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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 707. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset Who Dis, as always. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to help us both to be more optimistic. That's the mission. It's to feel in a sense to not feel hopelessly stuck in life while you look around and you see everyone else catching their trains,

finding their footing, finding their partner, checking off their dreams. It's to be able to persist and thrive. Even if you feel like you're in a transitional season, even if you feel like you're

perpetually stuck in these in-between chapters of life, it's to still believe that what you want and what you

deserve, it's still yours. It is destined to be yours. And so in the meantime, you can breathe

because you know that. You don't need to rush it. You can decide all this because you have this

ingrained sense of soulful optimism.

So to start with this idea of like soulful optimism, let's turn to Plato.

This, I think this will really help us ground in a practical approach.

But let's start here.

Let's start a little bit philosophically.

Plato, if you read any of his work in college or high school, he has something

called the theory of forms. And it basically says, like, the world that we live in, the physical

world, the one that we can touch and feel and measure and all these things, it isn't the truest

version of reality. The version we live in right now is a rough draft. It is, in his words, a shadow. It is a shadow. But what

is real and what is ideal in its truest, most vibrant, abundant form, according to Plato,

it exists beyond the physical world. In this world, the forms are perfect. And he calls them

forms, right? They're ideals of of beauty or justice or

love or one's self everything that we experience today in the physical world is an imperfect version

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