It's not like what's coming isn't dangerous, it's dangerous, but your best bet is to be dancing on your feet and ready for it, pay attention and be awake

Confront chaos voluntarily
Establish and revivify order
Constrain malevolence
That's a good three-part for life

It's a stupid game to betray your future self to gratify your present self

You want to have a life that's so engaging that you think despite the fact that I am limited and that we are mortal and that life is tragedy and there is evil in the world, despite all that this is worth doing

To be a winner...

To be a winner, you want to be disciplined, you want to know what you are doing and you want to be on the edge where your skills are being developed. That way you are at a place where losing is always a possibility, because otherwise you are not pushing yourself beyond your current capacity

Life is not a game, it's a series of games. And the right ethic is to be the winner of the series of games. And part of that means that you have to learn how to be a good looser because you are not going to win every single game

One definition of a winner is someone who never let losing stop them

It's better to be a warrior in a garden then a gardener in a war

Those who have swords and know how to use them but keep them sheathed will inherit the world

You should be a monster, an absolute monster and then you should learn how to control it

Take care

Take care of yourself!
Take care of your intimate partner!
Take care of your damn family!
Don't run off!
Take care of your community!
Rescue the wisdom from the past!
Stand up straight and be courageous despite the fact that life is tragic and tainted by malevolence!
That's ancient wisdom

There is a hole in our culture where there should be a discussion about maturity, truth and responsibility. No one is talking about that

If you are a creative type, who is kind of disorderly, then you are likely to be on the liberal left end of the distribution. And if you are a non-creative type and orderly, then you tend to be on the right wing end of things

A fair bit of your political preference is determined by your biological temperament. It's strongly influenced

Power of negotiation

The consequence of not talking is that you fight. That's the end game. Because the only way you can stop from fighting with other people is by negotiating with them

There's an idea in Christianity that you should pick up your goddamn cross and walk up the hill. Dramatically that's correct. That's the right answer.
It's like you've got a heavy load of suffering to bear and a fair bit of it's going to be unjust. So, what are you going to do about it? Accept it voluntarily and try to transform as a consequence. That's the right answer

"Nobody can have anything that everyone else doesn't have at the same time" - that's the ultimate outcome of equality of outcome

What the people who are agitating for equality of outcome don't understand is that you have to cede so much power to the authorities to the government in order to ensure equality of outcome that a tyranny is inevitable

Equality of outcome is a powerfully anti-capitalistic. It's powerfully anti-western. Why you would let that into your company? It's a big mistake

Unfortunately many of the people who are talking about things like gender differences they have no idea what they are talking about. They don't know the literature. They don't know there is a literature. They don't understand biology

Relatively small differences in the average can produce walloping differences at the extremes

Almost all the people hyper focused on things are almost all men and all the people who are hyper focused on people are almost all women

Men are more interested in things generally speaking and women are more interested in people

Differences at the extreme are where the differences really start to manifest themselves. So you can have a small difference at the level of the average but out at the extremes it starts to make massive difference