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• What did the poet Rainer Maria Rilke have to say about embracing uncertainty?

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• What is the “drown proofing” technique, often taught to Navy Seals, and what is a takeaway from it that can be applied in our daily lives?
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• What is the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia and what can it teach us about our collective search for meaning?
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• What can we learn from Vietnam’s “Great Hanoi Rat Massacre?”

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• What can Queen Elizabeth I, of England, teach us about the power of saying “no?”
• Why is saying “no” just as important, if not more important, than saying “yes” in our journey towards a purposeful life?
• What can be our guidepost when deciding when to say “yes” and when to say “no?”
• How does living a purposeful life improve decision-making behavior going forward?
• What 3-step process does Oliver Burkeman lay out for saying “yes” to our highest purpose and saying “no” to things that do not serve it?

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• What is facticity and how can we turn these “limitations” into strengths?
• What are some historical examples of people who used their limitations to do, or create, something remarkable?
• What is Sheena Iyengar’s “jam study” and what are its implications for decision making and behavioral science?
• Why are constraints such an important element of creativity?

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• What is the idea of Lindy’s Law, also known as The Lindy Effect? What is statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s unique take on this?
• How has an acceptance of our finitude been expressed, and even celebrated, by cultures all over the world?
• What is the Zen Buddhist concept of “Satori” and what can we learn from it?

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• What were some of the catalysts for The Great Chinese Famine and what does this teach us about unintended consequences?
• What did Nietzsche have to say about the important role suffering plays in our lives and personal growth?
• What is congenital analgesia and what does it teach us about the protective role of pain?
• Why do some scientists believe depression plays an important evolutionary role and what role might it play?
• What is post-traumatic growth?

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• What can Miss Havisham, the Charles Dickens’ character, teach us about the dangers of fleeing our pain?
• How is Miss Havisham, on some fundamental level, a potent metaphor for our own lives?
• What does Dr. Crosby mean by “emotional graying” and why are its effects so insidious?
• What did author Khalil Gibran have to say about why running from pain can also mean running from joy?
• Why do vulnerability and greatness often go hand-in-hand?

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• Why should we take heed of our internal anxiety that expresses that something is not quite right in our lives?
• Why do Existential Philosophers think of anxiety as a potential catalyst for personal growth rather than a hindrance?
• How can passion help us give our anxiety form and function?
• How did the philosopher Heidegger think about anxiety’s role in our lives?
• How does Albert Camus relate anxiety to one’s sense of the weariness of life?

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• What is Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth, or Hero’s Journey, and how does Lord of the Rings exemplify this?
• How might a “call to adventure” crop up in our own lives and why is it so important to answer them some of the time?
• Why can striving and searching for a more meaningful life be so painful? How is this pain directly proportional to our potential?
• Why did Kierkegaard mean by the quote: “anxiety is freedom’s possibility?”

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• What is the status quo bias and why might it have been relevant to the Challenger space shuttle explosion?
• Why did Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winning physicist, state that “the first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool?” How is running from freedom, via conscientiousness, an embodiment of Feynman’s sentiment?
• What did Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychotherapist, say about our safeguarding tendencies and the harm they can do?
• How can safeguarding tendencies morph into inferiority complexes?
• How do we sometimes posit cowardice as moral uprightness in our lives?

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