Going Through Hell To Get To Heaven with Scott Mason

Success Fundamentals

In this episode, Kris Sykes and Brian Goldsack talk to Scott Mason, host of the Purpose Highway podcast. The idea that one must know the dark to see the light can be applied to many different aspects of the human condition.

Learning grit from struggle is one example, but also hoping in the face of adversity is another. Finding meaning in life can be the search of a greater purpose, whether through religion or other secular means.

But Scott challenges this idea of purpose and happiness and that maybe the question of happiness does not lie in something else that is yet to be found, but instead in things that already exist in the here and now.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Privilege from struggle inhibits resilience against adversity
• The search for meaning and connection to become greater
• Democracy as a secular alternative to religion
• Religious influence teaches greater purpose but affects notions of success
• Hope: A lack of ambition perhaps gives room to actually be happy

QUOTES

Scott: "If we are living a life in which there is too much comfort or in which a lot of the old spiritual needs that we have that which may have been driven by some of the existential or species-wide crises that we have solved, if they're not working anymore, that leaves us internally with a profound need, and that is a need for meaning and connection."

Scott: "The concept of democracy as a new secular civil religion, not democracy by the way as currently practiced, but democracy as a tie-in or a tether for true social-wide connection through the idea of open, fair, transparent, good citizenship, that if that were something that we worship, a lot of the divisions that we have would go away."

Scott: "We have hope for the future here that drives us. That's why entrepreneurialism is so big. And why success... particularly financial or achievement-oriented success is such a big deal in our culture, but in a culture that is more nihilistic that doesn't have hope, perhaps they have room to be happy."

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