Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

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Hidden Brain · Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 2 · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

So impact is a very worthwhile thing to pursue.

We need a bunch of positive impacts.

So, you know, the problem is when you put all of your meaning-making eggs, and in Amy's case, all your identity eggs—

In the impact basket, you're at terrific risk two ways.

Number one, most of the time, even if you do everything right, your attempted impact doesn't work.

I mean, it literally doesn't work.

You try to save the animal and it dies anyway.

Or even if it does work,

it doesn't last very long in the world, or you succeed, and then frankly, the feeling of it doesn't last very long.

The half-life on an impact, which is an objective fact, it's a transaction, it's not a living thing, doesn't go on and on and on.

We worked with the US Olympic Committee,

because there's nothing as exciting as ascending the Olympic platform or as terrifying as descending it.

On the other side of being the best in the world is like, now what?

So this is a fundamental human problem and Amy's got it in spades.

So the issue here is recognizing number one, that I need more than just impact making, more than just changing the world as a source of what makes my life worthwhile.

If that's the only thing I've got going, I'm really at risk.

And number two, on that aspect of my life that's pointed toward impact making, recognizing you have no power whatsoever over the outcome creating the result you want.

All you can control is your participation.

She was a very successful animal defender, but she wrote a rule for herself that unless I save this many animals or, you know, the world changes its mind or the people around me get it the way I get it.

None of which she has any power over at all, by the way.

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