when friends and family don't "get it"

Great post.

When I first started my family could not understand why I was "playing" on the Internet so much.

I really did not feel the need to explain it to them... I figured I would just show them.

Once the money started rolling in they quickly realized that I was not "playing".

Shannon

My wife has only recently started to "get it". Funny how that happened after a few commission checks came in.

Family? They're still clueless. "Search Engine Optimization? Who needs that?"

I just told my 11-year-old daughter tonight, in fact, "well SOMEONE had to make sure that the Jonas Brothers website is ranked #1 on Google."

Now she gets it...lol.

Hi Chris,

You've seen the master blueprint then? Or are you simply referring to certain internal organs and tooth design?

We weren't designed to visit the depths of the ocean or the peaks of the highest mountains or outer space, but if you follow the mantra that 'we were only designed for this, this and this' then you might just live a very boring, unsatisfying life and never get the pleasure of discovering new shores. It's a shame that the parenting instinct is designed to pummel the explorer instinct out of us (for the right reasons, of course.)

Perhaps we were designed to do unbelievable things (due to the design of our brains) but the physical designs were put there as a smokescreen so that those without the 'design-based boundaries are for the living-dead' gene would live a life of mediocrity, watching TV programs about the amazing things achieved by those who have the gene, while only living the dream in their dreams.

I guess some people will never get any further than the 'missionary-position is the way it's meant to be by design' type of thinking. It's lucky the raging herd didn't trample all of the visionaries or my email inbox would be a cave full of stone tablets.

Hi X,

Someone recommended 'Thank You For Arguing' to me by Jay Heinrichs recently, which I am in the process of consuming. Have you read it?

When I get asked I just say, "I do online stuff". 99% of the time the next this is always, "You mean like ebay?". And I'm all like, "Yea something like that". I don't have the patience to explain something that is completely foreign to most people and so don't even have a reference point for beginning to get a gist.

I can understand the need some may have to explain it to family. Only because it's their family and if what you do somehow puts a strain on it for them. But I still can't understand why they would question it when you're successful. If the bills are paid and everyone is getting fed, in that case I don't understand it when people have to deal with drama.

But I don't have that problem so maybe I just don't get it.

Re: The MEAT thing

Debating whether or not eating meat vs. whatever else because it's better for you is a pointless debate. I'm not saying most here are trying to fight about it, but some started to go a little bit and it is pointless. Because what one person eats and thrives on can be poison to the next person and vice versa.

So, the latest fads are usually a bunch of crap

A lot of people make the mistake that everyone is the same in this. People are not just like some people are more susceptible to certain diseases than others.

I don't care if they are experts. BS. I listened to Gary Null, and while I will listen to what he says I discern it.

Unless I've done something wrong, I do not thrive on a vegetarian diet. I've tried it. I feel like crap. Eat eating fruits and vegetables raw, or vegetable lightly steamed, juicing and all that made me feel like a piece of sh*t. My teeth and gums hurt. I got weak. Sucked.

Yea I felt lighter on my feet so it that sense I had more energy, but I had less brute force type of strength.

I felt better the first 2 days. Probably because I was too much on the other extreme but soon I felt worse than before, and probably not because I was eating a proper carnivore diet, but because of crap. McDonalds doesn't count as quality meat.

I'm not saying I have it figured out yet, but I know that the above is true for me.

Meat makes me feel good. Meats like beef, salmon, chicken do me good. I've lost fat from eating more fat - good fat, like animal fat (just what I would naturally get from meat not handfuls of gobs of lard) and pure extra virgin olive oil, fish fats, etc.

Everyone has their metabolic type. Some are Carb types others are Protein types and everyone falls somewhere within the spectrum some right in the middle others more to one end than the other and every degree.

It's like lactose intolerance. Ethnic Northern Europeans are the most lactose tolerant people on the planet (like about 90 out of 100 or something like that not exactly sure). They usually don't get the runs after having some Dairy Queen ice cream. The rest of the world's ethnic types including southern Europe are mostly lactose intolerant (like 90 out of 100). But what happens to Northern Europeans types is that rather than get diarrhea they get constipated. I guess for a long time that dairy was the staple of their diet while for most of the rest of the world it generally wasn't.

So I now look for nutritional information and what does what for the body more than what foods I'm supposed to eat.

This is a metabolic typing test:

Metabolic Type - The Metabolic Typing Diet-Customized Nutrition Through Metaboblic Typing

It's not free but I've put it there in case anyone is interested.

This one is free but it's not gonna be as accurate but will get you about ballpark range:

Metabolic Typing questionnaire

After realizing I was chasing what all the experts say and mostly losing I then realized what the heck was I doing. My family had been living on a certain diet for ages, farming and eating their own eggs, milk, meat, fruits, vegetables, beans, rice, lots of olive oil, garlic, onions, or whatever else and their water was the best water I've ever had. I tried it. That must be what they meant by "living water". And they had their share of cakes and things and usually were okay. Most were not fat at all. They were tough as steel. Including the women. My grandmother used to beat people up until she was around 60 or so and after that she still didn't take crap, but that's another story.

They busted their asses working. Most of us don't even know what our ancestors did or can imagine it from two or more generations back. Mine usually died from an accident or prematurely because of bad habits. But they lived to their late 80s, 90's and 100's. So then I asked myself, what the heck am I eating grass for when they didn't?

But you will be different. You have to find out what works for you. At least take the free test to broadly see what type you are.

Oh, and when I eat meat properly eating it first followed by the vegetables) I have found I actually need to chew vegetables more than meat) and mix some good fat in with it, digesting and passing meat is not a problem. It doesn't sit in my gut for 12 hours like they say it does.

That's just my take. Sorry if most of my post went OT.

We now return to our regularly scheduled broadcasting.

Thank you, Andrew. I've seen so many threads along this line that I've also wondered why it matters.

I think some people need validation, some need approval, want respect, etc. There is more at work than just "explaining what I do". I think often IMers are telling others much more than they wanted to know when they said "what do you do?"

kay