If I have to go on any promotional cruise or tour to promote the most critical idea, it is your sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sleep is like natural steroids, and also being a parent\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 For your kid to sleep well is the number one greatest blessing in the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or even better yet\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Even you as an adult, for you to sleep well, might be the number one most important thing for you to optimize. Not your work your productivity your income your ability to stack ones and zeros; no, very very simple\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Your ability to sleep well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first big idea is only have coffee and caffeine first thing you wake up. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been experimenting with this the last six months two year, with great results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I first wake up, I take my cold shower, I use my electric shaver to shave\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Brush my teeth etc., head over the kitchen, and start pounding espresso. At this point I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even even count anymore, I just keep drinking espresso until I start to feel hyped and amped up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then I look outside of my apartment window, to see whether the sun has come out or not. Starting to rise, then I finish my coffee and water, and just head out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then I go to my 60 pound weight vest, strap it on, and start walking around town with my iPad Pro! The best way to start your day, every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
True poverty, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc a real poor person\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re making $10 million a year\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If you sleep poorly, none of it is worth it. None of the babes, the cars, the wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, all drugs are bad for your sleep. No no no, alcohol does not help you fall asleep, and not only that\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter what type of alcohol you consume, it will disrupt your REM sleep cycle patterns. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcAnd no no no — a glass of red wine over dinner every night is not good for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, marijuana is not good for sleep. It may help you fall asleep, but it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help you stay asleep — it all once again, give you weird dreams, and disrupt your otherwise healthy sleep patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, media anything with flashing screens and light. Even a new thing I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been trying to do, to encourage our whole family to sleep earlier\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 When it is around 6:30 or 7 PM\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I just try not to turn on the lights. Because artificial light, encourages you to stay up and do \u00e2\u20ac\u0153productive things\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Productivity is for slaves, sleep is for the gods!\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, my new way to greet my friends around town is asking them how they slept. Often you can just see it on their faces! When people look super super tired\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I asked them how they slept last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New thing I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been experimenting is when I go to sleep, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been playing a little bit with the air conditioner heating thing in my bedroom, changing the temperature. For a while I was doing 74\u00c2\u00b0, which was actually a little bit too cold, I would wake up in the middle of the night little bit cold. I just switched it to 76\u00c2\u00b0 last night, and I felt much better! Even waking up today, I feel 1 billion times better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t optimize for your productivity, optimize for your sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My simple suggestion; unsubscribe from all those stupid TV shows media stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honestly, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to think that media TV shows films even music or podcasts is the new dope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, I live right next to the headquarters of HBO Max, Warner Bros. discovery, and it is funny\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It is a pretty depressing looking building, and the whole place has such low energy, and also, when going to their corporate website, WBD.com — take a look at the corporate governance structure. And then look at all their brands. I think they own almost like 50 streaming or TV or media platforms? And then the thought\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do all these random executives have the time or opportunity to watch all these shows? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If anything\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think a lot of these companies are quite smart; just sell media is the new dope. The new soma, —<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us consider, what does watching something on Netflix or HBO Max do for you? It relaxes you calms you, takes your mind off of work and things\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You become best friends with all these random people and shows, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also kind of bad; anime, these shows that on for thousands of episodes, making a generation of really socially awkward kids? Who seek refuge and friendship through these anime series?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyways, my number one greatest privilege of Seneca is via negativa — his whole life he has never watched anything on YouTube, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have the YouTube app installed on my phone. He has never watched a movie, besides maybe the first 15 minutes of the Lego Batman movie which we borrowed as a DVD from the LA Public library, no stupid Disney or Marvel films, etc. He is currently eating about 1\/ third of a pound of a Angus burger beef patty a day, like a beast boy, outstripping any other kids in his age range, in terms of height, smartness, muscle mass, playfulness and joy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, never get your kid a stupid Amazon prime tablet. It is almost like giving your kids the cheapest high fructose corn syrup possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n iPad Pro or nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A big thing I believe in is don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let your kid play with stupid subpar devices. Even Seneca knows how to use the touchpad \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcon my MacBook Pro!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kids are not dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The standard in which you raise them, is the standard in which they will rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, if you treat your kid like a genius kid, and you said the highest standards for them, and you do it with love and attention\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Your kid will become a genius. It is a self fulfilling prophecy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, if you feed your kids Cheerios, Capri Sun, digital heroin (YouTube YouTube kids, Disney+, Bluey etc.)