The Relationship Between Your Internal and External Worlds
Jul 18, 2024
The podcast explores how our internal states are influenced by external environments, challenging the idea that joy can be solely cultivated internally. It discusses the impact of prefabricated systems on our personal values and the importance of creating supportive external systems. The podcast also highlights the significance of building personal ecosystems that reflect and support our desired qualities for fulfillment and navigating environmental changes to enhance our well-being.
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Internal & External Worlds
Your internal world is where you have the most influence, but it's deeply connected to your external world.
Create supportive external structures to cultivate desired internal experiences.
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Austria to New York
A community member experienced bliss in Austria but felt dread returning to New York.
This highlights the challenge of maintaining internal states when environments change.
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System Energy
The energy used to build a system is the energy needed to maintain it.
Shifting your internal energy requires transforming the external systems around you.
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In this episode of the Flynn Skidmore podcast, we delve into the relationship between our internal states and the external environments we navigate. I challenge the idea that joy can be cultivated internally regardless of external circumstances by emphasizing the interconnectedness of the internal and external worlds.
Here’s what we cover:
Interplay Between Internal and External Environments: How surroundings influence our inner experiences and the importance of creating supportive external systems for desired internal states.
Impact of Prefabricated Systems: Critiquing reliance on ready-made systems like educational institutions or corporate structures that may not align with our personal values, underscoring the need for personal agency in creating environments that foster preferred states.
Building Personal Ecosystems for Fulfillment: Exploring the importance of creating personal systems that reflect and support qualities we wish to embody, such as joy and empowerment, with personal anecdotes on designing life's framework for profound satisfaction.
Navigating Environmental Changes: Illustrating how changes in our environments can affect our mood and outlook, with stories like a community member’s transition from bliss in Austria to routine in New York.
Join us to understand how crafting our external circumstances can enhance our inner well-being, highlighting the transformative power of creating ecosystems that emphasize the internal and external.
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