Chris Williamson
speaker
159 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard yesterday
Chris Williamson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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can't not do, you know, you are constructed by the tiny decisions that you make every single day.
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So imagine that you had a friend and every time that you invited this friend out for lunch, they showed up an hour late or they didn't show up at all.
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After a while, you'd stop trusting them and stop inviting them out at all.
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You are that friend to yourself.
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Yeah.
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And I think this is such an important lesson for people who want
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to be liked, who want to struggle socially and want to become better.
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People like people that make them feel good.
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They don't care that much about how impressive the person is.
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We give up our twenties for our thirties.
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We give up our thirties for our forties, our forties for our fifties, and we trade everything we achieved in our thirties, forties, and fifties to get back to our twenties.
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We give up the thing we have.
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Most of, for the thing that we have least of.
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And we give up the thing that we want for the thing that's supposed to get it.
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I will become happy when I'm sufficiently successful and I will sacrifice my happiness in pursuit of success so that I can become sufficiently successful so I can finally be happy.
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We spend our 20s wanting to be richer and older and have a family, then we start that in our 30s and we gain more wealth and do the family thing and then we get to our 40s and we've got more responsibilities, we've accumulated all of this stuff, and then we think, God, if only I could go back to my 20s.
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But you were fucking miserable in your 20s.
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You hated it.
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You had no idea whether you were going to be successful.
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You were constantly concerned about money.
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