# What Do I Value In Life? ### Surprisingly important: 1. Wisdom 2. Health 3. Relationships 4. Open-Mindedness 5. Curiosity 6. Zest ### Surprisingly unimportant: 1. Acceptance 2. Stability 3. Achievement ### My Ideal Self Title: **Aidan The Worldsinger** Hero’s Represented: 1. Nicolas Cole 2. Hoid 3. Mark Watney 4. Leonardo Da Vinci 5. John Vervaeke 6. Socrates 7. The Buddha 8. Lao Tzu  Theme Song: Dancing Krone ### Mantra: General: “Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.” - Knights Radiant Creed Health: "The body should be treated rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind." - Seneca Work: "Consistency beats talent and brilliantness every day of the weak." - Someone lol Relationships: "Play the infinite game." - Simon Sinek Society: "Those who tell the stories rule society." - Plato 5 superpowers - 5 key abilities/traits that sets this self apart? - Incredible focus.  - Incredible discipline.  - Incredibly curious and open-minded. - Zest for life. - Focus on the long term.  5 key habits - what are key habits this ideal self follows without fail? - Weightlift three times a week, cardio 4 times a week - Eat healthily at almost every meal alone and have dessert only twice per week - Intermittent fast most days - Read for fun at night  - Consistently create and publicly learn in some way - Meditate in the morning - Write every morning in some way - Journal at night about the day - Philosophize by writing Aidan’s Meditation Style of character - how does this ideal self dress? - Basically. Not extravagant with Guchi or Lulu Lemon. One statement piece with most other clothes being black, white, grey, or blue.  When conducting a task – how would the ideal self do this? - Alive. Curious. Wonderstruck. Open minded. Connected to the good it will do for someone else.  When stuck making decisions – what would the ideal self do? - Ask their sacred circle. Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Ali Abdaal, Dan Koe, Nat Eliason, Actualized.org, Cal Newport, John Mavrick, Anthony Metivier.  ### 🌞Life Theme Life Theme: **I envision a world in which education is fun, accessable, and effective. Because of this I’ve honed my skills in creating learning experiences both digitally and physically. Be less concerned about yourself and more concerned about helping others. Love others for who they are while inspiring them to grow to their best selves. Live life with a sense of relaxed humor alongside serious resolve. Help people fall in love with learning for learnings sake and adopt a spirit of open minded wonder in the pursuit of wisdom.** Important Questions To Have Answers To: Most embarrassing fact: - 5’9 Dutch person - Microwaved a metal bowl in my cooking class Biggest counterculture belief: - shouldn’t have grades. - Everyone should be a creator What am I scared of: - Hurting someone else without realizing it ### 🤔What do I really want? To consistently learn, create, and teach every single day with joyous abundance. To embody the virtues of wonder, open mindedness, self-discipline, love, zest, and humor. To feel alive rather than dead, even if that means sacrificing happiness for periods of my life. To inspire others to embody curiosity, open mindedness, and a love for learning. To cultivate my relationships. ### When do I feel most like myself? least? I feel most myself when engaging with someone that I can be truly intimate with. Like Lauren. Someone I can share not only my thoughts with but also my feelings and how they interact. In addition, I feel myself when acting in line with my values. I feel least myself when acting against my values like while overly focused on food or letting emotion overrun my feelings. ### What Are My Shiny Dimes? (Ideas I Come To Over And Over Again) Life Is A Infinite Game Everything is connected The medium is the message Knowledge isn't the same as wisdom Find the goldilocks zone Hitting the grind Rippling Make for what making makes you ### Big Five Personality Results - [[Big 5 Personality Results]] ### Business Values - [[Business Values]] ### What Content Has Most Shaped Who I Am? - [[Lindy Effect Content List]] ### PIERS Framework - [[PIERS Framework]] ### The Characters Of My Internal Empire - [[My Parts]] ### What Content Do I Create Online? - [[Content Buckets For My Content Creation]] ### What Valuable Things Have I Learned From Each Person In My Life? Mom, thank you for teaching me how to stand up for myself. It still baffles and empowers me you didn't tell your colleagues at Oneida you had a Ph.D. until you were 14 years in because you didn't want to make them feel small. But when you did, oh boy, you showed them. For teaching me the health quadfecta (definitely a word) of exercise, diet, sleep, and peanut butter, so much peanut butter. Thank you for developing my taste for music through your regular singing around the house and playing with Esther. For being my most avid fan in content creation to this very day (you still comment on every video!). For