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#133 Creation Without The Ego - Isabel Unraveled on writing, "the chronic state of performing", detaching your sense of self from the work, finding the inner child, paying attention to your emotions, trusting your intuition and why people should stop pretending

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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How I Got Into Writing Online When I Worked at a Venture Capital Firm

I was in substream or like a stream of engineering that was a focus on applied math and mechanical engineering but the meat of the degree was this theoretical math. For the first time I was like wow actually maybe the reason I liked school so much was because I was good at it not because I was actually interested in the things that I was learning. Then I was like okay well that's true I wonder what I'm actually interested in because it I can't just like keep writing this performance wave forever especially now that it's more difficult to you. That's when I went into writing online actually so I started a blog that summer when I worked at that venture capital firm.

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