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by realmod 1882 days ago
I always find posts/content like this unbearable, it always ends up being a variant of the ubiquitous "you are where you are supposed to be" platitude that really does not in any way help.
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Yeah, we tend to bark at the finger, and miss the moon it is pointing too.

The idea is to remove people-relative measures, and cultivate deep, meaningful work for its own sake [1]. Some ways of doing that are better than others. For some, the platitude works. For others, not.

[1] happiness hypothesis -- jonathan haidt.