The Power Of Low Self-Esteem – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.this is the power of low self-esteem In September 1893 Churchill was admitted on his third attempt to the Sandhurst Military College He wrote to his father "I was so glad to be able to send you the good news on Thursday." His father a former chancellor of the ex-checker and leader of the House of Commons wrote back a week later "You should be ashamed of your slovenly happygolucky haram scaram style of work Never have I received really any good report from your conduct from any headmaster or tutor Always behind incessant complaints and a total want of application to your work You have failed to get into the 60th rifles the finest regiment in the army You have imposed on me some extra charge of £200 a year Do not think that I'm going to take the trouble of writing you long letters after every failure you commit and undergo I no longer attach the slightest weight to anything you may say If you cannot prevent yourself from leading the idle useless unprofitable life you have had during your school days you will become a mere social wastel one of the hundreds of public school failures and you will degenerate into a shabby unhappy and futile existence You will have to bear all the blame for such misfortunes Your mother sends her love Churchill was 19 when he sent that And that story hurts to read hurts me to read because I don't know the inner texture of Churchill's mind but I would bet that even after defeating Nazi Germany and winning World War II he probably still didn't feel good enough You know V-Day whenever it was June 30th 1945 or something Uh how long did that sense of validation and enoughness linger with Churchill having the greatest threat that had been faced for a very long time was just defeated Two days less than a day maybe like how quickly did his mind get back to castigating himself with that voice that internal tyrant that was his father And you know it sort of begs the question what is the point of success if there is no satisfaction in the succeeding Which is why you should be very aware of envying successful humans because the price that you would need to be pay to be the people that you admire is often one that you wouldn't foot the bill for And I spoke about this idea to Neil Strauss the guy that wrote the game and he wrote Rick Rubin's book Uh and then he wrote the truth He's like seven New York time bestsellers I think And he's writing a new book and he told me the title of this new book and I came up with a rule off the back of his title which is you can tell how good an idea is by how envious you are of not coming up with it yourself when you hear about it and he told me the title of this book and I was like [ __ ] that's so good why didn't I think of that U and the title of his new book is the power of low self-esteem and it's this same idea that I've been obsessed with for a long time which is look at the very successful very impressive people that you admire that lots of people look up to uh that we all hold in high esteem and look at what the internal texture of their mind's like Look at what the dayto-day existence for them feels like And what does it mean How how driven to do amazing great fantastical things are they And yet in reality do you want to be that person Like do you want to pay the price that you need to to be the people that you admire And the power of low self-esteem Just what a awesome title And you can tell how good an idea is by how envious you are of not having come up with it yourself Uh so yeah next one This is uh kind of cool I I mean terrifying but also kind of cool Um obesity is now a greater threat to global health than hunger A new Lancet study has found that more than one in eight people in the world are clinically obese The number passed 1 billion for the first time and it is now the leading form of malnutrition with the number of people considered underweight falling below 550 million Being obese or underweight are both forms of malnutrition because in both cases people are not getting the right nutrients and vitamins and the types of calories that they need in order to be healthy And experts have basically warned that children were paying the price for inaction on obesity by global 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