When Success Isn't Enough - Will Smith's Clifftop Crisis

What happens when we finally get our needs met?

We scramble after money, love, accolades, power, etc., yet study after study shows that once basic needs are met, additional pursuit does not enhance happiness.

Will Smith talks about the concept of “cliff top” (opposite of "rock bottom”) where a person has achieved everything they wanted in the material world—money, fame, sex, and success— and still finds themselves missing lasting happiness.

He says reaching the cliff top can lead to an "abyss" where life loses its ability to sustain and please, and the only way out is to find what one is truly looking for; oneself.

Today Stephanie and Maren explore cliff top and rock bottom and discuss several powerful questions including,

• Can you find yourself without falling off the cliff and hitting rock bottom first?
• Are those the only two paths to waking up and getting to lasting happiness?
• How do you get started?

Their great discussion peels the curtain back around societal conditioning and unconscious beliefs. More importantly, it opens a path that is both friendly and freeing.

This is an episode you’ll want to share with friends.

• 0:00 Enoughness
• 2:51 Rock bottom and cliff top, Will Smith
• 5:25 The path of inner mastery
• 9:33 Illuminating the way
• 10:43 Using the power of 97%
• 15:22 The shortcut to manifestation
• 16:46 Freedom

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REFERENCES

0:48 Mastery Through Accomplishment by Hazrat Inayat Khan

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