I'm gonna talk about can you succeed without ego
I'm gonna talk about can you succeed without ego? Let's cue that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness, and our long changes? That is the question, a dis podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Welch and welcome to the Rowman Podcast. Rob Man, welcome back to another Rob Man Cycling Podcast. Thanks for joining me. It's great to chat again. Hope everybody had an amazing long Easter weekend. I came yesterday and I talked about Tour of Flanders, a look back on a famous Casper ass green victory. The kind of quick step dominating the classics again, it's great to see from a lower budget team, the Wolfpack is on fire at the moment. Today I want to talk about Ego and can you succeed without Ego? And the idea of chasing money or fame and that bringing us happiness. And it's a super interesting topic. Before I dive into all that, I just want to remind you briefly today about Patreon. It's patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore watch. That's how we support the podcast. Please go on over and visit the link and consider donating the price of a beer once a month to fund the podcast to support the podcast. If you're getting some laughs, if you're getting some information, please do so. Also, follow me over on Instagram. It's roadman.soiklin and share the podcasts. Share them to friends. If you see something that's relevant, this podcast today about Ego. If you identify with this yourself or if you have a friend who you think he's going gone down this road, share to him and say, I have a listen to this and that's still the number one way the podcast grows. So I thank you for all that. It was a Jim Carrey quote that actually was the seedling of inspiration for this podcast and the quote, I'm paraphrasing because I don't have a written down. It's something along the line of I wish everybody could be rich and famous just for a day so they could realize that it doesn't make them happy. And it's a powerful quote because in our society, so many people are chasing fame or riches. And when you look at this sort of cross section of society, statistically quite a lot of people are unhappy. But for those unhappy people to now hold up on a podium or a pedestal, something that's statistically very difficult to attain like riches or fame and wealth. And then for them to say, I'd be happy when I get this, you're giving yourself for pretty low statistical chance of happiness. So you're holding something that very, very few people in society get to become like a millionaire. I'll be happy when I'm a millionaire. Statistically not many people get to be a millionaire. So why would you give yourself such a statistically poor chance of being happy? And why this has a double absurdity to it is, there's bunches of people who are super articulate in society who have attained this status of wealth and fame. And a lot of these people speak and rise and document the notion that we actually aren't any happier when we've got this stuff. Like Jim Carrey is the great example of this and examples are so numerous of people saying, You know what money doesn't make you happy fame doesn't make you happy But we don't listen to these people who have attained that statistically very very difficult thing that we're chasing It won't make you happy they tell us over and over again but the part of this journey I hate and It's a part that's actually really irk of me at the moment and I hear more and more people talking about I suppose in the wake of that Chicago Bulls documentary on Netflix. It's as everybody strives for this promised land of riches and fame. They cling to these kind of high profile examples of people who have made it like Michael Jordan or Steve Jobs. And these are not noise people. Like if you read their autobiographies, if you watch their documentaries, they treat their teammates and they treat their staff like shit. They talk down to people. They're generally just not noise people. not people I'd want to hang with. But because they've made it to the top, now people on the way up equate making it to the top to being an absolute dickhead and treating your teammates and your staff with no respect, no dignity talking down to them. It's a horrible character trait. So what we have is we're trying to get to a statistically difficult destination money fame wealth and a come to the conclusion that I need to adopt a shit attitude to get there so most people aren't going to get to this destination that they've set themselves but what they are going to end up doing is working in a job for 40 or 50k a year being an absolute dickhead and treating people like shit because they think that's going to get them ahead in life and the ultimate paradox of this whole thing is that I promise you that treating people like shit, treating people without compassion. This is gonna undermine exactly what you set out to do. This is gonna undermine your happiness and you are gonna be a sad, lonely, admissible motherfucker. That's my hot take for today, roadman. I hope you enjoyed it. I'll chat to you again tomorrow. Hey everybody, it's Anthony again. Really quick, I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. 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