The Better Life Framework
- Get a deeper understanding of yourself and others.
- Explore and read through the descriptions of each perspective.
- Our reality changes based on our perceptions.
Understand Your Perspective
Page Last Updated: February 29, 2024
| Showing All Perspectives (9) | Experience | Motivations | Analogy |
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 1: Survival Life is about dealing with my needs and feeling good by getting what I need. | Basic Needs | Reflexive | Basic Drives |
 2: Dependency Life is about pleasing others (or the gods) so that they give us what we need. | External Dependence | Impulsive | Reciprocity |
 3: Winning Life is about getting what I want by taking or creating advantages for myself. | Recognize Wants | Enduring | Transactional |
 4: Belonging Life is about knowing what's right and what's wrong and making sure others do the right thing, too. | Desire Meaning | Social Conformity | Believer |
 5: Systems Life is about knowing how to make good things happen, keeping the benefits, and always improving. | Lose Faith | Functional Reasoning | Optimizer |
 6: Letting Go Life is about being free to be whoever we are. If we stopped telling others what to do, we would have peace. | System Limitations | Radical Realism | Hippies |
 7: Setting Boundaries Life is about drawing boundaries, saying no is for the best. Who I am and what I want changes often. | Obtain Power | Universal Principles | Enforcing Boundaries |
 8: Curiosity Life is an experiment. All we can do is the best that we know, so we should all know more. | Ample Time | Psychological Processes | Intellectual Curiosity |
 9: Empathy Life is about learning where and how to shine the light. I am not the main character, I am just the spotlight. What is revealed is what I illuminate. | Unconditional Love | Intersystemic Evolution | Self-Awareness |