Some Misconceptions About Life

Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero

Eddie Pinero

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It's not what you look at, it's what you see.

In this episode, I discuss some commonly held misconceptions about life and what we can do about them.

#1. Life is Fair: We are essentially presented a choice, remain immobilized by cosmic injustices OR make the most with the hands we have been dealt. As the stoics say, accept what you cannot control, change what you can.

#2. Knowledge is King: Knowledge alone is a car without wheels. Knowledge plus execution, on the other hand, can take you anywhere.

#3. There is a Right Way: No one has all the answers. There is not a right or wrong way. There are simply 8 billion souls on the planet trying to figure life out as it comes.

#4. Discomfort is a Negative: As counterintuitive as it seems, life's greatest opportunities are a product of its most challenging moments.

#5. People Think About You Often: Humans tend to be self-interested and are most likely thinking about themselves, not you. Remember that next time you are inclined to alter you decision-making based on the "opinions" of others.

#6 Happiness is Acquired: Happiness can't be found. It starts internally and is projected out.

#7. There is Always Tomorrow: Tomorrow is not certain. Our trips around the sun are finite. Let's treat every day like the precious commodity it truly is.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Pinero.
0:04.8	And in this episode, we're going to rethink some commonly held misconceptions about life
0:09.3	and see how a perspective shift can change the world around us. There's just saying it's not what you look at.
0:27.8	It's what you see.
0:30.0	I was kind of digging through the well yesterday.
0:33.6	I was looking at some really old YouTube videos,
0:35.8	and I found one that kind of slipped through the cracks.
0:39.2	I was going through it and it really resonated with me because at the time it was eight things,
0:46.4	eight misconceptions about life. And I'm listening to the video and I'm like, you know what,
0:51.5	this has not changed at all. In fact, these things continue
0:55.7	to reappear in different ways, in different contexts. And just going through the video was it
1:01.8	was helpful for me. And I'm hoping that you guys would be able to take something from this as well.
1:07.3	So I'm going to kind of go through what I believe are some misconceptions about life
1:13.6	and how a simple rewiring, a simple perspective shift can change that. So let's start with the basics.
1:21.3	Let's start with life is fair, right? The belief that virtue will always be rewarded, that things always come out the way they should.
1:30.1	Because the reality is everyone is dealt a different hand in life. The reality is there are things
1:36.3	that are uncontrollable. Everyone's situation is different and a lot of that is beyond the control of the individual, right? That's something human
1:47.5	beings have grappled with forever, trying to explain misfortune, trying to understand why things
1:54.4	happen the way they do. But the reality is things will not always be equal, perfect, or fair.
2:02.5	So the question then becomes,
2:08.7	how do you play your hand? Do you point out and blame the world or do you point in as the fixer?
2:17.0	Life becomes easier and more manageable when you start from the premise of, look, things aren't fair, but you have two options, right? You can be
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