I agree with this, even though I am smart.
Beyond a certain baseline of intelligence, social skills, perseverance and being stubborn as all hell get you further than raw mental horsepower. I’ve made it more on pure hardheadedness than I have on my brains, and by a long shot.
I did my near-daily eugenics and my arms are tired.
Tomorrow is rest day, though. Regular eugenics shall resume on Tuesday.
Off the charts reading comprehension and ability to quickly understand nearly anything. I didn’t truly realize until I was well into adulthood how much of a superpower this is as well as what advantages it gives me.
And for a long time I thought other people just weren’t trying, but it wasn’t that. They just didn’t have the capability. That I could read something in two minutes and understand it all and the entire superstructure of thought behind (and ahead) of it and contextualize it effortlessly while they could spend two hours reading the same work or document and get nearly nothing out of it was a real eye-opener.
This talent certainly made my life vastly better than it otherwise would’ve been. It means I can do “impossible” stuff like day-trade and solve problems in minutes that take other people hours, days, weeks or years.
What is the most money you have made in 24 hours?
~$100,000 in 1998.
Amazon and Yahoo stocks, as well as some others. Bought them, they went up 400%, sold them. That’d be nearly $200,000 in today’s money.
Those were some wild times. I’ve never had as much fun while also white-knuckling it. And that’s also why I don’t seriously day-trade anymore.
Too much of the liberals/left believe that if everyone can’t do something, you shouldn’t be able to, either.
And to that have a simple yet effective riposte: fuck all y’all, I do what I want.
Think about the below as you’re exercising.
Longer life and longer health; every minute you work out extends your life (on average of course) 5-9 minutes and your healthy years perhaps even more than that. Also, people treat you vastly better when you’re fitter. Fair or not, ethical or not, it’s true. I’ve had a cute airline staff girl offer to walk me to my gate that I could see clearly from where I was standing, and a DMV woman who spent a long time on the phone on my behalf and waived all my fees because she thought I was hot.
None of that ever would’ve happened before I worked out and got super fit.
Also, and this matters more to me than any of that, it’s worth it to be the best version of myself I can be for me and just as importantly, for my partner. Why reach for mediocrity when you could instead reach for greatness? Why be a formless lump when you could be as a god?
Dream big, strive hard, do amazing things. It’s worth it and so much better than the alternative.
I’m so good at troubleshooting sometimes I even amaze myself.
An advantage of my tendency to tell actual authorities to fuck right off is that scammers pretending to be authorities have zero chance with me.
Not even two full days into the new year and I’ve already found 21 new songs I like. And no, none of them are AI-generated.
What’s that about there being no good new music?
If at least once a day I don’t make my computer do something the developers attempted to prevent me from doing, I’m not happy.
That’s just how I roll.
I have an aversive, contrarian personality naturally. But growing up as I did made it far worse.
If someone is telling me what to do, I first assume it’s because they want to harm me. True for much of my life. This tendency to disobey is not always a benefit, but it has kept me out of situations others become all-too-easily ensnared in.
Overall it has helped me, but it’s a hard road to walk sometimes.
My gf got me some cool-ass presents for Christmas. I have a good life.
One of the disadvantages of being loaded and having the awesomest girlfriend in the known universe is that you spend a lot lot of time wrapping presents before Christmas.
It is insane how flirty women are with me now compared to how they used to be before I worked out so much.
When women claim women don’t care about looks…well, remember what I told you how much to listen to ladies about dating. Which is, not even a little bit.
Gotsta dial back all the wacky stuff and config in my browser. Half the sites don’t think I’m human.
Which I ain’t. So there.