Video about the two appraoches to life. The priest approach whio wants to stay clean, and the rugged appraoch who is on the front lines getting his hands dirty. The action approach and the passive approach. Tell this story by two or three characters. One with gloves. The high priest. One of the rugged roughs and one trying to walk the middle way. Or maybe two walking the middle way. one is biased owards safety with a immoral edge. One is biased towards action with a virtuous charm.

Rough Outline:

1. Intro. How I choose friends. And how I break them down.
2. Why evolution has made people more prone to safety.
3. Q2
4. Q3
5. Q4
6. Q1
7. Why Q1 is the ideal, where is the sweet spot imo Conclusion.

Rough Draft:

So this is kind of how, in my mind, I break down all of the different personalities of the world. I kind of position them on a Cartesian plane, and I have virtue on the upper Y, vice on the lower Y, which in my mind I see as the priest and the prostitutes.

And then on the negative X, we've got safety, and on the positive X, we have adventure.

And I feel like within these four traits, you can kind of position anyone.

And this is... I started thinking about this because I was trying to figure out why I can never make that many friends within the church, of being raised in the church. Whenever I eventually came to college, I tried to get involved with the church, and it was never as fun for me. I just... I always felt my personality resonated better with people outside of the church, on the fringe. And yet I didn't necessarily want to get rid of my Christianity.

It was just... I just couldn't really get involved with the church. I just... They were very boring to me. So then I started thinking about what I like in people. And to me, I think the majority of the ways I... The quality that makes me... So whenever I think about what I like in people, I think the quality that I look for most is a proneness to be on the adventurous side of things. That... Those are always the people I resonate with the most.

So the people that are prone towards the adventure side of things, the positive X axis, these are your people who historically have been your artists, your entrepreneurs, your explorers. And they basically kind of occupy the more glorious roles of society, the ones that are kind of worshipped because... Or put on a pedestal because these roles are what bring progress to civilization. But your safety people, these are your people who really just want routine. They want to be able to predict everything. They hate feeling scared or uncertain in any way. They want to feel like everything's in order, everything's in place. And that gives them a feeling of security and safety.

And that's kind of what they want most out of life. Whereas the adventure type of people, they feel very bored and angry in that environment and frustrated. And they want to be on the edge. They want to cross boundaries. They want to just really be on the cutting edge of their experience.

If you think of humanity as just one big body trying to accomplish its ends, and then us humans are just the cells within it, or the organs within it, I can see how, like... So, the adventure type of people are more glorified, like I said, because their roles account for the progress of culture. And so we idolize them and we tell people to aspire to be this type of way. We tell people to aspire to be this type of way. But these people that are prone to safety, they actually account for like 70% of our culture, almost, based off of personality tests from the Big Five, the Enneagram even, which is a little less scientifically rigorous. But you can see these patterns emerging of how almost 70% of people, the main thing they're aiming for is security, safety. And so, these are just differences in personality types. One isn't necessarily better than the other. And so these people that are prone to safety, it's interesting why there's so much more of them.

And I think whenever I... The way I'm able to break it down is whenever I think of the evolution of the human species of... When I think about the evolution of the human species, in a way it feels like we were designed to... Well, if you think of this in a tribal setting, if everyone in the tribe was an explorer, the explorers would go out every day and expand the boundaries, and it would expand at an unsustainable rate. And as they'd be exploring, there'd be no one to keep the home base secure, and then it would get infiltrated by enemies or overgrown by forests. I don't know. I'm just making up examples here. But basically, if everyone was an explorer, even though it's a more glorious role and everybody's like, oh, I'd like to be the person on the cutting edge, it actually doesn't seem to fit with most people's personalities. And I think it's because this is ingrained deeply, where there only needs to be a certain percentage of personality types that expand boundaries, and there needs to be a certain percent that maintains order within the culture.

So you can kind of think about it in this way, that the adventurous type of people are prone to chaos and exploration and the unknown, and then the people on the security side of things, safety side of things, they're prone to order, maintenance, and routine and monotony. Or maybe not monotony. That's... But... That's my personality talking whenever I say monotony. It's hard for me to not make this side of things, the safety side of things, look bad. All of my language will tend to have a negative connotation to it. That's not my purpose. I just feel like I don't like that way at all.

