The Meaning Crisis: Why You Feel So Lost In Life
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This video is meant for those who want to do something that matters, because if you are observant, it's not difficult to see the state of the modern world, and it's not difficult to tell that we are in the middle of a meaning crisis. We're addicted to our phones, we're disconnected from nature, we've lost trust in public schooling, and for good reason. People are realizing that an education model adopted from a Prussian military state can't

work. Now, if you don't know what that is, it is a type of education that breeds useful workers. It's a type of education system. So if you go and research that, look up Prussian military state education model and dig deeper into how the U.S. adopted it. I believe it happened around the 1850s. I think you will be rather enlightened to see that.

Back to it. In other words, it's an education model that is a mere reflection of the education of indentured servants, created to keep people weak, dumb, and stupid.

And this is true even if that wasn't their intention when creating this school system because it was the result of incentives based on status and survival. Get a degree, get a job, pay the bills until you die. This was bound to make people lose trust in the system because the state of their life is guaranteed to end up in a place they despise. Just look at the masses. Do you want to end up in the same place as them? As 99% of people?

Probably not. That's why you're watching this video. Where do those people end up? In a job where they face the threat of replacement more and more as years pass. If you can't see this, I'd encourage you to think through what hyper-specialized education leads to. You were blinded by status to get a degree, and by doing so, you probably didn't pursue education on the side. So you narrowed your mind on one goal and allowed it to be conditioned with a one-sided worldview to be useful as one thing: a worker.

And once you become a worker, you start to realize that what you worked for all this time is 1. at high threat of replacement and 2. not meaningful in the slightest. You lost the curiosity and wonder of your childhood that brought a zest to life. Everyone is either at work or at home dreading going back to work. There is little desire to soak in the good,

the true, and the beautiful of reality that realigns your psyche toward meaningful contribution to those things. Addiction, disconnection, lack of trust, lack of stability, lack of education, fear of replacement, status seeking, survival mode, a gradual decline into chaos that makes us question the meaning of our existence. Constant questioning as to why you're working so long, what better things you could be doing with your life, creating a state of anxiety and overwhelm that traps you in a state of fog perception. Unable to actually think of a solution to get out, and it doesn't help,

that you don't have the time or energy to acquire the broad set of skills that would allow you to see clearly and create that solution. Those are the characteristics of the meaning crisis that we're going through. So what do we do? How do we live a meaningful life? How do we reconnect with what we've lost while continuing to make forward progress? How do we educate ourselves in a manner that doesn't get us replaced by AI or rapidly evolving technology?

How do we find our unique and individual path and feel as if we are doing something that matters? Let's find out.

If our lives are meaningless, what are we doing here? What do we do with our lives? How do we make sense of the suffering and pain that's all around us and that we deal with every day to some degree? Is the good life as simple as a belief in a god when belief is a disconnected map of that thing rather than the thing itself, and the map is interpreted by an individual's culture, value system, language, and conditioning?

The map, most of the time, is miles away from the territory. Now, I have a sense that we all want to feel useful. We want to feel like we're doing something that matters. We crave purpose because we are humans after all, not robots like we've been conditioned to be. We are social creatures and we want to feel connected

as nature is to something greater than ourselves because everything is connected and once that connection breaks in either direction towards the biosphere the physiosphere or the new sphere or the cosmos if we disconnect from that from any given direction ascending or descending we become too spiritual or too consumed with materialistic pursuits then our lives tend to be quite

terrible. Maybe not at first, but over time. And many people don't realize it because they identify too heavily with one side. They can't integrate both. You have the spiritual hippies who condemn any kind of money, sex, cars, or just material or anything physical.

And then you have the physicalists that just don't think that there's anything higher. And all that leads to is not being able to make sense of the world. And that lack of sense making leads to a lack of meaning. To reconnect, we need to strip down and reorient our fundamental experience. To determine what matters, we need to pull from multiple disciplines and cultures to uncover a holistic direction or highest order to align ourselves within as an antidote to chaos and meaninglessness. Now at the

base of it all there are three general categories or modes of existence there's being which is connection to reality direct experience and the present moment there's doing which is contribution to reality and the experience of others and then there's becoming which is increasing your capacity to connect with and thus contribute to reality personal experience and the experience of others

