Der Irrglaube an die perfekte Wahl

0:00I have led a toothless life. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on. And I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. Mhm. A lot of people wait for perfect conditions to start, but don't realize that starting is the perfect condition.

0:30And the part of that quote that I like a lot from Sartre the French philosopher is uh your teeth can get sharper and stronger, too. So, that he's saving himself to use his teeth. But he could have had all of his teeth at the end if he had been using them the whole time. >> Mhm. And so, we have this idea, I call it the fallacy of the perfect pick, but thinking that you're going to have this one shot, this one pick of this one opportunity, this one podcast, this one whatever, that's going to take you all the way, but it's the habit of biting that takes you all the way, not where you choose to bite the first time. And I actually now have a huge history of this, and you do, too, which is we have learned to just bite, and know that our teeth will get stronger, and we will learn how to chomp down along the way, and waiting to begin never got anyone anywhere.

1:44Yeah, I had I kind of became obsessed with this belief that one day life's duties will be out of the way, and then you can finally start doing the thing that you want to do, or you're meant to do. Uh Marie-Louise von Franz says she calls it the provisional life. I love there is this strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that, but there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about. It's also known as deferred happiness syndrome, the common feeling that your life has not yet begun, that your present reality is a mere prelude to some idyllic future. This idyll is a mirage that will fade as you approach, revealing that the prelude you rushed through was in fact the one to your death.

2:30There really isn't any other time. And the more you know, like this is one of the, I guess, melancholy realizations of getting older, that you actually think, "Oh, my You know what it is? There are things that I can't do now that I could have done before. It is going for both of us, it is going to get linearly harder to build muscle. For the rest of time, it's never going to be as easy as it was 10 years ago to build muscle.

2:58And you go, "Okay, well, that's an argument for starting sooner." And the same thing goes for becoming more psychologically healthy, for becoming more balanced, for becoming more wealthy, for investing in good habits, friends. Oh God, Christopher Hitchens, it is a melancholy lesson of older life that you can no longer make old friends. Mhm. Like find your people now.

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