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Dan Koe & Dickie Bush On One-Person Businesses, Creative Workflows, and Lifestyle Design

The Koe Cast

CHAPTER

The Principles of Suffering

I like to frame it as conceptual survival where you so when you identify with some form of an identity or goal or label whatever it may be your actions are going to follow suit in order to survive that identity. So if this is how I frame the four-hour work day right or just like working four hours is if I identify as a person who works four hours a day then my actions will follow suit too. Anything outside of that is going to be registered as a problem and so that's the source of your suffering but it allows you to become aware of them which alone makes the problems reveal themselves. My every action you take is a vote for that type of person so overwhelm yourself with evidence

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