If you want to find joy in life, the secret is to take on more responsibility than you think you can handle and “go balls out” with your commitments, according to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
The ever-jubilant Carlson sat down with 18-year-old Daniel Schmidt of the University of Chicago for a wide-ranging discussion on modern life. Carlson told Schmidt — an intern with The Daily Wire — that he started noticing 15 years ago that his children’s friends — especially boys — were not doing well, and that trend continued beyond their teenage years. After saying that the greatest “achievement” a person can do is have kids and encouraging more baby-making, the Fox News host argued that young Americans should stop shirking off their duties.
“The other thing you should do is not delay adulthood,” he advised.
“I don’t want to get lecturer-y, because I am 53 and that’s one of the casualties of getting middle-aged, And another thing! Thank god I have my job so I can do it for a living,” he said with a laugh.
“But, you see these people, kids, young people — kids in their early 20s, particularly boys — like to run from responsibility. No, responsibility is joy,” he stated.
Carlson warned that material pleasures will always leave one wanting more.
“There is no deep satisfaction in eating french toast in a hotel room, you know?” he continued. “Like, vacations mean nothing. Where you find satisfaction is through achievement. And achievement comes through commitment and responsibility. So, my advice to young people — particularly young men — is just dive face-first into it.”
Recent figures indicate that Carlson’s observations are backed by public polling. According to a survey conducted by One Poll and Fabric, nearly three in five Americans “were afraid of taking on ‘adulting’ tasks before living on their own, and a similar number of people wished they were better prepared to take on the responsibilities (56%).”
Carlson — known for his outspokenness against America’s focus on college degrees — also told Schmidt that people in his generation should ditch the university altogether.
“Drop out of college,” he said definitively. “College is ridiculous unless you’re moving towards some very specialized degree that you can only get in college if you want to be a veterinarian or a physicist or something but if you’re in humanities … You know I can give you a list of 100 books, you can find it on the internet and you’ll be better educated than you would be at whatever stupid college you go to.”
“And B, get married and, you know, choose wisely, but don’t overthink it,” he cautioned.
U.S. marriage rates have been steadily declining since the 1980s. The Daily Caller founder explained that part of the beauty in a marriage is that men and women are different from each other, which in turn forces the individual spouse to mature and change.
“People overthink it … If you’re compatible with someone, and you can smell that? You can make it work,” he said regarding relations between the two sexes. “And by the way, it’s never easy because men and women fundamentally don’t understand each other. That’s the whole joy in it. That’s why marriage makes you grow because you don’t really understand the other person so you have to try every day to decipher what that person’s saying.”
As for matrimony, the test for deciding if you should marry somebody is pretty simple and can lead to a life of adventure, he explained.
“You want to do something crazy? Marry some chick who you think is nice and hot. Those are, I think, the two main qualifications; Someone you’re attracted to because romance is the heart of marriage, that is true, and someone who you think is kind. I mean, my personal, you know the advice I always give to people who work for me is, if you’re assessing whether you want to live with a woman for the rest of your life — when she gets mad at you … does she yell at you? Or does she cry? If she cries, marry her. If she yells at you, don’t.”
Carlson also pleaded with Americans to avoid believing that Instagram illustrates the excitement that life has to offer.
“Have more children than you can afford, take a job you’re not qualified for, like go balls out. You just go balls out,” he added at one point during the interview. “I don’t know what everyone is waiting for, you know? Have some adventure in your life, do something crazy, I mean it. And I don’t mean, you know, go to Bali. Skip Bali, please what an Instagram cliche that is.”
The full interview can be seen here:
Source: Dailywire
