I'm sharing it all over FB! And I just bought the DVD! I will be showing it for workshops!!!

You can start by supporting Resource Based Economy and The Venus Project :) Thank you for your contribution for the awakening of future generations, if we don't destroy the world by then.

I share it as often as I can in a variety of places. The underlying premise of this is what changed my life and it has the power to change our entire world on an individual basis. It's just a matter of getting people to spend the small amount of time really pondering this introspective kind of thought.

I would suggest believe in yourself, and start from where you are.

Those who don't believe in agency will never encourage you to excercise it... Agency is a muscle. The more you excercise agency the more of it you have... How have I related with my social/environmental influences I grew up with??? I became a very unique thinker whom reassess his beliefs, paragdigms, values, standards, whom seeks more and more ways of excercising my agency, reprogramming my self image identity, choosing to avoid bad influences, choosing to seek out positive influences, mix with people out in the world and read from many sources and above all think for myself with literal and common sense thinking devoid of preconceptions as much as possible... Yes environmental influences play a big role, Yes social influences play a big role, and Yes personal RESPONSABILITY plays the biggest of all roles which he says doesn't exist... Craft your life because your life crafts you... He just says, "Your life crafts you." If that where true then why have I deviated so tremendously far from where I cam from? Because I did the work, because I found the ways that work like reinventing your self image, ONLY because I embrace personal responsibility. You are responsible for nothing at age 4. You are responsible for reasonable age appropriate things at age 7. You are responsible for more by age 12, & responsible to form your social place by age 16, You are responsible to learn the good from your upbringing and begin unlearning the bad through honest reflection by age 21 usually including departing from your upbringings religion. You are responsible for the work you choose, the friends you make, the thoughts you entertain and the activities you do in your past time by age 25, You are responsible for resolving how you relate with your family members & your half good half bad friends and your diciplined or undiciplined relationship with yourself and the trajectories you have placed yourself on by age 30. You are responsible for the results of your actions and non actions even if through unaware negligence and you are responsible for taking more responsibility in the needed areas of your life by age 33. You are responsible for forming your own moral code and your own understandings by age 40. You are responsible for who you become, what affect you have on others, what trajectories you have placed yourself on and what value you produce or fail to produce because you are 100% responsible in every way imaginable at age 40. Whatever you do with the rest of your life is yours.. Own it with Integrity... Don't listen to this clown wanting to sympathize with terrorists and child molestors.

Those who don't believe in agency will never encourage you to excercise it... Agency is a muscle. The more you excercise agency the more of it you have... How have I related with my social/environmental influences I grew up with??? I became a very unique thinker whom reassess his beliefs, paragdigms, values, standards, whom seeks more and more ways of excercising my agency, reprogramming my self image identity, choosing to avoid bad influences, choosing to seek out positive influences, mix with people out in the world and read from many sources and above all think for myself with literal and common sense thinking devoid of preconceptions as much as possible... Yes environmental influences play a big role, Yes social influences play a big role, and Yes personal RESPONSABILITY plays the biggest of all roles which he says doesn't exist... Craft your life because your life crafts you... He just says, "Your life crafts you." If that where true then why have I deviated so tremendously far from where I cam from? Because I did the work, because I found the ways that work like reinventing your self image, ONLY because I embrace personal responsibility. You are responsible for nothing at age 4. You are responsible for reasonable age appropriate things at age 7. You are responsible for more by age 12, & responsible to form your social place by age 16, You are responsible to learn the good from your upbringing and begin unlearning the bad through honest reflection by age 21 usually including departing from your upbringings religion. You are responsible for the work you choose, the friends you make, the thoughts you entertain and the activities you do in your past time by age 25, You are responsible for resolving how you relate with your family members & your half good half bad friends and your diciplined or undiciplined relationship with yourself and the trajectories you have placed yourself on by age 30. You are responsible for the results of your actions and non actions even if through unaware negligence and you are responsible for taking more responsibility in the needed areas of your life by age 33. You are responsible for forming your own moral code and your own understandings by age 40. You are responsible for who you become, what affect you have on others, what trajectories you have placed yourself on and what value you produce or fail to produce because you are 100% responsible in every way imaginable at age 40. Whatever you do with the rest of your life is yours.. Own it with Integrity... Don't listen to this clown wanting to sympathize with terrorists and child molestors.

