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It's in the name. Learn. Grow. Repeat. But that's probably not enough of an answer. Our technical purpose is teaching people a philosophical approach to revealing and living in accordance with objective reality. Our functional purpose is to bring perspective and to develop a community of people with some things in common who support each other. It's wonderful to be able to talk about the things we do with other people who get it. A good way to think of it is that we're learning to get along with people we disagree with. Atheists and religious people can have conversations that make them better atheists and better religious people. And friends. The same is true with many other false dichotomies. Scientists and spiritualists can have conversations that make them better scientists and better spiritualists. Officer workers and people in the trades. Farmers and city folk. Etc. We give each other insights that help us along our chosen paths without forcing our paths on anyone else. And become friends doing it. That's powerful stuff. So how do we do that? The hardest part is choosing to do it and backing it up with effort. You may find that a commitment to this changes you in unexpected ways. For example, you might experience less fear and have more confidence when you no longer default to being in conflict with others because of who they are. Sometimes I think that the best way to change the world is to teach people who to get along without compulsion, how to separate their interpretations from what is real, and how to see things as they are. Usually I recover from this quickly and go back to not wanting to change anybody. They'll come around if they are so inclined. We are not here to change you. But change may happen. We are not here to fix you. But you may find tools that help you fix yourself. We are not here to change The System. But you might discover how to build a better one. And along the way you can make friends and have fun. I plan to spend the rest of my life doing this.

So many. You can become a referrer, a creator, and a maker. Or simply a contributor. The LearnGrowRepeat website is just a convenient vehicle to start bringing people together to share our ideas. A website is actually a poor vehicle for building a community, but it does have the advantage of not being limited by geography and gives us something to rally around. As our community grows, in person events will become more important and more frequent. If you want events to happen, you can help make them happen. The goal is not for the LearnGrowRepeat founders to organized and do everything. It's not to have a hierarchy like that. The goal is to have a community. The level of activity in a community depends on all of its members. Just simply having events will take a lot of people in many different roles. Some of these events will be formal, some informal, and some will be virtual or hybrid. A conference with seminars and workshops all day is just one type of event. I'm just as interested in dinner in a private room with 20 or so friends from LearnGrowRepeat. Or teaching a class in person. Or a community volunteer effort we select and perform together. Or just sharing cocktails. Could a virtual cocktail hour work? We won't know until we've tried it. A few times. And what about events for people who don't live near the others? You can help grow your local community so that it can become large enough to support in person events. We'll help in whatever ways we can. I don't know about you, but I'd love to travel to other places near or far to meet with a group of eager and enthusiastic people who share the ideas we discuss on LearnGrowRepeat. That would be so much better than a generic vacation at a generic theme park. If I can go back to being serious for a moment. Events give us a chance to use the techniques you learn online at LearnGrowRepeat to improve your relationships with people in stressful circumstances. In person events are not just time spent together. They are practice. If you really want to transform yourself, you need practice. And it will help to practice with other people who get the concept of what we're trying to do. Whether it's leadership, volunteering, or some other role will depend on the scope and purpose of the event. Working together to figure out how to organize our efforts and accomplish great things is part of how we can practice our ideas and validate how we've internalized them. .

