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“You can love what you have and still want more or want different.” – Terri Cole
Intro
Vic and I were watching a Richard Feynman lecture on YouTube recently, one of those deep dives into time, space, and quantum physics that makes your brain hurt in the best way. What struck me wasn’t the physics. It was something underneath it, about how much we love certainty, how hard our minds work to manufacture it even where it doesn’t exist, and how that love of certainty quietly limits what we allow ourselves to imagine as possible.
That’s what today’s episode is about.
Most of us spend a lot of energy trying to get one life right. The perfect career, the right relationship, the path that doesn’t disappoint anyone. And underneath all that effort is anxiety, because if there’s only one right choice, the margin for error feels very small.
The Odyssey Plan, which comes out of the Designing Your Life program at Stanford University, starts from an entirely different premise. There isn’t just one life that’s right for you. There are multiple versions that could make you happy, fulfilled, and aligned. The exercise doesn’t ask you to blow up your life or make any decisions at all. It asks you to expand what you allow yourself to see as possible.
That’s it. Just that.
Highlights:
- 3:20 The odyssey plan and the Stanford study
- 8:10 Why I left my career as a talent agent to become a psychotherapist
- 10:00 Why design your three perfect lives?
- 13:00 Plan your current path
- 15:00 What would you do if your current path disappeared?
- 16:00 Imagining a life without limitations
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