So this is the cycle. This is the feedback loop being doing becoming we all engage in these things every single day, but there's a few problems. The first is of course being most people just don't they're never in the present moment. They don't connect with direct experience. They're living in a completely different reality and therefore they can't act from a place of truth and their life signifies that the second thing is just doing when

When you're doing something, for most people, the goal of doing is assigned to them by the schools, the jobs, the parents, whatever it may be. And when we do that, what we do and therefore who we become, because what we do conditions who we become.

come. Those are both at the whim of someone else. You don't necessarily have control over them. So being raised in this education system that is like, hey, do this. Here's the goal. You're punished if you don't reach this specifically. And we assign this goal to you. You can't learn anything else to achieve this goal. And this goal determines your future survival. So you better reach this goal. So by the time you exit the school system, you're just

not anywhere close to your authentic self. And most people don't start this journey until maybe their 20s, their 30s, or whenever the pain is so great that they finally decide, hey, I can actually make a change. I'm not the outcome of my past.

And that's what you're here to do. The more time you spend being, the less psychological time you spend in the familiar past or predictable future. You immerse yourself in direct experience. Your perception clears. You can achieve a neutral or peaceful mind.

You aren't projecting into a stressful future of tasks that make you feel that stress now, even though you aren't in that situation. You aren't reminiscing on a painful past leading to the same thing. From that state of clear perception, your doing increases in degrees of consciousness. You start focusing on what matters and thinking toward a deeper future.

Your choices then create who you become. And when you do that from a state of higher consciousness and connection, your identity expands and sheds its limitations. Meaning is easier to make sense of. Now, unfortunately, most people neglect being and get stuck in doing mode. Their attention is focused on the next task, next event, next meme, next pleasure, next cause of stress or anxiety. So they end up becoming something of that nature. Riveted to next, avoidant unneeded.

of now their mind begins to narrow into a state of meaninglessness because they've lost touch with reality that's where we start the now being direct experience maintaining connection now before we go any further in this video i would highly encourage you to at least add some time for being within your day

10 minutes, 20 minutes. Start with that. This can be anything from meditation to going on a walk to staring at trees, to staring at your hand and noticing the intricacies and really just looking at it, right? Observing things, go on a walk and just look at the sky. Try to

Push your consciousness or your awareness out to just the world. Notice how small you are. Go out in nature and see how connected things are. Notice the creation, destruction, the life, the death, how everything interacts, how everything is dependent and connected to each other. Stop staring at a screen all day. Just put it down. Breathe. Close your eyes. Go deeper into your senses. When you're washing dishes, just feel the water on your hands.

make that the sole thing that fills your consciousness when you're washing your hands make that a practice when the water goes over feel your hands feel the water when was the last time you did anything remotely close to that or even thought of doing that when you're driving feel the steering wheel pay attention to the road notice things around you be more observant be more conscious maintain that connection with your experience because it changes

Everything, being, doing, becoming. The point is to soak in more beauty because without beauty, the true and the good don't exist. The transcendentals, beautiful, good, and the true. The good, the true, and the beautiful. Beautiful, if you nail that one down, the others are there. It's all around you. Sit with it until you can see it.

Now, from that state of connection, how do we ensure that we are doing things that matter? We start this section by talking about how to align with the highest order. Now, this is a very big task. It was a very big task for myself to...

Write the outline for this video and it's taken a lot of years of study and contemplation and breaking through my own limiting beliefs and overcoming old religious patterns and things like that. So I'm excited to share this with you, but let's start. We aren't adapted to this chaotic modern environment.

Meaning in this information age, after the Industrial Revolution or after the Industrial Age, there is now this information age.

There's so much information. There's so much chaos. There's so much uncertainty. But on the polar end of that, most people can either most people will go into that and just lose themselves and be like, I have no idea what to do in this anxiety, the stress, etc. comes up because the uncertainty is what you're holding in your attention.

But it's non-dual. There's uncertainty. And then on the other polar end, there's opportunity. There's wealth. There's value creation from all of these options. There's creativity by connecting the dots between everything and creating a solution, a new product, a new company, more efficient resources to make more progress. The point of that is, is that we're not living in this overwhelming environment or over...

or chaotic information, we're living in the age of abundance. Individuals are learning skills and building businesses on the internet that wasn't possible before, but many people are more uncertain than ever, and they don't know how to order the chaos all around them. Before the Industrial Revolution, we interacted with small communities and tribes.

