Chris Williamson

But what did you use to get yourself here?

Because for the most part, you probably use that kind of fuel and then, okay, it's pretty toxic.

If I hold onto it for too long, I probably shouldn't still be thinking at 45 years old about what the kids said to me in school.

Fine.

But that also means that you don't have that fuel tank anymore.

And this fuel isn't going to be there forever.

It's not.

The anger will subside.

The resentment will wane.

Your bitterness will eventually dissolve.

what are you going to be left with you will have the time will have passed anyway and that's some pretty fucking potent fuel so i i'm saying just you know go in and and maybe just fucking tap tap tapping the fuel tank for a little bit yeah and and make use of it and

yeah look you're gonna look back on this period and it can either be some you know kinetic spark at the beginning of growth you can be your own primer switch for a hydrogen bomb or you can self-work your way through it and i'm sure it'll be great but i don't know it was just an idea and especially that jk rowling story so fucking good and um

After I read that Cormac McCarthy quote, which I've been wanting to write about for ages, I need to fucking put something together.

It's not true for all people in all situations at all times, but I do think it's pretty fucking useful.

Well, yeah, dude.

I mean, it's all well and good me talking about the survivorship bias of JK Rowling's 500 million bucks.

But there is a lot of people that have not just one kick in the nuts, but a series of them that are so frequent that their ability to even lift the lightest weight kind of gets degraded.

But I mean, the alternative is to just keel over.

And this is me saying it as a guy that's been kicked in the nuts a lot over the last couple of years.

Like you literally do have only two choices and one of them is to give up and the other one is to do whatever the opposite of that is.