#ryan-holiday — Public Fediverse posts

Dat vergat ik gister dus te vermelden.

Waarom zoveel tijd en aandacht geven aan goed schrijven?

Ja goed schrijven is leuk en kan veel voldoening geven, maar er zit meer in.

En dat zit in het volgende wat ik vorige week las:

Het doel van een schoolessay – of van welk stuk tekst dan ook – is niet het eindproduct op papier. Het gaat om de persoon die JIJ bent als je het eenmaal hebt […]

Perseverance is something larger

If persistence is attempting to solve some difficult problem with dogged determination and hammering until the break occurs, then plenty of people can be said to be persistent. But perseverance is something larger. It’s the long game. It’s about what happens not just in round one but in round two and every round after—and then the fight after that and the fight after that, until the end.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Access to a temenos

It’s important for us to remember in our own journey to self-improvement: one never arrives. The sage—the perfect Stoic who behaves perfectly in every situation—is an ideal, not an end.

~ Ryan Holiday

For me, the first glimmer of my own access to a temenos (the ancient name and clarity of the place’s meaning and utility came much later) was when I took up a daily reading practice. At first, I selected a physical book designed to be a daily devotional, and later I’ve bent all my daily reading into digital formats. The key point being: I needed to anchor my daily habit in an analog context, away from all the digital addictions I had developed. Later, once the habit was the thing I enjoyed more than the digital distraction, I was able to bend digital tools to my use.

As opposed to how digital tools normally (by their creators’ designs) bend you to their use.

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Where to place the crowbar

Revert to what Epictetus described as our “chief task in life”—getting real clear about what’s up to us and what isn’t. Our actions, our thoughts, our feelings—these are up to us. Other people, the weather, external events, these are not. But here’s the thing: our responses to other people, the weather, external events are in our control. To reset your life, the best place to start is with making this distinction and then choosing to focus on the things that are in your control. If only because it concentrates your resources in the places where they matter.

~ Ryan Holiday, from You Slipped Up […]

Bryan Ward wrote a great article How The Hammer Fails You and reading his metaphor about the hammer versus the crowbar was a pivotal moment for me. Later, I realized that Epictetus’s counsel feels like the seed for Ward’s metaphor.

Am I applying my mental or physical effort in the correct place?

Until my answer was consistently coming up yes, that was the most useful question I kept asking.

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A message from Ryan Holliday's The Daily Stoic:

"Diogenes of Sinope said that we sell things of great value for things of very little, and vice versa."
- Diogenes Laertius,
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 6.2.35b

Something to think on. Stay safe tomorrow, humans.

#TheDailyStoic #Stoicism #RyanHoliday #Diogenes

A message from Ryan Holliday's The Daily Stoic:

"Diogenes of Sinope said that we sell things of great value for things of very little, and vice versa."
- Diogenes Laertius,
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 6.2.35b

Something to think on. Stay safe tomorrow, humans.

#TheDailyStoic #Stoicism #RyanHoliday #Diogenes

There Is A Last Time To All Of It. 🌀
The days are long but the years are short, as they say. At some point, before you know it, you and your kids are going to have your last day together.

https://dailydad.com/there-is-a-last-time-to-all-of-it/

#parenting #kids #childhood #Newsletter #TheDailyDad #RyanHoliday

There Is A Last Time To All Of It. 🌀
The days are long but the years are short, as they say. At some point, before you know it, you and your kids are going to have your last day together.

https://dailydad.com/there-is-a-last-time-to-all-of-it/

#parenting #kids #childhood #Newsletter #TheDailyDad #RyanHoliday

How we feel about it

We don’t get to choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we feel about it. And why on earth would you choose to feel anything but good? We can choose to render a good account of ourselves. If the event must occur, Amor Fati (a love of fate) is the response.

Ryan Holiday

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El cambio comienza con una decisión.

