The Most Important Thing

If you've read some of my previous letters before you might know that I like to think in extreme, and very abstract concepts.

I do this because I want to understand the essence of things, to figure out what the wisest decision would be.

We can't really know anything for a fact, other than that awareness exists. So logically the goal of education isn't to know everything about everything, but to understand the essence of things. To see patterns, and implement things congruent to how nature does it.

Objectively speaking, there is a supreme way of conducting oneself in the world that is true across all individual humans, but no human can claim to know that way. People who claim such things are either called prophets or charlatans.

So instead of giving you my conclusion on what I think the best way of conducting oneself would be, I rather want to incentivize you to explore that question yourself.

I'm obsessed with the question: "What's the most important thing?"

The answer to this question bridges what is objectively true with what is subjectively desired.

For you to know what the most important thing is for a fact, you have to know what existence means in its essence. Whether there's an objective purpose for your existence, and which specific ways of conduct this purpose requires. But also how that purpose translates to your specific situation, and which goal it implies to be most worthwhile to pursue.

Most importantly; the answer to the question of what is most important is automatically positive, even if your objective purpose would be negative from your perspective.

You have an ego, and that ego wants to experience positive things. So when you explore the truth about how to live life in the best way, you will inevitably adjust it to your desire for positivity.

And that’s probably why almost all people who try to be prophets end up being charlatans. They have the right intention; trying to figure out how humanity should behave, but the quality control of thoughts passes through their personal desire for positivity. It's probably not possible for an individual human being to experience the experience of all humans combined, which would have to happen for a clean thinking process.

So before this letter gets even more chaotic than it already is, I don't want to let you go before having persuaded you into answering the question.

What is the most important thing?

The answer is literally the most important thing in your life. Not the words, but the answer, the solution to this problem, what you should do as a consequence of having the answer.

I've got a whole category dedicated to philosophizing in my skool community. The link is at the bottom of this letter. Would love to read your thoughts on this question.

But you can also just open a random note-taking software, and write extensively for however long you want. Writing a lot lets your unconscious mind come to the surface, and will show you what you already believe to be most important, which allows you to scrutinize it.

I can't stress this enough. The only thing more important than figuring out what is most important is doing what is most important.

So figure it out!

-Ömer

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