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Why Life Feels So Dull All The Time (and how to fix it) - Robert Greene - #1162

Modern Wisdom

Life is hard. This podcast will help. Lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Matthew McConaughey, Alain de Botton, Alex Hormozi, Tony Robbins, Chris Bumstead, Mark Manson and more.

Robert Greene is an author and historian.

Expect to learn why Robert chose to write about the ‘Sublime’, why you feel so miserable all of the time, and how to make life feel magical again, if we’re mistakenly trying to recover childhood through novelty, travel, drugs and stimulation, how you can access the sublime more readily, Why it’s so difficult for us to comprehend how people in the past genuinely experienced reality differently and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Why Write About the Sublime?

(09:54) Did Our Ancestors Experience Life Differently?

(13:40) What Is the Sublime?

(20:11) The Mind-Blowing Probability of Human Life

(27:40) Is Your Ego Blocking the Sublime?

(32:00) What Is Your Daemon Trying to Tell You?(

40:24) The Arc of Transcendence

(47:12) Is It Your Daemon or Just Impulsivity?

(53:21) How to Know You’re on the Right Path

(01:00:52) Don’t Let Fear Hold You Back

(01:06:00) Why Understanding Scale Changes Everything

(01:10:23) How History Changes Your Perspective

(01:18:54) Does History Repeat Itself?

(01:24:06) Has Science Made It Harder to Access the Sublime?

(01:28:57) What We Get Wrong About Paganism

(01:33:41) Are Supernatural Abilities Just Senses We Can’t Access Anymore?\

(01:44:16) How Your Environment Awakens Your Senses

(02:01:39) How to Rediscover Your Sense of Wonder

(02:08:59) The Biggest Lesson From The Law of the Sublime

(02:19:31) Where to Find Robert

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