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Life Advice Is Largely Useless If You Don’t Dare to Think For Yourself
Dare to know: dare to think
Life advice is insanely personal.
There is no single universal truth or objective reality. There are only what uniquely works for you.
Every personal experience is entirely different and unique. By all means, learn from others but don’t stop there.
Put every life lesson, advice, principle and to the test.
Think about how they can be applied successfully in your life. And if they don’t, give yourself permission to abandon them and keep learning.
Kant Immanuel explains beautifully, “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) “Have the courage to use your own understanding,” is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.”
Many people don’t know how to think for themselves. They blindly accept what they’re told and rely on others for direction. You need to know what you want in life and think about it critically to get there.
