Life is not that difficult, once you understand it

As I read through Benjamin Graham's Intelligent Investor one second time, I'm struck by how money is not that difficult to come by, once you understand it and its relationship to real value it represents is being contributed to peoples' lives. And the ways that losing track of that relationship undermines both one's capacity to make money. And undermines one's life, in much bigger ways than money.

Teaching is like that, too. So is learning. So are relationships. And parenting. And virtue of all sorts. So is leadership. And envisioning something better in the world.

Life is not that difficult, actually, once you understand it.

It's the understanding it that is the trick.

If you have not seen There Will Be Blood, and you want a course on how and why we are generally the ones responsible for our own misery, in life, I highly recommend that movie. It was clarifying for me. For why all that virtue matters.

Liberty and reason. Freedom and understanding.

It's the understanding that is the trick. And it is the understanding that makes all the difference. And it is the understanding that will, for as long as people inhabit this earth, make all the difference in the future.

Life is not really all that difficult once you understand it.

And it is the freedom and the understanding, that people have long been resisting and undermining, since the dawn of humanity, that make it easier to navigate.

Perhaps its time to correct that problem.