– your child will become subpar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And it is very simple here; it actually saves you money!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Never buy them any toys. Whether you like it or not, they will just get toys to them by osmosis through friends and family, birthdays etc. Or you could just get some secondhand free toys from the Facebook buy nothing group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, one of the critical downsides I discovered about toys is the extreme annoyance of having to maintain and manage it. What that means is that let it say that your kid has all these toys and plays with it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Sooner or later you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna be the one who has to clean it up! Because I hate cleaning up stuff, easiest thing just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give your kid the toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The best entertainment for your kid is taking them to the public downtown Square, letting them run around, high five and fist bump the security guards, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc just take them to a local park playground, take them on a hike, even more productive taking them to the mall and not buying anything! Seneca loves the Century City mall and playing with all the new Tesla cars, stopping by the LEGO store etc. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, none of it is grounded in reality. Second, I think there is something toxic about movies films cinema etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It makes you more and more disconnected from reality, and also, it is cowardly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny whenever I look at my antisocial Los Angeles male single neighbors, with dogs, and I see them behind their closed blinds, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just watching stupid HBO Max shows, or watching baseball, or whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically with media, it reveals what you are truly interested in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tell me what you watch, and I will tell you who you are.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n For myself, things I have watched in the past have shaped me in very productive ways. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc for example the philosophy of the matrix, very very formative as a kid, I think our first watched the matrix and neither elementary school or middle school? You could age yourself or timestamp yourself if you remember your friends or kids in school all doing the bullet time bullet dodging thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, surprisingly these Netflix bodybuilding documentaries, essentially revealing to me that 100% of bodybuilders are on steroids or some sort of weird drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think alive, you should never have to force yourself to do anything. Things just happen naturally, like the Taoist \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wu Wei\u00e2\u20ac\u009d notion. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, when I was in middle school in high school, I played a ton of video games. However, once I got to college and I had a part-time job and I had to study etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 More or less I quit playing video games called turkey, not because I wanted to be virtuous or anything\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I literally had no time or opportunity. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even play video games if I wanted to, and naturally overtime it just lost interest for me. Even a few years ago, I tried to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153get back into\u00e2\u20ac\u009d playing video games, and it was just not interesting. I think this is also where I quit porn, it just became a little bit boring for me;<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyways, when you have a kid, you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the time nor will you want<\/em> to have the time to watch media. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc it is zero sum. For example, if you have the option of watching some lame three hour movie, or an hour TV show, or spend that time to run around and play with your kid\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What will you choose? Obviously spend time with your kid! \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think for the average person will have to work, once again your time is even more limited. I have the privileges that I literally have an open schedule, all day every day, which for me, my privilege is to literally spend 100% time with Seneca, Besides the mornings which belong to me, when he is still sleeping like a champ. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, let us say you finish work or you get home or whatever, the first thing you do is you turn off your iPhone, all the way off, and you put it in a drawer. I think for myself, if I have a phone in my pocket or an easily accessible spot, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to be tempted to Use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, it is obvious; let it say that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to lose fat, and then your cupboard you know you have a bunch of cookies. Obviously you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to eat the cookies! The easiest thing is to just throw it on the trash, or give it away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Now in the year 2024, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen the rise and fall of E readers and Kindle. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcEven though I am a huge proponent of digital books, reading PDF books on your iPad etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The downside is when you are using a Kindle or a reader or an iPad or whatever, or your iPhone\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to get distracted by something and want to click on something. or get interrupted by a notification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps the reason why printed books are is that they are dumb, and often they just put you to sleep. The kid in New York, I remember when I was living in Bayside Queens, when I was around maybe 11 years old, I would just read myself books to sleep. I recall very vividly\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I would just choose a book tuck myself in, read, and slowly, feel my eyeballs droop, and then slowly but surely, I would fall asleep in the book with naturally fall to my side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even now, the reason why kids books are such a great industry is that the routine is typically, we parents read our kids books before they sleep. And the reason why printed book are good; the idea of reading a bedtime story to your kid or tablet or a screen or device is insanity; it will keep your kid up! And the goal for parents, we just want our kids to fall asleep!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this regard, children and adults are not that different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Certainly everybody has \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bca different life, life circumstance etc. