Esther Perel
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5,077 appearances
21 recordings
15 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Jun
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And from my own experience, what I've been very fortunate with my wife is that I feel she respects why I operate the way I operate.
And I respect the way she operates, the way she operates, even though the way we operate is very different.
But it may even go further than respect.
In a relationship, you may have one person, let's go back to trust, who's more likely to trust other people, more risk taking.
And the other one who is more risk averse or more cautious.
It's not just I respect your cautiousness and you respect my risk-taking.
It's that, in fact, these two need each other.
They are complementary.
It's good to have one person who leans this way and one person who leans that way.
Because your risk-taking is what helps me push myself beyond my threshold.
And my cautiousness is what helps you sometimes be less reckless.
I'm so refreshed to hear this because the amount of people I talk today who constantly tell me, my partner isn't ambitious enough.
And I'll say, well, are you looking for a business partner or are you looking for a life partner?
Because sure, if you're building a business together, yeah, you want your partner to be ambitious and that's great.
But if you're building a life with someone, I don't think having an ambitious partner because you want to be ambitious.
And mostly what I find is the people that say that are the people who are mad that they're not ambitious enough.
The people who are truly ambitious and successful are not worried about that because they're quite happy having someone who balances them out and brings it to reality.
It's the person who's putting pressure on themselves that is projecting that pressure onto their partner and saying, you're not doing enough.
I couldn't agree more that it's almost like you learn to appreciate different ways of thinking when you're with someone different and different values of why that's such a meaningful way to operate life rather than what I feel like we're looking for today is agreeableness.
And it's only going to increase because we are surrounded by sycophantic AI.
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