Those who don't believe in agency will never encourage you to excercise it... Agency is a muscle. The more you excercise agency the more of it you have... How have I related with my social/environmental influences I grew up with??? I became a very unique thinker whom reassess his beliefs, paragdigms, values, standards, whom seeks more and more ways of excercising my agency, reprogramming my self image identity, choosing to avoid bad influences, choosing to seek out positive influences, mix with people out in the world and read from many sources and above all think for myself with literal and common sense thinking devoid of preconceptions as much as possible... Yes environmental influences play a big role, Yes social influences play a big role, and Yes personal RESPONSABILITY plays the biggest of all roles which he says doesn't exist... Craft your life because your life crafts you... He just says, "Your life crafts you." If that where true then why have I deviated so tremendously far from where I cam from? Because I did the work, because I found the ways that work like reinventing your self image, ONLY because I embrace personal responsibility. You are responsible for nothing at age 4. You are responsible for reasonable age appropriate things at age 7. You are responsible for more by age 12, & responsible to form your social place by age 16, You are responsible to learn the good from your upbringing and begin unlearning the bad through honest reflection by age 21 usually including departing from your upbringings religion. You are responsible for the work you choose, the friends you make, the thoughts you entertain and the activities you do in your past time by age 25, You are responsible for resolving how you relate with your family members & your half good half bad friends and your diciplined or undiciplined relationship with yourself and the trajectories you have placed yourself on by age 30. You are responsible for the results of your actions and non actions even if through unaware negligence and you are responsible for taking more responsibility in the needed areas of your life by age 33. You are responsible for forming your own moral code and your own understandings by age 40. You are responsible for who you become, what affect you have on others, what trajectories you have placed yourself on and what value you produce or fail to produce because you are 100% responsible in every way imaginable at age 40. Whatever you do with the rest of your life is yours.. Own it with Integrity... Don't listen to this clown wanting to sympathize with terrorists and child molestors.

Those who don't believe in agency will never encourage you to excercise it... Agency is a muscle. The more you excercise agency the more of it you have... How have I related with my social/environmental influences I grew up with??? I became a very unique thinker whom reassess his beliefs, paragdigms, values, standards, whom seeks more and more ways of excercising my agency, reprogramming my self image identity, choosing to avoid bad influences, choosing to seek out positive influences, mix with people out in the world and read from many sources and above all think for myself with literal and common sense thinking devoid of preconceptions as much as possible... Yes environmental influences play a big role, Yes social influences play a big role, and Yes personal RESPONSABILITY plays the biggest of all roles which he says doesn't exist... Craft your life because your life crafts you... He just says, "Your life crafts you." If that where true then why have I deviated so tremendously far from where I cam from? Because I did the work, because I found the ways that work like reinventing your self image, ONLY because I embrace personal responsibility. You are responsible for nothing at age 4. You are responsible for reasonable age appropriate things at age 7. You are responsible for more by age 12, & responsible to form your social place by age 16, You are responsible to learn the good from your upbringing and begin unlearning the bad through honest reflection by age 21 usually including departing from your upbringings religion. You are responsible for the work you choose, the friends you make, the thoughts you entertain and the activities you do in your past time by age 25, You are responsible for resolving how you relate with your family members & your half good half bad friends and your diciplined or undiciplined relationship with yourself and the trajectories you have placed yourself on by age 30. You are responsible for the results of your actions and non actions even if through unaware negligence and you are responsible for taking more responsibility in the needed areas of your life by age 33. You are responsible for forming your own moral code and your own understandings by age 40. You are responsible for who you become, what affect you have on others, what trajectories you have placed yourself on and what value you produce or fail to produce because you are 100% responsible in every way imaginable at age 40. Whatever you do with the rest of your life is yours.. Own it with Integrity... Don't listen to this clown wanting to sympathize with terrorists and child molestors.

Those who don't believe in agency will never encourage you to excercise it... Agency is a muscle. The more you excercise agency the more of it you have... How have I related with my social/environmental influences I grew up with??? I became a very unique thinker whom reassess his beliefs, paragdigms, values, standards, whom seeks more and more ways of excercising my agency, reprogramming my self image identity, choosing to avoid bad influences, choosing to seek out positive influences, mix with people out in the world and read from many sources and above all think for myself with literal and common sense thinking devoid of preconceptions as much as possible... Yes environmental influences play a big role, Yes social influences play a big role, and Yes personal RESPONSABILITY plays the biggest of all roles which he says doesn't exist... Craft your life because your life crafts you... He just says, "Your life crafts you." If that where true then why have I deviated so tremendously far from where I cam from? Because I did the work, because I found the ways that work like reinventing your self image, ONLY because I embrace personal responsibility. You are responsible for nothing at age 4. You are responsible for reasonable age appropriate things at age 7. You are responsible for more by age 12, & responsible to form your social place by age 16, You are responsible to learn the good from your upbringing and begin unlearning the bad through honest reflection by age 21 usually including departing from your upbringings religion. You are responsible for the work you choose, the friends you make, the thoughts you entertain and the activities you do in your past time by age 25, You are responsible for resolving how you relate with your family members & your half good half bad friends and your diciplined or undiciplined relationship with yourself and the trajectories you have placed yourself on by age 30. You are responsible for the results of your actions and non actions even if through unaware negligence and you are responsible for taking more responsibility in the needed areas of your life by age 33. You are responsible for forming your own moral code and your own understandings by age 40. You are responsible for who you become, what affect you have on others, what trajectories you have placed yourself on and what value you produce or fail to produce because you are 100% responsible in every way imaginable at age 40. Whatever you do with the rest of your life is yours.. Own it with Integrity... Don't listen to this clown wanting to sympathize with terrorists and child molestors.

