The Amazing Things & Ideas - 045 The Perpetual Nature of Goals
Hello! The Perpetual Nature of GoalsThere is no end to what the human mind can desire. Perhaps that’s good for progress in civilization (with strings attached). But it isn’t always so for the individual. It’s easy to be caught up pursuing something that’s only supposedly of interest and meaning but later find out it completely isn’t. It’s easy to delay enjoyment until after fulfilling a goal and almost immediately return to the default chase phase due to the emergence of a new goal. It’s thoughtful to chase with curiosity. To chase with passion. To chase with interest, meaning and excitement. New problems will arise with new goals to be fulfilled. Always. That’s just their nature. Rather our nature. But breaking free from being caught up in unworthy goals and being absorbed in meaningful ones is a choice. It’s just hard to come by. Hence the rat race metaphor. I have a podcast nowBefore this week’s Amazing Things & Ideas List, I just want to say I now have a podcast. I published the first episode which I recorded with Brett Hall (@ToKTeacher) just yesterday. We talk about knowledge in it’s philosophical sense, people’s capacity to create explanatory knowledge, evolutionary psychology, free will and the meaning of life in this first episode. You can listen to it here: Back to the usual now… The Amazing Things & Ideas List
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