 you know if you're not here really is hard to describe just what kind of an experience this is i mean even the video really just doesn't capture it very well so i woke up at four o'clock this morning on my own no alarm the moon woke me up at rose above the horizon followed by the morning star otherwise known as venus and then a couple hours later the sun rose i woke up made my coffee api curious would not approve of that and stared at the stars and out here it's not an official dark sky park but it's it's close out here you can see lots of stars and it's really interesting you know the the sun rose followed by the morning star and in the same roughly the same place the sun rose you start to notice these patterns in the universe now api carers says that's all you need some friends some food some shelter and the wonder of reality and i'm not saying you have to disagree with them i'm not excuse me i'm not saying you have to agree with them i'm not saying you have to but if you don't agree with him well what does that mean well for starters as we just discussed you don't get to decide what the bare minimum you need is all right that that's just built into reality you can try it if you like go ahead and try to do it without air it's not going to last very long then and don't do it in a closed chamber right just try and hold your breath please if you're absolutely must try it um because you know don't try it never mind don't try it you absolutely need water you can try to go without water it's not gonna do any good you absolutely need food and nutrients you absolutely need these things and you don't get to abandon that and and by the way more and more research shows that you need this it's 20 or so minutes a week spent out amongst something green and will help fend off depression tranquility is necessary all right you live a life that's nothing nothing nothing but stimulus nothing nothing nothing but excitement and that's going to break down your nervous system more and more you know places including schools are having regular mindfulness sessions right where you kind of center yourself you you know enter this you know meditative state trying to well achieve tranquility so you really absolutely need tranquility that much you probably can't disagree with epic curious about you can't just decide i'm going to live a life of pure excitement and drilling and rush all the time so if you decide to disagree with epic curious about something else it's going to be that well that's not all that i'm going to go for right i'm going to what's worth pursuing is more than just tranquility i'll i'll work on tranquility sure i'll do my best to achieve it when it's necessary but beyond that right i need to pursue something else okay i mean for what it's worth right by our standards a two-bedroom apartment with three friends part-time job checking out books in the library discussing the nature of reality a lot of people would consider that like being a bomb oh you're just you're just being lazy by the way it's pretty it takes a lot of work to think about the nature of the universe right it's not necessarily industrious but it takes work so if you're going to disagree with epic curious and say i'm going to pursue something further i i guess you could do that now we ask the question of whether you get to decide what's necessary or you have to discover what's necessary right that that's a part of the fabric of reality okay sure looks like it well i bet you the same thing is true about whatever else you decide to pursue further right it better you know you don't get to decide what's worthwhile outside of the necessary desires you have to discover it i mean if it if it could you know if you could just decide this right say well i'm gonna decide what's going to bring me this you know this happiness this pleasure this fulfillment in my life uh i'm gonna decide to do that well okay and then it's going to work okay if that really is gonna do it then you know just decide to you know pursue your necessary desires and i don't know collect the world's largest ball of string or not even the world's largest i'm just gonna collect string that's gonna make me happy if all if all there is to your happiness your pleasure your contentment your fulfillment is your mere decision then go for the simplest thing possible that's the winning strategy right simplest thing possible and hey now you're happy it doesn't work that way does it so you know you're gonna have to discover if there is something out there that's gonna bring you pleasure right cut you know you know leaving aside epicures for looking at something further if there's something out there's gonna bring you this pleasure this happiness of fulfillment this contentment you're gonna have to discover it you don't get to just merely decide so you can pursue right if you disagree the epicures you can pursue something further and here's the thing here's the thing you can decide to pursue something further but you better be right because you're gonna spend your life on something you better have a really good idea of what that is because this much epicures is right about you don't have a limitless amount of life so you wanted to pursue something more above and beyond the necessary desires okay but whatever it is you decide to pursue you better be right