Stefan Molyneux

i'm just like wow i mean it's a nice life if you only have to sleep four hours a night good for you that's not my particular circadian rhythm but uh just his productivity and then you know reading about the restaurants he opened and things that he did uh just a ridiculously skilled person in every venue and a genuine love

for humanity and one of the rare voices speaking, of course, about optimism for the future, which is so, so, so important.

It's really impossible to fix the birth rate if people are just doom scrolling and waiting for the end of the world, either from an eschatological Christian sense or a sort of economic libertarian sense.

And what a welcome.

a voice in the landscape, and of course, as he got more and more sick, I found it hard to watch.

Of course, I mean, everybody did.

That sort of goes without saying, because it is very, very hard to watch, you know, the gods of fate snuff out such a bright candle in such a difficult way, but his courage in facing that.

I did write to Scott and just say that one of the greatest things that he did was to help remove people's,

excuse me fear of death because he had you know we we all wonder how we're going to die particularly i'm going to be 60 this year so we all you know there's a lot more in the rear view than there is in the road ahead and we all wonder how it's going to be and everyone's like oh wouldn't it be nice if i died died in my sleep or you know maybe got hit by a bus unawares or something like that but that's not how most of us are going to die most of us are going to die in a slow decline that we know long time ahead

what's going to happen and we all wonder how we're going to deal with it and when we're emotionally invested and wrapped into someone's mind which we are you know every time we meet on the internet our neurons merge together it's like two galaxies coming together with this great effect on each other

And the fact that he faced his death with courage, with resolution, with integrity, and continued to work and continued to do good all the way up to his end has given me as much comfort as you can have in the face of death to realize that it can be an enriching experience.

It can be something that gives you

great focus, depth, and power.

And while it is certainly something not to relish and embrace, of course, I'm sure Scott never woke up and said, I'm glad of the richness that my illness has given me, but out of great wrongs, out of great, I wouldn't say injustices because it's an accidental thing, but

And out of great suffering can come great gold.

And given that there's going to be suffering in life no matter what, and life ends in suffering, the fact that he has taught us how to wring gold out of sort of the descending black capes of death's advance has given me at least, and I think countless others, a great degree of comfort.

courage and a lessening of the fear of the inevitable end having seen someone march heroically into the final battle we all face you know spraying flaming arrows of wisdom in every direction has given me uh some real peace of mind uh looking down the road so i can sorry for the long speech i hope that makes some sense but that's sort of what i got out of it and then just seeing him again it's like it does make me emotional because yeah it totally makes sense i was very honored to have talked to him a couple yeah

um that you know inflamed a lot of people um how did you deal with that and and you know what was that like for you going through that process well scott's perspective helped me a lot i mean the power of the reframe is almost thermonuclear i mean there's a phrase in hamlet that ever since i was in theater school sort of rotated around in my brain right there's nothing good or bad but thinking

makes it so and i'm not quite that far you know that that you can be out of an airplane and think that you're uh on a wonderful ride at disneyland i don't think that you can go quite that far and i don't think that scott would would think that either but the power of the reframe

is really, really important.