Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm excited. Let's get started.

Basically what I want to show you is that your model of morality, your morals of what you think is right and wrong, good and evil, is actually

having the opposite effect that you wanted to have and it's severely stunting your growth and

psychological well-being and it's keeping you from being fulfilled and it's keeping you from reaching your full potential.

That's my message in a nutshell but now there's a lot of details that we need to go into to explain why this is because this is a very counterintuitive thing.

Most people cannot wrap their mind around what I'm about to say.

This episode is very, very foundational.

This is not just philosophy here.

It's going to be very practical.

I'm going to show you with this episode and the upcoming episode in the future,

I'm going to show you how much of your life is being damaged in a very practical, very concrete way and how this is slowing

you down and creating a lot of the problems that you have in your life.

Problems like guilt, shame, blame, victim mentality, righteousness, anger, and all this kind of stuff.

So let's begin at the beginning. A developmental psychologist by the name of Lawrence Kohlberg did some research in the 1950s on morality.

And what he discovered by interviewing lots of different subjects is he discovered there's basically stages, kind of preset stages of morality through which a human psyche evolves and develops.

Basically there are three stages. So the first stage is

pre-conventional morality. The second stage is conventional morality and then

his third final stage was post-conventional.

What are these in a nutshell?

Basically you begin at the pre-conventional stage

and that's the most basic, most crude form of morality.

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