Whenever I had ideas about the world or a thing I wanted to do, I would quickly disregard them saying that it’s not objectively valuable, so I need something better, stronger, more meaningful, etc. Then after a few years of continuous spiraling, I asked this simple question: “Is there anything objectively valuable?” This led me through a chain of thoughts coming after each other, that eventually resulted in this experiment:

Throughout my life, I always liked discussing about the world, different philosophies and ideas, exploring and investigating new concepts, etc. And inevitably, I had several discussions when one of us felt misunderstood and we couldn’t come to a common ground. It’s so easy to fall into the spiral of continuous word picking, going into the details without agreeing on the fundaments and after hours getting out of it feeling like it was completely meaningless, possibly feeling hurt, etc.

I believe everything we do in life should serve a tree of simple questions, asking the “why"s of everything. Why do you want to do the thing you want? Why do you want to have a job? Rather than the easier answers like “Well I need money”, go deeper and build this tree defining who you really are. Why do you need money? What is your dream, why do you want that?