Time vs Man

Tough times produce strong men.

Strong men produce good times.

Good times produce weak men.

Weak men produce tough times.

Life is never easy even under relatively positive conditions

Things can go badly wrong 

There is a certain danger in luxury

Optimal privation

privation

• n.
  Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life.
• n.
  An act, condition, or result of deprivation or loss.

The opportunity to generate what is desired for themselves

Look at context before you look at personality 

20-year-old parents are usefully neglectful 

Regulate self

Siblings toughen you up because there’s tremendous competition in families among siblings and they had younger parents who had fewer resources…

We don’t understand how much you should stay hands-off your kids and let them go out there and make their own mistakes and find their own way 

Do you really want to make the life of someone you love easier?

Kids are a long-term investment 

Careers, jobs. Those are two different things

Intrinsic unfairness

You can make someone stupider but it’s very difficult to make someone smarter 

Raise the living standards of society in general

If daycare is better than your family, then daycare is good for you.

Television is infinitely better than nothing 

Pseudo-information

Put your lives together so you can make good decisions

You need liberals because, now and then, the right thing to do is to come up with something new.

You need conservatives because, now and then, the right thing to do is to do what everybody has always done.

The reason you need political dialogue is so that the Liberals and the Conservatives can continue to argue about which of those situations is appropriate right now.

Sometimes, they're wrong.

Sometimes, they're right.

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Hundred percent truths are very difficult to come by 

Most creative people fail at producing their creative product and monetizing it=

If at first you fail, then, try, try again 

Persistence is helpful because it enables you to run many many experiments and you need to know that the baseline is failure

These people you compare your self to - you don’t really know very well

You see their shiny outside but you don’t see the reality of their life 
People have hard lives

People who are comparatively fortunate have hard lives 

The ideal that you’re observing that makes you jealous and resentful is in large part an illusion that’s created by your own mind 

You have to be careful of what you’re jealous of because you don’t really know what it is 

Understand that you’re different from everyone else 

temperament

• n.
  The manner of thinking, behaving, or reacting characteristic of a specific person: synonym: disposition.
• n.
  The distinguishing mental and physical characteristics of a human according to medieval physiology, resulting from dominance of one of the four humors.
  
  

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today

Path of incremental improvement
Incremental improvement compounds

Trajectory is more important than position