Life is a Set of Mental Models

We live by performing actions, experiencing their results, and living with their short- and long-term consequences. Our family, friends, and schools help us build memory models that determine our survival, productivity, prosperity, and happiness; they show us how to live a successful, wealthy life. The goal of all education, family, school, church, jobs, even your first sexual experience, is to build and improve the many living memory models you have in your head. Once a model exists, you can practice and improve it without physical effort, without doing anything. It all takes place in your head. Over and over, you can play with and modify it in your head. You can even train your sleeping brain to work on improvements. Many people say they get help from the spiritual world. Personally, I will take help anywhere I can get it. Eventually, you must use your best model to effect real action in the real world of life and accept the consequences. To develop this memory model most successfully, you must act as an individual. Even with one other person, you must compromise your model. Marriages between two people who have the most in common are usually the most successful and long-lasting. Beware of collectives, such as political parties. Give up too much of your memory model to the collective, and your life will not be as successful as it could be. Be a libertarian, live your life free to follow your mental models as long as your actions do not violate government laws and the morals of your religious faith. People with successful memory modeling live longer, happier lives. Use all of your energy every day of your life to live a long, better life.

The total productivity and success of a nation of people acting to maximize their individual productivity and success always exceeds that of a collective, socialist nation. Individual innate talents must be maximized in a free-market capitalist economy for a nation to reach its highest potential for productivity and success.