 What should you do? What are the positive values you should pursue? And as I said the first value you should pursue is reason It's clean up your mind Get your thinking straight Make sure you're practicing logic You know how to do it and you do it consistently Self-correct admit when you make mistakes admit to the errors you make and Constantly be on a path of self-improvement. So the first thing you do is study learn digest Integrate so that you become the best thinker you can be Somebody asked what I mean by integrate find connections see how things are related to one another How does politics relate to sex? That's one that I ran answered right and it's in Atlas shrugged the relationship between politics and sex is in Atlas shrugged And it's definitely it's in one of one of Francisco's speeches in Atlas shrugd What is the relationship? between Different aspects of I don't know different things that you're working on What is the relationship between you know, I I Do politics and I do economics right? Finding relationships between things that are going on in the world. Oh, that's altruism. Oh, and I see altruism there They're connected. Maybe they're causing one another. Maybe there's a what's the cause of relationship? Seeing relationships connecting things. That's what integration is All right, I've got one more one more question before I get some of my other so before I get to that By the way, if you're interested in integration, which I think is the most important thing that you can do with your mind and And to train it to see connections to train it to see relationships between things things that look Different But have common causes or have strong overlap You got to train your mind to do that and So I would focus on integration in studying epistemology, although, you know, generally logic and and Leonard Peacock has some Fantastic courses in which he talks about integration. So so look at Leonard Peacock's courses about knowledge about objectivism about how to integrate and They're all available on Ironman campus. They're all available on on the new app Ironman University app that you can download and You know, that is that is That is the way to improve yourself study study objectivism study philosophy Now you don't have to be a philosophy. You don't have to study it like a philosopher But study it to make your own thinking clearer study it so you see the world better So you again, this is the cleaning up your mind. This is the real cleaning your room Study objectivism so you understand the world around you better so you can live in it better and Make the focus of your study Not to change the world Not to understand politics not to figure out Trump not to elect a better president Study the objectives philosophy For completely egoistic selfish reasons study it to make you the best person you can be Your motivation to study objectivism and that's the philosophy I would study and unless you're gonna be a professional intellectual I don't think you need to spend a lot of time studying other philosophies Study objectivism in order to improve Your ability to live your life make it a selfish egoistic motivation that should energize you and It make you enthusiastic about taking these courses reading these books So read I ran read I ran All the time don't stop reading I ran Just pick up a book open it anywhere to an essay and read an essay read an essay a week an essay a day You'll be better off for it. You'll start Integrating who way of thinking about the world which is so unique so different than anybody else's nobody nobody nobody comes close to the way she thinks about the world to insightfulness to a penetration to a Fundamental philosophical analysis. I mean you guys all of us spend way too much time listening to Jordan Peterson and Zizek and Sam Harris and all of these people when one essay by I ran is worth a Thousand hours of Jordan Peterson a thousand hours of Jordan Peterson you can do Jordan Peterson after you read all the Iron Man stuff and I mean just try it pick up capitalism under a deal philosophy who needs it The virtue of selfishness any one of those books just open it up to a random essay and just read it and then another one a few days later a week later and Just do that systematically and you will see that your sense of life your view of the world You're feeling about reality and about yourself will get better. I'm talking about the nonfiction. I'm talking about Any of I knew it's not fiction right any of them and It's it's romantic manifesto. I mean it'll really substantially improve your life Somebody says a new end is hypnotic like JP. That's right. I know it's not hypnotic. I'm ran requires you to think She doesn't just entertain you with stories that seem Interesting that you don't quite grasp that stay in the mist and in that a bleak that are not quite clear I'm ran is clear She's not always understandable because you have to read many of us is more than once to get what she actually said but It's right there and and it'll change the way you think about the world did it change your capacity to be rational. I Mean she is a true genius a true genius which none of these other people are I mean, that's smart I'm not saying they're not smart, but she's a A life-changing World-changing world change in one center millennial genius and one of the great tragedies of our world Is that people don't study who they're not it that people are enamored by these superficial You know churners of pseudo science and pseudo philosophy instead of actually engaging in the ideas I mean she changed the world and if if you know don't and don't study I'm ran for me certainly don't study I'm ran from you know Hacks like like Stephen Marlin you or other people or John Peterson talks about I ran I mean don't take their word for I ran go read over yourself Go actually engage with the ideas Engage with what she says get here's the exercise One essay of I'm Rans a week. No, that's not. I mean even for you guys who don't read much I'm just making an assumption for for the world in which we live in where people don't read much One essay a week is not that much. You can do it You mentioned in your book the latest one on the philosophy for the new intellectual that in Our founding fathers talked about the right at the pursuit of happiness Do you think this is really important? I Don't know what else could be any more important Attach exact meaning to concept the pursuit of happiness means a man's right to set his own goals To choose his balance and to achieve them happiness means that state of consciousness which comes from the achievement of your values Now what can be more important than happiness? But happiness does not mean simply momentary pleasure. So any kind of mindless self-indulgence happiness means a Profound guiltless Rational feeling of self-esteem and of pride in one's own achievement It means the enjoyment of life which is possible only through a rational man on a rational thought of morality What that for these I couldn't possibly tell you the brief interview But those who are interested will find it in my books particularly in Atlas Shard You think it's important then that we be guiltless in our feelings about this I wouldn't even know how to answer such thing as is it important to be guiltless To put it in my terms. I would say it is important to be moral I would stress the positive not the negative