Daily Boost Ep 387: Extracting Our Greatness

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Charlie Harary’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] okay good morning everybody everybody is well happy thursday talking about the first sin adam eve victims blaming comfort of being a victim i'm not talking about real victims of course there's a rhetoric there's a way of blaming other people of seeing the circumstances around our lives as being overwhelming and unable to be fixed and the reason is because we can't fix it but we're not meant to fix it we're meant to fix us we're not meant to fix it so we may not be able to control most of life but we're not meant to we're meant to control ourselves and how we react this is some of the great research by a man named victor frankel in his famous book man's search for meaning where victor frankel realized the nazis took everything from them but there was one thing that they could not take from him which is his response that was his he took away his food and his clothing his dignity they even took away his ability to predict his own life but they couldn't take away his response to it that was uniquely his he can choose how to respond and he couldn't control the circumstances around him but he could control himself and the realization there is always something that i can control me gave him a certain level of purpose and meaning and dignity and human dignity and that that's another major mistake that we make is we think that we're trying to control it and when you try to control it and you're not successful the i can't stuff starts to creep in but we're not meant to control it we're meant to control us and when we see that as ourselves and that's our goals to circle back to something we've been talking about

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1. 0:05[Music] okay good morning everybody everybody is well happy thursday talking about the first sin adam…
2. 1:38but there was one thing that they could not take from him which is his response…
3. 3:10which is this idea of the last three have to kill this idea that it is…
4. 5:13greatness through the pain you know we have two if you look at it you know…
5. 6:47and in judaism in particular we bring it out at different times we bring it out…
6. 8:51and so we bring out wine at happy occasions whenever there's a holiday we bring out…
7. 10:24for it's how do we deal with it it's how do we extract it because there…
8. 11:55create better in this world i leverage gifts talents and resources so that other people can…
9. 13:56but that's our responsibility it's not to control the world our responsibility is to control ourselves…
10. 15:32let me train myself how to extract lessons from life let me train myself how to…

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