 Right here behind me. I've got a poster that represents honesty as it is in the adventure builders club and for an adventure builder honesty refers to Finding the truth within oneself, you know This is before you go try to tell people the truth and you know all this stuff because you can't share something You don't have inside yourself already So it's all about seeing the world as it is so that your idea of the world is as equal as possible To the real world and that's why the symbol for honesty is an equal sign and it's a goal. That's basically impossible So it's a never-ending journey Because you can never know anything with a hundred percent certainty and once you think you know something With 100 percent certainty That information becomes rigid and inflexible and the arrogance surrounding that makes it impossible To learn anything or to see any evidence that might prove that piece of information that you've coveted as a hundred percent accurate To be wrong So always know that any piece of information you have could be wrong. Nothing is a hundred percent Now in the world today We're told a lot of information We're told what to think what to see even when we're looking at things and we can see for ourselves We'll be told what we're looking at and often we'll say oh, okay now I understand what I'm seeing Because someone has told me well all of that Description of the world ends up creating this veil Over the whole world so that you're not actually seeing the world You're seeing it through this veil of other people's descriptions and what you're supposed to think and the Everything you're supposed to see and that's what's represented in the top part of this poster here This is the veil of of in of description of description of the world. That's really what it comes down to It's a veil of description And if you pull up that veil and start taking a look at the real world and seeing what's really there That's when you can start getting to the truth of the matter That's when you can start seeing what's really there and it can be very difficult because You're constantly being given all this information about what you're seeing and what you're supposed to think the problem with that Information is a lot of it is is biased and a lot of it's just plain flat out lies A lot of people have agendas. They're trying to profit from lies There's just a lot of bad information out there so the more directly you can you can see the information for yourself the better chance there is for you to actually get closer to the truth and One of the ways that we're Kind of tricked a lot is there's a lot of gossip going on in the world will be told about Someone this happens all the time so and so is a bad person because this and they did this and they said this and blah Blah blah and what often happens is people will say ooh, that's a bad person I'm never gonna talk to them But you should never pass judgment on someone without hearing words come straight out of their mouth You should talk directly to that person before Forepassing judgment on them and if it's not some someone you can talk to I mean we've got internet and phones Everywhere with cameras and there's all this you can go online and find interviews of people There's all kinds of places where you can find Information coming directly out of the horse's mouth and if you avoid doing that Because you've already passed judgment on someone you've made some piece of information a hundred percent rigid and you're you've become arrogant So never pass judgment on someone unless you hear words directly from their mouth get their side of the story Another really important thing is that once you start seeing the world for what it really is you realize how many blanks there are How much you don't know there's so much information missing that you can't know Don't try to fill in those blanks because all that happens when you try to fill in those blanks Is you just make up a bunch of lies that you insert into your head And then you can share that garbage with other people and it screws up the way you think Be comfortable with blanks be comfortable saying to yourself. Well, I don't I don't know this information Be comfortable with telling people I don't I don't know that Be comfortable with the blanks be comfortable with the fact that you don't know everything. In fact, you don't know most things Be comfortable with the fact that you've got tons of blanks and do your best with the information You do have to make the best decisions in life. You can another big problem people have is bias So often people will want something to be true and They want something else to be untrue. So the only pay attention to evidence that supports what they want And let's take for example say I really like the idea of the earth being flat So I could go out into the world and only pay attention To evidence that that supports the idea that the earth is flat And I could ignore everything that says the earth is round And I can actually convince myself that the earth is flat So it's always important to consciously bias against What you want? Test what you think always test what you think So if you if you want to think that the earth is round I mean flat if you want to think that the earth is flat Try to prove that the earth is round Look at that evidence and say all right. I want this to be true, but let me try to prove the opposite Because if if what I really want to be true really is true I Don't have to be afraid of looking at the other evidence and then you see that okay There's overwhelming evidence that the earth is round fine and one more important thing here an adventure builder Always chooses the truth Over a lie an adventure builder will choose the most uncomfortable truth over the most comfortable lie So always look for the truth and know it's a never-ending journey