#shorts #ultimahora #youtube #Instagram #viral #tiktok #twitter #facebook #españa #reels #JordanPeterson #EckhartTolle #RobinSharma #JayShetty #RyanHoliday #motivacion #cambio #decision #disciplina #crecimientopersonal #superacion

#neostoicism is a mutation of ancient aretaic virtues toward service of the #technocracy.
It is #managerial #ethics disguised as #virtue.
Rather than learning actual self-discipline, it is subsumption for #productivity.
Instead of accepting what can't be changed, it is excuses for collective responsibilities.
Instead of self-mastery it is optimizing performance.

The neo-stocism comes from #redpill "father figures": #JordanPeterson, #ElonMusk, #AndrewTate, #DanBilzerian, #JackDonovan, #JockoWillink, #DavidGoggins, #CurtisYarvin, and #RyanHoliday . The relationship between this, nazi neoclassicism, and modern fascism are not accidents.

A productive stoic is an ideal subject of work and rule: self-monitoring, and compliant.

#stoicism #technocrats

#neostoicism is a mutation of ancient aretaic virtues toward service of the #technocracy.
It is #managerial #ethics disguised as #virtue.
Rather than learning actual self-discipline, it is subsumption for #productivity.
Instead of accepting what can't be changed, it is excuses for collective responsibilities.
Instead of self-mastery it is optimizing performance.

The neo-stocism comes from #redpill "father figures": #JordanPeterson, #ElonMusk, #AndrewTate, #DanBilzerian, #JackDonovan, #JockoWillink, #DavidGoggins, #CurtisYarvin, and #RyanHoliday . The relationship between this, nazi neoclassicism, and modern fascism are not accidents.

A productive stoic is an ideal subject of work and rule: self-monitoring, and compliant.

#stoicism #technocrats

Forbearance

Clearheadedness and action are not always enough, in politics or in life. Some obstacles are beyond a snap of the fingers or novel solution. It is not alway possible for one person to rid the world of a great evil or stop a country bent toward conflict. Of course, we try—because it can happen. But we should be ready for it not to. And we need to be able to find a greater purpose in this suffering and handle it with firmness and forbearance.

~ Ryan Holiday, from The Obstacle is the Way

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—>> #TheDailyShow ⦁ Interview ⦁ #MichaelKosta <<—

#RyanHoliday - Embodying Stoicism & "Wisdom Takes Work"

#DailyShow #TDS #Comedy #Humour #Humor
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/jvlsKCbwCi4

Do good. Be better.

Been working through #TheDailyStoic this year (up to May so far, I'm not great about it) and enjoying it. It's a quote-a-day book by #RyanHoliday, and leans pretty heavily on Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius.

I don't really follow Holiday, but I appreciate what he's done to popularize stoic ideas.

#philosophy #stoicism #stoic

Do good. Be better.

Been working through #TheDailyStoic this year (up to May so far, I'm not great about it) and enjoying it. It's a quote-a-day book by #RyanHoliday, and leans pretty heavily on Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius.

I don't really follow Holiday, but I appreciate what he's done to popularize stoic ideas.

#philosophy #stoicism #stoic

Strategy

What matters is whether a certain approach gets you to where you want to go. And let’s be clear, using obstacles against themselves is very different from doing nothing. Passive resistance is, in fact, incredibly active. But those actions come in the form of discipline, self-control, fearlessness, determination, and grand strategy.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Pragmatism

Pragmatism is not so much realism as flexibility. There are a lot of ways to get from point A to point B. It doesn’t have to be a straight line. It’s just got to get you where you need to go. But so many of us spend so much time looking for the perfect solution that we pass up what’s right in front of us.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Benefit

The one way to guarantee we don’t benefit from failure—to ensure it is a bad things—is to not learn from it. To continue to try the same things over and over (which is the definition of insanity for a reason). People fail in small ways all the time. But they don’t learn. They don’t listen. They don’t see the problems that failure exposes. It doesn’t make them better.

~ Ryan Holiday

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21 lessons

In this article, I wanted to share some of the many lessons I’ve learned from George over the years and in the process of working on the book with him. His wisdom and example have influenced my life in ways I never could have imagined—I hope these 21 lessons impact you as much as they have impacted me…

~ Ryan Holiday, from 21 Powerful Life Lessons From My Mentor (George Raveling)

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I’m not even quoting a single one, because you should go read them all.

