I’ve realized something unsettling: Many people giving dating advice—whether they’re professional coaches selling a program or random voices offering unsolicited input—often have an answer for everything. Their logic may sound convincing, but it can lead you in circles or even steer you backward. Here are just a few examples of how contradictory advice is spun… Continue reading How Dating Gurus Gaslight You Into Wasting Your Life and Money
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Finding Your Blind Spots Is A Key To Growth
Nice try, Will. But that was like a 6 out of 10. Go a LOT farther. As far as you can. Get very loud and expressive. I thought I was already trying to be very expressive, loud, and animated. Only a 6? I thought I was at a 9 or 10 already. I tried as… Continue reading Finding Your Blind Spots Is A Key To Growth
A Law of Human Nature: Inability to Discard Working Mental Models
When a person finds a way of achieving a goal, they build a mental model about how the world works and the right way of doing things to get this result. If they feel satisfied with the results and this model yields the most results they have ever achieved, they assume it is the best… Continue reading A Law of Human Nature: Inability to Discard Working Mental Models
Mastering the Art of Feedback: A Lesson in Discernment
Giving feedback is how we grow. How do we identify our blind spots if we don’t get some? But have you ever given someone some tips on how they can improve or what they’re doing wrong and they take it personally? Perhaps, they lash out at you, attack you personally, or get offended and defensive.… Continue reading Mastering the Art of Feedback: A Lesson in Discernment
How I Found My Social Blind Spots
This week, I couldn’t help noticing how saturated YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram is with useless drivel masquerading as helpful content. This one video went viral about “how I cold approached 100 women without any experience.” While this type of content seems informative and entertaining, it’s not going to help you much at all. The guy has no… Continue reading How I Found My Social Blind Spots
My Review of Netflix’s One Piece (and What It Can Teach You about Achieving Your Dreams)
I first came into contact with anything related to anime or manga in middle school at a book fair. In some American schools, a company or organization would partner with the school to build a temporary book shop in the library for a few days. During lunch, the kids could visit the library and buy… Continue reading My Review of Netflix’s One Piece (and What It Can Teach You about Achieving Your Dreams)
Everyone’s Dream Life Is Different
Have you ever felt a tug at your heartstrings, a subtle sadness creeping in when you stumble upon places or situations that seem to lack any prospects of growth? I used to feel that often, every time I would visit a slow-paced shopping center, walk past a janitor, and so forth. I was caught in… Continue reading Everyone’s Dream Life Is Different
Should You Switch Jobs or Stay at the Same Job To Make More Income?
I stumbled across this informative YouTube reel that does a skit comparing a person who stays loyal to their company for decades versus someone who hops jobs every three years. As you might expect, the skit ends with the person hopping jobs making substantially more after they meet again in 20 years. But is it… Continue reading Should You Switch Jobs or Stay at the Same Job To Make More Income?
What Jersey Shore Can Teach Us About Human Nature & Love
When it comes to reality TV shows, Jersey Shore often gets labeled as trashy. However, I have a confession to make—I love it! There’s something undeniably entertaining about watching these characters live in a world of partying, hooking up, and bickering. Even as they’ve grown up, the traits that defined them in their wild youth… Continue reading What Jersey Shore Can Teach Us About Human Nature & Love
How High Status People Talk and Influence Others
I stumbled across a Twitter Space where Elon Musk was talking with a few other people live and you could listen in. I stayed on for several minutes, only to notice a lot and then leave in a bit of disgust. This other person, Vivek Ramaswamy, on the call seemed to be hogging the discussion.… Continue reading How High Status People Talk and Influence Others