Purpose & Profit

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If you halt your personal evolution by never pursuing something more, you lose purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. This isn’t about achieving a final goal that allows you to opt out of work for the remainder of your life, as that is an impossible delusion that leaves you empty. This is about falling in love with the endless string of problems that expand your circle of concern—from self to others to world to universe—and expand your complexity of self, allowing you to perceive and enjoy the finer things in life. (via) ^rwhi885187119

Entrepreneurship is the path of uncertainty, like slashing your way through a dangerous jungle. (via) ^rwhi885187130

If you are wondering where your child-like zest for life went after the progression of your schooling ended, now you know. Being an entrepreneur is hard, but being an eternal employee is harder. (via) ^rwhi885187747

“Employee” and “entrepreneur” are not titles, they are states of mind. They aren’t a role you play, but who you are. Employees are rather passive individuals who are told what to learn and work on. Entrepreneurs are assertive individuals who set their own or adopt a shared vision, learn by their own curiosity, and create solutions to the problems of life, pushing humanity forward by distributing empowering products and services. (via) ^rwhi885188002

Start thinking of entrepreneurship as other-development, the next logical step after self-development begins. (via) ^rwhi885188069

Entrepreneurship is how you contribute to the evolution of humanity, live in accordance with nature, and fulfill your need to survive in a meaningful manner. (via) ^rwhi885188156

Entrepreneurship is an extension of yourself. (via) ^rwhi885188305

. Your psyche is wired to hunt, but physical threats aren’t an issue anymore. The real threats of today’s world are psychological and spiritual. A mental game. We are built for survival, but the question is no longer how to survive; the question is how we evolve beyond and integrate our survival to make life meaningful. (via) ^rwhi885188381

deep down everyone feels that pull to achieve something greater. But the longer you suppress that pull, the longer you live in the known where few discoveries can be made. You get bored, depressed, and see life as meaningless because the only novelty you get is from superficial sources. You never take risks, push into the unknown, and discover new knowledge, tools, and potentials that send a signal of meaning to your core. (via) ^rwhi885188405

If you don’t create a product to sell, you will be forced to sell a product for someone else, or you will become the product. If you don’t consciously invest money toward the world you want to see, you will unconsciously spend to fill a soul void of purpose. (via) ^rwhi885188507

If you don’t start a business that provides information, education, goods, services, or the rest that make a better humanity, then unethical people rise to the top without competition. You are indirectly contributing to evil by ignoring your entrepreneurial and agentic human nature. By doing nothing but demonizing money and businesses that are the lifeblood of civilization, you are assigned work where the employer is more than likely unethical by your standards. (via) ^rwhi885189291

By choosing to do nothing, you accept the path of assignments and allow people less conscious and intelligent than you to have more attention, impact, and money than you. (via) ^rwhi885189362

People invest in things they care about, see the importance of, or consider useful for their lives. Nobody is going to give you, independently, money if your work doesn’t benefit them in some way. (via) ^rwhi885189399

The amount of money you make is directly correlated to how valuable you are: the level of problems you solve, the results from the solutions you create, and your ability to inspire and persuade people to know and care about your creation. (via) ^rwhi885189418

If enjoyment comes from the feeling of progress being made, connection to something greater than yourself, and receiving meaningful feedback from both, then conscious entrepreneurship is how you sustain and control the enjoyment in your life. And by filling your own cup, you begin to overflow, and your natural desire shifts to helping other people. (via) ^rwhi885189472

It’s no wonder why people are so afraid of replacement, because they aren’t the ones doing the replacing. (via) ^rwhi885189680

In the 1800s, when America was industrializing and needed to educate large numbers of immigrant children, educators like Horace Mann traveled to Prussia to study and learn their methods. The Prussian education system was designed to create obedient soldiers, compliant citizens, civil servants, and well-behaved workers. It accomplished this with its focus on mandatory attendance, training for teachers, national curriculum and testing for students, division of students by age, and the concept of grade levels. Students were taught how to work, not how to think. (via) ^rwhi885189814

Education is discovery. Education is pushing into the unknown, allowing interest to be your lighthouse, collecting the dots, connecting them, and sharing them with the world because the teacher learns more than the student. (via) ^rwhi885189883

Do not allow yourself to get trapped in a depressing state of mechanical, replaceable work. (via) ^rwhi885189926

Free yourself, then free others. Both can be done in unison. (via) ^rwhi885189998

To the Greeks, the universe wasn’t composed of atoms or matter; it was composed of these “whole parts.” Everything was a whole in itself but also a part of something greater than itself. Each part served a purpose toward the harmony of the Kosmos. (via) ^rwhi885190026

Reality consists of a great chain of knowing and being. Matter to body to mind to soul to spirit. (via) ^rwhi885190344

Aristotle believed that the final cause of a thing is its function, and that a full explanation of anything must consider its final cause. This presents the fields of teleology and cybernetics. Teleology (telos meaning goal, logos meaning reason) is the idea of explaining something by referring to its purpose, end, or goal. (via) ^rwhi885191897

we find joy in what we choose to suffer for. (via) ^rwhi885193627

The first step to advance from survival to status is to become deeply aware of the beliefs that hold you back and how, when gone unchecked, create a ripple effect of destruction in your life. The second step is orienting your focus from problem to solution. (via) ^rwhi885193939

That’s why many start down the spiritual path. They see someone of higher consciousness, admire them, desire to be like them, and start imitating them. That’s a status game (via) ^rwhi885195096

They integrate the finite game and fall in love with the infinite. (via) ^rwhi885195383

