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Dave Evans

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Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

So we came up with this model of the transactional world and the flow world in that there's a bunch of meaning to be had in the flow world simply because, look, there's only one real world.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

There are two worlds.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

But your brain can't handle the whole thing at one time.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

And we now know neurologically, you know, Lisa Miller's work at Columbia, there's your achieving brain and there's your awakened brain.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

You know, the much more sophisticated version of the left brain, right brain model.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

You know, Jill Bolt tailors your stroke of insight, what happened when this neurologist actually lost her left brain for a while.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

So what's going on is we're trying to integrate these things and give people access to it.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

And so if I can move more into a fuller implementation of my entire consciousness, then my chance at living a richer life goes up.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

And so the flow world simply means I want to start making sure that

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

The part of my consciousness that can experience other aspects of reality is getting airtime because when that part of my awareness gets more airtime, there are experiences available to me right in front of me for free that currently are going wasted.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

So we're saying it's not about more.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

We are trying to invite people to get more out of the life they're in, not cram more into it to change it.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

Now, we wrote two books about how to make big changes.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

We're in favor of changing things and making them better.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

But along the way, don't forget to live the life you're in.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

I think it can.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

I think if we're always simply trying to get to the better thing,

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

Most people's degree of happiness is described by the delta, the gap between the way things are and what they had in mind.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

When that gap is small, it's working.

Modern Wisdom
#1062 - Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan

When that gap is broad, it's not.