You are a machine that has the capacity to feel its inner workings, yet rarely does so.

Developing introspection, life's most important skill.

Here's the number one technique for increasing your intelligence,

wisdom, and for escaping all the mechanisms of self-deception and delusion which are common to the human mind,

which I've discussed at length in the past in my videos.

And that is feeling inward or introspection.

Intrspection, we could also call it self-reflection, consciousness, self-awareness, observation.

In the past, I've used all of these words in various different contexts.

They can have slightly different meanings, but for the purpose of this discussion here, they're all going to be synonymous.

I like the word introspection, I like the word self-reflection, even more.

Consciousness, of course, is a great word. like the word self-reflection even more.

Consciousness of course is a great word,

but most people are confused about what consciousness is.

Consciousness tends to have a lot of like ambiguity around it

and various sorts of metaphysical implications

that are tricky for people to understand. Awareness of course is a great word.

It's redundant to say self-awareness because all awareness is self-awareness.

And we've talked about observation in the past. I've talked about how learning equals observation.

I have a whole episode titled that.

A lot of times, I'm sure you must have wondered this throughout all this work that we've done together by now.

People ask me, Leo, but how can I tell what's true?

Because you're sharing all these different ideas and

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