Effektivität:

Wie würde die Welt ausschauen, wenn man
zwei Standard Abweichungen effektiver wäre?
Man würde in einer (vollkommen) anderen Welt
leben.

Wie effektiv jemand handelt, ist auch erheblich
damit assoziiert, wie effektiv er darin ist,
Geschehnisse in seiner Umwelt und Innenwelt
einzuordnen, d.h. damit, wie effektiv
sein Denken im Allgemeinen ist.

Tägliches Schreiben:

Ich bin wieder zurückgekehrt dazu,
jeden Morgen zu schreiben.

Das Amusische:

Der Kontrast:

Ein Leben mit Musen versus ein Leben ohne Musen

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Dauerkonflikt & der Umgang mit den Musen:

Dauerkonflikt kann ihn zerstören,
den Umgang mit den Musen.

Loss of Memory:

Somewhere along my life path
I lost my memory.

Low Agency:

Alexander:

"We are the same age. When I was in college I worked as a waiter and in a warehouse. I also started two businesses. When I graduated college I immediately went overseas. I had maybe the same amount of money. I stayed in a hostel for a couple of weeks and found a room to rent. Travelled a lot, lived in three different countries. Learned a second language to fluency. Eventually bought two small houses. Renovated an old ruin in the woods and farmed for a few years. Got a license to drive a boat and spent a summer playing on some beautiful inaccessible beaches. Visited most countries in Europe a couple of times. Learned to dance salsa and bachata well enough I got put on as a salsa taxi in clubs in a big city. Went back to school for a neuroscience degree. Lots of other things I could add. The comments are full of people talking about “privilege” like the woke. They think like woke social justice warriors: they don’t think people are capable of making something good from very little through work. They just expect that everyone who has something good in life has had it handed to them. Wrong! In fact I almost certainly came from a worse background than hoemath, but I made very different decisions in life, and so we had a very different life trajectory. I didn’t get rich, I’ll add, but I knew what I wanted to do and so I went out and did it. I found ways to make it work. I hustled. You can just do things, in fact. Take for example my houses - no electricity and water! How did I fix that? I leaned to wire and plumb them myself. I taught myself most things. This is a good lesson in life - no one is going to hand you things and many of the things that you want to do will be hard and a lot of work. They will also be risky (no you won’t have a “safety net” lol). You don’t get an exciting and interesting life by minimizing risk. Anyway, the problem for men’s lack of meaning in life has never been money. Men “dropping out” of social interaction is also not because they are too poor (in fact poorer individuals engage in more vices and more social hobbies - they are money wasters). Men don’t do meaningful things in their lives because they are simply choosing to do other things instead. If you can afford the newest video game console you can afford most hobbies. Socializing with real people is free, but introverts and depressed people don’t actually enjoy it. Learning a language is free. Teaching yourself new skills is free. One comment in here was like, “I can’t afford to do that because wood costs money.” These are helpless people. They are like liberals who blame obesity on “food deserts” or say “I can’t go running because there is no run place to run outside,” then you look outside and it’s a normal neighborhood and they say, “But I don’t want to run on the street.” Low agency. Highly neurotic. And their lives end up reflecting that."

Skill Acquisition:

Alexander:

"I think these attitudes are common in young men and at the core of a lot of discontent: “I am too good to work a normal job.” A lot of young men are entitled. They see themselves as temporarily embarrassed aristocrats. I recall seeing a clip of an interview with a young man. He was an immigrant in Canada from India, on visa to study. He was asked what he wanted to do when he finished. He said, to paraphrase, “Nothing. Working a job is for suckers. I want to be like Andrew Tate. I want to be rich.” Another video I saw was of a UPS driver. Late 20s perhaps. He was lamenting that he was cooler when he was a former criminal and now he was doing lame “civilian” work. And these are people who belong in “menial” jobs. That is their skill level. Yet they expect to be the boss and the executive, immediately. They want a high status position without having to do what is required to attain high status. They feel, for some unknown reason, that they are special, or that they are destined to be special. This is why get rich quick schemes are so popular. It’s why lottery tickets are popular. It’s also why hard jobs and skilled trades often lack workers - and especially Gen Z workers who won’t stick around long enough to acquire skills and experience ..."

Ungeklärte Fragen:

"So manches ist hier nicht ganz klar, ungeklärt."