Taking 'Better Ideas' to the Next Level with C. S. Lewis, L. Scupoli, S. Pressfield, and Co.
Channel: Derek J Fiedler
Date: 2020-01-16

Do you struggle with New Year's resolutions? The Better Ideas YouTube channel offers productivity videos to help. The video "Why your life is so boring" poses three main points: our lives are experienced as a story, social media = a highlight reel (not real life), and life as a series of 16-hour episodes called today.

I put into practice Better Ideas productivity tips and this is what happened. I read C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity and a clip from Unseen Warfare, a book by Lorenzo Scupoli, who challenged Better Ideas to go to the next level in living an effective life today (not tomorrow). Drawing upon other thinkers like David Bentley Hart, Steven Pressfield, and Brother Lawrence, I show Christianity not only agrees with many of Better Ideas points but expands upon them.  

Christianity invites us to join the Great Story (the story of stories) and shows us how to realize our full potential. Christianity teaches us how to become "perfect" (complete, whole) and how to fight against everything that militates against it, what Pressfield names "Resistance." 

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