This sounds 'Obvious' yet many otherwise intelligent people miss this.
Whether a person succeeded with a matter, and whether their advice on that matter is good, are 2 separate things.
Very often, people give great advice on domains **where they failed**.
They have valuable insights, **because they learned them the hard way**.
As an example, most of the valuable insights I can offer on how to manage a romantic relationship with a woman, I know because I learned them the hard way.
I screwed up, observed where I went wrong, and extracted what wisdom I could from the experience, to ensure I never make the same mistake again.
Robert Greene wrote The 48 Laws of Power when he was almost 40 years old.
At that point in his life, he was terrible at playing The Game Of Power (I say this because at that point he had almost zero real power).
Yet, he wrote a book with endless valuable insights on The Game of Power.
How is this possible?
He had those valuable insights....because of his failures....because he learned them the hard way.
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After you end a relationship with a woman, you will perceive her as being more valuable, than you did when you were with her.
Why?
Scarcity...
As soon as your relationship with her is over, you cannot have her anymore (regardless of whether you left her or she left you), so you view her as being more Scarce than you did back when you were with her
Believing America's Capitalist Economy is a Meritocracy
is like believing that 'Unconditional Love' exists.
One can easily verify that a significant percentage of Rich Americans made their money via illicit means.
Notice the word 'Illicit', not 'Illegal'.
America is a society where bankers who manufacture mortgage loans they know are going to go bad get paid more than nurses who heal the sick.
America is a society where the executives of pharmaceutical corporations that sell opioids that destroy more lives than they save, are paid 100x as much as Firefighters who save lives.