0 People Act Based On What Is Common

People work eight hours a day and get minimum standard wage, it's common and therefore it's OK for them to do so. What common or uncommon is based on experience and knowledge. For some people, exercise everyday is common and normal, so they do it, for others, it's not. It's just merely the habit of mass. For some people, going to work for others everyday nine to five, is unbearable and unacceptable, so they don't do it. The key is habit. Habit is acting normal without making effort or decision because it was decided long ago. In long term model, everything is easy to do. But people live at the present and cannot comprehend the long term model. They crave for immediate gratification. Fat, stupid and poor are the most common trait of people. This is caused by immediate gratification. They fail to control their emotion and fall into the trap of Siren song. Aim at anti-fragile and ignore the siren song.

0 Emergency and Siren Song in Life

People only act upon emergency. When your house is on fire, you act immediately, everything else doesn't matter. People only act when cornered and there is no way out but acting. Yet there's no emergency to be a master, to be rich, to have great and strong body, so people simply do not act. People are procrastinators. They do not act, they react. People are waiting the time to pass only to do the same thing again the next day. They make excuses for not doing what they know necessary. People do not act if they don't see immediate consequences. Smart people know this and they anticipate what will happen. Ulysses knew he would be tempted by the Sirens, so he created a pact with his future self now we know this as Ulysses pact or Ulysses contract. The principle is to apply immediate consequences of an action. Sirens are everywhere in real life, it can be television, social media, smart phone, games, and so on. Most people are just doom and step to the jump to the ocean willingly. They will never escape from the matrix of this Sirens.

0 Kant's View On Freedom And Duty

freedom is doing without inclination. If someone does something for the sake of getting reward or avoiding punishment, it's not freedom, it's inclination. Freedom should free from temptation, fear, worry, and so on. According to Kant, freedom only possible when you do the duty. Doing your duty is universal law. People are procrastinators because they think about wheter what they do will bear any consequence, whether it's pleasurable not painful, what other people think about it. Kant, different from others, views that all of that should be ignored, just do the duty, full stop, do not think about consequences. To do so is a true freedom. For most if not all people, the ultimate motivation of doing something is to get pleasure and to avoid pain. They think freedom is doing what they want. Children and drunkards always do what they want, but it's not freedom at all. Children are pleasure seeking while drungkards are under the influence of alcohol, they often regret their action or ashame after they are sober. They are manipulated by their ignorance. Kant perspective on freedom is anti-fragile, because not caring about consequences will make you become stronger over time and you will have more determination. It's sincere. Procrastination is the sign of insincerety and unseriousness. When someone decides to be a writer, for example, writing becomes his duty. He must write regardless all consequences. Most people give up on any mastery because they think to much about consequences. They are not focus on doing their duty. They are attacked by resistance like Sidha was attacked by Mara. Spinoza said, excellent is difficult and rare. I close this writing with a poem by Charles Bukowski. Roll the Dice by Charles Bukowski if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation. isolation is the gift, all the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. and you’ll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine. if you’re going to try, go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way. you will ride life straight to perfect laughter, its the only good fight there is.