helping finance me like dad over my years of content creation and random trips overseas. For getting me to explore the natural sciences more. Dad, thank you for helping instill in me a love for literature, nature, and animals. For maturing my love for tennis over the years. For helping me see the value in relaxing more during the night time hours, albeit not watching James Bond. For introducing me to such greats as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Orwell. Thank you for showing me the value in physical hands on hobbies. It's insane, you bee keep, woodwork, photograph, make maple syrup, birdwatch, hunt, and more. You have a hobby of adding on new hobbies. For giving me advice about college ironically by telling me not to do the things you did. Skye, thank you for instilling in me a sense of drive and discipline. For showing me what it means to do for another without expecting reciprocation. For loving chocolate. That's it, that's the thank you. For showing me how to be direct in conversation and more charismatic and funny. For being on of the only people I felt I could criticize directly and whole heartedly without getting mad. For showing me how to be more fashionable unfortunately by seeing what I was getting of the plane in The Netherlands summer of 2022 looking me in the eyes and saying, "no." For showing me the value in having negative emotions. For teaching me how to have a relaxed demeanor while travelling. For showing me the inner workings of the human mind through acting. Lauren, thank you for helping me find peace and contentment in the present moment. For making me realize the value in long lasting simple friendship. For showing me what it's like to feel romantic love. For showing excitement and passion for where my vision was at any given moment. For strengthening my love of nature and animals. For enlightening me on the squirrel club at Cornell... Thank you for developing my taste for music. For introducing me to The Secret History and Taylor Swift. Most of all thank you for teaching me how to have a good break up and what a good relationship should feel like. John Mavrick, thank you for showing me how to have fun again after my self improvement phase. For helping me create Obsidian University, my first digital product. For being a bastion by my side in my content creation journey, all while having never met physically for the first year and a half of our friendship. For being a creator that cares about character rather than just money. For making me think about my relationship with money, finances, and people. For playing video games with me like VRising, Dead By Daylight, Gloomhaven, And Balder's Gate 3 with me. For making me more introspective than I already was. For bringing out the fucking unhinged side of my humor! Rushika, thank you for helping me see my biases, ignorance's, and faults. For showing me that everyone can love everyone else in their own unique way. For showing me the difficulties of too much intelligence. For being so kind even though your family situation is so difficult. For giving me insight into what--woah look at that sunset--it's like to--wow, that's a cool crack in the road--have ADHD. For helping develop my speech and debate skills. For making me more comfortable with platonic touch. For kickstarting my Spanish learning journey. For illuminating the problems of organized modern religion. For making me see the value in extroversion by making me intensely interested in people. For getting me into dancing. For illuminating to me how bad periods are for women and getting me to carry tampons and pain killers everywhere I go now. Chris, thank you for bettering my public speaking. For broadening my emotional intelligence and showing me a side of spirituality I had never explored before. For showing me that young and old could be great friends. For deepening my understanding of Buddhism and Stoicism. For being there for me when I had my lows in relationships. Thank you for laughing at the stupidest of my jokes. For teaching me more about life as a part of the LGBTQ. For being a part of my book and writing club for so long. Fionn, thank you for strengthening my love for nature and psychology; I now know what everyone is thinking, including trees. For telling me what it’s like to be in a fantastic relationship. For developing my interest in psychoanalysis and therapy. For getting me more into backpacking than ever before. For developing my open mindedness. Abe Moss, thank you for developing my love for reading, homesteading, anthropology, history, cooking and food. For showing me what a fantastic inter racial relationship looks like. For developing my love for board games. For introducing me to great books like Plays Well With Others. For developing my debate skills. For showing me how to have a great relationship while long distance. For giving me a glimpse into why so many people find value and meaning in religion. Henry, thank you for helping me find peace and contentment