The REAL Interpretation PYGMALION - MIND over MATTER to CREATE your SUCCESS! - 004 #carpreneur
Peter Saddington explores the deeper meaning of the Pygmalion myth, moving beyond a simple love story to examine themes of self-denial and obsession. He posits that denying oneself something can paradoxically lead to an all-consuming fixation. He uses his own experience of swearing off "LA chicks" only to later marry one, as an example of this phenomenon. Saddington connects this to the practice of fasting, explaining that initially, it leads to intense food obsession. However, he believes overcoming that initial obsession through discipline strengthens one's self-control. He shares that the commonly held interpretation is that Pygmalion denied himself reality, became obsessed with a statue, and then a goddess blessed him by turning it into a real woman.
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think about that that's like like Super Saiyan finding like your final form you know like it is the melding of you know like in the movies like he has just become you know I've built many startups most of them the fan so Bitcoin is exactly in the place that I like to be we're gonna end it right there [Music] the old past guys sometimes is worth revisiting especially if you're one of those individuals if you're one of those individuals that writes a diary or writes notes I certainly do you guys know that I write tonnes of sticky notes and let's just jump in to today's thought today's idea and I went deep guys in today I was going through some of my old notes after I had taken a another wonderful morning a Seibel run in the radical sr3 race car Ross and this morning
guys it was just so fresh to be out driving that thing man and I almost killed myself twice which is why it's worth driving but I need more seat time because I need to fix a couple things I need to fix the arrow I definitely need to work work with the arrow I need to adjust that I need to adjust a little bit more of the ride hype some of the some of the suspension work I need to just the rake that's important there's a lot of things to work on anyway so after I got back after I got back guys from my wonderful Drive in the race car I was going through some of my old notes and I came across Pygmalion a pig mailing in what was the last time that you heard that name now Pygmalion is a character in the old
Greek world who fell in love with a statue fell in love with a statue and the goddess I believe Aphrodite the goddess Aphrodite granted his his wish that he would that grant is his wish well let me back let me back out Pygmalion swore off women okay the brothers swore off women okay so this is a terrible idea I mean I mean come on if you are a brother all right I'm not talking any of the sisters out there but if you are a brother you can't be swearing off women that's like that's insanity that's it that's it that's insanity okay it's just it it doesn't work and if you are a guy come on come on I just I just find this to be irrational but I think the deeper issue and I think this is worth noting and I remember writing about this
in I think it was high school when I wrote about this Pygmalion is that you know what is it what is it with self-denial you know what is it with self-denial I mean it's almost as if like once you go once you you objectively nah you can't objectively once once you once you make it the decision right to to have some denial of some pleasure maybe it's chocolate maybe it's cigarettes maybe it's ice cream maybe it's pizza I mean whatever it is like is it not is it not how the universe works that when you say dude I'm just I'm swearing off chocolate I'm swearing off pizza I'm swearing off you know milkshakes I mean isn't it the next moment isn't that how life works isn't it the next moment that you are just craving milkshakes chocolate a pizza you know it isn't that how
chocolate maybe it's cigarettes maybe it's ice cream maybe it's pizza I mean whatever it is like is it not is it not how the universe works that when you say dude I'm just I'm swearing off chocolate I'm swearing off pizza I'm swearing off you know milkshakes I mean isn't it the next moment isn't that how life works isn't it the next moment that you are just craving milkshakes chocolate a pizza you know it isn't that how it works I can I can tell you guys from my life I'll give you an example right this is a radical transparency guys giving you a deeper a window another window into my life in my past stories because that's how it was in my life I swore off California Gurls so this is why this is relevant right pygmalion swore off women okay guys he swore off women
and then he created the statue he had this statue of a woman that he fell in love with and obsessed over okay see that's the problem see when you when you swear off women you get obsessed about these statues anyway true story I swore off and lay chicks I knew enough guys come on come on come on guys I know enough about them la chicks I know enough about them that how them la do okay and you can send you can send this podcast feel free to send this podcast to any la chick that you know any la dude that you know see if it is same true but man I know la chicks I know they're just a different breed I'm a southern boy guys I'm a southern boy I'm I saw the boy from from Georgia a Georgia boy ain't got no business
up in LA Georgia boy ain't got no business up in that deep Cali especially then the Asian mafia is the coriander pepper the coriander pepper am i pure at a a so all right in LA ain't nobody need that no no no Georgia boy needs that nonsense so I saw I like I swore off the mêlée chicks I said ain't gonna happen they just they a whole bunch of suffering that's all they're whole bunches man I'll tell you they've good look at brother can't deny sisters are good to look at brothers got two nuns I got two eyes I got two eyes I can see but brother knows enough to know you stay away from those you stay away from those guardrails that's why I swore off la chicks and guess what Lo and ball ended up marrying and la chick ha ha ha isn't
