Are you confusing upgrading your computer with upgrading your life?
Maybe not, but are you really asking the tough questions of life, or are you finding yourself installing another FireFox plugin, hoping it will somehow ease that sense of angst and anxiety you are feeling about your life? Isn’t it time you sunk a little deeper and got real with yourself?
This week I (Duff) talk with Clay Collins, writer at TheGrowingLife.com, about truly hacking your life by asking the tough questions and living creatively.
In this second part of the conversation, we talk about…
Why computer hacks probably shouldn’t be considered “life” hacks…and what should.
Why “if there’s a path, it’s not your path,” and how to find yours!
How no Firefox add-on is going to help you ask the tough questions of what life’s about.
Why there’s no “there” there in doing things that are “going to lead to somewhere.”
Why you should never affirm “everything I touch turns to gold” or risk ending up like King Midas!
The many forms of lifestyle design, and why only a custom design will do.
Why if you are truly lifehacking, you might appear flaky for a while, but eventually you will work out the bugs.
Listen in to the end for a tip from Charles Gilkey of productiveflourishing.com, a professor of Philosophy and a smart, insightful guy with whom I had the pleasure of chatting recently. I recommend you check out his blog.
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Stuff we talked about:
- The Growing Life, Clay’s kickass blog
- The Life Hack Misnomer, an article on Clay’s blog that goes more in depth into the “lifehack” language, and where it goes wrong
- Philosopher’s Notes, Brian Johnson’s cool personal development book summary service (PDF’s and MP3 audio). Tell Brian that Duff sent you.
- The Cult of Abundance, Goal Autoimmune Disorder, & Abundance 2.0, a killer blog post from Clay, complete with videos from YouTube.
- Vagabonding, a book and a lifestyle for living and traveling on the cheap.
- The Future of Success, an audiobook I recently listened to. Robert Reich is a freakin’ genius. I need to read more Economics.
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