I’ve been exploring the idea of a consciousness accelerator — a system that turns these kinds of insights into interactive tools and practices, using AI + behavioral science to help people not just read wisdom, but live it faster.
What if everyone had their own version of these 35 truths… but in real-time, and dynamically personalized?
This reads like a systems manual for the inner life, especially the framing of responsibility as response-ability, trauma as overfitting, and environment as CapEx on willpower. The throughline I keep seeing is capacity: to feel, to choose, to love, to not get triggered. Feels less like “advice” and more like infrastructure. Appreciate you putting this out.
So, these things are often written by people who are now successful. However it often correlates with people who have had the right breaks/luck circumstances. Some of the points are good, some clearly come from a place where you haven’t seen the depths of the issue.
Happy Birthday, Erik! Thanks for the write-up, these are great ideas and there's a lot of wisdom there.
Great advice. Clear that it's hard-earned wisdom. Thanks Erik
Beautiful List. Favorite is "Love is a Verb".
phenomenal list
thank you!
very insightful. a small question is: there is no No.30 bullet?
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Happy Birthday! This is a beautiful list of reflections. Going to share this with friends. <3
This is excellent
I’ve been exploring the idea of a consciousness accelerator — a system that turns these kinds of insights into interactive tools and practices, using AI + behavioral science to help people not just read wisdom, but live it faster.
What if everyone had their own version of these 35 truths… but in real-time, and dynamically personalized?
Advice to me at 20: drop that bong.
This reads like a systems manual for the inner life, especially the framing of responsibility as response-ability, trauma as overfitting, and environment as CapEx on willpower. The throughline I keep seeing is capacity: to feel, to choose, to love, to not get triggered. Feels less like “advice” and more like infrastructure. Appreciate you putting this out.
This is excellent. Thank you for sharing 🙂
So, these things are often written by people who are now successful. However it often correlates with people who have had the right breaks/luck circumstances. Some of the points are good, some clearly come from a place where you haven’t seen the depths of the issue.
A lesson in thoughtfulness, certainly not just bits of advice. I should start writing a list from my much older perch.
Hi Erik, I’m 21 right now. Thanks for writing!
this is a brilliant read, thanks for the essay - Erik
Top notch work! So much good stuff. I will never forget when I finally learned that what people want, is often not connected to what they criticize.