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Why Life Feels So Dull All The Time (and how to fix it) - Robert Greene - #1162

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Why Life Feels So Dull All The Time (and how to fix it) - Robert Greene - #1162

Modern Wisdom

3 HOURS AGO
Modern Wisdom

Modern Wisdom

3 HOURS AGO
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Robert Greene is an author and historian. Expect to learn why Robert chose to write about the ‘Sublime’, why you feel so miserable all of the time, and how to make life feel magical again, if we’re mistakenly trying to recover childhood through novelty, t...

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Robert Greene explores why modern life feels flat, how the sublime can restore wonder, and how attention, history, nature, mortality, and authentic personal values can reconnect you with a fuller experience of being alive.
02:41
Modern life has flattened experience
08:43
When filtering goes too far, survival takes over
10:52
Death forces us to ask why we are alive
17:38
The brain constructs the reality you think is real
22:48
Existence is too improbable to take for granted
30:59
The ego blocks the sublime
35:26
The daemon is more authentic than the social self
44:36
The daemon can become dangerous when taken too far
1:04:36
Fear disguises itself as reason
1:07:53
Scale can make you feel insignificant and amazed
1:18:38
Historical distance protects against manipulation
1:24:17
Science should deepen wonder
1:29:58
The gods were forces, not cartoon characters
1:43:00
Your senses awaken when ordinary life falls away
1:55:49
Danger made the world feel sharper
2:06:44
Become the curator of your experience
2:14:16
Choose your own values
2:19:10
Wonder can be found in your backyard

Chapters

Why Write About the Sublime?
00:00
Did Our Ancestors Experience Life Differently?
09:54
What Is the Sublime?
13:40
The Mind-Blowing Probability of Human Life
20:11
Is Your Ego Blocking the Sublime?
27:40
What Is Your Daemon Trying to Tell You?(
32:00
The Arc of Transcendence
40:24
Is It Your Daemon or Just Impulsivity?
47:12
How to Know You’re on the Right Path
53:21
Don’t Let Fear Hold You Back
1:00:52
Why Understanding Scale Changes Everything
1:06:00
How History Changes Your Perspective
1:10:23
Does History Repeat Itself?
1:18:54
Has Science Made It Harder to Access the Sublime?
1:24:06
What We Get Wrong About Paganism
1:28:57
Are Supernatural Abilities Just Senses We Can’t Access Anymore?\
1:33:41
How Your Environment Awakens Your Senses
1:44:16
How to Rediscover Your Sense of Wonder
2:01:39
The Biggest Lesson From The Law of the Sublime
2:08:59
Where to Find Robert
2:19:31

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