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Emotional Equations

A rational approach to handling and understanding emotions...gotta look into this guy.



In his latest work, "Emotional Equations," Chip Conley takes the mathematics of human happiness a step further, creating simple formulas like anxiety = uncertainty x powerlessness, which, when used systematically, he says, can give individuals and organizations a concrete method for addressing the human needs that drive them.

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Superman's Dreams Becoming A Reality

Year of the Hustle

It may seem like I’ve been away since I’ve rarely been posting about my adventures. But it’s been quite the opposite; your boy has been hustling like no other.

When I said 2012 was gonna be the Year of the Hustle, homie didn’t lie. Shit has been surreal and things keep getting better. I’m not sure whether I want to talk about everything, since the stuff Prince P and I have been doing has not been done by most PUAs. Shit, we might turn this into our own system and change up the whole game…maybe down the line, not quite ready for that, still got ways to go. Nevertheless, I’ll post about some of the shit we’ve been working on with our fashion magazine.

The Dreamer and Visionary

Dream: "A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal"

“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'” - George Bernand Shaw

It started with a dream…

Needs No Explanation

During my research on Hugh Hefner, I had thought about getting our version of the Playboy Playmates. But never followed through because we were far too busy working on other things.





After stumbling across the Playboy YouTube channel, I watched the Playboy Midsummer Night Dream Party video. The video blew me away, it was like everything I had dreamed about had been manifested in reality in that one video. I could clearly see the individual dreams I had been having all represented in that one piece.

The dream was no longer fuzzy. The video made it clear. The video was “The Tipping Point”. I now had a vivid goal of what I was trying to achieve. It gave me the clear visual picture to turn that dream into a vision.

Vision: "a vivid mental image"

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision " - Ayn Rand

From that point onward, I decided to follow through with an idea I had been thinking about. The Super Bowl of the fashion industry, Fashion week, was a few weeks away and I decided that we would have our own version of the Playboy Playmates following us around and interviewing people for us at the events. Forget about photo shoots, we were going to go all out and live the full on lifestyle, models everywhere!

Last Minute Auditions

Auditioned For My Agency

Her DDs Auditioned For My Agency As Well

Fashion week was nearing so I moved fast and setup an audition with some models for TV hosts for a short film/documentary we decided to do about fashion week. I got two from a modeling site, and the other two models came from my modeling agency, where they were auditioning to be signed. I had met a new guy on the local forums, Mag, and he happened to have a studio apartment right in Dupont Circle. So we used his place for the auditions.

The auditions were a lot of fun, I told all the models to come in form fitting white tops, tight black leggings and high heels. They were prancing around Mag’s studio all sexy and shit while we gave them orders. Damn it feels good to boss these models around haha! I was especially pumped that I had two models from my own modeling agency represented. This was the first gig I had done with my agency, although the irony is that it was for the fashion magazine, which I’m also a part of.

Fashion Super Bowl

So Fashion week came around, and we went to every event with our magazine. Being a magazine gave us free press passes to all the events, including to the $150 ticketed ones at the French and Ukrainian Embassy.

Day one was sick, we got a lot of awesome video, met a lot of powerful people in the industry, including an exclusive interview with the founder of fashion week, and the pageant winner for DC who is going to compete in the Miss USA pageant. I talked to her with one of my models in tow, and we interviewed her after the show and took photos. She volunteered and told me to take down her number without me asking. I then knew this lifestyle game was the real deal. I ended up meeting up with her in a coffee shop the following week to talk about the profile we’re going to do on her for our magazine.

The rest of the week was a blast, lots of models, designers, hot girls, and more models, all loving our camera crew and wanting to work with us.

Still Had Some Hiccups

Bitch Gave My Models the Red Pill

The only hiccups during the week, were when some fat woman representing a different modeling agency came up to my models and poached them right in front of my eyes. I knew what she was doing, but in all honesty I knew I didn’t have the money to pay these models and was likely going to cut them after we were done shooting for the week, or after the photo shoots. I let the agent spit game at them and wanted to see how she ran hers, so that I could Copy, Past and Modify (CPM).

