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Robert Mckee on the Power of Storytelling

The Daily Stoic

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What Is the Meaning of Life?

I like this humility to have just footprints in the sands of time. It's not some enormous monument necessarily, but it is your footprint. You know that old Yiddish joke where they, uh, a young person goes to the rabbi and says, what is the meaning of life? And the rabbi says, well, if you reach into your right hand pocket, you pull out the meaning that says, I am just a grain of sand in the infinite universe. And then you Reach into your left hand pocket and you pull out a message that say, I am the most important thing that ever lived. He said, it's somewhere in between. Yeah.

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