Speaker 1: Don't make sacrifices for people if you're going to make
Speaker 1: them pay for it, because then it's not a sacrifice.
Speaker 1: Then it's a transaction. Right. Don't give people discounts if
Speaker 1: you're then going to ask for payment, because then it
Speaker 1: wasn't a discount. Does that make sense? If you say
Speaker 1: I did all of this for you, but now I
Speaker 1: want you to pay it back, then you didn't really
Speaker 1: do it for them. You did it for you. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you have to do anything for someone,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying if you are going to do it,
Speaker 1: then this is how you want to think about. Hey, everyone,
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Speaker 1: And today we're talking about the nine mistakes we make
Speaker 1: in relationships, the nine mistakes we make in love and relationships.
Speaker 1: This is for each and every one of you, whether
Speaker 1: you're in a relationship, whether you are single, whether you
Speaker 1: just broke up. This is one of those episodes that
Speaker 1: I think you're going to share with friends, you're going
Speaker 1: to keep coming back to. I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of you are going to listen to what I say
Speaker 1: today and then be passing it on to other people
Speaker 1: in your life, because these mistakes are mistakes we make
Speaker 1: again and again, and no matter how much we hear them,
Speaker 1: no matter how much we learn them, when we find
Speaker 1: someone new, when it feels fresh again, we forget. It's
Speaker 1: amazing how when things feel fresh, we forget. It's amazing
Speaker 1: how when we're experiencing lost or chemistry, we forget the
Speaker 1: lessons that we learned from previous connections. I don't want
Speaker 1: you to forget them. I don't want to forget them.
Speaker 1: And these come from coaching conversations I have, They come
Speaker 1: from clients, They come from friends and family members that
Speaker 1: I speak to about relationships. So the first mistake we
Speaker 1: make in love and relationships is we make someone our everything.
Speaker 1: We make that person our purpose, we make them our passion.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. A person cannot be your passion.
Speaker 1: A person cannot be your purpose. Your purpose is not
Speaker 1: a person. You can love a person, you can admire them,
Speaker 1: you can enjoy time with them, you can appreciate them deeply,
Speaker 1: but your purpose and passion are separate. And when we
Speaker 1: make someone our everything, we lose ourselves. We lose parts
Speaker 1: of ourselves that we haven't even found yet. When you
Speaker 1: make someone your everything, the reason it's a mistake is
Speaker 1: because your everything is now dependent on an independent mind.
Speaker 1: Think about that for a second. The reason it's a
Speaker 1: mistake is because your happiness your joy is now dependent
Speaker 1: on an independent mind, body, and consciousness. Now they're independence,
Speaker 1: rules your feelings, their choices, decipher your mood, their behavior
Speaker 1: and approach. Inflict pain or pleasure onto how you feel
Speaker 1: on any given day. Give the remote control to your
Speaker 1: heart and emotions to this individual. They didn't ask for it,
Speaker 1: they didn't take it from you, they didn't force you,
Speaker 1: but you gave it. You gave it away. And when
Speaker 1: you make them your everything, you lose everything else. Someone
Speaker 1: can be important to you, but there's a difference when
Speaker 1: you make them your everything. When you cancel plans, you
Speaker 1: change friends, you shift your whole entire being. The other
Speaker 1: challenges is that a lot of this comes from our
Speaker 1: search almost in a divine in a way. We're looking
Speaker 1: for divinity in humanity. We're looking for that divine godlike individual,
Speaker 1: whether we're religious or not. We're looking for that individual
Speaker 1: who is infallible, that person who's omniscient, the person who
Speaker 1: knows what we're thinking and how we're feeling. We're looking
Speaker 1: for that divine individual looking for divinity and humanity, and
Speaker 1: what does that leave us with insecurity and anxiety? When
Speaker 1: you look for divinity and humanity, you're left with insecurity
Speaker 1: and anxiety. Because there is divinity within humanity, but it's
Speaker 1: not the complete divinity, because it's covered over, it's muddy,
Speaker 1: it's messy. The consciousness has some purification that it requires,
Speaker 1: and so when we put our everything into something that
Speaker 1: is fallible, it is bound to let us down. But
Speaker 1: when we think it's infallible, we are programming ourselves to
Speaker 1: believe that, well, this person's by everything, they will never
Speaker 1: let me down. But they will, So we set ourselves
Speaker 1: up for disappointment. We set ourselves up for being disheartened
Speaker 1: and feeling dejected. So instead of making someone you're everything,
Speaker 1: instead of making someone the most significant person, make them important,
Speaker 1: make them feel loved, but don't lose yourself in the process.