The main information you were exposed to was that which was passed down by the elders of that community or tribe. So mentors, you had mentors. Everyone used to be on the same page. And now with all of this accessible information, everyone is on a different page and that creates conflict. I mean, the election just happened. You're seeing this happen real time.

a global scale. Very few people are on the same page and everyone is getting served different information based on their interests because the social media algorithms and the news platforms feed you what's inflammatory and what conditions your mind further into the identity that best serves the social media platform or the news site. And most of what you see online and in the comment section right now are a bunch of

egos just defending their position and they aren't even trying to seek a different perspective or understand a different perspective. And how are you going to make any kind of progress or find any kind of usefulness and value from that? You're just ruining your life. And the funny thing about that is that

And the funny thing about that is that both sides, when they hear me say that, they're going to be like, oh, yeah, the other side should do that. I shouldn't do that. And I'm thinking of one side right now, even myself. And most people that most 50 percent plus percent of people are thinking that I'm telling another party that.

to think a specific way. And I guarantee you that I am personally thinking about the other party. So do what you will with that. The lesson of that is to question your own fucking beliefs. Now, to understand this, after that side tangent, we need to start from the ground up.

We lack meaning because we can't make sense of the chaos. The mind craves order, and once order is maintained by expanding our mind to the highest order, meaning isn't difficult to find. To live a meaningful life, we can synthesize strong conclusions across multiple domains like flow psychology, stages of development,

And the ultimate structure of reality. And then in the next section of this video, we can use that understanding to create our own unique path in this life. One that brings meaning through mastering ourselves and our craft so we can contribute in a way that matters to others. As I said, we're going to work from the ground up. So we need to start with our direct experience. How do we order our minds right here and right now? And then we'll work up to the highest order.

With that, we need to learn how to enter the flow state. We'll start with a quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who is the godfather of flow. This quote is taken out of context, but pretty much they're talking about the characteristics of someone who can get into flow. They have rules that require the learning of skills. They set up goals. They provide feedback.

They make control possible. They facilitate concentration and involvement by making the activity as distinct as possible from the so-called paramount reality of everyday existence. Now, when people enter the flow state, they call it a spiritual experience, but

That can be confusing to some, and it may even turn some people off. I personally think that this spiritual experience is better explained with the words clear perception. That's what's going on here. That's what most spiritual experiences are. It's removing limitations from your perception so you can see reality more clear. Clear perception leads to decisions aligned with the transcendentals, the good, the true, and the beautiful. No distractions, no projections, minimal to no limitations.

You feel invincible because you are locked into the here and now. You tap into the source code of reality and flow with it. Now to enter the flow state or achieve an extremely clear state of perception, you need a few things. The first is a hierarchy of goals because order is created when the mind has a clear path to focus on.

Chaos is created when there are gaps in that path of either knowledge, skill, or understanding. When you're having a conversation, if you don't have a shared goal, it will probably devolve into conflict and argument. You see this on social media all the time. People with vastly different worldviews are arguing their points without attempting to understand what goal their mind is working toward.

and a big lesson there is that everyone has a goal they're working toward for most people those goals are assigned to them they do what parents teachers and authorities tell them so they learn the knowledge and acquire the skill to do that narrow set of things conditioning their mind into a potentially destructive state so what you need to do is zoom out and determine what you personally want out of life create a frame vision and anti-vision what you do and don't want out of life let it evolve

with time. It's not going to be perfect at the start. From there, create a hierarchy of goals, tenure, one year, monthly, weekly, and daily priorities. These goals are for direction and clarity. You aren't supposed to achieve exactly those things. If the goals change, let them. If you want help with this, I actually have a Cortex template that you can download. You can either join my email list and you get it with the welcome email, or I'll have a link down there where you can...

have it sent to you. But then if you sign up for Cortex, you can duplicate the template and it goes over your vision, your anti-vision, your weekly goals or breaks down all your goals, daily tasks, weekly review, etc. So the first thing you needed to get into the flow state was a hierarchy of goals. The second thing you need is a deep

