This will probably sound very harsh. I'm sorry for that, I don't mean to. Hard to express yourself in a different language...
Anyway... you are writing about raising your awareness, about your purpose in life and so forth. You are writing about personal development - but still you seem to neglect an area of your life constantly - the "Cultural Pavlina".
Have you even read Dostoyevsky? Strindberg? Blake? Faulkner? Voltaire? Rimbaud? Do you know a van Gough when you see one and how many times have you been outside of the US? Have you seen the children dying in the smelly streets of India and have you seen the sun go down over the Mediterranean.
I think not and I think that doing these things would alter the way you see the world considerably. Actaully, I think it's a bit hard to take your advice seriously when I'm aware of the fact that you live in the USA and have not seen very much else of the world.
I mean... you yourself talk about how important knowledge is and that you should be open etc. Shouldn't you be reading some Nietzsche and Schopenhauer just to make sure that you haven't missed out on anything? Because, these things: travelling, education (and meeting people) are very good ways to improve yourself and the best part is that they don't make you "strive" so much after things that you can never be satisfied with anyway - like networth and so on.
(Also, pleeeeease remove "personal development for
smart people". It's so transparent.)
