Aristotle defined man as a rational animal. This book is your tool to become an optimal rational animal. It helps you discover your highest possibilities as a human being.

An allegory will help you to read this book. It compares two feats. Your path to the summit of Mount Everest and your path to the summit of reason.

It compares the acclimatization required to reach the highest mountain on Earth with the acclimatization required to reach your rational peak.

Acclimatization is a gradual process that lets you reach your best possibilities.

As a climber, the three arrows in the image represent the three stages of acclimatization your body needs to reach Everest’s summit. As a thinker, they represent the three stages your mind needs to become an optimal rational animal.

You need three things to become the champion of yourself. First, unfreeze the irrational propaganda absorbed in childhood. Second, replace the irrational with the rational. Third, refreeze the rational by building new habits of thought.