Terence McKenna - "If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan."

About this episode

The episode discusses Terence McKenna's quote on the importance of having a personal plan to avoid being absorbed into others' agendas.

Welcome to the Daily Quote , the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and lets jump straight in to today's quote of the day.. Today's quote comes from Terence McKenna , American ethnobotanist, philosopher, mystic, and one of the most unconventional and captivating voices of the 20th century. A man who spent his life studying consciousness, shamanism, and the nature of the human mind and who, in between all of that, said something that has nothing to do with psychedelics and everything to do with how you live your life: Terrence McKenna once said, "If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan." The absence of a plan feels neutral. It feels like freedom with no commitments, no constraints, maximizing your options. What McKenna is saying is that it's anything but. Nature abhors a vacuum. And so does the world around you. Someone always has a plan, the government has a plan, your employer has a plan, the algorithm has a plan, the culture has a plan. Every company you buy from. Every system you move through every day has its own agenda and that agenda easily absorbs people who haven't defined their own…

People in this episode

Host: Andrew McGivern

Topics covered

• motivation
• planning
• life choices
• consciousness
• philosophy

Keywords

• Terence McKenna
• motivation
• planning
• life choices
• consciousness
• philosophy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: government, employer, algorithm, culture

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