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#143 The Art of Living - Kyle Kowalski on how to have an existential crisis, synthesizing the art of living, curiosity as fuel, his relationship with money, "killing himself to work" and "purpose washing" in big companies

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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The Importance of Counterfactual Thinking

It's really hard to contemplate what would alternative paths look like we sort of just take for granted and once you realize this you also have to contemplate oh our future paths are just as unpredictable which can be incredibly overwhelming for people. I kind of think about that from like you have in the inversion principle in your book which is great a great one another one is counterfactual thinking more of a reflection exercise of you know well what if this had happened or what if I had done that or what would my life look like so those kind of thought experiments I love doing those because yeah you just you never know but the stars aligned the way they did and things played out the way it did

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