Didn’t really get much out of it, besides watching her tell my models what she could do with their looks and hair, and being represented in different states. In hindsight that was a fuckup on my part, she put salt in my modeling game and the models all of a sudden realized they had options, and no longer had to work with us as volunteers, getting no pay.

Male Models Fraternizing With My Models

We also had some of the tall good-looking male models trying to swoop our models. Which annoyed me even more, knowing I’m less genetically gifted in terms of looks and height, and after all the hard work we’re putting into this, for some good looking shlump to try and coast off of my hard work in a few minutes, I was not gonna have it!

Now I know why Hugh Hefner has strict rules about not letting his Playboy Playmates talk to anybody when he goes out with them. Shit, I’m might have to do the same thing with our models for our next events. I think I will tell all the models with us, that they will be representing us, and only interview people. If they take down anyone’s contact info, it has to go through us, or they will be FIRED on the spot! All contact and promotion should be for our magazine, not themselves. Obviously in more eloquent legal writing, but that’s the gist of it.

Our Future

Right now we have edited and put up a bunch of videos on our site that make us look even more LEGIT! We are the real deal Holyfield.

We’re going to continue on hustling, and have on our sights our own version of the Playboy Mansion. But for now, we will have to make due with a studio, and whatever we get.

Real Friends

I’ve had a lot of PUAs here locally, come out of the woodworks contact me all of sudden wanting to “hang out” with me. In reality, I just assume they want to enter our circle of models and hot girls that we’re building.

Back then I couldn’t see these cats like Stevie Wonder, now they’re making themselves available. I grasp the objective reality of the situation, and realize they are seeing value in me and my circle, and are going for their own self-interests. I have to keep reminding myself to be humble, and not get an inflated sense of entitlement. However, if I am to hang out with them, I also have to have my own self-interests in mind.

So I am purely thinking rationally when dealing with them. If I am to provide them with access to my circle, then they have to have some value that they’re providing for me. I am trying to maintain a 3+ ratio of models per guy, so I cannot have dudes kickin' it with me that provide no value whatsoever! I am not an altruist! If I were to invite another guy into our closed knit group, then I would need to get 3 more girls to maintain the ratio, which just means more work for me. The final goal is to reach the Hugh Hefner ratio he has at his parties, which is supposedly 10 girls for every guy.

Price of Admission

For anyone in DC reading this that wishes to enter this circle, the fastest way to enter is to have logistics! If you have a place in DC that is conducive to hosting auditions, photo shoots and most importantly, you will let us use it to BANG GIRLS, then you won’t have to do much. We will hook you up and it will be clear sailing all the way, for all of us haha.

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How I Held My Breath for 17 minutes

Great talk on pushing past your limits!

In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him.



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Atlas Shrugged Book Review (Ayn Rand)

WARNING: This book review may shatter you notion of reality and morals. It is not for the weak or timid. If this is you, please refrain from reading this post. Proceed at your own risk.

“I swear-by my life and my love of it-that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine” – John Galt

It’s been a long time coming. I finished the Atlas Shrugged a while back in December, but was busy doing 4th quarter living and knew that writing a regular book review for a book of this stature would not be sufficient. This book deserved better.

To succinctly put it, Atlas Shrugged is an Ultimate Game Changer. I read a lot of books, I’m reading a book every week, and this one puts almost all the other books I’ve read to shame in terms of the influence it has had on my life after reading it. This book has become one of my favorite books of all time, right up there with “The Selfish Gene”.

I had previously read Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” so I had an idea of what to expect from her works. I went in with high expectations and she completely over exceeded them. Her game is on a whole another level. Although “The Fountainhead” is an awesome book, a game changer in it’s own right, “Atlas Shrugged” is far superior and deeper. This book is over 1,000 pages and took me four months to finish; and I was cheating by listening to the audiobook.

