Taking Healthy Risks and Having Courage
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- My Website: wildtruth.net
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"Fortune favors the brave" -- an old Latin saying. And I believe it!! The question is figuring out which acts of bravery are wise and which are foolhardy!
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your dreams, ideas before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained by their certitudes, they are a slave: they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is truly free.
- Anonymous
Kanoa wow! Love this 💗
Very moving, you have a way with words
Health and energy levels are also something that holds many people back.
Problems with both of those often start in the mind
Nalis Solus very true!
Dasar Gashi Yes...but much of it is brought on by prescribed Benzodiazepines, in my experience of being on meds for 43 years!
@@dasargashi That's victim blaming. Like some people deserve being ill.
@@dasargashi But most often, they start in the body. Like for example severe arthritis of the spinal cord.
Failure is not trying rather than not succeeding
_We need your insight about aging!_
Yes. That would be a good topic.
Childhood trauma can make fear register differently in a person. I'm not brave at all, I act cowardly at times as well but I have to practice self-acceptance over that, it's the only way to get enough momentum to move in more courageous steps.
Hi Daniel my husband has NPD and he broke my heart many times. He had a very tough childhood that is why he developed into that. I have ADHD too and one day I woke up then make decision: to never shed another tear for him and do my best to be successful. I set a goal in the next 5 years.
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I think you'll achieve your goal. Good luck.
Thank you Daniel. Finding your work has brought a new excitement and meaning into my awareness. I am creating art again. I am listening better to myself. I’m devoting time for healing. I’m forever thankful for people such as you. ❤️
Your videos always make so much sense. Thanks for your contribution.
Thanks, Daniel. I'm always trying trying crazy projects, and I'm trying to finish one up right now (to get on to my next crazy project). I'm 74, but I don't seem to know how to give up and become a consumer-voter-etc-er. The one thing guaranteed about my projects is that they make little or no money, by the way. No matter how lifeless your life is, if it makes a pile, you'll get approval and respect from most people.
I FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHY I DONT AGE! lol I'm in my mid thirties and went back to college for my JD. Also, I laugh at everything. My body stopped aging at 29 😅. Shhhh. But I was born with the interests on an 85 year old woman. 💃
I found that without the fear of death, the world becomes a lot less scary. in this state I am bitter but I take more risks and get can get more results. sometimes I fail; when that happens, oh well, nothing I didn't expect, get up and try again. sometimes I succeed; rarely do I succeed with grace and pride. maybe I'm going about this risk taking thing the wrong way... but its a hell of a lot better than what it was before. the monotony of not doing anything was killing me quicker.
This is excellent timing for me, as I am terrified to take a risk of leaving a job that is sucking the life out of me and switch to a new career in my forties. I currently work at a job at a desk in front of a computer all day long and it is sucking the life out of me, I feel dead inside. I am working up the courage to resign from my job and take a rest, it is terrifying though. But I am focusing on the things that bring back my blood flow which really is your life force energy and I'm focusing on what brings that back to me, instead of doing things that suck the life out of me.
Do it! :D
I hope you’re doing better now! I’m in the exact position right now and I quitted a few weeks ago. I don’t have a plan, no idea what I am going to do next, but at least leaving the job is a first step to let other opportunities come in.
There was some quote, don’t remember who from, saying that when you wait to do something “later”, that you’re taking a huge risk by waiting, because the more you wait, the less likely the thing is gonna get done, and that the most sensical thing is to not wait.
I love you Daniel Mackler.
Daniel I follow you since 2010 and I love this video: very fresh and authentic
Glad to hear Jorge. I do believe I remember your name from many years back! thank you for your comment. Warm hello! Daniel
It's so sad when parents don't allow their kids to make mistakes.
Russian is not easy, either! What a wonderful inspiration!
I learned from an early age that if I wanted a fulfilling life, I had to take risks. I was dealing with intense anxiety and I was terrified of reaching out for help. So I began to try to heal myself by consistantly putting myself in uncomfortable situations. But I didnt know that I was allowed to stop. To set a boundary to when things were too much. Ultimately my behaviour became self destructive. I challenged myself way too much and meet a wall because of that. Taking risks is an extremely powerful way of growing. But you also need to set boundaries of when its okay to stop or take a break.
I've taken too many risks and got burnt each time with the trust I've put in people. Have had the courage to try and work through problems, but again, got burnt each time. I do not trust people. Period. Every time I trust, my trust is misunderstood as extreme gullibility, my conversations and words have been nitpicked and misunderstood and blown out of proportion, and I'm taken for a ride. Family has done it, friends have done it, everyone I've ever come across have done it in some way or the other. Its been done so many times to me that I've begun to doubt so many aspects of myself (like am I a narcissist, am i psychopath/sociopath, am i a very bad person, am i such that no one wants anything to do with me ever, and would rather cast me out and throw me away like I have no feelings and I wouldn't get hurt). I am sick and tired of being treated like a pushover,...I've confronted nicely, aggressively, assertively (at least what I think is being assertive), directly, indirectly (due to indirect questions) to no avail, I even kept my mouth shut so many times, nothing works. Thanks for a great video.
You are not the problem they are. There are trusteorthy people out there, you just haven't come across them because it is rare nowadays. Stay strong and positive, just be a bit more discerning with trust, go slower
It was very touching. I cryed.
