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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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WHO ARE YOU?
Duane Nelson Duane Nelson

WHO ARE YOU?

Living your best life requires a deep and accurate understanding of who you really are and alignment with your true nature (infinite and finite elements), your signature strengths, your highest values, and real potential.

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REALITY-BASED PERCEPTION
Duane Nelson Duane Nelson

REALITY-BASED PERCEPTION

Reality-based perception is uncomfortable but essential to living your best life. You will lose certainty, outgrow some identities, and feel temporary instability. However, you will gain meaningful clarity, resilience, better decisions, integrity, and wellbeing.

Your brain is a prediction engine, not a camera. Reality-test your assumptions. Falsifiability is the key difference between ideology and reality. If nothing could disprove it, it’s ideology. Emotional intensity does not equal truth. Understand opposing arguments, alternative explanations, and failed predictions. Pressure-test probabilities with Bayesian Reasoning, Neural networking, and machine learning.

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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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