Dr. Abraham George
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275 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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And I get to take action every day to make my life better. Whereas the victim mindset is the world is against me. There's too many structural conditions against me. I have no agency. I can't take any steps. I'm screwed for whatever reason. And I think this is one of the great fights for the next few decades.
And we are not fighting it, but it should be a fight because what's happening is the stoic people have their flourishing community. And the victim mindset people have their flourishing community. And they're all in their confirmation bias bubbles. And these two camps are not talking to each other. And they probably should.
And the thing that I want to write in my article is the victim mindset people tend to be much more inclined and educated to talk about mental health. Whereas I think the owner mindset, the stoic mindset, I think is better for mental health.
And if we can convince the victim mindset people that their mental health will be better, if they accept the philosophy that I can't control what happens in the world, but I can't control how I feel about it, that will be better for your mental health.
I think he's brilliant. I probably see an Instagram clip of him every day. But he's got these three circles, and it's basically, I pronounce it Ikigai, and my publisher went down this whole path of how do you pronounce that, and they actually made me choose. They said, there are Japanese people on either side of how to pronounce this, and so I chose Ikigai, although it sounds dumb.
And so Ikigai is these four circles. And the Ikigai is Japanese for your reason for being. And the concept of Ikigai is your reason for being is if you can spend your time at the intersection of four circles, what you're good at, what you can get paid for, what the world needs and what you love.
If you can spend your time in the middle of that, those overlapping four circles, that's your reason for being your Ikigai. And Scott Galloway in his book basically takes the framework and just deletes the what you love circle. I'm like, why the hell would you just delete the what you love circle? That makes no sense whatsoever. Of course, that should be part of the math.
And of course, there are a lot of people that follow their heart right away, and it's great, as opposed to what his guidance is, follow what you're good at, and then the passion might come, or he'll say the passion will come, but follow what you're good at.
And I think I said in the book, he needs to meet more Renaissance festival workers, because there's a lot of Renaissance entertainers and craftspeople, and also artists and musicians,
and even car dealer guys that they follow what they love immediately and if you do that under the right conditions then and that can be a beautiful decision and a wise decision and so i poke at him for why the heck and he knows what ikigai is i've heard him quote it he took ikigai and deleted the passion circle or the love circle i'm like come on man so the last question i want to ask you is along these lines i think we're on the verge of a major shift
I agree with that. I think COVID was a spark that lit a fire of entrepreneurship. So I think if you look at the number of companies founded, it exploded in 2020, 2021. And I think it's stayed up. So I think entrepreneurship is booming. Numerically, it's true that people are founding companies. The other piece of evidence for that is the gig economy, right?
There are just millions of people now, solo entrepreneurs, that their work is gig for different kinds of things. And I think it's a beautiful thing because I think a lot of these people that are doing that are following their passion. And another element of that is a lot of them, they just feel like they're in control of their time and they're not really... It's good to not have a boss, right?
It's good to have a good boss, but that's hard. It's hard to have a good boss. There's a great sense of freedom. Being an entrepreneur, it's stressful and it's hard, but there's a great sense of freedom and control in doing it. So I agree that the entrepreneurship is flourishing. The class I just talked to at UT was an entrepreneurship class. I heard plenty of young people.
I've got an author website, georgeampling.com, and it's got something about all the different things that I do. And yeah, you can buy the book at all the online booksellers, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, all those guys.
Same here, John. I feel like you and I have a lot in common and I hope we stay in touch.
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