- Stand up straight, with your shoulders back
- We battle for dominance with each other but not too hard lest we exhaust ourselves too much in the fight
- Resting places are important
- Lobsters have chemical jets under their eyes that they can squirt at other lobsters to exchange information about size, sex, and health
- Physical dominance only lasts for so long
- Building relationships with others in the troop is important to continued dominance
- Fear of death and social embarrassment are the worst
- Tyranny tends to grow when there is no push-back
- Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
- Oddly, people are better at filling and administrating prescriptions to the pets than they are to themselves
- Pain matters more than matter matters
- We see the world as animated with purpose and intent
- Perception of things as tools happens as quickly as we perceive them as things
- We see what things mean just as fast, or faster, than we see things as they are
- We see the “personality” of things (or actions) of others before we see the action themselves
- Meaning is found when we are balanced in order and chaos, this is when time flies and we feel fulfilled
- “The Way” is fixed in a place of order, surrounded by chaos
- We need both the order to be secure and chaos to grow
- We can either make children safe or strong, not both
- We coevolved with snakes
- Be ready to give up something lower for something better
- Once you know you are vulnerable, you realize how to torment yourself and others… This is the knowledge of Good and Evil
- Evil often comes as a result of continued rejected sacrifices
- PTSD usually happens from something done not something seen
- Problems tend to be forgotten after they are solved
- Make friends with people who want the best for you
- New places allow us to reset ourselves and circumstances
- Make sure you want the best for your friends
- Things fall apart on their own… But we often help things along
- Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone is today
- If the cards are always stacked against you, even by yourself, perhaps the game
- Talking yourself into irrelevance is not good
- Anything worth doing can be done better or worse
- Resentment either means immaturity or tyranny
- Ask your resentment what it needs
- To see, we must aim
- What you aim at determines what you see; what you see determines where you go
- Our wants often conflict with each other, so we have to rank them
- Obedience is a good starting point, but not an end
- Do not let your children do anything that will make you not like them
- Too much chaos breeds too much order
- Habitual occurrences may feel trivial but really make up our lives
- Children need interaction with adults to grow-up
- Proper discipline is a combination of mercy and long-term strategy
- People often ask the wrong, opposite psych question: “Why do people do drugs?” Drugs are the default; Violence is the default, peace is the mystery
- We push supposed limits until we find the real boundary
- “Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.”
- Angry cries are different from hurt cries
- Discipline is different from punishment
- Children need to be socialized to fit into society
- Limit the rules to the minimum needed; Excess and seemingly arbitrary rules lowers respect for all the other rules
- Aim for the minimum needed force
- “No” really means, “Stop or I will make your life unpleasant because I have the power to do so”, this either needs to be physically or mentally as required by the child
- Set your house in perfect order before criticize the world
- Hurricanes are acts of god… Failure to prepare when we have been warned is our fault
- Just because you do not know why you know something does not mean it is wrong
- Pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient
- Sacrifice is delaying now for future reward
- Tell the truth or, at least, don’t lie
- This includes lying to yourself
- Lies warp our perceptions to fit an ideal, this tends to eliminate our drive
- Vitality requires original contribution
- We need to experience new things in order to be fully activated
- By playing the game, you admit the game is important
- Any weakness can be magnified into crisis with enough deceit
- Reason, rationality, is best seen as a personality as it has its own motives and ego
- Totalitarianism is when Reason has all powers
- If you have no aim, anything can be everything, this is anxiety inducing
- A man’s worth can be determined by the truth he can tolerate
- The Big Lie is what corrupts, wrapping all other lies in it
- Most lies are acted out, not told
- Assume the person you are listening to might know something you do not
- Genuine conversation is sharing, listening, and strategizing
- Each of us is a walking cacophony of integrated experiences
- A sufficiently happy ending can make all the bad stuff that came before make sense
- Memory is a tool to guide the future
- Super saturated liquid
- Try to not steal problems from others
- We simulate our world with little avatars of ourselves
- We find ourselves compelled to evaluate because listening alone is too dangerous
- Try restating before continuing
- Give the devils their due so you can hone your own position
- Be precise in your speech
- Communications requires admission
- There is little in a marriage that is so little it is not worth fighting about
- Are we so afraid of failure that we refuse to define success so we never know when we fail
- Precision is very important
- Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
- Kids need playground that are dangerous enough to engage them
- We need a degree of danger to live well so we can feel invigorated
- It is often not that we love the poor but that we hate the rich that we seek to socialize
- Without some dangerous experience, it is easier to reject humanity entirely
- Women tend to want to marry equal or better, men do not care
- Competence, not power, tend to be the primary indicator of dominance
- Group identity can fractionated down to the individual level
- Healthy women want men, not boys
- “If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak ones can do”
- Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street
- People tend to favor those in their group, even when groups are arbitrarily chosen
- We love people, in part, because of their limitations
- Set aside time to talk or think about the worry, daily, so it will not consume you
- Your brain is more interested in the fact there is a plan, not the details of the plan
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