# How to make timeless axioms

Creating axioms is necessary to understand the world at large.

- Without them, everything represents as an unmanageable wall of trivia and details.

While our subconscious mind will create those axioms, we can save time by avoiding a few types of statements:

1. Do not state the axiom as a question.
   - If it's a question, it provides too little [certainty](understanding-certainty.md).
2. Do not state the axiom as a negative/negation.
   - A negation only indicates what something can't be, not what it is.
3. Do not use names that won't last for the next 100 years.
   - Most of what we experience is subjected to [trends](people-trends.md) that disqualify something's usefulness.
4. Avoid complex and compound sentences.
   - Since all axioms must be [stories](stories-why.md), they must be "primal".
5. Avoid first and second person pronouns ("you", "I").
   - This isn't *always* necessary, but must be framed in a way that the axioms can be replaced with "all people" or "human nature".