The Mountain Top - PepTalk

Do you want to learn the secret to true happiness and fulfillment in life? This episode reveals insights from the rich and famous on how to create lasting joy.

In this podcast episode, host Glenn Azar shares a powerful pep talk about the keys to happiness. He discusses how money, fame and status often fail to provide lasting contentment. Instead, the path to joy is found through serving others with passion and purpose. Famous figures reinforce that happiness comes from within, not material success. The journey of overcoming challenges and contributing to the world creates significance. Detachment from ego and possessions is also vital.

Timestamps:
- 2:35 - Happiness from helping others
- 5:10 - Relevance vs purpose
- 8:45 - Money magnifies who you are
- 10:30 - Being useful to others satisfies
- 12:15 - Wanting less leads to happiness
- 15:30 - Ego and possessions don't fulfill

Key Takeaways:
- True happiness and purpose come from being of service to others
- Overcoming challenges and finding meaning creates joy
- Detachment from ego and possessions is key
- Wanting less leads to more satisfaction
- Money and fame alone provide fleeting happiness

Are you ready to climb the right mountain and find lasting fulfillment? Tune in to hear insights from the famous on creating joy!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Appochey Production.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, team Glenes are here walking back to the building
bet a Humans Project podcast. I haven't shared a pep
talk for quite some time because I used to share
those on a Monday and Mondays, as you now know,
are about Mayhem Mayhem Mondays with a million myself, and
they've been really popular episodes. But this morning I was
listening to a pep talk and it really hit home

(00:32):
for me. It's got the mountaintop and really what this
pep talk is about is about creating happiness and what
actually creates happiness. And a lot of people, particularly younger
in life, we get trapped into this idea that it's
about money and about how people value us. You know,
what value they see in us, or what value we

(00:53):
hold in a financial level, the things that we own,
the status that we hold. This pep talk is more
around your value is best and your happiness is best
created when you're of service to other people, and then
within that you are creating passion and purpose around what

(01:13):
you do. So money, whilst it's great and it's necessary
in all of those things, and it's most certainly not evil,
but if you can create that wealth at the same
time as creating value for other people, I think you'd
be better off. And this pep talk. There's a lot
of famous people in this, and it's easy for us
to say, well, it's all right for them because they've
got fame and they've got money. If you listen to

(01:35):
the undertones and you read between the lines, a lot
of what they're saying is you have to achieve all
of those things to realize that there's actually no value
in those things. They in and of themselves don't create happiness.
And I found that really powerful. So I wanted to
share this and I'm going to make it go out

(01:55):
on a Saturday, because literally, what I do is give
people mountaintop experiences. My main way of earning a living,
and what I do in life is through adventure professionals.
It's taking people across the Kokoda Track, it's trekking the
Ossie ten Peaks, it's climbing to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro,
a literal mountaintop experience. It's Ever's Base Camp and so on.

(02:20):
And as blasee and as naf as this might sound,
you know, it's the journey, not the destination. You've heard
that it's the journey, not the destination. It's who you
become in the process of achieving those things that has
the most value and the most impact on you. I
can tell you that because I've seen this time and
time again, and so whilst you might think it's very cliche,

(02:42):
it's very blase. It's the fact that people become someone
different on the journey of the Kokoda track, not because
of each hill they climb, not because of standing at
issue Rava, not because of hearing those military history stories,
or even meeting the local people and getting involved with
the villagers. It's in overcoming challenges. It's in working as

(03:04):
a team to do something. And so I think that's
the underlying message throughout this pep talk. I think you'll
find this really powerful, and I thought, what a cracking
way to kick off your weekend.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I believe in manifestation and power of that kind of stuff,
but I don't believe that any of it matters. I
believe that I had to become a famous idea and
get all the stuff that people dream about and accomplish
a bunch of a bunch of things that look like
success in order to give up my attachment to those things.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
We all want to be relevant. But I think we
all forget to ask ourself relevant for what before we
chase our relevants. I've met many more very rich men
who chase that dollar to be successful and to be
relevant for having the most money that the last fifteen

(04:04):
twenty even younger years, were bewildered, lost, had no relationships,
didn't have purpose. Chasing the dollar did it.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
No amount of money in the world can ever give
you hope, give you a lot of things, not happiness
or joy.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
See, what is the point of having everything but purpose?
You can have arms and legs, but not purpose. And
maybe the missing pot in your soul, the missing pot
in your spirit, the missing pot in your mind or
in your tenuous strategic plan, is actually making sure that
you leave this world a better place.

