After college graduation, many of us face the anxiety of how to make the most of our 20s and post college life. Here are 3 tips to hopefully help you to think along the right lines.
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I’ve consistently exercised the past few years.
I prefer to run, but because the streets of Bangkok are so congested, I'd be asking for injury.
"Eyes on the road buddy!"
The gyms here are also far and in-between so I decided to make the best of my situation by starting a bodyweight exercise challenge.
My two primary exercise goals are to get my heart rate up and break a sweat, my secondary goals are to have fun and work out for at least 20 minutes.
In this video I go into the specific steps I take throughout my bodyweight exercise regiment, which varies but is fairly consistent with the same elements.
This is a fantastic challenge because it's convenient, efficient, safer, etc...
I also go into the benefits of bodyweight exercises at the end of the video so stick around. To take full advantage of this video please click on one of the links below to get started on your journey of living to challenge!
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The left sometimes asks the right, “What vision do you offer for the future?” I empathize with the question because after all, conservatives aren’t promising “free” healthcare, housing, university, etc. in the name of “compassion” or “equality.”
Conservatives tend to focus on why “free” is bad and suggest “tax cuts and deregulation” are better, which isn’t particularly persuasive to people who don’t pay taxes nor own much.
We need to offer our own concrete conservative vision for the future that young people can grasp onto and fight for.
So what do we offer?
We offer the future!
Specifically, the future promised to us in the 1960s…
If you asked a scientist in the 1960s where he’d think we’d be by 2021 he would’ve envisioned flying cars and a colonized Mars.
What happened?!
Well, to see what could’ve been it’s useful to think about an economic sector that did take off: computer science.
Computer technology rapidly improved to the point of what once was considered science fiction because the government stayed largely hands-off as it remains one of the least regulated parts of our economy.
The internet has been the “Wild West” for better or worse, but largely better (although the regulatory state is starting to rear its ugly head here too).
There’s a myth that defense spending in itself drove much of our computer revolution. If this was the case then the most innovative countries in the world would’ve been those who had the largest defense budgets such as the Soviet Union and China.
It’s true though that when the federal government has a specific objective goal such as “make an atom bomb” or “land on the moon” and creates a new well-financed startup to achieve it then this can spark technological growth in much the same way as a well-financed venture capitalist or self-financed businessman could.
The problem though is when these government startups morph into government departments, i.e. the Manhattan Project morphing into the Department of Energy, whereby the driving force is no longer innovation, but force itself.
"I think we’ve had a lot of innovation in computers, information technology, Internet, mobile Internet in the world of bits. Not so much in the world of atoms, supersonic travel, space travel, new forms of energy, new forms of medicine, new medical devices, etc. "
I’d argue the reason we haven’t had as much innovation in other areas is because of federal interference.
The more regulations the higher the barrier to entry is and the more the federal government funds R&D then the more private sector competitors are priced out whereby publicly financed research brain-drains top researchers from private research, therefore, incentivizing many of America’s top res
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Imagine a cave.
What if you went inside it and never came out?
By going into the cave you’d be leaving behind a world of notifications, wifi, art, and people.
You need your basic necessities to survive (shelter, food, and water)… but let’s say all of those things can be found inside the cave.
Could you make yourself happy in these conditions?
With much of what I read in Buddhism and Stoicism the answer is — yes.
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” — Buddha
Basically the thinking is… happiness is internal therefore it can be achieved internally.
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” — Marcus Aurelius
But no one seems to be asking the deeper philosophical question… if happiness is a choice, or a muscle (as I think is a more adept descriptor), then why not live in a cave and spend all of our waking minutes cultivating an inner state of happiness through the power of meditation?
Why bother to create? to write? to do?
If happiness has no basis in the external world then why care about improving the external world?
I have spent months pondering this question and to be honest, I haven’t quite settled on an answer. Maybe you can help me.
But this is what I came up with so far…
1. Happiness is expressed in a smile. This is because as humans we have a DESIRE TO SHARE our internal state with the world. It can be as simple as a smile, but it can also be reflected in something we create. When I think about some of the happiest moments of my life I wanted to rush and tell someone I loved. I wanted to share my excitement.
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” — Buddha
2. Self-conscious is in its very nature insecure. We should BECOME MORE WORLD-CONSCIOUS. Our personal perspective is subjective. If I asked you from what lens do you see the world? You might instinctively say from your own two eyes, but that’s a child’s perspective. As we get older we see more from other people’s perspectives through the power of imagination and story. In some ways we can actually see more clearly. If a child is crying because he fell off a slide, I may understand his pain more than he does. He may even look to me for my reaction to make sense of what his reaction should be, but then when I drop the people’e elbow on him he may laugh and brush it off realizing that it was no big deal.
As we cultivate empathy we begin to feel other people’s suffering as our own, which should drive us into action. This should drive us out of the cave because now that I
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Here are five 30 day challenges to improve your life and take it to the next level! These keystone habits build the foundation of success. Start by committing to one 30 day challenge - don't give up!