Interest. Contemplate your life, what you do and don't want. The temporary goals that we set earlier create a frame for your mind to adopt. Now, what interest, topic, or skill will help solidify one piece of that puzzle and move you forward toward your ideal lifestyle? So your vision, what you want out of life, your anti-vision, what you don't want out of life, and then your goals are the path to get there. What skills and what knowledge do you need to acquire in order to make it from one place to

to the next along that path. That's where you start. Start there. Pick something to begin studying. Block out time for it. Read a fundamental book. Watch a lecture or podcast. Follow new social accounts. Expose your mind to more information and allow your vision to filter for signal. Now, this is only the starting point because we're going to talk about interest based education. But when you start with one skill from curiosity or just necessity to achieve your vision for the future, you eventually are made aware of what you need to learn next. And you're

eventually aware that everything interconnects. Like if I want to learn business, then I can start learning marketing. And in order to learn marketing well, then I need to learn psychology. And then I'm exposed to philosophy of mind and metaphysics and spirituality. And that teaches me the necessity of relationships and social dynamics. And in order to do those well, I need my health in check. So I have the energy to do those and interest based...

Interest-based education pretty much teaches you everything that you actually need to know in order to live a good life. Is that going to teach you how to write handwriting or spelling? No, you're probably going to have to go through some form of education system in order to achieve that. But interest-based education is a prerequisite for anyone that wants to be free. If a good, true, and beautiful life is important to you, anything other than being or doing in alignment with that

is by definition wasting your time. Now, the third thing in order to enter the flow state and we'll make this one quick is challenge and skill. If your skill is high and the challenge low, you will get bored. If your skill is low and the challenge is high, you will get anxious.

So both of these scenarios prevent you from getting into flow. So if the challenge is too high, like, oh, this is too difficult, then I get anxious and you start to dwell on these negative thoughts. And then if the challenge isn't, if it's just too easy, you get bored and think of something better you could be doing. So you need to maintain this balance. And the way that you do that is you create a

project, an interest based project that you can actually build and control the challenge that you take on. And the project is a puzzle piece or a stepping stone to achieving your goals. If you're not working on a project right now, you're not working towards your goals, plain and simple. So if you're trying to start a business, then actually start the business, start the social media profile, start writing a newsletter, start writing a landing page.

Start writing social media posts. Start writing out a product. Start fleshing out a curriculum for a coaching program. Start mocking up software. Start doing something with a product. Buy a bunch of products on Amazon that you would want to recreate and start making your own prototypes of them. If you want to do anything related to the digital world, then by chance,

check out to our writer to learn the high income skill. That's something that allows you to actually write about your interests and turn your interests into an income. Writing is such a foundational skill that most people have to learn, but most people don't because there aren't too many actually relevant courses to have

how you write in the modern world. So check out to our writer if you would like to. So we understand how to get into the flow state. And that's important because when we are doing something, it needs to be impactful. It needs to be enjoyable. But now we need to understand, we need to move up a level and understand how your level of mind shapes how you perceive the world.

To enter the flow state, you need a hierarchy of goals, deep interests, and challenge that demands a certain level of skill. But we are all at different stages of development in our lives. We all operate from different meta goals. We see different things as important and worth acting on.

Now, why does this matter? Because if you're at a lower stage of development, frankly, you have no business acting and faking like you are at a higher stage. Putting on a spiritual hat when you haven't earned that experience isn't spirituality. It's status-seeking. A lot of people in the political environment right now put on this post-conventional level of development hat...

as if they understand multiple people's perspectives and have this empathy and compassion for other people when they're actually at the conventional stage and they're very narrow in their own perspective. And they're saying that the other side is doing X, Y, and Z, but that's what they're doing to the other side. So that's one big trap you can fall into is identifying with these higher levels of development

and it's just causing more pain than good. Now, if you don't understand what these levels of development are, I'd recommend watching the video I recently put out, How to Become More Intelligent than 99% of People, where we go over the nine stages of ego development. Most humans in most domains...

evolve through four broad stages there's egocentric which is focused on the survival of ourselves there's group centric which is focused on the survival of our group tribe nation or ideology democrats republicans christians muslims yankees fans people who enjoy coffee people who enjoy tea people who have started an agency versus people who sell courses versus people who have started a software

It's everywhere. Then there is world-centric, which is focused on the survival of humanity and the biosphere. And then there's cosmocentric, which is focused on the survival and harmony of the cosmos and beyond, the highest order. And each transcends and includes the other. When you reach group-centric or world-centric, you're still integrating and including the egocentric, the group-centric, etc. As a society, we're still mostly at the group-centric stage, and the election is quite a good indicator of this.