If it touched you, you are ready to do something...
Daniel, thanks so much. I'm 61 and struggling with so much about my family of origin and a host of other issues. I certainly
feel courageous and more inclined to take risks these days..
thank u so much mr mackler
Good timing Daniel, I needed to be reminded of this, I just took a big risk and don't know how it's going to turn out yet, and the only way forward is through it.
Axe Man
Same here
@@naomianomaly8540 , synchronicity.
It's just uncanny how much my own life experience, and my thinking about it, I seem to have in common with Daniel.
Less Jordan Peterson and much more Daniel Mackler I say.
@@axeman2638 recently I feel the same. Jordan got a lot to say but not so many things can be applied to life.
Hi Daniel,
I would love to know your thoughts on how overprotective parents traumatize their children. Over the summer after much contemplation, I have finally come to realize just how overprotective my parents really were throughout my childhood- and how even now as a 21 year old college student, they still treat me like a child. I have been crippled with anxiety for most of my life, suffered from quite low self-esteem, feel extremely unequipped to make major life decisions, and still hear my parent’s voices criticizing me in my mind for the choices I do contemplate. I feel like a baby who can’t deal with life, who can’t become involved in romantic relationships because physical intimacy is ‘shameful’, the list goes on and on. I want to heal and I am going to continue working on myself, but I feel so defeated and pathetic because it seems my peers are way more well-adjusted to adulthood than I am. What really hurts, though, is how my mother and father parented me in a way that covertly encouraged my excessive dependency on them and stripped me of my own voice and sense of self.
Thank YOU for existing Daniel.
awesome video thank you for speaking your mind on excellent topics !!!
Thank you Daniel 🙏🏻♥️
I've done things that i didn't concider at all risky, but to others they were MOMENTOUS!, & they said they were things they cd never do! I feel the same about things others have done or do. I think alot of this is individual perspective.😄😃🎼🎹🎶
Always love your insights! Thank you :)
I'm going to take a risk! I'm moving out of my apartment into an RV and going to make films like you. Another risk is not following the LMSW path. I'm not getting licensed. I'm going to "peer/life coach/consult" instead, from the RV. Fuck the system. All of them.
Thanks for this inspirational talk. It came at exactly the right moment of my life. You always give great insight.
George Eliot, English novelist: "It's never too late to be what you might have been."
Edit:
I went through some extraordinary changes in my middle sixties, and the experience was completely unexpected and very much as you've described it. Increased blood flow, fantastic amounts of energy, deep and turbulent and beautiful and profound emotions, amazing clarity of mind, a sense of reversing the "aging process."
I think of it now as a kind of enlightenment experience, of the temporary kind. I had to make changes and I had to take plenty of chances every day and throughout. And I learned more in a couple of years than I had in the previous decade or two. It was very frightening at times, but well worth the stress.
Your description is excellent, and thinking about it all now reminds me of Abraham Maslow's "peak experiences." Never give up. Better too late than never.
Edit: I've been up and down the Hudson River Park and it's a beautiful place to meet people.
Thanks. Thinking about these things is, in itself, "energizing."
She clearly didn't want to become a pro-ice hockey player as an adult.
@@threethrushes
Sorry. I thought you were a "troll." I'm relatively new at this.
@@johnpaul5474 No worries!
I was playing Devil's advocate, but essentially it's not too late to make changes to one's life.
Thankyou Chap, I needed that.
Daniel Mackler. What if you have no hopes, dreams, or fantasies ?
Hi, I know this is an old comment but I want to reply because I struggle with similar stuff. Recently made a big life change in hopes of feeling more hopeful/inspired but I feel like I’m slipping yet again... It’s funny. I’ve tried to accept my feelings. It doesn’t mean that you should become passive but it does no good, at least to me, to deny that I’m still not ”happy”. When it comes to hopes and dreams, maybe you could start with something really small? For example tidying up your space can be a marvellous thing to do. What did you enjoy as a kid? Would you feel better if you went outside for a bit? Ate well? Small stuff. Having big ambitions can be great but there’s more to life...
Instead of why? ask why not? latter is more open-end question ? :!:?!
I really needed to watch this video. I've been working third shift at a psychiatric hospital for almost 12 years and I think it's time to make a change. Hopefully I'll be able to make it a smart and healthy change.
Asking out women can be a risk but can be worth it too.
Heck yes! We can grow in quite unexpected and wonderful ways from taking risks and from mistakes! 💗
I'm doing it now
Genious
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Yes , loads of rejections if we really think and share the real thoughts in details and doing self discovery by ourselves :( but we can still make trying as long as we are not dead and not mentally and physically damaged ,,, We can be used to those fucking annoying mental chaos that we have dealt with so far , keep going on , guys
Great inspiring video, Dan! Thank you! Wonderful talk! ♥️ FABULOUS about this lady of 102!
YES!!!
I find ur views interesting, I hope u post videos more frequently
I like you :) Thanx for sharing your ideas...
I've just discovered this channel. What a fantastic video. Thanks.
Great message! It's always good to keep growing. 😄
Thank you, this was the motivation I needed! :)
Thank you for the videos
Uh i love this man ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks!
You are the epitome