that how it works guys what is it with self-denial what is it with this this self-denial that ends up becoming some sort of obsession right like bit by denying ourselves we become obsessed with that which we are denying now I'm gonna take a quick segue here this is why fasting is so important you guys know that I fast not regularly or I would say actually regularly not often regularly like every three months or something but that's why fasting is so important because it's the act of overcoming yourself it's the act of denying something so powerful that it becomes an all-consuming desire it becomes an obsession when you fast especially if you're not good at it or you haven't trained yourself or you just haven't done enough and gone through the paces all right fasting is self-denial which leads to food obsession all you think about
often regularly like every three months or something but that's why fasting is so important because it's the act of overcoming yourself it's the act of denying something so powerful that it becomes an all-consuming desire it becomes an obsession when you fast especially if you're not good at it or you haven't trained yourself or you just haven't done enough and gone through the paces all right fasting is self-denial which leads to food obsession all you think about is food but when you are able to come out of that when you're able to go past the hunger pangs that turn into hunger pains that turn into mental literally mental anguish and sometimes physiological effects negative especially if you weaksauce and you haven't done it before like I was like I seriously I would tell people like people would ask have you fasted before I'd say yeah I'd
done it but I feel like I'm dying like I feel like I'm dead like I can't do it I would literally tell people I can't do it they're by programming myself to say that I can't do it so once I grew up and got mature I realized fasting is a great thing for the system Segway done so I was looking through my notes and I was reading through Pygmalion George Bernard Bernard Shaw made a play about this in nineteen something 1912 or something like 1913 something like that and then it becoming the movie the my fair lady but long story short let's give you the story here so then you can get into what I really want to talk about Pygmalion swears off women creates statue gives Statue presents go dates the Statue loves on the statue is obsessed with this statue Aphrodite the goddess
of love blesses Pygmalion and turns the statue to life moral of the story deny reality moral of the story deny reality obsess over inanimate objects and God would bless you I mean this is that this is the craziness of that this type of interpretation but this type of interpretation is actually valid within the spectrum of interpretations that I mean reason being interpretation it's your opinion brah you weren't George Bernard Shaw you weren't the original writer of this idea you you weren't there so you don't know what the original intent was we can merely make assumptions but certainly within the spectrum of morals or within the spectrum of outcomes the spectrum of what are we supposed to take from this story one of these options certainly is deny reality right this guy's sworn off women obsess over inanimate objects obsess over the statue and Aphrodite or
your God will bless you clearly this is not the type of lesson or extraction I would take from this story see I see it differently I see it differently and you say Peter where the hell did this what journals are you looking at guys I have journals man I write stuff I sticky notes all over the place and there's one journal I was thinking I was thinking about some quotes from George Bernard Shaw and I also happen to write down that he wrote the book mainly in which I wrote a small form essay back in high school on anyway none of that information was in the journal all it said was Pygmalion and so hence I'm going deep in this idea you see I see and I saw even back then this is where you need to listen if you listen I see as I
about some quotes from George Bernard Shaw and I also happen to write down that he wrote the book mainly in which I wrote a small form essay back in high school on anyway none of that information was in the journal all it said was Pygmalion and so hence I'm going deep in this idea you see I see and I saw even back then this is where you need to listen if you listen I see as I saw back then in high school as a young blood I saw this story Pygmalion differently than anyone else I see I saw Pygmalion the statue was his soul it was a manifestation of Pygmalion soul Pygmalion himself is the flesh let's look at it differently Pygmalion is the mind the mind where the statue is the soul okay this is important for you to know because knowing this allows
you to understand the entire argument that I'm about to create Pygmalion is the flesh Pygmalion is the mind he is the mind of man the statue is his soul you see Pygmalion didn't like his reality right he swore off women doesn't matter forget that he his mind saw reality and he did not like reality for what it was his you and you might easily be able to see where we're going with this story this entire idea you or your mind might not see reality for what it really is you say man this socks bro whatever is in front of you whatever I'm seeing what I'm experiencing in life it just blows it sucks God something has to change so Pygmalion didn't like reality see you know what he did and this is what I remember writing about he created his own reality he created that
statue that's what he was searching for he didn't like the reality saw so he crafted his own and what he found in the crafting of his own reality he found that in crafting his own reality he found the soul of who he was in that statue that soul is what he obsessed over he obsessed over this soul this finding himself realizing what his soul really once because reality sucks it isn't what it's supposed to be I got sold a bunch of goods I was asleep for way too long I was under the yoke of slavery for far too long I didn't know what I had I didn't know what I didn't have I didn't know why I couldn't wake up I was naive now I am mature now I'm awake well now that you're awake you might not like the reality that's in front of
