Monday 1 July 2024

Virtues, Updated version.

 

This overwrites everything. Here's how I intend to live.


...Man, know thyself.

I do not say I want to be perfect. but these are virtues I aspire to attain. To be my guiding principles to achieve a life worth living.


1. Taste: Be strong about things you like, don't let external influence drown out your inner voice, consistently aspire to attain the best of things, expose yourself to the best quality to the level you can afford. Never settle for mediocre things. It comes down to taste.


2. Order: Everything must have its own place, always fight against entropy, chaos is the enemy don't tolerate it, it will kill good things.


3. Do what you say: Always do what you said you'd do, what is the power in your words if you won't do what you resolve to do?


4. Eat Good: Eat food as medicine, a lot depends on your gut. Your gut depends on your food. Never eat to dullness, or get drunk.


5. Never Get Used: Don't allow yourself to be used by anyone or an institution. Be sure you're not being used as a pawn by anyone. Put your needs ahead.


6. Community: Associate with the best, Love people, always make sure you have some people you can count on and they can count on you too, community is everything, always be making meaningful friends. Do for them as they do for you, make sure you have people at every facet of society.


7. Subconscious: Be very intentional about what you consume in terms of tapes, videos, music, what you follow on social media they have a reflection on your mind, and decisions you make. We become what we repeatedly consume.


8. Listen More: Always speak less than necessary. Less information about self, more about others. Win through actions, not words.


9. Schedule: Plan, before executing, Everything must have it's schedule, it makes it easier to focus on more pertinent things.


10. Act of Timing: Master the times, never seem to be in a hurry, do things in your own planned time and don't encourage lateness. Just be on time.


11. Purity: Do not encourage dirtiness in place or apparel. Always look dapper, like a king is supposed to be. Retain Semen, rarely use venery, but for offspring production and for your reputation and clarity of mind.


12. Act: Just do it, we learn by doing. Win through doing, ideas don't matter if there's no doing.


13. God: Always be a reformed protestant.