Anxiety is your brain worrying what COULD happen.

When you run away, your brain learns that situation is definitely to be feared, and that running away helps. You build a worse pattern.

Facing your fear shows your brain what ACTUALLY happens. That diminishes your anxiety.
There are obviously limits to this.

If your anxiety is about a genuinely dangerous situation, use common sense.

And make sure you’re healthy enough to do this. PTSD in particular makes this difficult due to the rapid shift in the limbic system.

This may be a goal to work up to
But your brain is a learning computer. It does what it can with the data you feed it.

If your brain is irrationally afraid of yellow socks, it could be that enough encounters will yellow socks will make the fear response extinct.

Or fear of riding the bus. Or of confrontation.
What data are you feeding your brain?

What data are you preventing your data from acquiring?

Is your standard anxiety response keeping your brain afraid?

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7 Dec
Family friend: “My son’s middle school is out of control. Kids hooking up in the bathroom and ODing on campus.”

“Have you thought about homeschooling?”

“No, this experience prepares him for the real world.”

Be careful what you teach your kids is normal. Because this ain’t it.
Sounds like a lot of you feel the same. There’s gotta be better for our kids. Not this meat grinder that kills their spirit.
Add to this the biggest study accepted by the US government showing 9.6% of students are victims of educator sexual misconduct.

Homeschool your kids if you don’t want them exposed to rapacious teachers and poisonous families. Public school is a meat grinder where many die. Image
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You’re unhappy because you’re not meant to be living like this.

It’s not just that your brain isn’t optimized for the modern world. The modern world sparks constant danger alarms in your brain. And it all runs counter to your biological imperatives.

You can’t live like this.
There’s a lot of people dunking on Trads today.

Keep in mind the modern view of traditional life has skewed into a parody where men beat every member of their family every day for fun and women cooked 18 meals by themselves each day for 34 kids

Few Americans remember our roots.
This is neither a defense of Trads or a condemnation of those who oppose them.

Neither group tends to have a clear vision of what’s behind us. History is distorted if you don’t know where to look or how to assess

The future will be new systems to fulfill old needs in right ways
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Constant apologizing drains those around you.

"Sorry you have to put up with me!" The first time, people comfort you. The second time makes them tired. After that, it becomes exhausting.

Stop apologizing. Thank instead.

"Thank you for being so patient."

Practice gratitude.
Constant apologizing repels people as you suck away their emotional energy. "No, it's totally fine... really... please stop apologizing..." 🙄 Would you want to keep spending energy on someone who exhausts you?

But gratitude energizes people. Appreciation draws them in.
If you spend all your time apologizing, shift instead of gratitude. Find reasons to thank and compliment.

"Thank you for your patience today. You were an excellent teacher."

Avoid the urge to self-deprecate. "Thanks for being patient with my slow learning. I know I'm an idiot."
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I laugh when feminists try to dunk on me by saying, “I feel sorry for your SAHM wife, she must be weak.”

✅Ran her own business
✅Lifts with me
✅Bigger biceps than most dudes
✅3 natural births, no drugs
✅Hunts for meat
✅Butchers her own kills

Midwest women: built different.
Having a tough wife raises the bar. They don’t tolerate weakness. It’s a good challenge for men willing to rise to the higher bar.

Men who want weak wives are weak. Women who make fun of moms are weak, too.

Strength comes from conviction. Dedication to your principles.
You better believe I built 3 businesses, outlift my wife by multiples, and can carry her and all our kids on my back.

Strong wives want strong husbands.
Strong husbands wants strong wives.
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My son brought out the Nativity set early and has Godzilla watching over baby Jesus to battle King Herod’s assassins while the Virgin Mary hulks out and carries the whole stable into the desert to escape.

Why didn’t Charleston Heston make this film?
Mechagodzilla has arrived on behalf of the Devil. But now Saint Michael enters the fray to fight beside Godzilla.
Mechagodzilla has been slain and Michael goes back to Heaven, thinking it’s over. But now King Ghidora arrives with lightning breath.

Only King Kong can help Godzilla and the holy family.
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Here's an easy, step-by-step method to financial independence. gum.co/4000kbiz/
Yesterday I coached a young man through this system. He went from feeling hopeless to being excited to act. He sent me his new business plan last night, less than 10 hours after our call.

When you've got a clear system, everything falls into place. Life becomes simple.
This system works by showing you what skills you possess and how to leverage those into new income streams. Right now you're giving all that power to your employer, who is using you to generate income streams. You could be doing this yourself instead and triple your income.
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