Socrates said that young people are bold, disobedient, greedy for pleasures, and confident that they know more than anyone else. Two and a half thousand years have passed—and nothing has changed.
But Socrates saw deeper.
He understood: the problem is not that young people are “bad.” The problem is that they don’t know how to manage their strength.
Youth is a storm without a navigator. Energy is there, character boils, and ambition tears at the skin.
But there is no discipline, no structure, no inner law that makes a person not just bright— but dangerous, precise, and meaningful.
The older complain about the young because they see chaos.
The young despise the older because they see weakness.
And each draws conclusions on emotions, not reason.
But Socrates understood the key thing:
youth is not a problem. It is an unencrypted force.
One that becomes destruction or greatness depending on who governs it. If you direct it, it creates eras. If you leave it uncontrolled, it burns everything—including itself.
You don’t need to praise youth. You need to temper it.
Then what grows out of it is not noise, but backbone.
#trading #mindset #Discipline #psychology #crypto
But Socrates saw deeper.
He understood: the problem is not that young people are “bad.” The problem is that they don’t know how to manage their strength.
Youth is a storm without a navigator. Energy is there, character boils, and ambition tears at the skin.
But there is no discipline, no structure, no inner law that makes a person not just bright— but dangerous, precise, and meaningful.
The older complain about the young because they see chaos.
The young despise the older because they see weakness.
And each draws conclusions on emotions, not reason.
But Socrates understood the key thing:
youth is not a problem. It is an unencrypted force.
One that becomes destruction or greatness depending on who governs it. If you direct it, it creates eras. If you leave it uncontrolled, it burns everything—including itself.
You don’t need to praise youth. You need to temper it.
Then what grows out of it is not noise, but backbone.
#trading #mindset #Discipline #psychology #crypto