Why are weak people such a problem?

There's a variety of reasons. First of all, if you can't support your own weight, that means somebody else has to. Then, if you don't pick a forthright, useful, and noble pathway through life, you will become bitter and resentful. And once that happens, you'll begin to seek your revenge on the world.

That's not good.

From my interview with Fredrik Skavlan - October 2018.

Sometimes the reason you're suffering is that you won't let go of the thing that's biting you.

If people are impeding your development, you sacrifice your relationship with them.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4fjSrVCDvA

Guilt by Bloodline in North Korea and the U.S.

“Now also in America, I see these trends of people going after people whose ancestors were perhaps the slave owners, but how is it even relevant to the individual right now who they are? It’s not something they contributed back then.”

You can find my new video, “The End of Universities?” featuring Yeonmi (and others) on my YouTube channel where we discuss the idea of Universities failing in more detail.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/dncyXvPR8uU

Recorded 04/14/2021.

What do you do if you're afraid and, to some degree, anxious?

You lay out what you're anxious about in detail. Ask yourself, "What it is that I'm afraid of that might happen?" Next, you deconstruct it into smaller increments - into hypothetically manageable problems - and then you expose yourself, gradually, to the thing that you're afraid of.

The effect of this is not that you become less afraid. What happens instead? You become braver. And that's not the same thing.

It's not like, "well, the world isn't as dangerous as I thought it was, you know, silly me." What happens, realistically, is, "yeah, the damn world's just as dangerous as I thought, or maybe it's even more dangerous than I thought. It turns out that there's something in me that responds to taking that on as a voluntary challenge and grows and thrives as a consequence."

To decide to move forward courageously into the land of the unknown. That's one of the secrets to a good life.

What is the antidote to the suffering and malevolence of life? The highest possible goal.

What is the prerequisite to the pursuit of the highest possible goal? The willingness to adopt the maximum degree of responsibility.

You might object: “Why should I shoulder all that burden? It is nothing but sacrifice, hardship, and trouble.” But what makes you so sure you do not want something heavy to carry? You positively need to be occupied with something weighty, deep, profound, and difficult.

Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder.

Do not do what you hate.

I don't mean don't do difficult things. I mean, watch your behaviour. If you're doing things that make you hate yourself, then consider the cost of continuing.

From my podcast with Aubrey Marcus - 03/10/21.

Why North Koreans Have to Break the Law.

"In North Korea right now, you cannot own cars, you cannot own houses. Everything is state-owned... We don’t have freedom.

We cannot even trade. So people started getting into this thing called the black market." Yeonmi Park

Watch more here: https://youtu.be/8yqa-SdJtT4

Recorded 04/14/2021.

It's important for lost young people to develop a vision. They have a vital role to play in the world.

The sad thing is that very few people have heard any encouragement at all in their life. And yet, it takes so little to encourage someone.

Skavlan Show - October 2018.

"I ate tons of grasshoppers...

When parents go out to find food, children would clean and bring the drinking water, we don’t even have sewage, and going to mountains and bring a lot of the firewood, because we don’t have gas, coal, or anything.

We have to find anything we can find in nature to cook food." - Yeonmi Park

Listen to more here: https://youtu.be/8yqa-SdJtT4

Here is a preview of tomorrow's podcast.

I sat down with four experienced Bitcoin advocates to chat about the future of money in today’s growing world.

Watch and listen to the entire episode tomorrow at 12pm EST on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.

Why Bitcoin Can't Be Cracked.

“In order for value to emerge, we need to define limitations. Things are defined by their limitations.”

On this episode of the Podcast, I sit down with four experienced Bitcoiners to chat about the future of crypto in today’s growing world. They discuss how to get started with Bitcoin, the advantages and disadvantages, as well as revealing the truth of the world.

My guests are John Vallis, Gigi Der, Robert Breedlove, and Richard James.

Watch this conversation on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/iVym9wtopqs

Recorded 05/13/2021.

The Fortunate Imbalance of the Universe.

"That’s what people do to themselves often when they think about the meaninglessness of their life... if you’re thinking on a timescale that makes your life irrelevant, that’s the wrong timescale for the problem."

From my podcast with Lawrence Krauss. Watch more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF_SwujfiYk&pp=sAQA

Recorded 05/07/2021.

North Koreans don't know what is going on in the outside world.

"We do not even have electricity... In school, I never even seen a map of the world... They cut out entire information, and people literally get executed for watching foreign information."

Watch our podcast here: https://youtu.be/8yqa-SdJtT4

Recorded 04/14/2021.

Money Is a Measure of Sacrifice.

"The opportunity cost is infinite to anywhere you place your limited resources. So the journey, or the evolution of money, of finding a money, has been to try to find something that mimics our limitations, that mimics the sacrifices we make when we bestow value on something."

Another clip from my latest podcast where we discuss and explore Bitcoin, crypto, and what it means for society.

Watch more here: https://youtu.be/iVym9wtopqs

Recorded 05/13/2021.

There's nothing you can do to become more deadly than to improve your facility with language.

You don't want to be inarticulate and stumble over everything that you try to think and communicate.

Recorded 04/24/2021 with Andrew Schulz.

The Psychological Impact of Betrayed Values.

"Whether or not your wife does the dishes when she’s supposed to once really doesn’t destabilize you that much, because not much else depends on it. If she did it 10 times, or something like that, then you might start to question her commitment to your agreements. Then you might question her honesty, and then you might question your relationship. You can go down a rabbit hole pretty quickly."

Source: My appearance on the "The Tim Ferris Show".

Watch more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1sEHNw4UIg

Every ideal is a judge.

An ideal is something to which you aspire. And the gap between you and that ideal is felt a judgement; this is one of the reasons why many people refuse to have an ideal.

Setting the parameters for success also makes clear the parameters for failure.

Recorded 03/03/2021 with Aubrey Marcus.

Bitcoin Makes Digital Scarcity Possible.

"If you can read it, you can also write it down again. That’s the basic copying mechanism, and that’s how computers work: computers are just basic copying machines. So digital scarcity is an oxymoron, it was never possible before Bitcoin."

Gigi Der takes us through what is so special about Bitcoin and how it embodies the idea of digital scarcity.

Learn more about it here: https://youtu.be/iVym9wtopqs

Recorded 05/13/2021.

Spring is a time of death.

"But in North Korea, of course, there's no electricity, no X-ray machines, none of that. Literally, all nurse using one needle to inject every patient in the hospital."

Another clip from my podcast with Yeonmi Park. Watch more here: https://youtu.be/8yqa-SdJtT4

Recorded 04/14/2021.

The Impact of Parasite Stress on Societies.

"If you take measures of parasite stress across the world, and look for the predictive relationship between parasite stress and conservatism and liberalism, and found what we expected, and strongly so: the more parasites, the more conservative. Said differently: the more parasites, the more collectivists."

On my recent podcast with Dr. Randy Thornhill, he shared his findings on parasite-stress theory and the critical role that infectious disease plays in humanity, IQ, sex, religion, and conservatism.

Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DqJ1Wv6EtQ

Recorded 05/11/2021.