You can succeed in life by not doing all of them, but you can't succeed in life by doing none of them!
At the end of your 30 days you can reevaluate whether or not you want to stick with the keystone habit, but at least commit to doing ten, 21, or 30 days before you call it quits. You owe your mind, body, and spirit that. Don't do more than one 30 day challenge at a time!!!
5 ESSENTIAL 30 DAYS CHALLENGES TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE
0:47 1) Read a Chapter Everyday 30 Day Challenge
1:56 2) Journal Everyday 30 Day Challenge
2:41 3) Exercise Everyday 30 Day Challenge
3:29 4) Plan Tomorrow Everyday 30 Day Challenge
4:15 5) Eat a Veggie Everyday 30 Day Challenge
I decided to take on these challenges and many more because life is an experiment. We need to constantly be experimenting and progressing to make the most out of it in my humble opinion.
Whether it be 21 day challenges or 30 day challenges, these challenges help to get the ball rolling in developing new habits, specifically keystone habits.
Every month try to tackle a new challenge so that way you know at the end of the day you're making progress.
On my web app Live to Challenge, there are also more featured 30 day and 21 day challenges to chose from. I picked the 30 day challenges in this video specifically because I saw them as the key to developing keystone habits.
What's a keystone habit?
It is a habit that unlocks the gate to developing other good habits so you find things easier. It is a way of getting the foundation now. The 101 of self-improvement I would say is by conquering these challenges.
Becoming a person requires mental work as well as physical work and by doing these challenges and developing these habits you know you're doing both in moving in the right direction toward success.
If you research the most successful people they developed these keystone habits. Now you can do so more easily by committing to a 30 day challenge or 21 day challenge! Commit to this and only after accomplishing the challenge can you decide to quit, but by the end of it I hope that you decide to keep the monthly challenge as a life long habit.
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On September 20th, 2001, President Bush demanded the Taliban government to “close the terrorist training camps and hand over leaders of the al-Qaida network.”
A few weeks later, President Bush updated the nation, “None of these demands were met. And now, the Taliban will pay a price.”
Bush then specified how he’d make them pay,
"On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaida terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. These carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime."
He went on to say that with “the collective will of the world” we will “bring [al-Qaeda] to justice.”
Over time though the purpose of this “conflict,” as it was sold to the American people, morphed into regime-change and then democracy-building.
By December 17th, 2001, the Taliban had been removed from power, but most of al-Qaeda and the Taliban had retreated into the mountains and Pakistan so it was argued that to keep them out of power was to build Afghanistan into a democracy.
The United States is committed to helping build a stable and democratic Afghanistan that is free from terror and no longer harbors threats to our security. — Colin Powell, The President’s Budget Request for 2005
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. America’s vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one. — George W. Bush, Second Inaugural Address
It was a noble goal.
The Bush administration could’ve easily propped up a competent enough pro-American dictator to keep out our enemies as the U.S. government had done numerous times in the past. It would’ve cost us much less money and lives, but the Bush administration felt a moral responsibility to leave the country better than how we found it and argued that democracy was our best long-term defense against terrorism.
After all, in the aftermath of 9/11, the war was initiated as a sort of quasi moral crusade. If we propped up a dictator then it would’ve trivialized the tragedy and provided additional fodder to the terrorist argument that the west is evil.
By turning Afghanistan and then Iraq into thriving secular democracies and then defeating the “Axis of Evil,” 9/11 would’ve been even more impactful and meaningful. Fire turned to freedom.
Despite conspiracy theories about oil, any reading of George W. Bush’s life shows that for better or worse he was heavily driven by moral meaning. After all, the born-again Christian campaigned as a “compassionate
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Slavery, Indian Removal Act, child labor, sexism, Japanese internment camps, segregation, Vietnam War, Watergate, etc…
How can someone possibly argue that the United States was ever “great”?!
And then on top of that the United States has the highest prison rates, suffers from de facto segregation, lags behind the developed world in education, and is trillions of dollars in debt!
How can anyone argue that America is “great”?!
What does it even mean to be “great”?
Is a “great” nation one that has the most money or happiest people or longest lifespans or biggest military or smallest CO2 footprint?
For me, the greatest nations are those that do the most amount of good for the most amount of people.
Therefore let’s turn our attention to humanity as a whole.
Statistically humanity has never been more free, healthy, happy, safe, and rich. Fact. This means whenever you watch the news reporting on North Korea, mass shootings, protests, or ebola one must put it into context.
This then begs the question, what one nation is most responsible for the way the world is today?
And again the answer is clear: The United States of America.
Without the United States, the world with all its problems, would be drastically different and likely worse.
As humans we have remarkably short-memories. If George W. Bush walked into a cafe I’m sure a lot of people would confuse him with Will Ferrell.
And as much as we overlook the past we drastically overestimate the durability of freedom and the present moment.
Most humans over the course of history were in one form or another — slaves. Freedom is an aberration.
And society may very well return to this historical norm sooner than we think if we don’t pay proper respect to the values that got us here.
