Shape Your World, Don’t Be Shaped By It

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

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🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Every one of us influences the world, but most of us don’t realize this. We focus instead on how much the world has influenced us. Martha points out that we can change this by shifting our attention. If we pay the most attention to people and events that have harmed us, those things will shape us. If we put our energy toward the people and events that have impacted us in positive ways, we can reshape the world as we experience it. (Originally aired: Nov. 23, 2020)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.
0:08.5	And today we are going to talk about, I'm going to jump right in. I'm going to talk about how
0:15.2	to shape the world instead of letting it shape you. I actually say the world, how to shape the world. That is a brash claim.
0:23.4	But I think every one of us has an impact on the world. We create the shape of the world in little
0:29.9	tiny ways. Some people have vast influence. Some people have small influence, but the world is
0:35.4	always different because someone lived in it,
0:37.5	no matter how small you may feel. Now, most of us allow the world to shape us without question.
0:44.6	We're sort of born into a fully running machine that kind of sucks us up and tells us what to be,
0:52.7	and then we become that. And this week I've been thinking a lot about it because I've been reading this book by
1:00.0	my friend Elizabeth Lesser, who is one of the founders of the Omega Institute.
1:04.0	I don't know if any of you ever went to the Omega Institute.
1:07.0	It's a place in upstate New York where they have retreats and so on.
1:13.4	And it's really, really cool.
1:15.8	And I've been lucky enough to present there several times.
1:18.4	I'm going to hold this one up again because it's a really, really, really good book.
1:23.4	And it's about adding the female side of the narrative of humanity to the history so that it becomes, you know, in feminist circles, they say there's his story and then there's her story.
1:38.3	I prefer our story. And that's what Elizabeth writes about too. So it's not, it's about balancing the world.
1:47.0	It's not about men versus women or gender or anything like that. It's just that one type of
1:53.1	social pressure has been creating what we all aspire to for hundreds of years. And it's not
1:58.2	working that well. So you probably know that Cassandra was a figure
2:02.7	in Greek mythology who had the ability to tell the future, but a curse that she would be able to
2:10.0	see the future and talk about it, but no one would ever believe her. So I know a lot of you have talked about different types of struggles and trauma
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