10 Subtle Habits That Are Ruining Your Life Without You Noticing

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekHabitF/Friend / friendsComparing yourself with othersChildren, parenting, and family lifeTime

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Why is it important to work on harmful habits?
• 00:393 practical tips for working on harmful habits
• 01:481. Thinking happiness will come after you achieve a goal
• 03:342. Neglecting your own development
• 04:30What does “thinking about your development” mean?
• 05:513. Comparing yourself with others
• 11:004. Criticizing other people without realizing it
• 12:195. Self-criticism: how it differs from criticizing others
• 14:046. Creating expectations in relationships
• 16:017. Setting a false goal when learning and consuming content
• 21:538. Being unable to break connections that lead to decline
• 24:009. Copying someone else’s strategy
• 26:0910. Treating rest as switching off work and getting pleasure

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• 02:09

  A person operates within a framework where they say, “I will make a million dollars and move to Thailand to live happily. Once I get a particular job, I will have time.”

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• 08:44

  It is amazing: people love comparing, yet they say, “Well, you live in California. Everything is so great for you; that is why you say that.”

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• 11:21

  If we look at this fundamentally, it does not happen only with people someone comes into contact with or lives with.

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• 17:13

  Even someone who has watched twenty videos with me still has no idea who I really am: my inner state, my mood, what I live for, my ideas, my impulses, my life.

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• 18:53

  Take school as a basic example. A person is given a direction, an intention and an impulse to learn, and is told, “Here you will receive the education you need for life—for the right kind of work, for example.”

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• 21:34

  So when it comes to education, when you want to develop and gain new information or knowledge, it is very important not to confuse these things and set a false goal for yourself.

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• 24:05

  It is widespread in many places, actually, but especially here. You often see people writing to different bloggers, “You are my role model.”

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• 25:12

  When we look at other people and copy their strategy without really understanding who that person is.

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• 26:22

  This is the basis for manipulation, major political manipulation, and manipulation in a great many companies: countries and politicians say, “We need more time before everything will be good, and then it will be good.”

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• 28:09

  They cannot reconcile themselves to the fact that the very concept of rest is essentially absurd, because you can never describe what rest really is.

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