A toxic and false belief has been dominating business culture for decades: Money is the byproduct of value creation. It sounds like common sense, but it is one of the most damaging things a thinking person can believe.
This episode takes the belief apart and shows the moral claim hiding inside the causal one. The cost of getting this wrong is steep: you spend thirty years hounded by a number you can never reach, unable to rest, unable to truly enjoy what you have built — and then arrive at sixty to discover the prize the belief promised was never there.
You will hear about Gary Stevenson, the Citibank trader who got rich betting against ordinary people, and Harvard professor Michael Sandel on what price does to meaning. And one night in Singapore — the Dragon VIP table, thirty thousand dollar minimum, and the dread right behind the performance of pleasure.
On the other side is rest from chasing the next number, space for fulfillment, contribution, and love… and the greater work that the market alone could never have pointed you toward, the work that runs on its own fuel and outperforms anything you ever produced to please the market.
Listen now.
Show Highlights Include:
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A popular claim made in podcasts, LinkedIn posts, and even respected business books that slyly design your belief system into feeling like you're not enough and will never be enough (2:03)
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Irrefutable examples of why your worth is not tied to your market value so you can stop living with invisible chains attached to you (3:52)
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How your belief that prices indicate worth will try to argue with me at (7:32) - watch what happens in you…
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The insidious way a toxic belief hijacks your mind to prove its worth to you (this explains why it's so hard to change your beliefs even when you're faced with proof it is not true) (12:07)
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Why some of the most successful people are the most unhappy and unsatisfied but won't even admit it to themselves (12:54)
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2 ways the belief that "price = worth" tears apart your joy, fulfillment, and love bit by painful bit (15:16)
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3 questions that can incapacitate the toxic belief that's been running you for your entire life (and why your toxic belief will fight back every step of the way) (21:07)
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How to step off of the "Treadmill of Worth" before you're on your deathbed and regret your entire existence (28:26)
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