There is great and generous value to be had in being very stubborn.

Now, I can hear the parents, especially the young parents, out there nearly shaking their heads off the swivel. “Absolutely not!” says the head on a swivel. But hear me out.

My most earnest and sincere advice to anyone is to be stubborn. Be very stubborn. Don’t give in and don’t give up. Be stubborn, that is, about being positive. This pays such immeasurable dividends!

Be positive about absolutely everything! Train your mind (in a positive and constructive way!). Be positive in the face of no matter what kind of excrement, pain or suffering life throws at you. Think about the absolutely worst possible scenario – Actually NO! Don’t think of that! That wouldn’t be positive or constructive! – But, transcending that little trap of a Catch 22, no matter how bad things or scenarios get, be stubborn about being positive, I say.

If the entire vast expanse of the universe conspires against you (with or without Soros funding) [tongue-in-cheek reference, that] and you have only the tiniest grain of sand as ground to stand on, make your stand. Be positive in the face of it.

If that grain of sand turns against you, find the tiniest atom in that grain, stand on that, and be stubbornly positive. Go deeper if you must. Find the quark for Master Mark within that tiniest atom, though the very observation of that quark would, of course, make it behave quite strangely; find it anyway even if only in your imagination and make an imaginary positive stand while imagining to stand upon it. It’s both alive and dead so that whole experience will be a positive bliss!

That is my advice to you. Take it or leave it. Believe me or not (or else don’t believe me).