Episode 160: The Principles Are Not a Method, They're the Explanation of Life

Psychology Has It Backwards

We are very dependent on our intellect (everything we already know that is stored in our brain) for a lot in life. It allows us to remember how to run things, where we put things, what we've learned, how to find our friends' houses, how to do our jobs, phone numbers, people's names, etc. Sometimes people hear us talking about looking to live from original thought, wisdom, and common sense rather than from memory as if we had to reinvent the wheel every day. Or they hear "wisdom" as something really special and hard to attain. Original thoughts are fresh ideas we get that are perfect for that moment in time, or for the problem at hand. They come to us out of the blue and they come with a feeling of certainty that they're just what we need to know. If we spend our lives in our intellect, applying what we know to seek new answers, trying to figure everything out, it's exhausting. If we accept everything we know as a resource and look for wisdom to keep life fresh, in-the-moment and interesting, we live at peace.

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