How to Make Decisions from Confidence and Strength in Any Situation

Main subjects

AcceptanceAwareness, observation, and perceptionA conscious decisionThe observation zoneDecisions, action, and self-sabotageLove, help, and rescuing others

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Teaser
• 00:38Observation: a key skill for the twenty-first century
• 01:15What is the state of observation?
• 06:40How to make the right decisions
• 09:11Misunderstandings about observation
• 10:42The right approach to observation
• 10:23Making decisions in a crisis
• 16:20How observation leads to confidence, harmony, and balance in difficult situations
• 17:28Making decisions from confidence and strength
• 19:48What lies beyond observation?
• 20:33A practice for developing observation skills

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• 01:37

  It's very important that only you personally can make the right decision in your own life, because taking a particular road can be a tremendous benefit for one person, while the very same road can mean enormous harm and death for another.

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• 03:48

  “I remember that I need to be in a state of observation, and I observe myself while continuing to hurt the other person, say unkind things, and act from my lack of awareness, my pride, my ego.”

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• 07:05

  Again, people very often think—especially in the twenty-first century, especially now—and this is an incredible social failure happening everywhere in the world.

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• 07:24

  That's why we're caught in utopian thinking when it comes to the global economy, politics, our social environment, and human relationships.

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• 09:23

  For some reason, people skip over the phase itself, the process itself, and the fact that they can't enter a state in which they're observing all the time.

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• 12:20

  This channel, the one you're watching, with more than sixty videos on it, was erased.

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• 13:44

  I knew I had plans ahead of me, a reason for doing this over time.

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• 14:14

  They're distressed because they'll never see that person again, because they had plans to be together in the future.

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• 16:16

  “You looked at why you needed it, didn't you?” And there's always this impulse to say, “But surely this event didn't happen for nothing.”

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• 16:23

  “Why did you need it, Alexander?” I'm now telling you why I needed that event.

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