Self-Improvement and Aiming Correctly

Why Improve Yourself?

• To avoid unnecessary suffering.
• To prevent causing suffering to others.
• If you don't organize yourself, you'll experience negative consequences.

How to Improve Yourself

Fix What's Around You

• Phenomenological Approach: Identify bothersome things and fix them.
• Room Exercise:
  • Spend 10 minutes making the room better.
  • Organize papers, clean up dust, untangle cables, etc.
  • Begin with small, manageable tasks.

Daily Routine Adjustments

• Focus on improving repetitive daily actions.
• Routines constitute 50% of life, making them crucial.

Broader Domain of Being

• Start fixing issues within your domain of competence.
• Be cautious of tackling problems beyond your capability.
• Example: Avoid trying to fix complex problems like someone else's severe addiction or mental illness.

Psychological Perspective

Jung’s Idea

• Get your mind and emotions together.
• Extend self-improvement to areas of life under your control.

Importance of Aiming

• Aim Determines Perception:
  • The world reconfigures itself based on your aims.
  • Example: Basketball experiment where a gorilla is missed due to focused attention.
• Lesson: You see what you aim at.

Implications of Aiming

• Choose your aims carefully.
• Aiming can influence how the world manifests to you, affecting your perception and experiences.
• Randomness exists, but aiming correctly still plays a crucial role.

Final Reflections

• Balance aiming with understanding of randomness.
• Regularly reassess your aims to ensure they align with desired life changes.