1️⃣ The soil question: What does opportunity look and feel like to me?

2️⃣ The relationship question: What does a symbiotic relationship look and feel like to me?

3️⃣ The roots question: What does having a good root system look and fe...

• Do I have enough symbiotic relationships in this forest?
• Do I have people I can count on and people
• Who can count on me?
• Am I surrounded by people who support my growth as much as I support theirs?
• Am I surrounded by people I can learn from and people who can ...

Nothing captures the essence of a good life better than a tree flourishing.

A good life is one where we continuously grow, manifest our potential and put forth our best fruit.

Your best life is the one in which you fully bloom like a tree and all 4 of these c...

• Have I given back to the environment?
• Am I creating opportunities for others?
• Am I helping to sustain the forest I’m in?
• Am I taking care of the other organisms who take care of me?
• Am I keeping my relationships symbiotic?

• Does the forest I’m in have enough opportunities for me to fully bloom?
• Can I learn, create, or discover something new here?

You can optimize your current actions or discover a new action using the formula of the Perceived Value of an Action, 

Value = Reward/Work

• To build good habits, you have to use knowledge or technology to reduce the work and increase the ...

• If a tree is surrounded by bad soil, its roots take whatever paths are available out of necessity, paths they might not take if the tree was in better soil.
• If a tree is surrounded by bad relationships, such as other bigger trees blocking out the sun and taking all the water, the tre...

• A cue is an external or internal trigger that signals the potential for a reward.
• Craving is a feeling that motivates you to take action, and the strength of a craving depends on how you interpret the cue.
• Craving leads to a response, and

If you adopt this model, you will perceive the world as a place of cues surrounding you, and you will focus too much on yourself. But the world is fundamentally not a place of cues surrounding you, which you can just optimize and rearrange to your liking. Rather it’s a pl...

There are 4 main components: soil, relationships, roots and fruits.

• The soil represents the opportunity available for growth. Without good soil, no forest can bloom.
• Relationships represent relationships. Without good symbiotic relatio...