When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others

— Robert Greene (@RobertGreene) February 19, 2019

Excellence or even making an effort, even if it’s not that good, produces haters. They are unavoidable, inevitable, part and parcel of doing anything. It doesn’t mean you should give up. It means you are probably doing something right.

For instance, at least 80% of Elon Musk haters are that way because he’s undertaking big projects successfully. Yes, there are valid critiques of Musk but these are rarely made. It’s mostly just jealousy, spite, and cupidity.

I was never more despised in my life than when I started attempting to improve myself in early high school. Both my friends and my already-enemies brought it on, hard. Was it worth it? Oh hell yes.

Making an effort, especially in today’s culture, turns you into a target. Enjoy being a target. Those who cannot do themselves gain relative status by tearing down others (explains most of the SJW movement). This attempt at destruction if you face it means you are more likely to be on a productive path.

If someone told me when I was a gay, liberal seventeen-year-old that in a decade liberal publications would be censoring people and shaming them for their sexualities and conservatives would be defending sex workers, I would never have believed you https://t.co/WC58pUPoep

— Mitchell Sunderland (@mitchsunderland) February 25, 2019

This is what I mean when I say the left and feminism has left me behind. Some of the biggest supporters of the murder of sex workers in the form of FOSTA/SESTA were “feminists.”

And all the fucking Russian conspiracy-mongering, the complete acceptance of the FA movement’s ideological trash, the belief that there is no such thing as biological sex of any kind, etc. It’s just too much. You can live in crazytown but I sure don’t have to dwell there.

This thread is fully of funny stories about the SS. I thought the car would be more lowkey than it has turned out to be. To most, though, it does look like a cheapo family car, but car people know what it is and are interested in it when they notice exactly what it is.

The most memorable experience is I’d parked (as I always do) far away from everyone when going to a Walmart. When I return to my car, there’s a woman in an SUV taking pictures of my car with her phone. A lot of pictures. She saw me coming and drove away so I didn’t get to talk to her.

The other was someone who walked up to me in a parking lot asking about the car. “What is that, one of them cars from Australia, right?”

I said, “Yeah, it’s a Holden with a Chevy badge. Sold in limited numbers in the US as the SS.”

“What’s that got, like a V6 with 250 horsepower or so?”

I said, “No, it’s got the V8 LS3 Corvette engine with 415HP in it. It’s basically a four door ‘Vette.”

His mouth dropped open when he heard the HP numbers….

You don’t really need to train 6-7 times a week like I do to see significant gains. I am doing that because I am willing to make the tradeoff.

And that tradeoff is that I work out twice as hard for maybe 25% more gains. If that math doesn’t work for you, you can cut your time and energy expended in half and forego only 25% of progress. My partner doesn’t work out nearly as often/hard as I do but she is still seeing large improvements.

As said, it’s a tradeoff. I am willing to expend a lot more effort in this case to see relatively not as much progress because I have the time and the interest (and the ability). But it’s not necessary to make substantial progress.

One of the things I like about living in Florida is that when you stick your hand in a dark mailbox, you never know what’s going to run away, scurry around, or possibly bite you. The possibilities are endless!