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Persistence

Consider this mindset:

never in a hurry
never worried
never desperate
never stopping short

As Epictetus once summarized his entire philosophy: Persist and resist. Persist in your efforts. Resist giving in to distraction, discouragement, or disorder.

~ Ryan Holiday

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= les médias évoquent la polémique ( = suivre 'la' tendance) générant des millions de pages vues -> grosse #publicité et beaucoup d'€ via les clics/réactions

"Notre objectif était très clairement de troller les médias, provoquer des réactions et des débats, ce qui nous évite de payer une campagne de publicité."

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday

Créer un faux #scandale :
- proposer un don important à une association pro- ou anti- en échange d'un 'menu' servie visible publiquement sans aucun lien avec l'objet des associations
- publier leur refus -> scandale : l'association crache (= refuse) sur le don important -> réactions/polémiques d'autres associations qui auraient accepter le don en rendant le service demandé.

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday

- "n'ayez pas peur de fâcher les lecteurs, ou de les attendrir" -> les émotions (et pas les faits, la vérité) font cliquer sur les liens = rentabilité via monétarisation du clic #business model

"Ceux qui écrivent pour le #Web se réveillent le matin en ne songeant pas à des considérations de morale ou de qualité, mais au nombre de clics."

Cf : https://mastodon.social/@cobrate/114132324540066394

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday #deontologie

"Pour attirer l'attention des gens, une #information sérieuse doit se battre contre toutes les autres, et se voir préférer à une pornographie accessible en un clic sur son téléphone."

Générer un max de buzz :
- "titre qui verse dans l'extrême"
- photo choc
- texte bref "parce que les gens n'auront pas le #temps de le #lire en entier"
- pas de grandes phrases ni de paragraphes
...

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday #deontologie

"[...] la situation va empirer pour ceux qui continuent à ne consulter que de mauvais sites, mais il sera toujours possible de trouver des articles de qualité [...]"

-> https://mastodon.social/@cobrate/113062552073207146

-> https://mastodon.social/@cobrate/114253194117985907

"Et vous, qu'est-ce que vous faites face à ce problème ?"

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday #deontologie

"Un évènement nous fascine pendant 2 semaines, et puis on l'oublie complètement pour passer à autre chose."

"De toute façon, un article en ligne ne doit pas présenter quelque chose de vrai ni faux, de positif ni de négatif, mais qui incite à cliquer sur un lien ou regarder un programme."

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday #deontologie

-> Irak 2003 : Dick Cheney fuit fuiter une info à un journaliste -> la dément à la tv : renforce l'attention sur la pseudo-info -> popularisation de la pseudo-info jusqu'aux éditoriaux qui suivent les tendances -> "le tour est joué".

= prophétie auto-réalisatrice

"Le monde bidon influence le monde réel. Et ça, c'est terrible."

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday #deontologie

= "créer un buzz" -> "Bien joué !" = accepter de se faire manipuler pourvu qu'on passe "un bon moment et que les apparences soient sauves, qu'ils ne se sentent pas humiliés par le procédé."

#film Des Hommes d'Influence (1997) -> Irak 2003.

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday #deontologie

"[...] pour un article #gratuit [...] on ne peut pas annuler [son clic] " -> "comment accumuler un maximum de clics, pour rassurer les annonceurs et faire prendre de la valeur marchande au site ?"

"Ce qui est étonnant en revanche, c'est que les médias ne font quasiment rien pour l’empêcher, et que ça ne choque personne !"

[lien avec le propriétaire du journal ?]

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday #deontologie

+ falsifier des pages de site Internet;
+ payer des trolls pour qu'ils postent à votre place ce qui vous arrange;

"[...] pour attirer les lecteurs, il faut qu'un titre se résume à une question qui serait un mensonge sans son point d'interrogation. On se souviendra de lui sans sa ponctuation [...]"

"Si vous voyez une quetion dans un titre racoleur, la réponse est toujours 'non'."

