Bought-Renovated 40+ 1-4 family homes. 31 Years Old. Very High GPA in Finance. Real Estate, Psychology, History, & Genetics Enthusiast. ~140-145 Fluid IQ. 🇺🇸
Best estimate: ~55% of Byzantine emperors (plausible range 40-70%) likely had at least partial ancestry from Greek-speaking or Hellenized Byzantine families, especially middle/late periods.
Inferred from origins & intermarriage records — no aDNA exists. They called themselves Romans. Low-moderate confidence.
Happy 4th of July. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 250 years.
America is filled with different ethnicities.
Yet, mostly we have a resounding commonality in that we are all non native to America.
We all traveled here and thus have a uniting exploratory spirit.
That spirit is largely represented in high openness (creativity proxy), risk tolerance, and low neuroticism (stress tolerance proxy), the three core components that make a great entrepreneur.
GWAS (Genome Wide Association Study) shows migration distance genetically correlates w/ ↑openness (rg=0.32), ↓neuroticism (-0.26) & risk tolerance in Europeans, plus positive selection on alleles. Historical US migration likely caused subtle shifts in personality genetics among descendants, but effects modest & mostly indirect (prob. ~65-80%). Culture dominates. https://t.co/8ruq2Zo0at”
To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Real estate investment isn’t brain damage.
Many people can do it and get wealthy.
Many people just don’t want to deal with the headaches of tenants and contractors.
That is a huge part of why we can still find good deals, since it keeps people on the sidelines.
When a tenant calls you, you should be grateful they are in business with you, or atleast that’s how I conceptualize it.
Bring the headache my way, and I’ll figure out a way to reduce the headache, while keeping the upside.