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Abigail Wolff's avatar

You posted this on June 30 and it’s now July 5. Surely nearly one whole week is enough time to have figured out all the answers, so I’ll just congratulate you here, and suggest you please run for President!!!!!!!

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vnr's avatar

The way that I did it is start off by being cripplingly insecure and socially inept. This will help you find some good bullies to build a deep well of fear of not being liked and included.

The next step is to use that fear to propel you to fire off whatever opinion comes to mind and seems likely to get a laugh or otherwise distract people from realizing that you're actually a huge loser.

Do that long enough and you'll find that everyone you meet will think you're very confident and will also hate you instinctively. This has worked out really well for me.

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Witt Wells's avatar

Lmao

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Thomas Yarbrough's avatar

Yeah I admit that at first I thought you were actually serious and I was on board for it lol. Do you see where my mind is lol. while this one had me smirking it also had me thinking that I wish more people would focus on how to fix society. Different people have different roles to play and I feel like we should ask ourselves what the world needs and where we fit in. That said people need to read the room and not be windbags about their pet issues and be humble and not try to build a big brand of of like one idea they mostly got from someone. There is this dude who had a bad childhood and then went to an ivy league school named Ron Henderson and he pushed his memior so hard.the main idea is that rich people have luxury beliefs such as the family doesn't matter or drugs should be legal that don't affect them but the lower class. He took that and ran with it and tried to push a paid newsletter on everything under the sun now smh. All that said I don't think you need to have a degree in a field to form an educated opinion

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Carey Folk's avatar

Love all this - with one caveat. Certitude is overrated. Yes, we need those in society that display unusual amounts of energy, focus, and certitude, AND just as much as that, we need those who hold the wobbly middle. Those individuals are not quite certain about much, but they can be a bridge between conflicting certainties. The goal therefore shouldn't be to be compelling and brilliant with certainty, but to know and honor YOUR voice in this world. If it's certain, be that. If it's not, then be that too. I am wobbly and embrace that. I was encouraged by writer Ted Gup in his short essay In Praise of the 'Wobblies." Might be worth a read. https://www.npr.org/2005/09/12/4837776/in-praise-of-the-wobblies So to address your request - the big issue I'd love to hear more about is how do we, as a society moving more and more to a field of battle of polarizing certainties, reprioritize towards a more graceful spirit of dialogue around our common humanity?

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Bob's avatar

With this pivot I am excited to learn about your thoughts on topics such as Japan’s mascot diplomacy and the siesta revival movement in Spain!!!

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Witt Wells's avatar

I’ll be speaking out on these issues soon

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