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🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | First thing I teach our coaches in our program that we have is something called eudaimonology. |
0:13.0 | So I like to playfully say, if you were thinking ancient wisdom and modern science, and you invited Aristotle as a proxy for ancient wisdom, right? And Martin Seligman, |
0:22.3 | the founder of the positive psychology movement as a proxy for modern science. He said, |
0:26.5 | hey, guys, what's the ultimate game we're playing? What's the true meaning of life? Aristotle |
0:31.5 | would answer you in one word. It would be eudaimonia. Without thinking about it. This is what he |
0:37.1 | believed. Eudemonia literally means good soul. Without thinking about it. This is what he believed. You dimonia literally means good |
0:40.1 | soul. We translate it as happiness, but it's a really weak translation. It means something |
0:44.4 | closer to flourishing, actualizing your potential. That's the purpose of life. The sumum bonum, |
0:49.7 | he said, the highest good. You go to Martin Seligman and you say, hey, what do you think, right, |
0:54.6 | Mr. |
1:00.6 | scientist? You look at his books. His most recent book is called Flourish, which is he goes from learned optimism, authentic happiness, flourish, which is the English, the better English |
1:04.8 | translation of Eudaimonia. It's the same one word answer, from our ancient wisdom and modern |
1:09.6 | sciences. Then you say, okay, guys, that's nice. |
1:12.0 | The ultimate purpose is to actualize our potential. |
1:14.6 | How do we do that? |
1:15.8 | Aresconell again. |
1:17.3 | Unequivocally, no hesitation, one word, Aratei. |
1:20.4 | Which, if I had to summarize my entire philosophy, I would summarize it in this. |
1:24.3 | Aratee. in this, a rite. We translate that as virtue or excellence, but it has a deeper meaning, |
1:28.6 | something closer to expressing the best within yourself moment to moment to moment. As you know, |
1:33.7 | I often talk about the lines. If you're capable of doing, there we go, if you're capable of doing |
1:38.2 | this and you're actually doing that and there's a gap, that's where regret, anxiety, disillusion, |
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