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"I'm not a good learner" is the most socially acceptable way to say "I refuse to be a beginner." You're not bad at learning. You're just unwilling to suck at something long enough to get good at it. So you've rebranded quitting as your identity.

You spent 2000+ days in school. Zero days on how capital works. Zero days on metabolic health. Zero days on actual human psychology. Now you think 3% interest is investing, sugar is food, and trauma bonding is love. Self-education is the only way out of a life designed to keep you weak, broke, and confused.

You go to bed with 17 unresolved thoughts and wonder why you wake up overwhelmed. Your brain loops the same problems all night until you deal with them. That’s why your mornings always feel like damage control. Do this long enough and “stressed” stops being a feeling and becomes who you are. Ten minutes of journaling before bed is basic mental hygiene you should’ve been taught at 12.

Your expiration date is closer than you think. The next decade belongs not to those who know one thing really well but to those who know enough things well enough to fill their weak spots with AI.

The Renaissance happened because autodidacts pursued "useless" interests relentlessly. Da Vinci dissected corpses for fun. Galileo built telescopes in his spare time. Today we call this "having no work-life balance." They called it Tuesday.

I was supposed to become a leading expert on something incredibly specific. Couldn't do it. Not because I wasn't good enough, but because I stopped caring halfway there. This is what they call success: Spending decades of your life learning more and more about less and less. Going so deep into one thing that you become useless everywhere else. I nearly killed the best parts of myself trying to fit that mold. The curiosity. The ability to connect unrelated ideas. The hunger for novelty. For years I thought this was a flaw, that I wasn't focused enough. Now I know it's my edge. If you have too many interests to contain in one specialty, stop apologizing for it. The world has enough specialists. It needs more people who can see what they're too zoomed in to notice.

You're taking out $100k in student loans to spend four years becoming an expert in a field that AI will colonize before you graduate. You think you're paying for education. No. You're paying six figures to become obsolete on an installment plan.

You think you're gonna wake up one day in some AI-powered luxury communism, with free food and no work, pondering which hobby to pursue after lunch? Then you don't understand how economies work. Every dream of a post-scarcity paradise forgets one thing: humans create artificial scarcity even when resources are infinite. Your Greek god fantasy dies the moment someone figures out how to monetize leisure.

You're allowed to hate what other people tell you to do. Ten years ago I ran a small photography side-hustle. Weddings, documentaries, portraits, that sort of stuff. But the client work really began to bore me when I realized this wasn't the outlet for my creativity I thought it would be. Clients wanted sessions in midday sun because that's what their wedding schedule said. Magic hour? Too late. Golden light? Not when the food comes. That 600 year-old tree? Too far away. There came a time where I got so utterly bored that the passion turned into a liability. I got annoyed. When family asked me to bring my camera, I sighed. When friends asked me to cover their party, I rolled my eyes. If you get caged by other peoples expectations or even just their bad taste, you're doing something wrong. See, nobody here tells you what to create. This is why I found new love for social media. I recommend not to use it to escape your stupid problems. Use it to solve them, or that of others. Creating online can be liberating. But when your interests turn into obligation, that's where the passion goes to die.

This one may hurt a little: The Romans gave the mob bread and circuses to keep them distracted. You are given beer and sports channels. Different empire, same trick.

99% of excuses share the same origin-story: You were raised to accept limitations, not reject them. It’s Stockholm syndrome with your own mediocrity. You either educate yourself out of it or shut up about wondering why you’re stuck.

Every government check trains you to depend. Every corporate benefit teaches you to wait. Every promise of protection makes you softer. This is how fighters become pets And if this offended you, you're probably a socialist :D

Most people don’t solve problems. They imitate solutions. You do it because you were punished too many times for asking "why". Burn the book everyone else swears by. Think from first principles. Leave the mental recycling to others.

Even Darwin had something to say about AI. Survival back then: – learn a trade – stay useful – refuse to stand out Survival now: – learn to think – stay relevant – refuse to fit in Evolution didn’t stop. It went FTL.

You don’t grind your way to clarity. You rest your way into it. You can't force creativity or schedule inspiration. Good ideas need quiet to grow. Most people aren’t stuck, they’re just redlining their engines with no finish line in sight.

