So much of the world of self-development can go down this path of being about discipline. It’s all about, you know, what I should do, wanting to change myself, to do better, to find some way to be “successful” and find ways to “fix” myself. And it becomes this whole world of what I should […]

Address to share recordings: https://www.dropbox.com/request/QqSc46b0nvrLuEgKQD5Z Address to share writing, set up a call, or get further information: questforameaningfullife@gmail.com Over the last 10 months I’ve been talking about a lot of subjects, anything connected to this basic idea of a meaningful life, a good life, a happy life, a full life. What does it mean? How

In studying the whole world of escapism, why do people do it, what drives it, what’s this all about, one of the recurring themes is this feeling of feeling powerless. There’s so many things in our everyday lives that leave us feeling like we have no control, like we’re simply leaves blown in the wind,

The idea of being some kind of a character can have quite an influence on us, that we can think like, you know, “This is the kind of person I am”, and sort of cast it in the role of this kind of character. We’re playing a role, or we’re a certain character or a

In the last video, I talked about the idea of the shadow, this part of ourselves, anything about ourselves that we don’t want to accept, exactly those things that you don’t want to share with anybody and even with yourself, all the things that fall far short of any ideal that we have about ourselves

One of the traps of self-development, it seems, is that it’s so connected with wanting to improve, wanting to be “the best version of yourself”, wanting to improve yourself. Having some kind of image of the way that I want to be, and then I want to improve to bend my life towards being like

This is a channel where I talk about stuff. And over these past 10 months now, there’s been well over 24 hours of just words coming out of my mouth. And I’ve had a couple of videos where I talk about the limits of words. And so now I will once again use words to

Welcome back to The Obvious Channel, where I have many obvious things to say. And the obvious thing that comes to mind today is it feels good to feel good. We love having a good mood. Those days when everything is just lined up right, and feels like life is good. It’s all these different

It seems like another driver of anxiety is this feeling that “I want to be certain. I want to be clear.” And it’s so understandable, of course. It’s wonderful when we clearly know something. It’s just very well defined, absolutely this is the situation, these are the steps, this is what’s coming. I mean, if

I really like thinking of ways to do good things with bad intentions, to use what might be considered bad intentions and to channel them into doing good things. And so of course, one of the best ones is laziness. We naturally see laziness generally as a bad thing. We want to do things, and