Dr. James Hollis
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know, those people are gone forever.
There's no one you can share that with.
Secondly, you have to sever your link to whatever your guiding source may be.
You call it your instinct or your intuition, whatever it is.
That's cut off.
It's not acceptable.
And thirdly, your value as a human being will be defined by your meeting abstract standards of productivity as defined by total strangers in your culture.
And sooner or later, no matter how much you win today, you'll wind up a loser.
And the thing is, you hold that off as long as you can.
So keep running, all right?
And women hear that and they think, well, that's horrible.
That's horrible.
How lonely that would be.
How isolating that would be.
And of course it is.
It's self-estranging.
You know, my poor father was pulled out of the eighth grade, sent to work in the factory, worked all of his life in that factory.
And by the standards of his day, he was a good man.
He supported his family.
He didn't run away.