What If You’re Wasting Your Life and Don’t Know It?

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:28.2	So for my opening remarks, I'm going to read somebody else's work verbatim because it reads
0:34.8	like a poem.
0:36.7	But it's very philosophically, and it's very philosophically deep.
0:43.4	And I believe it's going to make a lot of you think.
0:49.0	Profound thoughts.
0:52.0	So where was it published?
0:53.7	It was published in Good Menproject.com. I love that place.
0:59.4	And it's written by Joel Stein.
1:04.6	What if I'm doing everything right and it's still the wrong life? He didn't hate his life, that was the problem.
1:12.5	Every morning he woke up at 6.30, coffee, shower, commute, a job that paid well, a team
1:18.5	that respected him, a path that made sense.
1:22.4	From the outside, everything looked right.
1:25.4	And yet, one morning, nothing dramatic, nothing triggered. It slipped out of him quietly.
1:32.2	Is this my life forever? Is this really it? He didn't say it out loud. He didn't tell anyone. He just felt it.
1:40.1	And then he did what most people do. He moved on. We talk a lot about the fear of failure,
1:46.2	quitting too early, choosing the wrong path,
1:48.4	making a mistake you can't undo.
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