When I can’t resolve my concerns, I wait to make my decision or solve my problem until a point where my confidence is satisfied. “I don’t know yet,” is a perfectly acceptable answer. If that won’t do, “no” is always the best answer.
A quality life is designed and experienced as opposed to inherited or purchased.
Bad decisions, poor solutions, and inadequate problem solving are major inhibitors of life quality.
Compromised knowledge is knowledge that is incorrect, incomplete, biased, or simply inaccurate for one reason or another.
Demand more. Expect more. Become more.
Design your life around what and whom you love and what you love to do – along with the qualities they introduce into your life.
Elevate your true self by building your life around those things that are important and valuable to you. Eliminate those things about your idealized self that are unreasonable, irrational, untrue, or not realistically attainable.
From a life quality perspective, individualism is the most liberating and transformative life quality anyone can possess.
From that point forward, your life is shaped by the knowledge you gain, the experiences you encounter, the decisions you make, and the problems you solve.
If the knowledge is suspect (“at risk”), ask questions until you are satisfied that what you’re working with is accurate, complete, and otherwise
If you want to learn about something, ideally you want to tap into the mind of someone with semantic knowledge (an expert) as opposed to someone with lesser knowledge types. However, in a pinch, someone with procedural knowledge just might do.
In a nutshell, knowledge is the conceptual understanding that remains after you process, refine, and organize information, data, and other stimuli.
In many cases, your decision-making skills will become the rope you’ll hang yourself with.
Life quality is more about how effectively we use the knowledge we possess, rather than what we “know.” In the end, the quality of our decisions, solutions, and problem-solving capabilities are far more important to our quality of life than that Master’s degree hanging on the wall.
In short, a quality life is about designing a life around the activities that empower you and your quality of life.
Individualism as a life strategy provides clarity and purpose. It is about knowing who you are, what is important in your life and bringing the two together. It’s about having the creativity, vision, and determination to design your life around what you love and to serve your personal interests and needs as an individual.
It was then I realized the greatest design flaw of humanity is how the fog of everyday living all too often masks the true beauty and amazement life presents.
It’s funny how the little things in life become so important and meaningful when we’re alone with just our thoughts. However, those are the things and moments that define our lives and who we are. knowledge isn’t simply about understanding the mechanics of knowledge; it’s about understanding how to use the knowledge you possess better and smarter.
Life isn’t a balancing act between independence and dependence, but an exercise in managing expectations and dependencies.
Life is physiology, knowledge, expertise, and free will personified.
Life represents not only an animated state of existence, but also an interactive one that’s made possible by your ability to leverage knowledge, expertise, stimuli, and your ability to use them to interact with your environment.
Life’s most profound product is love. Love enables us to exist within a context far greater than that of ourselves. Love is the only thing that makes us greater than the sum of our parts.
Most importantly, discover, visualize, and treat yourself as someone of value, and someone who is valuable to others.
Most importantly, ritualize your time. Never break your schedule – it’s the first and most important non-negotiable in your new life!
Never rely solely on your passion to make any decision. Passion without reason is reckless and dangerous. Always temper your passion with healthy doses of common sense, reason, and pragmatism.
One of the most revealing insights I’ve encountered is that how you value yourself often determines the quality of the relationships you are willing to accept in your life.
Organic people know what they want from life, and are highly disinclined to make compromises.
perhaps it was us who get in the way of living our own lives.
Perhaps my greatest discovery was that an amazing life isn’t a control thing - it’s a letting go thing.
Relationships are not automatic, auto-renewing, or self-healing. They require nourishment, respect, patience, and constant care.
Semantic knowledge, when combined with experience, transforms knowledge into expertise, and a novices into experts.
The best way to ensure compromised knowledge doesn’t contaminate your life is to ensure the knowledge you use is accurate and complete from the start. In other words, acquire the most concise, accurate, and complete knowledge possible.
The first secret of a wonderful life is never to become too old to experience a happy childhood!
The most important point to remember is that reimagining your life isn’t about undoing, changing, or erasing your past. Your past is a defining part of who you are and cannot be erased.
The qualities of your life are found in the emotional responses you experience from living your life.
These include curiosity, awe, discovery, creativity, and exploration.
To High Q people, life is not a series of tasks to be completed; but a series of people, places, events, and things to be experienced.
We acquire knowledge and expertise through learning, listening, watching, doing, teaching, and otherwise experiencing our world.
We know knowledge, learning, and life quality are inextricably linked.
We place a great deal of emphasis on first-degree knowledge like education, training, and experience – and these do play truly significant roles in our lives. However, it’s second-degree knowledge, or the benefits we derive from using knowledge, that provides the greatest benefits we receive from knowledge and expertise.
Your inference mechanism applies rules and heuristics (strategies) to the knowledge and expertise from within your knowledge base and external stimuli. Inference allows you to leverage knowledge, information, and stimuli in ways that enable you to think, explore, discover, apply, and create new knowledge required to make decisions, create solutions, solve problems, and much more. In short, inference makes you actionable.
Your mind is the conscious manifestation of intelligent thought and reasoning by your brain.