Speaker 1: How do you practically do that? First of all, you
Speaker 1: have your routines that are yours, your rituals, your routines
Speaker 1: that are you by yourself. Do you know what it
Speaker 1: is that you enjoy to do by yourself? Or you
Speaker 1: keep doing that? The second thing is you have your
Speaker 1: passions and purpose to pursue. You don't trade your passion
Speaker 1: and purpose. You continue to search, you continue to seek,
Speaker 1: because otherwise, in a few years, maybe even in a
Speaker 1: few months, you're going to feel that that person held
Speaker 1: you back from your purpose, that they blocked you. Your
Speaker 1: fascination with them being everything now makes you feel like
Speaker 1: they've kept everything from you. I hope this is resonating.
Speaker 1: I hope you can see how serious I am. Mistake
Speaker 1: number two that we make in love and relationships is
Speaker 1: you're with someone for who they could be, not who
Speaker 1: they are. I was speaking to a friend the other
Speaker 1: day and they said, well, you know, if if I
Speaker 1: dressed him differently, and you know, if I you know,
Speaker 1: if you know, if you spent a bit of time
Speaker 1: with him, and you know, we got in the right
Speaker 1: shoes and got in the right shirt, like you know,
Speaker 1: he's he could look really good. Oh you know, actually
Speaker 1: I really feel like if he applied himself, if he
Speaker 1: applied himself, wow, he would just be successful. You know.
Speaker 1: I really think that she could be great if she
Speaker 1: was able to stop, you know, being that way. Notice
Speaker 1: how you see potential in someone, and that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Seeing potential in someone is actually one of the greatest
Speaker 1: gifts you can give them, the challenges that you have
Speaker 1: to be with them for who they are, not who
Speaker 1: they could be. Unless unless you're willing to be patient
Speaker 1: and willing to be wrong. If you're willing to be
Speaker 1: patient and willing to be wrong, you can live in
Speaker 1: daydream land and imagination land forever. But if you are
Speaker 1: someone who's with someone for who they could be, and
Speaker 1: you're constantly trying to make them more organized, you're trying
Speaker 1: to make them more disciplined, you're trying to make them
Speaker 1: more focused, then you're not with them for who they are,
Speaker 1: and they're going to feel that. And by the way,
Speaker 1: as times gone on, I've realized that there's more to
Speaker 1: love in others than their productivity. There's more to love
Speaker 1: in others than their organization or focus. There's more to
Speaker 1: love in others than their ambition. Sometimes it's their lack
Speaker 1: of ambition that makes them lovable. Sometimes it's their simplicity
Speaker 1: that makes them likable. Now, of course you have to
Speaker 1: be attracted to that and you have to work through that.
Speaker 1: But I just want to put that out there as
Speaker 1: a consideration, as a reflection point, as something to meditate on.
Speaker 1: I think that is an interesting way to think about it. Now,
Speaker 1: when I say you're with someone for who they could be,
Speaker 1: not who they are, what ends up happening is you
Speaker 1: often take it upon you to become their guide, their coach,
Speaker 1: their savior, their director, And what ends up happening there is,
Speaker 1: ultimately they try to live up. If you're lucky, they
Speaker 1: try to live up to the version you want them
Speaker 1: to be, or they move away and give up because
Speaker 1: they don't want to be that person and they feel
Speaker 1: minimized by your mentorship. If someone's feeling minimized by your mentorship,
Speaker 1: chances are that they're saying, this is where I want
Speaker 1: to live, this is who I am now. Sometimes people
Speaker 1: under your mentorship may, even for a short period of time,
Speaker 1: believe they can I had this happened recently with a
Speaker 1: couple that I was coaching, where one of them, for
Speaker 1: six months applied or appealed to believe that they could
Speaker 1: become this new vision of themselves and they were almost
Speaker 1: enamored and attracted to it as well. But six months
Speaker 1: later they climbed back into their whole of comfort out
Speaker 1: of fear of discomfort of having to be something more. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: that borrowed belief couldn't lead to bold internal belief. And
Speaker 1: that's the interesting thing about borrowed belief that at one
Speaker 1: point borrowed belief has to turn into self investment, and
Speaker 1: they borrowed belief cannot evolve into self investment if the
Speaker 1: individual isn't ready to put into work. What's almost like
Speaker 1: borrowed money. If I give you money to start a business,
Speaker 1: if that money is invested correctly, it could become more
Speaker 1: money in your money, and you can even pay back
Speaker 1: the person that you borrowed money from. Similarly, with borrowed belief,
Speaker 1: if you invest that belief correctly, you can create an
Speaker 1: amazing belief that is yours. But if you just use
Speaker 1: borrowed belief to spend, to waste, to feel good for
Speaker 1: a few moments, it's not long lasting. And so for
Speaker 1: six months, maybe three, maybe nine, you may feel the
Speaker 1: borrowed belief give you faith and strength, but you have
Speaker 1: to always see if that belief becomes theirs. I remember
Speaker 1: a friend who had become religiously inspired, and he met
Speaker 1: someone who also, through him, became religiously inspired. And the
Speaker 1: question I asked him is is she doing it for
Speaker 1: you or is she doing it for her. If she's
Speaker 1: doing it for you, it may run out, it may change,
Speaker 1: it may be skewed. If she's doing it for her.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful, and some real discernment required here, because if
Speaker 1: someone's trying to become better for you, they might become
Speaker 1: bitter because of you. Right, If someone's trying to become
Speaker 1: better for you, they might become bitter because of you,
Speaker 1: And so you have to really think about that. Are
Speaker 1: you staying here because you're patient and detached or are
Speaker 1: you staying here because you're hoping for change. The third
Speaker 1: mistake we make in love and relationships is you stay
Speaker 1: too long because you're scared of being the bad person.
Speaker 1: You're a people pleaser, and you're scared of being perceived
Speaker 1: as uncaring. I know too many people who stay in
Speaker 1: relationships for far too long just because they don't want
Speaker 1: to be seen as bad. And then even when they
Speaker 1: end it, they try and stay involved in the other
Speaker 1: person's life because they're too scared of taking the responsibility
Speaker 1: to say it's truly over. And that way they make
Speaker 1: themselves feel better about themselves that they haven't abandon someone,
Speaker 1: But they don't realize that the abandonment the person experiences
Speaker 1: is even worse because they have access, but they're abandoned.
Speaker 1: Being abandoned is better than having access and being abandoned really,
Speaker 1: because in full abandonment, you try to find your own feet,
Speaker 1: but when you still feel you have access, you're still
Speaker 1: teased into believing that someone is still there for you,
Speaker 1: that someone is still around. So in this scenario, in
Speaker 1: this situation, if you've been stringing someone along when deep
Speaker 1: down in your heart, deep down in your heart, you
Speaker 1: know that it's not going anywhere, but you're so scared
Speaker 1: of telling them it's over because you don't want to
Speaker 1: be perceived as a person who hurts people, So you
Speaker 1: stay longer and longer and longer, only one day to
Speaker 1: decide that it truly has to end. And now the
Speaker 1: person feels confused. They say, well, you just told me
Speaker 1: last week that you loved me. I believe that we
Speaker 1: were going somewhere because you've never said this to me,
Speaker 1: And in your heart, you've all long been plotting and
Speaker 1: planning this moment of peril for them, but they've only
Speaker 1: been expecting a proposal. If you know there is no
Speaker 1: future with someone, tell them as soon as you know.
