Scott EmpringhamAI Marketing Strategist | Helping CEOs Scale with AI

I USED TO BELIEVE A LIE.

21 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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This is a short monologue (from a YouTube video titled "I USED TO BELIEVE A LIE.") reflecting on what composes a life: whether it is rare epic events or the accumulation of everyday small experiences. The speaker references Jordan Peterson’s framing and emphasizes enjoying ordinary moments with family—picking up kids, quiet dinners, morning routines—and that these small, frequent experiences bring joy and laughter.

Jordan Peterson said something really interesting. He said, what is a lifetime made up of? Is it these epic once in a lifetime experiences of climbing a glacier? Or is it going and picking up the kids, coming home and having a quiet dinner, getting up and puttering around the house in the morning, doing your morning stuff? Life is filled with all these little experiences. And so the best part of our relationship now, and frankly with the kids, too, is we enjoy just these little times together. And we laugh a lot more now. And it's all the little things that, you know, it could be anything.