Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

A quote by Tony Dungy.

Welcome to this two-part series on Integrity.

We're going to talk about in Part 1, what is Integrity, the nature of Integrity and its importance and then and we're going to get pretty

deep metaphysically on that point but also we're going to cover practical aspects

and then in part two we're going to talk about how to actually develop

integrity within yourself. So let's get started. I'm actually really excited about this

series because first of all it's it's extremely foundational.

This is sort of the core of personal development work here.

So you got to understand this idea in order to really make something of yourself in your life.

And also because I've been wanting to actually cover this topic for years now, it's been on my to-do list list and I just haven't been getting around to it.

I've been procrastinating with other topics so now it's time to get in.

All right so integrity is extremely important It's probably way more important than you think it is.

It's more important than most people think it is.

And it took me a while myself to start to understand the significance of what integrity really is

for human life, for living a good life. And the problem I had with it is this, is that when I was growing up, I basically sort of skipped

over a lot of the religious indoctrination where a lot of our moral systems come from,

like stuff like family values and morality, this sort of like to me

this was nonsense. I could clearly see the problems with an absolutist Judeo-Christian moral ethic or whatever culture it's coming from.

So I was sort of intellectually cognitively beyond that, but that sort of lays a little trap for us here if we're going to be very scientific and

atheistic and skeptical the way that I was when I was younger is that you tend to poo poo poo

everything that has to do with any sort of system of morality or anything that

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