The men who drive himself without pity to what he wants.

– Atlas Shruggred, Ayn Rand

My short essay on the meaning of life

I’ve recently heard the most fascinating thing in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I’ve heard the phrase “the lowest kind of man is a man without purpose”. And this is true. No matter if life is just a big mistake or if there is order in this universe, no purpose equals death. Equals lost potential, like a nuclear reaction in space.

So what is the purpose of life? What is the meaning of it?

I do not know to answer this in a general sense. However, I can answer this for myself. The meaning of life is to be competent in what I am doing. Competence is the only standard by which you must be judged. Competence in all areas of life, like your work, your relationship, your self-control.

Competence is the gold standard. This may come as a shock to many people who put the “nobler” things like morality before anything else. I consider morality a very ambiguous concept that can be molded in such a way to suit any one’s person self-interest.

What do I mean by that?

From an evolutionary point of view, morality has no purpose whatsoever. It’s a set of rules, invented by men in order to increase the greater good and decrease the chances of any one individual or group of individuals to achieve a better S&R chance than the rest.

While I had not the privilege to study Nietzsche as much as I would want, I understand his concepts of noble morality and lower class morality pretty well.

Noble morality is based around greatness. Beauty, performance, competence is all of noble morality. Lower morality is based around compromise, pity, complacent in face of failure. While this may seem harsh, it is true.

And we live in a world where more and more people promote lower morals, lower class morality. For example, we see more and more people condemning greed and individualism. These people demand from the economy, from the private sector equal welfare. They do not understand that each person sets his or her own price in this world and the rewards just as the risks are his own to enjoy or burden.

However, mediocrity brings frustration. Frustrations brings the classic concept of “it’s not fair”. Life is not fair. We already know that. And you should not want to change the rules of the world, the rational thinking based on individualism that moves the world to a better direction just because you don’t find it fair.

Religion is a very seductive philosophy thanks to this. I reject any religious dogma. Why? Because they are all based on lower class morality. They condemn greatness and they promote collectivism and mediocrity. I hate and I may say, I enjoy hating any person, concept or society that promotes collectivism and mediocrity.

Instead, I enjoy individualism. I enjoy rational egoism. I accept the fact that life plays no favorites. I set my own price for life and then I work to get it. And no matter what the so called mediocre collective movement may have to say about it, I don’t care. Greed is neither good or bad. It’s neutral. But with the risk of being called greedy, I bare no social, moral or ethical responsibility towards helping the society as a whole. I bear only one responsibility, towards myself and my purpose.

And I am ready to pay the price, whatever it may be.

I am living in a world where 90% of people live like parasites. They do not create. They consume. They consume love. They consume money. They consume resources. And only when they do feel cheated by not receiving what they want, again, what they want not what they deserve, they bring the concept of morals.

The best example can be found in relationships. I’m not for or against female promiscuity. I must admit that for a long time, I’ve had a negative view against it, that was born out of fear and frustration. However, from a rational point of view, female promiscuity is perfectly fine. Each person has the right to do whatever him or she pleases as long as this does not break any major boundaries of other people.

And, excuse my language and method of expressing this, seeing a girl sleeping with anyone else than yourself is wrong only from the point of view that she is not sleeping with you. It’s greed, but not the productive type that pushes men to amazing things but rather greed of not receiving what you want without giving anything useful in return.

Or to summarize it in a very unsophisticated way – what others can’t have, they condemn.

Let’s talk about money, as it may seem a very hot topic these days. Money is a resource obtained by providing valuable services to others in exchange of a resource. Money is not based on the amount of hours you provide, but rather of the actual effort and skill invested.

Noble morality admits this. Noble morality understands the fact that it is not how much you work but what is the outcome of your work. On the other hand, lower class morality will condemn this and it will ask any person or entity to provide equal resources to all people without any regard to their talent, effort invested, background or any other professional or personal consideration.

It is a world that is going to hell. It is a world that is trying to kill the spirit of anything great, in all possible venues because it can not understand it. But if there’s maybe something bigger, it’s not because of their lack of understanding but rather their lack of willingness to put in the same effort.

A world that hides behind the curtain of religion and mediocrity because it is not willing to achieve anything better. A world that is lacking heroes and needs heroes more than anything. A world that may not be dystopian yet, but it will soon be. It will soon be because self-preservation is a primary human instinct and when to achieve it in a society that is centered around mediocrity and lower class morals and condemns individualism, free spirit and achievement, it’s the only way to survive.

I sure hope I will not get to see that day coming.
– Razvan Rogoz

What is the lowest standard of men out there?

A man without a purpose.

The standard of competence is the only standard that matters.

– Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Here’s an interesting question you should ask yourself …

You are the person who you want to be or you want the person other people wants you to be?

Each time you’ll ask this question, you’ll get a strong feeling of anxiety in your body. Why? Because in most of the cases, we fill a role that is comfortable for the others. We don’t dare to be ourselves. We try to fit in. We try to avoid being left aside.

