Dave Evans
speaker
2,777 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That means I'm going to be oppressed forever.
And I said, wait, wait, wait.
You can't be effective unless you can accept this.
You've got to accept that nothing you're going to do is going to change his mind.
Nothing you're going to do is going to make him happy.
He's always going to be unhappy.
He's always going to treat you badly.
But what you can do is you can minimize the damage.
What you can do is you can get the heck out of there eventually, which you did.
And the reason that's always empowering is that it gives you the capacity to actually do what can be effectively done.
rather than find yourself simply standing outside of reality, like you're locked outside.
Well, standing outside and banging on the door of reality and complaining doesn't change a thing.
But getting inside reality and acting effectively can.
So that distinction between endorsing it and accepting it is a really important distinction, particularly if you're ever going to get in any difficult, you know, gray versus black and white situation, you got to keep endorsement and acceptance distinct.
Well, Arnie is quite a guy.
In fact, I talked to him just recently.
We actually had the privilege of taking him to his 90th birthday dinner about a year ago.
He's pushing 91.
It turns out the lesson that probably most formatively impacted Arnie Young in his life.
to become a good acceptor of reality was he was trying to become an artist.
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