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0:04if you're suffering you are obligated in
0:09a sense to hold on to whatever rope
0:11someone throws you life can be
0:13meaningful enough to justify its
0:16suffering you can't Aaron eyes yourself
0:18into doing things but I wouldn't
0:19recommend it what I would recommend
0:21instead is that you ask yourself what
0:23you're willing to do it's a really
0:24effective technique it's like a
0:25meditative technique that's when life is
0:27worthwhile I don't know exactly what's
0:36gonna have helped you but don't
0:38arbitrarily throw out any possibilities
0:40because you might not have that luxury
0:42antidepressants help a lot of people and
0:44there are technical reasons why that's
0:45the case if you're offered a gift by
0:47your society and it works try it I don't
0:50care what your presuppositions are the
0:53time you see people who are suffering
0:54with depression for example there's a
0:56multitude of reasons but I'll take one
0:58common reason you can think about it as
1:00associated with the story of Peter Pan a
1:02Peter Pan is someone who won't grow up
1:04right now the problem with Peter Pan is
1:06he gets to be king but it's king of
1:08Neverland
1:09Neverland doesn't exist so being king of
1:12nothing isn't that helpful well one of
1:15the things that you often see with
1:16people who suffer from depression and
1:18and I'm not making a blanket statement
1:20about the cause of depression because
1:21there's lots of them is that people who
1:24don't have enough order in their life
1:25tend to get overwhelmed so for example
1:28if someone comes into me to see me and
1:30they say they're depressed I always ask
1:32them a very standard set of questions
1:38I do have a job if you don't have a job
1:43you're really in trouble in our society
1:44first of all you your biological rhythms
1:46tend to go off the rails right away
1:48because there's no reason to go to bed
1:49at any particular time and there's no
1:50reason to get up and for many people if
1:52they don't get up at the same time they
1:55follow up the functioning of their
1:56circadian rhythms and that's enough to
1:58make them depress right off the bat
1:59especially if they start napping during
2:00the afternoon they don't also don't have
2:03a purpose people aren't good without a
2:04purpose and this isn't this isn't
2:07hypothesizing we absolutely understand
2:10the circuitry that underlies positive
2:11emotion
2:13[Music]
2:15when you're attending to something
2:18you're interested in and you're engaged
2:19it that's when you're alive that's when
2:21life is worthwhile it's so worthwhile
2:23that in those moments you don't even ask
2:24the question about it the question
2:26itself goes away because the meaning
2:29that you're Li United with is so
2:30powerful that it can push back the
2:33adversity that would otherwise
2:34characterize life Nietzsche said the
2:37person who has a Y can bear anyhow we
2:43know how it works almost all the
2:45positive emotion that any of you are
2:46likely to experience in your life will
2:48not be a consequence of attaining things
2:50it will be a consequence of seeing that
2:52things are working as you proceed
2:55towards a goal you value that's
2:57completely different and you need to
2:58know this because people are often
2:59stunned for example they finish their
3:01PhD thesis and their presupposition is
3:04that they're going to be elated for a
3:05month and often instead they're actually
3:07depressed and they think hell I've been
3:09working on this for seven years and I
3:11handed it in and what do I do now and
3:13that's what depresses them right it's
3:15the what do I do now well they're fine
3:16if they enjoyed it
3:18pursuing the thing as long as it was
3:19working out they get a lot of enthusiasm
3:21and excitement over that because that's
3:22how our nervous systems work most of
3:24your positive emotion is dole pursue
3:26emotion if you take drugs like cocaine
3:29or amphetamine the reason they're
3:30enjoyable is because they turn on the
3:32systems that help you pursue goals
3:34that's what people like so if you don't
3:36have a job you got no structure that's
3:38not good plus you tend not to have a
3:40point
3:41so you're overwhelmed by chaotic lack of
3:43structure and you don't have any
3:44positive emotion
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4:04[Music]
4:15and you know what's so good about the
4:17truth everyone knows what it is however
4:19long they've lived without it assuming
4:22you want to get better there's usually
4:23something you can figure out that would
4:25constitute a step towards some sort of
4:27concrete goal and my presumption it's a
4:30behavioral presumptions fundamentally is
4:32that small accruing gains that repeat
4:36unbelievably powerful
4:39you can Terran eyes yourself into doing
4:42things but I wouldn't recommend it what
4:44I would recommend instead is that you
4:45ask yourself what you're willing to do
4:47it's a really effective technique it's