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday

"Aux #USA, quasiment 100% des #journalistes utilisent des blogs pour trouver leurs infos : or la majorité de ces sites n'ont pas pour objectif de générer de la #confiance avec le lecteur et de durer 100 ans comme le NYT, mais de devenir viraux le plus vite possible par n'importe quel moyen. Ils doivent à tout prix générer du #trafic et des revenus publicitaires pour être revendus"

#marmion #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #education #manipulation #presse #RyanHoliday

"Pour manipuler les grands sites d' #information, [...] il faut d'abord cibler les tout-petits." -> effet boule de neige.

tout-petits = petits blogs dont les 'infos' extrêmes/imprécises/sujettes à controverses [ donc fort potentiels de réactions émotionnelles = clics monétarisés ] "seront reprises par de plus gros, et ainsi de suite."

#livre Le calme est la clé de #RyanHoliday

#marmion #science #connaissance #cerveau #emotion #rh #education #manipulation #presse

This Is The Stoicism Talk The Navy Banned

#RyanHoliday was forbidden from delivering a talk on #Stoic #Wisdom at The U.S. Naval Academy, because he was going to talk about banning books and erasing history. Now it's available to the whole world. #TheObsticalIsTheWay

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZcnE1-SClfg&si=BEsg0BfHAy4mcmP4

#FreedomOfSpeech #DEI #DEIA #Stoicism #USPol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6rp-cwYSt4

#Stoicism #TheDailyStoic #RyanHoliday #Stoic

In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.

— Ryan Holiday

#Stoic #Stoicism #RyanHoliday

The Fascinating Power Of Human Wormholes

https://ryanholiday.medium.com/the-fascinating-power-of-human-wormholes-c30e04b3d380

#history #lifelessons #DailyStoic #RyanHoliday #goodreads

That’s what Stoicism is all about: learning to live a good life by developing peace of mind through confidence of one’s ability to overcome adversity.

— Ryan Holiday

#Stoic #Stoicism #RyanHoliday

Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control.

— Ryan Holiday

#Stoic #Stoicism #RyanHoliday

On finding time to be creative https://mikepaul.com/on-finding-time-to-be-creative/ #AustinKleon, #CreativeLeadership, #Creativity, #Education, #Gifts, #HarlanEllison, #Leadership, #RyanHoliday, #StephenKing, #Teachers

A #Stoic #GhostStory from 50 BCE.

Happy #Halloween

https://youtube.com/shorts/c5DeeMiw7z4?si=OYTA8QbJ9RBvPmM5

#TheDailyStoic #DailyStoic #RyanHoliday

How to Read More Books: Learn from the Masters
Photo by Polina Zimmerman on Pexels.com

Are you looking to read more books but can't seem to find the time or the motivation? You're not alone. The world is full of distractions that can waste your time and energy. But for those who have a passion for the written word, there are ways t
https://mikepaul.com/2023/05/19/how-to-read-more-books-learn-from-the-masters/
#books #BooksIRead #library #ReadMoreBooks #reading #RyanHoliday #TylerCowen

Jordan Klepper just interviewed Spock (And I'm so here for it). Prove me wrong.

#TheDailyShow #RyanHoliday #Stoicism

Shoes on your feet

A degree on your wall means you’re educated as much as shoes on your feet mean you’re walking. It’s a start, but hardly sufficient. […] Just as you can walk plenty well without shoes, you don’t need to step into a classroom to understand the basic, fundamental reality of nature and of our proper role in it. Begin with awareness and reflection. Not just once, but every single second of every single day.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Our numbered days

Because we don’t exactly know how may days we’ll be alive, and because we try our hardest not to think about the fact that someday we’ll die, we’re pretty liberal with how freely we spend our time. We let people and obligations impose on that time, only rarely asking: What am I getting in return here?

