The Importance of Being Selfish: Live Your Best Life
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.4 • 13.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Phil provides an eye-opening journey into the art of living a fulfilled and intentional life. In this episode, he breaks down pivotal strategies for understanding yourself, sharpening your mind, and pursuing what truly matters to you. From the science behind self-reflection and positivity to busting myths like willpower, Whether you're looking for actionable advice or a new perspective on life, this episode delivers the tools and insights to help you thrive. Tune in and take the first step toward your best self!
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| 0:00.0 | Once you know who you are and what's important to you, you may find out that you have a |
| 0:06.7 | wonderful life and you've never acknowledged it. |
| 0:19.3 | Hey, welcome back to the Dr. Phil podcast. I'm going to make you a promise starting out. |
| 0:24.5 | You're going to love this one. There's three reasons you're going to love it. Number one, |
| 0:29.5 | this is all about you. And you may think, well, what makes you think that I'm going to love it |
| 0:35.9 | just because it's about me? |
| 0:43.4 | Well, there's a lot of scientific evidence that our favorite subject is ourselves. |
| 0:46.7 | And you may think, well, that makes us sound conceited. |
| 0:47.7 | Really not. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm going to ask you actually during this podcast to be kind of selfish for a little while here. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm going to tell you why that's not really selfish to focus on yourself in a minute. The truth of the matter is you can't give |
| 1:02.4 | away what you don't have. So if you don't put yourself at the top of list, if you don't |
| 1:08.3 | administer to yourself, if you don't nourish yourself mentally, |
| 1:11.7 | emotionally, physically, spiritually, then you can wind up emotionally bankrupt and you can't |
| 1:16.6 | give away what you don't have. When I say that we love ourselves as a topic, there's scientific |
| 1:25.4 | evidence to prove that. When people are talking about themselves, |
| 1:29.9 | their interests, the things they care about, the things they love, their brains actually |
| 1:35.3 | light up more than when they're talking about somebody else. So if we get to talking about us, |
| 1:43.6 | our amygdala lights up, the nucleus accumbens light up, |
| 1:48.3 | our pleasure centers and motivation centers light up more than when we're talking about |
| 1:55.4 | anything else. There's also a lot of social research that looks at conversation dominance. People love to |
| 2:03.0 | talk about themselves. They love to make self-disclosures and talk about what they're interested |
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