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Why Does Work Dominate Our Lives? [Paul Millerd]

The Examined Life

CHAPTER

The Identity Vacuum

One theory one thing that I think about often and we've alluded to this in different parts of conversation is the question of identity. When our kids were born she stopped working she stopped creating art and it's a very I know that you know there's all different marital arrangements components people listening to this but some are the people who stopped working, others those who kept working they created an identity vacuum. So many of those things  are bequeathed upon you by work or at least at the surface level.

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