Brad Stulberg

They're metaphors I use all the time.

If we're going to do mythology, I think of the myth of Sisyphus.

and how Sisyphus is condemned by the gods to push this boulder up a mountain, and then the boulder rolls back down, he has to push it back up, boulder rolls back down for all of eternity.

And a lot of people see this as this kind of punishment.

Camus comes along, the existentialist philosopher, and says, essentially, we're all Sisyphus.

Life is just a series of mountains that we're pushing a boulder up.

And the goal of a good life is to push the boulder up the hill with a smile on your face.

Can one imagine?

One must imagine.

Happy, exactly.

And the only thing that I'd add is, can you do it with a smile on your face?

And can you ideally do it with good people?

And can you pick the right mountains to climb?

And I think if you do those three things, that that's a good life.

And the reason I mentioned this, this do it with a smile on your face is that's another one of these dangerous myths of pseudo excellence.

You hear it the most in the manosphere that you have to be like angry to be great, or you have to slay everyone across from you, or you have to suffer.

Greatness is all about suffering.

You can't be happy.

You can't experience joy.

That is utter bullshit.