WHAT
For starts, The Frugal Explorer Handbook is
a long term Legacy Project, meaning that it is not meant to be a media success,
not even a bestseller. It aims to put together a handbook that would,
hopefully, help people change their lives by changing the way they look at
things.
Like for a fine wine or a classic, I will appeal to the acute purifying effect of time to ensure a high quality product that actually changes lives, so its final form will not be public soon, but I will consistently publish articles in the Frugal Blog to benefit of what the scientific method call "organized skepticism."
In short, The Frugal Explorer Handbook will be a tool to guide you to activate the explorer we all have within ourselves, and by doing so, improve the way you feel about your whole life.
Like for a fine wine or a classic, I will appeal to the acute purifying effect of time to ensure a high quality product that actually changes lives, so its final form will not be public soon, but I will consistently publish articles in the Frugal Blog to benefit of what the scientific method call "organized skepticism."
In short, The Frugal Explorer Handbook will be a tool to guide you to activate the explorer we all have within ourselves, and by doing so, improve the way you feel about your whole life.
WHY
People around the world are
unhappy and unsatisfied without any apparent reason.
Even without suffering some kind of illness or endure a tragedy, people are unhappy.
I believe that the reason is this:
We have being taught to believe that the world is a dull place where everything is known and predictableThrough the news and the media, we have being taught to believe that the world is a dull place where everything is known and predictable, and the only exciting things are murder, violence and gossip.
“It’s always the same,” we tend to think by default, when in fact we know that the opposite is true: the world is an amazing place filled with beauty and mystery.
Albert Einstein knew this very well when he said “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: his eyes are closed” and “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”
You're not depressed, you are distracted,, as the famous troubadour Facundo Cabral said. People have lost their capacity of feeling awed by the eccentric beauty this world offers.
I believe that the reason is this:
We have being taught to believe that the world is a dull place where everything is known and predictableThrough the news and the media, we have being taught to believe that the world is a dull place where everything is known and predictable, and the only exciting things are murder, violence and gossip.
“It’s always the same,” we tend to think by default, when in fact we know that the opposite is true: the world is an amazing place filled with beauty and mystery.
Albert Einstein knew this very well when he said “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: his eyes are closed” and “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”
You're not depressed, you are distracted,, as the famous troubadour Facundo Cabral said. People have lost their capacity of feeling awed by the eccentric beauty this world offers.
HOW
The project bases its objective in the following idea: when you are in an authentic exploring mood, your mind acts differently, and this is not a metaphor, it actually performers in a different way: your limbic system is activated and much of the activity taking place in your frontal neo cortex and memory recoil system is shut down.
In other words, you see things without judging and without letting your preconceived ideas and biases interfere; two basic conditions to actually learn anything.
To be completely honest, this changes have not being yet proven by Neurology Science in humans, but they have being identified in other mammals, especially in mice to which exploring is a matter of life and death activity.
Think about it. What is distracting you from seeing things as they really are? Your preconceived ideas, your fears, your problems, the things you think you already knows. Most of that shuts down when you focus on what you are honestly trying to learn
In other words, you see things without judging and without letting your preconceived ideas and biases interfere; two basic conditions to actually learn anything.
To be completely honest, this changes have not being yet proven by Neurology Science in humans, but they have being identified in other mammals, especially in mice to which exploring is a matter of life and death activity.
Think about it. What is distracting you from seeing things as they really are? Your preconceived ideas, your fears, your problems, the things you think you already knows. Most of that shuts down when you focus on what you are honestly trying to learn