Jett Franzen is a writer and YouTuber.
What holds people back? Is it their mindset, environment, or circumstances? One overlooked factor is the ability to be alone. Solitude can build clarity and resilience, but too much can be destructive. So when is being alone a superpower, and when does it become dangerous?
Expect to learn the pitfalls of taking too much medication, why being lonely and/or isolated for a period of time is a superpower, why the most dangerous are ambitious but lazy people, the mentality that is keeping people stuck in a terrible mindset, how to escape the hedonic treadmill, why the incel community came after Jett and much more…
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“like this is such kindergarten like what this is such psychologically infantile type of activity I don't know yeah I mean look if you ever read Sam Harris's essay lying to Avalon book he wrote it with his wife it's fucking great it's like a 60 page treaty some why you should wait is this”
“all the sudden you're just making your life worse and then I eventually I ended up it was super cliche but ended up reading meditations by Marcus Reles and I was like wow like this is this is incredible the ancient cleaning room by Jordan Peterson yeah exactly it's so it's like okay”
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide: th…
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One , legendary entrepren…