Begin the New Year by Reflecting on These 3 Life-Changing Questions
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness
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🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As one year ends and another begins, it's natural to reflect on both the past and the future -- who we were, who we are, and who we want to become.
My guest today offers three questions that can help make that self-reflection truly fruitful, insightful, and possibly even life-changing. His name is Gregg Krech, he's executive director of the ToDo Institute, which promotes principles of psychology based on Eastern traditions, and the author of Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection. Gregg and I begin our conversation with what Naikan is, and how this structured method of self-reflection can hold up a mirror to your life, helping you gain greater self-awareness, and see reality, and the way people perceive you, more clearly. Gregg then walks us through Naikan'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.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go! |
| 0:07.4 | Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | As one year ends and another begins, it's natural reflect on both the past and the future, |
| 0:15.6 | who we were, who we are, and who we want to become. |
| 0:18.3 | My guest day offers three questions that can help make that self-reflection truly fruitful |
| 0:22.2 | and insightful and possibly even life-changing. |
| 0:24.5 | His name is Greg Kreach, he's exactly a director of the Toadow Institute, which promotes |
| 0:28.1 | principle psychology based on Eastern traditions and the author of Nikon, gratitude, grace, |
| 0:32.6 | and the Japanese Art of Self-reflection. |
| 0:34.6 | Greg and I begin our conversation with what Nikon is and how this structured method of |
| 0:38.2 | self-reflection can hold a mirror to your life, helping you gain greater self-awareness |
| 0:41.9 | in seriality and the way people perceive you more clearly. |
| 0:45.5 | Greg then walks us through Nikon's three rich, incisive questions and how to use them |
| 0:49.5 | to help you discover how you really show up and operate in the world. |
| 0:52.9 | We end our conversation with how to incorporate these reflections into your daily routine and |
| 0:56.2 | even make it a special ritual with which to ring in the new year. |
| 0:59.4 | After the show is over, check out our show notes at aam.ias-reflect. |
| 1:03.2 | Alright, Greg Kreach, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:15.1 | What's good to be back, Greg, thanks very much. |
| 1:17.1 | So as you're on the show, I think a year ago, it might have been two years ago, time has |
| 1:22.0 | flown. |
| 1:23.0 | I've lost my sense of time in 2020 is completely messed up. |
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