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Poll: What’s your major life concern right now? (as an individual; not as a family member or employee)
  • Solve practical problems
    20.3%
  • Open-ended exploration
    15.7%
  • Build capabilities/learn
    30.5%
  • Make life more meaningful
    33.5%
1,030 votesFinal results
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Kinda sad results so far and I don’t expect it to change. A 30-year exploratory age is coming to a close. If this pretty open-to-experience crowd is prioritizing it dead last, the rest of the world is probably actively hostile to it.
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I suspect that external pressures & incentive structures are an issue. Open-ended exploration would be more popular if housing was more affordable.
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obviously :)... if people are dealing with housing issues front and center, they should vote for a) practical problems. I didn't ask what people would like to be dealing with, but what they're actually dealing with.
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Aren’t options 2, 3, 4 all kinda exploratory? I mean, I think I am doing all 3 of those (and treating further dimensions of personal meaning as yet-unexplored frontiers)
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It’s a cycle. We need to reflect and absorb all we have explored to make it make sense. Cause right now none of it makes any sense whatsoever.