June 2, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| So, you know, I mean, I'm sure, I mean, okay, hit me with a number here. | |
| Hit me with a number, right? | |
| Hit me with a number. | |
| How many times have you had to learn substantial new skills? | |
| How many? | |
| I think for me, it's probably... | |
| And, you know, I got half booted out of theater school after they found out about my politics. | |
| So, how many times have you had to? | |
| How do you qualify that? | |
| How do you quantify that? | |
| Think for yourself, man. | |
| Come on, this is a philosophy show. | |
| I got to think for me, and I'm not trying to, I think for me it's been at least six. | |
| Like, I'm thinking, Well, I did the gold panning thing, prospecting thing. | |
| Then the tax laws changed and I couldn't do that anymore. | |
| And then I went to, I did an English degree. | |
| And then I did theater school. | |
| Then I did a history degree. | |
| And then I did my graduate school. | |
| But I had to leave academia because I could tell the woke stuff was coming and white males were an endangered species. | |
| And then I went into the business world. | |
| I did tech. | |
| And then I did marketing. | |
| And then I did novel writing. | |
| I did playwriting. | |
| I did... | |
| did So you have to redo a lot, right? | |
| So what have we got here? | |
| Twice, five or more. | |
| I've got six, three to four times. | |
| Oh, so that's interesting. | |
| Two, pretty young though. | |
| Every two years, five to six. | |
| I feel like it's a million things as a jack-of-all-trades housewife. | |
| It's like a lot. | |
| As far as job stuff though, probably like five to six times. | |
| About five times, oil and gas, food industry, 18-wheeler design, structural design, helicopters, four to five, six, four, almost all coaches I've had calls with, with the exception of maybe one or two, were scams who didn't provide anything of value and it was a sunk cost. | |
| Yeah, eight or more, five, yeah. | |
| I mean, so we have to revamp all the time. | |
| Now, let me ask you this. | |
| Let me ask you this. | |
| How many people have given you deep empathy and sympathy? | |
| I mean, maybe not personally, but you as a class. | |
| How many people have given you deep, empathetic sympathy and all of that for all of the retraining that you've had to do? | |
| Because this is new in human life. | |
| You were raised as a stonemason in the Middle Ages. | |
| You did what your father did. | |
| You were raised as a stonemason. | |
| What were you doing the rest of your life? | |
| You were a stonemason. | |
| If you were a priest, you were a priest. | |
| If you were a baker, you were a baker. | |
| If you were a blacksmith, you were a blacksmith. | |
| So this whole having to reinvent yourself all the time and learning about a particular industry and then having some stupid rule or maybe technology, some government rule, regulation, whatever, just change the whole damn thing. | |
| You know, I was hoping to get all the way through university by doing all this gold panning and prospecting stuff because, you know, I learned my skills. | |
| I learned how to do it. | |
| And then the tax laws changed and the oil and gas exploration was no longer subsidized. | |
| That whole industry just dried up and evaporated. | |
| Right. | |
| You know, I mean, I knew a woman who was a purser. | |
| She was a purser on an airline, which is like the head stewardess, and then 9-11 happened, and she lost her job. | |
| Just shit that happens, right? | |
| Just shit that happens, right? | |
| So, let's see. | |
| Somebody says, I started in acting, then fashion, then marketing media, and now in therapy. | |
| She means as a therapist, not in therapy. | |
| So we've got zero, zero, one, zero. | |
| These are people who've given you sympathy, zero, zero, ha, one, zero. | |
| At least three big shifts in tech approach and soft skills development two to three times. | |
| That's James. | |
| People giving you sympathy, zero. | |
| One person, oh no, empathy. | |
| You change because you have to. | |
| LOL, that creek bed's dry. | |
| Zero. | |
| Not the only, not only the time spent to relearn. | |
| Then all the money spent on courses, books, etc. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Zero. | |
| Although I did love the changes. | |
| Every time I changed skill sets, it was to do something better. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Anyone remember Learn to Code? | |
| Forget sympathy. | |
| There was contempt. |
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