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Joe Rogan just went off on Anthony Fauci with lead actor from Shawshank Redemption Tim Robbins for mandating masks and lockdowns during the 2020 pandemic which caused severe developmental damage to children:
ROGAN: “Children weren’t even susceptible to the virus. Why are they in lockdown wearing a mask? What are we really doing here?”
ROBBINS: “Science became a religion.”
ROGAN: “Fauci said that when you are criticizing Anthony Fauci you are criticizing science. That’s such a wild thing to say.”
ROBBINS: “If you questioned the religion, you got kicked out of the cult.”
ROGAN: “Science is supposed to evolve from hypothesis to hypothesis based on new data. Science isn’t supposed to be a brick that you aren’t allowed to question.”
ROBBINS: “I don’t believe in experts anymore. If you consider yourself an expert that means you’re done learning. I can’t trust people who have stopped challenging themselves.”
ROGAN: “Real experts from MIT and Harvard were getting deplatformed for saying that the lockdown was bad for children.”
ROBBINS: “Those kids had two years of socialization robbed from them.”
ROGAN: “Imagine if that was your senior year of high school.”
ROBBINS: “Kids stopped making eye contact with each other when the lockdowns ended. They were completely desocialized. All they would do is look at the floor.”
ROGAN: “It’s so critical for toddlers to develop by reading people’s faces. Imagine being a toddler and seeing everyone with a mask on. Everyone is robbing a bank now? This is nuts.”
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
“I will do good no matter what. No matter what happens to me. I will do good.”
Jordan Peterson:
“No matter how much undeserved suffering comes my way… undeserved and unjust, in spite of my innocence… I will not lose faith and I will do good.”
Absolute rejection of the victim mindset.
“Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.” - Job 13:15
Abigail Shrier: "The number one symptom of depression is rumination, pathologically obsessing over your pain. Getting out of your house and accomplishing anything is good for you, sitting around, talking and thinking about your problems is a bad habit."
Tom Brady: “You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure.”
Dana White reveals that after he got blackout drunk, he thought he had only lost $80,000 gambling, but he had actually lost $3,000,000
"I was drinking having a blast and ended up losing like 80 grand."
"I'm at work the next day and the host from the casino calls me and says, hey Dana do you still need the room at the hotel? I said, no I don't need the room, but don't get to comfortable with my 80 grand, I'm coming back for it."
"Dead silence on the other end of the phone..."
"He's like, Dana... you lost $3 million last night.."
"I said, What the fuck are you talking about? I only have a $1.5 million credit line. He says, yeah you made us call the GM of the hotel and started calling him a f*cking p*ssy."
Sam Altman: "What risk actually looks like is that you look back at the end of your career and you're like, 'f***, I wasted it.'"
And yet nobody thinks about risk that way.
@sama argues that we're wired to fear the wrong things.
"We're very good at thinking about short-term catastrophic risk and we're very bad about thinking about long-term chronic risk. Like we worry about, you know, nuclear plant meltdowns, but not about like inhaling coal smoke or whatever."
The same blind spot shows up in how people think about their careers.
They obsess over the risk of a failed startup, a rejected pitch, a bad quarter — the visible, immediate dangers.
But they rarely stop to calculate the slow, invisible cost of playing it too safe for decades.
Sam says this is the thing he finds himself pushing the most talented people on:
"There's a very small handful of people that I would say I have taken an interest in their careers because I think they're going to do amazing things in the world, and I try to spend a lot of time with for no reason other than I want to help them."
"And consistently, this is the thing I find myself pushing them on: you're thinking too small and you're thinking about risk the wrong way. You need a perspective shift."
The most urgent person usually wins.
The person who is desperate and needs it the most is the one that normally gets it.
—Kara Lawson, Head Coach @DukeWBB
Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.
The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.
The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.
Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.
"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.
It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.
"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.
I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.
In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.
And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.
You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.
The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.
I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.
Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.
"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.
Discipline is a journey.
Matthew McConaughey: "The only thing I ever knew in life I wanted to be was a father. I was 8 years old. My dad was a yes sir, no sir man. He'd introduce me to his friends and I'd shake their hand, 'Yes sir, nice to meet you'"
LeBron James explains what it really takes to stay with someone for 20+ years
"We've been together since high school, so shit ain't always gonna be a bed of roses in any relationship, let alone with someone that you've been living with for over 20 years"
"I think communication is number one. Being honest is number two. Number three is that you have to be okay with being uncomfortable in relationships sometimes. You can't always have it your way. You can't always think, 'My way or the highway.' That's never gonna work that way"
"They say, 'Happy wife, happy life.' Happy life, is that shit real, bro? But also, happy husband, happy loving"