March 25, 2025 • 20 mins
We're clinging to outdated beliefs that are sabotaging our success in a world that has fundamentally changed. The road to fulfillment looks nothing like it did for previous generations, yet we keep following their maps and wondering why we're lost.
Remember being told "work hard to be successful"? That advice now needs a critical update. While dedication matters, blindly working harder without strategy leads nowhere in today's economy. The modern version demands we work smarter through organization, efficiency, and leveraging technology—not just putting in more hours.
Those white picket fence dreams? They've collided with economic reality. Housing costs have skyrocketed beyond what even two incomes can reasonably afford in many areas. The stable 30-year career path has dissolved into gig work, entrepreneurship, and job-hopping. Mental health challenges are finally recognized as legitimate medical concerns rather than character flaws. Even our definition of success has transformed—shifting from material wealth and status to purpose, balance, and meaningful contribution.
None of this means traditional values are worthless. Rather, they need thoughtful evolution to remain relevant. Instead of discarding old wisdom entirely, we must adapt it to new circumstances—taking the essence of what worked before and reshaping it for today's realities. The path forward requires flexibility, continuous learning, and willingness to challenge assumptions that no longer serve us.
Have you been holding onto outdated beliefs that are holding you back? Subscribe, share, and join our conversation about building success frameworks that actually work in today's world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello friends, welcome to your Motivational Gen
Z and Millennial Expert Podcast.
I am your host, my name is DrJason Wiggins and it is
absolutely amazing to be heretoday.
I could not be happier.
I hope everybody is enjoyingwhatever they're doing right now
, wherever they are.
(00:21):
Let's get our heads right andlet's jump into today's episode.
The world continues to revolve.
It revolves, it evolves.
The pieces are always movingand things that used to work
don't always work today, andthings that work today will not
(00:44):
work tomorrow sometimes.
So this podcast is aboutcontinuing to motivate,
continuing to find direction inour lives.
And let's go back to looking atwhat old-fashioned beliefs that
we thought were useful back inthe day but they can actually do
(01:08):
more harm than good in today'sage.
And you think about that andthe first thing that comes to
mind is well, how is thatpossible?
Well, think about how we needto evolve.
With time, everything changesTechnology changes, circumstance
(01:29):
changes, monetary substancechanges, work changes, the
different type of jobs, thedifferent type of equipment that
needed to be used then that'snot used now.
Things become so, eithertransparent or continuing to
evolve, or they just becomearchaic and there's no reason
(01:51):
for them to continue to exist.
But these old fashioned beliefsthat I'm going to talk about,
and I'm going to talk about asignificant amount of them.
There's approximately 17 ofthem.
I'm not going to do a deep diveinto every single one of them.
There's approximately 17 ofthem.
I'm not going to do a deep diveinto every single one of them,
but what I am going to provideis a quick snippet of why it was
(02:13):
so important then and reallyit's not important in today's
age.
We can utilize some of thecontinued values of the meaning
behind it, but not necessarilythe results of what it would
mean today.
The number one you hear when itcomes to old-fashioned beliefs
(02:36):
that are more harm than good iswork hard to be successful.
Work hard pays off.
Work hard to be successful,work hard pays off.
Well, the problem with workhard pays off it doesn't discuss
the important part of worksmarter, not harder.
(02:58):
It used to be.
You get a shovel and you dig aditch as hard and as fast as you
can and do the best you can andcome out and sweat and wipe off
the sweat.
You did a good job.
That was hard work.
Well, now hard work can be at acomputer, it can be doing
something that's a gig, work, orit could be something that's
(03:19):
passion or passionate about.
So the same thing doesn't bodewell for that.
Work hard pays off, becausesometimes you can work extremely
hard and not get anywhere.
Why?
Because sometimes working hardis about working smarter,
(03:40):
organizing, finding ways to dothings in a better and quicker
fashion.
So that's number one.
Number two, they would say buy ahouse as soon as possible.
Have you looked at the cost ofhousing?
These days you can't buy ahouse by the time you're 50
(04:01):
hardly, depending whatgeographic you're in.
By the time you're 50, harley,depending what geographic you're
in.
