2016-09-21
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So last episode, we talked a lot about what we shouldn't be doing.
We talked about Nietzsche.
We talked about his psychological analysis of the average person and how easy it is to convince yourself to believe in something or to do something that isn't the most accurate necessarily.
But nonetheless, it fills some sort of deep psychological void but instead of talking about what you shouldn't be doing,
let's talk about what you should be doing.
And a pretty good introspective launching point for having this discussion is to ask yourself the following question.
Why do you do what you do?
What is the primary psychological motivation for whatever it is that you do?
When you're at any given decision point, there's a million different things you could do.
What are you specifically trying to accomplish when you're choosing the one you're actually going to do?
There's a lot of different answers to this, a really common one when you talk to people.
A very Aristotelian approach to the question is that whenever somebody's doing something,
they ultimately are doing it because they think it's going to bring them happiness.