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Life Proyect.

The document emphasizes the importance of self-knowledge and reflection to identify personal weaknesses and aspirations. It presents ten questions designed to encourage deep introspection about one's character, relationships with reality, acceptance of complexity, emotional independence, and personal happiness. The aim is to foster discussions that lead to personal growth and understanding.

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Life Proyect.

The document emphasizes the importance of self-knowledge and reflection to identify personal weaknesses and aspirations. It presents ten questions designed to encourage deep introspection about one's character, relationships with reality, acceptance of complexity, emotional independence, and personal happiness. The aim is to foster discussions that lead to personal growth and understanding.

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Life Project.

I.​ Autoknowledge (Introduction).

Don’t be afraid. Look at yourself in a mirror. When you have a little extra weight, or when you
want to achieve better physical fitness or enhance your appearance, you don’t hesitate to
face the mirror. Standing there, you recognize what’s right and what’s wrong, and you take
the initiative to start a diet, a beauty regimen, or a workout routine to feel better and become
happier. But you can only take those steps by looking in the mirror and seeing the reality of
things.

Yet, how many times have you looked in the mirror and seen beyond the physical—beyond
what can be observed with the naked eye?

Your inner life works the same way. You need to look into a figurative mirror and identify your
weaknesses. Is the person you see the one you want to be? The one you aspire to become?
What are you missing? When you take a closer look, you’ll find flaws and attitudes that don’t
align with the person you want to be or become in the future. So, what can you do?

We aren’t born knowing everything. We learn as we live. It’s crucial to reflect on ourselves, to
understand who we are, to discern right from wrong, and, most importantly, to learn how to
love and be happy.

The purpose of these talks isn’t just to listen and then forget. Take notes if needed, and set
aside time—at least once a week—to think deeply about what we’re learning and how to put
it into practice. It can also be helpful, as it has been for me, to talk privately with people you
trust or with those who hold different perspectives. This allows you to contrast and debate
your thoughts.

If everyone is interested in continuing these talks, I’d like to send out an anonymous survey
to gather your feedback and allow you to propose new topics or suggest improvements for
future discussions.

Now, let’s begin the first talk: Self-Knowledge.​


I’m going to present 10 questions for all of us to reflect on and try to answer.

And as always, please don’t hesitate to ask if you don’t understand something!

1.​ Do you know yourself well?​


Character, temperament ( https://www.temperamentquiz.com/ ), emotional style,
intellectual dimension, emotional dimension, action-oriented dimension, spiritual
dimension, and behavioral dimension.

How do I think when I think?


How do I feel when I feel?
How do I behave in my actions?

2.​ How do you relate to reality?​


Do you imagine reality?
Do you overcome reality?
Do you adapt it to what you'd like it to be?

I cannot live in imagination, nor can I live beyond reality.​


"Uchronia": Infinite nostalgia—what would have happened if I had chosen a
different career? What would my life be like if I hadn’t married this person?​
We cannot change reality.​
It’s very important when facing problems to ask: What is the problem? Can I define it
in a single word?

3.​ Do you accept complexity?​


What strategy will I use as I live to face reality?​
Sometimes you win, lose, or tie, but the key isn’t what happens to you—it’s your
attitude toward it.​
What is your attitude toward the world’s complexity, toward life’s challenges?​
Do I accept complexity?​
Accepting complexity means waking up each day with a smile and getting to work,
saying, "Bring on all the problems you want." Not because you’ll always win, but
because attitude matters immensely.

4.​ Am I simple, complex, or complicated?​


Sometimes we complicate things with our complications, make ourselves small with
our pettiness, and burden ourselves with our insecurities. It’s much easier to live with
simplicity.​
Reality is what it is—let’s not make it harder.​
Let’s try to diagnose it as it is and face it from there.​
It’s crucial to approach reality with simplicity. We overcomplicate everything.

5.​ Do you have your own criteria?​


Do I think for myself?
Am I curious about the world around me?
Do I question things?​
Do I have my own perspectives?
My own answers?
My own discoveries for life’s questions—mine and others’?
6.​ Do I have hope?​
Am I prone to negativity?
Do I lower my expectations so reality doesn’t betray me? That’s nonsense! Reality is
what it is.​
Negativity is even harmful to health because you end up believing it.​
Hope is the vision to see beyond—hope in relationships and patience with others.​
Why can I have patience? Because I have hope.
7.​ Do I have emotional independence?​
This doesn’t mean emotional isolation or emotional autonomy, nor does it mean
emotional dependence.​
We are individuals, and our lives find meaning in relationships, but we are also alone.​
If we can’t live in that “aloneness,” we become emotionally dependent on someone or
something.​
We are not alone, yet we are alone.

8.​ Who do you want to look at you?​


With whom do you want to share your life?
What kind of project do you want to share with that person?​
What does the ideal person look like to you?​
What kind of person should they be to share your life with?
Who do you want to admire you?

9.​ Do you have a formula for happiness?​


Two examples (mines, you have to discover yours):
●​ “To be happy, you must be good, and to be good, you must care about others.”
●​ “Happiness doesn’t require a comfortable life but a loving heart.”​
Do you have a formula like this—something simple to remind you every day that we
are here to be happy and that happiness means loving?

10.​How do you manage your freedom?​


Freedom has two dangers: when it gets out of hand in one direction, it leads to
tyranny, which leaves no space for anyone to live.​
In the other direction, it leads to libertinism.​
True freedom lies in the center—a freedom directed toward good. The force that
most drives people toward good is love.

Summary of the 10 Questions:

●​ How do you think?


●​ How do you feel?
●​ How do you act?

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