Speaker 1: If you're experiencing this feeling that you don't want to
Speaker 1: be seen as a bad person, that's why you stay
Speaker 1: with someone. Be honest with yourself. You're going to hurt
Speaker 1: them more. You're going to hurt them in the short
Speaker 1: term when you end it, but you're going to hurt
Speaker 1: them far more in the long term if you keep
Speaker 1: it going. If someone has been with you for six
Speaker 1: months or twelve months or twenty four months and you
Speaker 1: end it and they have to find their own way,
Speaker 1: they'll figure it out. But if you do that after
Speaker 1: five years or eight years or ten years, boy, it's
Speaker 1: going to cause them a lot more pain. Or The
Speaker 1: fourth mistake we make in love is we try to
Speaker 1: trade time with our partners instead of creating new experiences.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest challenges we have is when we
Speaker 1: come to a relationship, it's like we almost already have
Speaker 1: who we are, they have who they are, and then
Speaker 1: we try and trade what we like about that. So
Speaker 1: we're like, okay, well, if you come to the football
Speaker 1: game with me, then I'll go to that dinner with you.
Speaker 1: If you come to the party and my friends, then
Speaker 1: I'll sit and watch a game with you. Right Like,
Speaker 1: it's all about trading time, and now both people are
Speaker 1: doing things they don't want to do half of the time.
Speaker 1: Whereas what's beautiful is when in a relationship, you create
Speaker 1: a new set of values, activities, rituals, and routines that
Speaker 1: you do together. So you have your own rituals and
Speaker 1: routines which you don't force someone to become a part of.
Speaker 1: You don't make that person have to understand you through that.
Speaker 1: You create something new together. It's like creating a child.
Speaker 1: And people often complain they're like they want their child
Speaker 1: to be more like them or be raised like how
Speaker 1: they were raised. But when you create something together, you
Speaker 1: have to find a new way to raise it, and
Speaker 1: that includes the relationship and it also includes the children
Speaker 1: in reality, and so this is something to really think about.
Speaker 1: You know, stop trying to make the other person be
Speaker 1: more like you or do what you do. Try and
Speaker 1: focus on creating something new together, new rituals, new routines,
Speaker 1: not trying to make them do your routines and you're
Speaker 1: trying to do their routines. Mistake number five is pretty
Speaker 1: much along the same lines. You want someone to like
Speaker 1: what you like, but it's a bit deeper in the
Speaker 1: sense that not only are you now trading time, you
Speaker 1: actually want them to like what you like. So you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm so passionate about my business. Why don't you get
Speaker 1: excited about it for me? You love me, so you
Speaker 1: should get excited for me. If you really loved me,
Speaker 1: then you would like the same things that I like.
Speaker 1: Why don't you like going out to buy art? Why
Speaker 1: don't you like going out to shop for this and
Speaker 1: that for the house? Why don't you like it? Because
Speaker 1: I care about it? It's rare for partners to care
Speaker 1: about what you care about, but they can care about you,
Speaker 1: and that you care about it is beautiful. Do they
Speaker 1: care enough to let you make time for what you
Speaker 1: care about? That's where the care needs to be directed.
Speaker 1: We want our partner to care about what we care about.
Speaker 1: The question is do they let you care about it?
Speaker 1: Do they care that you care about it and they
Speaker 1: let you do it? But it doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: something that they have to care about. Otherwise you're basically
Speaker 1: saying that someone has to develop a whole new set
Speaker 1: of values and care to be in a relationship with you,
Speaker 1: which is actually quite a big things to ask. Right,
Speaker 1: So I grew up caring about certain things and Raley
Speaker 1: grew up caring about certain things. Now if I have
Speaker 1: to care about everything she cares about, that's actually not
Speaker 1: likely or realistic. She loves and adores food and vegetables
Speaker 1: and understanding nutrition and diets and plans, and I love
Speaker 1: that she loves that, but I can't love it. Mistake
Speaker 1: number six is you don't take the time to understand
Speaker 1: why they are the way they are. We jump to conclusions,
Speaker 1: we make assumptions. But how many of us beyond knowing
Speaker 1: you know what people like to eat, and what kind
Speaker 1: of movies they like, and what sports team they support, like,
Speaker 1: how many of us have really dived deep into how
Speaker 1: our partners are the way they are, maybe how their
Speaker 1: parenting was, maybe the experiences that they had growing up
Speaker 1: that formed them. Have we ever sat down to ask
Speaker 1: them really and truly how they got to where they
Speaker 1: got to Because for so many people, for so many
Speaker 1: individuals in a relationship, we make a mistake but not
Speaker 1: knowing because we actually find it harder to understand them.
