Hey Leo here for actualized.org.

And in this episode I'm going to be talking about building the basic vocabulary for

understanding life. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

A quote by Ludwig Vikkenstein.

Now at first glance this may sound like an odd topic but what I want to share with you is actually a very simple but powerful technique that I have discovered really I've stumbled upon in my own life and I've been implementing it and I found that it's quite effective for deepening your understanding of life and the way that it works is by getting you to think and contemplate about

the basic building blocks the most fundamental concepts or words that make up life.

And what this technique involves

is you just looking up basic words in the dictionary.

It's really that simple. Here's how the technique

works. You're going to run across some ordinary but fundamental word which

points to a basic or fundamental concept about life, something like reality or the word

existence or the word awareness or the word self or reason or experience etc.

And there's a long list of these that I will help point you towards as we go here.

But anyways, you're going to find one of these words, and then what you're going to notice

to yourself is that, hey, have I ever actually looked up the definition of this word in the

dictionary I mean yeah I think I know what reality is I think I know what awareness

is it seems obvious it seems self-evident. Why would I even need to look something like that up?

But this is where it's a little counterintuitive. You force yourself to look it up anyways because you realize hey you know what

actually I've never bothered to look it up before and so then what you do is you do a

Google search for the definition of this word and you use multiple dictionaries which are available easily online,

not just one but multiple dictionaries because they do offer different perspectives and definitions

which are important for deepening your understanding of these concepts. and then what you do is you take those definitions, you copy and paste them into your

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