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Why Self-Improvement Feels So Heavy — Yassin Mahhou

Why Self-Improvement Feels So Heavy — Yassin Mahhou

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Yassin is 22 years old, studying the hardest master's specialization he could choose, building apps on the side, learning Japanese without a translator, and praying twice every single day for two things: to become a multi-millionaire before 25, and to figure out how before the end of this semester.

This is one of the most honest conversations on the show. Yassin doesn't perform. He thinks out loud.

We get into:

Why he grew up feeling less than everyone around him — and how that became the root of everything How Japan changed him at a cellular level and why part of him is still there The difference between chasing happiness and finding peace — and why peace is harder What it means to be a deep thinker and why it's both a gift and a source of constant suffering Why he tried a Shopify store, an Amazon KDP journal, an app, paper trading, and lost 2K in one night How his mom walked into his room crying after watching him beat himself up in a video Why he wouldn't want to live if he couldn't have the life he actually wants What Jordan Peterson, David Goggins, Marcus Aurelius, and Naruto's Rock Lee all have in common The pressure of a self-imposed deadline — and why he keeps going anyway

Stay low enough, long enough, and you'll be big enough soon enough.

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