Stephen Scoggins presents a motivational view that one of life’s greatest purposes is serving the person you used to be—helping your past self through current actions (education, business, trauma work, podcasting, events). He advises observing past experiences objectively (as if watching a movie) so you can edit them without emotional reactivity and gain clarity about choices.
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I've said publicly before that the greatest purpose in life is actually there's three great purposes in life. One of the great purposes in life is serving the person you once loved. Serving the person you once lost. The most important person you can ever serve is the person you used to be. So everything that I do now, educationally wise, whether it's business or trauma or podcasting or live events or whatever, is me helping little Steven along the way. The problem is, is most people, again, they relive the experience rather than looking at the as if you're watching a movie. So rather than being the character in the movie that's continually getting beat up and going through bad crap and failed relationships and job losses and all the. And all this identity BS that we tap onto ourselves, when you have the ability to sit down, quietly, close your mind, and literally look at that experience as if you're watching a movie, now you're the editor. Now there's no emotion tied to you reviewing what you're looking at. And because there's no emotion tied to what you're looking at now you can see it clearly. Now you can see that the choice.