ve got apparently permanent protection. They say we won't need a booster if you have the Moderna or the Pfizer, I think. So I won't need a booster. Permanent protection against that and all the variants. Personally I haven't experienced any side effects that I could identify. Doesn't mean I'll never have one, right? I suppose there's some non-zero chance that somewhere down the line I have a complication. So you have to make your own decisions about the risk.

But the only thing I want to add to it is that I feel great. That's it. Psychologically I feel great. When I go outside fully vaccinated, it's not that I was so much worried about catching it. It's just it's not on my mind anymore. I can go anywhere. Like I walk like a god in a minor way. When I go into a store and I see unvaccinated young people with their masks on, I just think, you poor bastard. You poor bastard. I just walk in like a god. I'm all vaccinated, not worried about anything. Laws don't apply to me. It's great.

Now here's the counterpoint. As soon as I tweeted this, somebody else tweeted a very different experience. So somebody else got vaccinated and their psychological experience of being vaccinated is that they were bullied by a government basically. How would you like to feel that you have been bullied by a government into getting a shot? A medical procedure, for God's sakes. A medical procedure that you maybe didn't want on your own. How would that feel? Pretty bad, right? Pretty bad if you felt like you were forced to have a medical procedure that you didn't think was good.

Abe, I'm reading your comment. I'll see if I can work that in later. So take that as you will. People who have my kind of — let's say maybe I'm an optimist and maybe I'm not as worried about the government clamping down on my rights as some of you are. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, but different personalities have different priorities.

And I would say if you're closer to my personality where you're sort of an optimist about things, you might feel the way I feel, which is great. I mean really psychologically it's a big, big deal just walking outside and feeling vaccinated. It's great. But be warned if you're closer to that other personality where your bigger concern is that the government is bullying you into a medical procedure, which they are. That's literally true. The government is literally bullying you into a medical procedure. If that's the thing that's going to bother you the most, well just incorporate that in your decision.

So I'm not going to try to convince you one way or another. As I say, I'll just say add that to your fact pile.

I saw a long Twitter thread yesterday in which someone was questioning whether I really meant it when I talk all the time about not having goals for everything but rather having systems that get you to a good place that may be different than whatever specific goal you had. And it was a long thread proving or at least making the case that clearly I don't mean that. That what I really mean is you always have a goal. It's just that you also need a system.

No. Let me be as clear as possible. I do not mean that you need to have a goal. Sometimes, yeah. If you join a bowling tournament, is your goal that your team will win the tournament? Of course. Of course. So there are plenty of cases that are just straightforward where there's a goal and why wouldn't you try to get it? If you're an author and you write a book, is it your goal to have a successful best-selling book? Of course. Of course. Because you've entered a game where there's one way to win. That's it. Once you're in the game, of course you have a goal.

But I'm talking about all the times when you want to generally prepare yourself for a good thing but you don't know what the good thing will be. That's where the system works. Let me give you specific examples. When I started cartooning, it was not my goal to be a syndicated cartoonist. It was my system to get up every morning and practice drawing. That was it. That was the end of the system.

Now of course there was the assumption that if I could get good at drawing and making cartoons that I could sell them somewhere. But I didn't have a specific objective of where to sell them, etc. I just thought I'll be as good as I can. I'll get as good as I can and then I will se