🐔🥚 What will get you the ideal life? 🤓⚠

"Are you going to be happy if you have this ideal life? Or is being happy what's going to get you this ideal life?" I asked.

"Well, what came first, the chicken or the egg?" My client said. 😏

He sounded smug, as if that somehow settled it.

As if that was somehow enough of an excuse to justify further inaction.

Further stuckness.

"You know what? Let's take a second here." I said.

🤓⚠ (nerd-alert)

"Genetic drift happens naturally. Each new generation is a little bit different than their parents. The difference is random. Over (a lot of) time, the differences that improve survival and/or reproduction are the ones that stick. After enough of this change, you'll have a new species. Like a chicken."

"So at some point, there was the first chicken. That chicken came from a creature that was almost a chicken, but not quite a chicken. That first chicken was still born from an egg, which must have come first."

My client was silent.

"So, enough avoiding the question," I said. "Will having the ideal life make you happy? Or will being happy give you the ideal life?"

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