To Anyone Feeling Lost & Unhappy In Life, Find Meaning with Liz Gilbert

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Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Are brilliant women doomed to be unhappy? Elizabeth Gilbert reveals the hidden traps keeping creative women stuck, and why people pleasing might kill you.

WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

00:00 - Feeling lost? Do this now

04:40 - Why Marie and Liz decided not to have kids

09:15 - The shocking way people pleasing (literally) kills you

13:50 - THIS sneaky mindset habit steals 7 years of your life

17:00 - The 5-minute routine to heal trauma

24:30 - The #1 tool you need to make confident decisions

27:17 - How to love your work & prevent burnout

32:00 - The "garbage hours" trick for taking back your time

45:45 - Why Liz shaved her head

55:04 - The mindset trick that sold 30 million books

01:08:00 - The "greedy" secret to building the life of your dreams

01:12:50 - Liz's secret desire she's never revealed before

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LETTERS FROM LOVE: Join 120,00 people practicing radical self-love with Liz Gilbert's "Letters From Love" project → https://www.elizabethgilbert.substack.com

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0:00.0	For women who feel lost and unmotivated and unhappy, what would you say are the three to five biggest things keeping them from a life of their tastes?
0:09.0	Holy moly, we're jumping right into that.
0:10.5	Are you shying me? We're just going, we're just going, we're just going... We're just going straight into it, Marie Forlio.
0:15.5	Okay, I'm actually going to narrow it down to one for the sake of efficiency and this is a tried and true piece of wisdom because it comes from the
0:24.8	Bhagita that's like 7,000 years old right so this is time worn and tested there's a
0:29.4	line in the Bhagita that says it is better to live your own life imperfectly than to live a perfect
0:36.5	imitation of somebody else's life which feels like some influencer just put that on
0:42.4	Instagram like with a really pretty background, but it's
0:46.3	from like one of the deepest, most ancient sacred texts and it's that. Like I think it's that.
0:53.0	Like I think it's that for women.
0:55.0	And I know this because I spent my 20s creating a perfect imitation of somebody else's life and it was note perfect.
1:07.6	I mean it was Christmas card perfect it was Hallmark Channel perfect and and I was dying inside of it and the way that I'm living now
1:18.6	35 years later is is completely different from that and very displeasing in its form to culture and family.
1:29.0	Your friend in mind, Martha Beck often says that if you want to be free it's quite
1:34.1	simple you just have to walk away from culture and family in other words it's not
1:39.5	simple but what she means by that is not necessarily literally never seeing your family again or moving to another country which of course you can do that if you need to both of those things.
1:49.0	But walking away from everything that you were taught as a woman would make you be a good and most of all pleasing
1:57.3	woman. I think that's what kills women is what they were taught by family and what they were taught by culture.
2:03.4	It's what killed me and the closer I get to living that way
2:06.3	the farther I get from myself and the more I want to die.
2:08.6	And the closer I get to living my true self imperfectly, the less I want to die and the more displeasing
2:16.8	I am to the world and I'm fine with that.
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