Library / Feelings

For when you feel

Existential Anxiety / Search for Meaning

The big questions: what's the point, what matters, and what you're here for.

200 picks matched to this feeling

Films

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  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Film · 1968
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  Everything Everywhere All at Once
  Film · 2022
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  Ikiru
  Film · 1952
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  About Schmidt
  Film · 2002
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  After Life
  Film · 1998
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  Fearless
  Film · 1993
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  Groundhog Day
  Film · 1993
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  Life of Pi
  Film · 2012
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  Melancholia
  Film · 2011
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  Paterson
  Film · 2016
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  Soul
  Film · 2020
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  Anomalisa
  Film · 2015
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  Into the Wild
  Film · 2007
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  The Hours
  Film · 2002

TV shows

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  Black Mirror
  TV · 2011–present
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  BoJack Horseman
  TV · 2014–2020
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  The Good Place
  TV · 2016–2020
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  The Leftovers
  TV · 2014–2017
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  Midnight Mass
  TV · 2021
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  Six Feet Under
  TV · 2001–2005
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  Doctor Who
  TV · 1963–1989, 2005–present (plus a 1996 film)
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  Mad Men
  TV · 2007–2015
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  Russian Doll
  TV · 2019–2022
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  Star Trek: The Next Generation
  TV · 1987–1994
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  Station Eleven
  TV · 2021–2022
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  Dark
  TV · 2017–2020
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  Lost
  TV · 2004–2010
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  Northern Exposure
  TV · 1990–1995
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  Rick and Morty
  TV · 2013–present
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  thirtysomething
  TV · 1987–1991
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  Westworld
  TV · 2016–2022

Anime

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  Neon Genesis Evangelion
  Anime · 1995–1996

Documentaries

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  Planet Earth II
  Documentary · 2016
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  My Octopus Teacher
  Documentary · 2020
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  Searching for Sugar Man
  Documentary · 2012
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  Baraka
  Documentary · 1992
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  Chasing Coral
  Documentary · 2017
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  Fire of Love
  Documentary · 2022
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  Griefwalker
  Documentary · 2008
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  One More Time with Feeling
  Documentary · 2016
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  Samsara
  Documentary · 2011
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  Koyaanisqatsi
  Documentary · 1982
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  Happy
  Documentary · 2011

Books

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  The Bhagavad Gita
  Book · c. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE
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  The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  Book · 1886
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  Ecclesiastes
  Book · c. 450–200 BCE
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  The Epic of Gilgamesh
  Book · c. 2100–1200 BCE
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  The Little Prince
  Book · 1943
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  Man's Search for Meaning
  Book · 1946
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  Meditations
  Book · c. 170–180 CE
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  Momo
  Book · 1973
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  My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Book · 2018
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  A Psalm for the Wild-Built
  Book · 2021
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  Stoner
  Book · 1965
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  To Live
  Book · 1993
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  When Breath Becomes Air
  Book · 2016
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  Beside the River Sar (En las orillas del Sar)
  Book · 1884
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  The Conference of the Birds
  Book · c. 1177
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  Confessions
  Book · c. 397–400 CE
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  The Consolation of Philosophy
  Book · c. 524 CE
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  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  Book · 1968
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  The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  Book · 2006
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  The Fault in Our Stars
  Book · 2012
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  Faust, Part One
  Book · 1808
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  The Hours
  Book · 1998
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  In Memoriam A.H.H.
  Book · 1850
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  Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Part I)
  Book · c. 1308–1321
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  Looking for Alaska
  Book · 2005
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  Moby-Dick
  Book · 1851
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  The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  Book · 1694 (published 1702)
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  Niels Lyhne
  Book · 1880
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  Pensées
  Book · 1670 (posthumous)
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  The Plague
  Book · 1947
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  The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
  Book · 1881
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  The Prophet
  Book · 1923
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  The Red Flower
  Book · 1883
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  The Road
  Book · 2006
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  Robinson Crusoe
  Book · 1719
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  Siddhartha
  Book · 1922
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  Slaughterhouse-Five
  Book · 1969
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  Solaris
  Book · 1961
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  Song of Myself
  Book · 1855 (untitled in first Leaves of Grass; titled 1881)
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  Station Eleven
  Book · 2014
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  Steppenwolf
  Book · 1927
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  The Stranger
  Book · 1942
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  Tuesdays with Morrie
  Book · 1997
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  Waiting for Godot
  Book · 1953 (French); 1955 (English)
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  Walden
  Book · 1854
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  War and Peace
  Book · 1865–1869
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  The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
  Book · 2024
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  The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
  Book · 2011

