Joshua and Ryan discuss how we’re too often led astray by the status quo and how we can benefit from doing the opposite, and they answer the following questions:
What does it mean to be authentic? (00:00)
What is so problematic about trends? (04:58)
Can we find meaning in suffering? (10:56)
Why are opinions so inconsequential? (20:48)
When have you benefited from thinking the opposite? (22:21)
I’m being advised by my ethics class in college that retirement is detrimental to our growth and development as human beings—do you think that is true? (29:20)
What is the best kind of growth? (34:31)
Some of the worst advice I’ve received is, “Fake it until you make it”—what is wrong with being a work in progress? (44:30)
How is all advice flawed advice? (44:59)
Do we improve our lives more by addition or subtraction? (52:00)
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