~ Ryan Holiday

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Understanding hope and fear

It’s not about overcoming our fears but understanding that both hope and fear contain a dangerous amount of want and worry in them. And, sadly, the want is what causes the worry.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Quite nice

[T]oday, let’s seek to be better than the things that disappoint or hurt us. Let’s try to be the example we’d like others to follow. It’s awful to be a cheat, to be selfish, to feel the need to inflict pain on our fellow human beings. Meanwhile, living morally and well is quite nice.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Fear and misery

The Stoics knew that fear was to be feared because of the miseries it creates. The things we fear pale in comparison to the damage we do to ourselves and others when we unthinkingly scramble to avoid them. An economic depression is bad; a panic is worse. A tough situation isn’t helped by terror—it only makes things harder. And that’s why we must resist it and reject it if we wish to turn this situation around.

~ Ryan Holiday

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The more you say

The more you say, the more likely you are to blow past opportunities, ignore feedback, and cause yourself suffering. The inexperienced and fearful talk to reassure themselves. The ability to listen, to deliberately keep out of a conversation and subsist without its validity is rare. Silence is a way to build strength and self-sufficiency.

~ Ryan Holiday

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And speaking of cognitive biases

Confirmation bias is one of my faves. You know, where you suddenly notice all the other cars like yours when you buy one, or spot coincidences from which you draw an [erroneous] causal conclusion. I know right? Screw you cobbled-together-brain! But this coincidence can’t just be a coincidence:

I’ve been reading-around my copy of The Daily Stoic for about 5 years now. Each page of the book is for a specific date. I long-ago got sick of lugging the book around, so I photographed every page, and loaded them into my personal productivity software. For five years, I’ve had annually repeating todos with the day’s image attached. (Yes, it was a few hours of work to set up 365 todo’s, with “recurs every year on the same date,” and an attached image. Yes, it was absolutely worth it.) So every year, on the same date, the same photo of the same page of the Daily Stoic comes up for me to read. (Craig-level crazy: The image for February 29 is attached to the todo for February 28 and I read it every year.) Finally, you need to know that only a small percentage of the Daily Stoic entries quote from Marcus Aurelius’s, Meditations.

Recently, I bought a fresh, hardcover of my favorite translation of Aurelius’s Meditations. (My paperback copy of this same translation is mangled and marked up, and the typography isn’t as spiffy.) I photographed each page, and set it on recurring todos. This was slightly more complicated because it’s not a page-for-each-date. I simply counted the images and made the todo’s recur that often. So each day a page comes up, but it’s not the same page on the same date each year. (There are 139 pages of content, so I’m reading Meditations 2+ times per calendar year.) For added complexity, the modern book is comprised of Aurelius’s 12 original books; Each was a long scroll on which he wrote entries in sequence. What’s on each page of the modern book is simply determined by book layout: It might be Aurelius’s original book 4, entries 11 and 12, or it might have part of an entry continued from the previous page, or an entry which is cut short that runs to the next page. Sure, it’s messy to try to read a book a-page-a-day if it wasn’t designed that way, but it works, and I get to visit Marcus each day.

That’s the setup. Here’s the coincidence…

Today I hit a Daily Stoic entry that quotes Meditations. The page that’s up for reading in my sequence from Meditations, CONTAINS THE QUOTED PASSAGE.

o_O

After looking around suspiciously… “Am I on Candid Camera?” After looking up suspiciously… I decided I better blog about this.

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Creating anything

Creating anything of consequence or magnitude requires deliberate, incremental and consistent work. At the beginning, these efforts might not look like they are amounting to much. But with time, they accumulate and then compound on each other. Whether it’s a book or a business or an anthill or a stalagmite, from humble beginnings come impressive outcomes.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Anything of consequence

Creating anything of consequence or magnitude requires deliberate, incremental and consistent work. At the beginning, these efforts might not look like they are amounting to much. But with time, they accumulate and then compound on each other. Whether it’s a book or a business or an anthill or a stalagmite, from humble beginnings come impressive outcomes.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Sometimes I manage to remember that lesson.

…usually that my remembering happens during my morning routine. I won’t bore you with the specifics, but: I regularly read things which spur the sorts of thinking I’d like to do more of; I spend time writing in, and re-reading, my journals; time reading good-old printed-on-dead-trees books; time thinking about how to create some thing I’m building; lots of thinking and jotting in outlines.

