Hey, this is Leo, for Actualized.org.

And in this video, I'm going to talk about the importance

of embracing paradox in your self-actualization journey. We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Paradoxes are cool. Not only are they cool, but they're also a necessity of life if you're going to be going through and you're going to be self actualizing.

And they're really not the problem that some people make them out to be.

So here we're going to talk about what we mean by paradoxes, why paradoxes are not a problem, why in fact they're a great asset to you if you're able to embrace them,

and we're going to talk about how to go about embracing some of these paradoxes.

Personally, I love studying paradoxes. There's paradoxes that I've discovered in science, in mathematics, in linguistics, and in personal development.

And I'm going to give you a whole list of personal development paradoxes in this video so that you get a really good idea of what I mean by paradox

The reason I wanted to shoot this video is because

Now that we are getting into more advanced personal development stuff with actualized.org covering more advanced topics.

What I'm seeing is that some people are having difficulty with accepting kind of

contradictory notions especially when we're starting to talk about

spiritual enlightenment and then how that connects back to the more basic

personal development work that we do that we do and and when you're

looking at both of these things they seem contradictory and when this happens what

then happens after that is that basically you use this as an ego defense to avoid looking deeper into resolving these contradictions or even just accepting that these contradictions are there as a part of reality.

And then this blocks you and prevents you from achieving the most advanced results that you can

achieve with personal development.

Just to put everything into perspective for you, I talk about this theme a lot in my other videos,

but basically what I'm hoping you're getting from everything that you're getting from my videos is that you're getting this big picture understanding of reality.

And to me this is like an endeavor that you do and you undertake in your life is you say okay

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