Ep 138: How to Live Your Favorite Life, Not Your Best Life | Chloe Markham

What if remembering that we're going to die could actually make us better at living? Chloe Markham calls herself a philosopher of joy, and she's fascinated by what it means to live a genuinely enjoyable life in a culture built to measure, optimize, and improve every part of being human. This conversation gets into why mortality might make joy feel more urgent instead of less, and why calm can start to feel unfamiliar once stress becomes the thing we know best. We also talk about the autopilot...