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85: Lessons from Laozi, the Tao Te Ching
Made You Think
Is There a Career Equivalency Between the Practical and the Ideal?
I think I've been thinking a lot about recently is I have this tendency and I do this a lot when I'm like in a position of like relative authority and have to say something I'm not super comfortable with. It's another one of these like action in action things we're just like the more I talk in those situations and actually like harming it and I just need to like shut upIt's really hard yeah those are probably my big domains for me were very hard to like stay consistent in whether it was career family city friends or whatever. Now it's more like what Neil described so I know there's a there's a laundry list of things I'm probably in converse with here
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Speaker 1
when he was 34 like I'm probably not going to do that by the time I'm 34 I'm okay with that
Speaker 3
this is another one of those like action in action things that by even entertaining this question it like hurts you
Speaker 1
by thinking yeah it just makes you sad it doesn't it doesn't make you better like compartments
Speaker 4
examples is
Speaker 3
good but probably like shutting the whole thing out is it's sort of like you like you find love where you're not looking for it right that's the cliche like this strikes me as the career equivalent
Speaker 1
I think I think this goes back to the like the practical versus the ideal with like philosophy stuff it's like a deal you are correct in the ideal sense that like yes it'd be better to just not think about this but I am going to think about this better tools why didn't you think
Speaker 3
about it is tying
Speaker 4
it back to
Speaker 3
the ideal in the book yeah
Speaker 1
no I I get you what's what's
Speaker 3
yours a deal probably shiny objects is a big one for me it used to be the total inability to like commit for anything for a long period of time but I finally managed to outgrow that one the last few years and now it's basically the and I would classify these slightly differently it's like the big domains for me were very hard to like stay consistent in whether it was like career family city friends whatever and yeah now it's more like a bit more like what Neil described so I know there's a there's a laundry list of things I'm probably in converse with here there's a thing I've been thinking a lot about recently is I have this tendency and I do this a lot when I'm like in a position of like I don't want to say authority but like relative authority and have to say something I'm not super comfortable with and just leave the silence there I'm bad at that like I'm that's something I need to get better at and it's another one of these like action in action things we're just like the more I talk in those situations and actually like harming it and I just need to like shut up it's
Speaker 4
really hard yeah those are
Speaker 3
probably
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