“Everything the establishment says is wrong with you is actually what’s right with you.” – Garrett John LoPorto

Don’t limit your options. Don’t get bogged down on what is the best choice to make. Different content formats (audio, video, or the written word, whether short or long form), are options to increase what’s available for you to choose from to make you able to find the right way to express yourself that suits the moment, not some extra sets of ball and chains.

Don’t let analysis paralysis be something that you’re proud that you have. There’s nothing about the inability to decide or excessive hesitation concerning stuff that doesn’t make much of a difference that makes you special. It doesn’t mean you’re smarter. It won’t make you or your life better. And it certainly won’t make your life easier in any way I can imagine.

There’s no such thing as too many options to choose from. There’s only too much unnecessary indecisiveness. There’s fear of failure. There’s too much speculation. There’s living life in your head, instead of actually experiencing it in real time.

You are getting more reward from having too many options sitting around, than from keeping things moving. You need some serious rewiring to do in your spare time.

You’re focusing on the wrong problem, all because you’re afraid of addiction. You want to look good in front of others. You don’t want to look like you’re crazy. Like you’re hungry for reward, achievement, or dopamine all the time. Because society has managed to convince you that intelligence is irrelevant, and only being a good person matters, even though you can’t be a good person without being smarter. You just can’t, and you’ll always end up being a parasite of some sort, because nothing that intelligent people value will ever make any sense to you. You can’t bypass intelligence. No amount of money will ever make it okay to be stupid.

Society has managed to make you associate valuing intelligence and desiring to be and stay intelligent with pain. Because it means you’ll have boundaries, you’ll value your time, mood, and well-being more, and you will stop tolerating annoying people altogether. Society wants you to be too kind and gentle to fight back, so that they can easily manipulate you, and make you harmless, and always end up doing what they want, no matter what you do.

This is why they hate you more when they find out you’re a bookworm, and they seem to love you more and find you relatable if you waste six hours every day on TikTok.

There’s nothing wrong with being or wanting to be more intelligent. Just make sure no one is around when you do it.

It is possible for most people to be happy.

Make sure you don’t end up unable to become happy no matter what you do. There’s no turning back from this.

Don’t be naive. Never let your guard down.