00:00:00.560All right, I am checking in from good old Sweden in June. Good place to be, Sweden, despite everything, still a nice place to be, especially in early summer.
00:00:09.800Now, I thought to elaborate on something that I mentioned ever so briefly in a recent video titled I messed up, and that is creating something of value, creating something that goes beyond mere profit, mere money.
00:00:24.340So, first and foremost, everyone needs money, just as everyone needs to eat. But money is not enough.
00:00:30.600And if I want to give the best possible career advice to you, the best possible advice when it comes to a job, a vocation, everything like this, it's to make sure that you can create value beyond just money.
00:00:44.360So, I will use a few examples to illustrate my point.
00:00:47.340But imagine that you have a doctor, and he saves the life of a young child, a child of a couple that he knows.
00:00:55.700Maybe they live in the same village or small town or something like that. Maybe in the same neighborhood.
00:01:01.160For the rest of his life, he will have the added value of the knowledge that he helped to save this family from a great tragedy.
00:01:11.740So, yes, he will get his good salary, and he will also get the value, the reward, the knowledge that he has helped avoid a tragedy.
00:01:21.500To use another example, if you have a carpenter, he gets a commission to renovate a house in his vicinity.
00:01:28.880So, he will get the money, of course, and then he will have the added value, the added benefit of perhaps every once in a while walk past that house that he helped renovate.
00:01:39.500And then he will say, yes, I did a good job here.
00:01:50.260It's extremely important when we're talking about creating a society built on love and not nihilism.
00:01:56.060Because if you have a society of strangers where no one really cares about one another, then you don't have this sort of added value.
00:02:05.000So, this is if you have a tight-knit community where people actually care about each other, it is good because people are not built to be alone.
00:02:17.340And that is probably why so many people are unhappy now despite, you know, on paper more material wealth.
00:02:23.740If we can even say that anymore, that's a different discussion, by the way.
00:02:27.360But my point is that humans are created to live in a community where you actually care about each other, where you have a shared vision, a shared story, a shared future.
00:02:40.060That is how you create a good society.
00:02:41.740So, if we permit ourselves to dream a bit, were I the political leader of Sweden, alongside our king, of course, then I would erect a grand temple to fray.
00:02:56.020Now, everyone who works on that temple, everyone from the architect to the builder to the ones transporting material, it will be in stone, by the way.
00:03:08.100It's more glorious than wood and it will be created in a neoclassical style.
00:03:14.860Everyone who works on the temple, the ones who supply food, the ones who set up shop in the vicinity to supply everything needed for this grand construction project.
00:03:26.480When this is done, everyone will take pride in it.
00:03:29.420Everyone who contributed in an ever so small manner, everyone will still know, they will have the knowledge that, yes, they helped create this.
00:03:37.360So, I actually use this as an example in Dauntless, the cathedral of Uppsala, that, you know, this magnificent, beautiful building, close to my own heart, of course, because I've spent a lot of time there and in the vicinity.
00:03:50.000Everyone could look at that beautiful building and say, yeah, I was part of it.
00:03:53.960Maybe you weren't the architect of it, but you helped in some capacity, at least.
00:03:58.700And this also brings us into what is considered lowly jobs, simple jobs, maybe not so glamorous jobs, such as being a street cleaner or whatever.
00:04:11.220Still, you can take pride in that profession because you know that you bring value to society, because you want to show a nice society to, maybe if tourists come to your city, your town, and they say, yeah, this is a well-maintained place.
00:04:26.960Because these individuals who live here, people who live here, they should be proud of themselves.
00:04:31.600So, you can have a, quote-unquote, lowly profession, but you can still gain value from it if you bring value, additional value, to society at large.
00:07:32.420Now, of course, you can have exceptions such as a cosmopolitan city, a trading city, everything like that.
00:07:38.640You have it historically as well where, yeah, you can be strangers, it's fine.
00:07:42.460But for most people in most places, you do want to live in a community where you have some sort of shared interest with the people around you.
00:07:52.560Where you have a shared destiny, a shared story, shared values, shared ethnicity, everything like that.
00:07:59.060It's good. It's good for you to feel this way.
00:08:03.500It's called creating a high-trust society.
00:08:05.820And this, by the way, if we're talking about economy and money and business and everything like this, a high-trust society is great for business.
00:08:13.100A low-trust society is absolutely horrendous for business.
00:08:17.100So if you ever talk to one of these conservatives who are only concerned with GDP or whatever it might be, tell him or her that, you know, if you're so interested in economic development, yeah,
00:08:28.240a homogenous society, a high-trust society is better for business.
00:08:32.500So to conclude, the best possible advice I can give in terms of career, it's to choose something that you know that you can bring value beyond only money.
00:08:44.820That is not to say that money is bad or anything.
00:08:47.080Money is great because you can do a lot of good things with money.
00:08:50.460With great money, you can do a lot of good.
00:08:52.920And that can also be, you know, a way for you to create values.
00:08:56.180Even if you aren't happy with what you're working with, then use some of that money to create something good.
00:09:02.540Like I talked about in a recent video, if you're very wealthy, yeah, then do support initiatives that you believe can bring about positive change.
00:09:11.140And also important to notice that all jobs can be good if it helps create society, if it helps create society into something better.
00:09:20.000So if someone says this is a lowly job or anything like that, don't view it like that.
00:09:24.760Only view it in terms of does this actually make society better?
00:10:00.560Now we're getting into the more spiritual territory, but it's extremely good for the well-being of humans to be engaged in a great project together.
00:10:11.620So a great number of humans coming together to create something great, that is, yeah, it's truly something special.
00:10:19.220Now on a very last note, I will use an example that will also serve as the sponsor of this video.
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00:10:29.480It's something for me that is beyond mere money as well.
00:10:34.780It's something that I take pride in when I wear the garments myself.
00:10:39.280I choose the best possible garments and those are the garments of Legio Gloria.
00:10:43.920If I see a stylish young man and he wears, you know, with a straight back and he looks confident and he wears Legio Gloria, it brings joy.
00:10:52.440That is added value as a clothing designer that you see, guys, they look good in your clothes.