Philosophy

Update: I haven’t updated this page since 2008; it’s rather old; the solution? read the new stuff on my philosophies (which can, for sure, change) on this blog;

This page contains my principles when acting in life. I hope you’ll enjoy the ride.

My life philosophy principles
These are my life’s philosophy principles:
1. You should better act wrongly, rather than do nothing; You should act after some thinking, but acting is better than no action at all (by Andrei Cornea); 2. Twenty percent of your actions determine 80% of the results. Focus on those 20% (by Vilfredo Pareto principle – see Wikipedia article on the Pareto principle); (explained: ignore errors when possible, don’t bother by margins, don’t put too much effort into something not worth it)
3. (personal rule) Life is based on results and the only way to get results is by acting; Thus, you should act to get results;
4. (personal rule) The best way to solve a personal issue is by creating a conflict, even if this creates discomfort (to you too);
5. The best way to deal with a conflict in a debate is by following debate rules (see How to debate effectively and rationally);
6. (personal rule) Within debate rules, anything is possible to say;
7. (personal rule) Winning is not important; on the other hand, not making a single mistake that could prevent you from winning is crucial (this includes not being motivated); so it’s Ok not to win as long as you gave your best and didn’t make mistakes;
8. (personal rule) In case of losing, interpret this as a costly yet effective way to learn; (if you do something bad that cost you money, then it’s sort of a payed training for that particular mistake) (a rather positive way of looking at things)
9. (personal rule) In case of losing, find out everything that led to the mistake and work on it;
10. (personal rule) In case of winning, find out everything that led you to win and use it again and again;
11. (personal rule) Beauty, process, harmony – are all irrelevant to major winnings; (although beauty, or process itself, like work, or harmony can be a winning itself, it generally doesn’t yield optimal results following them as restrains) (life analysis should be on results, not harmony, for me)
12. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody; (Bill Cosby)
13. All economy principles for life can be summed up in a single rule: Opportunity Cost (see the Opportunity Cost page on Wikipedia); (life is about choices mostly – you that or the other one; economy is is all about making the right choices)
14. Notice the fact that truth hurts. Just notice it. “Truth well told” is the basis of McCann advertising group. Not mine. In the movie “A few Good Men” these sentences are said (in a very loud voice): “You want answers?” “I think I’m entitled” “You want answers?” “I want the truth!” “You can’t handle the truth!” (YouTube clip on this). I’d say truth is the way, and when said people do swallow air (see below); Sometimes just shutting up is also fine;
15. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw)
16. (personal rule) All actions can be understood by the degree of addiction; One can’t do anything without having first an addiction; I should analyze the addiction in order to understand the process;
17. (personal rule) Ignore awkwardness no matter what; Just act.

Now you can ask me where is the philosophy, since all above are just signs of acting, not of thinking back. Well, that’s it!

I’m not sure why are you on the philosophy page, since this is a “Get a result now!” blog, but since you’re here you might want to leave a purely provocative comment below.