The Man Who Stopped the Motor of the World

The book starts out hard to read, and there were moments initially where I wanted to put it down and say it’s boring but I persisted on the sheer belief that Ayn Rand would not produce such a boring piece of garbage. I cannot lie, I would say the first 1/3 of the book, or roughly Part 1 or the first 300+ pages are boring. But do not give up, plow through it for you will be rewarded greatly in Parts 2 and 3. Part 3 is phenomenal, especially the final speech from John Galt.

Let’s get to John Galt. The John Galt Speech is deep…so deep!!!! Three hours deep! I have uploaded it to YouTube in it’s entirety and it's the one posted at the beginning of this post. I have already listened to the speech more than 10 times, because it has so much knowledge in it. I have taken the John Galt code and re-evaluated and continue to evaluate my moral code.

The main thing to take away from “Atlas Shrugged” is a philosophical understanding of morality and reason. That is the whole essence of the book. I have some quotes I pulled out that encapsulate the book’s lessons that jumped out at me.

But before we do that, let’s make sure our definitions of morality and reason are on the same page.

Definitions according to the dictionary:

Morality: “Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior”

Reason: “The power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic”

Now that we have that out of the way, on to some quotes and philosophies from John Galt's final speech.


To sum up the philosophy being said below, your morality is a private issue that is not to be influenced by god or society.

“You have heard no concepts of morality but the mystical or the social. You have been taught that morality is a code of behavior imposed on you by whim, the whim of a supernatural power or the whim of society, to serve God’s purpose or your neighbor’s welfare, to please an authority beyond the grave or else next door-but not to serve your life or pleasure. Your pleasure, you have been taught, is to be found an immorality, your interests would best be served by evil, and any moral code must be designed not for you, but against you, not to further your life, but to drain it.”

“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors-between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.”

The philosophy from this passage says that any morality that preaches self-sacrifice at the stake of your own happiness, is leading you to a joyless life. Your happiness is not something that is gained by whim, but rather is gained by having solid rational values, and not allowing anyone to compromise those values.

“Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. A morality that dares to tell you to find happiness in the renunciation of your happiness-to value the failure of your values-is an insolent negation of morality. A doctrine that gives you, as an ideal, the role of a sacrificial animal seeking slaughter on the altars of others, is giving you death as your standard. By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man-every man-is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.” 

“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy-a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind’s fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real...Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.”

The philosophy here is that do not feel guilty for original sin or your nature. Only an irrational morality can claim man to be evil for his nature. Do not feel guilty for your sexual pleasure is a big take away from this. A man’s nature is sexual, it is his means of passing on his genes. Any morality that preaches that sexual pleasure is evil, is punishing man for his nature.

“A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it; if he has no will, he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold, as man’s sin, a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man’s nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality, nature, justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.” 

“Do not hide behind the cowardly evasion that man is born with free will, but with a ‘tendency’ to evil. A free will saddled with a tendency is like a game with loaded dice. It forces man to struggle through the effort of playing, to bear responsibility and pay for the game, but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice, he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice, his will is not free.” 

“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge-he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evil-he became a mortal being. He was sentenced to earn his bread by his labor-he became a productive being. He was sentenced to experience desire-he acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which they damn him are reason, morality, creativeness; joy-all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man’s fall is designed to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.” 

“Man’s fall, according to your teachers, was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues, by their standard, are his Sin. His evil, they charge, is that he’s man. His guilt, they charge, is that he lives.”

Morals from both society and religion are two sides of the same coin. Both ask you to sacrifice and compromise your values and reason without question, on the sole basis of faith in the hopes of benefiting from it after your death.

