The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions

As humans, we get to choose what we believe and who we want to be. These are the most important decisions we will ever make. The vast majority of people never exercise their freedom to choose their identity and beliefs. Instead, they allow others to tell them who they are, choosing only a few trivial differentiating traits for themselves. When they react angrily or generously, they ascribe the personality that lead them to that behavior as being something outside their control. This is because in their minds "who they are" is something outside of their control. We hope to remedy this. In this book, we encourage the use of applied pragmatic thought--a framework for systematically constructing your own beliefs about the world, leveraging those beliefs to decide who you want to be as a person, and creating the person you want to be.