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> Aim at something. Pick the best target you can currently conceptualize. Stumble toward it. Notice your errors and misconceptions along the way, face them, and correct them. Get your story straight. Past, present, future—they all matter. You need to map your path.

3/ DO NOT HIDE UNWANTED THINGS IN THE FOG shadow stuff > Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not. Have the damn fight. Unpleasant as that might be in the moment, it is one less straw on the camel’s back.

4/ NOTICE THAT OPPORTUNITY LURKS WHERE RESPONSIBILITY HAS BEEN ABDICATED responsibility/discipline

5/ DO NOT DO WHAT YOU HATE > If you are at work, and called upon to do what makes you contemptuous of yourself—weak and ashamed, likely to lash out at those you love, unwilling to perform productively, and sick of your life

6/ ABANDON IDEOLOGY > Have some humility. Clean up your bedroom. Take care of your family. Follow your conscience. Straighten up your life. Find something productive and interesting to do and commit to it. When you can do all that, find a bigger problem and try to solve that

god is dead -> nihilism -> totalizing ideologies. false idols are more dangerous than ever. do the small things first within your circle of competence.

7/ WORK AS HARD AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN ON AT LEAST ONE THING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS depth over breadth. work until your ego shatters and breaks. then you will be a new person with new eyes.

8/ TRY TO MAKE ONE ROOM IN YOUR HOME AS BEAUTIFUL AS POSSIBLE > If you learn to make something in your life truly beautiful—even one thing—then you have established a relationship with beauty. That is an invitation to the divine.