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Oct 23, 2022Liked by Grant Smith

I am very curious how you came to be so well and broadly read. What are your undergrad degrees?

I just heard Jordan Peterson say, "to minimize the amount of suffering in the world, now that is something to do." That is the ethic with which I attempt to operate.

If I could get everyone I come in contact with in my practice "to make stepping onto this path more alluring than any alternative," I would be out of business.

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Oct 23, 2022Liked by Grant Smith

Just came across your name reading Chris Bray. This is the first time I am reading your material(thoughts, beliefs may be a better description). It is a LOT to take in. I will continue to read as I feel I have a lot to learn about myself. Didn’t even know that until Chris directed me to “minute 49” of a 2 hour podcast you were part of. It got my attention.

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Love the Hume reference. From your previous work, I'm confident you actually read Hume! Not to be cynical, but I do wonder if some people are purpose-driven and so willing to create their own roles, whereas other people are understandably seeking community membership and so align themselves accordingly -- spiritually and mentally -- and fulfill (insofar as they do, or anyone does) existing roles. Not criticizing either type. Do think leadership matters, as well as who we surround ourselves with. Moreover, am I committed to truly sharing the burdens? Helping raise my cohort up or at least keep them afloat, so to speak? As I get older, the intangibles -- the spiritual -- matter more and more.

What's particularly good about your model -- the direction your work is going here -- is that it prepares people for life after the military. With purpose, you have direction and even structure for your own life and social environment. Without it, you are -- or can be -- at the mercy of your current situation. I do find too many people trapped in the present, as it were.

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