Infinite Goals

Infinite goals are goals you will never achieve.

They are characterized by having no definite destination.

Happiness is an infinite goal. You can’t achieve it because you don’t know the ceiling to how positive your experience can be. You can always be more happy.

Other examples are

• being healthy

• raising your children

• becoming your best self

• understanding the universe

These are goals that have no clear end-point.

You can always do better.

Finite goals are goals you can achieve.

They are characterized by having a definite destination.

Making a million dollars, getting a six-pack, or living in a certain house at a certain place, are examples of finite goals.

Finite goals supply your psyche with limited amounts of meaning. They are the root cause of nihilism, which is the root cause of addiction/depression/laziness.

We experience ”meaning/purpose” when we progress towards a goal. No one ever felt bad mentally after a solid gym session, but everyone feels like shit after 1 hour of consuming TikTok videos.

When a human being has no goal at all, suicidal and self-sabotaging thoughts start occupying the mind. Resentment is always the consequence.

One level above that; a human being with a finite goal only thinks and acts positively concerning that goal. Doing something that gets this human closer to the goal is good. But outside of this, there’s confusion and nihilism.

Someone who has a limited goal will also reflect that in their actions, never getting to taste their fullest potential.

To maximize performance, meaning, joy, and adventure to the fullest you need an infinite goal.

If your destination is impossible to get to but you still try to get there, something magical happens.

You get back to reality.

You heard this a thousand times, but there is no future, nor a past. There’s only the present moment.

Sure it doesn’t mean that you should do everything in your power to maximize pleasure through drugs and so on, but everything we do happens so that the present moment is maximally positive.

You wouldn’t build a future no one would ever be able to experience, and you wouldn’t think about the past if it couldn’t improve your decisions.

So goals ONLY aim to figure out how to use the present moment in the best possible way.

Goals do that by being valuable so that we can figure out which actions are valuable.

Why not skip some steps and aim for the best possible goal then?

The best goal possible is an infinite goal, and it’s subjective to every individual.

There might be an objective truth in that regard but I wouldn’t presume that I know what it is for certain. I have an answer for myself though. I think that the best possible goal is to understand existence.

Knowing what existence is all about would enable us to know the best decisions for each moment. It’s only a question of Knowledge vs Ignorance, of Truth vs Lies.

An infinite goal has the purpose of making you use your time in the best way. To understand existence, I need to learn, spread knowledge, and provide the opportunity for as many humans to do the same as possible. This one goal leads to solving all problems of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs up to self-actualization for all humans.

But please think about this for yourself, and criticize my conclusion.

Ask yourself the question:

“What is the most important thing?”

The answer to that question is always the most positive goal. And also infinite.

If you can figure out what the most important thing is you can formulate that clearly, and start working towards it. Logically you’re doing the most important thing by that.

So your life becomes maximally meaningful and you use your time in the best possible way.

Therefore, again;

What is the most important thing?

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