Charlie Harary discusses how media and materialism affect expectations and self-perception.
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[Music] okay good morning everybody everybody's well happy wednesday for those who are live happy whatever day week it is for you thanks so much for joining us on the booth we've been talking about this idea of overcoming or controlling romantic desire or controlling romantic desire as a strategy for being more successful in life if you are if you're being moved and controlled by somebody else's life it's not gonna really work out for you and you're not gonna really become great in life if you've got a lot of negative energy just doesn't work you don't really see great people with a lot of negative energy just doesn't just doesn't connect now you need positivity to go forward but if a lot of your life is a lot of but if a lot of your life is a lot of our lives is measuring ourselves against other people or overcoming our lacks because we have a desire we didn't know we had we're not going to have enough energy to get stuff done yesterday we spoke about this idea of the eyes diet right we have all these diets out the mediterranean diet soulful diet keto diet every there's like a new thing every week about like a way to lose weight because someone went on like an island and saw
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- 0:00[Music] okay good morning everybody everybody's well happy wednesday for those who are live happy whatever…
- 1:03but if a lot of your life is a lot of our lives is measuring ourselves…
- 2:38as a result the desires you have that take place memetically because you see something and…
- 3:40know just just started saying that thing people change their lives people go into professions people…
- 5:13to becoming wealthy so it makes sense that if you just try hard of course you'll…
- 6:46and right this show the blue started in covet and it started because we wanted to…
- 7:47not like light is in not serious light is in light versus darkness so he calls…
- 9:19this like we could do it mentality you know we've gotten through worse and so after…
- 10:20it was really scary it was doom and gloom there was a ticker with all the…
- 11:51yelling and screaming at this politician and this action and this thing and that thing and…
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