I've been receiving a few messages asking me to make some recommendations
across various categories, so this video is part one of four. Here's ten things for you to consume
which have significantly changed my own behaviour in this world, I have
been really in a position of ignorance before acquiring this information, what i love about
this particular list is it's very accessible and easy, you could consume all of these 10 things
today! Number one is a book by Leo Tolstoy called A letter to Hindu, it's actually very short,
it's a letter but i think it's a great piece of literature to work as an argument
for intellectual honesty and living an examined life without cognitive dissonance. Number two,
read some book by Dr Michael Greger. Obviously sometimes nutrition can be a controversial topic,
regardless of that nutritionfacts.org is the most scientifically based form of media I ever consume.
Every single video is just based off of a scientific report. The moral of the story
is to eat more plants but you can also just search his website if you've got any chronic or physical
issues or challenges and you'll get this abundance of ideas about how to use food as thy medicine.
Number three, We Should All Be Feminist. Feminism is just looking very specifically
at social issues with an emphasis on the concern for women. 50 percent of our population are women,
we're often in relationship to women, and we should all be feminists is a very
fair and approachable resource on the topic, it's a very concise read too so if you've never looked
into this avenue give it a go and it might expand your mind about how you think about yourself
in relationship to others and especially the amount of conditioning constructs around us,
set up defaults which are less than desirable. And the study of feminism also really reveals
how unlearning can be as important as learning, I'm currently reading This Changes Everything
which is a book about climate change. You ought to just read something about climate change,
it will affect our lives. In the coming years it's going to affect every single person who's alive on
earth. It's a significant significant challenge but what i'm enjoying so far in the early stages
of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is there is a real emphasis in what a common person can and
ought to be doing. Bonus you know, recommendation, Story of stuff is a 20-minute youtube video which
gets into the cycle of consumerism and the impacts it has on our environment and if you want to get
through the 10 in a day you can watch that too, but the books are very good and then my final book
on the list is Ethics in the real world by Peter Singer where Peter Singer makes his arguments.
And this is a fantastic book to break down all the different ethical considerations we should
have in living our lives, if you want to live and examine life here's 80 nuances which you can just
very easily receive. The next part of the list are a little bit more artistic because that's part of
life too and amongst all the investigations of behaviour there's also the expansive part of
life. My first recommendation is to listen to Pink Floyd's Time, just the idea of converting
a fundamental reality of the universe into a song beautiful! And number two Comfortably Numb, just
listen and go on a journey. You probably already have but yeah it's experience at its finest.
Mozart's The Magic Flute at least listen to Queen of the Night and i'm not going to say
more about that one because I don't want to I don't want to impede and put any impressions.
Next on the list it's not appropriate to do numbers when they're all this good,
Vermeer The Milkmaid and next Bernini Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. I just love good art
I'm not gonna tell you about it but you know i i just consume these things i've mentioned
and they fill me with a certain inspiration of life, a real sense to meaning and they
make me reflect in wonderful ways and do so much more. So for today those are 10 recommendations
to transform, shift, move, expand. Ten things to make life amazing! Thank you for pursuing
moving forward making the world better, you're already amazing let's just help others in the
world realise more wonderful ways of being which comes from us being more skillful.
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