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Plato’s Blueprint on Living Life
A practical guide of Plato’s Philosophy of the forms for your life-upgrade
When you were 3 and a half, what did you want to grow up and become?
An astronaut? Painter? Magician?
I’ve never heard a toddler say that they wanted to be an accountant, compliance officer or consultant. Not that these are “bad” or “boring” jobs, it’s just interesting to observe toddlers grow up and lose their ambitious career plans.
As they do the “childhood” thing, they start to follow the crowd and do what “makes sense,” what “pays well,” and, you know the whole shazam.
As young kidlets, they dream of becoming whatever the heck their little hearts want. And then they grow up, go to business school and get a “good” job. What a shame.
Plato, not to be confused with Socrates (both ancient greek dudes with white beards, I get it, it’s hard), studied how one could live a good life, and spoiler: it all starts with the way you think.
Can the way 3 and a half years old think help us all live better lives? Yup and you’re reading about that now 😅.