This is in our DNA. It’s based on evolutionary psychology and comes from the hunter, gatherer society. 10.000 years ago, being different means being out. Being out meant being eaten by a hungry tiger.

Right now, being different is exactly the opposite. The quickest way to failure, unhappiness and regret is to try to be just like everyone else. The people you like, the people you admire are different and this is the reason you admire them.

They are ambitious when everyone settles for little.

They are hard working when everyone is lazy.

They are true to themselves when everyone rationalizes and finds excuses.

They are not afraid to do whatever it takes. These are the people who are willing to do what others don’t want to or can’t.

So I dare you. Be different. Be different in a good sense.

It doesn’t matter if you have friends, family, a society that pulls you down. It doesn’t matter if no one in your heritage was ever great. Just break the cycle and be awesome from every point of view.

Learn more, work more.
Wake up earlier.
Take more risks.
Love more.
Forgive more.
Focus more.
Dress better.
Live in a better place.
Act like there are no limits to your abilities.
Watch fear directly and subdue it.
Proclaim your independence.

Be yourself. Be the best version you can be of yourself. Be limitless.

PS: And don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. They are wrong. They can’t do it themselves and they do not need someone to prove them wrong and make them miserable.

You need to become used to people disappointing you. The better you become, the more people will do this.

So here’s something to think about – be busy enough not to give a fuck about this. If you are doing amazing things each day, if you are getting close to your goals, if you are having fun, if you are a mover and a shaker, then you don’t really care what x, y or z did right?

So the next time you expect some to disappoint you, just have such a busy and interesting day that you really don’t give a fuck. This will make you healthier, happier and what’s most important – while everyone will get stuck in their pity problems, you will move forward, with the speed of a Porsche 911.

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You can do many things with money, things like:

-> Get better health

-> Improve your sex life.

-> Buy expensive cars.

But who could have thought that you can have your own, real, fueled nuclear reactor?

This piece of news just appeared into my feed reader and I love it.

Kodak owned it’s own nuclear reactor + three and half pounds or nuclear material.

Here’s the news, thanks to CNET

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57433786-71/so-kodak-about-that-nuclear-reactor-in-your-basement/

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Who would have thought that you can have your own nuclear reactor if you wanted one? If this is possible, I think that I’ll add on my life goal list to buy myself an F35. Nothing says “power” as an invisible, super fighter jet.

Sometimes you are your biggest enemy.

No matter how much you know, you will sabotage yourself. You are you and it’s hard to hide from this.

So from time to time you need to ask yourself “what would a highly successful person do in my situation”? And just write it down. Suspend reality. Write it as a case study.

Then, with all the confidence you can muster, all the courage you can force yourself to help, try to do that. It hurts but it’s good for you.

If the price of success is to exit your own reality and operate from a constructed one, because your own reality is so limited, then do it. Be yourself works when you are proud of yourself. When “being yourself” is not a good thing, start thinking of being someone else until you are satisfied with the “be yourself” part.

They are not moving as they have a purpose and eager to get there. They are escaping instead.

— Atlas Shruggred, Ayn Rand

It was never a surprise to me that you become what you think about. But what does this affirmation really means?

I’m asking myself this question when I find myself prone to procrastinate. Because I have every possible tool in place, I have no reason to procrastinate. But I do.

So it struck me – you will act in a way that is consistent with your self image. The “you become what you think about” praised by Earl Nightingale, by Napoelon Hill and by so many other great minds is nothing more than … (drums) … self image.

It’s not about thinking big thoughts. It’s not about being smart or witty. It’s as simple as thinking yourself as a person that is capable and worthy of doing whatever you want to do.

The irony here is that we attach tags to ourselves worse than everyone else. We consider ourselves not good enough, even if other people may not. We consider ourselves that we may not go past a certain limit even if there is no true proof to back this up.

We limit ourselves through our fears, through our low self-esteems, through our escape devices.

When you try to look at everything in perspective, it’s simple. Know what you want, how to get it and get it. But this works better in theory than in practice.

I usually know what I want but I don’t know for what I want it (the purpose). The purpose is just as important as knowing what. So the first two questions you must ask yourself is what and why.

I usually know that I can but I don’t have the full confidence to act on it. This leads to a self-reinforcing behavior in which I believe that I can’t more and more – because I have not tried it in the first place. The third step is to suspend your disbelief and everything you think you can’t and just try it. At least prove to yourself that you can fail and not fail by forfeting.

So each time when you want to do something and you just can’t, ask yourself these questions. I’ve just realized them and I’m going to use them right away:

1. What do I want to accomplish here?

2. Why do I want to accomplish that?

3. Why do I know that I can do that?

4. What’s the worst thing that can happen if I do it?

5. What’s the worst thing that can happen if I don’t do it?

Use emotion here, not logic. Use words like “I’ll be fucked” not “This will make my goal harder to achieve”. Execution is based on emotions, not logic. We are not computers to act on an “if – then” basis.