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Your life is headed for a disastrous end.

Everyone will die.

That is a fact.

Especially you.

You will die.

Your friends will die.

Everyone you know will die.

These are indisputable facts.

Your body will break down and crash in one way or another.

Your heart will stop.

Your brain synapses will cease firing.

100% guaranteed termination.

You and everyone you know has less than 122 years left.

The oldest person alive was 122.

Oldest person alive now is 115.

Death should be your number one enemy.

Do not accept it.

Do not welcome it.

The question is - are you willing to extend, improve your life and the lives of those you love?

Why haven't you done it yet? Do you think it's impossible?

Flying for us was impossible until airplanes were built.

Now, the question is- how do we stop the personal catastrophe of death?

The logical answer is - science!

We can slow death down using modern medicine, and we can stop and reverse some accidental causes of death.

Aging is one cause that we cannot currently stop.

Should we simply focus all our efforts on stopping aging?

No.

Humanity as a whole is not ready for immortality.

If immortality was invented tomorrow, only the richest would attain it and use it as a tool to gain more control over others.

Control that equals to war and misery. Are the richest countries, companies and people solving problems?

They are not- a lot of them support wars and fund unsustainable developments.

If immortality was given to everyone tomorrow, overpopulation would quickly destroy civilization.

Before we can stop aging we MUST shift the pattern of human thought itself.

Of your thinking and my thinking.

Can it be done? Yes.

Will you do it? Probably not.

Not unless you take my words seriously and read this article every morning when you wake up.

Not unless you and I shift, or at least learn to shift our modes of thinking entirely into logical, rational and problem solving.

Basically, become amazing at life and solve all your problems.

Once all of your personal problems are solved, you can focus on solving problems of humanity as a whole.

-How does an individual become a problem solver?

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Step 1:

Become a rationalist.

Understand the principle of "Occam's razor" to manage your life.

"Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

Among competing hypotheses, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be selected."

Occam's razor is used in medicine when there are many explanations for symptoms and the simplest diagnosis is usually is the correct one.

If a child has a runny nose, they probably have the common cold instead of a rare birth defect.

If a tree suddenly feel down in a forest - wind was responsible, not a wizard.

In all decisions, when faced with two or more answers, you can use Occam's razor to trim away incorrect ones.

Any statement or answer made without proof or scientific evidence backing it, can be trimmed.

If you enjoy reading sci-fi books, a fun way to become a rationalist is to read "Harry potter and the methods of rationality".

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