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Personal Responsibility: The Ultimate Freedom
Personal responsibility. Who wants to hear about that? Well, you do… if you want to have any chance at health, wealth, and happiness. Author, musician, and podcaster Zuby explains exactly why.
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Script:
Personal responsibility.
Whoa, who wants to hear about that?
Well, you do… if you want to have any chance at health, wealth, and happiness.
So, what does it mean—personal responsibility?
You probably already know, but just in case—it means holding yourself accountable for your words and actions, instead of blaming others or making constant excuses.
It means taking responsibility for your own successes, but also—and this is even more important—for your own failures.
Your life boils down to this: conscious choices, habits, and random events.
You can’t control everything that happens to you. Accidents, sickness, bad luck, human malice, and natural disasters are all unfortunate realities of life. On the other hand, you also get to experience love, friendship, kindness, opportunity, and generosity—all the good stuff life has to offer.
But bad things do happen. And sometimes there’s nothing we can do about it.
What we can control is how we react. It’s a lot easier said than done, but people do it all the time. Who doesn’t know someone who’s been dealt a bad hand—for example, a debilitating disease—yet who manages to be happier than someone who is in perfect health.
We all confront our own struggles, pain, personal tragedies, and ultimately, death. So, while you’re here, I recommend making the most of the opportunity.
To do that, the very first thing you have to do is take responsibility for your life. Yet this simple and self-evident concept is widely rejected and even mocked.
Why is that?
It’s because it strikes at the core of our ego, our image of ourselves.
It’s human nature to seek excuses. Telling people they’re responsible for their bad decisions removes these comforting alibis. Blaming another individual, group, or plain bad luck is much more appealing.
Furthermore, adopting such a victim mindset can act as a form of social currency, a way to court attention and sympathy, or even as a cudgel to wield against others.
If you’re out of shape, broke, unsuccessful, or unhappy, then it must be the fault of someone else—or even better, some nefarious “system”—which doesn’t even need to be defined. You just know that you’re a victim of it.
It’s easy to see why people would want to reject the idea of personal responsibility—the warm glow of victimhood is very tempting—but the consequences of doing so inevitably lead to misery, anger, and ruin.
Only when you recognize that your destiny is in your own hands can you make positive changes to your life: your health, career, relationships, self-esteem, happiness, and most important of all, your character. No one else can—or will—do it for you.
As one recovering addict put it when asked “when did you decide to become sober?”
“The day I stopped blaming everybody else for my problems.”
To understand where you are now, and to make better decisions in the future, it’s also important to understand history. Wise people—and being wise has little to do with your age—learn from the past. But a word of caution: preoccupation with the past to the point of obsession is destructive.
The past is immutable. It can’t be altered nor reversed.
You have no control over the past. But you do have control over the present and the future.
If you’re driving a car whilst only looking in the rear-view mirror, then you’re going to crash. But if you keep your eyes on the road ahead, looking back only to orient yourself, then you are far more likely to reach your destination intact.
We all start at different positions in life. We don’t get to choose when, or where, or to whom we’re born. We don’t choose our genetics, our nationality, our sex, or our ethnicity.
Everyone has advantages and disadvantages that they can’t take credit for, nor be blamed for.
The only question that matters is: what do you do with what you have?
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Thanks!
100% truth. Beautiful! Glorious! Powerful!
I know a lady that had a slip and fall in the shower in her thirties and now is in a wheelchair. She has a husband and kids snd still handles everything. She is the most upbeat and positive person I know. If your having a bad day, thinkof someone like her, it's a bit humbling……
People are interpreting the past all the time.
Victim blaming at its finest and gaslighting.
As a "strait white male" who is born in a European country, I can positivity say that I've been thrown under the bus by life. With a hole laundry list of both mental and physical defects.
But you can not see that from the outside.
You learn to hide it.
To deal with it, and take responsibility for your choices, and only Your choices
Thank you for making this video.
I don't get why a joker is a bad hand. It's a wild card.
Great video 👍
Outstanding. Truth, pure truth.
Best/ most important PragerU video EVER! And I've seen them all
There was this quote I saw about a year ago, that went "the people don't deserve freedom until they're moral" or some such nonsense. That's not how freedom works. I'd wager the person who said that quote meant "people shouldn't have freedom unless they behave exactly like me."
Freedom doesn't mean you should do everything you want. Freedom doesn't mean you have to do everything want. Freedom doesn't mean do whatever you want.
Freedom means you're allowed to tell yourself no. Freedom means you're allowed to tell yourself yes.
The quarters don't actually do anything.
Well said sir!
Great video dear friend. I work for free as a spiritualist medium, and that is a major art of what I do for God and spirit. Truth love and light is paramount. Your future is a bi-product of what you do think and say in the here and now
ppl now seem to think victimhood is something u do to urself rather than something imposed on u against ur will. i still agree with this video, people shouldn't protect others from the consequences of their own actions. many people struggle to take responibility for how they treat others, and often it's easier to point the finger than to recognize ur own part in ur own choices.
i question wut extent in free choice we all have, at wut point does something end up being our choice alone and at wut point does the influence of others end? it's something that eats at me constantly. one thing i do know is that if someone else decides ur not going to b happy, ur not going to b happy, n short of escaping that prson there is nuthin u can do if they dun get caught.
owning up to urself is hard, its even harder 2 face hrsh truths.
Thank u Zuby!
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I’m sorry but not everyone will have this mindset. I have met people who refused to work, they mooch off of their kids and spouse. And they are religious. How are we going to get all of these people to work? At gunpoint through talk? Cause I tried talking to them and they argued back. It’s a nice idea, but everyone is different and there is not one solution
I can't believe in 2022 there is a video about taking responsibility aimed at adults. Take responsibility people stop being a victim
truth is … freedom is you responsibility
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Capitalists talking about personal responsibility!!! OMEGALUL
Slavoj Zizek made an excellent point about how in a broken system, being personally good and trying to contribute can actually make things worse than if you're a selfish egotist
I don't normally have time for this channel but Zuby has nailed it as usual.
Now it is a privilege to be born. Hopefully that will be changing in free states.
personal responsibility is a made-up concept
I'm stealing something out of your house
This is brilliant and yet, so obvious and simple. Why is it so hard to accept? Brilliant! Thank you!
I support personal responsibility I don't support someone who can't talk to a young person without bringing it up.
“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” ~ Stanley Milgram
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Great video
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Ahh yes the classic "the poor are poor because they want to"
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I’m definitely forwarding this video to my 15 year old son, I talk to him about being responsible but it’s good to have Reinforcement. Thank you for this video.
I showed this to my class today as part of a Character Trait of the Month program (5th/6th grade in a deep blue state). The students commented that the concepts were common sense and could easily be seen in daily life. My student teacher (fresh from the University setting) was observably huffy and disapproving. Who are the wiser students? Maybe she learned something.