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All Grandeur Begins With Delusions of Grandeur
In this introspective discussion, Malcolm and Simone dive deep into what it means to find success, meaning, and responsibility as an individual in the context of society. They touch on the dangers of hedonism, the importance of "delusions of grandeur," why suffering is essential, why we're not all equal, playing your role, taking on the burden of humanity, developing real confidence, having initiative, and more. The hosts share personal stories and perspectives on how to be happy with yourself, live up to your potential, and positively contribute even if you're not destined for traditional status and recognition.
Malcolm: We are told that life is a race, but life isn't a race. It's an action RPG, and you have spec'd your character wrong. A lot of guys today, and I think this is one of the biggest problems, is they are specking characters that are designed to win in the sexual marketplace, and then it ends up f*****g up the rest of their life because a male who wins in the easy sex marketplace is...
It's a very poorly specced character for the job market. It's a very poorly specced character for the marriage market. It's a very poorly specced character for the dad
Simone: market. Yeah, even for like long term happiness like for more than just a 10 year period even, just terrible.
Malcolm: Some people are born to be kings and some people are born to be knights. Yeah. And that we have taught the knights of our society to be systemically unhappy with who they are, because they are followers and not leaders.
They are part of a system and that through acting as a part of that system, they can [00:01:00] Individually achieve the highest greatness that any human can achieve, which is maximizing your own potential in the world we are glorified for the crucible that life builds for us. It is through our suffering that we achieve things of meaning and we build an identity of meaning in one that we can be proud of. And that there is nothing to be proud of if you have no challenges.
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Simone: Malcolm, the other day, someone and they were like, let's be honest, Simone, you wouldn't have looked at Malcolm twice if he wasn't like super, you know, I can't remember what it was like super smart or successful or something. And I was like, 100 percent no. Like the reason why I was driven crazy by you, the moment I met you was.
Frankly, your delusions of grandeur that you sat across the table, you laid your cards down and you were like, you know, first, you know, I'm not looking to get married, I'm looking to find a wife, like, totally honest about your intentions, but [00:02:00] also like, and here's my vision for the universe, this is why I think humans are here, I'm going to get our planet, like, our species off planet, I'm going to do this, I'm going to protect sentience, I was like, You dream big and
Malcolm: even, even the way I come off publicly was something that I worked really hard on the video on how to get people to have sex with you is one that we can't publish because Claude said it was too naughty.
But one of the things I did over and over again when I was little is I would go to little, I don't know the word young, like high school, right? I would go to malls and I would practice walking up and talking to random people. And I would just do this over and over and over again, like reps. It was the goal being getting somebody's, you know, phone number and then, you know, doing some sort of post talk follow up or something like that.
Just over and over and over and over again both so that I learned to not feel pain at, , social rejection, because this is a really ingrained thing that's really hard to get over. But also so that I learned how to do that, [00:03:00] like, as a skill, how to maintain that positive energy when going up to someone, it's positive, n
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