Eric Weinstein: Struggle Mightily but Give Yourself a Break | AI Podcast Clips
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00:00:02.580 | I struggle with social media
00:00:09.280 | and I struggle with just how much pain people are in.
00:00:11.960 | And if there's one message I would like to push out there,
00:00:14.960 | you're responsible, everybody, all of us,
00:00:18.480 | myself included, with struggling.
00:00:20.960 | Struggle, struggle mightily because you,
00:00:23.640 | it's nobody else's job to do your struggle for you.
00:00:26.920 | Now with that said, if you're struggling
00:00:28.660 | and you're trying and you're trying to figure out
00:00:30.720 | how to better yourself and where you've failed,
00:00:32.920 | where you've let down your family, your friends,
00:00:34.920 | your workers, all this kind of stuff,
00:00:36.900 | give yourself a break.
00:00:39.600 | You know, if it's not working out,
00:00:42.240 | I have a lifelong relationship with failure and success.
00:00:46.400 | There's been no period of my life
00:00:48.880 | where both haven't been present in one form or another.
00:00:52.040 | And I do wish to say that a lot of times
00:00:55.400 | people think this is glamorous.
00:00:57.320 | I'm about to go do a show with Sam Harris.
00:00:59.640 | People are gonna listen in on two guys
00:01:01.880 | having a conversation on stage.
00:01:03.400 | It's completely crazy.
00:01:04.640 | I'm always trying to figure out how to make sure
00:01:06.080 | that those people get maximum value
00:01:08.420 | and that's why I'm doing this podcast.
00:01:11.340 | Just give yourself a break.
00:01:14.600 | You owe us your struggle.
00:01:16.840 | You don't owe your family or your coworkers
00:01:19.240 | or your lovers or your family members success.
00:01:22.160 | As long as you're in there and you're picking yourself up,
00:01:26.040 | recognize that this new situation with the economy
00:01:29.960 | that doesn't have the juice to sustain our institutions
00:01:33.400 | has caused the people who've risen to the top
00:01:36.040 | of those institutions to get quite brutal and cruel.
00:01:39.720 | Everybody's lying at the moment.
00:01:41.440 | Nobody's really a truth teller.
00:01:43.140 | Try to keep your humanity about you.
00:01:46.400 | Try to recognize that if you're failing,
00:01:49.140 | if things aren't where you want them to be
00:01:51.280 | and you're struggling and you're trying to figure out
00:01:52.960 | what you're doing wrong, what you could do,
00:01:54.780 | it's not necessarily all your fault.
00:01:57.640 | We are in a global situation.
00:01:59.320 | I have not met the people who are honest,
00:02:02.400 | kind, good, successful.
00:02:04.560 | Nobody that I've met is checking all the boxes.
00:02:09.080 | Nobody's getting all 10s.
00:02:10.780 | So I just think that's an important message
00:02:13.680 | that doesn't get pushed out enough.
00:02:15.080 | Either people wanna hold society responsible
00:02:18.120 | for their failures, which is not reasonable.
00:02:20.320 | You have to struggle, you have to try.
00:02:22.480 | Or they wanna say you're 100% responsible
00:02:24.680 | for your failures, which is total nonsense.
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