Kevin Kelly

You're right.

There's just

a whole lot to unpack in this final piece of advice in this book, my excellent advice for living.

And it does sum up a lot of what I'm trying to do.

So the first thing is, I don't think I've met anybody who has achieved this.

I've met a lot of people who are absolutely in that direction and are absolutely approaching that.

It's like an asymptote curve where you never actually get there.

There's always some way to get a little bit closer.

But from a distance, you might say, well, you've arrived.

And for most of us, this is a very, very high bar.

Truly becoming yourself is an incredibly high bar because we are opaque to ourselves.

We're just built in a way that we don't have immediate access, even with language, to what it is that we do and how we do it and our own motivations.

And it's kind of like we're deliberately kept out of it so we don't mess it up too much.

This is a lifelong project

For most people, it was coming to understand what it is that's authentic about you, what it is that you do better than other people, what it is that you're about, what your purpose in life is.

This is a lifelong project.

And the best we can do is to say that we are getting closer.

I think it was actually fairly recently.

I don't think you've heard things.

You mentioned Joseph Campbell and the others of following your bliss and stuff, and those have been around.