I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.
Tucker MaxMen will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.
Tucker MaxThis may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I donโt suffer fools well.
Tucker MaxThe thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.
Tucker MaxCritics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and thatโs why no one cares about them anymore.
Tucker MaxThe rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on
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