What Lessons Were We Taught and No Longer Believe?

What did you believe at 25 that you'd now call complete bollocks? Tisha and Rick go off-script for this one — no plan, no guest, just the two of them working through the things they were taught and no longer believe.

It starts funny: you won't always have a calculator with you, eat your carrots and you'll see in the dark, eat your crusts and your hair will go curly. Then it gets honest. Hard work doesn't guarantee recognition, loyalty or security. Once you've learned a lesson, you'll still struggle with it — knowing something and living it are two different stages of growth. There's a way, not the way, and different doesn't mean wrong. Money buys freedom, not happiness. Nobody, at any age, actually knows what they're doing. And being told you're "too much" might just mean you're in the wrong space, not that you need to make yourself smaller.

Funny, unplanned, and quietly deep — plus a genuine disagreement about whether the world really has got better at accepting difference. Tell us in the comments what you were taught that you don't believe anymore.

00:00 Introduction and Setting the Stage

03:01 The Importance of Planning vs. Flexibility

06:03 Lessons from the Past: What We Were Taught

08:56 Work Smarter, Not Harder: A Debate

12:06 Hard Work and Its Rewards: A Reality Check

14:58 Childhood Myths: Carrots and Curly Hair

18:10 Learning and Integration: The Ongoing Journey

21:56 The Secrets We Never Learn

23:11 The Right Way vs. The Wrong Way

25:00 The Evolution of Acceptance

27:49 Money and Happiness: A Complex Relationship

31:58 The Illusion of Adult Knowledge

40:00 Being Too Much: Embracing Authenticity

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