Dan Martell - March 19, 2024


The Reason Why Most People Are Depressed


Episode Stats


Length

58 seconds

Words per minute

241.67233

Word count

237

Sentence count

12


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about how worrying about the future is a waste of a great imagination, and how we should focus on the positivity instead. I think most people are depressed because they worry too much, and worrying is a wasted use of their imagination.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Why do you think most people are depressed?
00:00:01.720 I think most people are depressed
00:00:03.120 because they worry about the future that has never happened.
00:00:06.900 That fear of a future that's never existed,
00:00:10.060 that's what fear stands for, false evidence appearing real.
00:00:12.680 I think that most people worry too much
00:00:14.240 and worrying is a wasted use of a great imagination.
00:00:17.020 Being able to co-create your future and decide,
00:00:19.620 I'm going to focus on the positivity,
00:00:21.040 I'm going to focus on creating something
00:00:22.300 that's empowering and inspiring,
00:00:24.340 that's more exciting than worrying about the 15 things
00:00:27.560 that could go wrong, that haven't gone wrong,
00:00:29.440 that you've reacted to as if they've already happened,
00:00:31.500 they probably will never happen.
00:00:32.620 And 99% of the time, they never happen.
00:00:34.480 If people actually stopped and wrote down
00:00:36.100 everything they were worried about today
00:00:37.300 and everything they worry about the next day,
00:00:38.860 and they do that for a week,
00:00:39.840 and then at the end of the week,
00:00:40.780 they look at the list and they go,
00:00:41.940 wow, 99% of these things
00:00:44.080 that I thought was gonna happen, didn't happen.
00:00:46.420 I wonder how good at predicting the future I am.
00:00:48.800 Not.
00:00:49.300 So I wonder if there's a better way for me
00:00:51.160 to use my mind to focus on things
00:00:52.700 that could help me better.
00:00:53.740 Yes.
00:00:54.260 Focus on creating a future that's inspired.
00:00:56.000 I think most people are literally depressed
00:00:57.880 because they don't have a future.