Joe Hudson

Look at how competent this person is.

They feel useless.

Like, you know, it is just what you are, not for everybody, but for a lot of people.

What you are is this huge, big compensatory mechanism for the lack that you feel on the inside.

This person's really clever or it's because they feel stupid.

This was this idea, unteachable lessons.

I mentioned it to you before.

Yeah.

Fame won't fix your self-worth.

Money won't make you happy.

You don't love that hot girl.

She's just good looking and difficult to get.

You should see your parents more.

You should spend more time in a hammock.

You will regret working so much.

You can cut toxic people out of your life.

All of these insights are cliche, and people roll their eyes at how trite they are.

But that doesn't explain why anybody who's recently realized them proclaims them with sort of the renewed grandiose ceremony of someone who's gone through religious revelation.

It's like, if it was so obvious, why does everybody proclaim it so ardently?

Unless there is some weird conspiracy to pull the ladder up after yourself.