Speaker 1: Right If we haven't taken the time to understand their past,
Speaker 1: we're going to struggle to understand how they act in
Speaker 1: the present. Usually we judge people for their choices now,
Speaker 1: but their choices now are based on experiences of the part.
Speaker 1: So you're taking it personal and you're saying, well, if
Speaker 1: you don't want to do this, then that means you
Speaker 1: don't want to be with me, or you don't love me,
Speaker 1: or I'm not important to you. But that may not
Speaker 1: be the case. And if you've taken the time to
Speaker 1: understand them, to delineate why they are the way they are,
Speaker 1: you have a much better chance of responding correctly in
Speaker 1: the present without making everything personal. Right, this one's a
Speaker 1: deep one. How many of you right now and making notes?
Speaker 1: I want you to take a screenshot right now because
Speaker 1: this one's been a deep one. I've really been letting loose.
Speaker 1: These are there's some bars of this one right, and
Speaker 1: it's just coming out because I see so much pain
Speaker 1: through expectations, through not really loving like love means you know,
Speaker 1: understanding someone, And this is yeah, I hope this is helping.
Speaker 1: I really really hope it's helping. So Number seven, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest mistakes we're make in love and relationships
Speaker 1: is you talk to too many people in a relationship
Speaker 1: and you don't talk to the person in the relationship.
Speaker 1: I see this all the time. When we have an issue,
Speaker 1: we go to everyone else for advice rather than figuring
Speaker 1: out with that person. Who's the only person who can
Speaker 1: actually impact that relationship. Now, I'm not saying don't ask
Speaker 1: for advice or don't get insight. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: a lot of the challenges can be solved with each
Speaker 1: other rather than outside of each other, because people outside
Speaker 1: of you don't have the same context. They don't have
Speaker 1: the same awareness, they don't have the same plans, desires, thoughts.
Speaker 1: They don't know any of that. And they also don't
Speaker 1: know what you really like about this person. They are
Speaker 1: only basing it on what they see through you. And
Speaker 1: what they see through you is the subjective experience that
Speaker 1: you constantly project onto them. So talk to the person
Speaker 1: about the problem, and if that person doesn't want to
Speaker 1: talk about the problem, find out why what is blocking them,
Speaker 1: don't blame them, and then go talk to someone else.
Speaker 1: If you're in a relationship with someone, take the time
Speaker 1: be patient enough to understand why conflict triggers them, why
Speaker 1: they avoid having these deep, meaningful, important conversations, and if
Speaker 1: they keep being disregarding it, then fair enough it may
Speaker 1: be time for you to move on. But the truth
Speaker 1: is that talking to everyone else about it while you
Speaker 1: suffer the disconnecting the relationship doesn't solve it either. Number
Speaker 1: eight is you're mad at them for the sacrifices you
Speaker 1: made without them asking for it. Often we make sacrifices
Speaker 1: because we think we're in love. We make compromises because
Speaker 1: we think we're in love. We go against our own
Speaker 1: selves because we want to show we are loving and
Speaker 1: be loving, and maybe we love them and we think
Speaker 1: this is how to show love. And then later on
Speaker 1: we get mad at those people. We make them feel
Speaker 1: guilty because we did all these things for them and
Speaker 1: now they're not reciprocating or they didn't value it, but
Speaker 1: they never asked for it. A big part of this
Speaker 1: is figuring out what it means to be in love.
Speaker 1: Love doesn't mean to compromise who you are. Love doesn't
Speaker 1: mean to sacrifice things that are meaningful to you. That's
Speaker 1: not love. Love means you are loving from a place
Speaker 1: where you still love yourself. One of the biggest ones
Speaker 1: where I think about this is when I think about Radi.
Speaker 1: Radi sacrifice living close to her parents when we moved
Speaker 1: to the United States, and I've always thought about that.
