Create content you would consume. Optimize content for your depth (truth), not width (likes). Be the enthusiastic person you and your close ones need, lead the way, everyone will do better. Don't default to being mean. Incentives are key to understand the system. One little tweak can compound hard. Trust people more when they talk against their incentives. Adults don't exist. Most people in charge are grown-up children. Every year you push the age at which one is labeled adult. Successful business people don't teach business in school because they're busy running their business. Set up your own milestones. Most people die at 25 but aren't buried until 75. Going against consensus matters, don't outsource your thinking to others. Say your truth no matter what, even when everyone else seems to disagree. People want to hear your truth, not what they want to hear, otherwise they wouldn't ask. Saying your truth creates real connections, lying makes your surroundings not knowing you. Train your friendship like you would muscles, keep hanging around with your friends. Don't let your wife's friends become your only friends, have your sausage fest and let her have her pajama party so you both talk with like-minded people about things you don't have in common. A friend requires 2 hours per week on average and your partner the double. Don't force things, chilling together at a nice house is good. To make friends, doing nothing gets you nothing, going to a yoga class is ok, going to a running club can work, contact people online at your level is the best. Selective and niche means higher likeliness to match. Find peers online, not idols. Just have a normal, non-creepy profile. Peers, people at a level similar than yours, likely have the same problems as you. Are they cool to vibe with and willing to grow? People are busy being busy, they focus on minor tasks instead of what matters. A day is not 24 hours but 16 hours long, just like revenue doesn't mean benefits. The more you try to beat busyness, to more busy you are. The most important thing to focus is finding the thing to focus on. Overcome your need to feel busy. So many people work so hard while achieving so little. Question your inputs to outputs ratio. In practice, you're not over-worked but under-rested. You are the guard of your own prison, prioritize to escape. People forget things and even forget that they've forgotten. It's good for cynics because they get to criticize the newest things then use it later on in life shameless. Ignorance is bliss when it comes to useless subjects, stop reacting to everything that happens in the world. Normalize saying you don't know and you don't care. Treat news stories like the Kardashians. You can reply to their important topics with your more important topics. All normal behaviors are forgotten, only weirdness is remembered. Encourage the things you want to see more of.
George Mack