Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
believe we need to feel safe and secure, we need to be safe and
secure in our circumstances. What's invisible to us is that what
we're actually suffering. We're not suffering the lack of security.
We’re suffering all of the things that we're doing to try to hold onto
or create this security.
TRIP: Yes, for sure. That's what's going on in space over there in
the clan right now.
WIZARD: Yes, Alan Watts wrote a book about one time called The
Wisdom of Insecurity, which was one of the first texts I read.
TRIP: You are at something of a crossroads now, not entirely sure
what realm you're going to be played in. One of the one hand, you
have skills as a therapist, and on the other hand you have skills as
a trader. You're tending toward the trading paradigm because you
enjoy it, and because you have come to the conclusion there is
something strangely honorable about simply making money,
without the pretense of anything else.
The Wizard over here and I have a different take, for us work is far
more fulfilling when we really care about the work itself, and we
immerse ourselves into the creative process of building something
tangible that uplifts ourselves and the others that we're building it
with. Why is it, do you think, that simply making money for
money's sake works for you, and for me it's a vapid undertaking in
comparison to my labors of love?
BRIAN ADLER: Well actually both appeal to me for different
reasons. When I was in graduate school in Boulder I met lots of
authors, teachers of various kinds. Boulder's an incredible place
where people who are making their living based on their
accumulated wisdom and insight thrive. And it seemed sort of
perverse like everyone was selling themselves, everyone was
selling their wisdom, and it just seemed really weird, creepy and
weird to me. And it was during the dot.com boom, to make a long
story short, I thought to myself, if I made money in a way that was
just explicitly about money, wasn't about something else, then I
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