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  LEARNING TO LIVE If you're reading this book, chances are, you have been pondering the same questions I've been asking myself. Namely, the question many also ask themselves — who am I? The question has been pondered before, but never before has so much thought been given to how I've arrived at this point in my life and ended up becoming this person under review. This point in time has been reached, via many multiple sets of decisions being made. One thing I'm sure of — my own position in the world today was not reached by chance or decided purely by trial and error. There were deliberate decisions made. Some of these decisions were a consequence of the rules instilled in me and (hopefully), preferable behaviours were championed over those less acceptable ones, and have enabled me to function well within society. So, coming up to a mid-life juncture, with evidently a bit of an identity crisis looming, I've really started to ask myself why I've made the decision...

  KNOW THYSELF The Greek philosophers are once again, my first point of reference on this most important topic.  For those wishing to understand more about the values of life, discover a purpose, award meaning to their short existence and forge a path towards greater success, the number one priority for the individual, is the quest for knowing what makes them tick.  The classic day thinkers delved into what it means to be alive. They dedicated their time to study and in some instances, lost their lives in the pursuit for life's true meaning. If great men have pained and died for this cause,  the study of philosophy should surely then be on everyone's personal  curriculum . We are hugely complex creatures and trying to fully understand what makes us act the way we do, has been the focus of  many great minds. Kant, Hume, Nietch and Freud  — to mention but a few more modern day thinkers — have all tried to decipher human psychology and to fit the jigsaw p...