Author: Josh Terry

  • POWER IS NECESSARY

    POWER IS NECESSARY

    It’s dangerous for a society to conclude that power corrupts. Because power isn’t good or bad, it just exists. And if the masses believe power is evil, they will voluntarily give it up. And a small minority will happily take it for themselves who will be truly corrupt. Not because of the power, but because…

  • SEASONAL ADVICE

    SEASONAL ADVICE

    Stop thinking of that helpful thing you learned as a law you must obey. Your brain is lazy and wants to save calories by following advice without thinking. But you must think to survive because you must spend energy deciding what advice is appropriate for your situation. If you don’t, the advice that once saved…

  • UNBREAKABLE FAITH

    UNBREAKABLE FAITH

    The self-help gurus are also right. The way to get things done effectively is to believe that you can. Unbreakable faith is the fastest route to progress that exists. It just comes with the dangers of ignorance. If you put your faith in the wrong thing, then you will fail big. If you put your…

  • WHY YOU’RE PROCRASTINATING

    WHY YOU’RE PROCRASTINATING

    You’re procrastinating because you’re not seeing the task in context. Think about these sentences. “Oh, I should just go talk to that girl.” Or, “I should just get my essay finished.” Do you mean the girl representing an ultimate feminine judgment that can crush your dreams with a look and the research paper that counts…

  • IF YOU FEEL LIKE A FAILURE

    IF YOU FEEL LIKE A FAILURE

    If you feel like a failure, there’s only one solution. You have to stop failing. Your brain is way too smart to accept any other solution. But thankfully, there are two ways to do that. You can change the situation or change how you feel about the situation. For example, you can keep having the…

  • YOU’RE WORRIES

    YOU’RE WORRIES

    Whatever you’re worried about is often what you don’t need to be worried about. If you’re overly concerned with other people’s feelings, then you’re often a pushover and need to say something that might make somebody angry. If you think you’re too demanding, you often are the person who lets other people take things away…

  • SOLVING LONELINESS

    SOLVING LONELINESS

    If you’re sad because you’re lonely, then you need to assume that no one else can fix your problem. This is hard because people make you less lonely and it’s easy to think other people made you sad because they weren’t there when you needed them. But they’re not to blame for your loneliness. Because…

  • DISCIPLINE AND DESIRE

    DISCIPLINE AND DESIRE

    If you want to be disciplined then listen to this. Sometimes you need to discipline yourself. To learn to do things that you don’t wanna do. But you also must train your desire. A lot of people think desires are just random irresponsible things. But think about it this way. If you want to touch…

  • IT APPLIES TO EVERYONE

    There are broad ideas that apply to everyone. But when someone shares their experience and says, “if everyone just did this, everything would be great,” run the other way. Because that person hasn’t had the life experience to realize that whatever advice they’re giving worked for them because they applied the right advice in the…

  • IF YOU’RE BORED

    IF YOU’RE BORED

    If you’re bored, you need more rules in your life. This might sound like the opposite of what you want. But healthy order enables better chaos. So if you set up rules that make you more stable, you’ll have more energy to play when you get bored. If your life is a mess then all…