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Episode 16: Navigating midlife with Kieran Setiya

Reconsidering

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Is There a Terminal Point in Your Life?

The point of satisfaction is always in the futures. The thing you're aiming at, and you haven't achieved yet, or it's in the past. So i think what really came as a revelation to me was realizing that things that i really loved, teaching, studying philosophy, had been sort of transformed into projects. And those tasks were what were generating this sense of emptiness. It was all projected into the future, or immediately in the past, and then i had to find another one and another thing to do. That kind of treadmill, that relentless project pursuit, the relentless need to get things done was something that i Think i had really fallen into and had to try to extract myself from

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