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As a counterexample, I spoke up when I realized I was certain that I wanted to play violin. My parents were surprised at my ambition and my certainty. Grandma gave me a violin for Christmas, and the next year I started taking lessons. It became one of my favorite things about school and favorite activities, and became an object of intense discipline, a respite from academic drudgery, and a common place to engage with friendships I still hold dear. It is a delight I enjoy to this day, and I have ambitions of getting back into orchestra again and performing in some beautiful concerts again someday soon. All that because I said, "I want to play violin" with confidence, as it was the truth and was something I genuinely craved after deliberation with myself.
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My natural inclinations, such as hording various collections, have served me time and time again when I let them direct me within a consistent and principled discipline of rational action. I have all the makings of a successful and wealthy person innately, the makings of an entrepreneur and bitcoiner. It tends to be when I let my shame, confusion, or fear of how other people will react stop me from doing what I otherwise know is right, that anything I do leads to bad outcomes.
I am at times filled with regret in such magnitude as I will not publicly mention over some of these hindrances that have had devastating consequences. I am so proud that I have come through and little by little over my life reinforced the opposite lesson of that which so many NPCs hold. They think they must be subservient to authoritative ideas, to others. Since I was little and had never heard of rational philosophy, I was saying "be selfish." And I say it with ever more gusto the wiser I grow. Think for yourself. Be principled. Do not prioritize things that you fear a person MIGHT think about you over what you KNOW.
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