4:49like a meditative techniques so for
4:50example you can get up in the morning
4:52you can think well you know I'd like to
4:53have a good day today so I'd like to go
4:55to bed tonight without feeling guilty
4:56because I you know didn't do some things
4:58I said I was gonna do and I you know I'd
4:59like to have kind of an interesting day
5:01so you got to fulfill my
5:02responsibilities and I want to you know
5:04enjoy the day then you can ask yourself
5:05well what would I have to do in order
5:07for that to happen that I would do and
5:09the probability if you practice this for
5:11three or four days is your brain will
5:12just tell you say well you know there's
5:14that piece of homework that you haven't
5:15done for like three weeks you should
5:16knocked out sucker off because it would
5:18only take you 10 minutes and you've been
5:19avoiding it and torching yourself to
5:20death for 72 hours straight and say well
5:24let's figure out what your aims are you
5:25gonna have some aims whatever they are
5:27and they might say well I'm so depressed
5:29I don't have any aims and then I say
5:30well pick the least objectionable of the
5:32aims and act it out for a while and see
5:34what happens because sometimes your
5:35emotions your emotional systems are so
5:38fouled up that you have to pretend you
5:41have to act the thing out before you can
5:42start to believe it
5:47life can be meaningful enough to justify
5:50its suffering my god that's such a good
5:52idea because it's not optimistic exactly
5:55you know some people will tell you what
5:56you can be happy it's like those people
5:58are idiots I'm telling you they're
6:00idiots there's gonna be things that come
6:01along that flatten you so hard you won't
6:03believe it and you're not happy then and
6:06so if life is to be happy well in those
6:07situations what are you doing I even
6:09live but let isn't life isn't to be
6:12happy if you're happy your bloody
6:14fortunate and you should enjoy it you
6:16should because it's the grace of God so
6:17to speak
6:22people know when they're doing something
6:24meaningful they can tell so why the hell
6:26don't they do meaningful things all the
6:27time it seems obvious you could do it I
6:30mean it's hard you know because other
6:31people want you to do other things and
6:33it's a struggle but everything's a
6:35struggle oh I get it I see why it took
6:39me about 10 years to figure this out
6:40people have a choice choice number one
6:42nothing you do means anything well
6:45that's kind of a drag right
6:46meaninglessness of life and all that
6:48existential angst you know that's kind
6:50of a pain but the upside of nothing that
6:53you do be meaning is meaningful is you
6:56don't have to do anything
6:57you've got no responsibility now you
6:59have to suffer because things are
7:00meaningless but that's a small price to
7:01pay the alternative the alternative is
7:07everything you do matters really if you
7:10make a mistake it's a real mistake if
7:13you betray someone you tilt the world a
7:15little more sharply towards evil rather
7:17than good it matters what you do well if
7:20you buy that then you can have a
7:21meaningful life but there's no mucking
7:24around it means responsibility it means
7:27that the decisions you make are
7:28important it means that when you do
7:31something wrong it's wrong well do you
7:34want that
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8:11you know if you take people then you
8:13expose them voluntarily to things that
8:15they are avoiding and are afraid of you
8:18know that they know they need to
8:19overcome in order to meet their goals
8:21their self defined goals if you can
8:23teach people to stand up in the face of
8:25the things they're afraid of they get
8:27stronger and you don't know what the
8:29upper limits to that are because you
8:30might ask yourself like if for ten years
8:33if you didn't avoid doing what you knew
8:35you needed to do what would you be like
8:39well you know there are remarkable
8:42people who come into the world from time
8:43to time and there are people who do find
8:45out over decades long periods what they
8:48could be like if they were who they were
8:50if they spoke their being forward and
8:54they'd get stronger and stronger and
8:56stronger and we don't know the limits to
8:58that we do not know the limits to that
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9:04probably running at about 51% of our
9:07capacity something mean you can think
9:09about this yourselves I often ask
9:11undergraduates how many hours a day you
9:14waste or how many hours a week you waste
9:16and the classic answer is something like
9:184 to 6 hours a day
9:20you know inefficient studying watching
9:23things on YouTube that not only do you
9:25not want to watch that you don't even
9:26care about that make you feel horrible
9:28about watching after you're done
9:30that's probably four hours right there
9:31no and you think well that's 2025 hours
9:35a week it's a hundred hours a month
