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b"Nearly\\xa0everyone has experienced the sense of being nudged and prompted to take certain actions. These intuitive hints can spur us to do big things like change jobs, or smaller things like text a friend.\\xa0\\n\\nMy guest today says that these are callings, and that if we don't answer them, they'll continue to rememerge and can haunt us til the day we die.\\xa0His name is\\xa0Gregg\\xa0Levoy\\xa0and he's the author of\\xa0Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life. We begin our conversation\\xa0discussing what exactly a\\xa0calling\\xa0is and why it's not necessarily the same thing as a vocation.\\xa0Gregg\\xa0then shares how callings come to people, why they're sometimes unpleasant and challenging, and what you can do to attune yourself to their signals.\\xa0Gregg\\xa0then shares different\\xa0ways people go about figuring out their\\xa0calling, including rites of passage, traveling, art, and community. We get into how you figure out if something you think is a\\xa0calling\\xa0is actually a\\xa0calling\\xa0or not, and the idea that while every\\xa0calling\\xa0demands a response, that response can be negotiated. We end our conversation discussing what happens when your\\xa0calling\\xa0ends in what looks like failure.\\xa0\\n\\nGet the show notes at aom.is/callings."