Dave Evans

I still get to work in the presence of that.

I can put on my headphones and solve that problem easily.

I'm so lucky that I get to be here and be a part of that.

Now, how do I, I've got to find a way to shut the kid up.

And she said, and that took about two seconds to have that change of mind and everything changed.

So that's what we're looking for.

We're looking for, see it a different way and have a surprising change of your psychic experience of your own life.

Yeah, you know, I had this experience in my 20s in my career where I suddenly realized that I was living entirely in the future that I would never get to.

And then there was a time I was talking with an intensive care unit nurse about this problem of always the next thing, always the next thing.

You know, we get there and then get the next goal, the

And frankly, you're never really enjoying the meal.

You're just trying to get it over with.

And she said, oh, yeah, yeah, we have a term for that.

We call it destination sickness.

I go, what the heck is destination sickness?

She goes, oh, yeah, you know, here in the ICU, particularly at Stanford, we have all these highly accomplished people.

And it was always, you know, when I finished the degree and then when I get the grad degree and then when I get the good job and then I make partner and then I make my first million.

And it's always the next thing.

will make me happy.

And she said, and some of the people here, like the ones in their mid-50s who've burned their heart out and now they're actually going to die.