how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration

Self-acceptance, was that what I was struggling with, was that what I was longing for? To accept myself as I truly was, my childhood, my story, my mum, my sister, my job history, my shortcomings and my apathy, the whole package. And that was just for starters. And then take responsibility for myself and my actions and my growth. Not blame them on e... See more

The most important thing for me is Kierkegaard’s insistence that being a totally ordinary human being is an enormous task and a declaration of faith from above, and that when you are lucky enough to be given this one life on earth as a human being, then you need to live it with complete sincerity and full responsibility.

It seems to me that their ideas are useful for very different kinds of experiences. One key difference is duration of the experience . L.A. Paul’s model of “transformative experience” works best for situations that have a clean before/after. The after is where you are epistemically transformed, and your self, tastes, preferences, and knowledge migh... See more