Incomplete Ideas

• What would a representative of humanity be like?
• An interpretation of gender.
• How to build your moral system 101.
• Being virtuous and creating a virtuous world are a direction, not a goal; virtue and vice complement one another. Doing the right thing doesn't always feel good.
• Practical optimism is knowing that one will be well in the end, that things will come around naturally, as they ought to.
• People tend to be hostile toward what they do not understand.
• No wrong done upon one could make one wrong.
• Within every moment is a lesson.
• The purpose of discipline, of consistency (e.g. doing a task daily at the same time of day) is to ensure you operate by structure instead of by whim.
• If you love something, you must be prepared to let it go when circumstances demand it. If it returns, it's yours; if not, at least you once had it.
• Assume that one is acting in the best interest of humanity, for you do not know the operations of one's actions. In simpler terms: they know what they're doing.
• In becoming more familiar with a matter, one oversteps the initial impression constructed upon it.
• For every idea, seek its opponent. "x is y; ergo, x is z." "Sure, but x is w." The point is to weaken initial conclusions. There usually is more than one way to understand a matter.
• There are four elements of persuasion: logic, emotion, character and context. Context refers to the appropriateness of time and place as well as the speaker's knowledge of their audience's backgrounds.
• The way one experiences the world could be interpreted as discovery.
• Very few things ought to be taken at face-value. Remain sceptical.
• The average assumes that the factors being averaged are equal in all aspects when there could be significant variances overlooked. Default only exists when an "average" representation is chosen, or when a thing's origin or first of its kind is referenced.
• A philosophical conquest has there: the Ideator (dreamy, starts the discussion without elaboration); the Critic (rigorous, criticises the Ideator); the Apologist (polite, defends the Ideator); the Resolver (curious, corrects and questions everyone); and the Writer (disciplined, revises everyone's ideas after the discussion is complete).
• All philosophical inquiry begins through criticism.
• Life is a collection of moments.
• "Why" is a worthless question. It is a start, but on its own it means nothing.
• Committing errors is often a requirement for proper learning.
• Seek contentment or satisfaction, not happiness or pleasure. The latter ought to be a means to the former.

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