Dillon Latham
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I think being insignificant, being meaningless, being not useful are the main things that people fear.
And then they usually, once again, people are just bad at understanding their problems.
So they try and say, oh, my problem is I'm not good at playing the guitar or some random bullshit.
It's like, no, you're just insignificant.
And giving yourself significance would fix most of your problems.
Everything that you want to understand about yourself as a human is very understood via science.
So whenever I'm happy, sad, or I have an emotion that's negative, for example, I literally go on AI and I look up a scientific study relating to my emotion and I counterbalance it.
For example, when I'm sad, majority of the time, I just need sugar, sunlight, and some sort of oxytocin, meaning talking to someone.
So all of the problems that you have, people like to hype up human beings as if we're more... I feel like a lot of people just accepted getting ripped off by their bank.
More complex or more like, you know, great than we really are.
When in reality, your brain is just experiencing a chemical reaction and you just need to scientifically counterbalance that chemical reaction.
Men not being able to control their emotions is one of the weakest things you can do.
I had an argument with my girlfriend where I didn't yell at her, but I was obviously very mad.
And I literally clocked myself.
I'm like, I'm being a weak fucking man right now.
As a man, if you cannot control your emotions, you are weak.
And it's okay to be weak.
Let me preface by saying that.
You're not a bad person.
But...