“The end of medicine is health; of shipbuilding, a vessel; of strategy, victory.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Chapter 1
(Translated by W.D. Ross)
🔍 Core Idea
Purpose is your moral GPS — just as Google Maps needs a destination to plot routes, human excellence demands clarity of goals. Medicine without health targets is noise; life without purpose is drift.
❗ Why This Matters Today
① AI Doctor Dilemma
Code medical algorithms → prioritize symptom suppression over cure → create dependency → miss health as true north.
② Green Energy Shipyards
Build wind turbines → focus only on profit margins → neglect community power access → forget vessels exist to sail, not just sell.
③ Edu-Strategy War Games
Cram for exams → chase grades → ignore critical thinking → lose victory of lifelong learning.
🚀 Action Steps
- Daily Purpose Check
Morning: Write “My top 3 life coordinates” (e.g., heal, create, empower)
Night: Audit if choices aligned (e.g., chose group study over cheating → empowered peers) - Goal Deconstruction Lab
Take any project → ask “Is this the ship or the voyage?” → redesign for end-result impact - Strategic Victory Journal
Track weekly “micro-wins” that serve bigger purposes (e.g., tutored classmate → advanced education equality)