21 Living a Life You Love

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

Joseph Campbell, Mythologist, writer and lecturer

“Now let me ask you something I think we all know the answer to: the test is rigged, isn't it? You programmed it to be unwinnable…”

In a pivotal scene from the 2009 film, Star Trek, a young James T Kirk (played by Chris Pine) is defending himself against the charge of cheating on the Kobayashi Maru test (a highly realistic battle simulation designed to gauge the trainee's response to a no-win scenario). Kirk is the first person ever to beat the test, but Spock (the test's designer) has accused him of breaking the rules. Kirk's defence is that the test itself ...

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