9:36that's two and a half full work weeks
9:38it's half a year of work weeks per year
9:41and so if your life isn't everything it
9:43could be you could ask yourself well
9:45what would happen if you just stop
9:46wasting the opportunities that are in
9:49front of you you be who knows how much
9:52more efficient ten times more efficient
9:54twenty times more efficient
9:56that's the Pareto distribution you have
9:58no idea how efficient efficient people
10:01get it's completely it's off the charts
10:04it's not so obvious to me that people
10:06would take the meaningful path now when
10:09you say well denialists suffered
10:11dreadfully because there's no meaning in
10:12their life and they still suffer yeah
10:13but the advantages they have no
10:15responsibilities so that's the payoff
10:17and I actually think that's the motive
10:19say well I can't help being nihilistic
10:21all my belief systems have collapsed
10:22it's like yeah maybe maybe you've just
10:25allowed them to collapse because it's a
10:27hell of a lot easier than asking about
10:28and the price you pay is some
10:30meaningless suffering but you can always
10:31whine about that and people feel sorry
10:33for you if you live a pathological life
10:37you pathologize your society and if
10:40enough people do that then it's hell
10:43really really
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11:16you're asked to outline the place you'd
11:19like to end up which is your desired
11:20future and also the place that you could
11:23end up if you let everything fall apart
11:25is so that your anxiety chases you and
11:28your approach systems pull you forward
11:31your maximally motivated debt and it's
11:34important because otherwise you can be
11:36afraid of pursuing the things that you
11:38want to pursue right and that's very
11:39common and so then the fear inhibits you
11:42as the promise pulls you forward but it
11:44makes you weak because you're afraid you
11:46want to get your fear behind you pushing
11:48you and so what you want to be is afraid
11:50more afraid of not pursuing your goals
11:53then you are of pursuing them putting
11:57yourself in a challenging mind frame is
11:58much better much easier on you cycle
12:01physiologically because you don't
12:02produce you don't go into the
12:03generalized stress response to the same
12:05degree and you're activating your
12:07exploratory and seeking systems which
12:09are dopaminergic Lee mediated and that
12:11involve positive emotion so if you can
12:14face something voluntarily rather than
12:16having it chase you it's way better for
12:18you cycle physiologically so that's
12:22partly why
12:22well it's worthwhile to go find the
12:24dragon in its lair instead of waiting
12:26for it to come and eat you so and
12:29especially when you also add the idea
12:31that if you go find the dragon in its
12:32lair you might find it when it's a baby
12:34instead of a full fledged bloody monster
12:37that is definitely gonna take you down
12:39don't avoid small problems that you know
12:41are there face them because they'll grow
12:44into big problems all by themselves and
12:47you can think about imagine the tax
12:49department sends you a notification you
12:51owe them like three hundred dollars well
12:53it's you know that's annoying maybe you
12:56don't even want to open the letter or
12:57maybe if you do you just put it on the
12:59shelf but that damn thing doesn't just
13:01sit there like a piece of paper on the
13:02Shelf right you ignore that for five or
13:05six years it's gonna become attached to
13:07all sorts of horrible things and if you
13:09ignore it long enough you get the idea
13:11it's gonna turn into something that is
13:13completely unlike the little piece of
13:15paper that it's written on and and many
13:18many problems in life or like that
13:20you'll see they'll you'll see that they
13:22pop their ugly little hand up and you
13:24know
13:25and you might want to turn away my not a
13:27want not want to think about it which is
13:29the easiest way of turning away right
13:31you just don't attend to it you know if
13:34you could have your life the way you
13:35wanted it in three to five years if you
13:37were taking care of yourself properly
13:39you know what would you want from your
13:41friendships what would you want from
13:42your intimate relationship how would you
13:44like to structure your family what do
13:45you want for your career well how are
13:47you going to use your time outside of
13:49your job and how are you gonna regulate
13:51your mental physical mental and physical
13:53health and maybe also your drug and
13:55alcohol use because that's that's a good
13:57place to auger down you know because
13:58alcoholism for example wipes out you
14:00know five to ten percent of people so
14:02you want to keep that under control and
14:06then so maybe you develop a vision of
14:09what your life what you would like your
14:11life to be and that associates the so
14:15the goal well once the goal is
