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For a huge variety of reasons, it can be absolutely necessary for the relationship between two people to change or rebalance. Maybe someone got a promotion, a family was extended or reduced, someone learned a new skill, or a multitude of other things. The relationship that was, is no more – but the behaviours that supported the old relationship linger. The perception of status roles are strongly ingrained. Most primates fix a good portion of this by beating each other senseless, and/or murder....

The mind races, producing and interpreting for every waking hour. Thoughts, concepts, ponderings, plans and connections. It builds up like a reservoir, but unlike a reservoir, all of this has only the space between your ears. A lifetime’s worth of ideas. Your capacity can stretch, some, and it should. But without limiting the wonderful power of creation, or somehow solving for space, the pressure becomes too great – an outlet is needed....

More. Wealth – Years – Power – Happiness. The human condition cannot abide sameness. Contentment in less. But with a twist, this bio-drive can be rerouted. Not the pursuit of more for me. The pursuit of more for us. And the pursuit of more for us is simply the pursuit of better.

I read books in a way that makes them all heavy. Every single sentence is examined for a potentially life changing insight or nugget of information. It borders on insane, and makes reading way more difficult than it has to be. But it’s an investment. Because most stuff, when I come at it with the right mindset, actually can be life-changing. This is the style I apply to everything I consume (except podcasts for some reason) – maximal extraction....

In the physical realm, if one is traveling at speed X in a specific direction, and the direction is immediately changed to a perpendicular direction, instant death occurs even at low velocity. That’s how much a change in direction means. If the new direction were 180 degrees opposite from the original direction, the threshold gets lower. In the mental realm, we’re constantly changing directions, and the less related a new direction is, the more jarring it feels....