The idea that a young man and a young woman could be best friends but not sexually involved is unheard of until the 20th century. Today, because we abandoned traditional social norms, every young woman has to individually rediscover what any other culture would have taught her.
The older I get, the more I realize how much of your life is shaped by the stories you tell yourself. I’m not ready. I’m too late. I’m bad at this. I never follow through. Be careful. You believe what you repeatedly rehearse. Tell better stories. Then prove them through action.
Frame is a daily practice. It takes time, determination and willpower. Step by step. Small things like controlling laughter and holding back talking too much. It gets easier with practice. Keep going. Don’t give up. It’s never too late to pick up frame.
beautiful life isn’t complicated. You just have to be intentional. Spend on quality items. On people who matter to you. Be alone often. Text slower. Eat slower. Think slower. Notice the wind. The trees. The flowers. Fold your clothes with care. Speak to one person like it’s the last time. That’s wealth. That’s presence. That’s enough.
The older you get, the more you realize luck is just exposure.
If you sit in the same chair, same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new happens.
You have to touch the world to win.
Travel more. Talk to strangers. Try a new coffee spot. Post on social media. Start a side hustle.
The world rewards motion. You don't find opportunity sitting still.
You should study what makes you defensive. The topic you avoid, the joke that irritates you, the question that feels insulting, the feedback you instantly reject. Defensiveness is usually the guard dog sitting in front of a weakness you have not trained yourself to face.
The biggest issue with giving women the right to vote is that you’re extending political power to a group that generally isn’t inclined to understand geopolitics, history, or economics.
Most women spend their free time watching reality TV, gossiping, and scrolling through social media.
Even most men aren’t interested in those topics and spend the bulk of their time obsessing over sports and other trivial matters.
Political decisions shouldn’t be guided by people who are unable or unwilling to understand high level concepts and their second order effects.
Disenfranchising millions of voters would put this country in a much better position.
The society we are living in has become a nightmare of young men being ruled over by out of touch boomers and the women they hired.
How this seems to work is boomer men hire and mentor young women instead of competent young men, who they probably view as rivals to their power.
This allows geriatric boomers to retain power for far longer than normal while also being surrounded by the equivalent of a work harem of women.
This effectively shuts out the young men from power which isn’t natural or healthy for a society in the long term.