Gregg Braden

You need a North Star, something that orients you, helps you consistently focus, helps you navigate and track through reality and narrate and keep track of how you're tracking through reality. It's an orientation that allows you to narrate and navigate. That's what you need. The next is significance, like the sentence. Things have to be significant. You have to have a lot of significance.

You need a North Star, something that orients you, helps you consistently focus, helps you navigate and track through reality and narrate and keep track of how you're tracking through reality. It's an orientation that allows you to narrate and navigate. That's what you need. The next is significance, like the sentence. Things have to be significant. You have to have a lot of significance.

You need a North Star, something that orients you, helps you consistently focus, helps you navigate and track through reality and narrate and keep track of how you're tracking through reality. It's an orientation that allows you to narrate and navigate. That's what you need. The next is significance, like the sentence. Things have to be significant. You have to have a lot of significance.

You have to have things that seem very real, deep, not ephemeral, superficial to you. And then finally, and turns out most importantly, is mattering. Mattering matters the most. Mattering is the sense of being... connected to something, and I'm going to put it in scare quotes because it's another metaphor we have to unpack, something bigger than yourself.

You have to have things that seem very real, deep, not ephemeral, superficial to you. And then finally, and turns out most importantly, is mattering. Mattering matters the most. Mattering is the sense of being... connected to something, and I'm going to put it in scare quotes because it's another metaphor we have to unpack, something bigger than yourself.

You have to have things that seem very real, deep, not ephemeral, superficial to you. And then finally, and turns out most importantly, is mattering. Mattering matters the most. Mattering is the sense of being... connected to something, and I'm going to put it in scare quotes because it's another metaphor we have to unpack, something bigger than yourself.

But this goes back to what I pointed out about Plato. We want to be connected to something that's really real. So these are the three questions to ask yourself to see if you have mattering. What do you want to exist even if you don't?

But this goes back to what I pointed out about Plato. We want to be connected to something that's really real. So these are the three questions to ask yourself to see if you have mattering. What do you want to exist even if you don't?

But this goes back to what I pointed out about Plato. We want to be connected to something that's really real. So these are the three questions to ask yourself to see if you have mattering. What do you want to exist even if you don't?

That's right. Got it. How really real is it? Mm-hmm. It's not virtual, not ephemeral, not superficial. How connected are you? How much do you matter to it? And how much of a difference does it make to you? Mm-hmm. How significant? So mattering and significant are turning out to actually be two sides of the same connectedness. I use the ancient word religio for that sense of connectedness.

That's right. Got it. How really real is it? Mm-hmm. It's not virtual, not ephemeral, not superficial. How connected are you? How much do you matter to it? And how much of a difference does it make to you? Mm-hmm. How significant? So mattering and significant are turning out to actually be two sides of the same connectedness. I use the ancient word religio for that sense of connectedness.

That's right. Got it. How really real is it? Mm-hmm. It's not virtual, not ephemeral, not superficial. How connected are you? How much do you matter to it? And how much of a difference does it make to you? Mm-hmm. How significant? So mattering and significant are turning out to actually be two sides of the same connectedness. I use the ancient word religio for that sense of connectedness.

So I'm basically asking you, do you have religio? Is it connected to something that's really real? And so much so that you care about it beyond your egocentric concerns. Those are the three questions. Now, a prototypical answer is, that people give, and it's a right one, is, well, my kids. And Elizabeth Oldfield, the kids are sacred in that sense.

So I'm basically asking you, do you have religio? Is it connected to something that's really real? And so much so that you care about it beyond your egocentric concerns. Those are the three questions. Now, a prototypical answer is, that people give, and it's a right one, is, well, my kids. And Elizabeth Oldfield, the kids are sacred in that sense.

So I'm basically asking you, do you have religio? Is it connected to something that's really real? And so much so that you care about it beyond your egocentric concerns. Those are the three questions. Now, a prototypical answer is, that people give, and it's a right one, is, well, my kids. And Elizabeth Oldfield, the kids are sacred in that sense.

Sacred is something you wouldn't exchange no matter how much money somebody was willing to give you for it, okay? So, well, do you want your kids to exist when you don't? Well, yeah, that's the whole project. Of course I want them to exist, and I'm trying to make the world a better place for them. So when I'm not here, they will flourish, right? Are they really real?

Sacred is something you wouldn't exchange no matter how much money somebody was willing to give you for it, okay? So, well, do you want your kids to exist when you don't? Well, yeah, that's the whole project. Of course I want them to exist, and I'm trying to make the world a better place for them. So when I'm not here, they will flourish, right? Are they really real?

Sacred is something you wouldn't exchange no matter how much money somebody was willing to give you for it, okay? So, well, do you want your kids to exist when you don't? Well, yeah, that's the whole project. Of course I want them to exist, and I'm trying to make the world a better place for them. So when I'm not here, they will flourish, right? Are they really real?

Well, if you aspire to being a good parent, they're way more important than you, and they're really real. I mean, having a child is one of the best ways to turn the arrow of egocentrism out to something other than yourself. You come to this stark realization as, wow, that being is more important than me. And if I don't live that, that child will die, right?

Well, if you aspire to being a good parent, they're way more important than you, and they're really real. I mean, having a child is one of the best ways to turn the arrow of egocentrism out to something other than yourself. You come to this stark realization as, wow, that being is more important than me. And if I don't live that, that child will die, right?