Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus.

I'm your host Thomas Mconki. Thanks so much for listening today. Last week, I had a conversation with Dr. Terrio Fallon

about development. If you didn't get a chance to listen to it, I recommend it. It's a conversation

with a woman who's been an educator and studying human development her entire life over 50 years.

And a lot of gems came out of that episode.

So I recommend it.

And I thought in that spirit I got a lot of messages, a lot of incoming communications to mindfulnessplus.org about that conversation.

So I was feeling the momentum of development

and I wanted to talk this week about an interesting, we could say, a developmental practice

that involves being effectively selfish. So what does this mean? To kind of set the stage for practice,

I need to talk a little bit about development,

particularly early development.

So I didn't have time to get into this particular topic

with Terry last week or many other topics.

And I thought this would be a fun one to follow up with.

So what does it mean to be effectively selfish?

I'm going to talk about it, then we're going to practice it.

So when we're young, like really young, we're said to have a first person perspective,

developmentally speaking.

What that means is that I can only see the first person, which is me.

It's I, me, mine. And we talk about the terrible twos with toddlers because it's all about me,

I, me, mine. And we're developing a really powerful sense of will and agency when we're

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