Dave Evans

You know, now this all costs maybe three or four seconds.

So I can get the habit of calling myself back to the present moment and just noticing what's going on around me.

And the fact that I'm a living person in this present situation.

I mean, if I let myself, while I'm thinking about answering your question, I can be aware of how the cushion feels on my buttocks.

Because I'm actually sitting.

I'm not just talking to you.

I'm sitting in this chair.

Am I actually in this room?

So those awarenesses allow the mental faculties, the part of your eye, Brandon, knows how to be attentive to the present moment, catch those things.

So you just constantly have these little games you can play with yourself, which is keeping yourself in the game.

Okay.

Coherence.

Coherence.

It turns out the meaning-making researchers will tell us that if you can align consciously who you are, what you're doing, and what you believe in, which we call coherence.

So I understand who, at least presently, I've got a story about who I am.

These are things I really care about.

Here's what I'm doing in the world.

Do they align?

And when they align, usually with some degree of compromise, because life is never perfect, but it's a calculated compromise that I've accepted.

I'm having an experience of coherency.