But so whenever I look for friends, it's like... So... So I think whenever I look for friends, of course the first thing I think you should always look for is the highest amount of integrity. I mean, you should be prone towards the vice and virtue.

The first thing I look for when trying to invest in people, make friends with people, see if we'd be compatible, of course the first thing I'm always looking for is integrity. If they're high on the value, I'll buy them.

So whenever I'm trying to make friends, the first thing I'm looking for, to see if we'd be compatible, to see if we'd be a good match, is I'm only trying to bring people in my life who are high in virtue, so the positive-y scale of this is important, I think maybe the most important. However, you can be super high on this scale, a lot of times people super high on the virtue scale are really only virtuous because they're afraid of the danger of being vicious. So they adopt all these moral beliefs, they adopt all these religious practices, and it's not because they're necessarily virtuous, it's because they are really just prone to safety and they're really afraid of transgressing any boundary, of setting any norm.

So yes, you should look for integrity, but as far as I go, the people that are kind of just doing it out of this need for safety and security, I don't resonate that well with these people, and this has been a struggle throughout my life, being a Christian, being raised a Christian, always trying to situate myself in a church and make friends within the church, I've never really been able to continue going to church, because I never really liked the people there in a way, I've always liked the people more on the cutting edge, more of the hippies, more of the weirdos, who are more new-agey, you know. But so, I always categorize this extreme of super high in virtue, super high in safety as the malvolios of the world, they're kind of just prudish of sorts, which, I guess, if you're a prude, you're actually not that high in virtue, so you might have to be a little lower, but this is just how I categorize it, is like, if you're really on this extreme, it seems to me like your virtue might just be coming more from this need for security, rather than a genuine desire for virtue, but this is stereotyping, of course.

Then I think you can go down to people who need tons of security, but have no virtue at all, almost, like, they're still in pursuit of the pleasures of the body, they're still in pursuit of hedonism, instant gratification, to me these are like the frat boys of the world, you know, they're really all just run-of-the-mill people, they have a desire for safety, they're not really striving for anything great, they don't have this real desire for adventure, and yet, they're oriented towards hedonism, in a way, they just want to party, they just want to have a good time, and so, they want to be safe, but they don't really care about maintaining moral boundaries, so they're transgressing boundaries in that way, they're prone to vice, and these might be my least favorite type of people, it's better to be with a person prone to safety, who's at least virtuous, than a person who is, you know, prone to safety, and also has no integrity, I mean, that's just like the worst type of person to me,

so then we can move from quadrant 3 all the way to quadrant 4, and we get the transgressors of the world, this extreme, that's what I call them, these people just love to cross every single boundary that exists, these people are kind of fun to be with, but they just lack a little integrity, they don't see the need to maintain any norms, any boundaries, they want to just be living on the cutting edge in every way, either morally, or yeah, I mean, these are the people that think nothing is set in stone, that all boundaries can be moved and are subjective, and each person makes his or her own good and evil, that whatever is good for you is good for you, whatever is good for me is good for me, that there's nothing objectively right or wrong, that whatever feels good is good, and I'm going to be doing the most extreme adventurous things, whether that be through drugs, or travel, or anything, these people are kind of cool, I enjoy these people probably more than people far into the safety spectrum, even though they lack some virtue, and I just like them more because of their adventurousness and their spirit, in a way, but obviously if you're really far down on the vice scale, you're not going to want to be with these people,

