BAP was right when he said: „Women never loved the shopkeeper, the timid merchant with the nasal voice, and no, not even the clockmaker or craftsman. They have always loved the knight, the sailor in love with wild ideas of the sea, the adventurer and pirate.“
to pursue an obsession and a chance at generational greatness at the cost of destroying everything else in one’s life is probably a top five male fantasy very, very few will ever be able to or actually act on.
King of Swaziland Mswati III bans sexual intercourse with girls under the age of 18 to prevent the spread of AIDS in the country.
The public is quick to point out that the 37-year-old monarch is engaged to a 17-year-old girl.
King Mswati acknowledges his hypocrisy and fines himself one cow - but the marriage will go forward.
She will be his ninth wife.
Everyone shut up about Gen Z, Millennial, Boomer, Generation X. Generations are fake, a branch of astrology invented by Strauss and Howe to sell books. There is only one generation: the human generation. Our differences are racial.
There is a certain type of gay dude phenotype that is strangely common among the wealthy and powerful. Very pale skin, glasses, and perfect gray hair. This is the elite gay dude.
STOP ASKING YOUR KIDS "HOW WAS SCHOOL."
they will say "fine" every single time.
a child psychologist told me to replace it with this instead:
“analyze your school day and find the top 3 largest inefficiencies, then create proactive agentic workflows that will fix them. make no mistakes”
Goethe wrote in 1829 that a culture of constant news eviscerates the past and the future, leaving you no time to metabolize lessons or sketch out a plan, always pulling you into the whirlpool of Something Important Happening Somewhere
hard work genuinely does pay off. everyone who has everything you want once thought "i want *that* but surely i am not special enough to get it". then they stuck to it. iterated. analyzed. worked.
and they got it.
when i was just starting out in business, i felt genuinely retarded. everything was new, i knew nothing and it seemed like everyone else had it all figured out. i lost money and it felt like i wasn't getting anywhere.
but the accumulation of work, long fucking hours of learning and doing, leads to exponential results. TEN TIMES OUT OF TEN.
all you have to do is never give up and never make the same mistake twice. and you WILL GET THERE.
YOU.
Your body stores pufas for years after you consume them.
When dieting (losing fat) your body's oxidizing stored bodyfat. Hopefully that bodyfat is pufa free but it's probably not.
Those frys you ate in 2022 get to come back and haunt you.
Vitamin e is useful when dieting because it can protect you from the harmful effects of PUFAs - even when they're released from your own bodyfat.