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Tyler Durden on how to actually enjoy life. The last 5 points are splendid. Another very insightful Durden post: What's Fun is Mostly What You're Addicted To. Very true. There is nothing wrong with addiction and obsession. Men should always be obsessed with something in their life.

Clothes provide an illusory identity, both to others and, astonishingly, to yourself. When I wear a suit and tie to work (not required), not only do others treat me positively, but I myself feel a strange desire to work harder, as if I want to be 'consistent' with my image. High IQ blogger TGGP quotes from Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, a superb book I must reread. I should reread a lot of books. I overlook a lot of the goldnuggets first time round, and forget a lot.

I dated a hybrid of Alias Clio's Amazonian Alpha and Eternal Ingenue. I preferred her Eternal Ingenue days, but she accentuates the alpha part now to climb the male status hierarchy. Sigh.

Times Previous.

On a cold, wet, Irish morning two years ago, I picked up a free, drizzled copy of the Wall Street Journal outside the college library, nestled down with a smokey coffee in a corner, and read the most touching of articles. Monica Langley chronicled the story behind a Wall Street Financier's suicide with poetic reverberation. Arthur Zankel had it all and then some. The emotion generated by Langley's words followed me all day. In the evening I gazed out at the square lake from a little balcony, at all the little guys below, and the stars. A thought came to me, I took out my phone and called an old friend I hadn't spoken to in three years.