3519: Roughly What You Deserve by Tynan on Choosing Happiness and How to Be Successful

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3519: Tynan explores the connection between effort and outcomes, challenging the idea that people automatically "deserve" success, happiness, or wealth. Instead, he argues that results come from consistent action, adaptability, and self-awareness. By shifting focus from entitlement to execution, anyone can build the life they want. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://tynan.com/deserve/ Quotes to ponder: "You don’t deserve anything. You earn things or you don’t." "If you focus on what you deserve, you take your attention away from what you must do to get it." "You can’t expect the world to change to accommodate what you think you should have." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	This is Optimal Living Daily, roughly what you deserve by Tyneen of tynin.com.
0:42.3	And I'm Justin Mollick, your personal narrator, reading blogs to you mostly, but sometimes books. I got a post today for you from Tynean, so let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:52.3	Roughly what you deserve by Tynean of tynin.com
0:55.5	Back when I was gambling professionally, it seemed like everyone had an opinion on which casino was rigged.
1:02.9	I never really thought that, but I also didn't really think that I was winning as much as I was supposed to.
1:07.3	To test this, I recorded every single session I played for over a year. Guess what? I was within a
1:14.2	fraction of 1% from where I was supposed to be statistically. I learned that not only were the
1:19.5	casinos not rigged, I wasn't very good at mentally aggregating lots of independent events.
1:25.0	I think that in real life, we all have a natural inability or unwillingness
1:29.6	to accept that we generally receive what we deserve. Before I get into this, though, I'll say that
1:35.2	it definitely isn't true all of the time. I offer the idea here just as a useful tool and framework
1:40.5	not to pass judgment. For example, I know people who have lost close family members,
1:46.3	people who have been... And people have been affected by other horrible things. I don't think that
1:51.5	they deserve those things or earned them in some way. I think they're an unfortunate side
1:55.9	effect of the chaos and variance of life, which is otherwise a good thing. When I was around 20, I knew for a fact that I
2:03.5	would become rich by the age of 25. 25 was really old, and I knew that I was special, so it made
2:10.0	perfect sense to me that I'd be rich by then. I put in a moderate amount of effort and made
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