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What’s Your End-Game in Life?

Dear friend,

Simple question: what is your end-game in life?

Download PDF: End-Game


Think about death

Nowadays, you hear a lot of talk about people attempting to retire early, and achieve ‘financial independence’.

And of course a lot of us are rolling the rock of sisyphus, trying to accrue more money, power, and influence for the sake of it.

But how rarely do we ever ask ourselves:

What is our true end-game in life?


Play the game backwards

I think this is an optimal strategy in life:

Figure out what your end-game is in life, then play it backwards.

For example, let us say that your end-game is to philosophize, write poetry, write essays, or make photos. Then why waste time trying to accrue more money in order to do that? Take a kink out of your chain — just pursue your end-game via a straight-line!


Let me give you an example: a lot of us dream of one day retiring and traveling the world. But then what?

I think a lot of people want to travel the world to feel “inspired” or to become “cultured”. But once you get inspired, open your mind, and become cultured…then what?

I think what people truly want to do as an end-game is to create. To create their own designs, to create photos, or to create art. Art can be manifested via computer code, poetry, pictures, visual art, sculpture, dance — anything.

Everyone has a different end-game

Stop asking others for advice what to do with your life. Everyone has a different end-game in life.

Start off by asking yourself:

“What is my end-game in life?”

Then use philosophy-entrepreneurship as a tool to achieve that end-game, and to make that end-game a reality!

ERIC


Philosophy

Dictate your meaning and purpose in your life with ZEN OF ERIC:


Philosophy Essays

  • Create Your Own Happiness Today
  • Desire Both Pain and Pleasure in Life
  • Try the Impossible
  • SELF-RESPECT
  • Anti-Social Extrovert
  • Never Blame Anybody But Yourself
  • Human Flourishing
  • Simpler, Not Better.
  • How to be Free
  • Embrace the Extremes
  • Cultivate Your Own Culture
  • COURAGE.
  • Thrivival
  • Inner Power
  • How to Live a Purposeful Life
  • My Definition of Happiness
  • Why Change is Good
  • Why Work?
  • How to Live the Happiest Possible Life
  • The Two-Pronged Approach to Maximize Joy in Your Life
  • You Always Have Another Option!
  • INFINITISM
  • Never Stop!
  • What is Your Self-Directed Purpose in Life?
  • Live Today Like it Were Your Last
  • Do You Photograph to Live, or Live to Photograph?
  • ARTIST-PHILOSOPHER
  • Live Life to the Fullest!
  • In Praise of Selfishness
  • Why You Must Be a YAY-SAYER to Succeed in Entrepreneurship and Life
  • Why I Love Walking
  • Live Life Like a Video Game!
  • Simple Luxuries in Life
  • Treat Your Life Like a Fun Experiment!
  • Only Prove it to Yourself
  • You Don’t Always Need to Feel Joyful to Live a Fulfilling and Meaningful Life
  • Life is Too Short to Be Bored!
  • Money Cannot Destroy Boredom
  • How to Find Inspiration in Life
  • Why You Must Ignore Haters to Succeed and Win in Life
  • An Active Life is a Happy Life
  • My Simple Joys in Life
  • Never Stop Striving
  • How to Motivate Yourself in Life
  • How to Be Optimistic in Life
  • How to Dictate Your Purpose in Life
  • In Praise of a Dynamic Life
  • PURPOSE.
  • How to Enjoy Life
  • Photography Therapy
  • How to Conquer Regret
  • Take Your Play Very Seriously.
  • How to Prosper
  • Memento Vivere
  • Destroy in Order to CREATE
  • Trust Your Body More Than Your Mind
  • Make Photos to Make Meaning in Your Life
  • Seek Knowledge, Not Information
  • The Purpose of Human Life
  • How to Overcome Impedence
  • Why I Love Death
  • How to Be Centered in the Eternal Now
  • How to Be Happy
  • Why Do You Care What Others Think of You?
  • Why I’m Happy
  • Why?
  • Why I’m So Prolific
  • How to Reduce LAG in Life

Masters of Philosophy »

  • Seneca
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Publilius Syrus

Personal Philosophy »

  • You Are the Light of the World
  • Your Soul is a Diamond in the Rough
  • Why Live?

Stoicism »

  • How to Be a Stoic Street Photographer
  • How to Use Photography as Self-Therapy
  • How to Free Your Soul From Disturbance

Zen Philosophy »

  • How to Be a Zen Street Photographer
  • Zen in the Art of Street Photography
  • How to Find Tranquility in Your Photography

Life Lessons »

  • How to Conquer Your Fears in Life
  • Conquer Yourself
  • How to Focus

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