We can get a a lot of information off YouTube if we take the time to seek out and listen to some of the great speakers on the website.
I find some on Ted Talks. Ted, for those who who don't know, stands for technology, education, and design. There you will find speakers who speak on most any subject in the world. And I mean any. It is a good way to get a free education in creative thinking or philosophy.
Then there are speakers who speak on YouTube as a way of spreading influence and ideas.
One of those is professor and author Srikumar Rao. He has YouTube podcasts of all lengths and descriptions - free for our listening.
Most teach us how to gain confidence and build resilience as we work toward our goals. Some of his better ones are about how you get over the idea that you have control over yourself or anything else. He teaches that it's a fallacy to think that getting what you want will make you happy.
He says that from the time we're children, all our effort goes toward controlling the world. Our friends, our environment, our family, our employers. Everything and everyone.
But the reality, he says, is that we've never had control over anyone or anything. We don't have control over anything now. And we never will have control over anything.
And when we have this desire to control everything we're disappointed because we come up short. People don't do what we want. Or if they do, they don't do it the way we want. The universe doesn't pay attention to us. How disappointing,
But he says if we accept that we don't have control, we'll be very happy because we no longer will struggle internally over anything. We'll live in acceptance about everything – and regardless of the challenge – our lives will be so much easier.
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