Nathan wants to take 2 steps forward and to heck with looking back:

> For a number of weeks I've been thinking about why
> Objectivist-oriented groups seem incapable of dis-
> cussion that does not degenerate into a disgusting
> spectacle of bitter acrimony.

I think it's mostly because most Objectivists are weirdos.

Self included. I've gotten better, but I think the thing that almost all
young Objectivists have in common is thinking they can think their way past
all life problems. That's a weirdo notion. I have a hammer, and I'm better
at hammering than most everyone I know, so everything and everyone looks
like a nail.

> Life-coaching is a forward-thinking approach, and soon
> the need for that will become more apparent than ever.

The older I get, and perhaps the more distant I get from the mundane horrors
of my childhood, I realize that I didn't really triumph, I just shrugged it
off. Other people absorb that stuff into their bones and get moral cancer
from it. A bad childhood really is like being exposed to too much radiation.
Either you die or you die early or you don't. You're not better or worse
because of the outcome, you're just genetically or temperamentally lucky or
not.

Anyhow, it's become increasingly obvious to me that skills matter. New
Orleans is a pretty good existence proof of that. People who don't develop
skills drown. Dog paddling is an important skill.

I think this coaching model has legs.

Mike Lee
Put me in, coach!











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