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Published every Thursday. 2 ideas from me, 2 quotes from sages, and 1 question for you to explore. These micro-newsletter emails will cover a wide range of small but critical ideas to support you each week. You can explore indepth books, courses, experiments, and tools available at ULTRAJOURNEYINSIGHT.ORG

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EUDAIMONIA
Duane Nelson Duane Nelson

EUDAIMONIA

Eudaimonia is a Greek word meaning ‘good spirit of highest virtue’. It’s a source of joy when signature strengths are used to cultivate virtues throughout daily living. It also cultivates joy during meditative practice by reflecting with gratitude on meaningful eudaimonia experiences. Joy is an prerequisite to living your best life.

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EXPERIMENTAL MINDSET
Duane Nelson Duane Nelson

EXPERIMENTAL MINDSET

An experimental mindset tests the reality of your most meaningful beliefs through small testable experiments.  This is essential to live your best life because it adjusts your ideas to match reality based on feedback and bypasses the brain traps of overestimating predictions, defending past choices, avoiding disconfirming evidence, and fear of failure.

Hollow-bones curiosity, a beginners mind, a don’t know mind, and a passion to evolve toward truth are essential to a healthy experimental mindset. The test is not whether you got the result you expected, but whether you try, investigate, learn, and evolve. The hard truth is that experimental mindsets are uncomfortable. You don’t get immediate certainty, permanent answers, or ego security. However, you do gain adaptability, evidence-based clarity, and self-trust based on reality-tested insight.

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PEACE
Duane Nelson Duane Nelson

PEACE

Peace is non-resistance to truth, essential to living your best life, and flows naturally from a deep understanding of the three universal characteristics of existence:  uncertainty, imperfection, and impermanence.

Embodied peace is the cumulative result of atomic habits that accept uncertainty, forgive imperfection, and relax with the insight of impermanence.

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