Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.

I'm excited to chat with you today about some of the things I've been thinking about.

This is a solo episode and for those of you who are new, first off, welcome.

Thank you for being here. I appreciate you.

In solo episodes, I talk about the things that I'm learning, things that I'm like,

why are we not taught this shit?

And I think that about a lot of things.

Everything that we essentially need to know to live a thriving life is not taught in school. I remember once I said, like,

I wrote an article about that fact that we're not taught in school. And I put like,

when's the last time you used the Pythagorean theorem, like A square plus B squared equals who

gives a fuck? And a mathematician wrote me how actually that formula and mathematics

have everything to do with our lives. And of course, that's true and I appreciated that. But

you know, you kind of want to play with this. Like, when's the last time you used sign, cosentan?

Like, you know what I i mean we get taught so many

things that we're still operating in an education system and this is not an insult to teachers i love

teachers teachers do incredible work it's the education system that is still preparing us for industry, you know, to work in corporations

and be cogs in a wheel. You know, I remember a line from Francis Weller's alchemy of initiation,

which is such an incredible, I can't recommend is work enough, where it says,

like, there's no quicker way to deplete the soul than to do the same thing every day from 9 to 5.

And I so agree with that.

You know, and there's obviously the necessities to live, right? To earn a living, which is an interesting thing

that we say earn a living, that we have to earn a living, as opposed to just live, like the language

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