turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.
THE ONLY TRIBE ON EARTH WITH NO DEPRESSION DOES SOMETHING THAT MODERN PARENTS FORBID THEIR CHILDREN TO DO BEFORE SLEEP.
And once you understand why it works, you'll never stop them again:
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Younger parents tend to ask my parents for advice.
I've condensed some key points over the years.
Run these psyops on your children:
- You are gifted intellectually
- You can unlock your supreme athleticism.
- Work diligently on skills and education that nobody can take away from you. That is the secret to everlasting confidence.
- You are the type of person who can achieve whatever you want when you discipline yourself to work for it – It does not just happen.
- You have an unending capacity to work, you are not lazy.
- You set your standard. Others are to fit in with you.
- Never worry about making friends, once you truly get comfortable being alone, people are drawn to you.
- Everything is a skill. You can learn anything; anything becomes more interesting the more you learn about it.
- Whatever you're interested in, be excellent in your chosen path. You will be supported.
- Genius is a state accessible to you.
- Nobody has the right to disrespect you, even at your young age. In any room you find yourself in, you have valuable contributions. They have inherent valuable because the words come through someone like you.
- Do not shrink yourself. You deserve to take up space.
- You can come to me for anything, even if you think I'll be upset – which I might be. But with me, you can unburden your conscience with the truth. I'm with you always.
I will always be the fortress that supports you until my dying days; and when I'm gone, gaze upon the spread of the heavens.
Know that I support you still.
Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.