Brian Caleb

The city laughs at the lost in culture

[wnicapek @wnicapekk]

ada tamu datang ke rumah terus ngerokok, aku sodorin asbak ini malah pada diam ngeliatin

[Electra @Electrarythm]

There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online.

He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history.

He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing.

His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living.

He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action.

He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation.

Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not.

Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation.

He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk.

He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation.

The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable.

Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom.

But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back.

Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.

[Ask1 Meat Chamber🍖🥩 @ask1_original]

Boneless beef 900

Shamba ya Elon imekuwa ngumu
Mniguzie😂

[topsᴋi! @dfwtopski]

most times i talk to myself to get ideas from a real nigga

[Electra @Electrarythm]

You will never outperform your self-image, this is one of the most important things ever said about human behavior and almost nobody understands what it really means, your self-image is the picture you carry inside your head of who you are, what you're capable of, what you deserve, and what's possible for you, and your entire life is just your nervous system executing the orders of that picture, you don't behave according to what you want, you don't behave according to what you say, you don't behave according to your goals, you behave according to who you secretly believe you are, and the gap between where you are and where you want to be is almost always the exact gap between your real self-image and the one you keep trying to talk yourself into.

The plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz figured this out in the 1950s when he noticed that some patients, even after he fixed their face perfectly, still walked out of his office feeling ugly, and others with minor cosmetic changes walked out feeling brand new, the surgery didn't matter, what mattered was whether the internal picture had changed, and he wrote a book called Psycho-Cybernetics in 1960 that became the foundation of basically every self-development book that came after it, his point was simple, the brain operates like a guided missile that locks onto whatever self-image you've installed, and it will steer you, sabotage you, and bring you home to that image no matter how hard your conscious mind fights, you can win the lottery and end up broke again in two years if your self-image is "poor person," you can lose 50 pounds and gain it back if your self-image is "fat person," you can land your dream job and quietly destroy it if your self-image is "not good enough," because the brain experiences any mismatch between reality and self-image as a problem to be corrected, and it always corrects toward the image.

This is why goal-setting, willpower, motivation, and discipline almost always fail in the long run, they're all happening at the level of behavior while the self-image underneath stays exactly the same, you can't out-discipline a self-image, you can't motivate yourself past it for more than a few weeks before it pulls you back, the only real way to change your life is to change the picture first, and the picture changes through repeated vivid imagination, especially in the relaxed state right before sleep and right after waking, when the critical part of your mind goes quiet and the subconscious actually listens, you spend ten or fifteen minutes a day living inside the version of you you want to become, with full sensory detail, with the feeling of it already being true, you do that consistently for a few months and the internal picture genuinely shifts, and once the picture shifts the behavior follows by itself, no daily battle required, because now your subconscious is steering you toward a different home.

[Brian Caleb @BrianCaleb11]

@twitgameboy - a B, a C and a BSL. Proud of you Brian!

[🐉 @Kamau266]

Wanaume hutuma girlfriend allowance lazima wafuatishe text ya kuuliza kama amepata juu dem huwa anaona mpesa message anaclick anarusha simu huko just to send a warning that your subscription was almost overdue.

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.

[EL NAVI @KWPFIVE]

Let me share a secret that makes people stare at me kwa shops za matunda 😂😂😂.

Itisha watermelon, probably ya 30 ama 40. Big kiasi eeh, buy lime, mwambie akate mara mbili hiyo lime.

Now here's the most important part, squeeze your lime over your juicy melon kabisa.
👇👇👇

[Lennox Omondi @_lennoxomondi]

Some context

What I want to do is bring 20 more devs to Nyamarambe, each earning a minimum of 150k a month. Most of them will come from Nairobi. We're also preparing for the next cohort of students in September. By the end of next year, Reduzer alone is going to pump around Ksh 6 million a month through salaries, and I don't want that money going elsewhere. I want it to circulate in this town.

The biggest issue right now is housing, both residential and commercial. My devs are coming from Nairobi, and they're forced to look for decent houses in Kisii or Rongo. They need a good place to stay, nice hotels, entertainment, a good social life which is not here yet.

So I've started renting individual houses and renovating them. It's a proof of concept. I want to show the landlords here what it means to provide decent living, and show them that people are actually willing to pay for it. It's a long shot, but I'm very hopeful, since this is something Reduzer is genuinely interested in

[ROYZ @royzkingin]

“Time will tell” is one of the realest quotes ever because time will eventually tell who put in the work, it will tell who was disciplined, it will tell who was playing the long game. Time will indeed tell.

[𝚃 @T_wontmiss]

Me at 3am wondering how people even started translating languages if they didn't understand each other

[Outandabout @Nviar2]

Here are the contacts

[Outandabout @Nviar2]

If you’re in Nyeri-Mweiga kuna place they sell a Kg of mozzarella at 1100, they make amazing cheddar as well na gouda

[Ray @ms_mutegi]

Ticking this off my bucket list is a dream come true. Been eyeing it for a hot minute.

📌 Nyumba Ndoto, Arusha

[ㄖchibo @0chibo_]

Hii revolution for it to work out lazima tukuwe at the same frequency.

Utoke kwako ukijua Berlin Conference 1884. Ukijua every Afrikan economy is structured for export, that’s what it was designed for in 1885.

Shida si “Ruto Must Go.” Shida ni line manager wake.

[ㄖchibo @0chibo_]

Kama hii, in the near future.

My ancestors knew, it was a model of the universe, built around an axis, and the axis is the line of communication between the earthly family and the cosmic order.

Btw thatch is one of the highest-performing natural insulators humans have ever used.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

What people call “midlife crisis” is usually the first time they slowed down a bit and took the time to examine their life trajectory with honesty and independent thinking. It’s so easy to lose track of who you were meant to be in a society that keeps telling who you should be.

[Eric @amerix]

Men,

✌️

It is a wrap.

LESSON of the day:

The woman you choose will influence your finances, your children, your peace, your reputation, your health, and your future.

Choose carefully.

#MasculinitySaturday

[Deep philosophy @DeepPhilo_HQ]

"Nature does not punish the evil, it punishes the weak."

- Nietzsche