Episode 7: Five Ways We Lose Ourselves (Ancient Wisdom, Modern Lives) - Part 1

If you know anything about Way of the Heart, you will know that we love our ancient wisdom texts. This is because ancient wisdom turns out to be surprisingly good at diagnosing problems we thought were very modern. Long before self-improvement became an industry, Daoist texts were already cataloguing the ways humans lose themselves, and the patterns they named are uncomfortably familiar. This episode traces five of those pain points into contemporary life: the cleverness that cuts us off, the striving that wears us out, the masks we forget we're wearing.