Speaker 1: I've always thought, how did Radley do it, Why did
Speaker 1: she do it? What made her do it, and she'll
Speaker 1: answer that question with many things like we just got married,
Speaker 1: Like I, you know, was scared, but I was open
Speaker 1: to it. Or maybe I just was sad every day,
Speaker 1: but I felt that we were creating something together and
Speaker 1: I know it was your dream and maybe there was
Speaker 1: some sacrifice for me. But one of the things Rady
Speaker 1: did is she owned that she realized how it became
Speaker 1: good for her, rather than making me feel guilty when
Speaker 1: I had an asked for her, I was very clear
Speaker 1: about I said to her. I said, I will literally
Speaker 1: visit you every weekend in London if that's what it takes, like,
Speaker 1: that's what I'll do. I'll go, I'll go chase my dream,
Speaker 1: but I'll come visit you and that will be will
Speaker 1: be married. Because that maybe abnormal to a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but hey, we you know, we're going to redefine what
Speaker 1: relationships look like. But don't make sacrifices for people if
Speaker 1: you're going to make them pay for it, because then
Speaker 1: it's not a sacrifice. Then it's a transaction. Right. Don't
Speaker 1: give people discounts if you're then going to ask for payment,
Speaker 1: because then it wasn't a discount. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: If you say I did all of this for you,
Speaker 1: but now I want you to pay it back. Then
Speaker 1: you didn't really do it for them, You did it
Speaker 1: for you. And I'm not saying you have to do
Speaker 1: anything for someone, but I'm saying if you are going
Speaker 1: to do it, then this is how you want to
Speaker 1: think about it. And the ninth and final thing I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about is the difference between
Speaker 1: an ownership, a partnership, and a relationship. And this kind
Speaker 1: of sums up everything we've been talking about. Ownership is
Speaker 1: where you want to control, where you're like, I want
Speaker 1: you to do things like me. We should do things
Speaker 1: like my parents did. I know what's right. That's ownership.
Speaker 1: If you're coming from that perspective, that's a painful way
Speaker 1: to live because no one wants to be owned. And
Speaker 1: by the way, you don't necess susarily have all the answers,
Speaker 1: even if you had a great upbringing or great background.
Speaker 1: A partnership is where you trade again. You say, Okay,
Speaker 1: well i'll do this for you, you do this for me,
Speaker 1: and a lot of couple survive there, but they don't
Speaker 1: drive there. And the final is a relationship. You be you,
Speaker 1: I'll be me, but let's build something beautiful together. I
Speaker 1: know you your own person and you're complex, and I'm
Speaker 1: my own person and I'm complex. But let's build something
Speaker 1: simple and wonderful together. Let's build a space. It's almost
Speaker 1: like building a home and saying, all right, well, let's
Speaker 1: pick the colors together, let's pick the rooms together. Let's
Speaker 1: figure this out together. And there may be a room
Speaker 1: that's yours, and there may be a room that's mine.
Speaker 1: But let's make some rooms together with the best of
Speaker 1: both of us, and maybe not even the best of
Speaker 1: both of us, with the worst of both of us,
Speaker 1: but a new part of us. We're trying to make
Speaker 1: relationships from the best and worst of who we already
Speaker 1: are when we could make them out of the growth
Speaker 1: we experienced together. That's a relationship. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for listening to today. This is definitely one that I
Speaker 1: hope you pass on. I think it's going to help
Speaker 1: a lot of people, and I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: what you learn through Instagram, Twitter and all the other
Speaker 1: places that we're connected. Continue to live your life, keep
Speaker 1: living your life on purpose. Thanks for listening. In our heads,
Speaker 1: we have an image of an ideal life. Our relationships,
Speaker 1: how we spend our time in work and leisure what
Speaker 1: we want to achieve, even without the noise of external influences.
Speaker 1: Certain goals captivate us, and we design our lives around
Speaker 1: achieving them because we think they will make us happy.
