As a Reasoner, I recommend that you carefully study Critical Thinking so that you learn how to think rationally about everything. Once you have obtained this skill, begin improving your life by taking heed to your health. Stop putting things into your body which do not nourish your body or mind. Learn about the basic nutrients your body needs to function optimally.

This is my foundational advice.

(Notice I didn’t recommend you read any philosophical tomes or learn the ideas of a single philosopher, I advised you to learn how to Reason first and foremost. Only after you have obtained this skill should you proceed to read philosophy or anything else).

It is also important to understand the fundamental nature of Logic. But this is only now emerging on the scene of consciousness. All Reason functions through and by the laws of logic, which are absolute and certain. If you don’t know this you will be led astray by the false epistemological narratives of philosophy.

Leave it to a philosopher to say something simple in impenetrable prose (which is almost the whole of philosophy). (One isn’t learning how to reason, they’re learning how to use a pretentious, sophistical style to gain an advantage over other humans). But once we strip away the abstraction and jargon and translate their sentences, we usually find mundane, completely ordinary premises dressed up and obscured to make them seem more profound.

When an idea that could be stated plainly gets wrapped in layers of technical terminology and insignificant conditional clauses, then complexity is functioning as a form of intellectual intimidation and evasion rather than a mechanism for clarifying truth.