The military gives you a title and makes you into somebody. You go from being “some guy named Zach” to being “Staff Sergeant Renfro.” However, when you crossover from military to veteran, you lose your previous identity. When you get your DD-214, “Staff Sergeant Renfro” ceases to exist, and suddenly you are “some guy named Zach” again.

I thought to myself, “if tabletop RPGs were simpler, I might actually buy and play them.

The modern American is starved for trust, a sense of community, and a personal connection; these desires are revealed by viewing modern advertising.

You must not be afraid to make mistakes; you should not be afraid to ask for help. Life is not a one man race; it is a team effort and requires a lot of other people in order to cross the finish line.

Ads are usually a company’s first line of contact with a customer. If the ad is not good, then people will think the company is not good.

Advertisers are very much like philosophers they analyze society, determine intrinsic values, and create a way to implement them.

Selling people things is a matter of determining their desires and figuring out how the product matches those desires.

Self-image can be improved by gaining new hobbies and skills. The basis of this is: in order to love oneself, one must be someone worth loving. It is easy to feel upset about one’s body if one spends all their time watching Netflix or cruising Facebook. To feel good about oneself, one must improve themselves and take their focus and apply it to things outside themselves.

It would help if you remembered that from the randomness of the universe, spontaneous order shall rise.

There are different conceptions of what is a good life, and not all of them are correct. Conceptions of the good life, which include much learning, are probably more true than other conceptions.