I like to kick back and stay lifted as the world dissolves itself in misery and darkness.
1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness.
2. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. By the time they build the curriculum, it’s likely that the system is outdated– sometimes utterly broken. You both learn and get respect from people worth getting it from by leading and doing, not by following.
3. Read as much as you can. Learn to speed read with high retention. Emerson Spartz taught me this while I was at a Summit Series event. If he reads 2-3 books a week, you can read one.
4. Connect with everyone, all the time. Be genuine about it. Learn to find something you like in each person, and then speak to that thing.
5. Don’t waste time being shy. Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true.
6. If you feel weird about something during a relationship, that’s usually what you end up breaking up over.
7. Have as much contact as possible with older people. Personally, I met people at Podcamps. My friend Greg, at the age of 13, met his first future employer sitting next to him on a plane. The reason this is so valuable is because people your age don’t usually have the decision-making ability to help you very much. Also they know almost everything you will learn later, so ask them.
8. Find people that are cooler than you and hang out with them too. This and the corollary are both important: “don’t attempt to be average inside your group. Continuously attempt to be cooler than them (by doing cooler things, being more laid back, accepting, ambitious, etc.).”
9. You will become more conservative over time. This is just a fact. Those you surround yourself with create a kind of “bubble” that pushes you to support the status quo. For this reason, you need to do your craziest stuff NOW. Later on, you’ll become too afraid. Trust me.
10. Reduce all expenses as much as possible. I mean it. This creates a safety net that will allow you to do the crazier shit I mentioned above.
11. Instead of getting status through objects (which provide only temporary boosts), do it through experiences. In other words, a trip to Paris is a better choice than a new wardrobe. Studies show this also boosts happiness.
12. While you are living on the cheap, solve the money problem. Use the internet, because it’s like a cool little machine that helps you do your bidding. If you are currently living paycheck to paycheck, extend that to three weeks instead of two. Then, as you get better, you can think a month ahead, then three months, then six, and finally a year ahead. (The goal is to get to a point where you are thinking 5 years ahead.)
13. Learn to program.
14. Get a six-pack (or get thin, whatever your goal is) while you are young. Your hormones are in a better place to help you do this at a younger age. Don’t waste this opportunity, trust me.
15. Learn to cook. This will make everything much easier and it turns food from a chore + expensive habit into a pleasant + frugal one. I’m a big Jamie Oliver fan, but whatever you like is fine.
16. Sleep well. This and cooking will help with the six pack. If you think “I can sleep when I’m dead” or “I have too much to do to sleep,” I have news for you: you are INEFFICIENT, and sleep deprivation isn’t helping.
17. Get a reminder app for everything. Do not trust your own brain for your memory. Do not trust it for what you “feel like” you should be doing. Trust only the reminder app. I use RE.minder and Action Method.
18. Choose something huge to do, as well as allowing the waves of opportunity to help you along. If you don’t set goals, some stuff may happen, but if you do choose, lots more will.
19. Get known for one thing. Spend like 5 years doing it instead of flopping around all over the place. If you want to shift afterwards, go ahead. Like I said, choose something.
20. Don’t try to “fix” anyone. Instead, look for someone who isn’t broken.
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I was strung out on coke in Oakland, CA.
Shooting my first shots of the revolution.
And here I am today.
Six months later.
Applying for a job.
What has life come to?
is rashida’s character even written as a black woman
i’m just curious
my thoughts exactly…when i saw this i was yellin at the screen “you are black and old enough to know that man is!”
I get y’alls point, but it also suggests that to be “Black” means you have to know who Ginuwine is, which is absurd.
Lol but to answer the question above, no.
Forty-six million white adults today can trace the origins of their family wealth to the Homestead Act of 1862. This bill gave away valuable acres of land for free to white families, but expressly precluded participation by Blacks.
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Lucecita, 1973
“I am not a puppet, I never wanted to be that but they [the television industry] wanted to erase the blackness that is part of me. They forgot that my father was black. They wanted to refine my nose. They demanded a white Lucecita, who would fill up their requirements. I felt bad but accepted. They told me that it was going to be better for me and I believed them. But the day they took away my Afro, I cried and cired… I still remember and it hurts.”
(Yeidy Rivero, Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television.)
(original quote from García Ramis, “La transformación.”)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4teo7oIEE1rwhrm0o1_1280.jpg)
Lucecita, 1973
“I am not a puppet, I never wanted to be that but they [the television industry] wanted to erase the blackness that is part of me. They forgot that my father was black. They wanted to refine my nose. They demanded a white Lucecita, who would fill up their requirements. I felt bad but accepted. They told me that it was going to be better for me and I believed them. But the day they took away my Afro, I cried and cired… I still remember and it hurts.”
(Yeidy Rivero, Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television.)
(original quote from García Ramis, “La transformación.”)
“Japan was still in feudalism while Europeans was the most advanced people on Earth”
“In addition, white people have invented most of the world’s technology.”
“We have invented about 85% of technology on this planet you fucking idiot.”
These are the things that white people think about themselves.
Everyone, let’s take a moment of silence. Poor poor suckers who need a history lesson. An accurate history lesson that doesn’t just pump up white people for sake of making them look good in lieu of the fact that all they’ve done is plagiarize, steal, murder, and spread their diseases to the entire planet.
I was about to go in on this fool but then I saw this beautiful thing:
Um… Japan’s technology *is* more advanced. And Europe wasn’t the most advanced. They STOLE everything. The technology of those times were invented by people of color. Here’s what Europeans contributed to the world: Genocide, disease, murder. End of list. As for “technology”, they only built off of what others already had and then claimed credit for it. Europeans [White people] have a long history of stepping on the backs of others and then acting like it was an accomplishment.
Japan was still in feudalism and Europeans were the most advanced on earth. Ayyy.
Jim Morin/Miami Herald (06/01/2012)
It’s as if these scandals all come out when there’s a DISTRACTION.
You are not being oppressed…
