you want to change the world you start
from yourself and work outward because
you build your competence that way it’s
like I don’t know how you can go out and
protest the structure of the entire
economic system if you can’t keep your
room organized people try to change the
outside world for lots of ways but many
of those ways aren’t just pure good so
what I’ve thought about is that well
what you start to do is you start to
tell and act out the truth locally like
within the domain of your actual
competence you know because the world
presents itself as a series of puzzles
some of which you’re capable of solving
and some of which you’re not and you
have many puzzles in front of you that
you could solve but you choose not to
you know that those are the things that
weigh on your conscience it’s like you
know what I should really do this but
you don’t it’s like so I had this idea a
long time ago because the world is a
pretty dreadful place I thought well
what would the world be like if people
stopped avoiding the things they knew
they should do you know because the
question is how much are we contributing
to the fact that life is a as an
existential catastrophe and a tragedy
how much is our own corruption
contributing to that that’s a really
worthwhile question things you leave
undone because you’re angry you’re
resentful you’re lazy you have inertia
well you consult your conscience and it
says well you know that place over there
I could use a little work
it’s the same as working on yourself and
so you clean that up because you can and
then things are a little clearer around
you and you’re a little better off
because you’ve practiced a bit and and
so you’re little stronger and then then
something else manifests itself and says
well maybe you could like take a crack
at fixing me up do so you decide to do
that and then that gets a little bit
more pristine you know and soon and it’s
it’s humble because you’re not exceeding
your domain of competence you know it’s
like don’t be fixing up the economy
eighteen year old can you even clean up
your own room no well you should think
about that
you should think about that because if
you can’t even clean up your own room
who the hell are you to give advice to
the world [Music]
from yourself and work outward because
you build your competence that way it’s
like I don’t know how you can go out and
protest the structure of the entire
economic system if you can’t keep your
room organized people try to change the
outside world for lots of ways but many
of those ways aren’t just pure good so
what I’ve thought about is that well
what you start to do is you start to
tell and act out the truth locally like
within the domain of your actual
competence you know because the world
presents itself as a series of puzzles
some of which you’re capable of solving
and some of which you’re not and you
have many puzzles in front of you that
you could solve but you choose not to
you know that those are the things that
weigh on your conscience it’s like you
know what I should really do this but
you don’t it’s like so I had this idea a
long time ago because the world is a
pretty dreadful place I thought well
what would the world be like if people
stopped avoiding the things they knew
they should do you know because the
question is how much are we contributing
to the fact that life is a as an
existential catastrophe and a tragedy
how much is our own corruption
contributing to that that’s a really
worthwhile question things you leave
undone because you’re angry you’re
resentful you’re lazy you have inertia
well you consult your conscience and it
says well you know that place over there
I could use a little work
it’s the same as working on yourself and
so you clean that up because you can and
then things are a little clearer around
you and you’re a little better off
because you’ve practiced a bit and and
so you’re little stronger and then then
something else manifests itself and says
well maybe you could like take a crack
at fixing me up do so you decide to do
that and then that gets a little bit
more pristine you know and soon and it’s
it’s humble because you’re not exceeding
your domain of competence you know it’s
like don’t be fixing up the economy
eighteen year old can you even clean up
your own room no well you should think
about that
you should think about that because if
you can’t even clean up your own room
who the hell are you to give advice to
the world [Music]
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