How does this have anything to do with a meaningful life? Well, if you are so focused on yourself and your group, like 80 plus percent of people, and those concepts are bursting at the seams with the rapid spread of information and acceleration of technology, you're kind of lost and a void until you attempt to self-develop toward the next stage.

If you understand the concept that I talk about of mental survival, where animals try to reproduce the information in their DNA, humans do that as well. But we also try to reproduce the information in our consciousness because our ideology, our worldview, our identity is like a mental body. Then when it gets poked,

or stabbed, it gets hurt, and we feel that emotion. When someone offends you, the word offended means that you're in some kind of emotional pain. So when red versus blue are arguing against each other, they're trying to spiritually reproduce or mentally reproduce. They're trying to turn each other into the other one, and they're trying to defend their body from

dying or from them turning to the other side. So with all of this information and more conflict than ever in religion, schooling, politics, etc., we're in this state all the time just trying to defend ourselves and make sense of who we are. So that's why the stages of development are important and why you have to seek

perspective to go into the next one. You have to actually try to expand your mind and change your identity and accept that you are wrong 99% of the time. Now, a fun fact here is that regular meditation can actually help you accelerate entering a new stage of development. It's some crazy statistic. I don't know exactly what it is, but meditation can help you reach like a whole stage of development like

I think it's one year with meditation, like five years without meditation. And sometimes people never make it to the next stage of development. So something to try. Now in the next sections of this video, we will learn how to evolve into higher stages and what you as an individual should do that is meaningful. Now we're going to have a bit of fun with this. We need to go over a brief description of the ultimate structure of reality. Two words, transcend and include.

Okay, I lied. One more word. Holons. Now, I know you're thinking, you're like, what the fuck, Dan? What are you talking about? A holon is a concept that helps describe the fabric and nature of reality, the building blocks of the universe. First coined by Arthur Kossler and now adopted by Ken Wilber, a holon is a whole part, whole

whole slash part, both a whole in itself and a part of something else. Now, for those who have studied systems thinking or the Greek philosophy of the cosmos, which is an orderly and harmoniously arranged system like the universe in which everything has a purpose, you see where this is going. Everything transcends and includes what came before it. Atoms to molecules to cells to organisms, letter to word to sentence to paragraph, ego to group to world to cosmos, employee to team to department to company, all of these things interconnect

infinitely, like how the employee is a whole in itself, but also a part of a family or group text or the honey inside of a whole cup of coffee, both of which are processed by beekeepers and coffee manufacturers who may or may not be causing harm within their own whole processes. Reality is constructed of metaphorical holons.

Metaphors breed understanding. Now a tip here is holistic thinking or thinking in whole ons is actually quite fun and can lead to a lot of profound realization. So if you're ever trying to think through a problem, think in wholes and parts.

One key insight here is that reality is hierarchical, but not all hierarchies are created the same. There are dominator hierarchies and natural or growth hierarchies. Dominator hierarchies are imposed order. They're often oppressive and harmful. It makes sense why the left wants to rid the world of these, but they often lump both hierarchies into the same group, which lead to them wanting to dismantle any and all order in the world, resulting in mass chaos, which is another massive reason we're in this position of meaninglessness.

Now, natural hierarchies are emergent order. So after conflict, pain, or problem solving, a solution or level to the hierarchy emerges, transcends, and includes the rest, resulting in increasing wholeness and embrace. So by aligning what you do with the highest order of the cosmos, whose systemic properties can be mapped to that of God, Brahman, or any other omniscient, omnipresent,

or omnipotent identity of reality, not reality itself, you begin to see reality as an interconnected whole and your place or purpose within it starts to shine through. You perceive how your being, doing, and becoming send a ripple through everyone and everything, and your decisions carry a vast weight of responsibility that crushes the weak and empowers the strong. So, being, doing, becoming.

But being is connected to beauty or the good or truth just by the nature of experience. And then doing should align with some form of experience.

Truth, which is the ultimate structure of reality and the generalized principles of reality and what's happening all around us and using that as a way to course correct and notice when you are either stuck in a dominator hierarchy or you are creating a dominator hierarchy where you're either oppressing yourself.

other people or you're being oppressed and escaping that and you're helping others and yourself evolve through these natural hierarchies where you're reaching new stages of development together by you pursuing your own development and then helping others pursue their development. So the question now is what do you do with your life that allows you to do that? How do you help? How do you develop yourself and help others develop themselves?

