We Sincerely Hope This Has Been Helpful
It is ironic that we have an education system in which nearly everyone memorizes Socrates’ adage that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” but almost no one is ever seriously encouraged to examine their life. There isn’t even a place we can go or a group we can talk to about such topics that won’t push their own dogmatic agenda on us.
It is absurd that we live in a society where I, Simone, was able to reach my twenties before someone—that is, Malcolm—prompted me to decide what I wanted to do with my life in a way that actually enabled me to think about to carefully think about what values and outcomes truly mattered to me instead of just blurting something generic like “helping people” in an effort to change the subject. It is equally remarkable that no one ever made it clear to me that I could pick who I wanted to be in life—that I had the power to choose to be anyone I wanted to be. This needs to change.
These are questions people should repeatedly encounter outside of the pedantic halls of academia. These are questions with which people should interact using their own, carefully-thought-through frameworks. To that end, the proceeds from this book series all go to The Pragmatist Foundation, the primary goal of which (at present) is to create a new, better, secondary school system: CollinsInstitute.org
While this guide was the first product of our foundation, we have since created a few additional bestselling (on Amazon/Kindle) books designed to tackle other issues that traditional academic systems have difficulty addressing without bias. These books include:
- The Pragmatist’s Guide to Relationships Ruthlessly Optimized Strategies for Dating, Sex, and Marriage
- The Pragmatist’s Guide to Sexuality
What Turns People On, Why, and What That Tells Us About Our Species.
- The Pragmatist’s Guide to Governance
From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
- The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion
A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
If you enjoyed The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life and are looking for a partner, experiencing trouble in your relationships, or just interested in why “weird” things turn people on, these books may yield helpful insights and information that you are unlikely to find elsewhere.
If you ever want to help edit, write, or otherwise contribute toward this series (or our school), please reach out. Each one of these books was a collaborative effort involving about thirty people and every additional hand makes a difference. Please let us know if there are any topics you want us to cover that we have yet to address. We love hearing from readers at: hello@pragmatistfoundation.com
We hope reading this guide has been helpful and will continue to do everything in our power to improve its utility. Since we take no money from this effort, we are paid in positive reviews and the joy of seeing people interested in our cause. If you gleaned any value from this book, please write a review (we guarantee we will read every single review posted on Amazon). In the same vein, if you didn’t like something in the book, please send us an email (we have made a number of fairly major changes based on such comments).