65 Core Principles Of Living The Good Life
ideology - a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
"the ideology of republicanism"
synonyms: beliefs, ideas, ideals, principles, doctrine, creed, credo, teaching, dogma, theory, thesis, tenets, canon(s);
ideology - a set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party, or organization is based:
dogma - dogma
a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.
"the dogmas of faith"
synonyms: teaching, belief, conviction, tenet, principle, ethic, precept, maxim, article of faith, canon, law, rule; Več
Big picture thinking is greater than technical knowledge and always trumps technical knowledge..... you can have all the technical knowledge but no sense of the big picture and your life will be miserable.
Direct experience is king. Experience is the only thing that exists and that is real. ... everything else is fantasy/imagination. Usefull to cutting the bullshit society feeds you and the bullshit that your mind feeds you, your own imaginations, theories, ideologies...so you ground yourself in direct experience. If it's not present i nyour direct experience it is not real.
Self-experimentation- you won't know what techniques will work for you, resonate with you until you try them. Because we realize that direct experience is king we also do a lot of self-experimentation because by only experiencing different things we can know what works for us. And this is basicly how you solve all your problems in life.
Radical open-mindedness 16:40 - we recognize that we come into this world not knowing anything and that we need to fully explore every look in reality without pre-judging it, so we don't lock ourselves from great discoveries and amazing insights and truths. And we also recognize that the mind loves to be close-minded to new experiences and to challenging new ideas. So you have to be open to any idea, any perspective, teaching no matter how bizzare it sounds at first. Because we recognize that our mind will judge prematurely and cut us off from all these avenues that we can explore. And we also recognize that most truths in life are counter-intuitive and seem ridiculous and silly on the surface until they are deeply explored and it can take a lot of time to deeply explore these various truths and topics before we realize just how true and powerful they are which means we need to stay open-minded during that time. Otherwise we will just say this is stupid, this is irrational, criminal...so we'll do all that without exploring all that , is much better to explore all that which is not the same thing is becoming dogmatic and clinging to anyone of those things, we are interested in exploration and you don't know what you'll find.
You don't judge things that you haven't experienced.
7- Questions everything. Especially the most obvious stuff, assumptions, every teaching
Care about methaphysical and phylosophysal matters. Most people don't study these becasue they perceive them as abstract and not aplicable but no it just takes more effort and study to find the applications. If you don't follow this, you will get lost in the transactional, pragmatic way of life, business of doing chores. The depth of life is found in this stuff and having this stuff resolved.So that means you are not chasing just pragmatic self-help advice, that stuff is fine but you need to go deeper.
Genuine intent for truth at whatever cost. You must genuinely care about the Truth as one of your highest priorities and values no matter what the cost is to get to this Truth. Without this you will keep falling back into falsehood and delusion because if you are not willing to accept the costs that come from seeking the ultimate truth, you are gonna get sucked into lesser things in life- sex, money, comfort, luxury... and all of that is best pursued with falsehood and you will end up deluding yourself
Genuine intent to understand every point of view. Most people judge other points of view without caring to jump into their shoes and look at the world through their perspective. You recognize that the world is nothing other than different points of view, there is no such thing as understanding the world without a point of view. And your point of view is not the most important or the best so you recognize that by looking at the world through multiple points of view you can learn a lot, you become passionate about exploring them.
Integral thinking. 29:00 It boils down to the realization that every point of view or perspective contains some kernel of truth and it's your job to discover what it is. it's not somebody elses job to convince you of that truth. And this is where open mindedness comes in where you can integrate these multiple point of view, glue them together and really see what is going on - what is the methaperspective where we combine all of these points of view. What does that tell me about life, about myself, about humanity, society. .. by doing that you gain so much more than jsut sticking to your points of view and defending yoru points of view. This is the opposite of ideology and dogma because the point of ideologyand dogma is to limit your point of view and defend a rigid perspective on the world. So it's the opposite of integral and holistic. So these people understand so much less than they could. Integral thinking is the recognition that every point of view is partial never the ultimate truth, so we are exploring so many of them because evry perspective has a little piece , every point of view is like 1% perspective on reality. So we need to explore hundreds of them to add up to something substantial.