 Right, MP creates, these are $20 questions. Why is it so hard to be selfish? How can I unlearn altruism in my daily life and act more selfishly? What do you think of personality tests like Enneagram? And do you think different types are more susceptible to altruism? Look, selfishness is difficult only because you're trained two things to do two things which you have to overcome. One is to be altruistic. It's to think about other people's first, to feel bad when you do something with negative consequences for the people. Or more importantly, to feel bad when you do something with positive consequences to you. To feel bad when you pursue your own pleasure, when you own success, to feel bad when you think, oh, I got the raise, oh, I got a promotion, oh, I finished this project, oh, I'm so proud of myself. You're trained to think badly of yourself for all of those emotions and thoughts. And then on top of that, you're taught the morality is not about thinking, that morality is about feeling. So the primacy, you're taught the primacy of emotion. So they undermine you in epistemology by emphasizing emotion. And they undermine you in ethics by telling you that the good essentially is to be selfless. And that's ingrained in you by the culture, by your religion that you might have grown up with, by your parents, every part of your life. It's there, it's everywhere in the culture. It's, you know, to win a basketball game, players have to be selfless. But what does that mean if they win? It's just filled with contradictions and the terminology and the words and how people relate and how people treat you and how people respond and how people talk everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, where the culture is, it has altruism. So you need, you need to be really committed. And he has the thing, the thing you need to be committed to is rationality. The thing you need to be committed to is rationality and your life. Rationality as a means to your life. Rationality as a means to living. You have to be willing not to go on feelings. You have to be willing to act against your feelings, at least until your feelings catch up to your new values, to your new value system, to your new ideas. And that can take years. That is not easy. And the reason altruism is hard on daily life is because your emotions have not caught up and your emotions will catch up. The more you do, the more you think, the more you act, the more you achieve. And the more you fight them, the more you recognize the emotion, recognize the sources being altruism, reject it, continue on your path. And the more you do that, the more you identify values, selfish values, the more you will be able to get over that residue of altruism, that residue of altruism that primarily lives once you've philosophically adopted egoism, primarily lives in your emotion, primarily lives in the way these things are integrated, primarily lives in that sense in your subconscious. That, you need to root out and you root that out by constantly working, constantly identifying. This is what's important to me. These are my values. This is what I'm gonna keep fighting for. In regard to personality tests, I just don't know that much about them. They say something about you. Does that mean you can't change? No. A somewhat susceptible, maybe, maybe personalities that are more second-handed or more collective or more social, however you wanna define them, tend to also be more altruistic. And then, in order to defeat your altruism, maybe you have to change your personality to some extent. Are you capable of changing your personality? Absolutely. Up to a point, you can't change everything, but you can change a lot. So what this requires is focus, effort, constant reminder of your values, constant reminder of the purpose of your values, your own happiness, constant striving to those values, and constant understanding of where the emotions telling you to be altruistic are coming from. Don't repress them. Identify them, but reject them. Not in a sense of repressing them, in a sense of ignoring them. Continuing to act, feeling them, identifying where they come from, saying to yourself, no, this is inconsistent with my values, I'm not gonna act on these emotions. These emotions need to change. So this difference between repressing and in a sense, ignoring when it comes to action. The whole point of objectivism is you don't act based on emotions. And altruism is deeply embedded in a sense in your emotions. These are the value judgments you came to when you were a child. When you were growing up, when you had a different philosophy, implicitly. You have to change the value judgments. But changing those values of judgment is going to take time. I'm actually gonna have Gene Moroni on who does a lot of work around these areas. And we'll talk about that. That'll be a great question for her MP creates when she's on. Later this month on a Thursday. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support. I go to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. 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