🦾 Ask yourself this
Melius Humano,
This short clip is a masterclass in how to think critically.
99% of bad ideas are easily dismantled using a few questions.
The Socratic Method.
Question
Patiently wait for an answer
Question again
Rinse and repeat until the truth (or lack of it) comes out
Our impatient human minds struggle with this and have us sidestep questions, use whataboutisms, and get emotional, and that’s why this is so hard to do effectively.
Look at the typical political debate. It’s nothing but ad hominem attacks, made-up statistics, feel-good talking points, and just about every language trick you can think of. All are designed to appeal to the emotional side of voter’s minds.
Do you make good decisions?
The ability to think well isn’t always rewarded in our culture, at least not initially.
Better decision-making manifests over time in the results you get in your life.
And often, it’s the hidden, not-seen effects of decision-making that are hard to quantify because of the mistakes you avoid by thinking better.
When you say NO to something or YES, you don’t see the opposite of your decision. You can only speculate about what might have happened. Even then, your mind is designed to make you feel good about that decision using all kinds of cognitive biases, so most people don’t even consider they could have decided something else.
Sometimes, after years of reflection and some obvious feedback from reality, people start to think about their decisions.
A general heuristic you can use to determine if you are making good decisions is to analyze the different aspects of your life.
Generally, are you:
Happy or sad
Stressed or calm
Drama-free or drama-filled
Health or unhealthy
Overweight or fit
Strong or weak
Feeling in control or not at all
So on and so forth
Good decision-makers score better on questions like these. They live better lives. They get more done. They live longer. They are happier and less stressed, and they make more money.
To get better results, you have to make better decisions. To make better decisions, you have to think better.
Which means that the quality of your life is the quality of your thoughts.
Nothing more or less.
The simplest life hack
Stop eating out.
If you eat out often, you can immediately improve your health, life, and waistline by stopping.
You’ll also save money since food prices are insanely inflated due to inflation and the money printer that is the United States gov (and FED).
Try one new recipe a day. Try Good Chop and other online meat suppliers for quality meat products. And your local farmers market.
Epic Thread on Salt
Green Energy doesn’t exist
Only free markets, entrepreneurs, and inventors will make the world a better place, find better forms of energy, and eventually utilize the unlimited resources in our solar system to never again have to have a conversation about “green” anything.
There is unlimited energy available. There are unlimited raw minerals available. There is more of it all in our universe than we could ever utilize.
Think critically for yourself, read some books, watch some YouTube videos, and come to your own conclusions.
Humanity is stepping in the right direction
Socialism/communism/fascism/Nazism/collectivism are all the same destructive nonsense that is directly responsible for killing hundreds of millions of humans and for the suffering of billions more.
I’m not a fan of the state at all, but we’ll probably have governments for a long time.
Small city-states and new forms of governance that are based on a geographically governed area and offered by a service provider (corporation) rather than a brutal monopoly will be the norm in the future. That will take 50, 100, or 200+ years to play out fully.
In the meantime, a libertarian approach to governance is our best bet.
Javier Milei is a shining example for future politicians. I hope we see more people like him all around the world.
L-Theanine is awesome - I’m going to start taking more myself
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