Dr. Alex Curmi
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2,747 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Dr. Alex Curmi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How do you bring that into your life in some meaningful way?
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So it's not just, oh, I think I like helping people and it stops there.
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But you might realize, okay, on introspection, I like helping people.
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How do I actualize that?
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How did I make that a thing in my life?
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So the way I think about it is it's this.
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It's this continual oscillation between introspection on one end and then behavior, action, bring it into your real life.
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And then the cool thing about bringing it in your real into your real life is you then learn more stuff that then feeds your introspection and it goes back and forth.
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Um from there.
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Does that is that kind of how you think about it or or do you think about it in any importantly different way?
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Something I've been thinking about recently is this idea that it's actually really hard to construct your like the this process I outlined, you know, and maybe I can make it sound nice, or at least hopefully I made it sound nice.
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Um but it's really hard, it's really hard for individuals to f to find their own meaning and to construct their own sense of meaning.
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It like I said, it's a lifelong process and it's quite new that it falls to the level of the individual, that this burden falls to the level of the individual.
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You know, normally people find meaning through pre existing societal or perhaps tribal structures that they can plug into.
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So I guess one question worth raising is is it even reasonable to ask individuals
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to to go about this whole journey. 'Cause some people might be predisposed to it, like you or I, we may have personality traits which might predispose us to want to go on this journey.
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But for the average person, is it
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reasonable to put this burden on them or should we thinking more broadly about collective institutions that society should offer?
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To to give people a um maybe a bit of an easier sense of how they can have meaning in their life.
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So it's a delicate balance of individualism and collectivism and to the extent that we build in
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