Using Idealism To Create Happiness - 0073
Personality Hacker Podcast
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🗓️ 6 July 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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In this episode Joel and Antonia talk about knowing the difference between idealism making us happy vs idealism causing us pain.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi welcome back to the personality hacker podcast my name is Joe Mark Witt and I'm |
| 0:05.2 | Antonia Dodge in May of 1961 the president of the time John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| 0:11.0 | JFK stood up and gave a speech about, he gave a speech talking about |
| 0:18.0 | how he had this dream, this idea of putting a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s right this is |
| 0:25.3 | 1961 the space program was just starting to like pick up space travel was something |
| 0:30.8 | that was interesting to people around this time period and he |
| 0:33.3 | basically went before Congress I think it was and said I would like us to see us put a man |
| 0:38.1 | on the moon as a country by the end of the decade and it actually happened in 1969 but in 1961 can you imagine sitting |
| 0:46.9 | hearing him talk in 1961 when this was so far out of range for anybody to even remotely think is possible to sit there and |
| 0:56.0 | listen to JFK talked about putting a man on the moon I mean think about what that |
| 0:59.8 | might have been like in 961 how idealistic that must have sounded to people at the time. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, right. Well, and I think it was something that was meant to galvanize the country because there was a Cold |
| 1:15.6 | war going on and there was a race in multiple different ways but one of them was a |
| 1:20.6 | technological race to get to the moon. |
| 1:23.1 | So it probably sounded like it would be awesome if it happened. |
| 1:27.0 | And I'm sure a lot of people were like, yeah, I doubt it's gonna. |
| 1:31.3 | In fact, there's still people who believe it didn't. Oh yeah. There's people who believe that you know that the whole thing was staged. |
| 1:37.7 | You know like a Hollywood studio on a sound stage or something. Yeah, so that's how idealistic it was. Is that even I mean I don't know if I've run |
| 1:44.4 | into a lot of people at this stage 50 years later that believe that but I'm sure there's |
| 1:47.8 | got to be people and so it was so unbelievable it was so unrealistic so idealistic that even after it happened people didn't |
| 1:56.7 | believe it happened. So that's what we're talking about today we're talking |
| 1:59.2 | about idealism how does it help us how does it hurt us Is it something we can use for our benefit or is it something that's detrimental? |
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