Midlifing

165: I don't want a normal life what's wrong with normal?

Lee Miller and Simon Ellis Episode 165

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Lee asks Simon if he is where thought he would be and also where we wants to be: A conversation about change, ambition, community, regret and going along for the ride.


Some other details from the episode: Tearing up over bread, Lee will be missed, vacuum cleaners, living a normal life, most car drivers being above average, David McRaney's You Are Not So Smart, what normal looked like to one's younger self, Simon meeting some people who like his bread, regret and not having a great memory, tip-toeing in the world when you are going through something, people banging on about kids (when they are not), life just happening to us, free will, the rollercoaster of life, not working on the weekends, Grotowski, Lee's Mum's spreadsheet, selling cigarettes and pornography to truck drivers, being a goldfish, Simon teaching a sourdough workshop, the pleasure of trying to get good at things, and the difference between being process and outcome oriented.

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