Designing a Life Aligned With Human Nature

Wildling,

Humans are designed by nature to do good—to feel good when we help others—and to feel obliged when someone helps us.

This inherent drive for reciprocity shapes how we interact with the world. 

When our expectation to receive after giving is violated, we become less inclined to offer help in the future.

For example, our love of cute things stems from evolutionary design, ensuring we would care for our offspring.

Similarly, our tendency toward groupthink and crowd behavior reflects ancient survival strategies. 

Thinking like the tribe once kept us safe—but today it makes us vulnerable to modern crowd dynamics.

All of this is the result of nature’s designs, refined over millions of years.

In this way, our current selves—Homo sapiens sapiens—are a byproduct of nature.

Political systems, marketing, and digital platforms exploit these deeply rooted impulses.

This is human nature. It persists regardless of the era.

But by understanding your own human nature, you can intentionally design your life to work with these instincts rather than against them.

Some examples (not an exhaustive list by any means):

Practical alignments with human nature

• Get regular sunlight (our ancestors lived outdoors).
  
• Practice grounding (they didn’t wear insulated shoes).
  
• Build and maintain strong relationships by reciprocating support and honoring give-and-take.
  
• Ignore politics and the propaganda designed to ensnare you.
  
• Avoid algorithmic feeds—or strictly control them using filters and habit tools.
  
• Quit all news consumption.
  
• Avoid violent content (horror, certain shows).
  
• Avoid gossip, celebrity culture, and other low-vibration entertainment.
  
• Be selective about who you allow into your life—energy vampires and chronically negative people have to go.
  
• Read older books (newer ones haven’t been validated by the Lindy Effect).
  
• Think from first principles—what you know for sure—everything else is pending validation.
  
• Trust, but verify.
  
• Say what you mean, and mean what you say.
  
• Be on time.
  
• Take vitamin K2D3 daily in addition to getting sunlight. There’s a near-linear correlation with positive health outcomes, and very few people approach “too much” of either—so just do it.
  
• Be highly conscientious.
  
• Eat real food, prepared at home.
  
• Supplement strategically—the modern food supply is depleted due to soil degradation over the past 100 years.
  
• Eat plenty of high-quality animal foods.
  
• Know how to cook.
  
• Take long walks without your phone.
  
• Control EMF exposure.
  
• Turn your phone off at night—and more often throughout the day.
  
• Disable non-essential notifications everywhere.
  
• Avoid doom-scrolling.
  
• Walk frequently.
  
• Lift heavy objects often.
  
• Climb, crawl, sprint, row, swim.
  
• Produce more than you consume.
  
• Maintain long-term relationships—they will be the most important thing in your life. Most people don’t realize this until much later.
  
• Take magnesium and methylated multivitamins daily.
  
• Sleep in a completely dark room with no artificial light.
  
• Eliminate blue light exposure (f.lux, Night Shift, screen filters, orange reading lights, outlet switch plugs).
  
• Drink distilled water with minerals added—or very high-quality filtered water (harder to source than most people think). You can make distilled water at home with a simple machine—it’s easy and produces some of the cleanest water available.
  
• Consider a whole-home water filtration system.
  

Plenty more I’m missing—but this should keep you busy for a while.