As mentioned before on this blog, young fellas just don’t know lots of stuff. Often when they are new on the job, they often have episodes of what were you thinking. This is normal, especially for labor/craftsman type jobs. That…
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Young Men — Distractions
Distractions are things that capture one’s attention, with the hope that one will not see what is truly happening. Magicians use them to good effect. In other cases, the results are less amusing. All people are susceptible to distractions, though…
Young Men — Court
Here in the U.S., the Judicial System is an open one (at least for now). One thing that this allows is for the regular person to see the proceedings. I did just this as I was getting my divorce. I…
Young Men — Hindsight
There is such a thing as hindsight bias. It is when you look at past events, and consider that the events that happened were inevitable and that you just knew that they would be the way that they turned out.…
Young Men — Other People’s Perspectives
I once read a story about Bill Gates. It has been said that people learn to understand other people’s perspectives as they mature, but not Bill Gates. He supposedly still viewed all interactions with other people from his perspective. Even…
Young Men — Forest Through The Trees
As you all know, there were lots of problems with my marriage. Much of it starts off that I was Blue Pill at the time. Adding to this was the fact that I was in the middle of it all.…
Young Men — Getting Better Every Day
When I was a wee lad I looked to older kids and was impressed by their knowledge and skills. I wondered if I would ever be able to do what many of them could do. Then I got older and…
Victory Laps
In response to the recent Young Men — Never Think That You Have Arrived post, Ton wrote, If a man never arrives he never gets to enjoy his accomplishments so plan some victory laps. Probably Ton was suggesting that every man…
Still Expendable
Throughout history, men have been expendable, or at least semi-expendable. They were the warriors, the hunters; those that took the difficult and dangerous tasks. Men were replaceable, the reproductive capacity of the women was not so much. Men did get…
Young Men — Never Think That You Have Arrived
There might come a time when things in your life are going especially well. You have worked hard and there are good results. This is not the time to think that you have arrived. In reality, there might have a…
