C. Thi Nguyen

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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee · How To Live An Intentional Life with Professor C Thi Nguyen #670 · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

A lot of my favorite board games and a lot of my favorite, I'm really interested in tabletop role-playing games right now.

have a very interestingly strict rule set and a point system that gets you to leap into a particular kind of activity.

So a lot of my favorite role-playing games have scoring systems that tell you to do things like invent shared backstory or find tension in character drama.

And having that as a quick, clear guide can help you find your way into new forms.

Because the whole thing that we're generating here, the background thought is that values are subtle.

And I think...

I just realized there's a slightly different alignment in the way you're talking about things and the way I'm talking about things.

I think you are, to use my own language, a little more purely existential in the old school, like Sartre-style existentialism.

The views you've been expressing are like your real values come from the inside.

They're authentic to you, and the stuff from the outside is fake.

And I don't think that.

I actually think a lot of the most important values in life are very subtle and contained in the outside.

I learned the beauty of jazz from other people.

I learned the beauty of rap from other people.

I learned the beauty of rock climbing from other people.

Those values are embedded in external activities.

I think for me the most important thing is that what is really valuable is often quite subtle.

And that subtlety is driving both sides of this.

The reason we want games and we want rules is because values are subtle and it takes a long time to be let into them.

That's why it took me years exposed to the scoring system of rock climbing to see the beauty of movement.

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