{"id":1024,"date":"2014-10-18T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventurewithjonas.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2014-10-18T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T08:39:28","slug":"the-meaning-of-life-in-12-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventurewithjonas.com\/en\/the-meaning-of-life-in-12-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of life &#8211; in 12 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video from Tim Minchins speach at UWA just about sums up where I currently stand in life &#8211; so thank you Tim for sharing!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NyBvbot3emM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you have an opinion &#8211; question it.<\/p>\n<p>If you have one dream &#8211; don&#8217;t make it a tunnel, there is only one light at the end of the tunnel, but lots of lights\u00a0on the sides<\/p>\n<p>It is ok to live in micro dreams &#8211; just follow them and see where you end up.<\/p>\n<h3>It&#8217;s all luck &#8211; however you ended up where you are, it&#8217;s all luck or not, but if you are in a good place, be humble about it.<\/h3>\n<p>Ok, I am going to stay with this idea today, because it\u00a0is one that I try to base my life on, and one that I have seen in different contexts\u00a0the last couple of years. In\u00a0<i>Re-evaluation Counseling\u00a0<\/i>(Omv\u00e4rderande parsamtal in Swedish) one of the basic assumptions is that\u00a0in<strong> any give situation we make the best choice we can, given the resources we have at that time.<\/strong>\u00a0Kay Pollack, NLP and Richard Brodie (in <em>Getting Past OK<\/em>) all talk about the same concept.<\/p>\n<p>This concept might impose on your idea of &#8220;free will&#8221; and it might threaten your idea that you are where you are because of hard work, doing the right thing, or that you are simply better than others.<\/p>\n<p>As I see it though, life is a timeline that starts when you are born (or maybe conceived) and ends up in the choices you make right now. And it has been that way all through your life (and everybody elses). When we make a bad decision it&#8217;s because that our previous experiences from life didn&#8217;t give us the possibility \u00a0to handle the situation in a better way, we just didn&#8217;t have a good enough toolbox. If you make a good decision it&#8217;s because you had the right tool, and that was given to you prior to the point were you could make the choice.<\/p>\n<p>Think of a time when you made a bad decision, and think about what other choices you could have made. Then ask yourself why you didn&#8217;t make another one. Your answer might be: &#8220;I did not know of the other choices&#8221; or &#8220;I did not have time to think about other choices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now extend this idea to all the choices you make yourself and all the choices that others make. 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