text: What would you do to improve yourself? Well, let's step 1 step backwards. The first question might be, why should you bother improving yourself? And I believe the answer to that is something like, so you don't suffer any more stupidly than you need to. And maybe so others do not have to either. It is something like that. You know, like there's a true injunction at the base of it. It is not some casual self-help doctrine. It is that if you don't arrange yourself properly, you'll pay for it and in a significant way. And so will the people around you today, and you may say, well, I don't care about that, but that is actually not correct. You truly do care about that because if you are in pain, you will care about it. And that means you do care about, even if it's only that negative way, you know, it's very rare you could find someone who's in excruciating pain who would ever say, well, it would be no better.
  If I had been out of this form of pain is one of the things that brings the idea that it would be better if it did not exist along with it, it is in controvertible. So you get your act together so that there isn't any more stupid pain around you than necessary. Well, so then the question might be, well, how would you go about getting your act together? And the reply to that, and this is a phenomenological idea, too. It is something like, look around for something that disturbs you and see if you're able to repair it. So now you think, well, let's say, let's say you go into, you can do it in a room. It is quite fun to do it. Just when you're sitting in a room like a space, possibly your bedroom, you can sit there and just sort of meditate on it and think, okay, if I wanted to spend 10 minutes making this room better, what do I must do?
  And you have to ask yourself that, right? It is not a command. It is like a genuine question and things will pop out in the room that, you know, like there is a heap of papers over there. That's sort of bugging you. And you know, that perhaps little order there are a good thing. And you know, you haven't, there is some crap behind your computer screen that you haven't attended to for like six months. And the room would be slightly better if it was somewhat less dusty and the wires, were not all tangled up the same way. And like, if you, if you let yourself just to think about the expanse where you exist at that moment, there will be all sorts of things. That will pop out in it which you can just fix. And, you know, I would say, well, if you were coming to see me for psychotherapy, this simplest thing for us to do would just be for you to arrange your room. You think, well, is that psychotherapy? And the answer is, well, it depends on how you conceive the constraints of your being. And I Would say start where you can start.
  You know, If, if something announces itself to you, which is a strange way of considering it as in need of repair, you could repair, then Hey, fix it. You mend a hundred things like that. Your life will be a whole lot different. Now, I often tell people to fix the things you repeat daily, because people usually think of those as trivial, right? You get, you brush your teeth, you've got your breakfast. You know, you have your routines which you go through daily. Well, those likely constitute 50% of your lifetime. And people think, well, they are mundane. I don't need to pay attention to them. It's like, no, no, that's exactly wrong things you do daily. Those are the main things you do. Hands. All you have to do is do the arithmetic. You've figured out immediately. So a hundred alterations to your wider domain of being, and there is a lot less crap and there's a great deal less crap around it.
  A good deal fewer traps for you to step into. And so that is in keeping with Ewing's idea about erasing the dis as soon as you've got your mind and your emotions with each other, and once you're acting that out, then you can extend what you're willing to consider yourself and start fixing up the things which are part of your wider extent. Now, sometimes you do not know how to do that. So you might say, imagine you're walking down Bloor street and there is this guy who's like alcoholic and schizophrenia and has been on the streets for a decade. He kind of stumbled towards you and you know, incoherently mutters something, that's a problem. And it would be useful if you could repair it, but you, have not got a clue about how to repair that. You simply walk around that and go find something that you could fix, since if you muck about it, that not only is it unlikely that you'll help that person, it is very probable that you'll get hurt yourself.
  So, you know, just because while you're experiencing things themselves, as in need of repair, does not mean that it's you right then and there, that should repair them. You have to have some humility. You know, you don't walk up to a helicopter which isn't working and just start tinkering away with it. You have to stay in your domain of competence. But the majority of the time, if people look at their lives, you know, it is very interesting thing to do. I liked, I liked the concept of the room as you can do this at the drop of a hat. You know, you return to where you live and sit down and think, okay, I will make this place better for half an hour.
  What should I do If they have to ask And things will pop up like mad. And it is partly because your mind is a really strange thing. As soon as you give it a name, a real aim, it'll reconfigure the entire world in keeping with that aim. That is actually how you see to start with. And so if you set it a task, especially you've got to be genuine about it, which is why you must bring your ideas and emotions together. And then you must get them in your body. So you are acting consistently. You have to be real about the aim, but as soon as you aim, the entire world will reconfigure itself around that aim, which is extremely strange. And it is, it's, it's technically true. You know, the best example of this, you have all seen this video in which you see the basketballs being tossed back and forth between members of the white team versus the black group.
  You know, I'm not trying to reduce everybody's issues to an improper aim. People get cut off at the knees for a variety of reasons. You know, they get sick, they have injuries, there is a random element to being that's for sure. But, and that means you don't want to take anything, even that specific phrase too far, you need to bind it with the fact that arbitrary things do happen to people, but it is still a great thing to ask.