 The best way to solve problems is asking better questions And we don't have really good insights from the famous It's from the book both of the movie the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. Yeah, yeah, you know what was this question the question was What's the secret to the universe or what's the meaning of human of human life and you know in the super computer says it's like 47 42 47 But the moral of story is like you ask a really stupid question you get a stupid stupid stupid question The question has no merit whatsoever and ask better questions And so you're in this position of like shit like I need to provide for my family I can't just quit my job and I'm stressed to fucking to the max now most human beings They they look at their situation in a binary mode Meaning I have option a or option B when in reality you have option a b c d e Yes, G many different shades of gray And we need to ask yourself better questions to figure out what are the means that we have to create right now to get to the end? Mm-hmm, and so we'll use this person as example I'll call him Charlie and Charlie is you know, he's making good money, but he's a provider of his house And you can't just tell Charlie to quit. He has a daughter. He has a wife How was all this stuff right? Yeah, so what does Charlie do Charlie just continues what he's doing and for him It's bleak because he doesn't see any other options. Where else can you get a job? He's getting paid a hundred K six figure salary. Yeah, but the problem is Charlie doesn't have proper Mental frameworks or models. Yes, ask better questions Better questions for sure better understanding. I feel like you're right about mental frameworks I mean mental frameworks go beyond Charlie's life Mm-hmm. They go how societies are structured, right? And so and what you said is very true also when you look at the lineage of philosophy like we've which is fascinating that since Plato Almost every philosopher has thought in Duality so in a framework that it's option a and there's option B We just dualism. Yes, and you're always trying to transcend from the worst place to the next one whether it's Religion all Abrahamic Abrahamic religions are talking about you're transcending from this world to the next world Which is evergreen etc. You go into all the philosophers is the same thing until now We're talking about the post structuralist post modernist like Gilles Deleuze, right? They are talking about maybe philosophy should be about is about not about this duality and transcendence It's about frameworks To understand the chaos of life the chaos has happened But we need frameworks to understand them better and back to Charlie's life and Preventative methodology like yes, Charlie has a family Charlie is used to making a hundred K Charlie has a car But let's go back to how Charlie got to that if you Take a little bit of a preventative method Before you buy that house you think hard if you want to think about it You have to understand it a little bit more about personal finance how that works If you understood about the hedonic adaptation of the brand mill hedonic treadmill to realize there's no end Yeah, you want more gradual progress as opposed to ten million dollars in my bank today And I'll be the happiest and people don't people who say that yeah They just don't know about the hedonic treadmill This is why I like Hinduism and Buddhism. They're like how the fuck do I escape this vicious cycle? Because whether you believe in reincarnation or not cycle everything cyclical is like I'm gonna have to repeat this for a billion years and never now I'm out now check me out meditate figure it out I'm fucking leaving this shit right now. So people don't know about these inner Wiring of themselves which hedonic adaptation is built into all of whatever I get I want more at At a very small future like a short future from now, right? So when you have that Understanding you ask better questions you learn about these things But we actually have a lot more knowledge in the world than most people have access to or know how to ask because Probably what knowledge is the labeling of knowledge, okay have data Mm-hmm, right same thing. I can go to any website. I can go to PubMed I got more power my my palm over here than King of England did a hundred years ago Night like even the early 2000s this has more power than a computer like this is a fucking super come this is ridiculously strong. Yeah Build data. It's just I haven't integrated. I don't know how it applies to me. The thing is like what scientists need to understand and Neuroscience gets it I think so But there's also there's a reason why religion is so powerful is There's a myth aspect. Mm-hmm. How do how does this apply to me? How do I integrate this data? Into my ethos into my mythology because right now it means nothing to me whatsoever, it doesn't foreign knowledge exactly You need to I want to say evolve it, but it needs to be a chimera You need to figure out how you take this information whether it's like Benefits in neuroscience or benefits of sleeping X Y and Z how does how do we wrap this up? And how do we integrate it into my? mythological belief system This is a problem where we have in religion today religion has an updated its mythological Revolence to be relevant with modern-day science and society. It's living has lived It's model of thinking is based on 1500 years ago. That's the fundamental. It's not religion itself. That's the problem Mm-hmm. It's a fact that then it hasn't updated itself. Yeah, whatsoever. The API's are still old Well, they're not pre API There's no API socket whatsoever and and you're you're dead on I mean you look at mythology It's like the best way to transfer that has been through stories storytelling number one invention of human beings it's and that's why mythologies were so strong because Essentially, and it's always put in the hero's journey like the hero would come battle the the dragon of the time slay the dragon Now the hero has to come back tell its cult the story So that the knowledge gets transferred, right? But The thing with the myth yeah, or the stories the stories are narratives and narratives create our reality perception How we perceive the world? Yes, and this we get in science of cognitive biases. Yes, right this list of them It's like we're discovering new ones all the time and they stack against each other so forth and so forth So these are narratives. It's we're creating is that crazy theory of a biocentrism or we're creating reality as we perceive it yes Like this doesn't exist. There's no reality. It's just how you perceive it in real time Yeah, like and it's through your five senses. Yeah And when you distill it to such simple terms you're like, oh, I understand how what I've Manufactured of my life and my narrative and just like no, it's just your arbitrary version of it and sometimes it's very freeing