Those who don't believe in agency will never encourage you to excercise it... Agency is a muscle. The more you excercise agency the more of it you have... How have I related with my social/environmental influences I grew up with??? I became a very unique thinker whom reassess his beliefs, paragdigms, values, standards, whom seeks more and more ways of excercising my agency, reprogramming my self image identity, choosing to avoid bad influences, choosing to seek out positive influences, mix with people out in the world and read from many sources and above all think for myself with literal and common sense thinking devoid of preconceptions as much as possible... Yes environmental influences play a big role, Yes social influences play a big role, and Yes personal RESPONSABILITY plays the biggest of all roles which he says doesn't exist... Craft your life because your life crafts you... He just says, "Your life crafts you." If that where true then why have I deviated so tremendously far from where I cam from? Because I did the work, because I found the ways that work like reinventing your self image, ONLY because I embrace personal responsibility. You are responsible for nothing at age 4. You are responsible for reasonable age appropriate things at age 7. You are responsible for more by age 12, & responsible to form your social place by age 16, You are responsible to learn the good from your upbringing and begin unlearning the bad through honest reflection by age 21 usually including departing from your upbringings religion. You are responsible for the work you choose, the friends you make, the thoughts you entertain and the activities you do in your past time by age 25, You are responsible for resolving how you relate with your family members & your half good half bad friends and your diciplined or undiciplined relationship with yourself and the trajectories you have placed yourself on by age 30. You are responsible for the results of your actions and non actions even if through unaware negligence and you are responsible for taking more responsibility in the needed areas of your life by age 33. You are responsible for forming your own moral code and your own understandings by age 40. You are responsible for who you become, what affect you have on others, what trajectories you have placed yourself on and what value you produce or fail to produce because you are 100% responsible in every way imaginable at age 40. Whatever you do with the rest of your life is yours.. Own it with Integrity... Don't listen to this clown wanting to sympathize with terrorists and child molestors.

Those who don't believe in agency will never encourage you to excercise it... Agency is a muscle. The more you excercise agency the more of it you have... How have I related with my social/environmental influences I grew up with??? I became a very unique thinker whom reassess his beliefs, paragdigms, values, standards, whom seeks more and more ways of excercising my agency, reprogramming my self image identity, choosing to avoid bad influences, choosing to seek out positive influences, mix with people out in the world and read from many sources and above all think for myself with literal and common sense thinking devoid of preconceptions as much as possible... Yes environmental influences play a big role, Yes social influences play a big role, and Yes personal RESPONSABILITY plays the biggest of all roles which he says doesn't exist... Craft your life because your life crafts you... He just says, "Your life crafts you." If that where true then why have I deviated so tremendously far from where I cam from? Because I did the work, because I found the ways that work like reinventing your self image, ONLY because I embrace personal responsibility. You are responsible for nothing at age 4. You are responsible for reasonable age appropriate things at age 7. You are responsible for more by age 12, & responsible to form your social place by age 16, You are responsible to learn the good from your upbringing and begin unlearning the bad through honest reflection by age 21 usually including departing from your upbringings religion. You are responsible for the work you choose, the friends you make, the thoughts you entertain and the activities you do in your past time by age 25, You are responsible for resolving how you relate with your family members & your half good half bad friends and your diciplined or undiciplined relationship with yourself and the trajectories you have placed yourself on by age 30. You are responsible for the results of your actions and non actions even if through unaware negligence and you are responsible for taking more responsibility in the needed areas of your life by age 33. You are responsible for forming your own moral code and your own understandings by age 40. You are responsible for who you become, what affect you have on others, what trajectories you have placed yourself on and what value you produce or fail to produce because you are 100% responsible in every way imaginable at age 40. Whatever you do with the rest of your life is yours.. Own it with Integrity... Don't listen to this clown wanting to sympathize with terrorists and child molestors.

