🦾 You already choose everything
Dear Melius Humano (Better Human),
Life is as easy or hard as you make it.
You are as happy or unhappy as you choose to be.
You are as successful or unsuccessful as you choose.
When you wake up to your power to choose—the power you already possess though you may not wield effectively—your life changes forever.
Wielding the power of choice effectively, on purpose, is the ultimate power to live.
And you already possess this power. But you don’t fully exercise it.
That takes time, practice, and trial and error.
You already choose; you may not realize the extent to which you do.
Some stuff
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/10-types-of-30-year-old-single-guys.html
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/10-types-odd-friendships-youre-probably-part.html
Anything by Wait But Why is worth reading.
Meaning Crisis
Completely free lectures on perhaps the most important problem facing modern humans.
Western culture has set narcissism as the goal.
We’re supposed to chase attention, money, awards, and accomplishments.
Once we get some, we’ll be happy.
But dopamine is not happiness. And neither is pleasure.
Meaning is found in doing hard things closely with humans you care about.
Examples from our evolutionary part:
Child rearing (it takes a village)
Hunting - the never-ending pursuit of finding meat
Sickness, trauma - breaking your ankle could be a death sentence - the ever-present threat of death hung low over our ancestor’s heads.
Today comfort kills us in more ways than one. Mentally and physically.
The few that are thriving today do hard things on purpose. They invest time into their relationships. They live by a set of self-curated principles.
Book
Better Human: 5 Pillars For Practical Human Flourishing (Working title)
Here’s an approximate outline I’m following:
Some stuff
History is written by the victors… and it’s cherrypicked… and most people think they know it and they don’t.
This put into words why these characters are so unlikeable. I felt it but didn’t know why.
When you accept that laws are unevenly enforced, you should realize they are unjust and have no actual moral grounds for existing. There is nothing moral about laws written and enforced by infallible and often corrupt humans.
This is so dumb on so many levels.
So since I’ve never seen Biden denounce Mao, Stalin, or any of the following genocides in Africa: Herero, Rwandan, Darfur, Burundi 1993, Amhara, anti-lgbo in 1966, Canary islands, Gukurahundi, Ikiza, Isaaq, or Effacer le tablea, and many others, does that mean he is complicit?
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Quotes
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Audio
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All Gravemind videos are gold: GUTS (BERSERK) - THE WAY OF THE STOIC
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Video
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Areas of Study
Austrian economics - modern economics follow Keynesian principles of bullshit, and that’s why we have inflation and an ever-growing government that will eventually gobble up everything, then tip over and die.
Study Bitcoin. Start with the What is Money podcast episodes 1-9 with Michael Saylor. Then watch a bunch of his interviews.