A Mason's Work

[01:04] "I was so upset that somebody in an educational role was essentially telling me that changing the world was impossible and that I should just try and be happy." 
[02:04] "Peeling off the emotional content, the emotional layers of that interaction is understand that... he might have been describing something completely different in terms of his response." 
[03:21] "This secretary kind of mind and start working through our own stuff... taking what you know now and applying it to who you were then to find ways to give yourself that grace and forgiveness." 
[04:26] "The ground for the person tomorrow that gets to make a better decision because of the records kept today... you get to determine what's in your history book. Use it well." 

• Misplaced Emotional Content: We often record memories with "vim and vigor" or youth that can misinterpret the intent of others based on our own "present appetite" at the time.
• Temporal Awareness: The Secretary role helps you understand what is worth committing to memory now versus what is worth letting go of for the future.
• Grace and Forgiveness: Applying modern knowledge to old memories allows you to provide yourself with the grace that the "secretary of the time" couldn't afford.
• The Record as Agency: You have the power to choose which data makes it into your personal history book to enable a better version of yourself tomorrow.
• The Goal of Happiness: Sometimes the facts of a situation contain a hidden truth: it doesn't matter if you change the world if you aren't happy.

• Tim Dedman
• Jorge