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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's the problem with reliances? |
0:03.6 | The problem with reliances is that we are overly reliant on too many things in the outside world, |
0:11.9 | which we cannot control. |
0:14.3 | And those reliances, Chris, are tying us down. |
0:18.3 | So as a medical doctor, one of my main interests is how do you help people make |
0:23.7 | changes that actually last? Not changes for two or three weeks in January or maybe January |
0:29.1 | February, March, but actually long-term transformational changes. And I realize that one of the |
0:34.7 | reasons why people cannot or they struggle to make those long-term changes is because they're too reliant on too many things. |
0:42.8 | I give it an example, right? |
0:43.7 | So many people feel that they can only feel good and live the life that they want when everything around them goes right. |
0:53.1 | Okay, there's no traffic. |
0:54.1 | The emails are okay. The coffee is |
0:56.1 | given to you by your brewery, just the way you like it. Okay, your boss treats you nicely. There's no |
1:00.6 | traffic on the way home from work. If those conditions are met, we can feel calm and satisfied |
1:07.0 | and we can get on with our life and make the choices that we want to make. But if those |
1:12.5 | conditions are not met, then actually we start to struggle. We don't feel good in who we are. |
1:18.4 | And what I've realized, Chris, over 23 years now, has seen patience, is that usually the |
1:24.9 | behaviours that we are trying to avoid or cut down on are there for a very good reason |
1:31.5 | and they're usually there to help us neutralise the internal discomfort that we feel. |
1:38.0 | So the reason I think that most people cannot or struggle to make changes that last |
1:43.1 | is because they're not understanding the role |
1:46.3 | that those behaviours play in their life. They're too focus on the behaviour, but I think we need |
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