It’s not an innate ability. It’s was fear and disatisfaction with being a normal factory worker, which was what my father wanted be to be, after watching too many hollywood movies that drove me to work harder than anyone else because I believed I could suceed as long as there was opportunity. My only real innate ability is the inability to feel anxious, but it’s led to lots of good things and lots of bad ones. I nearly died because of driving recklesslously a long time ago and my wife has benned me from ever entering a casino lol.
You spoke about your dissatisfaction with your upbringing. My dad never forgave me for outdoing him financially. He wanted me to work in a factory like him. An honest day’s work or some shit like that. He’d never praise us for good grades but he’d beat the crap out of us for bad ones.
He gave me shit when I was studying, saying only crooks study this course, then he gave me sshit for changing career paths because I err.. I guess I wasted my time studyint to by a crook? Fuck, he never even forgave me for learning to play the guitar better than him when I was a teen.
The first time I ever saw him acting intimate with my mother was when he asked me to teach him how to use his smart phone in my 30s and I saw a message “Miss U” from my mother and I was feeling uneasy for a week like I had just walked into the room while my parents were having sex lol.
Good post, but you forgot about money as a cause/purpose of organized religion. I’m not down on religion, but it’s obvious that there are people who exploit it for their own ends. And, like any very strongly held belief, some groups of people will use it as a reason to bash others over the head figuratively or literally. The same could be said about political beliefs these days.
Believe it or not, I’m used to it. I know how to make up for it with occassional cat naps. It’s just that as I get older the mind is still able but the body starts to fail.
LOL 4-5 hrs of sleep plus a couple of cat naps during the day are fine. It’s not like I’m NOT sleeping. Still waiting on a file that I need to forward to a client within an hr.
I know the feeling. After being prescribed benzos for 2 weeks for jet lag and stress I couldn’t sleep more than a couple of minutes eacch time I tried throughout the day for 3+ days. Never touching that shit again.
I was actually given benzodiazepines in response to not sleeping for 72 hours! Never took them for more than one day in a row (I think I threw them out before I finished them) as I was aware they tend to quickly induce dependence and the withdrawal associated with benzodiazepines is absolutely horrific.
We could also take it to my war on drugs thread as I don’t mind clogging it up with random conversations. Not sure if the creator of the religion thread would be okay with us talking about subject matter completely devoid of religious context.
These are things that lead you to do the necessary work, which I’ve recognized several times. They lead to motivation. An intellectually-lesser person could be as fearful, motivated, and hard working and not have the same success.
I never knew is was so dangerous in a Cracker Barrell restaurant. That “noose” could have fell from the ceiling and killed my ass. I am shocked Cracker Barrel is so insensitive and racist.
Meanwhile, shit goes on but the age of woke is more important than this atrocity:
I have about a 8 years experience dealing with ISIS and their bastard children. They view our political leaders as weak, regardless who sits in the oval office. (IMHO) IS has been making inroads into Africa for the past decade. The continent is ripe for their brand of extremism because of multiple corrupt governments and the massive amount of poverty, lack of food, water, basic health care and corrupt local and national governments. They are playing the long game, something they learned from the Chinese.