I am terrible at multi-tasking. The fact of the matter is, I am a single-minded person and can only focus well on accomplishing 1 long-term goal at a time. If I try to do a second thing, it usually ends up only receiving half the effort that I'd like to put into it, and gets hampered disproportionately more with every additional division forced into my attention. Basically, if I cannot put my whole into something, then I will not be able to accomplish that goal.
A future dream is the idealized realization of ones passions. I have honestly always considered myself a dreamer, yet simultaneously dispassionate. How can this be? Given my definition of a future dream, this doesn't really make any sense that I could be a dreamer and dispassionate. Yet, there is a simple matter that left my future dream, inevitably, in the state of a dream. I refused to acknowledge my passions. I am passionate about helping people, I am passionate about politics and philosophy, I am passionate about family. Perhaps these are not traditional passions, or specified passions, like those of a fireman, police officer, charity employee, or nurse. Yet, these are still passions. Passions from a garden of my own cultivation that I didn't realize how to tend.
Embracing your passion is important. It is necessary to become successful. Regardless of the financial success that I could achieve outside of my passions, I know that I would never be satisfied with my daily efforts and energy going towards something that means nothing to me. I would have the financial stability of my dream, I may even have the family of my dream, but I would not have the life of my dream. For some people, this is a trade-off that they are willing to accept, yet it is one that I could never accept in my daily life.
Three years ago, I worked as a software developer. I found it odd that my employer had talked to me about my career after the company I was working at from my very first day of employment. It was the first red flag, but it was one that I had simply allowed to slide by without much regard. Some months later, I was assigned a project with very necessary work, but very little work beyond the immediate. It was a project that would be retired in the months after my assignment to it. A short-term gap project. For me, this and other events at the operation violated many aspects of my ethical code. Non-work, bought time, and a manager who took credit for the action of others. I turned in my letter of resignation after a month of this. I was financially secure and flourishing, but the events about my work violated the very foundation of my dream, and I believe that foundation to be necessary to build upon from the very beginning of your career. Perhaps this was short-sighted and too bold of me, and my future dream was pushed farther away because of my idealization of achieving that dream. But my actions spoke before my mind, and they tell me something about myself.
I believed I had learned my lesson, but more was yet to come. I believed that graduate school would take me on the path of my dream. Entering into my final semester, I realized that I had once again been led astray. In my pursuit of a post graduation career, I fell into the position of an independent insurance agent, believing this would give me the stability that I needed to pursue my dream. It did not. What I realize now is that this community that I am building here, this is my dream. What it will take to make this community thrive and achieve my success, I do not yet fully know. There is much work to be done, and I am not in a financial situation where I can say I am sure that I will be able to achieve all that I desire. But I am throwing everything I have at this dream now.
The one way to make a dream a reality is to live that dream every day. It is necessary to do what it takes to make that dream true. As Jordan Peterson chose to dress in a fashion that suited the image he wanted to present himself with, in order to motivate those he spoke to and become the man he wanted to become, it is necessary that we all too dress, speak, and act in the way that we imagine we do in our dreams. I've had a nerve in me that has made me act out towards these purposes, in defiance of myself, when I was violating my dream. In the wake of my leaving my career as an insurance agent behind, it is now that I choose to actively embrace my tendencies and act towards achieving my dream, whatever the cost. For the foreseeable future, I will be dedicating myself wholly to my efforts here, and market this community across platform like never before. Look forward to it.
-James
Just thought I'd share this comment I was trying to comment on a Lotus Eaters video. Btw, ya'll should follow the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters if you aren't already. Great analysis and discussion
It's been a while since I've made a video, and this time with a locals exclusive. A cherry on top that I managed to fit within the size requirements. I like making shorter form content like this, considering my tendencies to ramble. Having content exclusive for my followers here is something I'll be working on doing more and more. I'll be creating more value here for my subscribers as well, with some subscriber exclusive content in the future. No timeline promises, cause I think we know how I get when I make a ton of promises (go hardcore for a week and then fall flat on my face unable to keep up with the sprint, lol).
