Speaker 2
Well, I want to, I want to pick up on a couple things that I learned from you over the past couple weeks. If you're not going to share anything interesting, there are a couple things that I learned from you, from your discourses and tweets and so forth, that I want to dig a little bit deeper into. And the first one is so apropos for the world we live in today, when you talk about the difference between clarity versus doubt. And I want to read the tweet and ask you a question about it. If one is driven by the hope of reward and the pleasure of favorable outcomes, he will be stricken by self-doubt. If he is at all times self-honest about the purity of his motivations, his decisions and his actions will arise from clarity. That's beautiful. Dig into that for me a little bit. I know it's about not thinking about outcomes,
Speaker 1
but I want to explore that a little bit with you. I never said it was not thinking about outcome. That's the sports psychology thing. That's cosmetic nonsense. It is not about not thinking about outcome. That basically means that you're forcing yourself not to think about outcomes. That's where everyone lives in the prescription world. And there's nothing to do with that. It is an understanding that something that is chased for the reward is absolutely, if you chase something for a reward, first it must be cemented in your mind with hammers and nails. That is not bad. And I think that there's no point in talking to any human being unless they first can pass the idea of good and bad. Because if they can't get passed good and bad, then whatever you say will be colored by that lens, and therefore they will be running away from that and running towards good. And games over. So there's nothing whatsoever I can't emphasize that enough. It has nothing whatsoever to stop thinking about outcomes. That is prescription and that is garbage. There's everything to do with understanding that if you chase something, that thing will run for you. If you chase something, that means that you are chasing for reward. And once again, that is not bad, and it is not wrong, and it is not criminal, and it is not breaking a rule. It is just about the effect. So if I throw water on you and you get wet, that isn't bad, and that isn't good. It is just the effect, and the effect of chasing something for pleasure will create self-doubt. And the effect of chasing something, or not even chasing it, but pursuing something, for a genuine motivation and the purity of arriving at that thing, whatever it may be, for the thing itself is not good. It is just that, that the effect of that will be clarity.