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Why Do We Fear Being Ordinary? [Carl Richards]
The Examined Life
The Problems of Running Off to Save Others
"Every time I watch, like, you know, some far away country, I think, what are we doing here?" he says. "It turns out it's really challenging to do anything like that in a way that's actually helpful" He got about 500 emails in response to a column when he asked people what they thought their thing was. And the leave on Fridays to be with his daughter was one of those emails.
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