14:16established and then you break down the
14:19goal into micro processes that you can
14:21implement the micro process has become
14:23rewarding in relation to their causal
14:26association with the goal and that
14:28tangles in your your incentive reward
14:30system and that's the thing that keeps
14:32you moving forward and the way it works
14:34is that it works better if it produces
14:37positive emotion when it can see you
14:39moving towards a valued goal okay well
14:42what's the implication of that better
14:44have a valued goal because otherwise you
14:46can't get any positive motivation
14:47working out and so the more valuable the
14:50goal in principle the more the micro
14:52process is associated with that goal
14:54start to take on a positive charge and
14:56so what that means is well you get up in
14:58the morning and you're excited about the
15:00day you're ready to go and so as far as
15:02I can tell what you do is you specify
15:04your long-term ideal maybe you also
15:07specify a place you want to stay the
15:09hell away from so that you're terrified
15:10to fail as well as excited about
15:12succeeding because that's also useful
15:14you specify your goal you do that you do
15:18that in some sense as a unique
15:20individual you want to you want to
15:21specify goals that make you say oh if
15:24that could happen as a consequence of my
15:26efforts it would clearly be worthwhile
15:28because the question always is why do
15:31something because doing nothing is easy
15:33you just sit there and you don't do
15:34anything that's real easy the question
15:36is why would you ever do anything
15:38and the answer that has to be because
15:39you've determined by some means that
15:42it's worthwhile number one specify your
15:46dam goals because how are you gonna hit
15:47something if you don't know what it is
15:49that isn't going to happen and often
15:51people won't specify their goals too
15:52because they don't like to specify
15:54conditions for failure so if you keep
15:56yourself all vague and foggy which is
15:58real easy because that's just a matter
16:00of not doing as well then you don't know
16:02when you fail and people might say well
16:04I really don't want to know when I fail
16:05because that's painful so I'll keep
16:07myself blind about when I fail that's
16:10fine except you'll fail all the time
16:11then you just won't know it until you've
16:13failed so badly that you're done okay so
16:20once you get your goal structure set up
16:22you think okay if I can have this life
16:24looks like that might be worth living
16:26despite the fact that it's going to be
16:28you know anxiety provoking and
16:30threatening and there's going to be some
16:31suffering and loss involved in all of
16:33that obviously the goal is to to have a
16:36vision for your life such that all
16:38things considered that justifies your
16:41effort okay so then what do you do well
16:45then then you turn down to the micro
16:47routines it's like okay well this is
16:48what I'm aiming for how does that
16:50instantiate itself day to day week to
16:52week month to month and that's where
16:54something like a schedule can be
16:56unbelievably useful Google Calendar it's
16:58like make a damn schedule and stick to
17:00it
17:01okay so what's the rule with the
17:02schedule it's not a bloody prison that's
17:06the first thing that people do wrong
17:07they say well I don't like to have
17:08follow a schedule it's like well what
17:10kind of schedule are you setting up well
17:12I should I have to do this then I have
17:13to do this then I have to do this you
17:16know and then I just go play video games
17:17because who wants to do all these things
17:18that I have to do
17:19it's like wrong set the damn schedule up
17:22so that you have the day you want
17:28[Music]
17:37[Music]
17:49[Music]
18:05you
18:09what's the right ratio of responsibility
18:12to reward and you can ask yourself that
18:15just like you'd negotiate with someone
18:16who is working for you it's like okay
18:18you got work tomorrow okay so I want you
18:21to work tomorrow and you might say okay
18:22well what are you gonna do for me that
18:24makes it likely that I'll work for you
18:27well you could ask yourself that you
18:30know maybe you do an hour of
18:32responsibility and then you play a video
18:34game for 15 minutes I don't know
18:35whatever turns your crank man but you
18:38know you have to negotiate with yourself
18:40and not tyrannize yourself like you're
18:43negotiating with someone that you care
18:45for that you would like to be productive
18:47and have a good life and and that's how
18:49you make the schedule it's like and then
18:50you look at the day and you think well
18:52if I had that day that'd be good
18:53great you know and you you're useless
18:56and horrible so you'll probably only hit
18:57it with about 70% accuracy but that
19:00beats the hell out of zero right and if
19:03you hit it even with 50% accuracy
19:05another rule is well aim for 51% the
19:08next week or 50 and a half percent for