And as terrible as we are at remembering the past, we are also terrible at predicting the future. The very week Donald Trump was elected the most powerful man in the world experts were giving him nearly a 0% chance of winning.
By gaining an appreciation for the fragility of freedom and our fortunate for this era we should therefore gain an appreciation for the greatness of the United States.
Why is it so important to celebrate the United States on this Independence Day?
It’s because the U.S. is fundamentally a collection of ideas.
Ideas such as separation of powers, representative democracy, constitutionalism, federalism, human rights, and equality before the law (at least in theory).
Ideas that we take for granted because most of the world has adopted them too, but ideas are only as useful as the number of humans willing to adopt them.
There are a lot of young people in particular who wish to burn the U.S. flag and constitution because they see these things as symbols of racism and
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Free Speech Doctrine: Stop China from World Supremacy
Hi, I'm Anthony Galli and RBG said, “The right to speak my mind out, that’s America!” Her frenemy Anton Scalia agreed, “If you had to pick one freedom that is the most essential to the functioning of a democracy it has to be freedom of speech.”
You are fat, stup*d, and lazy. You are too handsome, smart, and humble. You see WE MUST protect each other’s right to call each other names, but globalization could strip us of this first amendment right because free speech threatened anywhere is threatened everywhere.
This is because corporations are competing with each other to make money. For example, if Apple can make their smartphones in China for 50% less money and then more importantly sell those smartphones to China’s massive consumer market without having to pay a tariff then what choice will Google have but to relocate there too in order to stay price competitive with Apple? This gives enormous power to the Chinese government. The Chinese Communist Party can then tell these big tech giants that if they want to continue to have access to their consumer workers then they need to play by their totalitarian rules.
Free speech lovers should find this graph horrifying…
Most sources, however, point to the U.S. as having a bigger economy, but no matter how we slice it, the U.S. and China are neck-in-neck…
As China’s market continues to grow in size, its ability to pressure global corporations to relocate within their borders will also grow. Once these tech giants are within arms reach of the Chinese Communist Party then how much freedom will the rest of us have on these platforms? What influencers and stories will they ban for spreading Anti-Chinese conspiracy theories and “hate speech” while boosting content that puts China in the most positive light? The mechanisms are already in place to make this a reality.
To prevent this global dystopia the President of the United States should commit to what I call: The Free Speech Doctrine.
How it works is we’d categorize countries based on three tiers of free speech: free, restricted, suppressed. We could use the 2020 World Press Freedom Index as a guide…
Tier 1 (yellow) countries would face a 0% tariff.
Tier 2 (orange-red) countries would face a 5% tariff.
Tier 3 (black) countries would face a 10% tariff.
This free speech tariff would be in addition to existing tariffs. We would also work closely with other free speech countries to encourage them to implement the Free Speech Doctrine so we can leverage our combined economies for maximum pressure.
Once it becomes more profitable to be free then these totalitarian states will be in a conundrum: watch their economy shrink or expand free speech rights. Some nations as evidenced
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It’s not surprising young people are socialist when we don’t own anything.
We don’t own our homes, cars, labor, subscribers, or much of our income as it’s taken to pay off college debt.
If conservatives want young people to be more capitalist than preaching to them about its virtues will only go so far as nature and the system intended humans to be more low-information short-term focused.
Therefore to make young people more capitalist we need to make capitalism align more with the youth’s short-term self-interest!
We need to Make America Own Again!
We need to be a nation of homeowners, business owners, content owners, crypto-owners, and stockholders! Once the average young American has a greater stake in the economy then they’ll care more about its overall health and freedom since it’ll affect their own wallet.
There are numerous ways to increase American ownership, but what will have the greatest positive impact is deregulating the banks.
I know that’s an unpopular and uncommon opinion precisely because despite what we’ve been taught by the influence-industrial complex it would hurt, not help the 1%!
"It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking."
In simple terms, the federal government protects big banks from risk in order to encourage lending.
Ostensibly, politicians want to make lending easier because they’re so CARING AND COMPASSIONATE! People who couldn’t get a loan in the 80s can now take out a MASSIVE loan to go to college, get a medical treatment, start/invest in a business, buy a home, car, or even a TV.
The political pressure to make lending easier is strong in the swamp.
Corporations lobby for easy lending so they can make more “investments,” i.e. often stock-buy backs to further drive up their stock price, and so that their customers will also be able to afford more of their products. And the general public likes easy lending too because then they can get that thing they were told they needed NOW and therefore in-debt themselves further into the future.
And what inevitably happens with easy lending?
Prices go up and up and UP!
A buyer is no longer limited by his bank account, but by his appetite for debt!
We were taught to blame the big banks for the 2008 financial crash, in part, because academia is one of the greatest beneficiaries of easy lending.
But the truth is that the 2008 crash occurred because in the 90s politicians effectively forced big banks to give home mortgages to people who couldn’t afford it. Short-term this meant more poor people could buy their “own” home, i.e. the American Dream. But long-term it caused a massive housing bubble that the banks knew would eventually pop.
If the housing market was a genuine free market
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