What is intelligence? It’s the ability to solve problems, right? We observe, we learn, we reason — and then we find the solution But what if someone found the solution WITHOUT going through this process? Is that person intelligent? Is that intelligent? It’s obviously not unintelligent — someone solving a problem Even if …
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Use Past Gains to Motivate Today’s Actions
Your PAST actions result in your CURRENT OUTCOMES You can’t perfectly maintain coherence between today’s actions and their fruits Indeed I advise to do more things that benefit you IMMEDIATELY (but CONTINUOUSLY), aka ‘WHAT YOU IMPROVED TODAY’ -because you can VERIFY them immediately -AND because they grant you the REWARD immediately (even if …
how to GET WHAT YOU WANT (2026 version)
You getting what you want is NOT completely mysterious, but it is confusing First It has to be POSSIBLE, and preferably plausible There are CRAZY goals that are likely impossible -having everything, sacrificing nothing -being remembered, immortal physically or historically -having THAT PARTICULAR thing, that particular way -etc Then there are AMBITIOUS …
Society Failed You, but You’re Still a Loser
Society can save you Make you or break you You can save you Make you or break you Both can be true The potential of individual to save himself does not refute the value of creating a society which thrives, and thus in which individuals thrive, and are “saved”, when they get …
To Know What You Want, Take It Apart
Knowing what you want is extremely complicated Because most things you don’t have — you don’t have for a reason That reason is the cost And that cost itself often comprises multiple variables And of course the very value, the reward — often comprises multiple variables too It is useful then to reason from …
Fake Acceptance; The Problem vs. The Attitude
There’s something in you, around you, near you, about you, that’s LESS than desirable Maybe that undesirability is clear — maybe less clear Maybe it’s justified, maybe it’s a fair trade-off — maybe not But your attitude to that thing is what really matters There are many attitudes to take The …
Getting an Opportunity vs Taking Advantage of an Opportunity
There are opportunities You get more of them or less of them And then you succeed at taking advantage of them, or fail to take advantage of them We often fail to take advantage of our opportunities That’s because we don’t view them as opportunities We don’t view them as opportunities because we don’t …
Better to Do Too Much Than Too Little
-you’re ungrateful -you’re greedy -you’re distracted but other than that, you’re not doing enough, you’re not active enough not ALIVE enough Setting aside motivation, and likely poison of delusion in it, setting aside frenzy, restlessness, compulsiveness, distractability DOING MORE is better than doing less directionally it’s right doing LESS is closer to death …
Is It About The Journey?
Let’s be nihilistic and assume that all that you will have acquired, built, developed — is inevitably going to shit Because you die, because those that inherit it will die too, and because those that come afterwards won’t give a shit, your contribution will have became a drop in the ocean, finite you vs infinite …
Always Run Top-Down And Bottom-Up
Top-down is a plan of how the WHOLE is going to work Bottom-up is how you intend to EXECUTE various subparts By nature top subsumes the bottom, but it’s only at the bottom that you explore it in all practical nuance (i.e. literally execute). And only once you executed the constituent parts — do …