so then we can go to quadrant one, to me this is the pinnacle, this is your Clint Eastwoods of the world, this is the classic western star of the man who is kind of rugged, kind of dangerous, but still very high integrity, and he only follows rules that are objectively right, like he's not going to follow the stupid rules, like he's not going to necessarily wear a seatbelt, but not saying that's a dumb rule, but you get the point, like he's not going to just follow stupid rules, because that's what the rule is, he's going to follow the rules that are obvious, like he won't necessarily murder or cheat, or lie, so he has a very strong ethos, a code of ethics, but he's not going to just follow stupid rules, because people in power say to follow them, or social norms say to follow them, he's got a little bit of rebelliousness in this way, he's got a little bit of edge, but he's still very high integrity, to me this is the most attractive type of person, this is the person, if you ever find one, you should keep them in your life at all costs, because they will make your life better in every way, they're super fun, because they have this disposition towards adventure, but they also won't injure you in the process, because they have this high sense of integrity, and so if more people could be like this, I think the world would be perfect, but once again, we still need these people to come to safety, I'm not trying to belittle them, I respect them super much, I think they need to get more credit, but just my disposition doesn't necessarily mesh with them very well, so I'm biased in that way,

but so whenever I'm trying to make friends, I like to be closer towards the adventure side of things, and I want my friends to be more closer towards the adventure side of things, and there's like a threshold of they can't go below this amount of vice, if they have so little integrity, obviously I don't want them in my life, so up to a certain point, I'll allow people with vice to be in my life, as long as they're prone towards adventure, and then I'll allow people who are prone towards safety in my life, as long as they're high in integrity, so really quadrant 3 is the one where I try to eliminate, and you can have some quadrant 2, hopefully a lot of quadrant 1, and as much of quadrant 3 as you can tolerate, I personally like these people a lot, but it is what it is, it is harder to find people prone towards adventure with higher moral values, and it does come from, I think, this need to cross boundaries, this need to do what is not necessarily expected.

This need to cross boundaries, this need to do what is not necessarily expected or respected by the culture. And because of that internal disposition to be on the edge, I find these people are typically a little more prone to vice. So I will often, if I'm picking and choosing, I'm going to, or it's really not that I'm ever doing this consciously, this is more me realizing who my friends are and then trying to understand the pattern. And I think, yeah, I like, I really like people who are at least prone to adventure, and obviously I prefer people prone to vice, but, I mean, obviously I prefer people prone to virtue, but I'll do that only as long as they're not so boring and prudish that we can't have a good time together. Um, yeah, hope that makes sense.

So once again, this is, this is how I've found that I choose friends. This has never been an intentional, oh, I'm only picking people here and there. Um, this has never been an intentional method of how I choose friends. This is more, I noticed who my friends were and who they are, and I've tried to break down, um, the pattern. And this is kind of my thinking on that.

This transcript may contain references to ChatGPT, OpenAI, DALL·E, GPT-4, and GPT-5. I like to... This isn't hard and fast rules. These are just patterns I've noticed in myself based off the people I was compatible with throughout my life. And I like to break it down on a Cartesian plane with the positive Y being the priest of the world or virtue. And then we got the prostitutes of the world or vice. Then on this axis we got exploration or adventure. And then safety on this axis. Security. Yeah, safety and security. I would say that 70% of people are on this side of the Y-axis. And I think this is because throughout history we were like... We were in tribes or something. This would be our little campfire, our little territory. And then if everybody was on this side of things, if everybody was explorers, then everybody would go out and explore, explore, explore. There would be nobody to maintain the home base and it would get infiltrated by enemies, overgrown by the forest. So there would be no home base and society wouldn't sustainably grow. The explorers would keep expanding territory and there would be not enough people to sustainably grow that. So society would collapse. The tribe would disband. It would be terrible. So I think this is why 70% of people, their prime motivation in life is security. Could be more. Really could. There could be less on this side of things. But... Yeah, so that's just my thinking on that. But I tend to find that I get along better. Well, I think whenever you're trying to pick friends, the first thing you should always account for is integrity, of course. This is the most important thing. However, you know, sometimes if people are super high on integrity but way too prone for safety, they can be kind of boring. So, you know, they might not be the best friends. These could be prudes. If you've ever read Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, these could be the Malvolios of the world. Malvolio. You know, these people are really only doing the right thing because they're too afraid of doing the wrong thing. They're too afraid of crossing social norms, societal norms. They don't really, really possess virtue. They just possess the appearance of virtue and it's mostly because of their deep need for security.

Then we've got the frat boys of the world. I put these at the extreme of quadrant 3. So where was I?

