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A "traditional career" can be translated as:

40-hour workweeks for 40 years.

But, what does that really mean?

Work is 34% of *all your waking hours* for 40 years (yes, this even factors in weekends and two weeks vacation each year).
If you work 50-hour workweeks for 40 years:

Work is 43% of *all your waking hours* for 40 years (yes, this even factors in weekends and two weeks vacation each year).
If you work 60-hour workweeks for 40 years:

Work is 51% of *all your waking hours* for 40 years (yes, this even factors in weekends and two weeks vacation each year).

This is basically working the equivalent of a career and a half.
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On the classic debate between individual & society:

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that it's exceptionally rare that an individual follows a counter-cultural path from the collective.

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3-5% of humanity has figured out their purpose (Jim Collins)

2% of people self-transform on their own (Tom Bilyeu)

~1% reach self-actualization & transcendence — "the healthiest 1% or fraction of 1%" (Maslow)

0.5% reaches the highest level of human development (Ken Wilber)
How do we increase these numbers?

Rising standard of living, education access, equal opportunity, environmental systems redesign, #GameB

Some say UBI or making the lower levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs free or more easily obtainable.

What else?

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*The Synthesizer Starter Kit*

I'm forever grateful to Maria Popova (@brainpicker).

She has articulated "synthesis" and "combinatorial creativity" in ways that helped me better understand what I do.

For anyone who may be interested in synthesizing, I just updated these posts:
"'So, what do you do?' An Introduction to Synthesis, Integration, Interdisciplinarity, & More"

sloww.co/synthesis-inte…
"Synthesizers: Why the Future Belongs to the Idea Connectors"

sloww.co/synthesizers/
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