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#473 - Tom Van Der Linden - Finding Heroic Meaning In Modern Life
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Difference Between Heroic Purpose and Grandiocity?
There's a difference between heroic purpose and grandiocity. How we can know if we're acting to better the world, or just to inflate our own ego? And her this line between the two is so hard, because everything's performative. It's more important to look like somebody that's good than it is to be a person who is good, or even do good. The dangerous thing, i think, seems to cross a line into something more personal, more existential, more identity focused.
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