in the present moment. For not taking oneself too seriously. For introducing me to Vinland Saga, Arcane, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and more. For playing video games, doing insane sleepovers, and cook outs during childhood. For developing my interest in the East. For cooking homemade ramen over 12 hours for me that one night while I slept like a lazy bum. For creating such stupid OldMeta videos as a kid. Dora, thank you for deepening my empathy for others. For giving me insight into life in Cameroon and other poor countries. For developing my love for language, culture, and international relations. For doing insane sleepovers, playing video games, and cook outs even with a predominantly boys group during childhood. Brice, thank you for giving me such joy in the younger years of my life playing tennis and going to sectionals games. Those were good years. For playing video games, doing insane sleepovers, and cookouts, during childhood. For deepening my love of video games at Pax East. For creating such stupid OldMeta videos as a kid. Rohan, thank you for developing my love of philosophy, economics, a debate. For serving almost as a mentee role to me for a long time. Joaquin, thank you for developing my love of history, labor relations, philosophy, and my understanding of Christianity. For showing me more the value in creating simply for creating's sake. For introducing me to Gates of Fire. Great book. Nicole, Peter, Laila, and Maggy, thank you for letting me be a part of your Part Time YouTuber Academy group for so long despite being so young. For helping improve my YouTube channel so much. Nicole particularly for getting me into Obsidian. It's unfortunate it ended the way it did, but I have no grudges against any of you. We all could have acted better. Andrew, Andrew, Maggie, Dora, Meghan, Julia, Pete, and Pedro, thank you for being my first friend group at Cornell, even if it didn't work out. We were all young and immature back than and didn't know what we were looking for in friends. I shouldn't have ghosted you the way I did, but I didn't know how else to do it. None the less, thank you. Dennis, thank you for teaching me the value of emotion in writing. As you would say, "I JuSt WaaaNNNt THem tO FeeL SoMEthinG!" For showing me how to better love myself. For showing me the value of creating for the soul rather than the algorithm. For being a part of my writing club. Alejandro, thank you for growing my love for board games. For helping me in my first entrepreneurial pursuit of the great lemon stand. For introducing me to physics. For playing through all of Terraria Calamity with me over an entire summer. Good times. Theo, thank you for introducing me to the world of Zoology. For deepening my understanding of Personal Knowledge Management. For being a part of my writing club. Manyu, thank you for developing my love of stories, philosophy, and debate. For making me see the beauty in obscure art and introducing me to Sniper Wolf's YouTube videos. For developing my love of great animation. Umar, thank you for showing me the value in history, global politics, and language learning. For developing my knowledge of Islam. For serving almost as a mentee role to me for a long time. Grandfather, thank you for teaching me the value in staying silent. For developing my love of chess. For showing me the power of keeping in touch even at such an old age. Opa, thank you for teaching me the power of rippling. For developing my love of cards, cooking, and biking. Oh, and throwing bread at birds. Fun. Martijn, thank you for showing me how to relax. For developing my love of being outdoors, specifically snowboarding. For making me more charismatic and funny. And for saying, "YA BABY!" all the time. Beautiful. Liva, thank you for developing my love of cooking. Staffan, thank you for developing my love of opera. For letting me Teo, thank you for developing my love of French cheese. It's important. For being so kind while I visited Sweden. Kassidy, thank you for developing my love of board games and roleplaying games. For showing me the power in simplicity. For developing my love of cooking. Magnus, thank you for developing my love of literature, cooking, and museums. Ali Abdaal, thank you for being my first real online mentor. For helping me grow my love for YouTube and content creation in general. For being a guiding light on the internet for such a long amount of time. For getting me into building a second brain. For introducing me to many of the other creators that I have learned so much from. Nick Milo, thank you for growing my love of notetaking more than any other person. For showing me the true power of an online live cohort course. For letting such a small creator interview you on his podcast. Anthony Metivier, thank you for opening me up to the joys of the magnetic memory method. For showing me the power of a memory palace for learning things. For opening my heart up to analog methods alongside digital ones. For broadening my understanding of spirituality. Marcus Aurelius, thank you for being a great spiritual mentor. For giving me the philosophy of Stoicism, that guides my light. For inspiring me to write a meditations like this in the first place. Tim Ferris, thank you for showing me it's not money people want, but freedom over their time. For setting me down the entrepreneurial path to achieve this. Alex Hormozi, thank you for helping me upgrade my digital business faster than any other creator other than Ali Abdaal. For showing me the importance of being flexible in your routine. Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush, thank you for being the best guiding lights in my digital writing journey. For showing me how to do email funneling and sequence, work with ChatGPT, and use Twitter more effectively. For teaching me how to be a better entrepreneur. Andrew Huberman, thank you for teaching me almost everything I know about neuroscience. For changing my approach to working. For giving me a workout routine that I still use to this day. Mike Israetel, AtleanX, and Jeff Nippard, thank you for illuminating me to the inner nuances of resistance training, cardio, sleep, and diet. Mike in particular for introducing me to periodization which finally made me start improving in the gym again. David Perell, thank you for helping teach me so much about digital writing. For showing me the problems with the internet but also how it can be leveraged for great things. Lawrence Yeo, thank you for helping me become more playful in my storytelling. Cal Newport, thank you for showing me how to be digitally minimalistic. For showing me the power of deep work. For giving illuminating to me the power of slow productivity. Demetri Panici, thank you for giving me some of the best productivity tips I have ever gotten. For showing me how to manage my finances online. For letting me peer into the life of a huge creator through call. Ryan Holiday, thank you for showing me the power of the simple life. Reading, writing, and living with your family on your Ranch in Texas. For developing my love of Stoicism. Tim Urban, thank you for showing me how to be more playful and absurd in my writing. For deepening my knowledge of procrastination. Nat Eliason, thank you for getting me more immersed in the PKM community through your Roam Research Course. For showing me the life of a creator I would love. Living with friends in a house having barbeques and backpacking trips regularly. Tiago Forte, thank you for being my guru in the PKM community for so long. For getting me into PKM with BASB-4. Bianca Pereira, thank you for showing me how to do the research side of PKM more heavily. Matthew Dicks, thank you for teaching me how to tell better stories. For helping me try to get a TED talk. For showing me how I can connect with my parents over stories rather than just intellectual talk. David Handel, thank you for showing me what it can be like to work for a start up. Charlie Houpert, thank you for teaching me how to be more charismatic through Charisma University. For showing me how to give better first impressions, have better conversations, tell better stories, and come to situations with more confidence. Dr. Hazzan, Thank your for teaching me the science behind relationships. For showing me how to come to my romantic relationships more effectively and mindfully. Daniel Kahneman, Thank you for giving me two systems for thinking about the world, System 1 and System 2, which I use as mental models for my thinking today. Farnam Street: Thank you for giving me a plethora of mental models which I use to this day to navigate the world. Anne Murphy Paule, thank you for giving me the concept of the extended mind, which is a mental model I use all the time for realizing how much the external world affects our cognition. Dan Koe, thank you for teaching me how to focus, the power of making yourself the niche in online business and adding your own unique interests into your content. For showing me you don't need a lot to be happy. For getting me more interested in Eastern philosophy. For making me realize you can stay a one person business and still grow tons if you know what you're doing. Niamh, thank you for broadening my understanding of the Trans perspective. Brandon Sanderson, thank you for giving me my favorite fantasy series of all time. For teaching me so much about how to be a great fiction writer. Joe Abercrombie, thank you for showing me what great dialogue can be like. For making me more aware of the problems with the world through your cynical writing. Doestoevsky, thank you for illuminating how people are rationalizing animals, not rational ones. Herman Hesse, thank you for deepening my love of Eastern philosophy. For helping me express my emotions more effectively. For teaching me the difference between knowledge and wisdom. ### Interests: What do I want to know? [[🪴Knowledge Garden]]. ### What Concerns Me? I'm concerned by the lack of discussion