Minimum Wage Ninja

I've been listening to  Steve Job's commencement speech.   He talks about how he was privileged enough to have his parents pay for his college, but since college wasn't doing for him what he thought it would, he dropped out. Wow, just wow.  I mean how many immature losers would have simply kept going on their parents dime?  Count me as one of them. My favorite quote from the entire speech is, "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.  You are already naked.  There is no reason not not follow your heart." This man even recognized that his life is a privilege, which is truly amazing. Another man that didn't take his privilege for granted is Joshua Kennon. On his personal blog he  posts about advice privilege  that he received from his parents.  He tells about how that privilege helped to liberate him in his life. Yet another person I know pushes her beauty...

There is a disturbing trend I see among the self help books. They are all full of BS phrases like "you've got to make a choice to get rich," or "if you're in poverty it is because you didn't want riches enough." Just shut up. I didn't sit down and make a choice to live in poverty.  I choose to do the right things to get rich. I didn't sit down and make a choice to be fat.  I chose to do the right things to be fit. I didn't sit down and make a choice to be single.  I chose to do what I was supposed to do to be popular. And I sure as heck didn't sit down and say "Gee, today I'm going to be as irresponsible as possible and hurt myself and my family as much as possible."  Heck no. So if you got nothing better to say then "You control your own actions" or "You chose to have a heart attack" then just shut up.  Quit writing books.  Quit giving speeches.  Go away, you're not helping me. Yeah I kn...