How to Achieve Results Without Burnout: Ambition vs. Interest

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AVAlexander VolchekInterest and ambitionSilicon ValleyF/Friend / friendsSilicon Valley as a business environmentCouples and healthy relationships

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• 00:00Today I want to explore an important question: how can a person actually achieve results? And how do you understand the difference between acting out of a desire for gain, out of ambition or some enormous personal…OpenAI · Artificial intelligence
• 01:23Amazing! When he was creating that vaccine, did he think Sam Altman would write about him? Hardly.OpenAI
• 02:42Because one idea constantly promoted in the world is that you must do your work out of love. If you do it out of love, you will achieve results.Health · Artificial intelligence
• 04:00I am doing it simply to understand it and to make the right decisions. Do I like doing it? Do I love doing it? Well, I am not sure.Garden / plants · Children
• 05:20They say, “What difference does it make? We can look at your garden here, or at the hundred trees in the wild forest or the wild plants farther out.”Garden / plants
• 07:55There are also rules there, various accepted rules. Those rules are a kind of contract, a particular social contract. And this is not just in Egypt.Truth · Friend / friends · Spirit
• 12:21These are all contracts. Is there good sense in these contracts? Of course there is, just as there is good sense in contracts when you hire someone. We live in a social society.Friend / friends
• 16:05You will see that they had very different starting points. Very different circumstances, very different circumstances. When we are talking about a hundred billion or more, the circumstances are very different.Friend / friends · Russia · China
• 17:19You will see that those people are like enormous structures. Mordashov is some colossal structure you cannot even get close to, right?
• 19:45I am just highlighting one small area here. In the same way, someone can simply cook food and approach it without viewing it through the lens of running a blog.Starbucks · Wife

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• 00:35

  This is a very interesting subject. I live in Silicon Valley, I am heavily involved in IT projects, and I even have a large channel about artificial intelligence.

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• 01:57

  Why did I use projects as an example? Because Silicon Valley probably embodies those ambitions and spreads that ambitiousness throughout the technological world.

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• 02:42

  Because one idea constantly promoted in the world is that you must do your work out of love.

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  Did the man making a vaccine for his animal need to invent a mission and declare from the outset, “I just want to help all the animals on planet Earth”? He did not want to do that at all.

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• 08:58

  Real love—because if the word “love” comes into it, and genuine interaction between two people, true interaction between two people, true interaction between two neighbors, or people we might call friends or acquaintances, then that genuine interaction is possible only without contracts.

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• 10:33

  We see this in the world, in the various events that happen, and in people's ability to predict even the weather, earthquakes, or something else, such as floods.

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  “Is it all right for me to fire this person, or should I wait, or do something else?” I said, “I get the impression that you think you are doing something bad to them.”

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  It would be different if you came and said, “I do not understand whether this person should be fired or hired in terms of karmic cause and effect.”

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• 19:28

  If they have studied it and continue to do so, that also affects their life, because it is an incredible world in terms of their physical system, psychological system, mental system, astral system, spiritual system, and entire spiritual being.

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  They would be better off not exercising at all and not drinking that cup, and their health would be guaranteed to be better.

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