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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Life has a way of just kind of happening to you. And while exactly what happens is unique to each of us, we all seem to go through very similar stages of our lives.
Today, we talk about the challenges of these stages. Each stage comes with its own “crisis” that, if navigated well, can propel us to the next stage. It is this never-ending struggle where life happens.
And then… Drew gets all new age and Mark just isn’t having it. And we round it out with a very simple, yet very difficult question from a listener: How much is enough?
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Chapters: 00:00 Introduction
02:48 The F*ck of the Week: The Four Stages of Life
26:09 Brilliant or Bullsh*t: Psychological Richness
38:27 Q&A: How much is enough?
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0:00.0 | Drew, I'm noticing something as I get older. |
0:02.3 | And I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. |
0:04.5 | Okay. |
0:04.9 | So this morning, I was doom scrolling on social media, as you do. |
0:09.7 | You know, hashtag morning routine. |
0:11.3 | Right, right. |
0:13.0 | One thing I've noticed, especially just the last couple years, is my tolerance for things that don't add value to my life or bring me down in some way is it's |
0:23.9 | getting very, very slim. |
0:26.0 | So this morning I saw a bunch of stories about horrible things that people were saying and |
0:30.3 | doing on various parts of the world. |
0:32.5 | And my instant knee-jerk reaction was like, fuck those people, I don't care, and like close the app |
0:39.3 | and go do something else. And 90% of the time, I feel like this is a good thing. It's actually |
0:44.7 | the thing I preach to our audience. But then there's always like this morning and occasionally |
0:50.3 | there's like this non-voice in the back of my head. And it's's like is this a form of entitlement? Is this a form of like I just want to ignore anything that doesn't make me happy? Let the world burn. Who cares? I just want to feel good. Right. And I wrestle with this sometimes and I part of me I I'm like, is it, I'm just getting older and I'm much clear on what |
1:16.3 | I care about and what I like and what matters to me and I'm willing to like suffer and |
1:19.9 | struggle for those things. |
1:21.6 | Or am I like, it seemed most of the world that I'm just being slowly and gradually coddled by the technology |
1:30.4 | that rules my life. |
1:31.4 | Yeah. |
1:32.2 | And my patience and attention span for things that don't interest me is becoming out of a fly. |
1:38.4 | What say you? |
1:39.1 | I mean, one of the drums you beat on is like the epidemic of entitlement. |
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