Anaximenes

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• VAVital Affirmation

  6 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  6 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• AnaxagorasCARTOGRAPHER

  Nous (mind) orders an infinite mixture of seeds into a cosmos.

• Stuart KauffmanCARTOGRAPHER

  At Home in the Universe — order for free; self-organization in complex systems.

• AnaximanderCARTOGRAPHER

  The boundless (apeiron) is the source of all things — pre-Socratic first physics.

• Werner HeisenbergCARTOGRAPHER

  Uncertainty — what we know depends on what we ask.

• Niels BohrCARTOGRAPHER

  Complementarity — wave and particle held together by the question asked.

• Karen BaradPILGRIM

  Agential realism — phenomena, not objects, as the units of reality.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Anaximenes's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.