Episode 17: Internal Locus of Control | K.G.I. Podcast

What happens to us when we lie to ourselves? In this episode I work through the difference between people who believe their lives are in their hands and people who believe the world is doing it to them — what psychologists call internal versus external locus of control. I bring in Viktor Frankl's story of the boy in Man's Search for Meaning who chose his own death by internalizing a story he'd seen years before, the religious prisoners in the Soviet Gulag who outlasted the athletes, and Peterson's injunction to clean your own room. Lies are a virus that replicates inside the mind. Truth is not — truth demands intellectual work. The argument lands here: without internal locus of control, every hardship becomes a reason to stop. With it, every hardship becomes a step. Don't stop.My book Mythos: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TKMy Blog www.kirillkhrestinin.com