The Meaning of Life

I moved from Medium to my own website iangreer.io

I recently had the biggest “ah-ha” moment of my life while listening to a podcast. This was the simple but meaningful quote:

“The meaning of life is solving your problems.”

I started thinking about what that meant and I came up with the following.

There are 4 main problems to solve:

1. Health
2. Knowledge
3. Relationships
4. Wealth

The 4 solutions:

1. Develop good health habits. Drink enough water, eat healthy, sleep 8–9 hours, lift heavy weights 4x a week, do cardio every week.
2. Read 52+ books every year. Learn to write well. Learn to speak well. Focus on non-fiction regarding health, relationships, and wealth. Read all of the humanities and the sciences.
3. Make friends, date people, fix your family culture. Join a running club, sports team, or book club to make new friends. Date people in your social circle. Remove toxic people.
4. Develop a high-income skill and invest. Wealth should come easily when you have adequate health, knowledge, and relationships.

These 4 solutions need to be done sequentially to prevent issues down the road.

Health and knowledge are the base for your relationship and wealth endeavors.

Happiness

Health + knowledge + good relationships = happiness.

Achieve happiness before wealth.

Books to read:

Health:

• Andrew Huberman YouTube channel
• Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe
• Scientific Principles of Strength Training by Mike Israetel

Wealth:

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (My favorite book)
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• Invest Answers YouTube channel

Relationships:

• Principles by Ray Dalio (a book on relationships disguised as a business book)
• (For Men) What Women Want by Geoffrey Miller