Discover Your ‘Sparketype’ and Meet Your True Self with Jonathan Fields

You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. Part of me feels that we're kind of at an energetic point in society. You know, humans are. We're both individuals, but we're also part of a complex organism that can shift. Like, you know, a beehive or a herd of sheep or whatever. You know, there's individuals, but the herd goes somewhere to eat. For some reason. I'm getting a pretty strong sense that. That we're at a big inflection point. We're going to go in one of a couple different ways. And part of that inflection point is people reassessing their career and saying, I got to do something that matters, or at least something that doesn't suck the life out of me. Do you feel like this is a societal movement? Is this caused by sunspots or caused by bad algorithms banning stuff from YouTube or, like, what. What's behind it all?

You know, I think there are a couple things. I think one thing is that, you know, so if you look at an individual level, what are the things that normally make somebody make a profound change in behavior that is not just, you know, bj Fox and someone we both know? It's not just a dot change, but it's either a span change or a lifetime change. Like, this is really big and different on the individual level. It's rare that somebody makes a really big, profound change without some sort of big, profound disruption dropping into their lives that has them question their existence, their mortality, the way that they spend all their waking hours, the fundamental nature of how they interact with the world. That's what's happened at scale. You know, so we're in a moment where, like, that level of disruption is happening not just to individuals, but it is literally happening to hundreds of millions of people all simultaneously. Like, you know, it's sort of like the cosmic ground has been ripped from underneath us, and now we're all just kind of like, floating here and waiting for it to return and then realizing, like, oh, it may not be coming back so fast. So how do I want to be in this place? And then when it comes back, do I want to keep feeling the way I felt for the last 10, 15, 20 years? And that happens on an individual basis. The classic midlife crisis is a crisis of meaning. Not a crisis of money or power or sex or love. It is a crisis of meaning. We're all dropped into that now at scale, in a level that we have not seen in our lifetimes. And my sense is that you add that to a level of profound discontent and lack of satisfaction that has been brewing underneath the surface for three generations now. And a change in the assumptions about what people want and expect out of the way that they show up and devote themselves. It's all kind of mixed into this soup of reexamining and reimagining that we haven't seen before. And that's why I think you've got so many people quitting jobs, often without something else lined up to go to, which would have been unheard of 10 years ago. And you've got a whole bunch of other people also who were working probably more sustenance jobs like what you were talking about earlier, who are also choosing to kind of say, let me reexamine this place. Literally, at every end of the spectrum, this is happening. And like I said, I, you know, I was in. I was in New York City for nine, 11, you know, and there was a profound shaking in the year surrounding that, but it was much more localized, and it wasn't at the level that we're seeing now. And there was. There was a local reexamining, and there were pockets of it, but this is something that's much bigger.