diff --git a/src/data/subnavigation.json b/src/data/subnavigation.json index f4debca..e0a14cf 100644 --- a/src/data/subnavigation.json +++ b/src/data/subnavigation.json @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ "title": "Tools", "url": "/tools/" }, + { + "title": "Life Rules", + "url": "/life-rules/" + }, { "title": "Now", "url": "/now/" diff --git a/src/pages/life-rules.mdx b/src/pages/life-rules.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b51dc0d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/pages/life-rules.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +--- +layout: ../layouts/PageLayout.astro +title: Life Rules +updated: 2025-01-03 +description: My personal rules and principles for living a meaningful life. A guide to how I try to navigate life. +intro: These are the rules, beliefs, and principles that guide my life. +backLink: / +--- + +import { animation, animationDelay } from "../data/site"; +import { mapping } from "../mdx-components.ts"; +export const components = mapping; + +
+ +I try to live by these rules, beliefs, and principles. They are taken from everywhere, and will be updated when I find new ones. If you like them, take them. + +
+ +--- + +## 📚 Education & Knowledge + +- Never stop learning +- Learn from others +- Teach others what you know +- Communicate precisely +- Ask the right questions, not just the easy ones +- Primary sources over secondary sources +- Read books, lots of books +- Read books, not news +- Study history and economics to understand the present and future +- Learn languages +- Learn poems + +## 🧠 Personal Development + +- Be yourself +- Don’t compare yourself with others +- Act as if your ancestors are watching +- Take control of yourself before you take on the world +- Behave like your best self +- Discipline beats motivation +- The best time was yesterday, the second best is now +- Do the work: Work on yourself, nothing comes by itself, you have to invest in yourself and work hard to achieve something +- Take care of yourself (health, psyche, finances, relationships, living conditions) +- If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right +- Build wealth, not possessions + +## 🏠 Order & Structure + +- The strength is to be found in serenity +- Stop and enjoy +- Don’t be a Zombie. Be aware of your surroundings. +- Don’t stand in other people’s way, physically and mentally. Don’t stand in doorways, in front of escalators, or block sidewalks with a group of people. And don’t stand in the way of other people’s goals and dreams. +- Create systems, not goals +- What you don’t need burdens you +- Order on the outside creates order on the inside +- A place for everything, everything in its place (Mise en place) +- Plan tomorrow today +- Establish strong morning routines +- Clean your room + +## đŸ’Ș Mental Strength + +- The world owes you nothing +- Fuck Hopium. Don't wait for others to solve your problems. +- Strong men create good times +- Fuck your feelings. Don’t take everything literally. +- What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger +- Resilience comes through resistance +- Speech you hate, is not hate speech +- If you think, shutting somebody down, will make them go away, you are like a child that thinks closing the eyes, will make the monster go away. +- Develop antifragile systems +- Delay gratification. Only those who are able to wait, can reap the rewards. +- “Yes, and 
” mentality, not “but” mentality +- Don’t be afraid to fail +- No risk, no reward +- Be hard on yourself, but forgiving to others +- Surround yourself with good people + +## 🌟 Philosophical Principles + +- Freedom is non-negotiable +- Freedom over authoritarianism +- There is no such thing as absolute security. Freedom always comes before security. +- Anyone who wants to trade freedom for security deserves to lose both. +- Fuck Collectivism +- Fuck bureaucracy +- Individualism beats collectivism +- Decentralized beats centralized +- Sovereignty beats dependence +- Subsidiarity over centralism +- Small is beautiful +- Less Marx, more Mises +- Nothing is more social than capitalism. Capitalism forces you to serve your fellow citizens. +- Capitalism is the absence of coercion. Socialism is the absence of voluntariness. +- If it looks like a socialist, acts like a socialist, and talks like a socialist, then it probably is a socialist. +- There is no free lunch +- Look at what people do, not what they say +- Everything the state touches turns to shit +- Taxation is theft +- Inflation is theft +- Fiat money is a scam +- Democracy is the tyranny of the apathetic +- Never side with the mob +- The road to hell is paved with good intentions +- The opposite of good is well-intentioned +- Skin in the game or no voice +- I don’t care if you agree + +## 🎯 Critical Thinking + +- Don’t trust, validate everything +- What seems obvious is rarely true +- Consensus is not the same as truth +- Nobody has a special authority, nobody has the final say +- Yesterday’s conspiracy is today’s reality +- Everything is a psy-op until proven otherwise +- Think in systems, not events +- Follow the Money +- Cui bono? Who benefits? +- Always ask about the incentives +- Don’t change an existing system until you fully understand it (Chesterton’s Fence) +- Less television, more thinking for yourself +- Take the red pill, don’t live in the illusion that some think tank, elite group, or politician constructed for you +- Reject the black pill; good always wins in the long run +- If someone tells you who they are, believe them + +## 🌍 Social Attitude + +- Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie. Not to yourself, not to others. +- You can tell all the lies you want, but don’t force me to pay for it +- All state television must be abolished! +- Don’t be a _MitlĂ€ufer_ (passive follower). Be the 25 % in the [Asch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments) and [Milgram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment) experiments. +- Resist the war against excellence, individualism, and the urge to conformity and mediocrity +- If you make everything equal, you reach the lowest common denominator. +- Exit via voice +- Put your money where your mouth is +- Vote with your feet +- Build parallel structures +- Act locally, think globally +- Walk the red light when there is no traffic +- Only follow rules that make sense; don’t be an obedient sheep. +- Civil Disobedience is a moral imperative +- All punishments for victimless crimes must be abolished +- Be the change you want to see +- Lead by example +- Create value for others +- Support those who do the right thing + +## 😊 Joy of Life + +- Memento mori, memento vivere +- Find Beauty in Everyday Life +- Create memories, not possessions +- Get out of your head, into the body +- Go for a walk, demons hate fresh air +- Do meaningful things +- Cultivate real friendships +- Live analog in a digital world +- Share and create memes. Mock your enemies until they cry. Mockery and ridicule are the best weapons against totalitarian thinking. +- Laugh at everything, especially at yourself. Nothing is off-limits. +- Have fun