In my field, I never had a mentor or anyone who knew more than I do. I’ve always had to go it alone.

This is incredibly hard, but also meant I learned a whole lot by necessity. And by bashing my head against it over and over again till I figured it out. I’ve often been in companies where unless I found the answer and acted on it, no one would. I was the last and sometimes the only stop.

That leads to a lot of painful but thorough education.

I achieved my wizard status by trying every spell with no guidance and no council or counsel.

Same. I went to Israel when I was 20 and met more girls interested me in 30 minutes than I’d met in my entire prior life.

It was then that I truly realized how terrible a place I’d grown up in.

And thank the heavens most women like this don’t realize how much power they have — at least in Western society. We’d all be totally cooked. But I think he’s right. Especially to go from a man to that sort of life of unrestricted possibility, most people would flame out. I wouldn’t now (as long as I retained all of my current self cognitively) because I’m older and wiser. I’d be ok. But I probably would have flubbed it if I’d jumped to that life at 20.

But damn, yeah, compared to a male of the same age, a top 1% or above woman can literally do anything she wants. And that, understandably, makes many men and quite a few women resentful.

For a man, to obtain the same social power you have to be in the top 0.0000001% or above. And be rich.