The days of the white picketfence and the house with the
family of four and two cars andall of that jazz.
That stuff is ancient.
It doesn't happen anymore.
It does happen if you have a, amulti-million type of savings
(04:26):
or you are just cashing in onall your stocks or you made some
lucky break, or you made ayoutube video, made a lot of
money.
It just doesn't happen withyour average annual salary, even
two salaries, because back inthe 1950s and 60s, when our baby
boomers were born, it was okayto be able to afford a life on
(04:51):
one income.
That was usually the husbandwas working, supporting the wife
and their 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 kids.
It is insane.
Things have changed.
The other one is you need tohave a steady job.
I would love to say that Ithink everybody should spend 20
(05:13):
years working at their job, butthat's not the reality.
The reality is it has changed.
People are job hoppers, rightor wrong, learning new skills or
stating they're learning newskills, but sometimes you're
working your job so quick.
How do you even learn a skillthat quick?
So, when it comes to steadywork pays off.
(05:34):
It means earn a steady check.
You'll be able to buy the house, the white picket fence, when
you are growing up as a babyboomer.
That doesn't really curtail towhat we have now.
So now it's aboutentrepreneurship.
It's about your passion and gigwork.
(05:57):
So it's about maybe you havemultiple jobs, maybe they're
part-time jobs or maybe you'rean entrepreneur.
So things just a steadypaycheck doesn't really make a
lot of sense for a lot of people.
The other one is you don't talkabout money.
Well, guess what?
Everybody talks about money.
You don't talk about how muchmoney you have, but you're
(06:19):
transparent and you try tomitigate your economic
challenges because you're.
We've discussed many, manytimes on this podcast.
Things are difficult, times arehard and sometimes, if you just
don't talk about money, peopledon't know where you stand,
they're not willing to help orthey're not willing to put you
(06:40):
in the right direction helpfulto continuing to be successful
and gain a network of peoplethat are that have your best,
that have your best.
You know the overall care aboutyou.
They have the things that theybelieve that are important to
(07:04):
you.
They understand that.
The other thing is I love thisone.
The other thing is I love thisone retire early.
Who the heck can retire early?
What a myth.
This is an old-fashioned beliefthat does not or seem even
fathomable anymore.
(07:24):
Why we live longer and theremight not even be barely any
social security by the time wedo get there.
So it's going to be reallydifficult to retire early or
retire at all.
Maybe you plan to workpart-time in your elder years,
which is fine.
I plan to teach, I plan towrite books, I plan to maybe do
(07:49):
podcasts.
I'll never retire.
Why?
Because we have so muchprofound knowledge out there, so
why not continue to share itwith anybody that wants to
listen?
And the other one is stick towhat you know.
I remember this one growing up.
Stick to what you know.
Why go out there on a limb andtry to learn something new?
(08:11):
We live in the golden age oftechnology.
If we're not learning, we aredying.
We have so much opportunity tocontinue to learn new things, be
able to branch out into otherfields, find stuff that we don't
know and learn about it.
(08:31):
The only excuse to not learn isyou don't want to learn or
you're dead.
Those are the realities ofstick to what you know.
It's what I don't know is whatI want to learn.
Respect your elders that's whatI believe in.
That's an old belief myth, noteven a myth.
That's one I believe in.
(08:51):
That's an old belief myth.
That not even a myth.
It's important, but you need toadapt what your elders stated
to fit the new reality.
So all of this that I'm talkingabout when it comes to you know
work hard to be successful.
You know Buy a house, you needa steady job.
(09:11):
You don't talk about money.
You stick to what you knowRetire early.
Well, all of this is not partof the reality that we live in.
Another one was it wasn't evenheard of then, but it's so
important.
It's something that everybodyneeds to pay attention to it's
(09:33):
mental illness isn't a realthing.
This is the old-fashionedbelief that used to be a concept
.
It was.
You don't talk about mentalhealth.
Nobody really has a mentalhealth issue.
If they do, they're in aninsane asylum.
They're locked up becausethey're mentally crazy.
(09:53):
Well, guess what?
We have a lot of stress intoday's society and at some
point people just crack, or theyget overwhelmed or they just
cannot, you know, handlebasically a bunch of different
things.
