Wisdom
Anonymous accounts in social networks are problematic because it certainly enables people to allow their worst to manifest themselves, especially if they are resentful and angry
If you don't get your act together then you leave a little space for hell
You should be responsible because you need to have a deep meaning in your life to offset the suffering so you don't get bitter. And the way you do that is to bear a heavy load. To get yourself in check for you now and for you in the future and then to do the same for your family and your community. There's real nobility and meaning
Value distinctions between things
There's value distinctions between things. Some things are worth doing and some things are not and you can kind of discover what that is for yourself and then you should aim at the things that are most worth doing and what you'll find if you watch carefully is that the things that you find worth doing are almost always associated with an increase in responsibility
The antidote to the suffering and the malevolence is to take on more responsibility for themselves and for other people. That's aspirational
You have to work to take care of yourself and what you want in this moment but then there's you tomorrow, and there's you next week and there's you next month the next year, ten years from now and when you are old... So because you are self-conscious and because you are aware of the future you are actually a community unto yourself. And if you are selfish and impulse all that means is that you are serving the person you are right now in that impulsive way but not the person you are going to be. That's not a good ground for any sort of ethical behavior
Power in a hierarchy is the right way to be. Human hierarchies are very complex and that the way that you win human hierarchy is by being competent and reciprocal
Every single person who sets out to put themselves together ethically is a net positive to everyone around them. There is no downside to that
Ego is the enemy
If you overestimate your abilities you're in deep trouble because you're gonna get a wake-up call. Objectivity is one of the most critical aspects of development. You have to be objectively assessing your strength and weaknesses at every step of the way
One of the most deadly things for a fighter to do is to overestimate his own position
As the technology is supplanted the ideological polarization increases as the thing dies
Big things disappear when they get crooked and ideologically rigid
When you edit someone and take their words out of context and change them around you are being deceptive
Maybe ten times as many people can listen to complex information as can read complex information in terms of their ability to process it
Spoken word is now as powerful as the written word. That's never happened in human history
It's not necessarily a mistake to lay yourself open to attack because sometimes it reveals the motives of the attackers
Don't do interviews that will be edited
We can't have equality of outcome amongst people with lower than 83 IQs
The only thing that's worse than the pain of inequality is the pain of forced equality
The biggest difference between men and women is an interest
The envious and the resentful can use compassion as a camouflage for their true intent which is to tear down anyone who has more than them
Agreeableness motivates aggression
You're not perfect man. There's hatred in you. And the probability that it's more powerful than love is pretty damn high. Look to your own viewpoint before you go out there and try to fix the hierarchies of the world