3 Books With Neil Pasricha
Chapter 112: Katie Mack on cultivating curiosity and contemplating the cosmos
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I want to make you dizzy. I want to make you look up into the sky and comprehend, maybe for the first time, the darkness that lies beyond the evanescent wisp of the atmosphere, the endless depths of the cosmos, a desolation by degrees These two lines begin an incredible poem called “Disorientation”... by Katie Mack. Did you feel dizzy reading it? I did. I do! What is the universe? Where did it come from? What was here before it? How long has it lasted? How long will it last? How could it ... end? Do you remember being a little kid and it maybe suddenly hitting you that there was this overwhelming gigantic thing we were a part of that was almost too vast to even comprehend? I feel like a lot of us have that feeling. Sort of reminds me of this super-short clip from Annie Hall where 8-year old Alvy Singer is taken to the doctor by his mother because the vastness of the cosmos has suddenly hit him. Why isn't he doing his homework? "What's the point?" he concludes. That's one reaction. But if you're