How to Simplify Your Life and Find More Fulfillment in Your Work with John Kaag
The One You Feed
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Transvaluation of Values
Overcome the past to recreate your own values, emphasizes John Kaag. He discusses Nietzsche and Emerson's transvaluation of values which is to create a moral system and significance for individuals, in the absence of tradition.
- Self-discovery: To become who you are is not about finding a self that you have always been looking for. Instead, selfhood is made in the active ongoing process.
- Genealogy of morals: Look at where your morals and beliefs came from to identify what is actually yours. This can be a confusing process because we are conditioned deeply and thoroughly by countless causes and conditions.
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