You got people with ADD, adhd,anxiety, whatever it may be.
(10:14):
It's all of these differentissues that need to be addressed
and they can't be hidden likethey used to.
College is the only path tosuccess.
I remember a teacher telling mewhen I was in first grade.
I'm not joking.
This teacher said you willnever amount to anything if you
(10:38):
can't write, and what she meantwas my penmanship was not good.
Well, guess what?
My penmanship is not good today, but we have computers.
I don't have to writepenmanship anymore.
I'm not writing much cursive,I'm not writing, you know, like
that back when we were learning,when I was in first grade.
(10:59):
So for her to say you willnever be successful without good
penmanship is like you'll neverbe able to call anybody without
a telephone book.
You just hop on the computer oryou call.
You ask Google what'sso-and-so's number?
Call so-and-so.
So therefore, I was scarred fora long time because that
(11:20):
teacher said that to me and Ithink I did.
Okay, I'm not tooting my ownhorn, but I've been fairly
successful in the executiveleadership world.
I have a PhD and I get aplatform to talk to you.
At the end of the day, we can'tworry about what everybody else
(11:40):
says.
Another one money can't buyhappiness.
You know what?
No, excuse me, it was money canbuy happiness.
I was about to say you're right, money can't buy happiness.
But the old-fashioned beliefmyth was money can buy happiness
.
There is no amount of moneythat can buy happiness.
(12:02):
I know some extremely wealthypeople and they're absolutely
miserable.
Some of the most wealthiestpeople, famous people, have took
their own lives.
They're not happy why.
They got everything they want.
They can get anything they want, but the reality is love,
(12:23):
friendship, health.
Those are the things thatpeople truly care about.
It's not about, you know,success meaning wealth and
status.
That's what used to beimportant.
It was.
Success means wealth andhappiness.
No success is the ability toshare with others.
(12:47):
Success is the ability to helpothers.
Success is the ability to beable to provide for your family
and be economically secure.
But wealth does not bringsuccess.
You can cheat, lie, steal yourway to wealth and guess what?
(13:09):
Are you successful?
Absolutely not.
Who am I to judge?
But what I can say is successis for those who are willing to
share, those who are willing tohelp others.
That's what true success is,one of my absolute favorites,
favorites.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
(13:31):
I can't tell you how many timesI heard that growing up.
Well, that means status quo isokay.
In 2025, is status quo reallyokay?
Should we just sit on ourlaurels and never do anything?
Should we not advance anythingand not really continue to look
(13:55):
to find better ways to improve?
Absolutely not.
This is our time to shine.
This is our time to takesomething and make it more
valuable.
So, if it ain't broke, don'tfix it.
Well, guess what?
Everything's broke and youbetter find a way to improve it,
(14:20):
repair it and break it up tothe next level.
And the other one is you can'tteach an old dog new tricks.
I don't care how old you are, Idon't care if you're a baby
boomer, a Gen X, you know, amillennial.
Whatever it may be an alpha,everybody has the opportunity to
(14:40):
learn.
Learning is an important stigmathat if you're not learning,
you're dying or you're in themiddle of nowhere with no
opportunity to learn.
That's why you just need to beable to continue to learn new
things.
Oh, here's one you just need thetough things out.
(15:03):
You ever heard of that onegrowing up?
You just need the tough thingsout.
It was basically if you got hit, you got knocked down, get
right back up, make sure theother person has more bruises
than you do.
Don't cry over spilled milk.
Those are the type of thingsthat we grew up on and that's
part of the old fashionedbeliefs the tough keep going,
(15:27):
whatever it may be.
Well, guess what?
These are cliches.
They are beliefs that the babyboomers did have and they're not
wrong, but they didn't continueto evolve around today's
reality.
Because now, guess what?
You can't go to the park andtough things out by fighting
somebody else in the park.
Well, guess what?
(15:48):
Now you have a chance to go tojuvenile, go to jail, be
suspended by your school,whatever it may be, if you
choose to hit somebody else in afist fight or a fight after
school, or a circle fight orwhatever you called it back then
.
But now it'll get you in a lotof trouble.
