Learning to write
Hi,
Just saw a YouTube video by Jordan Peterson saying how writing is similar to thinking, and learning to write well helps you think effectively. I agree to a certain extent because within my day to day I tend to numb my thinking with various distractions. In today's world, distracting yourself has become so easy that people forget to think.
While there are some things that I agree with Jordan Peterson, there's a lot that I don't. He talks about things like it is fact and although I have not fact-checked him, I still feel skeptical of. From the one or two videos that I've seen of his talks, he thinks that women are unwise for choosing a high powered career when they can just kick back and let men do the job, because eventually when a person gets older, the less that they care about their career.
But, I don't know, I feel like being dependent on a man is one of the worse things a woman can do. Sure it's nice if the man is nice and just and good towards you, but what if he isn't? What if he cheats, and lies and abuses you? A woman won't have a career to fall back on? Just, in my opinion, he comes off slightly as a woman hater? But I do admit I haven't watched nearly enough of his videos to make a good judgment.
Regardless, I did my thinking for today. He's right though, the more time I spend wasted today, the more I'll regret it, cause I guess it's like compounded interests, time that I have today is more valuable than time in the future.
Ooh also have been thinking about retirement. Ironic isn't it, that I haven't even received my first paycheck to be thinking about retirement. But that's what I aim to work towards. I just need to outline the lifestyle that I expect and project my savings/earnings from there. Have to talk to Justin about this I guess.
Just saw a YouTube video by Jordan Peterson saying how writing is similar to thinking, and learning to write well helps you think effectively. I agree to a certain extent because within my day to day I tend to numb my thinking with various distractions. In today's world, distracting yourself has become so easy that people forget to think.
While there are some things that I agree with Jordan Peterson, there's a lot that I don't. He talks about things like it is fact and although I have not fact-checked him, I still feel skeptical of. From the one or two videos that I've seen of his talks, he thinks that women are unwise for choosing a high powered career when they can just kick back and let men do the job, because eventually when a person gets older, the less that they care about their career.
But, I don't know, I feel like being dependent on a man is one of the worse things a woman can do. Sure it's nice if the man is nice and just and good towards you, but what if he isn't? What if he cheats, and lies and abuses you? A woman won't have a career to fall back on? Just, in my opinion, he comes off slightly as a woman hater? But I do admit I haven't watched nearly enough of his videos to make a good judgment.
Regardless, I did my thinking for today. He's right though, the more time I spend wasted today, the more I'll regret it, cause I guess it's like compounded interests, time that I have today is more valuable than time in the future.
Ooh also have been thinking about retirement. Ironic isn't it, that I haven't even received my first paycheck to be thinking about retirement. But that's what I aim to work towards. I just need to outline the lifestyle that I expect and project my savings/earnings from there. Have to talk to Justin about this I guess.