A few of these things tend to empower. Most of them don't. What reliably empowers is: choose a skill and practice it constantly. So few people do this, it's a

A few of these things tend to empower. Most of them don't. What reliably empowers is: choose a skill and practice it constantly. So few people do this, it's a practically guaranteed route to financial, social, and intellectual security. Taking the time to do your own grocery shopping, or not, is a gating factor exactly never. Almost all other types of human activity are weak compared to the compounding action of just doing something all the time. In the short term, activities like complaining or optimizing random chores may seem stronger. But on timescales of years they're just noise. https://twitter.com/sama/status/1331256688998051844 https://twitter.com/sama/status/1331256688998051844