What are some lifestyle choices or decisions you’ve made that most people would consider “unconventional”? — taking a different path, coloring outside the lines, etc. If those choices are in hindsight, how do you think about them now?
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Narcissistic wounds I’d guess. Deep-seated ones. But even that’s really least resistance in disguise: looking inward and processing trauma is too hard intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. So you take easier path of busting through the world.
Did you ever write about this? It pattern-matches to “dent in the universe” but I’m not sure I actually read that one (just familiar with the title)
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I think I had a version of the argument long ago in Be Slightly Evil as commentary on Boyd and also a version in Calculus of Grit. It’s gotten highly simplified since them to the self belief “my superpower is sheer laziness”
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The narcissistic wound stuff I think I’ve mentioned in passing in a few breaking smart issues. It’s sort of a gestalt theme with me, but not a very original one.
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You’re ignoring the ruthlessly rational path. Know what you want, delay gratification for 10 yrs in a high paying job, retire at 35 free to pursue your true passion from now on. The trick is to not get distracted by the high cost low enjoyment stuff everyone says you have to have
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