Those who don't believe in agency will never encourage you to excercise it... Agency is a muscle. The more you excercise agency the more of it you have... How have I related with my social/environmental influences I grew up with??? I became a very unique thinker whom reassess his beliefs, paragdigms, values, standards, whom seeks more and more ways of excercising my agency, reprogramming my self image identity, choosing to avoid bad influences, choosing to seek out positive influences, mix with people out in the world and read from many sources and above all think for myself with literal and common sense thinking devoid of preconceptions as much as possible... Yes environmental influences play a big role, Yes social influences play a big role, and Yes personal RESPONSABILITY plays the biggest of all roles which he says doesn't exist... Craft your life because your life crafts you... He just says, "Your life crafts you." If that where true then why have I deviated so tremendously far from where I cam from? Because I did the work, because I found the ways that work like reinventing your self image, ONLY because I embrace personal responsibility. You are responsible for nothing at age 4. You are responsible for reasonable age appropriate things at age 7. You are responsible for more by age 12, & responsible to form your social place by age 16, You are responsible to learn the good from your upbringing and begin unlearning the bad through honest reflection by age 21 usually including departing from your upbringings religion. You are responsible for the work you choose, the friends you make, the thoughts you entertain and the activities you do in your past time by age 25, You are responsible for resolving how you relate with your family members & your half good half bad friends and your diciplined or undiciplined relationship with yourself and the trajectories you have placed yourself on by age 30. You are responsible for the results of your actions and non actions even if through unaware negligence and you are responsible for taking more responsibility in the needed areas of your life by age 33. You are responsible for forming your own moral code and your own understandings by age 40. You are responsible for who you become, what affect you have on others, what trajectories you have placed yourself on and what value you produce or fail to produce because you are 100% responsible in every way imaginable at age 40. Whatever you do with the rest of your life is yours.. Own it with Integrity... Don't listen to this clown wanting to sympathize with terrorists and child molestors.

In regard to whether or not our soul chooses our parents before we are born, once we are born, we can choose again. I was barely past the age of reason, maybe eight, when I made a conscious choice to change my life and leave the toxic environment I was being raised in. By age Nine I began to create my own identity and by age 12 I left home. I write about this in a forthcoming book, FREEDOM, where I site this brilliant man who I agree with to a great deal, and yet I still believe in the power of tapping into an identity that actually exists as our soul that can override our social identity, if we are taught to listen to the voice within and learn to see the oneness with all.

@HOWARD BOYD I'm a Swan in training at best.

MysteryDoorStudio It really is the best.

Axel Maldonado epistemology

Check out jacque fresco's lifetime work on social stuff or many other things and the venus project. peter joseph is also one of the best i've seen so far in understandings of how sick society is

Daniel Dennett

Noam Chomsky

But please not without Social Threefolding

Even if that responsibility we shoulder is an illusion - its is vital that we still view it as a responsibility for the sake of human progress.

Sarah, we require free will to choose to "take individual responsibility to make the world a better place". And we also require reliable cause and effect in order to implement our chosen intent. When a person decides for themselves what they will do, according to their own purpose and their own reasons, then it is both authentic free will and authentically deterministic. The two concepts are not incompatible.

And, I would be further along if someone like me told this to me earlier on instead of clowns saying responsibility doesn't exist...

@Lake Natron Prove it. And by it I mean prove that we have free will.

@Lake Natron So throw out the last 40 years of neuroscience then... it's been declared otherwise on the interweb. Good to know.

quaredunt But Sam Harris makes one point and tries to convince you about his thesis statement. This man takes that idea further and makes many, many, many other claims throughout the book. His intentions might be honest, but his grounds are shaky. I could not have written this book because he delves into questions which are still being asked and which are definitely not settled. While there are clear disagreements among psychologists and neuroscientists on whether we have free will, among economists on which are the best and most reliable systems that we can choose, etc. ... Raoul seems to go past these debates and position himself in a way that fits his ultimate goal and his narrative. I don't know. Like Gladwell, he writes well and you might be taken in by his arguments at first. But if you are somewhat rigurous... you can easily start spotting all kinds of problems with the foundations of the house that he has built... and with the very house itself. BUT it's a nice way of starting the conversation. Many of the points he makes are legitimate too.

who shaped you so bad !

thank you tom.

That is why we are also endowed with forgetfulness.

Identity is shaped by socialisation, including gender norms, as agreed in his text.

you can only choose within the limited options of your surroundings,environment,culture etc. My available choices may be very different than yoursbe cause of different country ,political environment etc. Check out jacque fresco's lifetime work on social stuff or many other things