Hey this is Leo for actualized.org and in this episode I'm going to be talking about my secret

for how I do research and the key to developing the biggest picture understanding a life possible. What is your aim with philosophy? To show the fly out of the bottle. A quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

What I find on a very practical level is that very few people have a very big picture understanding of life and what

they're doing here in life and of reality and much less so an accurate big picture understanding of life.

So the question that I always had is how do I develop such a picture?

What do I need to know? What What do I need to know what principles do I need to

follow? What traps must I avoid? Because if it's such a rare thing that must mean

that very few people are able to succeed at it and why would that be?

That's the topic that we're going to cover today.

My secret to how I do research, how I discover all this information bring it to you and how I've been doing this for for over a decade now in my own life is quite interesting the secret is not some gimmick or some

technique or some gadget that I use

where I can just like speed read through books and that that's how I do it that's not how I do it

actually read pretty slowly the secret is not a gimmick the secret is having the right

epistemic foundation which very few people have and this is why people fail at

developing the big picture and this is why you two will fail unless you make an

extraordinary effort to understand what the right epistemic

foundation is. Even very intelligent people, even highly enlightened people,

still fail because they fail to study what the right

Epistemic Foundation is for really acquiring the understanding and avoiding all the traps.

And by the way, this is true in most areas

where people have deep success is that the success is not some flimsy gimmick or technique

it's a structural thing it's how they approach the entire problem it's not just a flimsy add-on. So my own story goes back to high school

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