Are You the Main Character?

How to Stop Being the Main Character

Okay, time to wrap up the series on being the main character by talking about three ways we can chip away at the idea of our own importance:

1. Learn to meditate

2. Invest in other people

3. Understand that you will die

I know that a lot of this might seem disempowering or morbid, but there is freedom in recognizing that nothing revolves around you. I promise. 

Realistic Gratitude

This is an audio version of an old video that I created specifically for an issue of my newsletter.

It’s about 4 things we can always be grateful for:

1) There is something instead of nothing.

2) This something is stable.

3) We have a consciousness with which to experience this stable something.

4) We have a say in how this consciousness relates to the stable something.

I was sick when I recorded it, please excuse the difficulty breathing you hear from time to time.

The Problems with Being the Main Character

If we pay attention, we can see that life is constantly giving us feedback about our behavior. We cannot hear this feedback if we are too busy being the main character, and this will bring us constant trouble.

Are You the Main Character?

Simple ways to tell if you are the main character. 

Quick spoiler: you're not. 

Confessions of a Recovering Main Character

I used to think I was the main character. Now I know I’m not. 

There’s freedom in ordinariness.