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He says, first of all, focus your attention on the highest imaginable. Okay, whatever that is, like you don't know exactly, right? But it's because it's indefinite and it's ineffable and it's beyond you. But that's what you want to, that's what you're orienting towards. So you establish your, then pay attention to the moment. Exactly.

He says, first of all, focus your attention on the highest imaginable. Okay, whatever that is, like you don't know exactly, right? But it's because it's indefinite and it's ineffable and it's beyond you. But that's what you want to, that's what you're orienting towards. So you establish your, then pay attention to the moment. Exactly.

My wife just did a talk in Salt Lake City, and what she had focused this talk on was gratitude. And she learned this. She started to practice being grateful when she was dying. It's a very strange time to start practicing being grateful. But one of the things that you can think through when you're in dire straits, this is what happens in the story of Job, by the way, is that...

My wife just did a talk in Salt Lake City, and what she had focused this talk on was gratitude. And she learned this. She started to practice being grateful when she was dying. It's a very strange time to start practicing being grateful. But one of the things that you can think through when you're in dire straits, this is what happens in the story of Job, by the way, is that...

My wife just did a talk in Salt Lake City, and what she had focused this talk on was gratitude. And she learned this. She started to practice being grateful when she was dying. It's a very strange time to start practicing being grateful. But one of the things that you can think through when you're in dire straits, this is what happens in the story of Job, by the way, is that...

Well, imagine everything falls apart for you. Okay, now you could ask yourself, how could I make this worse? And the answer to that is, well, I could be resentful and deceitful and arrogant and unhappy and bitter.

Well, imagine everything falls apart for you. Okay, now you could ask yourself, how could I make this worse? And the answer to that is, well, I could be resentful and deceitful and arrogant and unhappy and bitter.

Well, imagine everything falls apart for you. Okay, now you could ask yourself, how could I make this worse? And the answer to that is, well, I could be resentful and deceitful and arrogant and unhappy and bitter.

Yeah, so you're, well, the presumption would be exactly that, is that the default attitude, the default untrained attitude is likely to be overwhelmed by negative emotion and resentful.

Yeah, so you're, well, the presumption would be exactly that, is that the default attitude, the default untrained attitude is likely to be overwhelmed by negative emotion and resentful.

Yeah, so you're, well, the presumption would be exactly that, is that the default attitude, the default untrained attitude is likely to be overwhelmed by negative emotion and resentful.

Right, but that isn't fate. You can train yourself out of that, and part of the way you do that, and I saw her do this when she was dying, which was really quite something to see. She decided, as an act of will, to focus on what... she was grateful for, and to become an expert at that, right?

Right, but that isn't fate. You can train yourself out of that, and part of the way you do that, and I saw her do this when she was dying, which was really quite something to see. She decided, as an act of will, to focus on what... she was grateful for, and to become an expert at that, right?

Right, but that isn't fate. You can train yourself out of that, and part of the way you do that, and I saw her do this when she was dying, which was really quite something to see. She decided, as an act of will, to focus on what... she was grateful for, and to become an expert at that, right?

And that is the sort of expertise that modern people tend to think about when they think about expertise, right? Because they think of something like propositional knowledge rather than attitude. But it's definitely the case that you can, you can what? Cultivate, well, what traditional people, traditional European Christians, for example, knew that you could cultivate virtue.

And that is the sort of expertise that modern people tend to think about when they think about expertise, right? Because they think of something like propositional knowledge rather than attitude. But it's definitely the case that you can, you can what? Cultivate, well, what traditional people, traditional European Christians, for example, knew that you could cultivate virtue.

And that is the sort of expertise that modern people tend to think about when they think about expertise, right? Because they think of something like propositional knowledge rather than attitude. But it's definitely the case that you can, you can what? Cultivate, well, what traditional people, traditional European Christians, for example, knew that you could cultivate virtue.

And that's a very specific phrase, is that cultivation is practice.

And that's a very specific phrase, is that cultivation is practice.

And that's a very specific phrase, is that cultivation is practice.