I’m more moral and honest than I would’ve been. I care more about principles. I’m better at taking criticism. I’ve gotten better at grammar.
I haven’t really done explicit work to integrate things into my life. I think that’s something you have to consciously work on if you want full integration and no contradictions. Like try it out in a situation, document it, reflect on it and try again. I have changed in some ways from just reading but there’s a lot of contradictions between how I act and what I think is philosophically correct.
Me too. I think it’s actually easier to catch some big picture things like a career than to catch those small and subtle ways you may have acted second-handed. Only some though. I don’t think it’s easy to stop all big, long term consequences from second-handedness. I guess there are ways for the small ones to build up into a big thing and also big decisions which are just hard to stay principled in.
Yes. Though I really want to live according to the philosophy and have it improve my life.
I’ve been thinking about whether I should post learning updates like these: