Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself [The Knowledge Project Ep. #94] - Farnam Street
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Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself [The Knowledge Project Ep. #94] - Farnam Street
Using the feeling of being alive to choose life principles, and why fear blocks people from original paths.
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It might have been Joseph Campbell. But something to the effect of we're not searching for the meaning of life, but for the feeling of being alive.
And I think that's correct. And I think a great, if you play red light, green light with principle, as you search for your principle, I think you could do a lot worse than knowing you're on the right
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Fear of the unknown, death, and conformity driving introspection, life purpose, and eventually freedom from constant self-analysis.
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And so I think when you really drill people on why not, they'll give reasons that add up to I'm afraid. and that's hard to get over. You've said to me before that you used to be a masochist for introspection.
First of all, when did that stop? And then do you think that helped you find this organizing principle for your life? It definitely
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