Alex O'Connor

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Alex O’Connor: #1 Shift That Stops Endless Overthinking (FINALLY Get Unstuck) · 25 May 2026 podcast

I mean, people say that when you choose your life partner, who's going to be the other parent to your child, so the mother or father of your child, depending on who you are, one of the most important things is that you're aligned on core values and stuff.

Why?

Because when it comes to raising children, you'll have to have the same idea of what a good life is, right?

So in the same way why you might not want to get married and have children with someone with whom you haven't aligned your fundamental values, I almost sort of am not married to myself in that way because there's too much internal conflict.

I sort of disagree with myself too much to have a good answer to that question.

But also I'm not confident that I ever will.

And so I think ultimately what people typically say is,

is either they have a particular worldview and they say, well, son, the good life is to do what God commands.

And that's kind of fair enough as well, because that still leaves room for the kid to go and work out who is God and what does God command, right?

It's actually quite broad.

But I think if I were forced to say something, I would ask what they mean by good.

You know, I'm not sure if this is the kid asking me.

But the word good is a difficult thing to unpack.

There's morally good or there's good in the sense that this is a good table because it holds things up.

And some people think that's the same thing.

But I think there are probably indicators of a good life that include contentment and calm and lack of stress and that kind of stuff.

Confidence in the decisions that you've made.

But I find it a very difficult question to answer.

I think that most people don't live strictly according to philosophical principles.

I think they develop philosophical principles based on how they live.

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