Living from a State of “I Must”

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekDMDmitry MugenovLiving from a state of 'I must'FreedomAnxiety, stress, and inner calmF/Friend / friends

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00“I owe everyone”
• 00:41What's the question? How to let go of “I have to”
• 02:02Focusing on childhood trauma
• 03:10“I knew for certain that I didn't have to do anything”
• 04:22“You would think these people should live peacefully”
• 07:44Life is long; I still have twenty years ahead
• 10:50Why spend your life extending it?
• 13:06Does this help or destroy?

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 02:30

  If a person—and in this case, you—says they live in this state... This is actually a very complex energy, complex in the way you've presented it, as though it's somehow hidden, not real, as though it isn't real.

  Alexander Volchek

• 04:08

  We're walking in Los Altos Hills now. This is Silicon Valley, the South Bay, San Francisco.

  Alexander Volchek

• 04:16

  Forty-nine percent of all Big Tech engineers, the top engineers in the U.S., live here in the South Bay, San Francisco.

  Alexander Volchek

• 05:39

  They live in a house worth millions of dollars, about five million, and they've lived there for sixty, fifty—fifty-three years.

  Alexander Volchek

• 06:39

  Imagine how incredible it is: on the one hand, people of that age are discussing being fired.

  Alexander Volchekcomparison

• 07:38

  Incidentally, people often associate childhood trauma with things like, “I didn't have enough to eat. It was hard for me to buy anything.”

  Alexander Volchekcomparison

• 08:02

  The point is what we focus our desire and movement on professionally. What is it based on?

  Alexander Volchek

• 08:24

  That's two, three, four times more than my professional life so far, if you also look at that experience in concentrated form.

  Alexander Volchekcomparison

• 14:22

  The point is, it can happen: you fly business class and a business comes out of it. Or you might simply be standing in line somewhere, start talking to someone, and become best friends for life.

  Alexander Volchek

• 14:36

  You and I became close, became close friends, through an entirely chance meeting back at Business Molodost, when you were taking A Million for a Hundred and I arrived with Petya after boxing practice.

  Alexander Volchekcause