It’s so normal to live our lives within a restricted box of what we believe is possible and normal, and everything else is kind of outside the box. Now, most of us, we don’t really want to think of ourselves as living in a box. You know, it’s feels nicer to believe that we are […]

I’ve spoken earlier of this idea that we never need to feel stuck in a certain story. If we feel like our life has a certain narrative, certain pattern where we’re supposed to be following a certain plotline, we never need to feel stuck within that particular storyline. We can always start a new chapter,

You know, it seems like for anybody who isn’t really, really young, there’s always going to be this feeling of “I am too old, and I wish I had done this at a younger age.” No matter what. And I don’t think there’s really any way to completely get rid of this feeling. It’s partly

So today is a special day: February 29th, the leap day. There’s something that I really like about this day, because it stands out among any other day. Now, it is just a name and a number. Every other day can have a name and a number, and different calendars have different names and numbers.

Another way of looking at our perspective on time, and how short life is, is to think about what are the things that we see as permanent, and what are the things that we see as temporary? And sometimes it seems like I just automatically think of certain things as being permanent. This idea that

It’s one of those standard sayings in self-development that you fall to the level of your standards. And you can imagine reaching any great lofty height, but what you actually achieve will be what you said as the minimum standard for your life. So it makes me think about what are some of these different

Anyone who’s struggling to make changes in life, live differently, improve, understands the dance of motivation. That sometimes you’re just filled with this energy and determination to live your dreams and work hard towards your goals and all the stuff that you know is good, and on other days, it just feels like it’s painful

The idea of mindfulness, that we should be really completely absorbed in the present moment, is very powerful. And the argument that there is nothing except the present moment also perfectly makes sense. Our sense of time really is up to our own imagination, in some way. We imagine this sort of line of time,

I previously talked about the idea of seeing life like art. Using this metaphor of making art, we can make our lives just like we could make a piece of art. And another fun metaphor that we can use to look at how we approach life is like cooking. Now, of course, in some ways

Last video, I looked at counting lifespan, starting from years, maybe 70-80 years, 1000 months, 4000 weeks, 30,000 days. And it seems like somehow life starts to feel shorter. I don’t know if it’s just me. Life somehow feels shorter if I count it as 30,000 days rather than 80 years. Even though 30,000’s such