for growth-focused individuals who refuse to live on autopilot

A HARSH, BUT IMPORTANT TRUTH ...

If you don’t take control of your own beliefs, values, and moral principles, then someone else will.There are few things more terrifying than living an entire life without being in control of your own thoughts, feelings, and actions.That is the problem that Micro-Philosophy: Foundations is designed to solve.Instead of telling you what to think, I am going to teach you how to think for yourself and design your own personal philosophy of life in just 28 days.This will help you make better decisions, focus your time and energy on what matters, and transform what you think is possible for yourself.You don't have to be a genius to create your own philosophy.It's actually not as hard as people think.You simply need to know which questions to ask, and what frameworks to use to organize your mind and figure out who you are.You already have decades of knowledge, information, and experience inside of you that is simply waiting to be organized in the right way.In order to develop a clear vision of your life and attain deep self-knowledge, you simply need the right system for structuring what's already there.The goal is not to create a new philosophy that changes the history of the world.The goal is to clearly articulate your own beliefs, values, and worldview to yourself so that you can take control of your thoughts, and live a life of principle.Here is how I can help you.

Hi, I'm Paul Musso ...

I am a philosophy professor with a PhD from the University Of Pennsylvania.I have helped hundreds of the world's most elite students learn how to think philosophically about their lives so that they could think for themselves and figure out what matters.One of my former students, Jacob Cao, recently wrote to me:

"Thank you for a truly fantastic semester. At the start of the course, you mentioned that for some of us, the class might be life-changing. I think I was one of those students. Through our discussions and your ability to make philosophy both approachable and meaningful, I feel I’ve grown into a deeper thinker and a better person"

But things were not always this way...For the first half of my life, I not only hated school, but I lacked discipline, focus, and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.I was grew up one block away from Camden, New Jersey, one of the poorest cities in America.I was raised by a single mother, but had to spend the first 7 years of my life living with my grandmother until my mom could afford for me to live with her and my siblings.When I was 16, I started working at Dominos Pizza because I wanted to buy an electric guitar.Pizza, video games, and heavy metal were more important to me than thinking about school or my future.I had no plan.Eventually I realized that if things kept going the way they were, I would not be able to go to college.I was scared.It felt like time was running out.So that summer I made a vow to myself to turn things around, and begin applying myself in the classroom.When I finally started trying in school, I came to realize that I actually enjoy learning and was good at it.I started reading novels, history books, and having more interesting conversations with my friends.Eventually this led me to discovering philosophy, which completely changed my life.Discovering philosophy felt like finding something that I had always wanted, but didn't know existed.Philosophy promised to teach me how to think clearly, reach my own conclusions, and figure out what's true in the most ultimate sense.It gave me a language to talk about life's biggest questions and most mind-bending ideas.I was hooked.As an undergraduate I majored in philosophy, and eventually would go on to become the first person in my family to complete a bachelor's degree.But somewhere along the way, I made a huge mistake.

Why I Created This Digital Course ...

Although philosophy had completely transformed my life and literally rewired how I think, I was still missing something.At some point during my philosophical education, I made a huge mistake.I became a consumer of philosophy, rather than a practitioner.I read over a thousand books, and even taught classes on subjects such as: greek philosophy, ethics, metaethics, philosophy of law, philosophy of science, aesthetics, and political philosophy.But I had committed the cardinal philosophical sin.I had stopped thinking for myself.The result was that even after studying all of the major figures and thinkers, and understanding much of what they thought, I didn't really know what I thought.I didn't know what my own philosophy was.And this had serious consequences for my life.Without my own philosophy, I struggled to make important decisions because I didn't even know what I to aim at beyond what's right in front of me.I struggled to live with conviction in my beliefs, because I did not have a clearly articulated system of values.The result was that, in many ways, I was still my old self, but I had just became smarter and more knowledgeable about philosophy along the way.And this bothered me deeply.Don't get me wrong, studying philosophy is incredibly beneficial in many ways.But if you really want to have change yourself on a fundamental level, you have to take what you learn and make it your own so that you can live it.It was up to me to take that knowledge and do something with it.So I set out on a mission to figure out the answer to this one question:"Given everything I know about philosophy, what would be the best way to build my own philosophy from scratch?"I wanted to leverage my deep knowledge of philosophy to build a system that anyone could use to start thinking for themselves about their fundamental beliefs, values, and purpose in life.Eventually, this led me to create the concept of a micro-philosophy.A micro-philosophy is concise philosophy of life that represents someone's fundamental beliefs, values, and moral principles.It is the consciously held system of beliefs upon which someone lives.After writing about these ideas on Substack and X, I noticed that many people desperately wanted to know how to build their own micro-philosophy.And that is what led me to developing this course.

Introducing

Micro-Philosophy: Foundations

A Digital Course & Community

Micro-Philosophy: Foundations is the only digital course that will teach you how to transform the random ideas in your head into a complete personal philosophy so that ...You can stop overthinking, make better decisions, and live with confidence.A micro-philosophy is the consciously held system of beliefs that defines who you are, what you care about, and guides your actions.World-class motivational speaker and life coach Jim Rohn once said:"Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out".By the end of this course, you will create your own micro-philosophy statement which means that you will be able to confidently articulate your fundamental beliefs, core values, and moral principles so that you can live a life of purpose.Mastering your own beliefs will help you make better decisions, focus your time and energy on what matters, and reshape what you take to be possible for yourself.The only way to guarantee lasting personal growth is to build your life upon a rock solid intellectual foundation.Your micro-philosophy is your intellectual armor against confusion, distraction, and temptation.

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