Setting the Bar
Shane TrotterSetting the Bar explores the timeless and timely lessons needed to thrive in the modern world. We aim to clarify a path towards becoming people of character, capacity, and a life well-lived.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 196 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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We've Forgotten What Mentorship Is
For most of human history, young people did not prepare for adulthood primarily through schooling. They prepared through apprenticeship.
They worked beside adults, watched craftsmen think, and absorbed the standards, habits, emotional resp...
The Bar You Set is All You'll Get
There is a self-fulfilling quality to the expectations we hold for young people.
People tend to rise—or fall—to the level we set.
Hall-of-fame coach Jimmy Johnson captured this well:
“Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is....
Beware the Experts
I recently read a Mark Manson article on the problems wrought by putting too much trust in intellectuals.
His point isn’t anti-intellectual. Rather, he is showing how bookish intelligence and real-world wisdom are not always the same thin...
Physical Morality
“For physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle...
The High Cost of a Hyperpalatable World
The effects of heroin are worth understanding—if only because they reveal something deeper about how the human brain works.
People don’t try heroin because they want to ruin their lives.
They try it because it delivers an intense, immedia...
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Author of Setting the Bar: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Era of Distraction, Dependency, and Entitlement. I write about raising antifragile young-adults with the skills to thrive and self-actualize in a dynamic world. Carry the fire!
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