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Hating High Achievers · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: You got a question for our American mama's. Dear mamas,
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  Speaker 1: why do high achievers get so much hate these days?
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  Speaker 2: Let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 1: Mama, Mama, and joining us now we're American mama's Terry
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  Speaker 1: Neediville and Kimberly Burlison. I don't really uh people they
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  Speaker 1: seem to love me, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, No.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Elon Musk gets lots of hate. Donald Trump gets.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But is this is this a new thing? Is it?
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  Speaker 1: High achievers have always gotten some hate? What are we
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  Speaker 1: talking about here?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's envy. Uh, you know, people who don't
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  Speaker 2: feel like they measure up, so they want to tear
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  Speaker 2: someone down to make themselves feel better. I don't have that,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't have that in our in my genetics.
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  Speaker 2: I think Dad I was so great about teaching all
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  Speaker 2: of us growing up that when you celebrate another person's success,
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  Speaker 2: it says so much about who.
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  Speaker 1: You are, and it doesn't take away from you.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't take away from you. The one time that
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  Speaker 2: he was disappointed in me was when I was in
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  Speaker 2: the fifth grade and I was jealous of what somebody
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  Speaker 2: had and some clothes that they had, and I remember
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  Speaker 2: him saying, Wow, I'm disappointed, and I was like, why,
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  Speaker 2: you know because and he said, I just thought you
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  Speaker 2: were the kind that you could celebrate someone else and
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  Speaker 2: see that that's a good thing for you to be
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  Speaker 2: able to be that friend that they can count on
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  Speaker 2: to get compliments and not be jealous. I didn't look
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  Speaker 2: at you as a jealous person. I'm not jealous. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not jealous. That was a lesson I never forgot. I will.
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  Speaker 2: And the other part of it is when you celebrate
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  Speaker 2: someone else's success or their achievements, it will be them
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  Speaker 2: the next time when you have something celebrate, they'll be
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  Speaker 2: the first ones to come around and say, God on you,
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  Speaker 2: it's great. Yeah, it's envy.
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  Speaker 3: My kids had a kindergarten teacher in Arlington, Texas that
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  Speaker 3: was a phenomenon. This teacher was unbelievable, unbelievable. We had
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  Speaker 3: at that time, we had a millionaire Blueprints magazine, and
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  Speaker 3: we did a story on the founder of the school.
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  Speaker 3: We did a little part in there about this particular
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  Speaker 3: teacher because I'm telling you, this girl was unbelievable. She
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  Speaker 3: got so much hate from the other teachers after this,
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  Speaker 3: and it's because so much more was expected to them,
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  Speaker 3: and they didn't want to put in the effort that
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  Speaker 3: she was always willing to put in. So mediocre. People
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  Speaker 3: hate achievers because it makes them look look bad, look less.
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  Speaker 1: So my brother was named one of the top one
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  Speaker 1: hundred high school seniors. When he graduated high school in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, he got to go to the White
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  Speaker 1: House to meet Ronald Reagan Casusa, a presidential scholar, and
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  Speaker 1: he got to select one teacher to go with him,
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  Speaker 1: and so he selected his sophomore English teacher to go
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  Speaker 1: with him to the White House. And she was so
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  Speaker 1: hated by the other teachers in the school they slashed
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  Speaker 1: her tires. They slashed her tires at school. Why because
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  Speaker 1: she was so hated because she was the one chosen
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  Speaker 1: to go to the White House when the district had
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  Speaker 1: its first ever presidential scholar.
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  Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Yeah, that's what happens, you know, Medieval people, that's
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  Speaker 3: what they you know, it sounds like another group of
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  Speaker 3: people we know, you know, that's what they do. I
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  Speaker 3: remember hearing something from somebody that worked under Obama and
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  Speaker 3: also worked under Trump that gave Trump such a compliment.
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  Speaker 3: But she said, when I when Obama had meetings, when
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  Speaker 3: he had cabinet meetings, when he had any kind of meeting,
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  Speaker 3: he needed to be the smartest person in the room.
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  Speaker 3: It was important to him to be the smartest person
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  Speaker 3: in the room. When Trump had the same meetings, he
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  Speaker 3: surrounded himself with people smarter than him. It was important.
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  Speaker 3: So to me, it tells me everything about his ego.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people think Trump's got the biggest ego, And
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  Speaker 3: I said, no, somebody that wants to be surrounded by
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  Speaker 3: people smarter than him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he wants to learn.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to learn from them.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't see how you see Trump in Obama
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  Speaker 1: and you go, Obama doesn't have an ego. I mean exactly,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what that's like his leading action.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he walks that swagger.
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  Speaker 1: I mean all of his campaign posters were hero shots
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  Speaker 1: from underneath.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people. A lot of times
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  Speaker 2: people want to They prefer that you're struggling. They want
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  Speaker 2: to be the one that you can look up to
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  Speaker 2: or come to like. They like to see you struggle
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  Speaker 2: makes them feel better about their life. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: sad it's a sad testament to people but if you're
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  Speaker 2: confident and you love yourself and you're happy with your life,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to be that person.
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  Speaker 1: I saw this thing we're talking about, Elon must be
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  Speaker 1: in receiving a lot of hate. And I saw this
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  Speaker 1: thing last week how he became the first former trillionaire
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  Speaker 1: as the stock prices dropped temporarily, he dropped below a
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  Speaker 1: trillion dollars back down to eight hundred billion billion or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and he wrote on his profile former for world's first
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  Speaker 1: former trillionaire, and William Shatner went on and said, it's okay,
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  Speaker 1: I still love you. And I thought that was the
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  Speaker 1: coolest thing. I mean, you're Elon Musk. You obviously look
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  Speaker 1: up to Captain Kirk. It's why you're trying to go
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  Speaker 1: to Mars and for Captain Kirk to go. It's okay
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  Speaker 1: that you're a former. I thought that was I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these are two guys who are highly well.
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  Speaker 2: That tells me what I want to know about William Shatner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've got two guys who are highly successful,
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  Speaker 1: two guys who have both received a ton of criticism
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  Speaker 1: of their time for different things. But and look the
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  Speaker 1: way you handle criticism, says a lot about you too,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're higher achiever or not. It's a big thing,
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  Speaker 1: but criticism is going to come no matter who you are.
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  Speaker 1: of Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,