Oct 6, 2026 · 13 min · 7 segments
Eric Weinberg thought he was taking the job of his dreams. Instead, he would lose almost everything, and that would turn out to be OK. The image he was building up of himself, it was false in many…
There's another compassion practice, a difficult and highly effective one that I'm introducing for the first time in this series.
This practice is a challenge for all of us, but in Eric's case, it came with a special bite.
He got some scholarship money, but it was like And I had, like I said, mortgage and another kid and a wife.
I even had to take money out of retirement accounts, which as you know is stupid and horrible because you pay taxes plus a penalty.
And so when I saw somebody who could pay the bills without any stress or strain, of course I was envious of that right then.
So you're in the worst of financial situations and you're working with being happy with somebody who's not.
And I was having to negotiate with the IRS about, you know, how long it would take me to pay off my tax bill.
There's another compassion practice, a difficult and highly effective one that I'm introducing for the first time in this series.
This practice is a challenge for all of us, but in Eric's case, it came with a special bite.
He got some scholarship money, but it was like And I had, like I said, mortgage and another kid and a wife.
I even had to take money out of retirement accounts, which as you know is stupid and horrible because you pay taxes plus a penalty.
And so when I saw somebody who could pay the bills without any stress or strain, of course I was envious of that right then.
So you're in the worst of financial situations and you're working with being happy with somebody who's not.
And I was having to negotiate with the IRS about, you know, how long it would take me to pay off my tax bill.
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