About Livefully.net
"As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and deliberation - or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt. Like a ball and chain in the place where your mind's wings should have grown." —Ayn Rand
Livefully.net is a first principles approach at Philosophy in the modern age.
The Problem Statement
Life inherently implies suffering, but there is necessary suffering and unnecessary suffering. Why do BILLIONS have to relive the same painful life lessons - some to fail completely? Why is there an epidemic of trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, self-division, confusion, chronic fatigue, suicide and unnecessary suffering?
The world is more confusing then ever with an unending heap of narratives, false claims and classifications along with never ending context switching which our brains were not designed address. All of this runs on the shoulders of biology, hormones and emotions that are innate to the human experience. It is naturally confusing and difficult and can seem like it makes no sense at all. Answer first - it makes sense. My hope is to help you connect the dots. It is very easy to lose yourself in this modern world, but this stops HERE.
Livefully.net is a compass. Think of it as a manual to yourself and the world you wish someone had given you.
Livefully.net Origins: Enter the Torture Chamber of Enlightenment
I was brought to a point in my life where suicide was the logical conclusion. Living with this much pain and for so long simply did not make any sense. I had lost the use of my hands for 20 years and with it my biggest passion in life (playing drums), my career, my degree, all of my favorite hobbies. I had developed an autoimmune disease that made my body attack itself. I lost all agency over my life. I was a body and a brain trapped in bed with the ability to whisper and not much more. My mind at the same time was ravaged by itself through chronic anxiety and depression. I was a hunk of flesh being eaten and attacked by itself, figuratively, literally and with no exaggeration.
The philosophy and frameworks I will share with you are the ones I used to survive, stay alive and systematically re-build myself, find the motivation to move forward, challenge the views of my doctors and prognosis, hypothesize and test to discover a new model of how to optimize my body and build myself back up.
In the end I was able to get the use of my hands back after loosing them for 2 decades. I was able to reverse my autoimmune disease into remission. I was able to make millions of dollars in a profession that initially triggered chronic anxiety and daily panic attacks. I married a beautiful woman inside and out had had 2 wonderful kids. I came out on the other side of the torture chamber with a deeper understanding of myself, objective meaning.
Suffering will do one thing - it will force you to think - it will force you to act or else the pain does not stop. My torture chamber lasted 20 years. For 20 years I spent hours a day reading, listening, researching, testing and trying to understand the underlying models of human nature to find a cure for the pain. The torture chamber that became my life lead me to look and analyze the world and test and try everything in attempt to map and understand reality such that I could wield it, change it and ultimately mold it.
Throughout all this I saw a pattern, a code, a loop that was shared between many things from science, acceling in sports, making music, starting a business and even solving my life long illness. I will share it all with you at no cost - but you must pay it forward.
The concepts shared are grounded in evidence, science, logic, reason and reality but take the subjective experience of being a human, how our brain works and how we internally deal with ourselves into heavy account.
Solutions built on truth and reality provide lasting value. They are gifts that keeps giving. The truth can sometimes hurt, but acknowledging reality is a necessary step in making progress and moving forward. It is only when you face yourself and the parts your nature doesn't want you to look that you can truly understand another man\woman - for we are all capable of good and evil deeds.
The focus is to be ruthlessly HONEST and PRAGMATIC in helping to impact behavior to achieve the outcome of living your life to the fullest.
So many of us know what to do but getting ourselves to do it is the part we lack. We will cover both as well as how to channel energy in the most efficient ways to get a greater return.
Livefully.net is designed in a modular (plug and play format) so you can take the pieces that make the most sense to your life and incorporate them into your own unique philosophy - helping you to understand yourself and the world in a way that can enable you to live your life to its full potential.