you so Pygmalion created his own he devoted himself to giving his soul his all sit on that for just a second he gave his soul his all his mind to remember Pygmalion is the mind and the mind is speaking to the soul and he's saying so what is it that you want what is it that you desire who are you really tell me talk to me serenade me explain to me I am lost soul you are perfect soul you are blameless soul you are transcendent soul you see reality for what it really is the truth soul I am just a mind I interpret I get things wrong I [ __ ] [ __ ] up soul tell me please it is only when Pygmalion has completely devoted himself to the finding of his soul that the statue comes alive oh call that God intervening call
me explain to me I am lost soul you are perfect soul you are blameless soul you are transcendent soul you see reality for what it really is the truth soul I am just a mind I interpret I get things wrong I [ __ ] [ __ ] up soul tell me please it is only when Pygmalion has completely devoted himself to the finding of his soul that the statue comes alive oh call that God intervening call it to you the universe doesn't matter something responded something responded to Pygmalion Pygmalion created this he didn't like reality he searched for soul he gave his soul all he asked his soul to help him understand and unlock the mysteries of the universe and when he humbled himself when he gave it his all the universe God respond did any soul became alive you see that's what you need
to understand today you need to understand that your soul know was you are not a physical creature with a if a with a spiritual thing trapped inside of it you are a spiritual creature first with a body now you might say Peter I don't believe that okay don't care you don't believe it doesn't matter there's a war raging on and the war is between your mind and your soul if you don't believe in a soul let's change it with there is a war between your mind and what your gut is telling you you should do the problem is is that this Pygmalion statue relationship this mind and soul relationship is a creation versus create or issue you see one of the problems with the Pygmalion archetype the Pygmalion story is that Pygmalion created the statute Pygmalion is the creator and so thereby assumes that the
creation the statue is obligated to him don't miss this the Creator assumes that they created is obligated to them this is never the case this is never the case in life when you pour into another person they're never obligated to give you anything back that's called being that's that's just life okay I am spending probably 20 minutes today doing this podcast why because it's good for me it's good for my soul and if you're listening to it I hope you get some thing out of it to smash the [ __ ] like button share this [ __ ] you're under no obligation to give me any you're under no obligation to smash the like button or share it with your with your friends or your family or colleagues co-workers put it on a company-wide email oops knobby you probably should I'm I was listening to
it it slipped y'all [ __ ] probably need to listen to it too is the subtext but the Creed the created is never obligated to the Creator now Pygmalion in the story he got off right statue and him fell in love happy yet happily ever after but that's not the truth that's not what really happens in the world what happens is isn't that you will war you will fight you will Scrabble you will wrassle with your soul that is by design that's why you were created with the mind the mind is so effed up the journey of life is to help your mind get in line with your soul so that you could be what you really were supposed to be because your soul is screaming out inside of you call it your gut and saying let me free let me be who I'm supposed
will fight you will Scrabble you will wrassle with your soul that is by design that's why you were created with the mind the mind is so effed up the journey of life is to help your mind get in line with your soul so that you could be what you really were supposed to be because your soul is screaming out inside of you call it your gut and saying let me free let me be who I'm supposed to be why aren't you giving me allowing me to give you the greatest life that greatest 90 years that any man or woman has ever experienced on this flat plane the minds job is to love the soul not just master the soul it's to love the soul to understand your soul and give your soul everything it is your realest reality the story of Pygmalion could be interpreted
it as a very simple secular worldly moral man swears off X becomes obsessed with X so much that Y blesses individual with X all right Pygmalion swears off women he creates a statue of a woman becomes obsessed with it Aphrodite blesses him happily ever after Wow that sucks or one could look at it from a perspective of a child high school or child you're in high school you're still a child I'm sorry if you're in high school right now and you think you're a young blood you think you're a young buck you think you're something but you're still a child okay and just googling your brain hasn't even your brain isn't even fully formed until you're like 27 anyway 24 to 27 Samuel it's gonna be like 30 37 okay but in as a high school child I interpreted I interpreted Pygmalion as man's wrestling
with this soul and realizing that when the mind becomes one with the soul the gut you become unstoppable think about that that's like like Super Saiyan finding like your final form you know like it is the melding of you know like in the movies were like he has just become you know so the question for today the question for today is simply what's your gut what's your soul asking you what's your soul been tap tap tapping away on you on how long you've have you been ignoring it how calcified have you become how desensitized have you become now take a gander and say that the most successful people this doesn't mean money just means life the most successful people in life are those who have become one where their mind serves serves the mind serves the soul [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]