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Confucian Role Ethics

Confucian Role Ethics reminds you to focus on fulfilling your role with others without trying to control theirs.

Epicurean Happiness Toolkit

The Epicurean Happiness Toolkit helps you manage pleasure by prioritizing the long-term over the short-term.

Stoic Virtue Framework

The Stoic Virtue Framework helps you build virtue. It helps you foster good intent in the good intent-good results recipe.

Eightfold Path

The Eightfold Path is Buddhism’s practical roadmap for seeing clearly, acting ethically, training the mind, and walking a wiser life path.

Dichotomy of Control

The Dichotomy of Control separates what is yours to control from what is not.

True Skeptic

The True Skeptic is an OVM viewpoint of strong doubt and a high threshold for belief.

Empiricist

The Empiricist is an OVM viewpoint of evidence-calibrated inquiry.
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True Believer

The True Believer is an OVM viewpoint of strong commitment to a claim or topic.

Viewpoint Prevention

Viewpoint Prevention is the avoidance of a rigid mindset.

OVM Linguistic Bridge

The OVM Linguistic Bridge facilitates cross belief understanding.

Open Viewpoint Method

The Open Viewpoint Method is a thinking tool for exploring ideas from more than one viewpoint.

State

A state is the current configuration of a concrete object or abstract entity’s properties, actions, and relations.

Relation

A relation is how a concrete object or abstract entity is connected to another.

Action

An action is what a concrete object or abstract entity does or undergoes.

Property

A property is an attribute of a concrete object or abstract entity.

Universal

A universal is a repeatable pattern among concrete objects, abstract entities, or both.

Personal Language

Personal language is the private meaning-world you carry inside words.

Personal Religion

Personal religion is your personal journey into spirituality and belief.

Personal Philosophy

Personal philosophy is the set of ideas you use to interpret life and decide how to live.
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