July 26, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| But it's one of these things. | |
| If you're afraid of talking to a woman and you show fear, then she's going to say no. | |
| But if you don't show fear, she's more likely to say yes as a whole. | |
| That's the funny thing about the Me Too movement: the Me Too movement just stopped sensitive guys from approaching women. | |
| The insensitive jerks will continue to do it. | |
| They just filtered out all the good guys and put out blanket invitations for the bad guys. | |
| So if you are 150% convinced of the righteousness and importance of your cause for other people, you're doing it for them. | |
| It's not about your ego. | |
| It's not about you being in charge. | |
| It is for them. | |
| This is what has sustained me for like 40 plus years is, you know, when people say, oh, Steph, you say this negative thing about this group or women or this, it's like, I want them to be happy. | |
| I absolutely, completely, and totally want people to be happy. | |
| Oh, you know, you're really harsh on abusive parents. | |
| It's like, well, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Because I don't want people to abuse their children because their children will end up unhappy. | |
| And that's, of course, the world my daughter has to live in. | |
| But they'll also end up very unhappy. | |
| And so I'm blunt and firm with people because I want them to be happy. | |
| It's not about me being right. | |
| It's not about me winning or dominating. | |
| And that's why I think, you know, not to pat myself, I mean, Lord knows I've made tons of mistakes, but not to pat myself on the back too much, right? | |
| But just to say, I think that's why, as far as philosophy goes, I'm really compelling because I'm like here, for instance, I'm not trying to have you think I'm right. | |
| I'm not trying to have you think I'm cool. | |
| I'm genuinely trying to help you achieve your goal through commitment. | |
| The most committed in any conflict will always win, the most consistent and the most committed. | |
| And so you have to be like, I don't know if you've heard of this thing. | |
| We've got these people coming in from China. | |
| They don't care about prop, they don't care about environmental standards. | |
| I mean, my God, the Yangtze River is a sewage fest, right? | |
| They don't care about the stuff. | |
| They're taking over our water supply. | |
| It's really dangerous. | |
| It's going to harm your property. | |
| It's going to harm your kids. | |
| It's going to harm the cohesiveness of the community. | |
| This is one of these times where you just have to do something. | |
| Now, fortunately, you don't have to sell your house and join the Moonies. | |
| All you have to do is then just give them something to do. | |
| And I'm going to circle back. | |
| I'm going to check you did it. | |
| Promise me you're going to do it. | |
| I'm telling you, this is for your benefit, not mine. | |
| And that's the best way to convince people is to be fully committed to what is the best thing for them. | |
| And if you're certain of that, it's almost irresistible. | |
| If it's about you, people won't listen. | |
| I mean, I know it's not rational, but that's just the way people work, if that makes sense. | |
| Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. | |
| And I think it is that because I had the urge to just move. | |
| I mean, it's obviously something that's continuously in the back of my head. | |
| It's just like, you know, the way I dealt with the COVID situation, I just moved to a place that was better. | |
| And that's fine too. | |
| But what that does is it lowers the stakes. | |
| Like if you have to convince the people because you can't move, then there's a kind of desperation. | |
| And it's just, it's sad but true. | |
| The confident salesman is the one who sells. | |
| The one who doesn't need the sale is the one who sells. | |
| The one who's desperate for the sale is the one who doesn't sell. | |
| So you can move and you say, listen, I can move. | |
| Maybe you can't. | |
| I can go somewhere else, but maybe you can't. | |
| Maybe your kids are tied into the school. | |
| Maybe there's a whole little league thing here. | |
| Maybe your wife is part of a bridge club that she'll never leave behind. | |
| Maybe your whole family is here and you can't move. | |
| I'm willing to take this on, even though I could move because I know it's the right thing for the community. | |
| I really need your help and it's for your benefit. | |
| I'm promising you that. | |
| And just you, you know in your core that it is for their benefit. |
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