I was thinking about the ancient Greek philosopher who said you cannot step into the same river twice. Can you really know yourself if nothing is permanent within you or around you? In this episode I argue that knowing yourself is the wrong frame — the right frame is recognizing and directing the changes that happen to you constantly. You are the change. Stagnation is death. Once you stop moving forward you rapidly begin rolling backward. I walk through the practice: how to run a daily antivirus scan on your own biology, how to identify the bugs in the system that pull you toward food you don't need, sleep you don't need, procrastination, fear, the cake and the alcohol and the relationship that your mind tells you is bad while your biology insists on consuming it. Biology divorced from mind is a house divided against itself. The only way to live is to create harmony — trust your mind, control your biology. I also argue that objective reality is largely the union of subjective experiences of others — which is why controlling your own subjective experience is politically consequential. There are two ways to create unity in a society: through reasoning, or through tyranny that eliminates whoever disagrees biologically. The fortress of reasoning is the defense.

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