In this episode, I want to lay out the core principles of actualized.org.

What are we doing here at the biggest picture level?

What? at the biggest picture level. What is my style of personal development?

If we think of actualized.org as a school or as a teaching or as a style or as a philosophy as a

system then what are the core tenets of this system I wanted to lay those out for you. It can be very useful to be able to

zoom out from all the individual stuff that we talk about. You know, sometimes I'll spend an hour or two or three

talking about some very narrow topic which is important but that's only

covering like maybe one principle out of many many principles so here we're going to talk about

close to 65 different principles for creating the good life

this is what I feel is necessary for a human being to live a good life.

Now of course this is informed by my life experience and my own biases, my own

perspective, my own experiences in life, and my own style.

So in an important sense, there's a sort of a stylistic component to any teacher that you're going

to be learning from, any spiritual

teaching, any philosophical system, any political theory, you know, there's a

sort of like a idiosyncratic style that comes along with it.

So you have to also determine for yourself

whether this style is gonna resonate with you.

Now, even if it doesn't fully resonate with you,

you can still learn stuff from it.

So it's not like you should only listen to

teachers or teachings that are fully aligned with your style but do recognize

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