Chris Williamson's brutal wake-up call in 46 seconds:
“Adults don't exist.”
He runs down the list:
- Steve Jobs delayed pancreatic cancer treatment for carrot juice and acupuncture.
- Mozart drowned in debt, constantly begging friends for money.
- Nietzsche caught syphilis in a brothel and sold only 300 copies of his work in his lifetime.
- Martin Luther King had affairs with over 40 women and spent his last night with two of them.
- Isaac Newton wasted 30 years on alchemy pseudoscience his heirs hid out of embarrassment.
The point lands hard:
Don't put any adult on a pedestal.
Kill your gurus.
The adults aren't going to save you — they don't even exist.
Raw, unflinching, and impossible to unhear.
Which "hero" or guru did you once idolize… until you learned the messy truth behind them?
This 32-minute Stanford lecture by Graham Weaver will teach you more about courage, confidence, and living boldly than 10 years of self-help books.
Bookmark it and give it 32 minutes, no matter what.
@WatcherGuru US taxpayers should be livid. We paid higher costs for items, as cost increases were passed down to the consumer.
On top of that, the tariff money doesn't support us, and it goes back to the company that exported products to the US.
This is not winning.
Ja Morant on Portland: “It rains a lot. I got took fishing in the rain. … Lately, I’ve been kind of into nature. That’s a bonus for me. I’m not hiking! But I can go walking, ride a bike, I’ve been kayaking.”
Warren Buffett: “If you can detach yourself, temperamentally, from the crowd, you'll get very rich. You don't have to be very bright [either].”
“It doesn't take brains. It takes temperament.”
They ask Warren Buffett in an interview:
"What is true wealth"?
Warren Buffet: "True wealth is not having the biggest house or the most expensive car.
It is having enough money to live comfortably while being free to choose how you spend your time, who you work with, and the life you want to live.
In the end, time and freedom are the greatest forms of wealth".
(Charlie Rose, 2009)