Reconnected with old super agentic friend with 2.5h phone call :)
Interesting idea: getting a psychologist (she has one and recommends it a lot) as a “personal life coach”. She says it speeds you up.
Finished reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, related thoughts (maybe from finishing at 1 AM).
It isn’t fair that so much of society & dating are appearance-based, when it’s mostly a genetic lottery (and social circumstance). It’s fucked up, especially because of compounding.
“He’s one weird kid” because he has no friends; same thing, but environmental and sociological lottery! The environment plays a massive feedback loop role in when you get socialised, whether you have people around you that you click with, social osmosis of traits & charisma & jokes etc.
Someone not winning the lottery doesn’t deserve to be without love or outcast.
Bill moved me; something about great mentors delights me. A relationship I both want, and want to give.
Was feeling super confident the whole day, it rubs off on other people and their happiness as well. The solution is to just smile and be nice and happy (?!)
Confidence is really just internal, but also compounds.