You Think Therefore You Are

Alex Akagi
2 min readDec 13, 2017

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STILL VERY INCOMPLETE, PUBLISHING FOR CRITICISM/FEEDBACK RIGHT NOW

Be grounded in reality
Stay open minded
Remain tenacious
Accept your circumstances
Shed your negativity
Embrace your creativity
Lose yourself in helping others
Celebrate life

Okay, here’s my actual logical argument

You think therefore you are
There are many different types of thoughts, list them all out
If your existence is simply your thoughts, then you should maximize your ‘good’ thoughts
So what are good thoughts?
Good thoughts are those which maximze true happiness and self-transcendence
Now here’s why
All of the pleasure that you feel can be boiled down to experiences which are brought on by the help of others
List different examples of pleasurable experiences
Show how other people built you to a point where you were able to experience that pleasure
So why can’t we spend all of our time embracing pleasurable experiences?
Because there are a core set of constraints that we have as humans
Here’s how one could engineer their way to automate away all of those constraints, at scale (first principles)
So now that you have tons of free time to do whatever you want, what should you do?
You can either choose to escape your life or live it to its fullest potential
I personally have experienced a level of joy which gave me purpose to live
And a core part of that joy came from seeing all of the incredible things that others have built
Therefore I will dedicate my life to building things which help others build incredible things with their creativity
And if I can share that level of pure joy of celebrating life, that I personally have felt, with others, then hopefully it will send out a ripple that resonates with all humans to attempt to maximize their human potential

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