“The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man’s consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man’s mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God. Man’s mind, say the mystics of muscle, must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man’s standard of value say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man’s power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man’s standard of value, say the mystics of muscle, is the pleasure of Society, whose standards are beyond man’s right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man’s life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question. His reward, say the mystics of spirit, will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward, say the mystics of muscle, will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.” 

“Selfishness-say both-is man’s evil. Man’s good-say both-is to give up his personal desires, to deny himself, renounce himself, surrender; man’s good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality, the highest virtue within man’s reach.” 

“This much is true: the most selfish of all things is the independent mind that recognizes no authority higher than its own and no value higher than its judgment of truth. You are asked to sacrifice your intellectual integrity, your logic, your reason, your standard of truth-in favor of becoming a prostitute whose standard is the greatest good for the greatest number.”

Take away. A moral code inverted against your happiness, is hypocritical.

“Why is it moral to serve the happiness of others, but not your own? If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you? If the sensation of eating a cake is a value, why is it an immoral indulgence in your stomach, but a moral goal for you to achieve in the stomach of others? Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it? Does virtue consist of serving vice? Is the moral purpose of those who are good, self-immolation for the sake of those who are evil?”

What this passage says is that mystics have given up their faculty of reason; he relies and favors the knowledge of others, over his own. He wishes to gain control, and despises facts and reality.

“A mystic is a man who surrendered his mind at its first encounter with the minds of others. Somewhere in the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of independence that he renounced his rational faculty. At the crossroads of the choice between ‘I know’ and ‘They say,’ he chose the authority of others, he chose to submit rather than to understand, to believe rather than to think. Faith in the supernatural begins as faith in the superiority of others. His surrender took the form of the feeling that he must hide his lack of understanding, that others possess some mysterious knowledge of which he alone is deprived, that reality is whatever they want it to be, through some means forever denied to him.” 

“Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims-as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force-he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason. Reason is the enemy he dreads and, simultaneously, considers precarious: reason, to him, is a means of deception, he feels that men possess some power more potent than reason-and only their causeless belief or their forced obedience can give him a sense of security, a proof that he has gained control of the mystic endowment he lacked. His lust is to command, not to convince: conviction requires an act of independence and press on the absolute of an objective reality. What he seeks is power over reality and over men’s means of perceiving it, their mind, the power to interpose his will between existence and consciousness, as if, by agreeing to fake the reality he orders them to fake, men would, in fact, create it.”

This one is deep. In essence, the evils deemed by society and religion are inverted. The practical means of man’s survival are not evil, they are his nature. A morality that advocates you going against your means of survival will lead to undeserved guilt. You will end up pitying the weak that are not in tune with reality, and hate the strong that are practical enough to understand the facts of reality and make it produce their desires, desires that you will view as evil. Playboy Lifestyle game anyone? Haha

“No matter what dishonorable compromise you’ve made with your impracticable creed, no matter what miserable balance, half-cynicism, half-superstition, you now manage to maintain, you still preserve the root, the lethal tenet: the belief that the moral and the practical are opposites. Since childhood, you have been running from the terror of a choice you have never dared fully to identify: If the practical, whatever you must practice to exist, whatever works, succeeds, achieves your purpose, whatever brings you food and joy, whatever profits you, is evil-and if the good, the moral, is the impractical, whatever fails, destroys, frustrates, whatever injures you and brings you loss or pain-then your choice is to be moral or to live.” 

“Swinging like a helpless branch in the wind of an uncharted moral wilderness, you dare not fully to be evil or fully to live. When you are honest, you feel the resentment of a sucker; when you cheat, you feel terror and shame, your pain is augmented by the feeling that pain is your natural state. You pity the men you admire, you believe they are doomed to fail; you envy the men you hate, you believe they are the masters of existence. You feel disarmed when you come up against a scoundrel: you believe that evil is bound to win, since the moral is the impotent, the impractical.”

You need reason and a rational mind to understand that nature and reality are an absolute.

