You 2.0: What Is Your Life For?

This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta. I recently found myself speaking to a group of high school students. There were lots of questions about the worlds of podcasting and journalism, about the rise of AI, and about physical and emotional well-being. But looming over all the questions was the big one. What should I do with my life?

High school students are not the only ones with that question. Young adults in college agonize about their majors. 30 and 40 somethings worry about whether they are on the right track. 60 and 70 year olds look back on their lives and ask, is this all there is? At every age and every stage, many of us

Are intimidated by the question of what we should do with the remaining days we have left. The older we get, the more we realize that time is fleeting. A lifespan of a few decades is but a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of the planet, to say nothing of the universe. How can we Spend this time meaningfully.

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