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Ambition vs. aspiration with philosopher Agnes Callard

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

How to Rethink Your Life

I just think that the stuff going through my head is not thinking. It's sort of masquerading as thinking, but it's just like stream of consciousness. The test of whether it's worth anything is trying to say it out loud to someone. And I have the benefit of being able to do that test a lot and seeing how many times it fails. What I thought was a thought isn't one. We've created a mirage to cover this up and the mirages that people are dogmatic. If only they were dogmatic, if only they were able to be. Is there anything you would never rethink? But I don't know in advance because you require a positive opportunity

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