Stephen Bartlett

And I will do the very best of my ability to try and do the things within my control to ideally make other people's lives better and my own in the process. Now, that is a choice rather than a, I demand that of the universe. And this gets really abstract and heady really fast. And so I will try and bring us back down to earth. But by demanding that life be meaningful, by demanding that I be happy,

And I will do the very best of my ability to try and do the things within my control to ideally make other people's lives better and my own in the process. Now, that is a choice rather than a, I demand that of the universe. And this gets really abstract and heady really fast. And so I will try and bring us back down to earth. But by demanding that life be meaningful, by demanding that I be happy,

And I will do the very best of my ability to try and do the things within my control to ideally make other people's lives better and my own in the process. Now, that is a choice rather than a, I demand that of the universe. And this gets really abstract and heady really fast. And so I will try and bring us back down to earth. But by demanding that life be meaningful, by demanding that I be happy,

when I understood that I was demanding these things and pursuing them, that they were outside of me, by saying, I need to do this, that I created inherent space that I could never gap or I could never close. And so by trying to forget or eliminate The demand is where it was the first time that I experienced those things.

when I understood that I was demanding these things and pursuing them, that they were outside of me, by saying, I need to do this, that I created inherent space that I could never gap or I could never close. And so by trying to forget or eliminate The demand is where it was the first time that I experienced those things.

when I understood that I was demanding these things and pursuing them, that they were outside of me, by saying, I need to do this, that I created inherent space that I could never gap or I could never close. And so by trying to forget or eliminate The demand is where it was the first time that I experienced those things.

And so I try to keep them out of my head to the greatest degree possible so that I can be inside of them. That sounds weird. Rather than in pursuit.

And so I try to keep them out of my head to the greatest degree possible so that I can be inside of them. That sounds weird. Rather than in pursuit.

And so I try to keep them out of my head to the greatest degree possible so that I can be inside of them. That sounds weird. Rather than in pursuit.

and so that um and so the times where i derive the most joy from my life if i'm if i'm optimizing for that which is i wouldn't necessarily say that i am optimizing for joy um i think williamson was like you definitely optimize for purpose or meaning or something like that and um i i kind of reject a lot of it mostly because i do what i have been rewarded for doing in the past and so because i have a behaviorist view of the world which is that everything boils down to behaviors um

and so that um and so the times where i derive the most joy from my life if i'm if i'm optimizing for that which is i wouldn't necessarily say that i am optimizing for joy um i think williamson was like you definitely optimize for purpose or meaning or something like that and um i i kind of reject a lot of it mostly because i do what i have been rewarded for doing in the past and so because i have a behaviorist view of the world which is that everything boils down to behaviors um

and so that um and so the times where i derive the most joy from my life if i'm if i'm optimizing for that which is i wouldn't necessarily say that i am optimizing for joy um i think williamson was like you definitely optimize for purpose or meaning or something like that and um i i kind of reject a lot of it mostly because i do what i have been rewarded for doing in the past and so because i have a behaviorist view of the world which is that everything boils down to behaviors um

Why do I do these things? I do these things because when I have done them in the past, I have enjoyed the result. And so I continue to do things that I've enjoyed the result of. And if other people have done things that they enjoy the result of, then I encourage you to keep doing them.

Why do I do these things? I do these things because when I have done them in the past, I have enjoyed the result. And so I continue to do things that I've enjoyed the result of. And if other people have done things that they enjoy the result of, then I encourage you to keep doing them.

Why do I do these things? I do these things because when I have done them in the past, I have enjoyed the result. And so I continue to do things that I've enjoyed the result of. And if other people have done things that they enjoy the result of, then I encourage you to keep doing them.

And I also encourage you to not project that other people need to also do those things and that they will experience the same result as you because they might not.

And I also encourage you to not project that other people need to also do those things and that they will experience the same result as you because they might not.

And I also encourage you to not project that other people need to also do those things and that they will experience the same result as you because they might not.

Yeah. Oh, yes.

Yeah. Oh, yes.