HeyJaredThe Second Pursuit
I’m a physician (M.D.), writer and entrepreneur. After mindlessly being on the wrong path in life, I had my existential crisis relatively early.
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How To Deal With Loneliness (Without Being Desperate) (opens the original)
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This one is about loneliness, and specifically about the difference between the lonely stretches life hands you and the ones you can actually do something about. I go through the two reactions I ran for years that made it worse, why these periods tend to show up at transition points, and what the quiet stretch is actually for if you stop trying to escape it. The second half is practical. Why being alone beats being around misaligned people, why the method is never really the problem, how to incr
The Thing Nobody Teaches You About Chasing Big Goals (opens the original)
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Active patience sounds like a contradiction, and it is the reason most ambitious people either burn out or arrive at their goal feeling completely empty. In this episode I break down both halves of the equation: the aggressive side, where you control your inputs with total intensity, and the patient side, where you accept that time is simply part of the process and refuse to punish yourself while you wait. I also share the regret that taught me this the hard way, opening my medical school accept
How To Stop Being A Victim Of Your Own Life (opens the original)
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Pain, failure, betrayal and loss are going to happen to you regardless of how carefully you live. That part is not within your control. What you do with it after the first reaction is entirely yours, and almost nobody teaches you how to actually handle that part. This episode covers the four step framework I use on every bad thing that happens: frame it, extract the lesson, burn the fuel, spend it on action. This is for anyone who has done everything right and still got wrecked, anyone who keeps
Compound Habits: For Busy People Who Want To Live (opens the original)
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This one is about compound habits, the idea that some activities pay you back in more than one area of your life at the same time. As you get older you get more money and more autonomy, and almost none of it is actually free. Responsibilities scale faster than resources do. Most people respond by cutting everything that is not urgent, which works right up until it does not. This is for anyone whose calendar is already full and who has quietly given up on hobbies, friendships, or their health bec
The Real Reason Your Life Feels Hard (It’s The Wrong Problems) (opens the original)
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I spent my early twenties believing that once I hit the goals, bought the things and moved to the place, my problems would disappear. I was blessed enough to actually check those boxes. The problems did not disappear. They just changed shape. This episode is about the thing nobody tells you: problems are a fixed cost of being alive, and the only real choice you get is which ones you take on. We go through the flip side of every decision you think you’re avoiding. Skip sleep and you buy accelerat
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