Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Some Misconceptions About Life

Episode Date: May 7, 2020

It's not what you look at, it's what you see. In this episode, I discuss some commonly held misconceptions about life and what we can do about them. #1. Life is Fair: We are essentially presented a choice, remain immobilized by cosmic injustices OR make the most with the hands we have been dealt. As the stoics say, accept what you cannot control, change what you can. #2. Knowledge is King: Knowledge alone is a car without wheels.  Knowledge plus execution, on the other hand, can take you anywhere. #3. There is a Right Way: No one has all the answers.  There is not a right or wrong way.  There are simply 8 billion souls on the planet trying to figure life out as it comes. #4. Discomfort is a Negative: As counterintuitive as it seems, life's greatest opportunities are a product of its most challenging moments. #5. People Think About You Often: Humans tend to be self-interested and are most likely thinking about themselves, not you.  Remember that next time you are inclined to alter you decision-making based on the "opinions" of others. #6 Happiness is Acquired: Happiness can't be found.  It starts internally and is projected out. #7. There is Always Tomorrow: Tomorrow is not certain.  Our trips around the sun are finite.  Let's treat every day like the precious commodity it truly is.

Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero. And in this episode, we're going to rethink some commonly held misconceptions about life and see how a perspective shift can change the world around us. There's just saying it's not what you look at. It's what you see. I was kind of digging through the well yesterday. I was looking at some really old YouTube videos. and I found one that kind of slipped through the cracks. I was going through it, and it really resonated with me,

because at the time it was eight things, eight misconceptions about life, and I'm listening to the video, and I'm like, you know what, this has not changed at all. In fact, these things continue to reappear in different ways, in different contexts. And just going through the video

was it was helpful for me, and I'm hoping that you guys, be able to take something from this as well. So I'm going to kind of go through what I believe are some misconceptions about life and how a simple rewiring, a simple perspective shift can change that. So let's start with the basics. Let's start with life is fair, right? The belief that virtue will always be rewarded, that things always come out the way they should. Because the reality is everyone is dealt a different hand in life. The reality is, there are things that are uncontrollable.

Everyone's situation is different, and a lot of that is beyond the control of the individual. That's something human beings have grappled with forever, trying to explain misfortune, trying to understand why things happen the way they do. But the reality is things will not always be equal, perfect, or fair. So the question then becomes, how do you play your hand? do you point out and blame the world or do you point in as the fixer? Life becomes easier and more manageable when you start from the premise of, look, things aren't fair, but you have two options, right?

You can be bitter about the situation or you can change the situation. The second misconception, knowledge is king. We consume, we consume, we consume. And that's great. It's amazing that we have access to this. Things like podcasts and YouTube and audiobooks. You know, we can learn anything. But what I've learned, and I see it again and again and again,

is that knowledge is nothing without execution. It's a car without wheels. And oftentimes it's the one who simply goes, who jumps, who leaps, who tries, fails, and reassesses, starts again that outperforms. because one, they're making progress, and two, they're learning along the way, right? Those things are kind of simultaneously happening. Knowledge won't get you there.

Knowledge plus execution will take you anywhere. All right. Misconception number three, there is a right way. I think one of my biggest things I've learned, one of my biggest epiphanies growing up, this was most prevalent for me coming out of college and going into the corporate world. Everyone's got these sort of big epiphanies, big shifts in life. Man, this was big. It was realizing that adults that I've always put on a pedestal that my parents, you know, taught me to respect as they should have. But, you know, now I'm sitting down next to these people and I'm thinking, oh, my God, these are just children that look older, right?

We still want the same things. We want to be valued. We want to feel important. We want to feel like we're contributing. Essentially, what I'm getting to is every single person on this planet is, in essence, a lost soul trying to figure it out. There is no right way. There is no perfect solution. No one has the answers.

We're making our way through a universe of unknowns. And that should inspire you. again, I said this yesterday, and I'll continue to say it. Inate ability makes up a very, very small percent of the advancement and the successes you see. It's the courage to figure it out, not hide back because you haven't discovered a right way. These things are felt out. There is no perfect roadmap. There are, as Emerson says, people with the courage to,

blaze trail and people who don't. Misconception, I believe, four. Misconception number four, discomfort is a negative. This is my MO, right, built my brand around this, running in the rain. That which is uncomfortable, unlocks doors to things beyond our imagination. Becoming accustomed to discomfort changes the way you see life, right? because the little things that cause most people to stop, and by the way, it's not the monumental, you know, it's not pain. It's more the little things, the little discomfort. It's almost like the annoyances that most people stop and say, no, thank you.

Those things compound over time to differentiate the people that succeed and the people that don't. The people that stand in the doorway of discomfort and walk out repeatedly. because you start to identify as someone that, you know, the, you know, life's issues, life's problems, life's inevitable setbacks, you train your mind to accept that they will come and they will go, they will bounce off of you. Right. That is an incredibly powerful thing. Number five, people think about you often.

This is an easy one. We're all so self-absorbed. No one cares. And this wouldn't be, you know, as funny if we wouldn't, I mean, we make so many of our people our decisions, you know, based on what other people might be thinking of us. When in reality, they're not, right? Just plain and simple, they're not. They're thinking about their own lives and their own problems, their own insecurities, and what they're going to do tomorrow. And the funny thing is, we make decisions based on this. So, number one, it shouldn't matter what other people think

because you should stay in your lane and do what's best for you and compete with who you were yesterday. But you put that aside the fact that no one cares or is paying attention anyway, right? It makes it a lot easier to do what you need to do, right? 8 billion self-absorbed souls on this planet. Don't cater to them. Do what you need to do for yourself. All right. The next misconception.

Happiness is acquired. Happiness is not found in the outside world. Happiness is inside you. It's internal and it's projected out. I know happy people. that can make any amount of money and they will be happy people. Just like I know on the other end, folks that no matter what happens in their life,

they will be unhappy. And so trying to pile things on externally from the outside world and thinking that it can mask your discontent or change your life, thinking that you can find someone who will change that for you, it compounds what's already a bad situation. Whereas happiness is, his perspective, it's self-acceptance, being appreciative of the world and your place within it.

No one can give that to you. No money or cars or, you know, externality will help you appreciate life. Now, those dots are connected in your head. And lastly, there is always tomorrow. There is not. We're so used to the sun coming up every morning. that we think that's the way things are. And it's not. There will eventually be a point where there is no more tomorrow, where we take our last trips around the sun. And we don't know when that will be.

But for me, it's a powerful indicator that we need to make the most of what we have. Because you can't take tomorrow for granted. I always say tomorrow is the most dangerous word in our vocabulary because it symbolizes the things that we haven't had the courage to start or begin. It's like the present moment versus tomorrow. What you can do now versus what you put off down the road.

There's so much power in simply starting, in simply beginning. I can't emphasize that enough. Even if it's so small it seems trivial, you're chuckling at it. so little in magnitude. But that's, you know, those are the things that snowball. You just have to start wiring your brain to see that it's possible. All right. And this is already way longer than I anticipated.

So I'm going to leave that there. Some misconceptions about life that show how simply changing the way we look at the world ultimately changes our reality. our beliefs become our actions our actions become our day to day our world our reality something for everyone to think about so have an amazing day guys if you enjoy this or took value from it hopefully both i'd really appreciate it if you could hop on and subscribe rate leave a review really helps me get this out to the world so grateful for that and i will catch you on tomorrow's episode