The Cure for Nihilism with professor Suzy Welch

I had a student. He was in banking. He was living his parents' values, not his own, just as he had long suspected he was an artist in banking. Well, his interests really were beautiful women in fashion. And he said, My purpose, my area of transcendence is to dress Kim Kardashian.

When he first said it, the class like burst into laughter. They thought he was joking, and he said, No, I'm not kidding. I'm gonna make the clothing that make women impossible not to look at. I've been living a lie. So I said to him,

What are your parents going to say? And he said, they're probably going to say at last because I've been miserable for 10 years. Here's a story. A smart, hardworking person spends years of their life chasing an ambitious goal. They structure their life, career, and identity around this one particular.

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