Speaker 7 (04:51):
The material world is utterly incapable of providing lasting happiness.
It's just you have to get to the ends of
the things and still be miserable to realize.

Speaker 8 (05:07):
That success is not the cap, it's significance.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
That's the last cap.

Speaker 9 (05:14):
You got to live a life bigger than yourself.

Speaker 10 (05:19):
And so what's the point of climbing this mountain that
the world says we should climb in order to be
successful and happy and realize at the end of a career,
the end of a life, we've climbed the wrong mountain.

Speaker 11 (05:30):
Everybody think money is dead money, you know, and I'm
not saying that the body can't make people happy that's
around you.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
But if you're empty, you still will be empty. If
you lone and you still will be lonely. If you hurt,
and you still will be hurting.

Speaker 9 (05:41):
All money does is magnify who you are. If you're mean,
you have more to be mean with. If you're giving,
you have more to give. Money will not change you.
It will magnify your essence. That's all it's going to do.
If you're looking for it is the answer to everything.
It won't happen. If you're not going to be happy now,
you won't be happy when all of a sudden you'll
be happy. You don't get me wrong when you make
ten million, or twenty or fifty or one hundred million,

(06:03):
but it will last.

Speaker 8 (06:05):
I've been to the top of money. I've had all
the sex that I've ever wanted, I've had all of
the adulation and adoration, and I've been to the top
of all of those material world mountains. And nothing makes
you happy other than being useful to others. It's the

(06:28):
only thing that ever will satisfy. That thing is that
what you are is useful.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Those things mean nothing.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
These things that you think are valuable, money watches, they
mean nothing.

Speaker 11 (06:42):
Happy costs nothing.

Speaker 12 (06:43):
And I think it just starts with saying, yeah, you
know what, I'm going to be happy. And so I
think a lot of happiness is just a choice. First,
you just identify yourself as actually, I'm going to be
a person that's going to be happy.

Speaker 11 (06:54):
I don't want to figure it out.

Speaker 7 (06:55):
Satisfaction that you can actually count on in life is
not more having more of the things that you want.

Speaker 9 (07:02):
It's wanting less.

Speaker 10 (07:03):
Detachment doesn't mean that you own nothing.

Speaker 13 (07:07):
It means that nothing uns you.

Speaker 11 (07:09):
We mistakenly think some kind of outward success is going
to change something in us, and it does not. It
may make life more comfortable, but it doesn't change who
we are, and any hole in ourselves that we're hoping
to fill does not get filled.

Speaker 13 (07:31):
You become a lot more of whoever you are. So
if you're a nasty, gnarly unhappy human without money, you're
probably going to be a nasty, gnarly unhappy human with money.
You're just going to be able to astect the world
a little bit more.

Speaker 10 (07:44):
And it's that old proverb be in the world, but
not of the world. Make money, have nice things, go
through a life, treat yourself, treat your family. Having said that,
don't identify with your wealth.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Would I be any less Would I be any less
happy if I had a thirty forty fiftieth of what
I have right now?

Speaker 9 (08:12):
No?

Speaker 4 (08:13):
I know that there's no no out being less happy.

Speaker 14 (08:16):
Sometimes in your life, just pause for a moment and
ask yourself how many of the things you have now
with the things that you wished for a decade ago.

Speaker 9 (08:26):
Ego is to.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Spend your first half of your life acquiring and adding,
thinking you can add to yourself and it looks great.
I mean it looks great when you got a cool
car and you've got good, nice clothes, and you know
you're and you've done something that people admire. It can
never be fulfiliar, You can never be happy, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 14 (08:49):
It's not where happiness comes from.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
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