You bring up an interesting point that was too much to fit in this short piece, namely what to do with an inclination without a clear associated vocation, or an inclination-vocation attached to shitty institutions, e.g. word-lover and journalism, biology-lover and medical complex, etc.? My inclinations always took me to history: understanding the past in order to grasp the present and future. As much as I love words, they've always been a means to an end. But what does a history lover do for work, especially in a world that increasingly devalues the value of viewing history? This goes back to the locus of control subject. Do we follow our inclinations regardless of external circumstances or accept that our inclinations might not have as big of a role in our lives as we would prefer? I suspect you and I are the types who heedlessly follow our inclinations, partly due to our inabilities to unable to betray ourselves, but I often get signals to go different direction for practicality's sake.
I discovered the HubermanLab podcast a few days ago, when I learned Apple lists this as the #1 Shared podcast of 2023: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/what-alcohol-does-to-your-body-brain-health
I'm quite thrilled with the amount of bad PR alcohol is getting lately.
Thanks for the compliment.
You bring up an interesting point that was too much to fit in this short piece, namely what to do with an inclination without a clear associated vocation, or an inclination-vocation attached to shitty institutions, e.g. word-lover and journalism, biology-lover and medical complex, etc.? My inclinations always took me to history: understanding the past in order to grasp the present and future. As much as I love words, they've always been a means to an end. But what does a history lover do for work, especially in a world that increasingly devalues the value of viewing history? This goes back to the locus of control subject. Do we follow our inclinations regardless of external circumstances or accept that our inclinations might not have as big of a role in our lives as we would prefer? I suspect you and I are the types who heedlessly follow our inclinations, partly due to our inabilities to unable to betray ourselves, but I often get signals to go different direction for practicality's sake.