On Becoming The Best Version Of Yourself

The highest goal is to become the best version of yourself that you could possibly become.

You do that through continuously building your character.

You build your character by being in internal dialogue with your conscience.

Because your conscience is constantly telling you what you should and, especially, what you shouldn’t do.

Socrates said that what differentiated him from the common man is that when his conscience told him he shouldn’t do something, he actually stopped doing it.

He stopped saying the things he shouldn’t say.

And he stopped doing the things he shouldn’t do.

And what are those things?

The things you shouldn’t say are the things you know to be a lie.

And the things you shouldn’t do are the things that make you feel weak. It’s the things that give you this sickening feeling that you get when you spent too much time on social media. It’s the things that you’re judging yourself for — by your own judgment.

And the beautiful part is that you don’t need to know what you should do because that’s hard to know.

It’s because as you stop doing the things you shouldn’t do, the only thing that’s left is you only doing what you should be doing.