How to Escape the Modern Rat Race
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How to Escape the Modern Rat Race
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Re: How to Escape the Modern Rat Race
#2For anyone who has not heard of the word ikigai, I highly recommend googling it.
While not possible for everyone, and not easy for everyone to achieve, ikigai is the ultimate goal. If you can achieve that, you're outside of the rat race.
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#3The headline sounds like an old-school direct response advertisement --- https://swiped.co/file/american-rat-race-ad-by-ben-suarez/
Re: How to Escape the Modern Rat Race
#4For anyone who has not heard of the word ikigai, I highly recommend googling it. While not possible for everyone, and not easy for everyone to achieve, ikigai is the ultimate goal. If you can achieve that, you're outside of the rat race.
Just in case people see the misleading "ikigai" Venn diagram https://medium.com/@support_35468/ikigai-is-not-a-venn-diagr...
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#5For anyone who has not heard of the word ikigai, I highly recommend googling it. While not possible for everyone, and not easy for everyone to achieve, ikigai is the ultimate goal. If you can achieve that, you're outside of the rat race.
Just in case people see the misleading "ikigai" Venn diagram https://medium.com/@support_35468/ikigai-is-not-a-venn-diagr...
Regardless of whether or not it accurately explains the term’s origin or true meaning, the Venn diagram seems to present the more compelling idea.
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#6The irony is that this article is in itself a form of competitive signaling since thats essentially the purpose of hacker news. People would say that its to get information out there, but I doubt most people that post on hacker news wouldn't do it if it didn't help their "brand".
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just in case people see the misleading "ikigai" Venn diagram https://medium.com/@support_35468/ikigai-is-not-a-venn-diagr...
Regardless of whether or not it accurately explains the term’s origin or true meaning, the Venn diagram seems to present the more compelling idea.
That really depends on what perspective you are coming from. For the Hacker News set? Yeah, okay.
Re: How to Escape the Modern Rat Race
#8For anyone who has not heard of the word ikigai, I highly recommend googling it. While not possible for everyone, and not easy for everyone to achieve, ikigai is the ultimate goal. If you can achieve that, you're outside of the rat race.
Just in case people see the misleading "ikigai" Venn diagram https://medium.com/@support_35468/ikigai-is-not-a-venn-diagr...
Great description there. 'in the realm of small things'. Reminds me of this Jung quote:
"makes me think of the rabbi who asked how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the olden days whereas nowadays nobody ever sees him. The rabbi replied: "Nowadays there is no longer anybody who can bow low enough."
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#9I really like this point of view, but it is important to point out that the bar for happiness in life and relationships (as a proxy for "reproduction) is way below our aspirations. You aren't really trying to be like Instagram influenceres because of your "selfish gene". Your "selfish gene" would do better directing you toward fundamentalist communities where reproductive rates are higher.
No, you are being influenced by media, which convinces you that things are a proxy for happiness and good relationships. It's the materialism that fuels our economic progress so I am not against it. But if you think you are in a rat race for money and success, it's because of human nature, not genetic survival.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Regardless of whether or not it accurately explains the term’s origin or true meaning, the Venn diagram seems to present the more compelling idea.
That really depends on what perspective you are coming from. For the Hacker News set? Yeah, okay.
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