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🗓️ 3 April 2025
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0:00.0 | I think the moral dilemma that I'm faced with most often is whether or not to choose convenience. |
0:06.5 | I'm not just faced with this moral dilemma on a weekly basis or even a daily basis. No, |
0:11.3 | I'm faced with this moral dilemma on an hourly basis. Okay, almost every single decision I make |
0:17.3 | throughout my day somehow relates to this moral dilemma. And I find that fascinating |
0:22.0 | because if I had been born 200 years ago, I'd never face this moral dilemma. Whether or not to |
0:27.4 | choose convenience wasn't a moral dilemma back then. Because life was incredibly inconvenient. |
0:34.0 | And anytime convenience was an option, it was common sense to choose it. Whereas now, life is |
0:40.7 | unbelievably convenient. I mean, listen, it's still in some ways inconvenient, but compared to how it |
0:48.6 | used to be, life is unbelievably convenient. Okay. We can order anything to our door whenever we want. Unless you live |
0:57.9 | in like a random tiny house on a deserted island, you can probably order something and it'll |
1:05.1 | probably show up in less than a week. Okay. There's an appliance for everything. For everything. You need help with something. |
1:12.7 | There's probably an appliance for that. And on a daily basis, I am faced with the choice to take |
1:19.7 | the convenient route or perhaps the less convenient route. But this was not always a dilemma that I |
1:27.4 | faced. I briefly paused this episode to let you know |
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2:02.2 | When I was younger and my prefrontal cortex was less developed, I always just automatically |
2:08.4 | chose convenience. I ordered food delivery. I ordered everything online. I socialized through |
2:15.7 | looking at social media and watching YouTube videos. |
2:18.7 | I wore pajamas and comfy clothes as often as I could. |
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