And I came up with the following gems.
To my hypothetical son or daughter:
Be as musical as you can be. Music is the best drug you could possibly do.
There are no sure things in life, but wearing a condom is pretty close.
Be willing and able to laugh at everything, especially yourself.
Don’t ever brag. If you’ve done something brag-worthy, let others do it for you. If they don’t praise you, what you did wasn’t brag-worthy.
Read and write whenever you can. Thoughts going in and thoughts going out is how your brain eats and shits.
Asking forgiveness really is better than asking permission, but don’t be a dick.
Expect more from yourself than from others. Have more patience for other people when they fuck up than for yourself.
Listen lots.
Truth is pretty much the most important thing. The truer, the better.
Whenever you hear someone say some variation of “well that’s just my opinion…everyone’s entitled to their opinion”, know that their opinion is most likely wrong.
Ignore the jokes and listen to the knowledge in this video. Then watch it again, and pay attention to the jokes.
Don’t peak in high school. People who peak in high school have shitty lives.
Hypothetical Son:
(Paraphrasing Stephen Colbert) Impressing girls is the most fulfilling thing in the world. Your mom or your wife (or girls you go to school with or whatever) — impress them whenever you can, and your life will have meaning.
Play sports, even just casually for fun. Hockey, at least. You may kick a soccer ball around from time to time, but only as warm up for a real sport.
Hypothetical Daughter:
Pleaseohpleaseohplease wait until you’re 18 to have sex. Pretty much the only request I’ll ever make.
Don’t be easily impressed by boys who are trying to impress you.
I love you more than your brother.
Feel free to share any of your own in the comments…
Not sure I’m with you on the opinion thing. i’m guessing Socrates had a few opinions and said so as well as a few others from your Guru hit list. Unless your talking about kevin Lowe of course… who we all know has a lot of hockey opnions … in his case yeah he’s probably wrong.
i’d add if you look like a political animal… talk like your a political animal… and act like a political animal…well then your obviously an asshole and can’t be trusted in anything you say… yep … Kevin Lowe.
I posted a link to your blog on mine, and with it, my additons.
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Solid work here.
Sweet, thanks brah!