Can you Be a Off-Ramp for Everyone?

There will be situations where you can't be an off-ramp, and it's important to face them and know where your edges are.

It's also impotent to have temporal empathy for yourself -- which is the capacity to hold a vision of yourself figuring things out one day. It's okay to fail, and as the Tao de Ching says, "The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall."

I mention Braver Angels in this episode, and they are here: https://braverangels.org/our-mission/

And the marvelous book by David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, is here at Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-off-ramp-project