I Will Take As A Given That,

I Discourage Passive Skepticism, Which Is The Armchair Variety Where People Sit Back And Criticize Without Ever Subjecting Their Theories Or Themselves To Real Field Testing.

Luxury, To Me, Is Not Owning A Lot Of Stuff. Luxury, To Me, Is Feeling Unrushed.

In All Cases Where Doubt Crops Up, Ask Yourself, "if I Had A Gun To My Head And Had To Do It, How Would I Do It?" It's Not As Hard As You Think.

It Is Far More Lucrative And Fun To Leverage Your Strengths Instead Of Attempting To Fix All The Chinks In Your Armor. The Choice Is Between Multiplication Of Results Using Strenths Or Incremental Improvement Fixing Weaknesses That Will, At Best, Become Mediocre. Focus On Better Use Of Your Best Weapons Instead Of Constant Repair.

The Benefits Of Becoming Fluent In A Foreign Tongue Are As Underestimated As The Difficulty Is Overestimated. Thousands Of Theoretical Linguists Will Disagree, But I Know From Research And Personal Experimentation With More Than A Dozen Languages That (1) Adults Can Learn Languages Much Faster Than Children When Constant 9-5 Work Is Removed And That (2) It Is Possible To Become Conversationally Fluent In Any Language In Six Months Or Less. At Four Hours Per Day, Six Months Can Be Whittled Down To Less Than Three Months.