The Wisdom Wall

“Technology, different words is true then, or true now, but he was basically saying that, look, America is a company, is a country governed by public opinion, so what governs public opinion governs a country, and so these algorithms, the, the, the mediums that we use, social medium, social media, all the, all the, the,…”

“the means by which society has been communicating these timeless ideas. Of course it's by example, but it's also by narrative and myth and the art that you have, have up in your house, the stories you tell them, the movies you watch, you know, the, the, The people you support or don't, how, how you talk about these…”

“If you think you live in an honest society, you probably act more honestly than if you say a good guy, as you said, if, if I can't get ahead doing the right thing, that is a very bad word. That is a, That is a worldview, a vicious cycle that's hard to get.”

“the most important thing That a leader can have is a hobby. He says they have, they must have at least one or two hobbies. They have to be real. They have to be like stuff that you do. So watching memes is not a good enough hobby. It has to be something that has to be like, but it has to be like cycling or camping or,…”

“the worst people in our society are the most adept at exploiting and using the media and or, or, or viral ideas and what we have, what people who have positive messages or real perspectives or lessons, uh, to teach people have to do much, a much better job of figuring out these tools and using them To, to reach people.”

“the distinction in the ancient world, the two rival schools are Epicureanism and Stoicism. And Seneca, one of the great Stoics, is saying, like, an Epicurean will get involved in public life if they have to. And, and, uh, he says, a Stoic gets involved in public life unless something prevents them. And so I like the…”

“there's that Emerson quote where he says, you know, if you build a better mousetrap, the, the world will beat a path to your door. That's not how life works. Like you have to, you have to create a compelling reason for people to be interested. You have to think about what their, their, Their resistances, their…”

“a seventeen-year-old is more than capable of reading a philosophical text, or reading Plutarch, or any of these, like, we baby our kids when it comes to books, um, as if, like, for literally thousands of years, people, you know, your kid, your seventeen-year-old A thousand years ago would have memorized most of the…”

“Martin Luther King was incredibly educated, incredibly, uh, uh, well-read, and he, what he did was he would study, say, a Thomas Jefferson, and then he would take Thomas Jefferson at his word, Right? And force people who liked Thomas Jefferson to try to live up to those words.”

“stoicism is built actually around the same cardinal virtues as Christianity, courage, self-discipline, justice, and wisdom. And the idea was that we don't control what happens to us in life, but We can always respond to what happens to us in life with those virtues.”

“I'm doing stuff that I could pay someone to do, but like, the fact that it's hard, I'm bad at it, uh, you know, it's humble, you know, all these different things, that allows me One, I always get ideas that I take back to what I do, but it, it just, it makes me less one-sided than I might naturally be if all I did was…”

“It doesn't matter how long you've been doing it. It doesn't matter how talented you are, how smart you are. It's hard, and therefore, Beneficial from an ego perspective, because it makes you realize you're not the master of the universe, even if you are professionally master of your universe.”