982: The Wisdom Paradox by Helene Massicotte of Free To Pursue

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🗓️ 19 August 2018

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Helene Massicotte of Free To Pursue shares why the more we know, the more we also realize how much more there is that we don't know. Episode 982: The Wisdom Paradox by Helene Massicotte of Free To Pursue (Comfortable with Uncertainty & Ask the Right Question) Helene Massicotte blogs about living life on your terms and experiencing true personal freedom. She describes herself as a person in search of all that life has to offer and who has built a life that enables her to do just that. No more, no less. She chose to retire from corporate life in her mid-thirties because it wasn't in line with what she wanted anymore. The original post is located here: http://www.freetopursue.com/blog/the-wisdom-paradox Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 982, the wisdom paradox by
0:05.0	Alan Masikat of freetoprosu.com and I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick,
0:09.8	reading your blogs every single day of the year to help you live a more meaningful life.
0:14.4	This isn't a typical podcast, there are no interviews,
0:17.3	just me narrating some amazing blogs, man sometimes books, to help you optimize your life.
0:22.3	It tastes articles from a brand new author to the show.
0:25.2	Alan blogs at freetoprosu.com, it's all about living life on your terms,
0:30.5	and she left her corporate life to do just that in her mid-30s.
0:33.6	Definitely check it out at freetoprosu.com, which is linked in this episode's description.
0:38.8	And without out of the way, let's hear our very first post from her as we optimize your life.
0:47.9	The Wisdom Paradox by Alan Masikat of freetoprosu.com
0:52.8	I don't know. No, really, I don't. The more I read, the more I realize, I don't know anything,
1:00.8	or at least I don't know many things with any degree of certainty. I used to think I knew a lot.
1:06.2	Indeed, at one point in my life I thought I knew everything, that's called being a teenager.
1:10.8	The less we know, the more certain we are, the world is black and white.
1:15.4	There's a definitive answer for everything. Certitude is a given. Overconfidence uses from
1:20.7	every poor. Maybe, possibly, and it depends, are reserved for non-committal whims.
1:26.7	To the most uninformed, the world is binary. Yes and no, love and hate. Agree or disagree.
1:33.6	Four and against. To the greener minds of the world, answers to anything you want to know are
1:38.7	somewhere. You just have to find the right search engine, or the right person who can offer
1:42.9	the definitive answer. Depending on the question they're trying to answer, the process can leave
1:47.7	them pretty frustrated. The cure lies in what I call the wisdom paradox. I was first exposed to
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