Things take me vastly more time and work than it appears from the outside.

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Focus your attention

One of the most powerful things you can do as a human being in our hyperconnected, 24/7 media world is say: “I don’t know.” Or, more provocatively: “I don’t care.” Most of society seems to have taken it as a commandment that one must know about every single current event, watch every episode of every critically acclaimed television series, follow the news religiously, and present themselves to others as an informed and worldly individual.

~ Ryan Holiday from, The Daily Stoic, p39.

Stoicism is a terrific tool. (It’s not about suppressing your emotions.) One of the practices is to pay attention to where your attention is. If I know I’m not going to do anything with this information—this news show, this political argument, this batshit-crazy conspiracy theory, this story, that solicitation, this bit of entertainment, that bit of distraction . . . If I know I’m not going to do anything with this information, then it turns out that it is trivial to not be distracted by things. People think I’m ignoring things, or that I’ve not noticed things. I’m simply choosing where to allocate my attention, (and therefore my time and efforts.) I choose to be in control of where my attention is placed. Only then can I apply it where it will do good.

What in your life can demand your attention? Are you okay with each of things that you just thought of?

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Let the news come

And what better use could you make of that time? A day that could be your last — you want to spend it in worry? In what other area could you make some progress while others might be sitting on the edges of their seat, passively awaiting some fate? Let the news come when it does. Be too busy working to care.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Thought experiment

We should apply the same ruthlessness to our own habits. In fact, we are studying philosophy precisely to break ourselves of rote behavior. Find what you do out of rote memory or routine. Ask yourself: Is this really the best way to do it? Know why you do what you do—do it for the right reasons.

~ Ryan Holiday, p24 The Daily Stoic

I sometimes imagine that the things I can choose to do can be placed on an aspirational spectrum. It’s not a linear, ordered list, but rather a thought experiment to do the pair-ordering; for any two things I could do right now, which is higher on the aspirational spectrum?

I could go even farther than just the pair-wise comparing and imagine all the things in my life might be orderable as…

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Fortunately—not a typo—the incessant work of ordering things to pick what to do next is exhausting. It forces me to notice that when I zoom out, I could imagine I’m doing things in the “j” through “q” range…

a b c d e f g h i ( j k l m n o p q ) r s t u v w x y z

I can make things better simply by making some space in my life. If I just drop that “j”-thing entirely I can be comfortable in knowing I’m improving, without having to actively micro-worry about everything all day. Dropping that “j”-thing leaves me with…

a b c d e f g h i j ( k l m n o p q ) r s t u v w x y z

Whereas before my average was between “m” and “n”, just by eliminating something from the lower side, my average moves up. Clearly I can improve my life appreciably by occassionally thinking about all the things I’m doing, and identifying a lower-end thing to drop.

Yes, of course things aren’t really this simple. But it took me a long time to learn the lesson that removing something can produce marked improvement. Some would say that removing is the very definition of how to approach perfection.

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My high horse

The point of this preparation is not to write off everyone in advance. It’s that, maybe, because you’ve prepared for it, you’ll be able to act with patience, forgiveness, and understanding.

~ Ryan Holiday

Recently, someone told me — literally wrote the words, “Why don’t you get down off your high horse and get a sense of humor?”

A bit of context: They had posted a large comment, and an image which I judged to be inappropriate and which I judged added nothing to the conversation at hand. I deleted the image. Below their comment, I added, “Commentary such as this are most welcome; inappropriate, rape-y GIFs are not.” They followed with the high-horse snark, and then a longish stream of discussion by them and others broke out wherein I added nothing further to the episode. Let’s set aside the question of wether my decision to delete the image was warranted or approved by the community after-the-fact.

I found myself thinking about the difference in our behavior…

…and the next morning, I read this quote. (Wow! What an instance of confirmation bias!)

…and that led me to this conclusion:

I have intentionally climbed up onto this high horse. I am intentionally doing my best to demonstrate through my behavior that I hold myself to a high standard.

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