Know What Your People Are Like, And

You Have To Put Yourself In My Shoes As A Person Who Believes In Radical Truth And In Being Radically Transparent, Not In Seeing Things Through Somebody Else's Eyes.

For Me, The Best Things In Life - Meaningful Work, Meaningful Relationships, Interesting Experiences, Good Food, Sleep, Music, Ideas, Sex, And Other Basic Needs And Pleasures - Are Not, Past A Certain Point, Materially Improved Upon By Having A Lot Of Money.

School Typically Doesn't Prepare Young People For Real Life - Unless Their Lives Are Spent Following Instructions And Pleasing Others. In My Opinion, That's Why So Many Students Who Succeed In School Fail In Life.

I Believe That Dreamers Who Simply Imagine Things That Would Be Nice But Are Not Possible Don’t Sufficiently Appreciate The Laws Of The Universe To Understand The True Implications Of Their Desires, Much Less How To Achieve Them.

If You Can Stare Hard At Your Problems, They Almost Always Shrink Or Disappear, Because You Almost Always Find A Better Way Of Dealing With Them Than If You Don't Face Them Head On. The More Difficult The Problem, The More Important It Is That You Stare At It And Deal With It.