So often in life we are forced to learn things without really understanding why. It's the classic "wax on, wax off" mantra from The Karate Kid; you spend some amount of time learning or doing something that doesn't seem to have any relevance, and then one day your teacher shows you how important it is. Now, in…
I started playing tennis at the ripe age of 16, which was actually too old if I wanted any hope of being good at the sport (most of the people I played against had been playing since they could pick up a racket). In hopes of doing well on my high school team, I practiced…
Back in the day, popular music was full of these things called "bands" that would usually consist of a singer, guitarist(s), bassist, and drummer, with maybe a keyboardist or sax player in some cases. The singer had obvious glory, people naturally sing along to songs, so your singer was usually the charismatic front-man for the band.…
Several years ago I remember watching a documentary show (I actually forgot what the documentary was about, I just remember this one tidbit from it). It featured an interview with John McAfee, the genius software developer and creator of the McAfee antivirus program. What was interesting about the interview was that it was conducted not in a…
Perhaps the defining feature of adulthood is the necessity of making important decisions. In childhood, everything is decided for you: where you go to school, what you learn, what you eat, etc., but in adulthood, things become far less clear. To some degree, my generation of Millennials has had a hard time transitioning into pure…
In my last article I let everyone know about my negative opinions towards political correctness, and now in this one I am asserting that some commonly used terms are offensive. So what gives? Have I gone soft? I don't think so, I am more or less alluding to the fact that we have a knack…
Ah, Political Correctness. What a touchy subject. It seems that in our humane attempt to please everyone, we are more or less pleasing no one. People get riled up about political correctness on every end of the political spectrum, some say we need more, others say we need less, and I don't really know of…
In case you weren't aware, every man has a plan (read it over if you can). It seems like one of those things that is inherently manly, to know what you want to do, where to go, and how to get there. Now, this is not to say that women can't have plans too (I…
I have a confession to make: I am a Millennial. I grew up in the '90s watching "Rugrats" and "Hey Arnold!" while drinking gallons of Surge, and I have no regrets. If you are a Millennial like myself then that sentence may have brought back a "surge" of nostalgia. Man, those were the days. But…
Let me just start out by stating that I am a self-proclaimed introvert (ISTP if you are the Myers-Briggs type), so I am by no means bashing introverts in this article. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I want to say that seeing the multitude of "X Things Only Introverts Understand" headlines…