Vision

This is my 150TH POST!!

During a coffee chat last week, my friend Cody (great guy btw) asked me what is your 5 years plan. I told him I didn’t have one. I used to be a big 5 year plan guy. I had one when I was 15, and life did not go as planned. Infact, having a set destination can make you tunnel vision and loose sight of things more important. Fortune can be fickle, and tying yourself to an outcome can lead to you not being as robust as you need to be for life. I started to implement a virtue based strategy, continuing from the stoic thought. Essentially, focusing only on the virtues that you can control. If someone cuts you off, you don’t have to get mad, you can practice the virtue of good temperance. Looking at every obstacle in life, and seeing how you can grow from it has been a good exercise. Although, I’m not perfect at this, certain times I do get very upset with the way life happens, but sometimes something inside me says “what has this enabled you to practice”. Don’t get me wrong, anything terrible happens to anyone it sucks.

Something that I think about is whose better off, the man who wants everything and gets most of it, or the man that doesn’t want anything, and probably gets something. Epictetus the slaves headstone capture’s this perfectly.

Here lies Epictetus, a slave maimed in body, the ultimate in poverty, and favored by the gods.

I’m not sure what the future holds, but sometimes I worry that I’m engrossed in business. Maybe, once I get there, I’ll realize it’s not worth it, but if I stop now, and take the moral high ground of being poor for the sake of virtue. That would be a cop out in my books.

Anyway, a long way to say why I don’t have a 5 year plan, but Cody convinced me that I should think about what it looks like, and told me it’s a good exercise to see where you are headed and where you want to go.

My vision:

I wake up super early, probably around 4-5 AM, and then I work on something I care about. For the time being it’s probably going to be the business but in the future, I want to just learn, understand math, music, literature physics, biology, and economics. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb found Coulomb’s Law which explains how force and electric charge is related, he did this when he was still in the military, after he retired and focused on science . That would be so cool, if I can write or figure out some relationship to contribute to humanities knowledge. Paradoxically, I don’t think I’ll contribute if I make that my goal, but if I can earnestly be curious, it might work out, but even if it doesn’t it’ll be an honour to understand the works of the great people before me.

Honestly that’s it, I’d like to get a workout in later in the day, and I imagine in 10 years or so I’d have kids so probably spend time with family. I’d be a happy camper as long as I get my 4-5 hours in the morning of uninterrupted work.

What’s cool is that I’m kind of living the dream life right now, although I don’t have the financial freedom to spend it solely on my interests I have to find a creative way to find interesting things that still make money (essentially a startup). Which is also cool, since I’m forced to think outside the box to discover something where the venn diagram of my interest and what the world needs.

Side note : It’s not everyday that you are forced to learn something that you would have never learnt through your own curiosity, so that’s been cool too. I’ve never wondered about how houses are made, but I’m learning more and more about it everyday.

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I really appreciate all my dear subscribers. There’s people on this list that I’ve known since Elementary school all the way to present day. I’ve been sharing my life in this blog since my gap year in 2023, from selling cars, stand up comedy to engineering. I’ve covered a lot of ground delved into everything I found interesting and have had some great conversations from this. This whole thing was inspired by having good conversations with people, and my hope is that we’ll get to talk about something interesting soon.