152 sats \ 1 reply \ @cascdr 2 Aug \ on: Don't Be a pig bitcoin_Mining
Great points. Here's a perspective from someone who was born in '93.
When I was a kid I wasn't really on smartphones much. I had a strict dad. I was pretty focused on getting perfect grades, succeeding in athletics and going to a good college. When I got into a good college, I double majored and played a D1 sport with the goal of graduating with highest honors...that was my sole focus. That intense challenge kept me pretty humble and focused. In some ways it actually isolated me socially.
I eventually met my goals and I got out of school where focused a bit more on social life. I wanted to have a bit more charisma and truthfully to have a better dating/social life. I found that when I did so, my mind changed in that I became more aware of/enticed by the "pig" mentality you describe.
Maybe the lesson is that if you challenge yourself intensely, you'll have less room for bullshit. But the trade off is that you may be less relatable to normies.
Maybe the solution is to have more high quality friends that are likewise pushing themselves and keeping you honest. This is one of the many reason I love being at Pleblab. Finding a good group of people that share your values is such an amazing experience.
Appreciate the thoughtful reply. The upside to being less relatable to norms is your relatable to the non-normie and that's the kind of person you want to spend time with anyhow.
I love this quote for Kerouac “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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