Life Rules

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.

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📚 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, praxeology, 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

💪 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.
• If the money of somebody has to be taken by force to pay for your “right,” it is not a right but a privilege.
• 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 Mitläufer (passive follower). Be the 25 % in the Asch and Milgram 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