FREEDOM REQUIRES RESTRICTION The more free you want to become, the more you need to restrict yourself. How can this be true? There are different kinds of freedom: philosophical, theoretical, physical, moral, biological, and others. Each of these describes a specific type of freedom, and each works differently. If you are stuck on a basic, animalistic, biological level — like a dog, for example — and operate from that perspective, the only freedom you will seek is biological freedom. Dogs are free in that sense. They do whatever they want. They run around, eat whatever they find, and relieve themselves wherever they decide. But are dogs truly free? From a biological perspective, yes — they are free, because they do what they want. But from all other perspectives, they are extremely limited. Because they do not restrict themselves, nature limits them. If you live your life on autopilot — routinely doing whatever you want, eating whatever you want, sleeping whenever you want, chasing pleasure and avoiding discomfort — you will be like the dog. You may feel free, and you may be biologically free, but reality will severely limit you. You will only be able to do basic things and interact with the world only on the level it allows you. If you are more aware and understand this concept, you go deeper. You start thinking about freedom differently — philosophically. If you want to interact with people, influence them, and affect outcomes, you need power. Take money as an example. To gain it, you must limit your biological freedoms and desires. You must focus, delay gratification, and create value. When you do this, you actually become more free, because you gain leverage and power to affect reality and other people. So by restricting yourself, you become more free. When you think about this deeply, you realize that freedom and limitation are tightly connected and inversely proportional. The more you restrict yourself for pursuit of freedom, the more freedom you gain. The only real question is: how much freedom do you want, and what kind? Because there is also theoretical freedom, which has no limits — and pursuing limitless abstractions can disconnect you from limited, real-world reality. — Warrior's Path

Everyone knows that mathematics allows you to calculate things — but does it really? It only allows you to calculate things if you actually use it yourself and understand how the calculation is done. When mathematics is treated merely as a word or an abstract concept, something strange happens. For example, if someone tells you that they calculated something and gives you the result, you tend to accept it as true. You know that mathematics can produce correct results, and you assume that since they used mathematics, the outcome must be correct. But in this situation, you are not using mathematics — you are using belief. If you write down the numbers, apply the formulas yourself, and understand how the process works, you are actually calculating reality. You can verify the result. But if you simply enter numbers into a calculator or ask an AI chatbot and accept the output, you are not doing mathematics — you are believing. You may believe the result is correct, but without understanding and performing the calculation yourself, you can never be certain that it is true. This is exactly how delusional and fake realities are created: when belief replaces understanding.