I think one of the reasons why these lessons are unteachable is because they’re too
broad. They have to be applied in context.
A number of the ones that you laid out contradict each other. Like spend more time with your parents and you know don’t work so hard but you know at the same time you do want to be successful, right?
…it’s like if you went to school and you just studied philosophy for four years you would not know how to live life because you wouldn’t know which philosophical doctrine to apply in which circumstance.
You have to actually live life go through all of the issues to figure out what it is that you want. What’s the context in which some of these things apply and some of them don’t……that said, I would argue that **once you figure it out for yourself, you can kind of carve these variations on these maxims that apply to you and then you’ll have a specific experience that helps you remember it and actually execute on it**. And you can also phrase it in a way where it’s not trite anymore.