Designing your Life – MIT OpenCourseware
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This course provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life, on your own terms. The instructors address what it takes to succeed, to be proud of your life, and to be happy in it. Participants tackle career satisfaction, money, body, vices, and relationship to themselves. They learn how to confront issues in their lives, how to live life, and how to learn from it.
Course Outline
- Promises and consequences and areas of life: Developing personal integrity Making and keeping weekly promises
- Theories Examining theories about the way the world works Discussing how theories affect what is seen as possible and impossible Learning how to make new theories that align with our dreams
- Theories, purges, and thought logs: Hunting for theories about the way the world works Keeping a log of thoughts Purging the mind of destructive thoughts that prevent us from honoring our promises to ourselves
- Excuses: Identifying excuses that take away the responsibility of being great Debunking the excuses that are holding us back from our dream life
- Parent traits: Examining how personal traits can be a reaction to parental traits Identifying how parents’ traits live within us
- Haunting incidents: Finding haunting incidents in our lives Learning the lessons that haunting incidents suggest we need to learn
- Cleaning up haunting incidents: Resolving haunting incidents so that they do not haunt us anymore Learning how to feel proud and confident in our skin
- Connecting theories, traits, and haunting incidents: Explaining how haunting incidents arise from our traits and theories Analyzing haunting incidents for insights into how we should evolve to reach our goals
Theodore Lee is the editor of Caveman Circus. He strives for self-improvement in all areas of his life, except his candy consumption, where he remains a champion gummy worm enthusiast. When not writing about mindfulness or living in integrity, you can find him hiding giant bags of sour patch kids under the bed.