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You can absolutely work on yourself. You can journal, read books, learn about your patterns, sit with uncomfortable feelings, ask yourself hard questions, change habits, and take responsibility for your choices.
That stuff matters.
But there’s a reason therapy isn’t just “thinking really hard about your problems.”
If you spend enough time in certain corners of TikTok, YouTube, or Reddit, eventually you’ll encounter a man filming himself from a rooftop bar in Bangkok explaining that he has finally figured out women.
The revelation usually occurred approximately six days after landing.
Welcome to the world of the passport bro.
“Daddy issues” is a pop psychology term you’ve probably heard tossed around to describe relationship challenges faced by some women and girls. But what does it really mean?
If you haven’t walked into a McDonald’s in a while, the first thing you’ll probably notice isn’t the menu. It’s the décor.
Gone are the bright red roofs, colorful booths, tile floors, playful murals, and giant PlayPlaces. In their place are gray walls, faux wood finishes, black furniture, pendant lighting, and touchscreen kiosks. Many newer locations could easily be mistaken for a coffee shop, an airport café, or a generic fast-casual restaurant.
Life coaching is one of the few professions where you can apparently wake up on a Tuesday, buy a ring light, update your Instagram bio, and become qualified to help other people figure out their lives.
No medical school. No law degree. No apprenticeship.
Just vibes.
Walk through the financial district of Shanghai and you will see gleaming skyscrapers, luxury boutiques, Teslas, Ferraris, Starbucks on nearly every corner, and a stock exchange handling billions of dollars in trades.
China is also home to some of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, global technology companies, and more billionaires than almost any other country.
None of that sounds particularly communist.
My dad, 3 uncles, 5 great uncles, well over 20 cousins are all law enforcement.
I pretty much drive 10–30 mph over the speed limit everywhere that’s outside of the city (live in a city of 100k people, and travel all over the state for work, all the time).
I get pulled over at least 6 times a year. So far this year I’ve been pulled over 8 times and got 1 ticket. On average, I get a ticket once every 2 years. Yes, I normally get a ticket less than 10% of the time I’m pulled over.
When I am speeding and see a LEO put their lights on, I IMMEDIATELY do the following:
If you ask ten people what a cult is, you’ll probably get ten different answers.
Some will say it’s just “a weird religion.” Others will point to a charismatic leader, matching outfits, or isolated compounds. The truth is more complicated. One person’s religion can look like another person’s cult, especially when it’s new or unfamiliar.
So what actually separates a cult from a religion?
If you spend enough time on social media, you will eventually come across someone pouring a glass of raw milk and talking about how it is “real food.” It has become a symbol of everything from traditional farming to skepticism of modern food processing. Celebrities drink it. Wellness influencers swear by it. Farmers’ markets have waiting lists for it. In some circles, raw milk has become less of a beverage and more of a philosophy.
Imagine waking up on an airfield in Germany in 1944.
Radar operators are tracking a contact unlike anything they have ever seen. It is flying high. It is fast enough to be unusual, but not impossibly so. It does not travel in formation. There are no escort fighters. No bomber stream stretching across the horizon.
Just one aircraft.
