 It's not making your life the best. It can be how do you make your life the best? What is the thing that if you if you What is the one thing that makes us human? The what is the tool that makes it possible for us to live a good life or any life of that? Money no, where's money come from? It doesn't go on trees Freedom I mean freedom is just a tool a mechanism. What is it that makes it possible for us? So for example, where do we the food come from and don't say the supermarket, please Where's food come from? What's that farm labor, right? Listening to too many Marxist Farming animal labor not labor from farming right now. Do you have the gene for farming? You have the gene for farming The gene DNA g and e Your ancestors said the gene for farming Now they didn't and where did they go the gene just disappeared You have the gene for hunting I dropped you in the middle of nowhere, and you know exactly what to do We don't have instincts with this pathetic animal We're really pretty pathetic because we are born with the knowledge of how to survive So you put it in a pretty pathetic you look around you. I mean look look at what a pathetic animal You're weak You're slow. I mean all of us not just you me too. We have no claws. We have no fangs I mean you go up against a Cybertude tiger who's gonna win It turns out you are Because here we are in Cybertude Tigers a museum What made it possible for us to survive in spite of being weak and slow and have no claws and have no fangs We beat up the Cybertude Tiger. We beat out everybody. We are Top of the world in terms of nature. Nobody comes close. We're not afraid of nature at all We have tamed nature. How do we do that? What did we do use? our eyes our reason a rationality capacity to think Thinking is what makes us human Reason is what makes it possible for us to survive and to thrive and succeed Nobody has the instinct to build the skyscraper It takes enormous amount of knowledge to build the skyscraper and enormous amount of thinking Never mind build a beautiful skyscraper Which takes a whole other set of skills, but it requires this The human mind to be self-interested To live for your own life to figure out what is the best life you can live for yourself Means they use your mind To think to figure out how to live well how to find your own profession how to find your life you know Boyfriend girlfriend spouse How do we every aspect of our life make the most of it not settle not compromise live fully? By using our reason to guide our actions And so we know we know that when we get into trouble usually it's because we didn't think It's because we followed emotions. We followed desires, but we didn't really think it through and Thinking it through is what self-interference really is Thinking it through according to Iran is what morality really is so if you want to be a moral person according to Rand According to the objectives philosophy if you want to be a moral person If you want to be a good person if you want to be a virtuous person the most important thing you could do is use your mind Use your reason so problems So far as I do math it means the problems that you face as a human being in surviving in existing In thriving in the world in which we live. That's what self-interest is. That's what morality is about Morality should be about Teaching us every one of us as an individual how to live the best life that we can live What are the principles we should live by with reason as the main one? What are the principles we should live by in order to live a good life morality should be about dying and suffering? It should be about living and being happy It should be about the tools that make that possible Giving us the tools to make that possible the virtues and values That make life the best that it can be for you and those are objective tools because we're now Some principles apply to all of us the same for example using your reason