How To Work Out What You Want To Want From Life | Kyle Eschenroeder | Modern Wisdom Podcast 189

(wind blowing) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. Kyle Eschenroeder in the building. How are you doing, man?

Very well. How are you?

Very, very well indeed. I'm happy to have you on. It's been a long time coming. First and foremost, for the listeners that don't know who you are, why, why do you think that I'm speaking to you today? Why do you think I reached out?

Oh, man. Um, that's, you know, that's a good, that's a very good question.

(laughs)

Um, (laughs) I may have had a lapse of, uh, lapse in judgment. Um, no, I, I, I actually, you know, I think it's an interesting time. I know you, you found this article, um, about asking ourselves the question, what do we want to want? Um, s- you know, has a lot to do with, with, um, reevaluating, uh, our values, um, and, and our desires. And I think, you know, a lot of us are being forced to do that, uh, throughout the, this, this COVID situation. So, um, it's s- kind of a good time to talk about, um, talk about that and, and, and see if we might be able to do it in a more strategic or skillful way.

I think you've answered my, my reasons pretty accurately there, man. Yeah, I, um, I stumbled across your blog post, What Do You Want to Want, on your blog, um, and I was blown away, man. It's a 60-minute read or so, and I absolutely adored it. And I was (exhales) 10 minutes in, and I was already scouring around online trying to find your email address, and it turned out that you already followed me on, on Twitter, which made everything an, an awful lot easier. Um, so yeah. I have got you on because I, I just wanna go through this blog post. It's one of the most, uh, fundamental concepts that I've never heard spoken about before, and I think there's an awful lot of people listening, I know a ton of audience members, who will really benefit from this. So that's, that's why we're here. We're gonna go through it. So first things first, why is working out what you want to want important?

So I think, um, mostly 'cause you don't wanna live a life that you regret at the end of it, right? Um, (laughs) uh, and I think, I think that when we, when we follow our kind of, uh, default desires, we're much more likely to, to find ourselves at a place in life, um, that we didn't really want to or, or mean to get to. Um, so, so I think, uh, I think that's, you know, that's kind of a, the, the, the big one. Um, but, but then also, I mean, there's, there's a lot of things along the way, um, it's not like, uh, that, that, that can benefit from, from asking ourselves this question.