Chris Guillebeau
speaker
383 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Chris Guillebeau’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And so you've got the existential kind, you've got the day-to-day kind, and I feel like this is just very, very common.
And when I first came up with the phrase and started just playing with it a little bit and just talking with people, I noticed that...
Uh, like it wasn't just me, like almost everybody that I talked to probably more than any, any other book that I've worked on, you know, in 15 years, just about everybody I talked to was like, I have that, you know, and maybe I have more of the first kind or more of the second kind, but like one way or another, I have that.
And they started using some phrases that, um,
just were very common also.
And, uh, I just talked to so many people and they would all say the same thing about like, this is, this is me all the time, or my friends and I talk about this, but we never had a name for it.
Um, this is the defining problem of my life sometimes people would say.
And so that's why I was so interested in it.
Um, just from the perspective of studying it, but I also don't come to it like intellectually.
I come to it just from my own struggle in life.
And, um, you know, how do I resolve this for myself?
It is, and you know the interesting thing is it doesn't necessarily connect to a certain age, so that's what's interesting about it.
There are 17-year-olds who might say almost the same thing.
They wouldn't say the part about the number of years ahead of me versus behind me and such, but they would also say, I feel like I have missed something, or I feel like it is too late for something, and so they have that sense of...
I just have this pressure in my life and like, how can I adjust and how can I move forward?
And so for those of us who are not 17, you know, who are on the other side of it, it's easy to say like, oh, that's silly because, you know, the world is their oyster.
They can do so much and such.
But it's a very real feeling, you know, to have this sense of what do I do, you know, and how...
What have I achieved or accomplished, and how does that measure up to what I hoped for?
And if I'm to make some sort of adjustment, what is that?
Showing 21–40 of 383 · page 2 of 20
← Previous
Next →