Learn To Live With Cringe

“My experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life.” [Unsubscribe]( [Wiggin Sessions] May 21, 2022 Learn To Live With Cringe “My experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life.” — Taylor Swift [Addison Wiggin]Dear Reader, Scandals and corporate favoritism… conjured money and a rigged system… … these are the themes our guest writer this week, Nomi Prins, covers from an insider’s perspective. Today, Nomi investigates what she believes will go down as the greatest wealth transfer we’ve witnessed to date. – Enjoy, Addison Between the time Taylor Swift took the podium at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday… and the time we began writing yesterday, the Dow shed 2,000 points. I was getting repeated texts asking if I was seeing the market sell-off. We picked an odd week to have a guest editor. You’ll likely agree [Nomi Prins]( did a great job for the week. We want to thank her for jumping in while we attended our son’s graduation at NYU. Lest you get confused… the entire university had a commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium. There were 19,000 students in attendance. Then, at least, twice as many friends and family. It was general admission. We got there a bit late. So we ended up watching the 19 schools of the university parade by from the fourth-tier balcony. Taylor Swift was given an honorary doctorate for her contribution to the recording industry, standing up for artists rights and defending her own career against the leeches in the industry, including a sexual assault suit, which she won. “I rolled my eyes at Taylor Swift’s honorary degree,” read a mainstream headline, “but then I had a change of heart.” That’s not a hard sentiment to come by. “Learn to live alongside cringe,” the singer, songwriter and producer advised the throng of students, clearly using a millennial definition of the term, “No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. Cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime. Even the term ‘cringe’ might someday be deemed ‘cringe’.” I promise you, you’re probably doing or wearing something right now that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious. You can’t avoid it, so don’t try to. For example, I had a phase where, for the entirety of 2012, I dressed like a 1950s housewife. But you know what? I was having fun. Trends and phases are fun. Looking back and laughing is fun. Having Taylor Swift as the commencement speaker was a good PR move on NYU’s part. When she started talking about ‘cringe’ the students cheered. Heck, they cheered when Swift was first seen on the jumbo-tron. She gave the keynote in front of two other doctoral honorees. Susan Hockfield, president emerita of neuroscience at MIT, a pioneer in uniting the life sciences with best business practices and Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, chancellor of City University of New York (CUNY) for his work making higher education possible from underserved communities, globally. Both incredibly accomplished, decent human beings. In our society being decent barely trumps idolatry or fandom… or the millions of dollars one gets from commercial success. It would be easy to be cynical about an honorary degree from a higher institution. But Ms. Swift, who started her career at age 15, homeschooling her way through high school, owned it. She never went to college. And she endured years of sacrifice and exploitation to get to that podium. Now 32, Swift has written and produced 11 albums, the first 9 of which were “stolen” from her by virtue of a contract she signed with a recording label early in her career. She re-recorded two of them so could “own” her own work. Her songs have sold over 100 million “album units” and earned her fans online and off from all over the globe. “Swift is the walking definition of influence, hard work and accomplishment in her chosen field,” one reviewer for NBC wrote about the speech. We knew as soon as she said it “cringe” would capture the headlines. And sure enough they did. Social media was appropriately negative about the event. Ad hoc negativism is a given online, even if the “haters” didn’t see, hear or read the speech. For us the money quote in Swift’s address was this: I’m a big advocate for NOT hiding your enthusiasm for things. It seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of ‘unbothered ambivalence.’ This outlook perpetuates the idea that it’s not cool to ‘want it.’ That people who don’t try hard are fundamentally more chic than people who do. And I wouldn’t know because I have been a lot of things but I’ve never been an expert on ‘chic.’ But I’m the one who’s up here so you have to listen to me when I say this: Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth. The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school. The people who want it most are the people I now hire to work for my company. It’s a good “life hack”... you don’t make it, unless you work for it. As cringy as that may sound. “How do I give advice to this many people about their life choices?” Swift concluded her speech “I won’t.” “Scary news is: You’re on your own now. “Cool news is: You’re on your own now.” Follow your bliss, [Addison Wiggin] Addison Wiggin Founder, The Wiggin Sessions P.S. If you missed our interview with Nomi Prins this week, you can view and/or listen by clicking on this image: [Click here to learn more]( You can also hear Nomi Prins on [“the truth the mainstream isn’t telling you”, right here.]( Will You Be Left Behind? [Click here to learn more]( The same ‘experts’ who failed to predict the last financial crisis, the rise of Bitcoin, and the shocking election of Donald Trump are warning of big trouble ahead. But once again, they’re dead wrong. And if you listen to them now, it could cost you dearly. Nomi Prins has spent the last two decades investigating the truth about our financial system. And today, she’s issuing an alarming new prediction… She says: “When you really understand what’s happening in our financial system, you’ll see the truth is [MUCH]( than the mainstream media is telling you. 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