Games

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  Abzû
  Game · 2016
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  Before Your Eyes
  Game · 2021
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  Journey
  Game · 2012
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  Kentucky Route Zero
  Game · 2013–2020
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  What Remains of Edith Finch
  Game · 2017
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  Outer Wilds
  Game · 2019

Songs

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  Neon Gravestones
  Song · 2018
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  René
  Song · 2020
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  What a Wonderful World
  Song · 1967
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  Alabama
  Song · 1964
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  An Ending (Ascent)
  Song · 1983
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  Both Sides, Now
  Song · 1969
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  Broken Halos
  Song · 2017
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  Car Radio
  Song · 2013
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  Cornfield Chase
  Song · 2014
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  Down to the River to Pray
  Song · 2000
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  Famous Last Words
  Song · 2006
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  Gracias a la vida
  Song · 1966
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  Holocene
  Song · 2011
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  Hoppípolla
  Song · 2005
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  I Will Follow You into the Dark
  Song · 2005
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  If We Were Vampires
  Song · 2017
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  Kal Ho Naa Ho
  Song · 2003
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  Kun Faya Kun
  Song · 2011
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  Love Yourz
  Song · 2014 (album; single 2016)
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  Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
  Song · 2012
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  Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World
  Song · 1993
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  The Lark Ascending
  Song · 1920 (violin & piano premiere); 1921 (orchestral)
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  Time
  Song · 2010
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  Mad World
  Song · 1982
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  Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare)
  Song · 2009
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  Timshel
  Song · 2009
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  The Logical Song
  Song · 1979
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  Why Georgia
  Song · 2001
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  Square One
  Song · 2005
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  Bitter Sweet Symphony
  Song · 1997
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  Eleanor Rigby
  Song · 1966
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  Wish You Were Here
  Song · 1975
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  The Sound of Silence
  Song · 1964
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  Fake Plastic Trees
  Song · 1994
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  Are You Lost in the World Like Me?
  Song · 2016
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  Afraid of Everyone
  Song · 2010
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  Time to Pretend
  Song · 2007
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  Perfect Places
  Song · 2017
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  Where I Belong
  Song · 2011
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  Don't Panic
  Song · 1999
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  Some Nights
  Song · 2012
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  The Search
  Song · 2019
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  I Know the End
  Song · 2020
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  I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)
  Song · 1992
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  Seigfried
  Song · 2016
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  Safarnama
  Song · 2015
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  Who Are You
  Song · 1978
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  Lost in the Supermarket
  Song · 1979

Albums

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  A Love Supreme
  Album · 1965
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  Everybody
  Album · 2017
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  Ghosteen
  Album · 2019
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  Journey in Satchidananda
  Album · 1971
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  Music for Zen Meditation
  Album · 1964
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  Promises
  Album · 2021
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  Punisher
  Album · 2020
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  Some Kind of Peace
  Album · 2020
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  The Disintegration Loops
  Album · 2002–2003
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  Music for Psychedelic Therapy
  Album · 2021

Podcasts

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  The Science of Happiness
  Podcast · 2018–present
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  Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
  Podcast · 2018–present
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  On Being with Krista Tippett
  Podcast · 2001–present (began as Speaking of Faith; weekly radio ended June 2022; seasonal podcast continues)
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  The Psychology Podcast
  Podcast · 2014–2025
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  Radiolab
  Podcast · 2002–present

Stand-up specials

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  Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark
  Stand-up · 2023
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  Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special
  Stand-up · 2022
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  Patton Oswalt: Annihilation
  Stand-up · 2017
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  Bo Burnham: what.
  Stand-up · 2013
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  Nikki Glaser: Someday You'll Die
  Stand-up · 2024
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  The Inside Outtakes
  Stand-up · 2022

Videos

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  What really matters at the end of life | BJ Miller | TED
  Video · 2015
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  Depression, the secret we share | Andrew Solomon
  Video · 2013
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  Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
  Video · 2007
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  Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
  Video · 2005
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  There's more to life than being happy | Emily Esfahani Smith | TED
  Video · 2017
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  3 Hours of Epic Nature Footage in 4K | 4K UHD | BBC Earth
  Video
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  9 Life Lessons - Tim Minchin UWA Address
  Video · 2013
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  Optimistic Nihilism
  Video · 2017
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  The Egg - A Short Story
  Video · 2019

Book chapter

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  The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
  Book chapter · 1973