Can be anything, Can't be everything
Attitude of life
When planning life's grand trajectory, it's advantageous to design it in a way that allows for diverse paths, as life is a continuous process of finding things that give meaning. Subsequently, we must consistently seek and accomplish tasks of manageable difficulty in our chosen direction while maintaining mental well-being. Life is more like a video than a photograph, so avoiding fixation on a single beautiful moment or person is key to maintaining a sustainable life. Whatever the approach, our thought patterns and behaviors are shaped by various influences, leading to both unconscious habits and conscious rules that define us as individuals.
- Having a clear perspective allows you to organize the complex world from your point of view.
- Persuading with logic and evidence rather than appealing to authority.
- Admitting when you find that your claim is wrong or misaligned.
- Acknowledging and developing your perspective or tastes to persuade more people sharply.
- Continually correct the direction of thinking or life trajectory in a better direction.
More important than grandiosity is the attitude of accepting these 4000 weeks as a one-time gift of life and appreciating each moment. In our 30,000 days of human existence, what constitutes our consciousness is just a small collection of memories. In life, we have the most conversations with ourselves, and we are often our own harshest critic. While society teaches us to be kind to others, we're rarely taught to be kind to ourselves. Instead of self-blame and regret, we can live by remembering how past kindness to ourselves has helped us thrive, while exploring and extending kindness to our future selves.
Input/Output
I, too, am not made of myself alone. The structure of knowledge gained from experiences is more important than the knowledge itself. (Intelligence, Neuroplasticity). Life is a chain of willful and unwillful events, of chance and imagination.
One of the efficient ways to live life is to focus on reality consistently every day, becoming better than yesterday. However, since direction can always be wrong and changeable, it's a method of gradually modifying life's direction by reviewing through long-term Self-reflection and Find Vision. In other words, balance between "diving deep" and "stepping back" is crucial. In other words, it's important to work hard when needed while regularly questioning and reviewing your path to prevent losing sight of your direction.
Think → Talk → Behavior → Habit → Character → Life
When modeling a person as Input, Processing Output, one person's Input becomes Output, forming the entire Society Network. Typically, Processing is done by professionals, Input is through learning or media, and Output is through artists or entrepreneurs. This structure is an asymmetric structure where the output comes from a minority elites.
The balance of Input, Processing, Output and constantly creating motivation by depriving oneself. For example, not giving rewards to oneself, but aligning with the desire of others. Enable focus shift at the end point of growth. The tendency changes depending on the balance ratio, but if you just accept Content without thinking about input, you become a zombie who can't think for yourself, and if there is no output, you can't have influence anything.
Life is a POMDP (Partially observable Markov decision process), always facing Uncertainty.
Self Components
Human Life Notion
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero - Horatius
Life is Choice Between Birth And Death - Jean Paul Sartre
Wisdom acquisition is your moral duty, it means that you are hooked for lifetime learning - Charlie Munger
Life is not binary (alive/dead) but a continuous spectrum measured by 'the difference in complexity between input and output', and systems with high assembly indices, like artificial intelligence, can also have 'life-like' characteristics according to this definition.