1 0:00:00 --> 0:00:06 In our recent episodes, we talked about cultivating awareness. 2 0:00:06 --> 0:00:14.700000 We talked about the case for reducing suffering and a big part of that conversation has to 3 0:00:14.700000 --> 0:00:21 speak to an underlying truth that's very mushy. 4 0:00:21 --> 0:00:24.880000 Folks, don't necessarily want to hear this. 5 0:00:24.880000 --> 0:00:29.680000 But the reality is your entire experience is that. 6 0:00:29.680000 --> 0:00:31.480000 It's yours. 7 0:00:31.480000 --> 0:00:38.640000 You have, there is no other prevailing information. 8 0:00:38.640000 --> 0:00:41.240000 The world's going to be arising and happening around you. 9 0:00:41.240000 --> 0:00:43.600000 This is a normal thing. 10 0:00:43.600000 --> 0:00:48.520000 But you cannot be aware of all knowledge at all times. 11 0:00:48.520000 --> 0:00:52.800000 You cannot be aware of all of the things that are happening. 12 0:00:52.800000 --> 0:01:02.320000 It becomes your quest as a man to try and find out the relevant information that you 13 0:01:02.320000 --> 0:01:10.320000 need in order to inform your behavior in a way that it proves outcomes. 14 0:01:10.320000 --> 0:01:16.600000 What this really means is, in many ways, there is almost no external information that's 15 0:01:16.600000 --> 0:01:18.720000 going to matter. 16 0:01:18.720000 --> 0:01:25.120000 If I gave you a book that contained the entire mechanics of how the universe operates, including 17 0:01:25.120000 --> 0:01:30.240000 all of the laws of physics and all of the unanswered questions that are currently floating 18 0:01:30.240000 --> 0:01:35.400000 about in the scientific community, it doesn't matter if the book is correct. 19 0:01:35.400000 --> 0:01:41.400000 It doesn't matter if the book is perfect in its sort of execution as a book. 20 0:01:41.400000 --> 0:01:46.720000 You are still required to internalize that information and process it in your own way 21 0:01:46.720000 --> 0:01:49.160000 in order to make it effective. 22 0:01:49.160000 --> 0:01:55.040000 What that really means is, like I started with, your world is yours. 23 0:01:55.040000 --> 0:02:03.920000 You have to take information into it, process it, and use it to inform your behavior. 24 0:02:03.920000 --> 0:02:11.280000 In a lot of ways, this plays complete disregard to ideas of facts and objectivity and object 25 0:02:11.280000 --> 0:02:13.600000 of reality. 26 0:02:13.600000 --> 0:02:18.720000 And there are some real meaningful questions about this. 27 0:02:18.720000 --> 0:02:23.960000 Your physiology itself is super responsive to your psychology. 28 0:02:23.960000 --> 0:02:29.680000 You literally will not see certain things that you don't want to see. 29 0:02:29.680000 --> 0:02:37.960000 Like, literally, I mean literally not the modern interpretation, which also means figuratively. 30 0:02:37.960000 --> 0:02:47.240000 There are some direct relationships between your psychology and your physiology that are 31 0:02:47.240000 --> 0:02:48.240000 hardwired. 32 0:02:48.240000 --> 0:02:57.920000 And I want to chase that for too long, but rest assured, this understanding of reality is just 33 0:02:57.920000 --> 0:02:58.920000 that. 34 0:02:58.920000 --> 0:03:03.240000 It's an understanding and it is a cultivating process for your mind. 35 0:03:03.240000 --> 0:03:06.680000 This is entirely subjective. 36 0:03:06.680000 --> 0:03:10.920000 And that's awful to say because a lot of folks are going to love it's entirely subjective 37 0:03:10.920000 --> 0:03:14.760000 then, you know, this leads me down a path of, can I fly? 38 0:03:14.760000 --> 0:03:16.680000 And then, no, you can't fly. 39 0:03:16.680000 --> 0:03:18.800000 This is not, this is a space wizard boot camp. 40 0:03:18.800000 --> 0:03:22.280000 You're not going to learn how to shoot fireballs. 41 0:03:22.280000 --> 0:03:29.720000 When we talk about subjective, subjectivity being the only sort of real thing, that's not 42 0:03:29.720000 --> 0:03:32.800000 denying that object of reality exists. 43 0:03:32.800000 --> 0:03:38.120000 But if you are unwilling to recognize it, right, yes, you can still get run over. 44 0:03:38.120000 --> 0:03:41.040000 Yes, you know, it doesn't, you know, not believing the truck is there. 45 0:03:41.040000 --> 0:03:43 It does not mean the truck's not there. 46 0:03:43 --> 0:03:49.840000 At the same time, you get to choose how it informs your behavior, right? 47 0:03:49.840000 --> 0:03:53.480000 You get to choose in many ways, whether or not you jump out of the way. 48 0:03:53.480000 --> 0:04:01.880000 And so with that in mind, the subjective approach and understanding your subjective world is 49 0:04:01.880000 --> 0:04:08.040000 really vital to the sort of process and the mission here, which means you should spend 50 0:04:08.040000 --> 0:04:14.080000 a ton of time, particularly if you're a younger man, learning how you learn, learning how 51 0:04:14.080000 --> 0:04:21.760000 you solve problems, identifying the sort of meta conversation about how you work in the 52 0:04:21.760000 --> 0:04:28.840000 world and how you process these things, this reality, whatever you want to call it, becomes 53 0:04:28.840000 --> 0:04:35.520000 really important to learn because there will be times when you need to learn a thing. 54 0:04:35.520000 --> 0:04:40.360000 And if you don't know how you learn, that's a problem, right? 55 0:04:40.360000 --> 0:04:45.480000 There's no objective, you know, system out there where you're going to pick this up and 56 0:04:45.480000 --> 0:04:48.520000 automatically be able to apply it. 57 0:04:48.520000 --> 0:04:53.280000 And again, this gets back to one of the things you'll find a lot of guys do when they're 58 0:04:53.280000 --> 0:04:58.480000 young and they're trying to figure things out is they'll go read yet like 30 or 40 books. 59 0:04:58.480000 --> 0:05:02.960000 And I love the notion that you're going to do that, but you still have to process that 60 0:05:02.960000 --> 0:05:06.400000 knowledge in a way that informs your behavior or it doesn't matter if you've read them or 61 0:05:06.400000 --> 0:05:07.600000 not. 62 0:05:07.600000 --> 0:05:17.400000 So this again, takes us back full circle, you know, to reduce suffering, you need to understand 63 0:05:17.400000 --> 0:05:21.520000 yourself, to understand yourself, you need to gain awareness, to gain awareness, you 64 0:05:21.520000 --> 0:05:26.760000 have to process information and the best sort of way to learn how to do that is understand 65 0:05:26.760000 --> 0:05:29.640000 the meta process for how you work. 66 0:05:29.640000 --> 0:05:32.640000 And how you work is different than how I work. 67 0:05:32.640000 --> 0:05:35.160000 So you should spend some time figuring that out. 68 0:05:35.160000 --> 0:05:39.320000 And I'd love to hear and start collecting stories and we'll put them out on the blog 69 0:05:39.320000 --> 0:05:45.360000 of how your brain works and how your sort of cognitive process works because there is 70 0:05:45.360000 --> 0:05:50.680000 recurring sort of themes and trends and you might be able to help others reduce their 71 0:05:50.680000 --> 0:05:52.160000 suffering by sharing what you know.