, terrible relationships |
| 1:50.1 | where we fall in love with exactly the wrong person, to the worst kind of hires. I do a |
| 1:55.5 | lot of consulting work. I've been doing it for over 20 years now. The number one problem |
| 1:59.8 | I deal with is I hired the worst person in the world and they're making my life hell. |
| 2:05.4 | Why did you hire the wrong person? Because you judge them on their charming smiles, their |
| 2:09.9 | appearance, their smooth talk, their resume, which you can conceal a lot with your resume. |
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