Leo D.M.J. Aurini - June 28, 2013


＂Worthless＂ by Aaron Clarey - now in audiobook format

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Leo D.M.J. Aurini
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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

177.47

Word count

1,040

Sentence count

64

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, I read from the first chapter of my new book, "Lucky You: How to Find Your Inner You" and talk about the importance of choosing a major based on reality, not your feelings.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Chapter 1. Lucky You. I don't care about your feelings, I care about you.
00:00:07.300 You are lucky. And the reason you are lucky is because somebody cares enough about you and your future to have given you this book.
00:00:15.820 Oh, sure, at first it may not seem like a huge or caring gesture. A book! Yippee! Just what I always wanted.
00:00:22.960 But what you don't realize is the courage it took for that person to buy you this book.
00:00:27.100 This book isn't a touchy-feely good book. It isn't a book about finding yourself.
00:00:33.180 It's not a romance book where vampires protect their human-female love interests from Ebola-infected wolfmen.
00:00:39.140 And it's not one of those lame self-help books like Find Your Inner You or Yeah, For Us, We're All Winners.
00:00:46.380 It's a cold, harsh, blunt book that delivers the strongest belt of reality you'll ever have.
00:00:51.700 A much-needed belt of reality. A belt of reality so harsh and blunt that it may even offend you and make you upset at the person who bought you this book.
00:00:59.840 However, that's precisely why you must appreciate that person.
00:01:04.600 Understand, it takes nothing to say nice things to nice people.
00:01:08.580 The average person could go all day paying compliments and platitudes, giving everybody warm fuzzies in their stomach.
00:01:13.720 There's no risk and there's no immediate drawback.
00:01:17.460 But what takes real guts and real, tough, fatherly love is to tell somebody the truth.
00:01:23.480 No matter how much they don't want to hear it.
00:01:25.960 No matter how much it may hurt their feelings.
00:01:28.340 And no matter how much it may risk their friendship or relationship.
00:01:32.100 Telling the truth is the ultimate sign of somebody who genuinely cares about you because, frankly, the truth is not optional.
00:01:39.560 Understand, no matter how much you may not like the truth, the truth is the truth.
00:01:46.120 It's reality. It cannot be avoided.
00:01:49.220 Oh, sure, you can lie to yourself and tell yourself what you want to hear.
00:01:52.620 And, oh, sure, you can rationalize reality away with warped and unrealistic thinking.
00:01:57.900 And, oh, sure, there's no limit to the number of people who will gladly tell you what you want to hear because they'll profit from it at your expense.
00:02:05.320 You can live in la-la land for quite some time. 0.99
00:02:07.840 But, ultimately, in the end, reality wins.
00:02:11.980 And if you've lived your life ignoring reality because you simply didn't like it or because your environment was programmed to tell you what you wanted to hear,
00:02:19.260 you will suffer great and unimaginable consequences.
00:02:22.900 Conversely, if you lived in reality and made your decisions based in the real world, you will reap great and unimaginable benefits.
00:02:30.600 And that is the aim of this book.
00:02:34.160 To make sure you make one of the most important decisions in your life based in reality, not your feelings.
00:02:40.960 One Hell of a Decision
00:02:45.100 You are about to make a decision that will affect your future more significantly than any other decisions you will have made thus far.
00:02:54.000 It will determine how much money you make, what kind of standard of living you will enjoy, how healthy you will be, how healthy your children will be, and what you will do with the majority of your adult time.
00:03:05.040 You will inevitably work 8 hours a day for 30 to 40 years.
00:03:10.380 This will be, hands down, the sing-as-biggest plurality of your conscious time on this planet.
00:03:15.500 It will not be spent with your loving husband or wife.
00:03:17.800 It will not be spent with your future children or dogs.
00:03:20.460 It will not be spent drinking margaritas on a beach or playing video games.
00:03:24.420 It will be spent working for somebody else.
00:03:27.160 How enjoyable and rewarding all of this will be boils down to one simple decision.
00:03:32.440 What are you going to major in?
00:03:35.060 Naturally, such a decision should not be made lightly, nor should it be made in haste.
00:03:39.440 You should spend a lot of time thinking about it, studying and researching various majors, and doing whatever you can to come to a wise decision.
00:03:46.400 But for all the importance associated with this decision, and the huge effect it will have on your life, the truth is, most young people receive little to no help or guidance in making this decision from their elders.
00:03:58.120 It is the epitome of irony that you have this monstrously huge and important decision to make, and yet nobody, be it your parents, your guidance counselors, or your teachers, can provide you with any real, concrete help and insight as to what you should choose as your future profession.
00:04:13.140 This relegates most young people to make this decision on their own, who do not have the experience, background, or wisdom to choose a major wisely.
00:04:22.620 Making matters worse, there are adults out there who have no problem taking advantage of young people like you and your situation.
00:04:31.120 They'll tell you what you want to hear, cajole or convince you to attend a certain school or pursue a certain study simply because they will profit from it.
00:04:39.980 There are entire industries based on convincing you to spend your education dollars on them while effectively offering nothing in return.
00:04:49.020 And perhaps most despicably, there are politicians, special interest groups, unions, and lobbyists who have no moral qualms about using you and other fellow innocent youths as pawns to advance their political aims and agendas.
00:05:03.080 Thus, the reason for this book.
00:05:04.900 Worthless will help you navigate this minefield and choose the major that is right for you.
00:05:10.620 It will explain to you how the labor market works, why some professions make more than others, review starting salaries, and explore different options when it comes to undergrad and grad school.
00:05:20.660 It will also show you how different people in society prey upon youth, such as yourself, and take advantage of you for their own personal gain, so that you can identify these threats and avoid them.
00:05:32.120 But ultimately, however, this book has nothing more than the wisdom of your elders who have gone down this path before, who want you to learn from our mistakes so that you might have a better, easier, and happier life than we did.
00:05:45.900 I'll see you more than that.
00:05:49.300 What's next?