7 Obvious Life Truths That Rarely Get Acknowledged

7 Obvious Life Truths That Rarely Get Acknowledged

There are obvious life truths we don't always want to admit.

For example, most people don't really care about the important legislation on gun control, disease, or abortion until their personal freedoms are at stake, someone they know gets shot, or they are personally affected by these things.

Here are seven life truths that rarely get acknowledged.

1. Love isn't always enough.

No matter how much you love someone, it doesn't mean that love will grow.

Loving a passion enough doesn't mean you'll get paid to do it.

And relationships happen when you aren't looking for them and seem to not happen when you want them most.

2. People tend to underestimate their talents, strengths, and abilities over a lifetime

And overestimate what those talents, strengths, and abilities can do daily.

3. Love is not the same for everyone.

Everyone has different communication styles, needs, and love languages in a relationship.

Love thrives when two compatible people figure out what each partner needs to cultivate a relationship with meaningful positive interactions they feel daily.

If you don't fill your partner's bathtub with funny, meaningful, and warm memories, they won't have a way to take a bath and soak away their bad days.

4. Talent is wasted by distraction

You are on a bell curve scale of talents, strengths, and abilities relative to other people in the world. You may be better at math and science, I might be better at geography and mechanical reasoning.

Many talented people fail to cultivate their strengths and find curiosities, jobs, or callings that tie to those strengths.

But the main reason talent gets wasted is distraction.

If you're distracted, your strengths and talents will never be expressed meaningfully to the world.

You can't become irreplaceable if you never cultivate your talents.

5. You can't see the big picture

The big picture is hard to see when you are in the thick of it. If everyone could see the big picture, fewer mistakes would be made. Less money would be lost. Less heartache would happen.

If you quit too soon and don't work through the small twists and turns of struggle, you never get out of the woods and see the big picture.

6. Our media and news outlets don't make money by selling good news

Shocking murders, police brutality, school shootings, car accidents, and drama sells in our society.

Once you see everyone around you doing negative behaviors, your threshold for not participating in those behaviors lowers. Our society's media and news is creating a slow-moving riot.

And since our media focuses on the riot to sell views, we pick up our version of rocks, bricks, words, or bullets and throw them at someone because we see what everyone else doing.

This is how riots start, and this is what our media is doing to us.

7. College can be a terrible investment, but no one wants to say it.

Buying a rental house at 10x earnings will usually take you ten years to make your money back before you have positive cash flow.

My sister-in-law went to an Ivy League school, paid over 200k for her history degree and makes about 45,000 thousand a year in a big city. How many years will it take her to pay off that debt?

Too many.

If our goal is to be free, retire, and have money to do what we want, then let's also analyze the risk-to-reward ratios of the debt we incur and how long we'll likely have to work to pay it off with the viable income it could provide for us.

Good luck out there,

Mr. Mullet