(16:08):
And another one that I like isif you can't handle the heat,
get out of the kitchen.
Well, what that means issomebody.
If they tell you something andyou don't like it, you know.
It's about having empathy.
It's about being able todiscuss and talk about it, and
if your feelings hurt, then talkabout those feelings.
(16:31):
But then it was like, hey, if Itell you something, I tell you
to bleep off.
Well, guess what you shouldbleep off?
Well, now, if you tell somebodyto bleep off, you might lose
your job.
You could lose a lot by sayingthings that are off the rail.
Yes, you could lose a lot bysaying things are off the rail,
yes.
The one thing about the oldfashioned beliefs that have
happened is we have got sosensitive over time and we take
(16:56):
everything to heart.
Everything hurts.
We listen to everybody.
We listen to what people talkabout us in social media and
everywhere else.
But that's where the realitieshave changed from when the baby
boomers were talking about theseimportant aspects that I
mentioned.
(17:17):
But they're not the realitiesof today.
We don't have phone boothsanymore.
We don't have we don't have arotary phones, we don't have a
answering machines, that wedon't have typewriters.
All of these things They've.
They've aged with time andthat's okay.
(17:37):
Everything gets out to date atsome point.
One of these days, the laptopI'm working on is going to be
out to date.
You know taxi cabs.
You rarely see a taxi cab.
One day we're going to see aRoboCab, you know, by Elon Musk.
They're going to pick us up andthey're going to drive us
(17:57):
around on computers.
The great thing is istechnology, all the different
things that I've talked about.
They're positive.
Yes, like anything, oversharingis not good, but if you utilize
things in the right way and youfocus on it and you find ways to
(18:18):
improve it, it's okay.
But let's not think about theold fashioned values that are
now hurtful or won't work intoday's society.
Let's take those, ramp them up,improve them and find ways to
make them the new realities.
(18:39):
Maybe buying a house issomething you want to do, but
maybe you start with a condo.
Maybe you move to an area wherethe cost of living is much
better, or you buy, you do thevan life, or you buy one of
those mini houses I think theycall them little houses.
Whatever little homes, whateverthey cost, whatever they're
(19:00):
called.
You try to find a different wayto make things work, but some
of the traditionalist thingsthat we grew up on are no longer
pertinent to what we do.
So today, what we've learned isthere are old-fashioned beliefs
that can do more harm than good, but if we take it and we
(19:24):
evolve it around today's reality, then we can make it work for
us.
So, again, this podcast is foranyone who wants to be motivated
to improve their life.
If you're a Gen Z, a millennial, a baby boomer, a Gen X,
whatever you fall in, thispodcast is for you.
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(19:48):
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So thank you, take care andwe'll talk to you later.
(20:08):
Bye-bye.
Hello friends, welcome to your Motivational Gen
Z and Millennial Expert Podcast.
I am your host, my name is DrJason Wiggins and it is
absolutely amazing to be heretoday.
I could not be happier.
I hope everybody is enjoyingwhatever they're doing right now
, wherever they are.
(00:21):
Let's get our heads right andlet's jump into today's episode.
The world continues to revolve.
It revolves, it evolves.
The pieces are always movingand things that used to work
don't always work today, andthings that work today will not
(00:44):
work tomorrow sometimes.
So this podcast is aboutcontinuing to motivate,
continuing to find direction inour lives.
And let's go back to looking atwhat old-fashioned beliefs that
we thought were useful back inthe day but they can actually do
(01:08):
more harm than good in today'sage.
And you think about that andthe first thing that comes to
mind is well, how is thatpossible?
Well, think about how we needto evolve.
With time, everything changesTechnology changes, circumstance
(01:29):
changes, monetary substancechanges, work changes, the
different type of jobs, thedifferent type of equipment that
needed to be used then that'snot used now.
Things become so, eithertransparent or continuing to
evolve, or they just becomearchaic and there's no reason
(01:51):
for them to continue to exist.
But these old fashioned beliefsthat I'm going to talk about,
and I'm going to talk about asignificant amount of them.
There's approximately 17 ofthem.
I'm not going to do a deep diveinto every single one of them.
There's approximately 17 ofthem.