So at the extreme of quadrant 3, we've got your frat boys. The quadrant 3 is the worst type of people, in my opinion. I would try to avoid these people, mostly at all costs, because not only are they really prone to safety and very boring... I'm not trying to use harsh language against the people on this side of things because, like I said, we need them. I just don't... My bias is against them. But the quadrant 3 people, not only are they prone to safety and security, not very adventurous, not very much fun to be around, they also lack all virtue, and they are purely in pursuit of hedonism and the fleeting pleasures of the body. So really, I just... I don't have much positive to say about this one. I would try to avoid these people.

But then on quadrant 4, I would say we have the transgressors. And these people, they just love to cross every boundary because of their exploratory disposition. They have this proneness to want to cross all boundaries, whether that be moral, societal. They just like to be on the cutting edge and in new and unknown territory. So if they're prone to vice, this can be a bad thing in the sense that these are the people likely to become drug addicts or addicted to substances. They have no, necessarily, regard for their health or the health of others. And they can be very fun. These people are adventurous. They're cool. But if they're too prone towards vice, it could be a problem. But I'll get back more into this later.

Then, at the extreme of quadrant 1, we get my favorite type of person, the Clint Eastwoods of the world. These people have the exploratory disposition, the ruggedness. They don't follow stupid rules, but they have virtue. So these aren't the people that are necessarily going to be wearing seatbelts, but they also are not going to be your cheaters or your liars or your murderers. These are easily the best type of people. If you find a person high in virtue and high in adventurousness, I would keep this person in your life at all costs. These are easily the best kind of people, according to my bias. So like I said, these are your rugged people with a little bit of an edge that also are very high in integrity. Okay, so once again, my personal personality and disposition, I'm going to bias towards people who are more exploratory, even at the cost of a little bit of vice.

So the extreme I'd probably go is like right here. No, that's a little too low. That's a little too low. That takes that out. I'd probably go like right here, maybe. You can have a good bit of vice as long as you're not going to lie to me, as long as you're not going to hurt me, and you're going to be a lot of fun. You're going to be prone to adventure. We're going to be able to go on some trips together. I'll keep you in my life, man. You're cool. Then, if you're high in integrity, as long as you're not a complete bore, so I'm not going to go super far, of course I want you in my life. Anything on the positive Y, I really want in my life as much as I can. But you just can't be so boring that I want to shoot myself every time I'm around you. And so this, I'd say that this right here, this is the sweet spot, man. If you can find friends in this range, you're really living well. And once again, this is just my personal opinion based off of not hard and fast rules, but based off of observations of the people I have meshed with most of my life. So, yeah.

This is how it used to run. There's the spectrum. This is your freezer. This is Archie. This is your prostitute to the world. Or Vex. This is Satan. This is Adventure. This side of the spectrum gives you your sanity. This side. This gives you your scores. Your artist. Entrepreneurs. This side. This gives you your nine fires. Safety is their prime motive. They just want to eat. The expected. People are either prone to emergency or vice, and safety or adventure.

About 70 to 80% of people are going to be on this side of things. This isn't a problem. I'm not trying to make these people to be out any worse than bees. It's just these roles are most definitely more glorified by our culture. In the organism of humanity, I see it going something like this. I'm going to try it again. That's enough of that. Wait. I'm going to try it again. I'm going to try it again. Organism of humanity. Everybody. Stamp. Easy scores. Easy scores. And expand territory. We have too many explorers. We wouldn't be able to maintain what we have. So we had to. We needed about 70. I think. I mean, I think evolution. Basically, you could expand at a rate that wasn't sustainable. So we have less people going to adventure. These people are the reason we have a society. These are the reason we have progress.

Once script is edited well. Then I should. Make parts for voice over. Things I’d like to include in voiceover is how people prone to safety are like to be more stereotypically virtuous because they are simply afriad of crossing boundaries, whereas people who are adventurous are prone to vice because they find a rush in crossing boundaries. The problem though is they are choosing to cross boundaries that hurt only themselves and others. This is why adventurous and virtuous people are so special.