Why You Keep Attracting the Wrong Person (Eric Thomas) | S2S 565

What if the person you keep picking is not the problem? What if it is the version of you doing the picking?

With CJ and Jemal out this week, Moose takes the host chair next to Eric Thomas and Karl and drives the whole conversation around one idea from ET and CJ's new book, We Is Greater Than Me. Moose grew up an only child, born in Egypt and raised in New York after 9/11, and learned early that the only way to get ahead was to look out for yourself.

So he asks ET straight up: how does we benefit me? ET flips the question.

Me is not real. He has never eaten, played, gambled or made it through a day without somebody else making it possible, and he walks you through his grandmother's projects in Detroit to prove it.

Then it gets uncomfortable. ET says there is no enemy.

Nobody outside your marriage is running your marriage, so whatever is tearing it down, you are holding the hammer. And if you leave one bad situation just to find the next one, you will tear that one down too.

You might not be in the wrong we. You might be the wrong me.

Karl shares the commandment he wrote this week, and it sounds backwards until it clicks: the most selfish thing you can do is give. Moose opens up about his grandmother's final moments in Egypt.

ET explains how CJ and Karl turned an hour of raw ET into the three minutes the world saw, and why he never once did it on a solo. And a random comment someone sent about his kids, Jalin and Jayda, made ET realize he had been raising them in the zoo.

It closes with a text Candis sent about Dede, and ET says no sermon can top what Dede did that day. JOIN US LIVE ON PATREON New audio every Tuesday, video every Wednesday, plus live recordings and Q&A with the S2S fam. https://www.patreon.com/c/S2SPodcast120 CHAPTERS Chapters 00:00:00 Cold Open: They Grow From Chasing It Down 00:01:34 Welcome: Moose Takes the Host Chair 00:03:22 Karl's Birthday Shift: Think and Train, Don't Just Do 00:04:59 FOMO Is the Negative Side of We 00:09:12 New York, Boston and Vancouver in 72 Hours 00:11:43 Let Us Create: Why Nothing Gets Built Alone 00:17:29 Moose: Raised to Look Out for Me 00:18:54 Me Is Not Real 00:24:26 What Have You Done for Me Lately 00:25:39 How to Undo It: Stop Group Thinking 00:28:12 When You Worship the Group 00:29:45 There Is No Enemy 00:31:04 The Most Selfish Thing You Can Do Is Give 00:35:04 Coach Scott Drew on Healthy Teams 00:40:11 Study How You're Wired 00:44:09 Moose's Grandmother's Final Words 00:46:13 Roots: No One Greater Than Thee 00:48:26 Wrong We or Wrong Me? 00:49:48 Don't Cut It, Reset It 00:56:33 Out of the Zoo: ET's Kids Go to Work 01:00:41 Distributed Leadership: How ET Really Blew Up 01:06:54 You Can't Make Money Without a Tribe 01:09:02 What Dede Did When Nobody Was Watching 01:13:27 Get the Book, Bring Your We PRE-ORDER WE IS GREATER THAN ME The new book from Eric Thomas and CJ Quinney.

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