The best way to teach people critical thinking is to teach them to write because there's no difference between that and thinking.
No one ever tells students why they should write something. "Well, why are you writing?" "Well, you need the grade." It's like, no!

You need to learn to think because thinking makes you act effectively in the world.
If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way.
That's what you're at university for.

Be articulate. Because that's the most dangerous thing you can possibly be.

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Aims of carnivore self report study (etc. ) and results (!)
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Have some humility. Clean up your bedroom. Take care of your family. Follow your conscience. Straighten up your life.
Find something productive and interesting to do and commit to it. When you can do all that, find a bigger problem and try to solve that if you dare.
If that works, too, move on to even more ambitious projects. And, as the necessary beginning to that process… abandon ideology.
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Strive towards what's better.

The modern idea is you're supposed to accept yourself. I think that's an insane idea - Really. I can't think of a more nihilistic idea than that... (thread)
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No, you're not! And the reason you're not is that you could be way more than you are.
What do you want to be: do you want to be okay as you are, or do you want to strive towards what's better?
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To treat yourself as if you were someone you are responsible for
helping is, instead, to consider what would be truly good for you.

This is not “what you want.” It is also not “what would make you
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You need to consider the future and think, “What might my life look like if I were caring for myself properly? What career would challenge me and render me productive and helpful, so that I could shoulder my share of the load, and enjoy the consequences?"
"What should I be doing, when I have some freedom, to improve my health, expand my knowledge, and strengthen my body?”
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What do you do if you're afraid and, to some degree, anxious?

You lay out what you're anxious about in detail. Ask yourself, "What it is that I'm afraid of that might happen?".
Then, you deconstruct it into smaller increments - into hypothetically manageable problems - and then you expose yourself, gradually, to the thing that you're afraid of.
The effect of this is not that you become less afraid. What happens instead? You become braver. And that's not the same thing.
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How do you know who you are?

You are complex beyond your own understanding; more complex than anything else that exists, excepting other people; complex beyond belief. And your ignorance is further complicated by the intermingling of who you are with who you could be.
You are not only something that is. You are something that is becoming— and the potential extent of that becoming also transcends your understanding.
Everyone has the sense, I believe, that there is more to them than they have yet allowed to be realized. That potential is often obscured by poor health, misfortune, and the general tragedies and mishaps of life.
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