I went on the Life Itself Ordinary People podcast with Rufus Pollock on June 19, 2024.
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“Life Itself Ordinary People” Podcast with Rufus Pollock: Existential Crisis, Self-Questioning, Ego Development, & More
Show Notes
0:00 — Intro, what I’m doing now, why Sloww exists, my purpose in one sentence
3:00 — Before Sloww, existential crisis, not questioning anything for 30 years
5:45 — Why Sloww is named Sloww, discovering intentional living, slow living vs simple living
8:45 — Sloww stages
10:15 — Busyness + purposelessness, increasing cognitive dissonance of learning vs living, running out of options with no Plan B
15:30 — Winning at school, sports, and work but failing at life
18:15 — The flywheel of questioning to learning to developing, ever-deeper self-inquiry over a decade
20:00 — Susanne Cook-Greuter’s ego development theory, crisis as watershed between conventional and postconventional stages of development, Robert Kegan’s subject-object theory
25:30 — Childhood upbringing, luck of the lottery of birth, achiever mindset, self-worth directly tied to work, Enneagram fears of useless/worthless
31:30 — How people/relationships reacted to my crisis
38:00 — All things entrepreneurship, e-commerce vs d-commerce, primary skills for solopreneurship, the pathless path
44:00 — Self-questioning, self-inquiry, who am I?, listening to life, life unfolding
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