Have you ever wondered how everything works?

Like how come a plant grow well in a certain place and hardly
even live in other? How do squids reproduce? What makes human life go well? Or perhaps you have wondered
what came first: is it the egg or the chicken? If so, welcome to the club!

You see young people, when I was at your age, perhaps even younger than you are, I used to wander on my
wonders, concerning the reality of life and existence. I’ve always known that there’s something deeper beneath
everything. Something lies beneath the sand if we are to dig on it… so I did. I dug deeper and made life make
sense.

For 62 long years, I’ve led a life of questions so I was labeled as a Greek Philosopher and actually was considered
as the very first genuine scientist. Now, you might be wondering who the person is talking right now, well allow
me to introduce myself and acquaint with you all.

Coming from the lands of Athens, Greece and known as the father of western logic, I am named Aristotle.

I may sound like I am bragging but I am a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy. I contributed to logic,
criticism, rhetoric, physics, biology, psychology, mathematics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics. I started my
journey when I was 17 by being the star pupil of Plato and his rival too. I never agreed on him and remained
being empiricist, rejecting his theory of forms. I believed that everything can be explained through experiences.
So, I never became his successor. After gaining knowledge and wisdom from his academy, I then moved back to
Macedonia and tutored Alexander the Great, the king of Babylon. I taught him what it means to have the
courage to face your problems. I continued my journey by going back to Athens to build my own school, Lyceum
where I studied various topics and taught my students. I was the first one to develop a formal system of
reasoning, and it is one of the main focuses of my philosophy. I believed that the validity of any argument can be
determined by its structure, let’s say for an instance: All men are mortal. Socrates is a man, therefore, he is
mortal. It does make sense right? Yeah, I think so too. I believed that with reasoning, a man would learn every
conceivable thing about reality. You see, I based my works on logic mixing it with observations but there are
instances which I think this is not applicable. Like in metaphysics, I think there is a separate and unchanging
being that is the source of all other beings. I think the existence of God is reasonable. In my code of ethics, it is
written that only by becoming excellent one can achieve eudaimonia, sort of happiness. I also believed that
good and successful individuals possess distinct virtues, hence we must identify and nurture them in ourselves.
But every virtue stands in the middle of two vices, which I termed golden mean. So, they who lack virtues should
be understood as unfortunate rather as wicked.

In my lifetime, I wrote 200 treaties but only 31 of it survived, which we all know is still being recognized by the
people this age. Some of which are Poetics, Nichomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, Politics, Rhetoric, Prior
Analytics, and Works on Science.

7 Life Lessons

1. Don’t run away from your problems.

-Learn how to face your problem. Don’t run away from it rather, have yourself conquer it.
2. Try to find the golden mean.
-Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
3. Have dignity and grace.
-The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
4. Be open to other’s point of view.
 -Entertain a thought, listen, and do not force yourself to accept it.
5. Have the right friends.
-People with too many friends have no real friends at all.
6. Put truth before everything else.
-Put more importance on truth than on anything else.
7. Maximize your potential.
-The highest good of everything is achieved when it can fulfill its role.

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

-Aristotle