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On Today's Episode:
Settling for your day to day routine is one of the best ways to ensure a boring unfulfilled life. When you feel unfulfilled and like everyday is filled with going through the motions, it becomes easy to turn to unhealthy, self-destructive habits. Without understanding why you feel this way, affairs, drugs, and other unhealthy addictions have the opportunity to creep in.
Robert Greene is well known for books that have shaped culture, challenged beliefs and p*ssed quite a few people off. The Daily Laws, Mastery and The 48 Laws of Power are just a few of his bestselling books.
Robert joins Tom in this epic conversation about how to look inward and uncover the root cause of the boredom that leaves you feeling like your just wasting life away. Fulfillment is key if you really want to change your life around. The path to fulfillment involves mastery and Robert breaks down our need for stress in order to get there.
Mentioned in this episode:
Monkey Fairness Experiment:
https://youtu.be/-KSryJXDpZo
Native Son by Richard Wright: https://www.amazon.com/Native-Son-Richard-Wright/dp/0061148504
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 | Introduction to Robert Greene
0:25 | Why Your Life Is So Boring
10:03 | Can't Handle Change
23:40 | Admit You're Out of Control
35:12 | Everyone Is Seeking Power
44:42 | This Is The Goal of Mastery
55:01 | Self-Absorption Kills Fulfillment
1:06:51 | Competing Ideas Can Both Be True
1:14:05 | Pain of Challenged Viewpoints
1:20:40 | This Will Transform Your Skills
QUOTES:
'...you choose things that aren't right for you, and when you choose things that aren't right for you, you're not engaged emotionally and when you're not engaged emotionally you get bored…' [2:14]
'The reason you can't deal with change or you're not looking at yourself is you have emotional blocks. You're full of fear.' [12:10]
'What do you think social media is? It's an engine of envy. It's making you continually aware of what other people have and what you don't have.' [27:10]
'Everything you do, everything you breathe in is a desire for power.' [39:20]
'Envy is a huge motivator of people's behavior now. So the drive to pull other people down is really truly motivated by feelings of envy and inferiority that other people are better than you are.' [44:11]
'They want that fulfillment and I don't care if they're born poor and impoverished or they're homeless, they still have that need and they have that capacity to become a master in what they do.' [49:24]
'What makes you miserable is your self-absorption in many ways.' [56:31]
'The worst form of therapy is to sit there and talk about your problems. The best form of therapy is to get outside of yourself.' [56:38]
'Craftsmanship is a high form of intellect in my viewpoint.' [1:19:58]
'Stress is good for you, [...] stress is great, stress is a wonderful drug if you know how to use it.' [1:25:19]
Follow Robert Greene:
Website: https://powerseductionandwar.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-greene-0294962/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertGreene
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertgreeneofficial/
WARNING: I will never ask for your contact info in the comments section, that is someone impersonating me!
@MrSavant2 Says:
Too many reffing adds.
@li1li1lij Says:
The podcast host annoys me.
@jenikeshish8889 Says:
I know that you like to drag your videos so you’ll make more money, but it’s super annoying that you invite professionals and won’t let them talk and you express your opinions all the time which don’t make sense or don’t add value and digress from the subject. I had to stop watching multiple videos of you after a few minutes in for that reason.
@starrreece1849 Says:
Omg! There are more ads than content! And the host needs to let the guest talk!
@edgar5814 Says:
Ad every 5 minutes makes this unwatchable
@valerieoliversmith618 Says:
I agree totally. Ego by Tom is distracting.
@janwilton7933 Says:
Too many ads. I couldn't watch it all.
@thetruthrenegade Says:
1 Man can speak for the lives of 8 Billion people.
I think not.
@msfifi8669 Says:
RG is a Wonderful human being . Thank you Tom for sharing this podcast. Too many life changing strategies to take on.
@Motivistaplus Says:
Things that Robert mentioned I knew and experienced but I never pay attention or I couldn't feel it. Robert's knowledge about Human's nature is like Mirecul and it's so fascinating.❤❤❤
@DeborahDavis-os9rn Says:
Using stress to create endorphins for a high is not healthy or recommended. Pain or extreme sports or hot sauce. All create false stress to release endorphins for a high. Same as drugs.
@DeborahDavis-os9rn Says:
“Envy” of those whose money and privilege let them succeed by wanting to even the playobf field. No. Not envy. It is called good sportsmanship. You don't want diversity programs, but elevating silver spoons who are not qualified is ok. Make it make sense, Robert.
