How to Reach a New Level in Life

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekAcceptanceFearFreedomCouples and healthy relationshipsF/Friend / friends

Main threads of the conversation

• 0:00Teaser
• 1:17The secret of harmony: why a state of not knowing matters for growth
• 4:03The illusion of certainty and control
• 7:23What is a state of not knowing?
• 9:44How a state of not knowing changes your life
• 11:18A personal example: mistakes in how we perceive our goals
• 15:47The main mistake in human development
• 17:16How to grow and live in harmony and freedom

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• 12:16

  To finish means that if I say I feel bad now, I begin feeling good.

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• 13:02

  A year from now, fifty thousand times better; fifteen years from now, a million times worse.

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• 15:42

  We're unlikely to die together in the same split second, although that is theoretically possible too.

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• 17:19

  But it's important to acknowledge that you can only develop and grow yourself, because genuine growth and development concern you personally as a human being—you alone as a human being.

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• 18:04

  I had quite a large team: more than five hundred people, and several thousand teachers.

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• 18:15

  I kept asking the same question at meetings: could we work with the senior management team—I had twenty or thirty directors reporting to me—in a way that let us experience the joy of being human here and now?

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• 19:08

  In business circles you often hear the idea that people work better if the carrot keeps moving ahead of them.

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• 19:35

  He and I would always talk about how I, for example, work better when everything in my life is going well.

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• 19:48

  I work better when relationships in the company are good. I work better…

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• 20:18

  But I know for certain that I put in more effort, live better, and work better when my overall state is good.

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