Painful lesson:

You spent 2000+ days in school. Zero days on how capital works. Zero days on metabolic health. Zero days on actual human psychology. Now you think 3% interest is investing, sugar is food, and trauma bonding is love. Self-education is the only way out of a life designed to keep you weak, broke, and confused.

"I'm not a good learner" is the most socially acceptable way to say "I refuse to be a beginner." You're not bad at learning. You're just unwilling to suck at something long enough to get good at it. So you've rebranded quitting as your identity.

99% of excuses share the same origin-story: You were raised to accept limitations, not reject them. It’s Stockholm syndrome with your own mediocrity. You either educate yourself out of it or shut up about wondering why you’re stuck.

Your expiration date is closer than you think. The next decade belongs not to those who know one thing really well but to those who know enough things well enough to fill their weak spots with AI.

Every government check trains you to depend. Every corporate benefit teaches you to wait. Every promise of protection makes you softer. This is how fighters become pets And if this offended you, you're probably a socialist :D

You don’t grind your way to clarity. You rest your way into it. You can't force creativity or schedule inspiration. Good ideas need quiet to grow. Most people aren’t stuck, they’re just redlining their engines with no finish line in sight.

Your brain is full of other people's distractions. Their lifestyle. Their problems. Their non-problems. You wonder why you can't focus for 20 minutes? You're running 53 background processes that aren't even yours. Close the tabs.

The Renaissance happened because autodidacts pursued "useless" interests relentlessly. Da Vinci dissected corpses for fun. Galileo built telescopes in his spare time. Today we call this "having no work-life balance." They called it Tuesday.

I was supposed to become a leading expert on something incredibly specific. Couldn't do it. Not because I wasn't good enough, but because I stopped caring halfway there. This is what they call success: Spending decades of your life learning more and more about less and less. Going so deep into one thing that you become useless everywhere else. I nearly killed the best parts of myself trying to fit that mold. The curiosity. The ability to connect unrelated ideas. The hunger for novelty. For years I thought this was a flaw, that I wasn't focused enough. Now I know it's my edge. If you have too many interests to contain in one specialty, stop apologizing for it. The world has enough specialists. It needs more people who can see what they're too zoomed in to notice.

You think you're gonna wake up one day in some AI-powered luxury communism, with free food and no work, pondering which hobby to pursue after lunch? Then you don't understand how economies work. Every dream of a post-scarcity paradise forgets one thing: humans create artificial scarcity even when resources are infinite. Your Greek god fantasy dies the moment someone figures out how to monetize leisure.

If you think the society firmware you came with is going to allow you to compete in the coming decades, you’re in for a rough awakening.

Everyone who says "you’ll be fine" has something to sell you. Aiming for "fine" is exactly why you won’t be.

You're allowed to hate what other people tell you to do. Ten years ago I ran a small photography side-hustle. Weddings, documentaries, portraits, that sort of stuff. But the client work really began to bore me when I realized this wasn't the outlet for my creativity I thought it would be. Clients wanted sessions in midday sun because that's what their wedding schedule said. Magic hour? Too late. Golden light? Not when the food comes. That 600 year-old tree? Too far away. There came a time where I got so utterly bored that the passion turned into a liability. I got annoyed. When family asked me to bring my camera, I sighed. When friends asked me to cover their party, I rolled my eyes. If you get caged by other peoples expectations or even just their bad taste, you're doing something wrong. See, nobody here tells you what to create. This is why I found new love for social media. I recommend not to use it to escape your stupid problems. Use it to solve them, or that of others. Creating online can be liberating. But when your interests turn into obligation, that's where the passion goes to die.

You’re not stuck because the world is unfair. You’re stuck because you stopped learning. Everything you need is online. For free. The last excuse died years ago.

Specialists are sitting ducks. AI is coming for them first. If your job is just applying known solutions to familiar problems you're an algorithm waiting to be replaced. The future belongs to those who dance between domains. Not those digging deeper into holes AI already fills.

Most people don’t solve problems. They imitate solutions. You do it because you were punished too many times for asking "why". Burn the book everyone else swears by. Think from first principles. Leave the mental recycling to others.