@drtracythomas Says:
Transformation is the foundation, and literally every human needs to know how to do it do it rapidly and become the evolutionary creator of the new reality that is required of all of us now. There is no other option and no one gets to sit on the sidelines. You’re either in it or you’re dead and that is the reality of the New World. It’s much more true of how life really is and no one gets to self manipulate anymore and hopefully people don’t get to manipulate each other anymore because everybody will be capable of knowing what is what. True Capitalism is where we will truly capitalize the entire reality, fill everyone up with the massive energy of success and flow so far forward so fast that we leave all other other countries in the dust, and yet also we become the new template (the new paradigm) to follow for a truly healthy, empowered, global collective of super heros creating in the most profoundly out of this world way at the top of our potential where all the stupid people to maintain power of that minority for fear they actually are the imposters and will be replaced by the truly creative innovators of the world, will actually benefit from all the amazing creations of the entire population that it can contribute and this is the only sane thing to do..in a world where the power elite only stay in power through manipulation rather than a fair competition where everyone knows the game, the rules, and tools of reality creation their power is literally the false power of imposters who are afraid they are actually worthless so they maintain power by hurting others and this is not real power...it's just torture to other human souls and that comes with a major karmic debt for those that participate that way...the ONLY way to truly evolve is to let everyone know how reality really works, how to do it and 100% how to transform rapidly and become more and more a receiver, an agent, and a channel for reality to make it self through, removing all of the low level programming of the slave system that keeps people at such a low frequency that they cannot receive the proper signals and transmissions trying to be given to them for what to create. The forces of nature and this evolutionary force of creation that keeps shifting and creating reality moment by moment through us would never purposely make it's own system sick as that is a man made creation and in reality evolution and the energy of creation sends transmissions to people constantly for continual upgrades to their system and people are so blocked by the stupid slave system programming telling them to kill themselves to work like a slave, be imprisoneed in a work camp that most countries are, produce GDP and then give half of it to the people enslaving them and "educating" them into feable emotional children afraid of their own shadow, and this has to stop. People MUST BE IN THEIR OWN POWER to receive the high frequency transmissions from the universe in order to create the greatest creations and everyone is here to do that or they wouldnt be here as part of evolutions plan for creation (call it whatever you want to call it God, Source Higher Power, Powerful Creator etc.) it's a force that is transmtting creative directions to us and we must be a receiving station for them as the highest order authority over and above some man made "education system" that implies it is teaching the right things or some religious entity that can be even more manipulative to gain dark power...the reality is we are all in a relationship with creation itself and we must receive the transmissions and allow ourselves to be co creators of the new creations that are trying to come through us....this is finally the Aquarian Age Of Revolutionary Transformation and Creation and everything will be new, different, unconventional and never seen before..that is the point...we've been there done that and it's time for a new experience and as a collective the last thing we should be afraid of is the new creations the universe wants to share throrugh us into the world and we should literally be able to enjoy receiving them through us and allowing them to be created through us (a new way to see "work" ) and we need to get on board an entirely different paradigm because it's trying to do t his from the beginning and all. theway through us when we are younger and we dont have to wait until after we've been programmed into slave submission by the system of disempowerment before we start to try and create...all the young people have the creations coming through them and we should receive them from the earliest moments of their lives as t hey are literally the very existence of the innovation of reality as they are the innovation themselves...I had these transformational techniques and technologies flowing through me from the time I was 5 and not once in my life did my dysfunctional family ever recognize, as most families dont, that their kids are the innovations in reality and to stop traumatizing kids by taking power over them and actually look to them for the directions as kids have come in with the directions and we need to trust they have the wisdom not the other way around....
@drtracythomas Says:
I’ve been clear for decades now that the word education needs to be replaced with transformation so that with every iteration of this new age of technology and how it is going to be for the infinite future, people can quickly transform into the new skill set into the new identity Into the new reality and everyone can flow and co-create the future. Education is learning and often that means cementing people into a way of being, but transformation is the ability to evolve rapidly at the pace of the evolutionary direction and imperative, and where evolution is doing all it can to take us into a better experience. Transformation is the intention being able to Receive in the great direction that evolution flows through us. Let that reality be made through each of us as fast as it would like to utilize us as powerful creators of its incredible creations that it’s making through the filter of humans, and we must transform rapidly and become literally beings that are simply transformations that happen with immediacy so creation can create at the pace it’s trying to For centuries while the mass population gets programmed by the power elite to be stupid and behind the times and dragging the system down when evolution is at this point saying fuck all of that we’re going to literally force you into a new state of human, which is now the homo lumen a more high frequency rapidly transforming energy being that can receive transmissions allow the creation to come through them over and over instantaneously, which is what reality wants to do through us and is doing that to a great degree anyway with most people having no clue how new creations are literally made by filtering them through each human and the rest of the kingdom of creation and literally evolution wants to transmit through us have it be made without the stupid man-made programming of the slave system literally blocking the transmission, slowing people down and making the system overall of the entire collective sick.
@napertandy3579 Says:
Poor Robert, he still shone very well.
