Ever Wonder If You're Wasting Your Gifts?

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Life Coach, Motivational, Personal Development, Mental Health, Life Coaching, Self-help, Education

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Have you ever considered that your talents aren't truly yours to waste? That refusing to develop your gifts might actually be an injustice to the world? Drawing from Ryan Holiday's profound book "Right Thing Right Now," we journey through the transformative story of Buckminster Fuller—a man who, on the brink of suicide, received a life-altering message: "You do not belong to you, you belong to the universe." This single moment changed not just his life but potentially millions of others who ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:09.8	Okay, my friends, story time.
0:13.1	This is from Ryan Holiday's latest book.
0:16.2	I love it.
0:16.7	It's called Right Thing Right Now.
0:26.0	Justice in an unjust world. I love this book. I actually got the what's it called? The advanced reader copy last year before the book came out. So this book has some
0:32.6	typos in it, the one that I'm reading from, which I actually really like. It's wonderful to see
0:36.3	the author in their earlier stages working things out. But I'm reading from, which I actually really like. It's wonderful to see the author in their
0:37.7	earliest stages working things out. But I'm going to read you my favorite, my favorite chapter
0:44.5	from this book. Now, if you have the book, because mine is an uncorrected advance, your pages
0:49.8	might be different on me. For me, it's page 84. But whether or not you read this book,
0:55.3	whether or not you care, don't you worry, I'm going to read you my favorite chapter right
0:59.7	here. Okay? It's page 84. And the chapter, at least in this copy, actually they don't even have
1:07.0	chapter numbers, but it's in part one. Okay, here it is, my friends, realize your
1:15.0	potential. On a frigid night in Chicago in 1927, the architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller decided
1:22.7	to end it. He was a failure. He had been kicked out of Harvard. He had buried a child. His drinking problem was a secret shame.
1:30.9	It was time, he thought, to swim out as far as he could into Lake Michigan and drown.
1:36.5	Yet as he prepared to die, he heard a voice, a voice that said in effect,
1:41.0	How dare you? Who do you think you are to abandon the responsibilities of life,
1:46.9	to your children, to the world? You do not have the right to eliminate yourself, the voice said.
1:53.6	You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will forever remain
1:59.5	obscure to you, but you may assume that you're
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