Discover Powerful and Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Life

I can't imagine anything we could possibly strive for in our society that would make it into hell faster than equality of outcome. Historical evidence for the pathology of that root is so strong. You have to be historically ignorant beyond belief or malevolent or resentful beyond comprehension in order to think that that's a good idea

You can be anti radical left without falling all the way into the far right

White lies and black truths

There are white lies and black truths. A black truth is when you use the truth in a way that isn't truthful - just like a white lie is when you lie in a way that isn't harmful. You can use the truth to wound and hurt and what that really means is that you've misused the truth and so it's actually a complex form of lie

If you have good measures of conscientiousness and IQ, you can predict someone's success in the competitive landscape with a correlation of about 0.6

To direct the market means to impose the heavy hand of the state and it's potential pathologies on the market but to leave it alone completely means that it wanders randomly through an indeterminate landscape

University is actually not a business. It's like a church is not a business

Men who are men don't need money, they need function

Economic inequality drives crime

Don't let the inequality in your neighborhood get out of hand because the crime rate will skyrocket

In order for society to progress you have to allow the individual to compete in a relatively untrammeled space so that they can innovate

Motivation driven by necessity

One of the advantages of zero is that you're driven by brute necessity and that can really be motivating. That's I think why the children of first generation immigrants often do so well. They're driven by necessity

If you don't have any money, it's really hard to get some. Once you have some, it's not so hard to get some more

Smart people who work hard are disproportionately likely to succeed

Biggest predictors of success

We know what predicts success - IQ and conscientiousness are the biggest predictors of success

If you let a monetary system run, all the money ends up in the hands of a very small number of people

If you put more effort and more time and focus into your work whatever it would be whether it's a podcast or your YouTube videos or whatever if people enjoy it they gravitate towards it and then over time it exponentially increases the amount of people that are exposed to it

When one good thing happens to you it makes you a little more powerful and attractive and so that fractionally increases the possibility that another good thing will happen to you

To those who have everything more will be given and from those who have nothing everything will be taken

If you took a hundred classical composers ten of them produce half the music that's played. And then if you take the ten composers and you take a thousand of their songs, thirty of those songs which is the square root of a thousand roughly speaking are played fifty percent of the time

If you have ten thousand people, a hundred of them have half the money

The square root of the number of people under consideration have half of whatever it is that's under consideration

Post modernism is a dead end from the perspective of applicable wisdom. It leaves you bereft and nihilistic. And that's not good because people can't exist without a purpose

People can't exist without a purpose

The landscape of interpretation is almost infinite but the landscape of applicable functional interpretation is unbelievably constrained and I think that constraint system is what we regard as ethics

Truth and objective truth

The idea of truth is much older than the idea of objective truth. The original notion of truth wasn't objective true. When Christ said - I am the truth and the way - the truth he was talking about wasn't an objective truth