June 2020

When it comes to building character, this word that’s so hard to really define, and seems to include so many good things in it, one of the big words that often comes up is the word “integrity”. This is a great word, nowadays usually used to mean a sense of honesty, trustworthiness. The origin of […]

In the last video, I started talking about raw reality and escaping from reality, and I was going to get into escapism, but then it just got sidetracked into realizing that, just as humans, we always have some kind of separation from raw reality. We always have some kind of a layer that is built

How much do you insist on reality? How much do you demand that you experience reality? Now, it seems like maybe an obvious thing that we all want something real. I mean, nobody likes to be fooled by something fake, right? Well, maybe unless it’s a very pleasant fake that makes us feel good. And

Imagine this thought experiment: you flip a coin to decide what kind of life you’re gonna live. And whatever result you had, that’s the life you have now. That’s what you ended up with. But isn’t it interesting how your whole perspective on how you feel about your life depends on what you imagine the

The simplest question that I like to ask myself in the morning is “How can I make things better today?” It’s such a simple thing, but I wonder if this is really enough, if this can really be the core question that can guide me every day. Imagine I woke up every day and asked

One of the greatest motivators towards simplicity, minimalism, decluttering, removing everything except the most important, is when we really look at how little time we have. Now, I’ve looked at how, you know, you can look at your life in terms of overall time, and if we say, OK, I have 10,000, 20,000 days left,

Like so much of the common advice we get, it’s often very contradictory. We can get these phrases of wisdom that say one thing, and then another phrase of wisdom to say the complete opposite. And that just seems to be the way it is, because if there were some simple guidelines that could automatically

As might be visible from my giant red nose right now, I have been sick, some kind of flu or something. Not COVID, as far as the test says. But being sick for a week or so really made me think about how this can change our state of mind. I mean, really, when you’re

A metaphor that I’m increasingly enjoying for life, for the mind, for the person, is like an ocean. Think about the layers. Ocean has so many layers, and that’s what we’re like too. And it’s so easy to focus on the surface layer, and there’s something powerful about just remembering that there’s always another layer

In the last video, I talked about how we can choose our values, choose what we consider to be good or bad, and that will kind of automatically move us in the direction of the good, away from the bad. Even if it’s only a small effect, just the fact of caring about something, and