We also know that microbe transfer between housemates and especially sexual partners living together is likely to be responsible for the sharing of depressive symptoms.
YOUR IQ MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
IQ tests are a cope. Smart people get what they want out of life. Stop overthinking. Learn to make friends. Force yourself to socialize. Forget that number on a test. Achieve your goals. Doing > planning. You create your own misery.
Intelligence is only valuable when it serves you in every aspect of life, not when it ruins your life just so you can say you’re “smarter” than everyone else.
All this mental masturbation for what?
Nobody cares how many books you’ve read on science, psychology, or philosophy. Not even you.
If your IQ really is above average, then you’ll always find ways to solve your problems.
There are people both older and younger than you, who are far more knowledgeable, so don’t stress about not having someone to talk to about quantum mechanics.
Find a problem. Solve it. Then chill.
Wisdom > IQ
Because when a person is wise, they recognize the absurdity of everything, so they don’t overcomplicate life.
AND SUDDENLY YOU'RE 27 OLD MAN SITTING ALONE IN YOUR ROOM, PARENTS ARE GETTING OLD, YOUR SIBLINGS ARE BUSY WITH THEIR OWN LIFE. AND YOU REALIZE HOW TIME REALLY FLIES.
Paul Graham on the importance of urgency:
"Cultivate a habit of impatience about the things you most want to do. Don't wait before climbing that mountain or writing that book or visiting your mother. You don't need to be constantly reminding yourself why you shouldn't wait. Just don't wait."
The past six years feels entirely wasted tbh.
I was 24. This year I turned 30.
No job. No wife. No kids.
No generational wealth like I promised myself, that it would all be worth it.
I just fumbled my 20s chasing imaginary numbers on the internet.
WTF
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
— James N. Mattis
Novak Djokovic just said being bored is the most creative state a child can be in.
His son is 10 and his daughter is 7.
He says when his son told him he was bored after a morning of ping pong, kayaking, and soccer, he sat him down for a conversation most parents avoid.
"It's okay to be bored sometimes. When you're bored, it doesn't mean that you have to instantly take a book or a screen. You need to also learn how to be with your thoughts."
Djokovic says boredom is when creativity finally shows up, and it's also when everything you have been suppressing through your phone comes to the surface.
Most parents are protecting their kids from the only state that grows them.
— Novak Djokavic (@DjokerNole) on Jay Shetty's (@jayshetty) podcast