Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Why does it sound like it takes war or conflict or something extremely scary out there

for us to come together and start to transform as well as people.

You know, we're a myopic bunch, you know. Human beings are very dopamine-driven. You know, find the food, look for shelter, you know, then do it again. And long-term planning is not really our strength as a species.

Because long-term planning exists in our imaginations,

I better save money for the day that I retire 60 years from now.

You know, it's just like, well, or I could just buy now

because it feels better, right?

We're just, we're bad at it.

We're bad as governments at it.

We're bad as individuals at it.

We're just bad at it.

We're not engineered for it.

And so I think, I think, uh, that's a part of it.

Um, and what near deathdeath experiences do or competitive threats do is there tangible reminders of what could be. Because again, we're tangibly driven animals, right? We love tangibility metrics, things we can see.

You know, you hear a bump in the night, you have to go look for it, you know? And so, uh, it makes it real. Um, so even the global threats have existed

since the fall of the Soviet Union, now that you can see one, you know, now you can give it a name

and a flag, you know, in a language.

It becomes a real thing.

And I think the same goes for new death experiences.

It's like my mortality, which was something that I didn't think about, is now real.

Which is why I ask old people for advice.

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