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Your Life Isn’t a TED Talk

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

Your Life Isn’t a TED Talk

We’ve been sold a story.

The visionary founder who “always knew” he’d build something huge. The coach who found her ‘true calling’ after one life-changing retreat. The career changer who had one crystallising moment of clarity.

Great stories, mostly bullshit.

These people aren’t dishonest.

They’re just doing what humans do: making sense of a messy journey by telling it backwards.

Steve Jobs said “you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”

Yes, I’m aware of the irony of quoting a keynote speech here. But he wasn’t wrong.

Because nobody’s TED talk opens with “I stumbled around for fifteen years, hated most of my jobs, and kind of fell into this thing by accident”.

But that’s closer to the truth for most people. Including me.

In this week's piece, I dig into what to do when you're ready for change but stuck on 'change to what?', why 'find your purpose' is terrible advice, and why clarity is overrated and action isn't.

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Unwritten Potential

by Noemie Mooney

⚡ Ex-corporate burnout turned Certified Health Coach. Every week I help 1500+ burned-out humans build sustainable habits using my MAKE SPACE Method™, a 7-step, subtraction-first framework for real, messy life. No toxic wellness. No hustle culture. No BS. ⚡️Let's goooo!

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