about paradoxon

It's part of being human to want to do well in life, to survive and thrive.  

For many people, a tried and tested formula for surviving and thriving is to try to anticipate what is going to happen in the future and then plan a suitable course of action in the face of their forecast.

But, being consistently effective this way, with every decision faced, turns out to be trickier than you'd think.

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future"
 - Niels Bohr

The evolutionary advantages for humans of getting good at using experience to forecast the future has fooled us into thinking we can apply the formula to anything.  But in complex, modern life we mostly have little ability to predict and control what is coming our way.  It's tough for homo sapiens to reconcile, but all of us have become conditioned to make predictions about things that are sometimes inherently not predictable. 

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
 - Alan Kay

In practice, the possible action that we can see ahead to take is shaped by our personal and collective worldview.

While, over time, the action we choose to take, and our experience of its consequences, shapes our worldview.

This is a circular system of choices for action, and the circularity may not be evident to someone in the middle of it, dealing as they likely are with day-to-day demands and pressures.  

the philosophy of paradoxon

So, it is possible to become stuck in a circular system of action choices and be too wrapped up in it all to notice how that which you're sure about constrains that which you can do now to affect the future.

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so"
- Mark Twain

The philosophy of Paradoxon is to have the circular system become a conscious thing.  

If I am aware of my circular system of choices then I can be responsible for the choices I make.

If I am responsible for my choices then, given my particular worldview and my current set of circumstances, I can work out what is it I really want in the matter, and I can test my level of commitment to it.  I can be authentically true to myself.