“What Got You There” Podcast #337: Crisis, Purpose, Ikigai, Intentional Living, Lifestyle Design, & More

I went on the What Got You There podcast with Sean DeLaney on March 8, 2023.

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What Got You There Podcast #337: Crisis, Purpose, Ikigai, Intentional Living, Lifestyle Design, & More

Show Notes

0:00 – Introduction

1:00 – Work vs Play, why passion matters, money as a byproduct of purpose, myth-busting purpose

4:30 – My purpose and the evolution

6:00 – Why ikigai isn’t really ikigai, a walkthrough of Ikigai 2.0

10:30 – How my marketing career actually helped me, the initial idea of Sloww, discovering intentional living, living and learning the hard way with lifestyle inflation

15:00 – What intentional living means to me, my lifestyle design, figuring out “enough,” discovering the FIRE movement

19:00 – Typical day, timeblocking, wasn’t a reader growing up, thinking behind the work

23:00 – “Web of goals” lifestyle design from Jacob Lund Fisker (Early Retirement Extreme), entrepreneurial math

25:30 – The biggest ideas I’ve come across so far, taking an interdisciplinary approach to learning

29:00 – What the learning process looks like, different types of learning, how my mind works, personal knowledge management, second brain vs first brain, overview of the Synthesizer course, quality as a byproduct of quantity

32:30 – Evolution of my mindset, stumbling into my marketing career, existential crisis, year of cognitive dissonance

36:00 – Detailing my existential crisis, why 2023 is a better time to experience a crisis than 2015, personality tests, getting to know yourself psychologically

41:00 – The synthesizing mind, taking an interdisciplinary approach

43:00 – What happened after the crisis, 2.5 years of cognitive dissonance, finding purpose, entrepreneurial dreams, background in graphic design, stumbling into marketing in college, how everything converged, taking the leap into solopreneurship

47:00 – Advice if you’re in your own crisis, crises throughout history, transformative learning

50:00 – The importance of reflection and connecting the dots by looking back

51:30 – Dealing with imposter syndrome, evolving relationship with money, work attached to my self-worth, why I have multiple books/projects going at the same time, going with the flow of life

55:00 – Influential people and books

58:00 – A busy life vs a full life, prioritizing all the projects that have emerged over the years

1:00:00 – Pursuing entre-/solopreneurship, how to think about money

1:03:00 – The lottery of birth, ovarian lottery, original position/veil of ignorance thought experiment

1:09:00 – Who I’d love to interview dead or alive

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