2930: No Need by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle on Designing Your Ideal Life

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[00:01:01] This is optimal living daily episode 29 30

[00:01:05] No need by calling right of exile lifestyle calm and a narrator Justin Malik

[00:01:11] And I'm gonna jump right into our next post as we optimize your life

[00:01:19] No need by calling right of exile lifestyle calm

[00:01:23] What would you do if there was no need for you to do anything?

[00:01:27] This isn't a simple question to answer

[00:01:29] It's also a question that's increasingly relevant not because we'll all be able to stop working anytime soon

[00:01:34] But because it can help us determine how to spend our time now

[00:01:38] Within our current systems and circumstances

[00:01:41] For many people the answer to the question of how to spend one's time when one need and work is

[00:01:47] Predicated on current everyday realities

[00:01:50] Everyday realities we imagine that we do all the things we currently do when we don't have to work

[00:01:56] Vacations drinks watching Netflix hanging out with our significant others playing sports

[00:02:02] We might also expand our horizons a bit thinking through all the things

[00:02:05] We've always told ourselves we do if we only had more time

[00:02:09] Learning to play guitar road tripping the US going on that vipassana retreat

[00:02:14] The trouble with that approach to this question though is that what we currently do when we're not working

[00:02:20] Not trying to earn money to pay the bills

[00:02:22] May not make as much sense in a theoretical future in which that work that daily money earning struggle is no longer a thing

[00:02:29] We need to worry about our perception of what we would do if we had all the options in the world

[00:02:34] In other words might not make as much sense to us if we had all the options in the world

[00:02:40] This isn't to say that we wouldn't want to spend time with our loved ones or go to the beach

[00:02:44] But it does mean that we would almost certainly at some point have our fill of such things

[00:02:50] They won't be rarities. They'll be the default. So the question becomes what do we do beyond that default?

[00:02:56] What guides our actions our habits our norms?

[00:03:00] There's been a little bit of research conducted on what happens to people after they become wealthy

[00:03:05] After they earn enough money to theoretically at least never have to work again

[00:03:09] And the data collected seems to indicate that the main challenge post work is not actually work related

[00:03:15] It's purpose related

[00:03:17] Most of us currently find a great deal of purpose in our work

[00:03:20] And that's true even if we don't particularly care for what we do because the work itself isn't the point

[00:03:27] Earning money which allows us to support ourselves and our loved ones in a system that requires such resources

[00:03:33] Is the point when that foundation is pulled away when we need work to survive to thrive

[00:03:39] It could feel like there's a gap in our lives and our perception of self of value of the point of it all

[00:03:46] It's inside this gap that we're forced to consider what other purposes we might serve what other causes we might take up and

[00:03:53] For many of us for all kinds of reasons. This is not something we've ever had to truly consider

[00:03:59] This is partly the case because this thought process can be uncomfortable bordering on harrowing

[00:04:06] This discomfort is in part the result of a sudden parallax shift that leads to the intense utilization of atrophied mental muscles

[00:04:14] If you've never been asked who you are what you stand for what purpose you serve

[00:04:19] Beyond the money you earn and the role you play in the economy

[00:04:22] There's a good chance you don't have a fulfilling answer as a consequence of that lack

[00:04:26] You may feel empty or useless. You won't actually be empty or useless, of course

[00:04:31] But it can feel that way your relationship with time also might change under such circumstances

[00:04:37] Due to the abundance of it you suddenly have available

[00:04:40] I've never been wealthy enough that I haven't had to work

[00:04:43] But I do have the good fortune to be able to more or less spend my time as I see fit

[00:04:48] And when I first realized I'd managed to make that happen to have that dominion over my time

[00:04:54] I experienced a moment of happiness followed by a few weeks of feeling like I've been punched in the gut

[00:04:59] How would I spend my time now that I had plenty of it?

