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You’re Not Depressed, You’re Living The Wrong Life - Jimmy Carr - #1135
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Is Optionality Making Us Miserable?
At 20:20 · chapter starts 18:47
The thread here is the paradox of choice in extreme form. Getting stuff is fun; having stuff is not. Once you decide what you want and who you want to be with, life becomes simple because you stop thinking about how to live and start actually living. Jimmy mentions bumping into Alex Hormozi at dinner — an unlikely pairing of the immaculately dressed comedian and the tank-topped businessman — and Hormozi's core message: too much optionality, too little action. Getting an MBA, then a master's, then a PhD in business is the map mistaken for the territory. Chris extends the thought: talking about a thing and doing the thing compete for the same cognitive resources. David Epstein's new book on the power of constraints reinforces the same idea from the academic side.