Anyhow, let me know your thoughts and questions below. Have a great day everyone!
A direct upload! It turns out I recorded a video just short enough to meet the minimum upload offerings that locals offers to small communities like mine. That means you guys get this exclusively on locals!
I didn't sleep much last night, so I decided this was the perfect time to mull over my confused thoughts on how businesses are viewed from a legal perspective. Businesses are somewhat legal enigmas to me. Corporations are kinda treated as persons so that they can be double taxed, but have other protections, other types of businesses aren't treated the same way. They're able to consolidate power like governments, yet aren't subject to any form of limitations in regards to violating natural rights the same way the government is, despite being treated somewhat like persons they can still buy each other. It's just very odd to me from a principled, legal, and philosophical position.
Anyhow, my ramblings here are just that, ramblings. Still, I am curious what you all think of this topic. ...
The 2020 election is over, and the battle has just begun. What do I expect to come from the end of the election? Will the legal suits turn over anything for this election, or will they mean something for later down the line? I reflect on these questions and more in this discussion, and I also reflect on some final thoughts relevant to the Rise and Fall of Empire Series, that, thus far, being episodes 8 through 10 of the Construct Cast. Let me know your thoughts, and if you have any reflections of your own from this year's political cycle or other developments that you can't seem to get off your mind in the comments below.
In this episode of the Construct Cast, I discuss my analysis of Sir John Glubb's The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival, with an emphasis on my own consideration for what it would take to help an empire survive, or reboot. If immortality for an Empire is impossible, is rebirth impossible in the same way? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Editor's Note: Returning to the podcast versions of the Construct Cast, I want to catch our content up to the videos we have had released over the past month. I apologize for this getting away from me for a bit. With the rise in content production, I had allowed this to get away from me. We will be returning to audio podcast uploads of the Construct Cast as per our original regular schedule, at 12PM EST on the day of the original upload, going forward.
In this second Crossover podcast, we are once again recording with Kevin @Eng_Politics. His channel is a bastion of political thought and analysis from the perspective of a conservative engineer. Interested in diving deeper into my concept of Progressive Traditionalism and combating the concept with his own beliefs of what it means to be Conservative, we decided to put our definitions and beliefs to task in this crossover episode!
Be sure to check out Kevin's locals community here:
https://engineeringpolitics.locals.com/
And if you're more interested in the video version, here is a direct link:
https://engineeringpolitics.locals.com/post/235260/the-engineering-politics-podcast-30-conservatism-vs-progressive-traditionalism
So I just confirmed that, after a year off of the Keto diet, my Ulcerative Colitis (a type of IBS) is still not only in remission, but seemingly cured as if it never was there, including no more polyp growth.
This self-experiment has shown me that a prolonged period on Keto, about 2 years for me, was enough to create the long lasting effects to repair and cure my gastrointestinal system to complete recovery from what was supposed to be a lifelong, incurable illness. I still have a minor level proctitus at the exit, to put it in the least gross way I can think, but with the rest actually fully cured to where my new GI doctor asked if I was misdiagnosed originally is a major accomplishment.
For those seeking a source on how to get here like I did, I recommend following Thomas Delaur's YouTube channel for general inflammation control/healthy keto/ workout advice, only eat meat that is 100% Grass fed and pasture raised (including eggs), and drink a glass of Kefir at least once a week. Good ...
Controversial capitalist take, but I personally don't think stock ownership should give any power to the stockholders over business decisions. Buyouts and ownership should be separate from stock investment. How? There are various options to discuss. Why? Theoretically an investment firm could invest ownership stakes into every major investment firm over time and concentrate all of their investments to own controlling stakes across entire industries or even all publicly traded companies.
Actually, this isn't so theoretical if you look at BlackRock's partnerships with Vanguard and State Street. The three companies operate in virtual lockstep and theoretically wouldn't even need 51% collective ownership in the companies they invest in because any company with an array of other investors should have some theoretical minimum that they can guarantee will follow the leadership of these big 3 in most cases. I've seen estimates that they only need a collective 35% share to all but guarantee any ...