I'm not going to do a deep diveinto every single one of them,
but what I am going to provideis a quick snippet of why it was
(02:13):
so important then and reallyit's not important in today's
age.
We can utilize some of thecontinued values of the meaning
behind it, but not necessarilythe results of what it would
mean today.
The number one you hear when itcomes to old-fashioned beliefs
(02:36):
that are more harm than good iswork hard to be successful.
Work hard pays off.
Work hard to be successful,work hard pays off.
Well, the problem with workhard pays off it doesn't discuss
the important part of worksmarter, not harder.
(02:58):
It used to be.
You get a shovel and you dig aditch as hard and as fast as you
can and do the best you can andcome out and sweat and wipe off
the sweat.
You did a good job.
That was hard work.
Well, now hard work can be at acomputer, it can be doing
something that's a gig, work, orit could be something that's
(03:19):
passion or passionate about.
So the same thing doesn't bodewell for that.
Work hard pays off, becausesometimes you can work extremely
hard and not get anywhere.
Why?
Because sometimes working hardis about working smarter,
(03:40):
organizing, finding ways to dothings in a better and quicker
fashion.
So that's number one.
Number two, they would say buy ahouse as soon as possible.
Have you looked at the cost ofhousing?
These days you can't buy ahouse by the time you're 50
(04:01):
hardly, depending whatgeographic you're in.
By the time you're 50, harley,depending what geographic you're
in.
The days of the white picketfence and the house with the
family of four and two cars andall of that jazz.
That stuff is ancient.
It doesn't happen anymore.
It does happen if you have a, amulti-million type of savings
(04:26):
or you are just cashing in onall your stocks or you made some
lucky break, or you made ayoutube video, made a lot of
money.
It just doesn't happen withyour average annual salary, even
two salaries, because back inthe 1950s and 60s, when our baby
boomers were born, it was okayto be able to afford a life on
(04:51):
one income.
That was usually the husbandwas working, supporting the wife
and their 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 kids.
It is insane.
Things have changed.
The other one is you need tohave a steady job.
I would love to say that Ithink everybody should spend 20
(05:13):
years working at their job, butthat's not the reality.
The reality is it has changed.
People are job hoppers, rightor wrong, learning new skills or
stating they're learning newskills, but sometimes you're
working your job so quick.
How do you even learn a skillthat quick?
So, when it comes to steadywork pays off.
(05:34):
It means earn a steady check.
You'll be able to buy the house, the white picket fence, when
you are growing up as a babyboomer.
That doesn't really curtail towhat we have now.
So now it's aboutentrepreneurship.
It's about your passion and gigwork.
(05:57):
So it's about maybe you havemultiple jobs, maybe they're
part-time jobs or maybe you'rean entrepreneur.
So things just a steadypaycheck doesn't really make a
lot of sense for a lot of people.
The other one is you don't talkabout money.
Well, guess what?
Everybody talks about money.
You don't talk about how muchmoney you have, but you're
(06:19):
transparent and you try tomitigate your economic
challenges because you're.
We've discussed many, manytimes on this podcast.
Things are difficult, times arehard and sometimes, if you just
don't talk about money, peopledon't know where you stand,
they're not willing to help orthey're not willing to put you
(06:40):
in the right direction helpfulto continuing to be successful
and gain a network of peoplethat are that have your best,
that have your best.
You know the overall care aboutyou.
They have the things that theybelieve that are important to
(07:04):
you.
They understand that.
The other thing is I love thisone.
The other thing is I love thisone retire early.
Who the heck can retire early?
What a myth.
This is an old-fashioned beliefthat does not or seem even
fathomable anymore.
(07:24):
Why we live longer and theremight not even be barely any
social security by the time wedo get there.
So it's going to be reallydifficult to retire early or
retire at all.
Maybe you plan to workpart-time in your elder years,
which is fine.
I plan to teach, I plan towrite books, I plan to maybe do
(07:49):
podcasts.
I'll never retire.
Why?
Because we have so muchprofound knowledge out there, so
why not continue to share itwith anybody that wants to
listen?
And the other one is stick towhat you know.
I remember this one growing up.
Stick to what you know.
