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You’re Searching for Freedom in the Wrong Place…

19 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Barbara argues that freedom isn't about external possibilities like owning a car or living in open space. Real freedom is internal: the ability to think and act without constraint, regardless of your circumstances.

At the end of the day, we seek freedom. What is it about freedom, Barbara, that attracts this human spirit?
So the 8-year-old would have said, because I can go places freely, right? So I totally attached it to something extrinsic. But over time and growing older, I really found it to be a deeply intrinsic thing. You know, the freedom we give ourselves to think, to imagine, to do things. So it is nothing that anything external would give us. I think that's a very wrong thing that we imagine. Right? So that's something we need to find within. Because even if I, you know, move to a place that lets me roam freely, or even if I get the fastest car or something, I can still feel like I'm trapped.
That's such a powerful reframe. We need to find freedom within.