108. Dream Life - What It Takes To Create An Extraordinary Life

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The deep challenge of building an extraordinary life, and what you’ll have to do to really make it happen.

Big Ideas

The Problem of Life

• The question is: how do you actually create that dream life?
• What is the dream life? You know what it is. It’s that highest ambition you had for yourself before life beat it out of you.
• Everyone tries to live big at some point, but almost no one succeeds. Why?
• I remember hearing an old story that will help us understand what’s going on.

Story of the Old Lady and the Wolf

• A long time ago there was a village just outside the woods.
• In this village lived a simple old lady.
• One night the old lady goes out into the woods to run a chore.
• As she wanders through the woods, suddenly, a giant blood-thirsty wolf jump out in front of her.
• The wolf’s jaws are wide open and his fangs are glaring. The wolf is just about to maul her.
• Having nothing in her hands to fend off the wolf, the old lady is absolutely terrified. Even a grown man couldn’t handle this wolf alone.
• So what does she do? The only thing she can: she reaches out and grabs the wolf hard by the tongue.
• She pulls out the wolf’s tongue past his teeth and starts walking towards the village.
• When she finally gets back to the village with the wolf, one of the men clubs him to death over the head.
• Old Lady: 1, Wolf: 0