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S2 Ep8: Dr James Hollis – finding meaning and purpose in life

Power of Ten with Andy Polaine

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The Second First and Second Half of Life

Designers have often made a decision against the parental scripts or the scripts of teachers around them to take on a vocation actually of some kind of creative calling already. And my theory about this really is that they then start to lean very heavily into their craft because it's a very visible way of showing that they are achieving and they're doing something that other people can't. If they don't, they sort of often become well, at best not a very good leader. At worst, they become kind of horrible draconian dictator. It seems that it's a lot harder to let go and then it is to kind of build stuff up.

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