ov //my thoughts

You need to define a dream, a future, a life, with your significant other that’s WORTH building towards, that’s worth making sacrifices for, that makes it easy to have self control for. For my parents, it was escaping a life of poverty and debt and enabling a future for their kids that was never possible for them.

One thing is having taste, curation. Another thing is getting others to see that your taste is good and the things you highlight have value. That’s distribution

The idea of a media consumption diet - it should be structured just like a nutritional diet - part people around you, what you watch, where you go, how much time you spend on each, how much time you spend consuming vs not - would you eat 8 hours a day? Associate a value to each - ie meats for protein caffeine for awakened sugar for this and carbs

What if the purpose of life is to find love, and then keep it alive??

A super power is being present - not having to worry about what’s next. Having a secretary or assistant to guide you through your day, someone else who’s job is to worry about what’s next for you, enables you to be present

The idea of staying power - in a world where everything is disposable / saturated in options fast fashion trends pictures music library news sources friends knowledge career options

The idea of losing wonder and mystery in the world, because of the internet and smart phones. No longer believing in miracles.

We’re obsessed with success and it’s killing us. We’ve fallen in love with a result, and when we fail to achieve it we beat ourselves up wondering what’s wrong with us. We seek out structured paths to achieve it. We become obsessed with those that have. Yet if you ask successful people, they’ll likely tell you they didn’t set out to get rich - they

People want you to succeed. They WANT to have known the founder of google before it was google.