The insight provided is summed up at the end, here: > In short: we can't ever get free from the limited and vulnerable and uncertain situation in which we find

The insight provided is summed up at the end, here: > In short: we can't ever get free from the limited and vulnerable and uncertain situation in which we find ourselves. But when you grasp that you'll never get free from it, that's when you're finally free in it – free to focus on the hard things, instead of the impossible ones, and to give this somewhat preposterous business of being a human everything you've got. You say: > but applying it to your career and goals seems self-defeating to me What about applying the insight to the concept of 'a career' itself? Ie not as something to make your career better, as if that is the obvious only answer. Many take it for granted that career/money/etc is what life is about... but is it? If time is over as quickly as that (as the author says) is the 'best' use of one's time spent in a career? Is 'a career and all that' a distraction from getting a better understanding of existence and one's place in it? Or from following one's heart and allowing oneself to be guided by what one uncovers within as 'right', as opposed to whatever external metrics are provided and might not (ultimately) be in your favour?