The best way to learn something is to teach it. For people in the LearnGrowRepeat community, that's a powerful incentive. But we also want people to be able to afford to put effort into our community. Every community has an economy. Most economies use currency. But even the ones that don't have an economy. So does LearnGrowRepeat. Part of learning how to live in a community or how to create a community is to figure out how to have an economy with a minimum of unintended consequences. One of the reasons we use credits for all transactions on LearnGrowRepeat is so that our economy is separate from the economy outside the community. We are working on ways that people can exchange credits with each other in various ways to encourage economic activity. We want to incentivize people to create content, offerings, and services so that the community has a healthy economy. We charge for subscriptions mainly to keep trolls out of the community, but also to pay development and hosting bills. We set 20-30% of all subscription revenue aside for incentives for people to refer others and create content. We do this partly so that people can pay for their subscriptions without having to pay cash and partly so that active community members can be rewarded. Refer 200 subscribers and you can not only have a free subscription for years, but you can put over $1000 in your pocket. In a similar way, we have rewards for people who create content. And we also enable some users to use the LearnGrowRepeat platform to offer their goods and services. The way we see it is if they produce something that community members are interested in, isn't it better to deal with people in the community instead of strangers? We don't endorse, sell or support their offerings for them, we just enable community members to transact with community members if they choose. It also enables us to broaden the value provided to subscribers. You will find training, events, and services here that is offered by community members as well as that produced by LearnGrowRepeat. Over time we hope to see so much of that, our subscribers learn, grow, and repeat forever. If you are a creator or a maker and want to be a part of our economy, then reach out to one of our staff members or your Tour Guide. If you aren't a creator or a maker, you can still be a referrer. If you are not a creator, maker, or a referrer you can still be a valuable part of our community, simply by participating in our discussions, events, and courses. This is how we think an economy should work --- people being able to do what they need to do, engaging in the ways they choose to engage, and working together to thrive.

We focus on: Removing our interpretation of the conflict from the reality of it. Many conflicts arise from conclusions that are not based on objective reality and are instead based on our interpretation of it. Conflicts like these are largely unnecessary and usually unproductive for both parties. Being able to learn from people we disagree with and learning how to approach discussions to achieve that goal. When a conflict is based on objective reality, both parties can still learn something from it and walk away having gained something, even if it was not what they expected. Managing our expectations to either better achieve them or recognize that they depended on someone else who was not obligated to fulfill them. We don't debate to win, we debate to learn. We're not motivated to defeat other ideas, we're motivated to find ideas we can cherish. An idea that does not appeal to us is easily left behind. Being very careful with advanced topics like politics, advocacy, and evangelism. In general, the way politics is practiced is dysfunctional. We do not participate in that. Too many people stop thinking and start cheering for their team when politics comes up, so we leave that for advanced classes with participants who have proven they can separate their loyalty from the application of their personal philosophies to governance and learn from people they disagree with. We also avoid advocacy and evangelism because it involves either recruiting or alienating other members of the community. If you are here to persuade, convince, or advocate, you may have come to the wrong place. You can be religious with being an evangelist and discuss important topics without advocating. We’re here to share and not really to encourage or even convince. Much. Within the LearnGrowRepeat community it’s better to not be so concerned about what people think or believe, and instead to focus on the relevance and meaning behind thoughts and beliefs. But mostly we just try to be the kind of people who can turn lemons into lemonade. We'd rather create and inspire then argue and tear things down. We have the advantage of being able to choose who we let into our community. And if someone we let in becomes a troll, we may have to exile them. A troll is someone who is preventing others from learning and whose behavior does not support discussion. Our moderators treat conflicts as teaching moments, to get people to focus on how they are speaking instead of what they are saying. Moderation actions, which can include censorship (even though we find it distasteful) and exile from the community (rare but possible), are never taken alone. Moderators consult with each other on every action taken. Or better yet, on how to avoid taking action. We don't roleplay how to win conflicts. We roleplay how to avoid letting people who can't manage their emotions or who cause conflicts from joining the community. We are hear to teach and don't want to be distracted by discipline, so we seek community members who don't require discipline.

To us, the most important thing about you isn't the form you take, who you are attracted to, who you associate with, who you support, or anything like that. The most important thing about you to us, the very thing we cherish, is the ideas and insights you bring to our discussions. We love new ideas and new insights. You can be a minority of one with something interesting to talk about, and we'll love you for it. We are diverse in our diversity. What do I mean by that? I mean we look beyond ethnicity, culture, or tribe. We don't care what you believe. We're not here to change you. We are all here to explore and discover. We share best practices for exploration and discovery. We don't chose your path. We want to bring people from as many belief systems and cultures into a place where we share common ideas of how people should get along with each other. We care far more about how you behave when you disagree with someone than we do with what you believe. Part of getting along with each other means we're not trying to force people to believe as we do. We are not trying to compel people to do what we think is right. We want to be able to openly discuss what is right, what is wrong, and how we know whether that is true. We don't have to agree on what is true, but we do agree on how to explore the nature of truth so that we can all learn from each other.