Why go out there on a limb andtry to learn something new?
(08:11):
We live in the golden age oftechnology.
If we're not learning, we aredying.
We have so much opportunity tocontinue to learn new things, be
able to branch out into otherfields, find stuff that we don't
know and learn about it.
(08:31):
The only excuse to not learn isyou don't want to learn or
you're dead.
Those are the realities ofstick to what you know.
It's what I don't know is whatI want to learn.
Respect your elders that's whatI believe in.
That's an old belief myth, noteven a myth.
That's one I believe in.
(08:51):
That's an old belief myth.
That not even a myth.
It's important, but you need toadapt what your elders stated
to fit the new reality.
So all of this that I'm talkingabout when it comes to you know
work hard to be successful.
You know Buy a house, you needa steady job.
(09:11):
You don't talk about money.
You stick to what you knowRetire early.
Well, all of this is not partof the reality that we live in.
Another one was it wasn't evenheard of then, but it's so
important.
It's something that everybodyneeds to pay attention to it's
(09:33):
mental illness isn't a realthing.
This is the old-fashionedbelief that used to be a concept
.
It was.
You don't talk about mentalhealth.
Nobody really has a mentalhealth issue.
If they do, they're in aninsane asylum.
They're locked up becausethey're mentally crazy.
(09:53):
Well, guess what?
We have a lot of stress intoday's society and at some
point people just crack, or theyget overwhelmed or they just
cannot, you know, handlebasically a bunch of different
things.
You got people with ADD, adhd,anxiety, whatever it may be.
(10:14):
It's all of these differentissues that need to be addressed
and they can't be hidden likethey used to.
College is the only path tosuccess.
I remember a teacher telling mewhen I was in first grade.
I'm not joking.
This teacher said you willnever amount to anything if you
(10:38):
can't write, and what she meantwas my penmanship was not good.
Well, guess what?
My penmanship is not good today, but we have computers.
I don't have to writepenmanship anymore.
I'm not writing much cursive,I'm not writing, you know, like
that back when we were learning,when I was in first grade.
(10:59):
So for her to say you willnever be successful without good
penmanship is like you'll neverbe able to call anybody without
a telephone book.
You just hop on the computer oryou call.
You ask Google what'sso-and-so's number?
Call so-and-so.
So therefore, I was scarred fora long time because that
(11:20):
teacher said that to me and Ithink I did.
Okay, I'm not tooting my ownhorn, but I've been fairly
successful in the executiveleadership world.
I have a PhD and I get aplatform to talk to you.
At the end of the day, we can'tworry about what everybody else
(11:40):
says.
Another one money can't buyhappiness.
You know what?
No, excuse me, it was money canbuy happiness.
I was about to say you're right, money can't buy happiness.
But the old-fashioned beliefmyth was money can buy happiness
.
There is no amount of moneythat can buy happiness.
(12:02):
I know some extremely wealthypeople and they're absolutely
miserable.
Some of the most wealthiestpeople, famous people, have took
their own lives.
They're not happy why.
They got everything they want.
They can get anything they want, but the reality is love,
(12:23):
friendship, health.
Those are the things thatpeople truly care about.
It's not about, you know,success meaning wealth and
status.
That's what used to beimportant.
It was.
Success means wealth andhappiness.
No success is the ability toshare with others.
(12:47):
Success is the ability to helpothers.
Success is the ability to beable to provide for your family
and be economically secure.
But wealth does not bringsuccess.
You can cheat, lie, steal yourway to wealth and guess what?
(13:09):
Are you successful?
Absolutely not.
Who am I to judge?
But what I can say is successis for those who are willing to
share, those who are willing tohelp others.
That's what true success is,one of my absolute favorites,
favorites.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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I can't tell you how many timesI heard that growing up.
Well, that means status quo isokay.
In 2025, is status quo reallyokay?
Should we just sit on ourlaurels and never do anything?
Should we not advance anythingand not really continue to look
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to find better ways to improve?
Absolutely not.
This is our time to shine.
This is our time to takesomething and make it more
valuable.
So, if it ain't broke, don'tfix it.
Well, guess what?