Speaker 1: And now we will figure out what drives these ambitions,
Speaker 1: whether they are likely to make us truly happy, and
Speaker 1: whether happiness is even the right target. I've just come
Speaker 1: out of a class where we discuss the idea of
Speaker 1: rebirth some sorrow, and now I'm strolling through the quiet
Speaker 1: Ushram with this senior monk and a few other students.
Speaker 1: The ushram has two locations, a temple in Mumbai and
Speaker 1: the one where I am now, a rural outpost near Palgo.
Speaker 1: This will eventually be developed into the goverdan Eco Village,
Speaker 1: a beautiful retreat, but for now there are just a
Speaker 1: few simple, nondescript buildings set in uncultivated land. Dry dirt
Speaker 1: footpaths divide the grasses. Here and there monks sit on
Speaker 1: straw mats, reading or stunning. The main building is open
Speaker 1: to the elements, and inside we can see monks working.
Speaker 1: As we walk. The senior monk mentions the achievements of
Speaker 1: some of the monks we pass. He points out one
Speaker 1: who can meditate for eight hours straight. A few minutes later,
Speaker 1: he gestures to another he fasts for seven days in
Speaker 1: a row. Further along, he points, do you see the
Speaker 1: man sitting under that tree? He can recite every verse
Speaker 1: from the scripture? Impressed, I say, I wish I could
Speaker 1: do that. The monk pauses and turn to look at me.
Speaker 1: He asks, do you wish you could do that? Or
Speaker 1: do you wish you could learn to do that? What
Speaker 1: do you mean? I know by now that some of
Speaker 1: my favorite lessons come not in the classroom, but in
Speaker 1: moments like this, he says, Think about your motivations. Do
Speaker 1: you want to memorize all of the scripture because it's
Speaker 1: an impressive achievement, or do you want the experience of
Speaker 1: having studied it? In the first, all you want is
Speaker 1: the outcome. In the second, you're curious about what you
Speaker 1: might learn from the process. This was a new concept
Speaker 1: for me, and it blew my mind. Desiring an outcome
Speaker 1: had always seemed reasonable to me. The monk was telling
Speaker 1: me to question why I wanted to do what was
Speaker 1: necessary to reach that outcome. The four motivations, no matter
Speaker 1: how disorganized we might be. We all have plans, We
Speaker 1: have an idea of what we have accomplish in the
Speaker 1: day ahead. We probably have a sense of what the
Speaker 1: year holds or what we hope we'll accomplish, and we
Speaker 1: all have dreams for the future. Something motivates every one
Speaker 1: of these notions, from needing to pay the rent to
Speaker 1: wanting to travel the world. Hindu philosopher buktivenor Tucker describes
Speaker 1: four fundamental motivations. One fear. Tucker describes this as being
Speaker 1: driven by sickness, poverty, fear of hell, or fear of death.
Speaker 1: Number two desire, seeking personal gratification through success, wealth, and pleasure.
Speaker 1: Three Duty motivated by gratitude, responsibility, and the desire to
Speaker 1: do the right thing. Four Love compelled by care for
Speaker 1: others and the urge to help them. These four motivations
Speaker 1: drive everything we do. We make choices, for example, because
Speaker 1: we're scared of losing our job, wanting to win the
Speaker 1: admiration of our friends, hoping to fulfill our parents' expectations,
Speaker 1: or wanting to help others live a better life. I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about each motivation individually so we get
Speaker 1: a sense of how they shape our choices. Fear is
Speaker 1: not sustainable. In the last chapter we talked about fear,
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to dwell on it here. When
Speaker 1: fear motivates you, you pick what you want to achieve
Speaker 1: a promotion, a relationship, buying a home because you believe
Speaker 1: it will bring you safety and security. Fear alerts and
Speaker 1: ignites us. This warning flare is useful. As we discussed,
Speaker 1: Fear points out problems and sometimes motivates us. For instance,
Speaker 1: the fear of getting fired may motivate you to get organized.
Speaker 1: The problem with fear is that it's not sustainable. When
Speaker 1: we operate in fear for a long time, we can't
Speaker 1: work to the best of our abilities. We're too worried
Speaker 1: about getting the wrong result, frantic or paralyzed, and are
Speaker 1: unable to evaluate our situations objectively or to take risks.