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Mark Rober

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1836 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

You know, if he gets a video that gets 300 million views, he's like, why couldn't that have been 330 million views?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

right and i'm quoting him here like he's self-aware but it doesn't change the fact that it's like you know and so when you look at someone like that or like an elon musk is sort of a similar brain it's like you don't want their brains and like they'll tell you you don't want their brains like they can't there's a level where they can't be satisfied because they just need

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And it leads, I think, a lot of the amazing change that has come in our world historically, you know, if you look back, was kind of people with similar brains who are just so driven for more that they affect history.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

That's right.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And I tell Jimmy this and he's aware of it.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

He's like whacking through the bush.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And so many times he whacks down a path that was just terrible.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Mr. Beast Burger, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Whatever.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

He's had a lot of admitted like dead ends, but what's beautiful is that then I see the ones that work and it's like, oh, thank you.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Now I could trodden this path that's hacked down basically.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yes.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Um, and obviously do my own versions of that, but like the main path, um,

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

people like that help break these glass ceilings that benefits a lot of others.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I do think, though, that that feature of sort of the dopamine wearing off, I do feel like that is a feature and not a bug of our brains, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

In the sense that, like, let's say there's, like, a coyote chasing a bunny, and, like, the bunny leaps out of the way and makes this amazing move and survives that, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

You're going to get a lot of reward chemicals to your brain being like, good job, you lived.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Now I have a chance to continue to pass this DNA on that's inside you.