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Baked ’n’boosted

Will the youth of today ever really learn to delay gratification? You know, the rapidly disappearing art of putting off the stuff you want to do until you’ve done the things you need to do. It’s an essential skill if you want to live a successful, fulfilled life, one that’s guided by self-discipline rather than impulse.

I’ll admit I didn’t learn this until a few years ago, but some people seem to have it in them from birth.

‘If you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail’ is one of those statements people regularly post on Instagram memes, but it makes a lot of sense. The trouble for car-crazy people these days, though, is that there’s always another car popping up on social media that entices us away from the one you already have that’s in a million pieces, and sometimes that’s all it takes to make us act impulsively.

I’ve always said I’m monogamous with women and promiscuous

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