Lifestyle is the most misunderstood of the three main components. It is far more complex than most people think. With the constraint of time, you have to be strategic with how you spend your time on health, wealth and wisdom. All the decisions you make about these three things are also influenced by your views on culture and science. The balancing act thus becomes complicated which make some choices more optimal than the best choice.

Maximizing each individual component also has different effects. The fact that time is the constraint, it becomes impossible or at the very least less optimal to maximize all the components. So we must understand this complexity and operate accordingly. We are aiming for the optimum results not the absolute best results.

Our health is important. What we put into our body and how we move it influence how our body exists in the world. By making sure to fuel our body and using it in productive ways, our health can improve every aspect of our lives. The issue is there is threshold in which once passed, the returns on your time are greatly diminished.

A definition of health is the state of being free from illness or injury. While many can view it differently, this is generally the optimum state of health. The goal of the body is for it to be vessel for the mind. This means your time is best spent getting the body to a point where it doesn’t detract from the mind.

Wealth is relative and is generally associated with cash. This causes a lot of issues when people talk about becoming wealthy. The best way to view wealth is in the context of resource management. Being wealthy has to do with how you manage your resources. It is relative which is captured in your cashflow and net worth.

Anyone can become wealthy and it has nothing to do with becoming a millionaire. It depends on what your cashflow is relative to your net worth. This component also has a similar threshold that health has. Once you manage your resources properly, trying to maximize it only leads to diminishing returns.

The mind doesn’t have the same threshold that health and wealth have. Through your mindset and learning, your mind can constantly refine itself. The wisdom that you have is the underpinning for everything else. It has the strongest influence of all the components. The issue is it can reinforce what you already know through a feedback loop.

This is the reason that generally you want your mindset and learning to oppose each other. By doing this, it allows you to refine your mindset by learning opposing views. The amount of time spent on wisdom can be used in many different manners and should be spread out among topics and views to expand your mind.

We can learn so much from the present and past. The subject is often forgotten once you leave school. The crazy fact is even in school, you barely scratch the surface. To know where to go next we have to know where we came from. What worked and what didn’t work? Through the components of culture, we can learn how our world became what it is today.

The wisdom you get from this allows you to see the world differently. The sacrifices made before you, the mistakes of the past and the influence of the present. To be able to see the world for what it is will allow you to make decisions for the betterment of society. To not learn from the past would mean wasting knowledge and starting with a flawed view.

Thought can be tracked all the way back throughout our history. It has been a battle between religion and philosophy. Strong currents that have changed trajectories of entire continents. We hold on to them strongly even if we don’t know much about them. What we fail to realize are the two are not incompatible. They are vague words that can encompass a lot.

Spirituality can also become a part of it if you choose to group them like that, but they all encompass things outside of what we know them for. They all can cover origins and ethics, but philosophy can include what is now known as science along with religion including what has now become tradition. They can teach us far more if we don’t keep them diametrically opposed.

Power is one of the least understood of the components. These can become very complex and has a rich history. We tend to lead these areas with simply our intuition of things. We fail to understand how our political system works and the influence behind it. We believe things about the world of economics simply based on personal experience.

We fail to see that power comes from knowledge. Understanding how power came to be divided and how it changes hands has a large impact on our life. Power influences us in everything we do. If we are ignorant to what influences us, we fail to correct them and let power control us. We can restore power to ourselves by paying attention!

Studying history could consume a lifetime. There has been so much transformation in our past and present. Focusing on the big picture throughout history can help us learn what shaped us on a civilization and country level. Many of us know so little about our history, so how can we learn from it? We will let history repeat itself if we fail to take it seriously.

Learning about how civilization has changed will allow us to understand ourselves better. It will teach us why we do what we do. Learning about the past of our country will allow us to understand our environment better. If we turn our back on our history, how would our present make any sense? Transformation shows us how our culture has changed.

Science is the exploration of our reality. It gives rise to everything we do in the modern world. It shows us the natural world around us. While we have a long way to go, we have learned a lot about the nature of our world. Science has taught us to question everything. It has also taught us that everything we know can change when we get new information.

Science isn’t just a domain for scientists to test theories. It is a place where we can gain true knowledge of how to live in this world. Science can unlock doors that no other subject can. It can allow us to do more than we ever thought possible. We can gain new insights by combining it with our lifestyle and culture. Science adds the final layer to give us an accurate view of our life.

Physics and chemistry are the underpinnings to everything around us. Physics helps us understand how our world behaves. It helps us understand why matter works the way it does. It helps show the laws that our lives are controlled by. It allows us to make predictions of how things will work. It can show us the rules of natrue.

Chemistry helps show us the building blocks of nature and how they interact. It helps us create new things and know what things are made out of. It can show us why the world changes the way it does. The combination of the two can teach us so much about our physical world and help us make better decisions.

The study of the structure of life is important to understand ourselves. Through biology and psychology we can understand why we work the way we do. We can learn how we biologically react to thing. We can learn why our minds react the way they do. Studying these two things will help us live better as we are able to understand our behaviors.

It is invaluable because it helps us become more self aware. We can live better because we can avoid the pitfalls that are programmed into us. By knowing how we think, we can help our culture by avoiding things we do that are toxic and promoting things that contribute to it. We will be able to better handle obstacles in life.

Mathematics and computer science are the backbones of the modern world. By using logic and computers, we can leverage what we know about the world. We have harnessed nature to allow us to do things that were once impossible. Learning these two things will then allow us to understand the modern world we live in.

It will allow us to leverage it in our own lives and be better for it. It allows us to take our knowledge and expand it. Through making predictions and off loading work to computers. Learning and utilizing logic in our lives will allow us to multiply the output of what we do. It will help us stay organized in a messy world.