What do you want to experience more of?
Don't start with what you should achieve. Start with what you want to experience.
Choose as many as fit. You can add your own.
You cannot become through thinking alone.
Understanding matters. Reflection matters. But some things can only be learned by entering life.
A person can think about confidence, independence, adventure, connection, creativity, freedom. Eventually experience has to provide the evidence.
A life can be full of achievement and empty of experience.
Achievement asks: what did I accomplish? Experience asks: what did I live?
Both can matter. There is room here for both.
What do you want to remember having lived?
Experience generator
Answer what applies. Skip anything that doesn't.
How experience expands a life
- 01
COMFORT
Where you already know how it goes.
- 02
CURIOSITY
Something starts to interest you.
- 03
EXPERIMENT
You try a small version of it.
- 04
EXPERIENCE
You actually enter it.
- 05
EVIDENCE
You now know something you only imagined before.
- 06
EXPANSION
What you consider possible changes shape.
Growth does not require constant discomfort. Comfort has value. Rest has value. But curiosity sometimes asks us to enter somewhere we have not been.
New input can create new possibility.
A new person, place, conversation, book, culture, skill, environment or challenge may introduce information that was not available inside your usual world.
- INPUT
- ATTENTION
- INTERPRETATION
- EXPERIENCE
- NEW EVIDENCE
Not every new experience creates growth. Sometimes it simply teaches: this isn't for me. That is useful information too.
The attention sequenceMicro experiences
Expansion does not always require a plane ticket.
Take dinner somewhere you've never eaten.
Watch sunrise from somewhere new.
Walk through a neighbourhood you've never explored.
Call someone you miss.
Learn five sentences in another language.
Cook something from another culture.
Attend a free exhibition.
Spend one hour creating something.
Have a conversation with someone outside your usual world.
Change the route you normally take.
Sit somewhere without your phone.
Bigger experiences
Larger experiences are not better experiences. They are simply larger.
Experiences with people
- Share a meal with someone.
- Ask someone about their story.
- Teach someone something you know.
- Learn something from someone else.
- Invite someone who might otherwise be excluded.
- Create something together.
- Explore somewhere together.
- Help without making the other person feel small.
Contribute something
Not necessarily money. What do you have capacity to contribute here? Entirely voluntary.
You don't always need to commit. Sometimes you need to experiment.
- IDEA
- SMALL EXPERIMENT
- EXPERIENCE
- EVIDENCE
- NEXT DECISION
An experiment removes the pressure of needing certainty before movement.
Use this inside Life RedesignTravel mode
Not an itinerary planner. A way of deciding what you want to experience while you're there.
What do you want to feel there?
Not every suggestion suits every place or culture. Choose what is appropriate where you are going.
Don't only ask where you should go. Ask what you want to experience while you're there.
Not everything needs to improve you.
Eat because it tastes beautiful. Dance because music moves you. Rest because you are tired. Life does not need to become one endless optimisation project.
The Living PhilosophyThinking creates possibility. Experience creates evidence. Reflection creates understanding.
Life is not only something to understand. It is something to participate in.
NOT EVERY BEAUTIFUL MOMENT NEEDS AN AUDIENCE.
Nothing you record here is shared, ranked or shown to anyone. Some experiences are better kept than published. Reflection is optional — an experience does not need to be written down to have counted.
Nothing here is stored anywhere unless you choose to keep it.