Health gurus will tell you alcohol is poison and you should never touch it. Meanwhile, there are old British guys having a couple pints every weekend with their lifelong friends, laughing for 4 hours straight, while outliving people who optimize every biomarker imaginable.
Don't wear sweatpants on a $30MM airplane. Even if you're flying coach.
Sure, change into sweatpants to sleep during a 12 hour flight. Go ahead.
But in that case, you're riding in a $100MM+ Aircraft. An absolute engineering marvel unimaginable to most people a mere 300 yrs ago.
Have some respect
Stick to the "No-Complaint" Policy.
You are NO LONGER the type of person that complains, criticizes, or gossips at all, EVER.
Complaining reinforces a "victim" mindset + solidifies problems.
By removing it, you force your brain to look for solutions and silver linings.
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parenting is often indistinguishable from running small psychological experiments. started doing something where, if kids misbehave, i immediately give them more responsibility. did not expect this to work so well. drawing odd conclusions on society and individuals based on this.
Henry Ford's father was a traveling salesman who sent home money and had 10 year old Henry build his mother a house.
He bought land, contracted labor, and oversaw this project.
Is "hold until death" the only valid strategy?
Can I just put my house in my kids names now to build their sense of responsibility and agency for future projects?
I'm talking real agency here. Like... yes you DO have the power to sell the home and buy a lifetime supply of gummy bears. Literally puts me in a position of having to parent so well I don't risk becoming homeless.
If they hold until death, don't they still get a step up in basis for their future kids? So there's probably no downside right?
bonus: it preserves most of my lifetime exemption
Radically Unconventional Henry-Ford-inspired Estate Planning
they can borrow against it for future down payments
they can let their caretaker live with them in exchange for paying taxes and insurance if my wife and i die of hantavirus