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Benthall Adventures's avatar

Identity trap victim here. I built a whole life around who I thought I should be.

But I got out. Left the corporate world. Started slow traveling. Reclaimed my time, my energy, and my voice.

I wrote a bit about how I escaped in the piece below.

There’s a way through. You just have to stop asking for permission.

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Oh wow. You just gave us the entire economic anthropology course Terrans never knew they needed. And made it feel like satire, science fiction, and scripture all at once. Gary Jackson is the economist we should have had on the global stage decades ago. Brew, though? Brew is giving Elon meets Soylent Green. Terrifyingly persuasive.

As one of the baffling humans who didn’t inherit a passive token stream, I’m grateful someone’s finally explaining our paradoxes with clarity and a touch of well-earned intergalactic judgment.

Also - meatball diplomacy? Honestly, it’s not the worst idea I’ve heard this election cycle.

P.S. I just wrote about why we’re not leaving our kids an inheritance - and your piece made me want to restack it immediately. Come visit us earthside: The Benthalls on Substack.

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msschenn's avatar

Very important to detach ourselves from our outputs, more likely most of the times this is a consequence of external factors rather than our own self. Very important to develop a strong sense of self stripped from what we get or not get to do~

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Carrie Hays | Travel Advisor's avatar

This is so well said! My husband and I fully grasp this now in our 40s, but the freedom we have set our goal to in 5 years could have already been ours if we had understood this in our 30s.

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Marwa El Nahhas's avatar

Strong article and very true, too

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Akshay Bharde's avatar

So well said Sahil. I am struggling with something similar right now.

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