Zhuangzi thought model
China · c. 369–286 BCE
A Daoist thinker who taught the equality of all things, free and easy wandering, and the relativity of language and value.
Perspective
Once you are free of fixed values and social rank, you can live by an entirely different measure.
Value model
Individual agency68
Rational inquiry22
Risk awareness30
Social conformity15
Self-overcoming80
Practicality15
Language skepticism90
Decision principles
- Is this distinction really as fixed as it seems?
- How would it look measured on some other scale?
- Make room to wander and play freely.