Happiness is the feeling that power increases, that resistance is being overcome. That's one of my favorite quotes from Nietzsche. And for Nietzsche, in this quote, happiness is a sense of control over one's surroundings, a sense that progress is being made. Now for Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the godfather of flow psychology, this is the source of enjoyment, right? The flow state. And I find that to be a

But that begs the question, what do I make progress toward that leads to maximum enjoyment? How can I find that perfect intersection of what matters, what I'm good at, and what is needed? What do I learn? How do I learn? How do I contribute to humanity in a meaningful way that I can be paid well for? Here are a few steps. First, we need to identify your personal values.

path, not a path that was assigned to you, not going to school, not getting a job, not whatever that is, your personal path. The first thing we must do is revolt against the meaningless path. We must start from scratch. We must reject the education system whose sole purpose is to breed useful workers who are dependent on another for their paycheck. In turn, they relinquish their control over their emotions, stress from paying bills, which impacts their potential, their mind narrows and prevents them from change if they dig themselves too deep.

So how do we start from scratch? By ideating, creating, and iterating our own narrative, our own story, not the narrative that was assigned to you by parents, teachers, and peers. To do this, you create a vision and anti-vision. This starts to form a mental frame from which you can focus your attention on things that matter. Since we've already discussed that, here are a few key questions to uncover what you want to do. What are you most bothered by?

This could be behavior, the state of the world, how people think, etc. What were you most interested in as a child? If you could change one part of the world, what would it be and are you conscious of its impact? Who are you most inspired by and can you continue their work? And last, if you could study something all day, what would it be? There are a thousand more questions I could ask, but I will let you let those five questions trigger more thoughts. Sit with them for at least 10 minutes. A notebook,

would be helpful. All you need is a starting point. That's all you're looking for with this. You're not necessarily trying to plan everything out. You're just trying to look for what can I start learning and doing that one matters to what people need and three, what I'm good at or have the capacity to become good at more than the next person. So after thinking of your personal path, we move along that path through the second point, which is interest based education. Here's the kicker. There is no right path.

If I could assign you a path to take, you would end up in the same place, replaceable and dependent. You must create your own path through a better style of education, self-education. Now, I was a straight-A student in high school, but before I went to college, my parents got divorced and

money became scarce and I rapidly realized that I didn't want to end up in that same situation that they were going through. And now of course before this I would study things and learn about things in my free time but this really kick-started and catalyzed my interest-based education journey. I began to question everything and thanks to the internet those questions could be partially answered.

The other answers were found as my experience increased. I started by studying religion and then arguments against religion, and when I couldn't find the answers that satisfied me, I started betting on myself. I dove into fitness and nutrition but realized that was only one domain of my life. I knew I had to get my financial situation in check, so I started learning about business. It all felt so shallow, so I dug deeper and dove into philosophy.

Now, stick with me, because here's the cool part. Most of history's greatest thinkers, like Marcus Aurelius, had the privilege of being the first to think about the world.

privilege of being taught by the world's best teachers. They were being prepared for leadership. They were heirs to the throne. So of course, they were given the best education. They had personalized education from the best teachers across mathematics and strategy and everything. So it's not a matter of luck.

for how they were great. It's how they were raised and how their education conditioned their mind to be, do, and become. Now, this disappeared after the Industrial Revolution, and everyone started learning from teachers that had poor incentives to be great within the public school system. When you have that salary, there's no reason to... If you're saved, if that's what you're doing for 20, 30 years as a teacher, you don't have any incentive to improve and become the best. And when you're teaching...

Waves of kids every hour, every year. They're not getting the best education that they deserve. So the beautiful thing about this in our day and age is that the Internet exists. Social media exists. You can find the brightest minds online. You can read books. You can study almost anyone. Although that's a bit more specific because you can go and study them.

You can filter out who's great from who's not, and you can focus only on studying the greats. And the thing is, is that these people do have an incentive to continue doing better because they don't have one static salary. They have money. They have freedom. They have the meaning to be a creator and do these things. And if they don't get better or their audience isn't benefiting from what they do,

Then they make less money. The other thing here is that the information that most people distribute on social media is tailored to the shallow algorithm. And that's not a problem with the creator themselves. That's a problem with, again, the incentives of the social media algorithm. And until social media inherently changes.

