Dave Kashen on why following an authentic path matters. He argues that feeling your emotions fully helps you get clear about what you want, and that authenticity often produces unexpected positive outcomes and creative value.
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The one of the takeaways of that is like when you're following your authentic path, like all sorts of, you know, unexpected riches and goodness seem to unfold. And when you're off path, you know, I think it's, it's a feature, not a bug of life. Like life gives you that feedback. It's not working because it's, it's like trying to get you back onto the path. That's one way I look at it. So to me, That's one possible takeaway is when you, again, when you let yourself feel all the feelings, you get clear about what you really want. I've just seen this movie so many times that when you're following your own truth more than some intellectual idea of like, this is strategically the right decision and blah, blah, blah. Like, I've been amazed at how things unfold in, you know, sometimes seemingly miraculous ways or just people are in flow and they're just creating, you know, like I think Jesse, the last couple of years, You tell, you know, you can share more, but like, yeah, my sense of you is you're, you're much more in flow and like, look what's like, you're just creating all sorts of value and it's like joyful and fun and you feel like you're living your best life.