Practice the 4 Percent Rule to Get Exactly What You Want
You’ll never completely housebreak yourself. That’s fine.
Something will always bug you — or someone will. Sometimes, the someones and somethings of the world gang up. You have to keep your shit together, or at least make an effort.
Maturity doesn’t just happen. We have to keep ourselves in check. If we’re not careful, we can morph back into our primate ancestors.
We always imagine some future self that won’t ever get pissed off — that’ll always go to bed on time, always brush our teeth, always enjoy mind-blowing sex with our spouse on Tuesday night.
And yet, Stephen Hawking begs to differ:
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.
He follows up with something important, the thing makes us just different enough from our distant relatives:
But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.
We’re still animals. We grunt. Get upset. Fight over turf. Just watch a video of chimps and think about your day. None of us act as mature as we claim. We act like apes. But we can…