You need to understand how to dive into information and learn the best. You're not going to find the best on social media. You can find smart people. You can learn the beginner level of topics, but then how does it go? Everyone thinks that funnels are just this some like bad thing where it goes, okay, social media content, newsletter, email list, email funnel, whatever it may be. Okay,

low ticket course, high ticket program, et cetera. The thing is, is that for this style of education, we don't live in ancient Greece. You aren't the heir to the throne. You aren't that important of a person. Money is an important thing. It rules the modern world. You're going to have to pay for education. But the beautiful thing about this is that the courses that are actually helpful out there are a fraction of the cost of a freaking degree that gets you nowhere. So if you want to

a mentor. It's funny. I've seen a few posts about this here and there, but I've even had some emails where it's like, hey, will you be my mentor? Or when someone posts online like, hey, why are there no such thing as mentors anymore? It's because we live in a completely different world and people need to make money. If they're going to spend time with you, then you're going to pay them. And if you have a poor relationship with money or you're at a lower stage of financial development,

then that's not going to make sense of you. That's going to cause conflict in your mind. You're going to feel like you want to lash out and explain to me how I'm wrong. But again, I would encourage you to just question your own beliefs. Now that you understand how you can learn with interest-based education and you have a path to learn on with your vision and anti-vision, the third thing we need to understand is just contribution to humanity. What are we doing for work? The purpose of this entire video was to help you find meaning. So far, we've learned that a meaningful life is a recursive relationship with

being, doing, and becoming to appreciate, contribute to, and deepen your capacity for appreciation and contribution. The doing must come from being. Two is that you are a part of an evolved conscious form called society, culture, etc. And it is your duty to maintain and strengthen that connection through contribution. Three, the best way to contribute is by finding the intersection of what matters,

what I'm good at and what is needed. Now, in my eyes, the best way to learn and contribute is on the Internet. That's where the attention is right now. And you need attention if you want to contribute in any meaningful way. People who don't understand the creator perspective of the Internet

always have objections like old world objections to this like oh like not everyone has to be on the internet and with where the world is going yes they do they don't have to be terminally online on the internet ruining their lives they just need to be contributing on the internet because that's how you gain access to everyone or potentially everyone or just your tribe that you find

Personal brands and creators who don't get trapped in the popularity or status race, go watch my video, The Death of the Personal Brand, embrace the path of uncertainty and find meaning in the unique and helpful products they sell. They aren't personal brands or content creators at all, actually. They're simply people who saw the opportunity of distributing the value they have to offer and getting paid to do so. And they're doing so where the attention is right now, the place where they can make the greatest amount of change, which is the internet.

If you want to sustain what you love to do, then you will have to make money. If you want to make money doing what you love, then you will have to start a business. If you want to start a business, you will have to educate yourself with the broad array of skills necessary to do so. That is a part of your interest-based education. Starting a business, learning business, is a part of your interest-based education if you want to do what you want by your own means, by your own desire, by your own control.

At some point, if you want to continue your path of mastery, you will become interested in business. Hopefully, you will go through the stages of development so you can do so in a way that results in the least harm. Because no, businesses aren't evil, but not starting one ensures that the evil ones dominate. Another thing with that is that I was having a conversation with my editor the other day, Devin, and...

With some of the comments, people just don't understand what a business is or like they have this idea of what a business is. For all I'm concerned, a business is just a way to accept payment for the value you have to offer. You don't need to start an LLC. You don't need a logo. You don't need a website. You need a payment link. So sign up for Stripe. Sign up for PayPal. DM someone. Cold email someone. Warm outreach. Message someone. Message family or friends and be like, hey, I offer this.

Do you want to pay me for it? And then once they pay you, oh my goodness, you're in business. You can do everything else after that or along the way. We'll talk about that at some point because this video is getting long and I've talked about all that before as well. Go watch my videos on money and business and how money is spiritual and all of these other things. So I'll end with this. If you want to learn more about the business stuff, go watch my one person business playlist on YouTube. And if you just need a starting point and you're not

afraid to spend money and you want to start your interest-based education, I have two-hour writer and mental monetization, which is my writing and marketing courses. Both of those will help you at any stage in your business, but if you don't want those, just go watch another video, one of the business videos, if that's something that you're actually interested in. So that's it for this video. I hope you benefited from it. Like, subscribe, do all that fun stuff. Thank you for watching.