[00:05:02] Who was I now that I wasn't defining myself in terms of the money

[00:05:06] I was earning or the professional prestige I had accumulated

[00:05:10] This is what we might call a luxury problem, but it's still a problem

[00:05:15] Those first few weeks of having essentially unlimited time to spend on whatever I liked with the least productive weeks of my life

[00:05:22] Paralysis by analysis is real and when everything is an option

[00:05:26] Doing less than ever before not in a pleasurable way, but in a depressed board uncomfortable way becomes a real possibility

[00:05:34] It was only when I managed to reorient myself toward what I truly believed in what I really cared about

[00:05:40] Foundationally and be on any particular job or project that I was able to write the ship and start moving again

[00:05:46] I was able to get back on a path that seemed worth walking once more

[00:05:51] One that I was building as I walked it

[00:05:53] But also one that gave me a sense of structure and direction and a feeling of satisfaction from the things I accomplished along the way

[00:06:00] It's possible that this won't be a process most of us ever have to go through for better and for worse

[00:06:06] But it's also possible that economic innovations like a guaranteed basic income

[00:06:11] technological innovations like advanced AI and manufacturing technologies and or social

[00:06:16] Innovations like new governmental systems that are able to ameliorate scarcity in some way could emerge within our lifetimes

[00:06:23] At that point when there's no need for us to continue living as we live

[00:06:27] We'll be forced to ask ourselves these difficult questions

[00:06:31] And I strongly suspect that many of us won't be ready won't be prepared to face a world without pre-built

[00:06:37] Preassigned inherited purpose and routine

[00:06:40] Thinking through such things ahead of time can prepare us for that moment if it does arise

[00:06:46] Regardless of what shape it takes

[00:06:47] But it can also help us figure out how to live what work to do how to spend our time today

[00:06:54] When all of these things are still finite at a moment in which we have fewer choices

[00:06:58] But choices nonetheless which we can and must make every single day

[00:07:04] Our spectrum of options isn't entirely within our control

[00:07:07] Of course, but the choices we make from those available to us can nonetheless serve us or drain us

[00:07:13] Depending on how we approach them and how much responsibility we take for them

[00:07:18] You just listen to the post titled no need by Colin Wright of exile lifestyle comm

[00:07:28] Thank you to Colin

[00:07:30] These are the questions that I think are super important to revisit every once in a while when you can hear it phrased in different ways like

[00:07:36] What would you do if you win the lottery or what's your purpose questions like that?

[00:07:41] He makes a good point that what we currently imagine might not be relevant at that time when we're actually able to realize it

[00:07:47] Takes a little bit of digging deeper to really understand this question

[00:07:51] Actually, Remit sati posted a somewhat similar question on social media

[00:07:56] And usually when I see these types of questions

[00:07:58] I think they're just posting it to get comments and engagement and really don't care about the answers

[00:08:03] But Remit was there responding to pretty much all of the answers and there were a lot

[00:08:08] People were saying I'd go traveling and when the answers were somewhat vague like that he'd reply

[00:08:13] Okay, where what kind of seats on the plane would you get how long is this vacation or adventure?

[00:08:19] Basically to get them to really visualize if that's what they truly want and what they're after and to think about all those details

[00:08:26] And after traveling would they travel again or is it something else?

[00:08:30] I think what he was getting at was what Colin was talking about in this post

[00:08:34] Purpose without work and earning money. What is your purpose or what would you like it to be?

[00:08:40] And is there a way you can make steps towards that outside of your career right now?

[00:08:45] Another quick example someone said that if they had an extra $2,000 to spend and in this hypothetical situation

[00:08:51] He had no debt and didn't need the extra $2,000 for any reason. There was no use investing it because it was completely extra

[00:08:59] What he said he would do with it was to tip servers more at restaurants and Remit's comment was basically

[00:09:06] Can you do that right now?

[00:09:08] Or in other words, it's unlikely this person was eating at restaurants every day

[00:09:12] So could he just start tipping more now if that's really the only thing he'd imagine he would do with extra money

[00:09:18] And going deeper is his purpose really about tipping servers

[00:09:22] Or is it that he wishes he could give more to strangers and just make them happy?

[00:09:26] Is there a way he could start doing that now maybe with time instead of money or some other way?

[00:09:32] I think there is if he thought about on deeper level

[00:09:35] So again, I think it's really valuable to ask ourselves this somewhat frequently

[00:09:39] To discover what it is we truly want and to work towards making it happen sooner rather than later

[00:09:46] But that was a long commentary. So I'll leave it at that have a great rest of your day

[00:09:50] And I'll see you back here tomorrow where your optimal life awaits