So to make it a trilogy about this topic of frame and getting people’s approval: in the first video, I talked about the idea of frame. Are you in your own story, or are you living as somebody else’s story, living as a piece of somebody else’s story? Or are you setting your own story? […]

Seems like a big part of this issue with frame and having our own frame or living in somebody else’s frame is really about the idea of approval, being approved. We all like to have this feeling that, you know, we are OK, we are good, we are great. And it feels good to be

A concept that I’ve found helpful is the idea of frame, the idea of how we frame ourselves and what’s going on in our lives. And I’ve talked about a related idea with the idea of are you in your story or are you in somebody else’s story? And it’s kind of like that. It’s

So much of our lives is spent doing boring things, mundane activities, and it seems like it’s very hard to get away from that. I mean, we all try to have more fun, and it’s almost like sometimes this kind of entertainment that we seek, we’re trying to compensate for the boredom and the dullness

It’s a bit of an abstract idea, but something I’m enjoying thinking about is taking concepts of system theory and ecology and kind of applying them to personal life. So you can imagine yourself as a system, and there’s energy coming in, energy going out, energy moving around within the system, and you can sort

Planning seems like an activity that provides us with an endless source of humility. Because no matter what we plan, how perfectly we design our future, there’s always going to be surprises that throw things in often completely new directions, leaving all the work that we did in planning and preparing for our imagined future,

I’ve been thinking about what makes a good disposition to face the world with, to face the outside world, to face everybody else, the mix of all the people doing their own things. Some people want to mess with you and other people under your protection, other people have more positive intentions, and we’re dealing

As I’ve talked about before, and certainly will again, I love this idea of waking up and asking “How can I make things better?” and having this as a simple guiding question that can guide what I do each day with my available time. And it seems like if I simply ask myself this every

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