Why Your Life Is SO BORING... (How To Be MISERABLE For The Rest Of Your Life) | Robert Greene
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Published 2022-11-08
On Today's Episode:
Settling for your day to day routine is one of the best ways to ensure a boring unfulfilled life. When you feel unfulfilled and like everyday is filled with going through the motions, it becomes easy to turn to unhealthy, self-destructive habits. Without understanding why you feel this way, affairs, drugs, and other unhealthy addictions have the opportunity to creep in.
Robert Greene is well known for books that have shaped culture, challenged beliefs and p*ssed quite a few people off. The Daily Laws, Mastery and The 48 Laws of Power are just a few of his bestselling books.
Robert joins Tom in this epic conversation about how to look inward and uncover the root cause of the boredom that leaves you feeling like your just wasting life away. Fulfillment is key if you really want to change your life around. The path to fulfillment involves mastery and Robert breaks down our need for stress in order to get there.
Mentioned in this episode:
Monkey Fairness Experiment:
• Capuchin monkey fairness experiment
Native Son by Richard Wright: www.amazon.com/Native-Son-Richard-Wright/dp/006114…
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 | Introduction to Robert Greene
0:25 | Why Your Life Is So Boring
10:03 | Can’t Handle Change
23:40 | Admit You’re Out of Control
35:12 | Everyone Is Seeking Power
44:42 | This Is The Goal of Mastery
55:01 | Self-Absorption Kills Fulfillment
1:06:51 | Competing Ideas Can Both Be True
1:14:05 | Pain of Challenged Viewpoints
1:20:40 | This Will Transform Your Skills
QUOTES:
“...you choose things that aren’t right for you, and when you choose things that aren’t right for you, you’re not engaged emotionally and when you’re not engaged emotionally you get bored…” [2:14]
“The reason you can’t deal with change or you’re not looking at yourself is you have emotional blocks. You’re full of fear.” [12:10]
“What do you think social media is? It’s an engine of envy. It’s making you continually aware of what other people have and what you don’t have.” [27:10]
“Everything you do, everything you breathe in is a desire for power.” [39:20]
“Envy is a huge motivator of people’s behavior now. So the drive to pull other people down is really truly motivated by feelings of envy and inferiority that other people are better than you are.” [44:11]
“They want that fulfillment and I don’t care if they’re born poor and impoverished or they’re homeless, they still have that need and they have that capacity to become a master in what they do.” [49:24]
“What makes you miserable is your self-absorption in many ways.” [56:31]
“The worst form of therapy is to sit there and talk about your problems. The best form of therapy is to get outside of yourself.” [56:38]
“Craftsmanship is a high form of intellect in my viewpoint.” [1:19:58]
“Stress is good for you, [...] stress is great, stress is a wonderful drug if you know how to use it.” [1:25:19]
Follow Robert Greene:
Website: powerseductionandwar.com/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/robert-greene-0294962/
Twitter: twitter.com/RobertGreene
Instagram: www.instagram.com/robertgreeneofficial/
All Comments (21)
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WARNING: I will never ask for your contact info in the comments section, that is someone impersonating me!
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Thank you for having me on Tom. Wonderful conversation!
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Your audio is super distracting to your content. The commercial is super loud and the content is relatively quiet. Please fix this. It’s been a trend that I’ve noticed in the last few videos and it’s taking me out of what’s being said every time.
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The quality of your recordings have always been top notch. The volume level of the main recording, in contrast to the commercials, even yours....terrifying difference. This one needs to come with a loud sound warning...
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Robert looks so much healthier in this interview. It is absolutely amazing seeing how wonderfully he has been recovering.
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I could listen to Robert Greene talk all day. And most of his books stay in my rotation no matter what else I’m reading .
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You work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10K in a meme coin from just few months ago and now they are multimillionaires.....
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Bro the ad at 29:00 nearly took my head off in AirPods 😂
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Have Greene on a few dozen times, can’t get enough of you guys together
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Robert Greene has profoundly changed the way I understand my own dark side and drive for power and also how to channel it into doing good,while not lying to myself about what it really is..still a drive for power. As a woman its a very challenging thing for people to accept because its viewed as a very masculine trait.. I find his work to be incredibly important on the path to self discovery both my own and other people’s motives. Acceptance of this fact almost exclusively has been the thing that has allowed me to first,break myself down and then to put myself back together differently.. Denying these parts of ourselves is extremely dangerous,but learning to live with both parts of ourselves the light and the darkness allows us to make different choices about how we move through the world..instead of manipulating situations to get what we want,we can learn to channel these parts of ourselves to help other people get what they need and that satiates my desire to go to war for the wrong reasons and instead use it for good.. Thank you Tom for engaging in conversations that aren’t always for the faint of heart..they are so necessary.
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Is anyone going to tell Tim that his life’s work is learning to check his ego? It’s all over this interview, Robert does a great job trying to have him face the mirror.
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I'm going through a lot of changes this year loved one's passed, kids grown up and I decided to come out of retirement so I can be around people and feel like I have purpose.
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Love this interview - so important for people to hear this information. Thanks for always sharing helpful content!
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One of your best interviews ever — thank you 🙏
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OMG, Tom you should interview Tom! I could listen to you all night, you are so open and honest.
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As always, these conversations are so enlightening and help to really step back and reflect deeper. I love it! Thank you to both of you!
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This is so amazing and deep. This will help me in figure out why my life is unsatisfying but to look inward instead of finding some other distraction that helps temporarily. Thank you.
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Amazing interview 🙏, thank you so much Tom.
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Time well invested when I watch your videos Tom, you and your wife are amazing! Mr Greene is really good!
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As always, amazing interview and conversation! ❤️