“Do you cry that you find no answers? By what means did you hope to find them? You reject your tool of perception-your mind-then complain that the universe is a mystery. You discard your key, then wail that all doors are locked against you. You start out in pursuit of the irrational, then damn existence for making no sense.”
“A moral code impossible to practice, a code that demands imperfection or death, has taught you to dissolve all ideas in fog, to permit no firm definitions, to regard any concept as approximate and any rule of conduct as elastic, to hedge on any principle, to compromise on any value, to take the middle of any road. By extorting your acceptance of supernatural absolutes, it has forced you to reject the absolute of nature. By making moral judgments impossible, it has made you incapable of rational judgment. A code that forbids you to cast the first stone, has forbidden you to admit the identity of stones and to know when or if you’re being stoned.” 

“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your break or see it vanish into a looter’s stomach, is an absolute.”

The philosophy from here is that it’s okay to trust your independent mind, even if you do not know everything. It is easier to fix an error of yours from wrong logic, than an unquestioned error accepted on faith. Mistakes will be made in seeking knowledge, and that’s okay, but do not compromise your moral code based on objective reality to anyone, it is your means of happiness and survival.

“Do not say that you’re afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience-that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible-that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error. In place of your dream of an omniscient automation, accept the fact that any knowledge man acquires is acquired by his own will and effort, and that that is his distinction in the universe, that is his nature, his morality, his glory.” 

“Discard that unlimited license to evil which consists of claiming that man is imperfect. By what standard do you damn him when you claim it? Accept the fact that in the realm of morality nothing less than perfection will do. But perfection is not to be gauged by mystic commandments to practice the impossible, and your moral stature is not to be gauged by matters not open to your choice. Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.” 

“Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any breach of morality. Give the benefit of the doubt to those who seek to know; but treat as potential killers those specimens of insolent depravity who make demands upon you, announcing that they have and seek no reasons, proclaiming, as a license, that they ‘just feel it’-or those who reject an irrefutable argument by saying: ‘It’s only logic,’ which means: ‘It’s only reality.’ The only realm opposed to reality is the realm and premise of death.”

This final passage sums up the philosophy of Atlas Shrugged. In essence, you pursuing your own personal happiness is the highest standard in your life and don’t let anyone compromise that under any circumstance.

“Accept the fact that the achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness-not pain or mindless self-indulgence-is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Happiness was the responsibility you dreaded, it required the kind of rational discipline you did not value yourself enough to assume-and the anxious staleness of your day is the monument to your evasion of the knowledge that there is no moral substitute for happiness, that there is no more despicable coward than the man who deserted the battle for his joy, fearing to assert his right to existence, lacking the courage and the loyalty to life of a bird or a flower reaching for the sun. Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility-learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness-and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.” 

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this word to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.” 

“But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.” 

“You will win when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battle-and for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world: 

“I swear-by my life and my love of it-that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

This book has had a lot of influence on me. Before coming across Ayn Rand’s works I had dreaded Philosophy, thinking it was merely mental masturbation. But after finishing the book, I understand the vital importance of Philosophy. It is the means by which man lives his life.

“A philosophy is a system of beliefs about reality. It is one's integrated view of the world. It includes an understanding of the nature of existence, man, and his role in the world. Philosophy is the foundation of knowledge. It is the standard by which ideas are integrated and understood." 

"Philosophy is a necessary product of man's rational mind. To live, man must gain knowledge of the world. To understand the world, man must form conclusions about its very nature. For instance, to gain knowledge of particular objects, man must recognize that objects have identity. He must recognize that conclusions are possible because the world does exist, and exists in a particular way.” 

“Philosophy provides the framework for which man can understand the world. It provides the premises by which man can discover truth, and use his mind to support his life. Every man has an understanding of the world. Every man must have a philosophy, even if it is never made explicit.”

If it isn't obvious by now, I highly recommend this book!

Get the book here on Amazon: Atlas Shrugged

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