Big ego in an interviewer isnt ideal.
@artlego1007 Says:
65yo and unfullfilled.
@rebeccaferrer5697 Says:
How do you spell Robert Greene favorite author? Neit- cha-?? What is the spelling?
@reginamemoriesforever-vc8ql Says:
Becoming who we are is incredibly hard because often is not monetarily feasible- so we are cornered into doing what pays the bills and struggle through life because we don’t want to risk homelessness and hunger
@encon7340 Says:
03:42
@e-walls4565 Says:
We’re not animals, lmaoo. We’re humans! 🤦♀️
@brendapalmer6375 Says:
It bothers me to hear him use the Lord’s name in vain. 😢 I really like listening & learning but it shakes me to know Robert is disrespecting our Lord & he doesn’t even know or recognize it. 🙏
@piscessun3087 Says:
Tom's therapy Utube
@mannykrag3486 Says:
The same thing has been going on since the beginning of time, people are born and then they die. Everything else is a minor detail.
@luisaapostol2414 Says:
Change is brought about by us.
All of us. How do you propose we decide what part of it is good for us all and what part is detrimental? As Robert says, we need to take the good with the bad and embrace it all - including the periods of communism that might teach us something.
@jodyguinness3864 Says:
wish podcast presenters, in general, would stop using guests as their own therapy sessions....yes, the adverts ridiculously loud......otherwise good:-
@MacSwan Says:
It’s funny but this “darkness” that Robert Greene talks about helps decrease my anxiety and is satisfying to listen to. One of the few people who aren’t afraid of the inconsistencies, the paradoxes and mysteries in life.
@sravanthiv595 Says:
Tom, can you pls not interrupt the speaker so many times and make this your therapy session. You are doing good. Just let the speaker speak.
@dariazavatska2767 Says:
Notes about most useful ideas of the episode to me:
Know thyself.
Deal with the world the way it is, not the way you wish it were.
Handling change has to do with emotions, not knowledge.
I will never understand myself completely and I have to operate from there.
Absolute power corrupts, but powerlessness corrupts even more.
@malikabensaid2864 Says:
Robert, I love every single word that comes out of your mouth. What a smart man!!! Thank you for educating us🙏🏻
@BeMyguest2005 Says:
I hate it when interviewer interrupted Rober Green. I didn't appreciate the interviewer spoke more the the guest.
@joanwang614 Says:
21:33 deal with the world the way as it is, not the why you wish it were 45:36 fulfillment over happiness fulfillment in your carrier 58:46 observe your emotions and don’t vent them don’t talk about them to others
@IouliaAbell Says:
So in love with you, Mr Greene 🫶🏻🤗🔥
@noel3422 Says:
Ha ha your human condition, way ro call bulshit on people and artists who did not live your life.
@destinybeasley9304 Says:
I’m bored asf I hope I hear some good advice
@Createanextraordinarylife Says:
Amazing great job to both
@justinanorwath3847 Says:
Robert Greene is💯🧠🤌❤️❤️ (except for Dr Ramani) he is the only guest you need ❤❤
@Helen-nl9lv Says:
Tom's vulgarity is unacceptable
@manjuappathurai Says:
Disappointed with the clickbait
@TeamNoSafeWord Says:
This guy is so wise I love him
@annemariesmith5459 Says:
The church does the same thing with opulence and beauty, huge flying buttesses, and stained glass all around the humble wooden pew to seat the humble subject. 🎉 psychological manipulation at its finest.
@huzaifahuzaifa6606 Says:
Too complex to understand. 😢
@11zen45 Says:
Your commercials SPOIL the interview - TOO LOUD !!! NOPE - NOT COOL. - IM UNSUBSCRIBING NOW.
@jb9433 Says:
The American 'listing' inflection is so difficult to listen to and often an indication the speaker isn't being authentic. Even worse than Australian Questioning Intonation.
@VanillaManhattan Says:
A sudden noise of the ads is the worst! I freaked out on a treadmill!
@Medizin-Akademie Says:
Fulfillment: Why do you think it has to be hard? I would rather say challenging.
@lucasm4299 Says:
Ahh cancel culture and social justice warriors, the worst thing ever that needs focus!! 🧐 Not too interesting. Zzz. [Tom] We should focus on lessening tribalism, knitting our social fabric and culture, and economic prosperity among the youth.
@AS-kw5hd Says:
Tesla was replace with a member of the tr ibe. When you understand who’s running the world, you can see that Tesla was a threat.
@jonmemmott7532 Says:
Tom tends to talk to much about himself in these interviews, a tad narcissistic methinks, maybe give the interviewee a bit more time to talk, which is the point of the interview 🙄
@shankarbalakrishnan2360 Says:
Im finally taking a break need to look inward bye bye❤❤🎉🎉
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