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How To Not Waste Your Life
By Jamie Varon
Question everything.
Everything.
Do not take anything as absolute fact. Dig deeper. Define for yourself what it means to be happy, fulfilled, successful, loving, loved. Do not assume another person or group’s belief system as yours without questioning the foundation of their beliefs. Do not be complacent in your education of the world and all the varying aspects of it. Do not fix your views so completely that you do not give way for the digestion of new information. Do not allow your life’s groundwork to be laid upon views, beliefs, and knowledge that you have not personally allowed to be your stability. Examine everything you take automatically as truth and hold it up to the microscope to determine its purity, its place amongst your life.
Think of your life like a brand new apartment in which you have no furnishings for yet. Every piece you bring into your apartment is curated and added into your daily living space based on deliberate, conscious decisions. You ask yourself, is this something I want to look at every day? You can think of your belief system, your knowledge, in much the same way. Add knowledge into your life deliberately. Curate what gets to run through your mind daily.
Furthermore, question yourself. Question the story you have about yourself which runs on repeat…
