How Does Where You Live Determine Your Success? The Shocking Truth!

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekPlace of residence, relocation, and identityTruthPlace of residence and successF/Friend / friendsFreedom

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00How location affects personal development
• 02:00From Belarus to Moscow: personal experience
• 03:15Stereotypes about life in America
• 09:55Does moving to another country affect growth?
• 11:58Can you succeed anywhere?
• 13:20What does fulfillment depend on?
• 24:38Moving to the US and schools there
• 34:10Why we compare ourselves with others
• 36:43An exercise for moving to a new level
• 40:55The belief that ‘I have to work hard’
• 42:47Our main task in achieving success
• 45:53What does human freedom consist of?
• 49:40‘I don't have the opportunity’

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• 01:48

  One important thing to consider is what drives a person: first, their impulses, and why they experience a particular state.

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• 13:14

  At one point, a person in Minsk can earn a great deal of money; at another point, that same person in Minsk won't earn anything.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 13:26

  The same person can move to New York at one moment and earn a lot, or move there at another moment and be completely destitute.

  Alexander Volchekprinciple

• 22:24

  Or someone says, ‘There were better restaurants where I lived.’

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• 34:12

  Why do people compare this way? It seems like a mindset of ‘Everything is bad for me, and somewhere else is always better.’

  Olga Stolyarovacomparison

• 36:54

  I always say one of the simplest ways to move forward in the social world is to pay attention during the day to this: what another person thinks about you isn't the truth.

  Alexander Volchekprinciple

• 42:49

  For every single person, our main task is to be able to make the right decisions and determine for ourselves what we truly need to do right now.

  Alexander Volchekrecommendationprinciple

• 47:30

  If I begin to exalt Hawaii, put it on a pedestal, and emotionally declare that it's better, you'll automatically feel that things here are worse.

  Alexander Volchekcomparison

• 48:33

  When a person is in that state, they have an opportunity.

  Alexander Volchek

• 49:51

  You can't go to Hawaii? Ninety percent of the time, I can't take a trip like that either.

  Alexander Volchek