19:11God's sake or because you're gonna hit
19:13that position where things start to loop
19:16back positively and spiral you upward
19:18and so so that's one way that you can
19:21work on your conscientiousness there's a
19:23plan of life you'd like to have another
19:25way you do that is by having a little
19:27conversation with yourself about as if
19:30you don't really know who you are
19:31because you know what you're like you
19:32won't do what you're told you won't do
19:34what you tell yourself to do you must
19:36have noticed that it's like you're a bad
19:39employee and a worse boss and both of
19:41those work you know for you
19:48you don't know what you want to do and
19:50then when you tell yourself what to do
19:51you don't do it anyway so you should
19:53fire yourself and find someone else to
19:55beat but but you know my point is is
19:58that you have to understand that you're
20:00not your own servant so to speak you're
20:02someone that you have to negotiate with
20:03and that's and you're someone that you
20:06want to present the opportunity of
20:08having a good life to and that's hard
20:10for people because they don't like
20:11themselves very much
20:12so you know they're always like cracking
20:15the whip and then procrastinating and
20:17cracking the whip and then
20:18procrastinating and it's like god it's
20:20so boring and such a pathetic way of
20:22spending your time and you know what
20:24that's like because you probably waste
20:25like six hours a day and I think we did
20:27an economic calculation about that
20:29awhile back right your time is probably
20:30worth 50 bucks an hour something like
20:32that
20:33I mean you're not getting paid that now
20:34but you're young and so this is
20:37investment time and what you do now is
20:39going to multiply its effects in the
20:41future so so let's say it's 50 bucks an
20:43hour which is perfectly reasonable so if
20:45you weigh six hours a day and you are
20:47then you're wasting about two thousand
20:49dollars a week or about $100,000 a year
20:51so like go ahead but that's what it's
20:53costing you every hour and you need to
20:55know what your damn time is worth so
20:57let's say it's not fifty bucks its
20:58thirty whatever maybe it's a hundred
21:01it's somewhere in that range one of the
21:03things you should be asking yourself is
21:04when you spend an hour was that well
21:06what have I paid someone fifty bucks to
21:09have had that hour and if the answer is
21:11no it's like well maybe you should do
21:12something else with your time and it
21:15depends on whether or not you think that
21:16your time is worthwhile but the funny
21:18thing about not assuming that is if you
21:20assume your time isn't worthwhile what
21:23happens is you don't just sit around
21:24sort of randomly in a state of
21:26responsibility less bliss what you do is
21:29you suffer existentially and so that
21:32seems like a stupid solution
21:37you
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22:14imagine someone that you treat well that
22:18you love and try to treat yourself that
22:21way you got to detach from yourself a
22:22bit you got to think okay well I'm a
22:25person among other people and I deserve
22:28at least as much respect as a person
22:31among other people and I should be
22:33trying to help myself across time and
22:35instead of being self contemptuous and
22:38self destructive I need to take care of
22:40myself as if I'm potentially valuable
22:43and to lay out my life that way and so
22:46that's what that's that chapter is about
22:47and it's it's hard for people you know
22:52they don't take care of themselves as
22:54well as they should and I don't mean you
22:56know take care of yourself I mean that
22:57is what I mean it's like it's not a
23:00moralistic attack it's like it's an
23:04encouragement to give yourself a bit of
23:07the benefit of the doubt take care of
23:09your room take care of your things like
23:11have some respect for yourself it's like
23:14you are there's a lot of potential
23:16within you and there's many things that
23:18you can do and you're necessary you're
23:21necessary more than you think to the
23:24unfolding of things like if you make a
23:26bunch of bad decisions things get worse
23:29not just for you like things get worse
23:32and so it matters what you do and so
23:34part of what you do is you want to treat
23:36yourself as if what you do matters and
23:38so you want to have some respect for
23:40yourself
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24:17young people like to think about ways to
24:20change the world right and that's
24:21actually a positive part of their
24:22development it's a stage that the
24:24developmental psychologist Jean Piaget
24:26called the messianic stage and he
24:28associated that with late adolescence
24:30while young people want to change the
24:32world and the problem is is that that's
24:34being harnessed into attempts to change
24:37other people but that isn't what you
