How to find your thing
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How to find your thing mentions The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, How to Do Great Work by Paul Graham, Bad Therapy, and Deep Work by Cal Newport with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
the number one regret by a huge margin was, I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
let enthusiasm be not just the motor, but the rudder of your boat.
the people who think why and ask themselves all the time, why am I not happy? Why am I not following my life's work? Why am I not following my passio…
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“t when I was basically 30 years old, which was this podcast. It's like, oh, I'm not, the founder loop is okay. But the one I really love is I'm doing life and I get to be curious about something. Then I go dig in. Then I take the top 1% of what I found and I enthusiastically share it with like-minded people. And I like that they like it. And then I go and do it again the next day. And whether I'm writing books or I'm doing the podcast or with my YouTube channel, it doesn't matter which way I do it, that's the loop I love. And I've now been doing it. This podcast, what, six years? Something like that. And I'm fresh. Fresh as a daisy. You know, it's like I could keep”
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“Paul Graham wrote this long, long essay called How to Do Great Work, which is great.”
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“This amazing book called Bad Therapy discusses how people who constantly ask themselves why they are not happy often feel more discontent with their lives.”
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“Cal Newport wrote Deep Work, where he suggests that passion is a byproduct of mastery.”
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“Joseph Campbell famously came up with a hero's journey, explaining how great stories start with the same structure.”
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