The best path to take is the one you create for yourself. But understand there is a best “meta” path to create your own path. The path is illustrated by the main domains of your life. Mind, body, relationships, and work. The health and development of each. (via) ^rwhi885195590

of mind. It solves survival, aids in status, allows for creativity, and results in contribution. Entrepreneurship requires you to be a generalist, not a narrow- minded specialist that limits your perspective and development beyond that specialization. (via) ^rwhi885195767

danger was not in machines becoming more like humans but humans being treated like machines. (via) ^rwhi885195934

your purpose is the source of your struggle, and nobody said that struggle can’t be fun. (via) ^rwhi885197167

There will never be a time when we rid our lives of problems. There will only be a time with better problems to solve. There is no final destination. If there is any point in your life where you are not wrestling with a meaningful problem (this includes mindfulness, meditation, and other forms of spirituality that make it seem as if you aren’t solving the problem of an entropic mind), it is safe to say that you are not in the process of producing value or creating the potential to contribute to something greater than yourself. You lose purpose. (via) ^rwhi885197184

The sources of psychic entropy, or the mind falling into chaos, are boredom and anxiety. Both stem from a mismatch of your skill level and the challenge of a situation. (via) ^rwhi885197277

Most people’s lives are determined by how they choose to cure their boredom. When you decide to step into the unknown, you are effectively reinventing yourself. You are reborn. And when you are born, you are vulnerable. There is little order and a whole lot of chaos. (via) ^rwhi885197337

The only way to solve problems for good is through obsessive self-experimentation. Otherwise, it is a band-aid. A prescription. An assignment. (via) ^rwhi885197511

Your life’s work doesn’t happen at some imaginary future moment. It happens at every passing moment. (via) ^rwhi885197540

Your life’s work is to reach your potential. To see what you are capable of. To expand your capacity for knowledge and skill to tackle deeper, more interesting challenges. Your life’s work is getting paid to be yourself. (via) ^rwhi885198187

go?” Your life’s work, like everything else that is unknown and worthwhile, doesn’t become clear in an instant. You feel lost at one moment, but if you have faith, you soon become curious. (via) ^rwhi885198648

If you understand entropy— that all things tend toward disorder—you understand that by doing nothing with your life you choose to slowly drown in chaos. (via) ^rwhi885199680

nobody can tell you how to achieve your plan. They can only tell you how they achieved theirs. You can study their processes to help along the way, and you should, but the rest of the process lies in continuing to solve problems. (via) ^rwhi885199792

Your psyche craves actualization and transcendence. The depth of your being wants these things, but your ego is distracted by things it thinks it wants. That’s the problem. (via) ^rwhi885254776

Your mission evolves with awareness of new beliefs, opportunities, and knowledge. Your mission requires faith. (via) ^rwhi885254857

It’s less about what you create and more about how you create it, why people should care about it, and what makes it unique. (via) ^rwhi885255166

money that stems from force or deception won’t make you happy. (via) ^rwhi885255200

Persuasion, in the way we will define it, is the act of inspiring people to see the importance of what you do by how it impacts their life for the better. (via) ^rwhi885255216

In a world where most people are worried about what skills they should learn, start writing. (via) ^rwhi885257921

For most people, and as a recurring theme, their entire life has been spent building everyone else’s dreams at the expense of their own. This seems to be one common self- deception: You believe selling a product is unethical or evil, but if you don’t create a product, you will work for someone who does, or you will become the product of that which funds your lifestyle (via) ^rwhi885265724

. Your niche isn’t a static target—it’s a living, breathing extension of your personal development. (via) ^rwhi885273449

Conformity is a finite game. Authenticity is an infinite game. (via) ^rwhi885275027

We have been conditioned since birth to work for everyone but ourselves. While they taught us our ABCs, they silently encoded a deeper lesson: Your purpose is to build their dreams, not your own. From cradle to grave, you are given assignments that lead you down a known path, not a new one (via) ^rwhi885176822

A job is some unpleasant work you do for someone else for the sole purpose of making money. A job is a survival mechanism. (via) ^rwhi885177022

roles and tasks. Psychologically, this brings long-term order and clarity to your mind (via) ^rwhi885177043

calling is work you can’t pull yourself away from and others can’t help but pay you for. (via) ^rwhi885181556

At the start, you create to make money. In the end, you make money to create. (via) ^rwhi885183043

All pursuits are materialistic until a philosophical sense of mastery is formed, even the most “spiritual” pursuits. Then, it becomes your vehicle into the unknown (via) ^rwhi885183073

The future of work will consist mostly of entrepreneurs, specifically creators, and if not entrepreneurs, elite employees who have the traits of entrepreneurs in increasingly rare positions. (via) ^rwhi885183100

high-agency individuals are those who create their own goals and actively pursue them without permission from another. Low-agency individuals are those who are assigned goals and pursue them because they don’t have a mind that allows them to see any other option (via) ^rwhi885183132

When we are young, we have little to no control what purpose is assigned to us. And if we don’t have high-agency parents who also understand how the mind works, we become subservient to the dominant paradigm (via) ^rwhi885183149

People inherently know that challenges make life interesting, so they pursue more, but once they reach their limits, they begin justifying their newfound comfort with statements like, “I just like the stability of a job.” Then and there, your calling disappears. You eliminate the possibility of further novel challenge. That is dangerous. (via) ^rwhi885183295

If you halt your personal evolution by never pursuing something more, you lose purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. (via) ^rwhi885183954

Entrepreneurship is the path of uncertainty, like slashing your way through a dangerous jungle. (via) ^rwhi885184030