Everything's broke and youbetter find a way to improve it,
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repair it and break it up tothe next level.
And the other one is you can'tteach an old dog new tricks.
I don't care how old you are, Idon't care if you're a baby
boomer, a Gen X, you know, amillennial.
Whatever it may be an alpha,everybody has the opportunity to
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learn.
Learning is an important stigmathat if you're not learning,
you're dying or you're in themiddle of nowhere with no
opportunity to learn.
That's why you just need to beable to continue to learn new
things.
Oh, here's one you just need thetough things out.
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You ever heard of that onegrowing up?
You just need the tough thingsout.
It was basically if you got hit, you got knocked down, get
right back up, make sure theother person has more bruises
than you do.
Don't cry over spilled milk.
Those are the type of thingsthat we grew up on and that's
part of the old fashionedbeliefs the tough keep going,
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whatever it may be.
Well, guess what?
These are cliches.
They are beliefs that the babyboomers did have and they're not
wrong, but they didn't continueto evolve around today's
reality.
Because now, guess what?
You can't go to the park andtough things out by fighting
somebody else in the park.
Well, guess what?
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Now you have a chance to go tojuvenile, go to jail, be
suspended by your school,whatever it may be, if you
choose to hit somebody else in afist fight or a fight after
school, or a circle fight orwhatever you called it back then
.
But now it'll get you in a lotof trouble.
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And another one that I like isif you can't handle the heat,
get out of the kitchen.
Well, what that means issomebody.
If they tell you something andyou don't like it, you know.
It's about having empathy.
It's about being able todiscuss and talk about it, and
if your feelings hurt, then talkabout those feelings.
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But then it was like, hey, if Itell you something, I tell you
to bleep off.
Well, guess what you shouldbleep off?
Well, now, if you tell somebodyto bleep off, you might lose
your job.
You could lose a lot by sayingthings that are off the rail.
Yes, you could lose a lot bysaying things are off the rail,
yes.
The one thing about the oldfashioned beliefs that have
happened is we have got sosensitive over time and we take
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everything to heart.
Everything hurts.
We listen to everybody.
We listen to what people talkabout us in social media and
everywhere else.
But that's where the realitieshave changed from when the baby
boomers were talking about theseimportant aspects that I
mentioned.
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But they're not the realitiesof today.
We don't have phone boothsanymore.
We don't have we don't have arotary phones, we don't have a
answering machines, that wedon't have typewriters.
All of these things They've.
They've aged with time andthat's okay.
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Everything gets out to date atsome point.
One of these days, the laptopI'm working on is going to be
out to date.
You know taxi cabs.
You rarely see a taxi cab.
One day we're going to see aRoboCab, you know, by Elon Musk.
They're going to pick us up andthey're going to drive us
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around on computers.
The great thing is istechnology, all the different
things that I've talked about.
They're positive.
Yes, like anything, oversharingis not good, but if you utilize
things in the right way and youfocus on it and you find ways to
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improve it, it's okay.
But let's not think about theold fashioned values that are
now hurtful or won't work intoday's society.
Let's take those, ramp them up,improve them and find ways to
make them the new realities.
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Maybe buying a house issomething you want to do, but
maybe you start with a condo.
Maybe you move to an area wherethe cost of living is much
better, or you buy, you do thevan life, or you buy one of
those mini houses I think theycall them little houses.
Whatever little homes, whateverthey cost, whatever they're
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called.
You try to find a different wayto make things work, but some
of the traditionalist thingsthat we grew up on are no longer
pertinent to what we do.
So today, what we've learned isthere are old-fashioned beliefs
that can do more harm than good, but if we take it and we
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evolve it around today's reality, then we can make it work for
us.
So, again, this podcast is foranyone who wants to be motivated
to improve their life.
If you're a Gen Z, a millennial, a baby boomer, a Gen X,
whatever you fall in, thispodcast is for you.
I want you to please share andsubscribe and hit the
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notification button If you're onYouTube.
Again, please subscribe andcontinue to share.
We really do appreciate thesupport out there and I hope
that you continue to use thisinformation and find ways to
improve your life and share withothers.
So thank you, take care andwe'll talk to you later.
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Bye-bye.
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