The Seductive Lie of a Great Idea – Epi-3688

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

People love to say they’ve got a great idea, how it’s going to change everything, make them rich, or finally set them free. The problem is, most of them never do a damn thing with it. They talk, they plan, they wait, and nothing happens. I’ve had great ideas too. One could’ve made real money. I did nothing with it. That’s not a lesson, it’s a warning. An idea without action is worthless. Worse, it becomes life cancer, the habit of telling yourself you’ll get to it someday. That habit stacks up. It drags down your personal life, then leaks … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	There's a better way to do this.
0:08.8	Let me show you a better way.
0:16.9	And we are live.
0:18.4	Welcome folks to a Monday morning.
0:22.2	There was some chatter on the GFTB course, Telegram where we're doing the first inauguration, all wave of the GPP course today about Mondays and hating people that love Mondays.
0:37.1	Yeah, I hope those folks change their tune because when you run your own thing,
0:41.4	then Mondays are actually pretty good.
0:43.0	I mean, there's always those times when you're like Monday, because we enjoy our time off.
0:48.7	But when you love what you do, you also love the work.
0:52.4	And we're going to talk about how to get there today with the concept of
0:55.4	the seductive lie of a great idea and this is always been one of kind of my laws of life when I talk
1:03.5	about it and I am working on the second book in the series Laws of Life too and I was working on the
1:10.3	chapter on this subject this weekend and decided we'd make a good
1:13.6	show.
1:14.0	So the chapter's not even finished, but we're going to do an episode on it anyway.
1:17.5	And I want to explain what I mean by about the seductive lie of a great idea.
1:24.4	And I want you to let that word sink in seductive. Seductive. And so think of whatever
1:31.5	would be seductive to you, whether it's a really beautiful woman or a piece of cheesecake or
1:36.6	whatever, like just seductive. The concept of the idea being a seductive lie is that it leads you to inaction.
1:48.0	And you're going to hear about something I call life cancer today, where you have this little
1:53.1	thing that recurs over and over and over and it destroys your potential, which is what
1:58.5	cancer does to the body.
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