Fate

1) Irony

The knowledge of fate allows you to take responsibility in actualizing it.

My lack of freedom to determine my destiny gives rise to the responsibility to bring it about. The freedom to self-determine the specifics of the destiny gives rise to the responsibility.

Freedom is exercised through choice, and choice is the result of the interactions of the conditions which limit our freedom with those that allow it.

2) Persons

Persons are the unfolding of ideas in the world. People are just embodiments of ideas that are unfolding in the world of ideas.

The world is just the artifact of ideas, interacting with the progression of ideas.

The world of things are just historical artefacts of the things that are thought and brought into existence by persons, who become themselves as ideas through the chanelling process.

It is the receptacle of the potentiality of ideas, as the residual of that process of incorporation.

Becoming what one is = Embodying the idea that one is

The world supports this process of embodiment because it is itself idea; and the process of that embodiment is itself idea.

The phenomenology of idea-unfolding is just the historical world itself, that is, agency is the relation of the active idea to the systemic totality of ideas.

Problem: Defoundationalization of the systemic totality. How do we reconceptualize it, and therefore our relations to it?

Eg. I will not be an asset manager because I do not embody the idea of one. But I will be a philosopher because I am the idea of philosophy in person; I am philosophy itself.

The primary function of man is to embody the idea that they are in the world.

In so doing, they create their own religion.

In this sense, there are two types of persons: those who create their own religion, and those who follow the creations of others. Other distinctions are irrelevant.

Self-Advice 1

1) The optimal strategy to deal with the factor of randomness in life:

Curb your greed and learn to be opportunistic.

Greed is the desire and action to grab that which is not given to you by the universe.

Opportunism is the ability to seize the windows of opportunity for gain that are periodically handed to you.

One must learn to tell the difference between an act of opportunity and an act of greed or folly.

To do that, one must know enough (ie, know what you are doing), and be enough (ie, to know oneself).

2) On asymmetric volatility:

In a bull market, greed is more reliable than fear: buy calls.

In a bear market, fear is more reliable than greed: buy puts.