24:38should do if you want to change the
24:40world you should change yourself
24:43in the sense that Alexander Solzhenitsyn
24:46said when he analyzed the Soviet Union
24:48he said don't be thinking that the line
24:50that divides good from evil runs down a
24:53political spectrum or or countries or
24:56something like that it runs down right
24:58down the middle of your soul and if you
25:00want to sort out the world and what you
25:01do is you sort yourself out it's a
25:04serious business they say it's more
25:06difficult to rule yourself than to rule
25:08a city because you're complicated and
25:12there are horrible monsters inside of
25:13you that need to be tamed and to be
25:15brought and to be brought into alignment
25:18and submission so that you can be US
25:20powerful and useful person and instead
25:22of rushing out there to change the world
25:24by changing other bad people that they
25:26should look inward and sort themselves
25:28out properly and if if you have a memory
25:31that's more than eighteen months old
25:33approximately and when you pull that
25:36memory up to mind if you still have an
25:38emotional reaction that means you
25:40haven't fully articulated the memory you
25:43haven't analyzed it causally you haven't
25:46you haven't freed yourself from its
25:48grasp and you're carrying it like a
25:50weight and your brain responds to that
25:52like the more of more weight you're
25:54carrying like that more baggage let's
25:56say the more of the stress hormone
25:58cortisol your brain produces and
26:01cortisol makes you old divide your life
26:03up into six epochs and then divide each
26:06of those eat that might be say old birth
26:09to kindergarten and then maybe
26:10elementary school and then maybe junior
26:12high school however you want to do it
26:13and then to write about the emotionally
26:16significant events in each of those
26:18epochs and then to describe their
26:20effects on you
26:22to analyze how you did in those
26:24situations what you might have done
26:26differently what you might have do
26:27differently in the future to straighten
26:29out your past
26:40or if you're thinking about your past
26:43what it means is you haven't analyzed
26:46the causal chains because you might say
26:48well why do you remember your past well
26:50you might say well it's in order to have
26:52an objective no record of the past it's
26:54like it has nothing to do with that
26:55there's only one reason you remember the
26:57past and that's to be prepared for the
27:00future that's why you remember the past
27:02and so what you're supposed to do is
27:04take the past and extract out from it
27:06wisdom and wisdom is the ability to
27:09avoid stumbling blindly into ditches
27:13here's a time in my past I stumbled
27:16blindly into this horrible ditch and
27:18terrible things happen to be you need to
27:21take that apart you need to figure out
27:22how was it that events conspired with
27:26your participation voluntarily or
27:29involuntarily so that that terrible
27:31consequence emerged you need to know why
27:34that happened and how you could react
27:36differently in that situation and as
27:38soon as you do that your brain leave it
27:41alone it won't obsess you about it
27:42anymore because the anxiety-producing
27:44parts of your brain are basically trying
27:47to tell you where there are obstacles in
27:49your environment
27:50[Music]
27:53don't go there there's fire maybe you
27:57could master the fire right then you're
27:59a wielder a fire you're not just a
28:01victim and loss of situations our
28:04dangers are not dangerous depending on
28:06your level of mastery right life is like
28:09that and so a negative emotion that's
28:12associated with the memories is
28:13something that's crying out for mastery
28:16and writing can really help with that
28:18you're reorganizing your brain when you
28:21write autobiographically imagine emotion
28:27memories can be stored at different
28:28levels of your brain some from sort of
28:30primordial reptilian image Laden areas
28:34that are very emotional up to finally
28:37articulated plans for your future life
28:40well you want to take everything that's
28:42negative and emotional and transform
28:45that into a fully articulated vision for
28:48your future and that frees you of your
28:50past you shouldn't be thinking about
28:52your past I mean maybe if you're 80 and
28:55you know you're going over a well-spent
28:56life that's a little different thing but
28:58if you're thirty thirty-five or twenty
29:00and most of the time you're thinking
29:01about your past it's like it's like your
29:03soul is trapped back there you need to
29:07free it through investigation and the
29:09metaphysical language is appropriate
29:10because that is in the sense what you're
29:12doing you're trapped in the past it's
29:14like you got to break free of that so
29:15you can use all your resources to move
29:17ahead into the future
29:20[Music]
29:32you
29:41you

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