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcBut there is still many things in your locus of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us assume you have to go to the office, I simple suggestion and workflow is when you finish work, just go to the gym and work out! But if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too much traffic and the gym is too crowded or whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Either sign up for less crowded gym, or, just build your own gym at home! You got options; you could even do it in your house, your apartment, your garage, your parking spot outside whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even in LA, the Baldwin Hills scenic overlook is a great spot for a lot of people to go and exercise, all they do is just walk up but not the hill, which is great exercise! Or even a simple thing, get a 60 pound weight vest, and every single day after work, just drive there and go on a hike!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also my suggestion is with caffeine and coffee whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Only consume it first thing in the morning, not even midday! If you are tired midday, just take a nap! Imagine like your body is a Tesla supercharger vehicle; all you need is 15 minutes to get you to 80%!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or, if you have to work, just go to your car, roll down the seat, and take a nap! And when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re taking a nap, once again, turn your phone all the way off and just put in your glove compartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All of us are working ourselves to the ground, to meet these stupid arbitrary deadlines, like slaves. As a result we pull all nighters etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even now that I think about it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 One of the most pernicious things we are taught in college is to cram for the final exam. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to become more and more anti-university in disregards; now that we have ChatGPT and access to the Internet, what is the point of University besides technical training\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Certainly going to college makes sense if you want to become an engineer, a scientist, design spaceships and airplanes, become a doctor or a surgeon etc. But for the soft sciences, or the humanities\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And also, a lot of people think they have to go to college to get a job. But now that you could earn $20 an hour flipping burgers at McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What is your incentive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are currently in a brave new time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is this cult of work, the cult of being indoors, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new true privilege is just be outside, and walk, walk around all day! To be indoors all day is a slave like mentality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the weird thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 We are becoming trained to prefer<\/em> the indoors–<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, one of the things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the most grateful about Boy Scouts is the bias to be outside. Even though we would have weekly meetings indoors, the true goal was to be outside — outdoors. And the funny thing, when we really think about the etymology here, what does it mean to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153outdoors? Super simple; out of the door<\/strong>. Not the place which is enclosed by a door. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n My Spartan privilege is that Seneca never had the misery of having to be inside a daycare, a childcare center, or even these fake \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Montessori\u00e2\u20ac\u009d schools. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you think about it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If you were the true ultimate billionaire millionaire whatever, the goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t for you to be super super rich, and keep working and being productive and making money, and sending your kid to some random person to raise your kid. Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the goal to be super super rich so you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/em> have to put your kid into school? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n And this is the hilarious irony; we treat our children like economic goods. We think it is more effective that we try to spend our money to put our kids into daycare in order for us to work, in order to pay for the daycare. But the true ideal is to be able to quit your job or not work, in order to take care of your kid 24\/7. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think this is also where the cult of individualism is bad; I think nowadays when I observe, most people would actually not prefer to spend that much time with their kids. I think they like to spend some<\/em> time with their kids, but not all their time with their kids. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n For myself, I would prefer to spend all day with Seneca. The only nuance is I like having the mornings to do a morning walk, workout, etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but besides that, to be with Seneca all day every day is my greatest joy. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have a funny vision for a school; the basic idea is that all these kids, will be the ultimate free range kids, never forced to be indoors all day. Which is insanely depressing. And also poor for their health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, one of the things that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve discovered my friends have misery with is that they are always sick, their kids are always sick, because childcare centers, schools, even Montessori centers are just like breeding grounds for sickness and disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And also, the pernicious economic; apparently will still send their kids to school, or a daycare, even if the kid is coughing and sick; incentive in the motive is they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to have to take care of their kid when they have all this work to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcNietzsche said something interesting in his unpublished manuscript, The Will To Power. What he said was for a future society, the irony is not for us to spend resources and devotion to tending to the sick, the unwell etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Rather, to create a greater divide and chasm between the healthy and the sick<\/strong>. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your first critical task is to take care of your child, your son, your wife etc. To have to care for other peoples kids, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153society\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 in the generalized sense, makes no sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Private tutors. Or a single private tutor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you were the emperor, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not putting your child or son in a basic ass school. Even Aristotle was the private tutor of Alexander the great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a child, if you consider your child the chosen one, or insanely great, certainly you would not subject your child to some basic ass education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc even Marcus Aurelius, in his meditations talks about the gratitude he has towards his private tutors, and his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I suppose the difficulty here is that certainly we want our children to become great. But even Marcus Aurelius.,. his own son became a degenerate. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcSo I suppose the optimization here is if you have the greatest blessing that your first kid was a son, you devote all resources to prime him to be 100% the best. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always had a vision of having two kids, our first kid being a boy or a son\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And having a younger sister. Just like me and my sister Anna who I love to death. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcEven though \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc I have unconditional love and devotion to my mom, nowadays, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been finding a natural propensity to engage more with my sister, through regular FaceTime calls, spending time together, and also having the privilege of Seneca to spend time with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because we have to think about the future in the future generations. While our parents are critical, they are not the most important thing. Our children are, as well as our siblings, especially if they have incoming children as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I feel bad for all these people who end up having dogs not children \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Sooner or later, your dog is going to die. Before you. You cannot leave behind your wealth to a dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think this is fine, it is totally fine that some people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wanna have kids whatever. But when people give me that propaganda or that insane foolishness that kids are bad for the planet, nobody ever says that dogs are bad for the planet and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us consider all the harm that dogs do on the planet; the primary one is that the defecate everywhere, and even though 99% of owners are good and clean it up, the one percent of random dog poo on the streets makes it all not worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is one thing you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not allowed to say nowadays? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hate dogs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It is almost like saying I hate Asians or Korean people. Although it is seems to be OK to hate on loud and rich mainland Chinese tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The weird thing in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world, is that our ideal is to become a robot. A robot that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to sleep, and just be productive all day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Very bizarre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us consider, just read the Iliad\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 After a long day of hard work and warfare and combat\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Both sides retire, feast on oxen, and all go to sleep. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc even the gods, every single night, they retired to their immortal beds, and go to sleep!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can you imagine, if Zeus, before going to sleep, stressed out but some sort of worked deadline, and drink caffeine or coffee or Red Bull to do an all nighter to finish some sort of meaningless task? No!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, the ancient greets, and even in times of battle, it seem like it was an unwritten rule that when the sunset, everyone would just lie down their arms, and then stop fighting, and just feast! There is even some stories of some soldiers, on opposite size, when the sun would go down, they will go down to the other side, and party with the other side?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nobody likes war, nobody likes fighting, nobody likes killing, and nobody wants to be killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even in the Iliad\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Both sides wanted the war to be over. And it could have been over, if one of the goddesses didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pick up Paris in the middle of the fight. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is an interesting thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Apparently in ancient times, there was this thing that if there was some sort of war, with no one inside, there would be the simple thing; you take your best fighter, I take my best fighter, we let them battle to the death, and then we just let it end!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even in the movie Troy –one of the opening scenes in which Achilles squares off, 1v1 against that one bald steroid giant. The fight should\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been over there and then\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n\n Propaganda from the media, on both sides, the middle, all of it is bad and toxic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We tend to vilify this amorphus other; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc for example, we liberals and Democrats pink Donald Trump as Hitler 2.0, and right wing conservatives as a bunch of insane neo-Nazis with guns etc. And then the right vilifies left for being a bunch of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153libtards\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who care about the alphabet soup and LGBTQ rights, and that were messing up our children etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the thing that we do not do is engage ourselves, mano a mano, face-to-face, to another human being and have an intelligent talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve met all human beings, radical progressive right left center mid left mid right etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And honestly, at all end of the day, we all want the same thing! We want love, we want to be loved, we want to be happy! Who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is where it is wise to put away your phones, nowadays the iPhone is ultimate weapon. The weapon against your mind and your soul. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think this is pretty radical. Because it up ends the whole ethos a modern day capitalism and consumerism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us notice this weird equation; you work yourself to death, to make money and more money\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And use that money to do the pain through sex drugs traveling, EDM festivals, whatever. And then you continue the cycle, until you end up destroying your body your mind your soul etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The very simple one: have a child<\/strong>, at least one, maybe two, maybe more if you have the chance. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nowadays, my new measure of wealth is whenever I meet people, seeing how many children they got, how many sons, how many grandchildren etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And it is not even a money thing; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc if you can make your own football team or your own soccer team with all your kids, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this the ultimate joy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you think about the ultimate expression of understanding humanity, ideally you would have at least one son and one daughter, in order to test and understand your social logical and biological theories about life and humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think the issue here is that a lot of philosophers philosophies about human nature, without having children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s themselves. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcWhat does that means is that their philosophy is fake, not grounded in reality or lived experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, men, who do not have at least one son to bear their name\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 A tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What I find so fascinating is that Sparta was a real place, real men real people — \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and the movie 300 was actually quite historical; a lot of the quotes are directly from the history books!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And also, the simple philosophies behind it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc1. Keep a nation nation state small, and have men defend it, with their own shield and sword<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be bothered by others, but also do not allow other people to bother you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n A lot of these new modern day podcasts and ideas on how to be a macho man I find a little bit lacking. A lot of people turn the notion of discipline to be this weird Christian self sacrificial thing. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What does it \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcmean to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153disciplined\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? It is to be simple, direct, not distracted. Not making the modus operandi of your life purchasing new things, whether there be cars homes real estate, single-family homes condos, articles of clothing, Teslas, iPhone pros etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And actually\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 where bitcoin has given me some spartan discipline; it has actually made me more frugal, more simple, more reticent to spending money. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why? I will follow all access cash on hand to purchasing more bitcoin indefinitely. I would even prefer to funnel an additional $10 into bitcoin, rather than buying some loser article of clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And actually\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If you really did think about being greedy, being a Scrooge, or be addicted to money and wealth\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The goal is to make money don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spend it. This is why the true capitalist should actually look more Spartan in nature; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc using all of their excess cash reserves for investing in buying bitcoin, never spending any money on a brand new car, $50,000 into bitcoin is 1 trillion times better than buying any new loser vehicle. Even if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a billionaire\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to buy a McLaren, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It is to just buy more bitcoin! Even if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re already a billionaire, rather than putting $1 million into a Bugatti, you buy $1 million more bitcoin! Super simple!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hedonism, hedonic pleasure through your penis, your vagina, your clitoris, your butt hole, your mouth your hands, your skin your body etc. Or your mind, your soul, your nose your ears your head your brain whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Certainly pleasure is a good thing; but I think the problem is when we make pleasure maximization our sole life goal, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc this is insanely foolish. Thus all these millennials who just want to travel to Japan, eat Omakase sushi, not be tied down by children etc. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and if you were really smart, you would not want to be tied down by a dog, which requires a lot of maintenance when you travel, putting your dog into a hotel is very expensive, almost $80 a night!<\/p>\n\n\n\n How many millennials regretted adopting their dog during Covid, now that they have another life form to take care of until they die?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The future life, the future of humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this the goal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If I have to go on any promotional cruise or tour to promote the most critical idea, it is your sleep. Sleep is like natural steroids, and also being a parent\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 For your kid to sleep well is the number one greatest blessing in the universe. 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Optimize your sleep<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take the dope!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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iPad is not bad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Why media is bad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Why it is productive to have kids<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Ideas to sleep better<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Disable all shows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Time outside<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Or just sleep?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
It can wait until tomorrow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nA new society?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
My privilege<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do most parents not<\/em> prefer to spend 100% of their time with their kids? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Should I make my own school?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Avoid sick people<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How was Marcus Aurelius raised?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
More than 1 kid?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Your kids, your siblings kids, the future?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Anti dogs?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Back to sleep<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
War, warfare is meaningless \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The problem nowadays?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWhat else?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What is the purpose of a single individual human being?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How many kids is enough?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Think ancient Sparta<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Military discipline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Hedonism is the enemy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe future?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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