David Senra

Not a goal, but just that feeling.

Everyone can answer this question, by the way.

It's a great way to have a conversation with someone is to ask them where they feel this and then also why they're not doing more of whatever the answer happens to be, which is a funny circumstance of humans that they know what makes them feel most alive and then they don't do it most of their lives.

Usually it's simple, which is fear.

Fear that by pursuing an original path, I have this idea that the best story always wins.

And I actually spent the last couple of months like really trying to figure out what do I think best story means?

And the best principles for a great story that I could come up with were originality, hardship, and transformation.

And if you dig into originality,

That one is really interesting to me because people don't pursue original past usually because they're fearful of the unknown, because an original path by definition means it's all gonna be on you.

And that's uncomfortable and hard.

And because an original path usually means leaving a very comfortable current existence in a way that's scary.

And so I think when you really drill people on why not

They'll give reasons that add up to, I'm afraid.

That's hard to get over.

It definitely helped me find it because I wanted to not waste life.

When I was a little kid, young, five years old or whatever,

I had this just crippling fear of death.

I remember my mom and dad would have to sit and hold my hand for me to fall asleep at night.

And the reason was I would just sit there spiraling on this crazy idea, maybe this is why I studied philosophy, that someday I would not exist.

And that just freaked me out and did for decades.