regarding character in modern day American society. I don't hear talk about how to cultivate it. About how to create meaning in ones life. About how to fix the root problem of the anxiety and depression felt in my generation. I'm also concerned with the degree of social media and phone use in my generation as well as the lack of intrinsic love for learning in many of the adults of American society. ### What Is My Perfect Present? I read, write, memorize, and sing with abundance. I come to others with a radiant joy and unconditional love. I teach others through some means in a way that doesn't sell my soul. My financial situation allows me to have autonomy over what, when, how, and with who I do my work. However, I don't let distracted negligence stop me from investing in my most important relationships. I live in a persistent present cultivating inner peace. ### Qualities I'm Looking For In A Romantic Relationship - [[Qualities I'm looking for in a woman]]. ### Quotes:  "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination." “Getting alive instead of getting ahead.” “With the time and energy I have right now, what is the most valuable IP I can create?” “Dedication and discipline beat brilliantness and gifted was every day of the week.” ### Vision - [[Vision Board 2022]] - [[Dream Goals 1/25/2022]] ### 🗺12 Favorite Questions:  [[Twelve Favorite Questions]] ### Favorite Ideas Show me someone’s habits and you show me their future.  Show me the five most important relationships in someone’s life and you show me them. The compounding effect is more powerful than people realize. The largest unit you can focus on at most times is the day.  Both Anthony Metivier yesterday and Joey Cofone treated me like old friends and with respect despite the fact that I'm a 19 year old college student. They agreed to get on a podcast with me just because of my passion even though it wouldn't give them immense acclaim or whatever. I can't express my gratitude or respect enough. I want to keep those values myself even as I grow bigger and bigger on YouTube. **I won't sell out.** I will be that figure that continues to care about each of his individual subscribers no matter how small even when I'm bigger. ### Criticism Board ![[Pasted image 20230303172558.png]] ### 🏆Win Board  ### Zhou ![[Pasted image 20231226140202.png]]   Nick Milo Mentioned me in his newsletter!    ![[Pasted image 20230611184603.png]]  Tried out the podcast guest request suggested by Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole and it totally worked as shown below:  Got accepted to work as an indepedent consultant for David Handell in IDoRecall by helping gamify the app, beta test the Obsidian plug in, and create content for IDoRecall on their YouTube channel.   ![[Pasted image 20230228213807.png]] ![[Pasted image 20221207212638.png]] ![[Pasted image 20221207212056.png]] Skye told me that I'm going to pop off judging by my second brain. ![[Pasted image 20221030215719.png]] ![[Pasted image 20221029210311.png]] Elizabeth said my podcast with mom was incredible and inspirational. Dan told me he loves the podcasts and admires my work. Chris told me I have a felony for podcasting. They loved my podcast with mom. Bill from Hamilton said he loved my videos especially the book summary on Antifragile. Dad said he was deeply moved about the description of the canoeing race we did together in the Learning Logistic. Mom told me she loved seeing my Learning Logistic every Tuesday as it let her see what I was consuming. Dad said he didn't know a kid as mature as me in high school. He could t believe I had gotten so much into philosophies like Stoicism and Buddhism at 19. Dad told me I was really good at sterning in our canoe race. Micah said I had a remarkably good array of habits Chris said I had a remarkable awareness for my privilege in comparison to others my age. Dad and mom said my coconut milk shrimp dish was the favorite thing I had made for them. Skye told Arlene how good of a cook I’m becoming. I ask the why instead of just the how.  Family said I made a fantastic Moroccan beef braise. They are astounded at my cooking. Dad and mom said they don’t know anyone else who would be more ready for the path of a professor at College. They believe in me. Dad said my last four scripts be read on fasting and gamification were incredibly interesting.  Mom said my 5k training advice was super insightful.  Family said my cooking at gananoque was great Skye told me he appreciated so much how I prioritized relationships in my life.  Skye told me I was specimen for being in Ice bath for five minutes. Skye told me my Sesame Tahini Chicken Breast dish was really good. He would have it again.  Skye told me he mad respected the creative grind as we walked to the gym in Utretcht. Skye and Ameel told me they were on the floor dying laughing from the how to sabotage your reading habit in seven steps.  At Red Fox with family. Woman told me and skye we look like we were from the Olympics.