Hey, this is Brett. We're taking a break from new episodes of the holidays. In the meantime,

we're going to re-broadcast episode number 671, begin the new year by reflecting on these three

life-changing questions with Greg Kreach. Great episode of List2 as we're ending this year

and going in a new one. Hope you enjoy it, and we'll see you next time.

Brett McKay here, and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast. As one year

ends and another begins, it's natural reflect on both the past and the future, who we were,

who we are, and who we want to become. My guest day offers three questions that can help make

that self-reflection truly fruitful and insightful and possibly even life-changing.

His name is Greg Kreach. He's exactly a director of the Toto Institute, which promotes

the principle psychology based on Eastern traditions and the author of Nikon, gratitude,

grace, and the Japanese art of self-reflection. Greg and I begin our conversation with what Nikon is,

and how this structured method of self-reflection can hold a mirror to your life, helping you gain

greater self-awareness in seriality and the way people perceive you more clearly. Greg then walks

us through Nikon's three rich, incisive questions and how to use them to help you discover how you

really show up and operate in the world. We end our conversation with how to incorporate these

reflections into your daily routine and even make it a special ritual with which to ring in the new

year. After the show is over, check out our show notes at a-wim.is slash reflect.

All right, Greg Kreach. Welcome back to the show.

What's going to be back, Greg? Thanks very much. So as you're on the show, I think a year ago,

or maybe it might have been two years ago, it's time has flown. I've lost my sense of time in 2020

is completely messed up. But anyways, we had you on to talk about Morita therapy and your work with

it, which is a type of Japanese psychology. And today I want to talk about something that's adjacent

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