Some Friendly Advice in anticlimatic
- Nov. 2, 2024, 2:04 a.m.
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Assume everyone likes you, but don’t count on it.
Never try to leverage someone’s feelings for you into doing or giving you things.
If you need something from someone that you don’t have, offer more than what it is worth in whatever currency YOU can afford- crafts, labor, etc.
If you dislike anxiety, you can trade it for stress by taking on more responsibilities. The amount of responsibilities one has tends to pair with how much of an adult one feels- to the effect than you cease feeling ‘beneath’ anyone (or their judgement), and instead get to worry about checking to-do items off of a list.
The more fake your social ‘front’ persona is, the more extreme and unhinged your ‘real’ persona might seem to you, or those you let see it. This is compensatory, and you will likely surprise yourself with how normal you actually are if you merge the two.
Will power is the currency of change. Intellect is static- what you’re born with is what you have. The education system tries to enhance it anyway, but typically succeeds only in obedience training (not necessarily bad, in a united society). However- the single most important and self-beneficial thing you can ‘work on,’ is not the intellect- but will power.
The greater your will power, the greater your ability to change yourself, your environment, and the world entire. Will power should be priority 1.
Sleepy-Eyed John ⋅ November 01, 2024
Hmmmmm. Good stuff
Asenath Waite ⋅ November 06, 2024 (edited November 06, 2024)
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"Intellect is static- what you’re born with is what you have." Not entirely true. You can raise a young child's IQ by 6-8 points by reading to them. Anecdotally, I was in Shriner's hospital, in Lexington Kentucky, with a girl of maybe 7? She was very small, and I met her when we were both recovering from our respective surgeries. Her for spina bifida, me for scoliosis. She was on a gurney, lowered so that it wasn't more than eighteen inches off the floor, belly down, with a blanket over her lower half. She pushed the gurney around with her hands on the floor. She was so tiny, but she talked constantly, very articulately, with all of the proper medical terms for her situation.
I found out later that her mother had been raped by her grandfather. Her mother was very much what you'd expect from that information. Largely illiterate, staring blankly much of the time.
But spending at least her first seven years in a hospital had given her daughter a chance at a better life for more reasons than one.
anticlimatic Asenath Waite ⋅ November 06, 2024
Interesting tale.
I honestly didn't know IQ could be raised. Is it only during the critical development phases of youth, or can it always be raised?
Asenath Waite anticlimatic ⋅ November 07, 2024
As far as I'm aware it only applies to young children, when the brain is most plastic.