Derek Rydall

And we've all had those moments where you felt like something clicked and you just felt like, ah, okay.

Like I'm alive, I'm aligned.

Like this is who I am and it feels so good and it happens accidentally or spontaneously.

But then we don't have the structures in society or education to recognize those moments and go, hey, you, you see what just happened right there?

Come over here.

Come over here in this monastery or this academy or this ashram or this whatever and let me help you cultivate that or the apprenticeship.

We don't have that.

Because we've been conditioned just towards survival or just towards validation or social media clicks and influence campaigns.

And we're getting brought further and further away from ourselves.

And AI has the danger of taking us so far away we can't find our way back.

So it's very practical.

In the most simplest terms, we can ask questions like,

You know, this is an obvious cliche one.

If I was guaranteed success and I could really just be whatever I really wanted and do what really makes me come alive and make the difference that I really want to make.

And that difference could just be in your garden or to your children or to your community or in your company.

It doesn't matter.

There's no right answer.

It's what's right for you.

But you're asking these questions, if I could just be what I really want to be.

Now, that's easier said than done, because we've been conditioned for so long to look outside of ourself to what should I be?