105 - Building Resilience and Finding Resonance: How to Embrace Life's Chaos

Two topics for you today. On the back of the Super Bowl, Brad shares a message of resilience inspired by Eagles' quarterback Jalen Hurts. Then, a discussion, inspired in part by Hartmut Rosa's book "The Uncontrollability of the World," about the role of technology in helping us achieve peak performance and live a meaningful life. How can we use devices in such a way that they aid our objective performance without becoming so obsessed with control that we lose touch with our subjective experience? How do we know when the tools we're using are helping, and when they're hurting, the pursuit of our goals?

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