Have You Read The Only And Best User Manual Of Your Life?
Before we go further, please take a minute to read my user manual.
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“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
– Voltaire
What are the best ways to interact with you?
What are the warnings and pitfalls to avoid?
Where is your user manual to the world?
There are 2 areas in my life where I need help finding a user manual.
The first and obvious one for me is: how to be a parent.
Having kids has been one of the biggest challenges in my life.
Why did my kids not come with a user manual?
That is a question I have been asking myself for the past 3 years as my first son Noah Ali just turned three, and the second, Elijah Omar, just turned one.
Yes, parenting could benefit from giving us a user manual of how to raise our kids to the best of their needs and the best of humanity at the same time.
The second and less obvious is the rest of the universe: the 7+ billion souls, including myself.
I have faced many conflicts, crises, and misunderstanding situations where things were complex because of misalignment with the other person.
I would have loved to have the other person’s user manual in those situations.
You know: reading the different “How to” sections, the “Warning and cautions” of how that other person operates.
As it turns out, I need to walk the talk first.
Indeed, I cannot expect other people to hand me their user manual if I don’t have mine.
In this article, I invite you to embark on this journey to create my user manual before your eyes.
I intend to inspire you to build and share your user manual with the world.
My vision is that the world will be a better place if we can start every interaction, every conversation with the following:
