Vivienne Ming

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725 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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That's my next planned book.

uh titled Small Sacrifices and the subtitle is The Science, Economics and Story of Purpose.

It is such a fascinating psychological construct that it has such profound implications on people's lives that it just seems like

Let's not treat it as a squishy.

Idea left only to the poets, let's understand in a measurable way what this means, even if measurement doesn't fully explain it.

And

One of the interesting and fascinating

I'm gonna call it a purpose paradox.

Is that the same?

If we define a purpose, purely to operationalize it.

As having something in your life that's bigger than you.

Would take more than a lifetime to complete?

I'm gonna add in from my own research something you're willing to make a sacrifice for.

So in other words, if if it would never benefit you at all, and yet this thing is so important to you.

You personally would take a sacrifice for this bigger thing to be true.

Uh, a lot of the research also says it should be a good thing.

I'm trying to again be a little hard numbers about it.

I'm not seeing that that's the case in the research that I look at.

It's just this thing bigger than you, you're willing to make a sacrifice for.

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