The Pursuit of Awesome with Charlie Harary

Controlling our Thoughts

We can’t control the thoughts that enter our mind. We can only control how we manage and regulate those thoughts.

When Feeling Stifles Thinking

Anticipated negative feelings stand in the way of blocking our minds to think freely. When we’re able to let go of those feelings we can truly achieve our greatest potential.

Living in the Game of Feelings

Being right doesn’t always mean we “win.” Winning is when we can learn how to prioritize others’ feelings instead of our own need to be right.

How Framing Impacts Feeling

The context in which we present information to others greatly impacts feelings and related memories and experiences.

Extracting Our Greatness

Being a victim makes us see our situation as one that can’t be fixed because we have no control. But to achieve personal greatness, we need to be responsible for controlling ourselves and our response to situations versus controlling the situation itself.

The Myth of Easy

Looking for the easy route perpetuates jealousy.  The Torah teaches us to never be envious because envy leads to living a life of victimhood filled with a never-ending sense of “woe as me.”

Perpetuating a Culture of Easy

Our brains often forget or fail to acknowledge difficulties we face in life because we are trained to believe that achieving greatness is easy. But the fact of the matter is that life is difficult. We need to learn how to extract the greatness in ourselves and continually embrace the challenges that come our way. 

Finding Comfort in the Uncomfortable

If we’re able to push ourselves into exploring unfamiliar territory, we can unlock our fullest potential and achieve personal greatness.

The Last 3 Have to Kill

The appropriate amount of pain and discomfort that takes place after a workout is actually a sign of growth. This is the pathway to success for growing muscle mass. The same goes for the soul. That's how great people feel about being uncomfortable. If we go through things and the last three “reps” don't kill, then we know to be concerned. Once discomfort becomes what we look for as a metric to the effort we put into our days, over time we don't avoid being uncomfortable, we avoid being comfortable.

Cause and Effect

Our soul is impacted by our actions. The spiritual world is a world of fairness. It's a world of justice. What you put into spiritual and deep things, you get back. God is setting a standard and hoping that we rise to the standard specifically set for each one of us. Because if we start to live in that standard, we will begin to realize our godliness and lead much deeper and qualitative lives.