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[Alhaji Don wayne @Alhajidon]

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[ABLAZE FOR GOD🔥 @AFG_0007]

Amazing moment of Football players praying before the kickoff 🔥✝️

[Value | Compounding @oldschoolinvest]

Human life in a nutshell.

[Longevity @longevitymediaa]

Novak Djokovic just said being bored is the most creative state a child can be in.

His son is 10 and his daughter is 7.

He says when his son told him he was bored after a morning of ping pong, kayaking, and soccer, he sat him down for a conversation most parents avoid.

"It's okay to be bored sometimes. When you're bored, it doesn't mean that you have to instantly take a book or a screen. You need to also learn how to be with your thoughts."

Djokovic says boredom is when creativity finally shows up, and it's also when everything you have been suppressing through your phone comes to the surface.

Most parents are protecting their kids from the only state that grows them.

— Novak Djokavic (@DjokerNole) on Jay Shetty's (@jayshetty) podcast

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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence.

Musk: “Paying people to do nothing doesn’t make sense.”

Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll.

Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels.

He suggested they use excavators instead.

Someone pushed back.

“But then we’re going to lose a lot of jobs.”

Musk: “Friedman says, well, in that case, why don’t you have them use teaspoons?”

One sentence.

That’s all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government.

The teaspoon is not a punchline.

It is the actual policy.

Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for.

Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output.

Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes.

Teaspoons.

The system doesn’t want excavators.

Excavators finish the job.

And a finished job is the one thing the system can’t afford.

So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years.

But this isn’t about laziness.

It’s about control.

A person digging with a teaspoon doesn’t have time to build something better.

Doesn’t have the energy to question the plan.

Doesn’t have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging.

Busy people don’t ask dangerous questions.

That’s the point.

The economy doesn’t run on productivity.

It runs on the appearance of productivity.

Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning.

They know it.

Their managers know it.

The people who sign their budgets know it.

But the teaspoon stays in their hand.

Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon.

And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place.

That’s the thing the system can’t survive.

Not unemployment.

Free time.

Musk didn’t tell a joke on Rogan.

He described the longest con in modern governance.

Keep them digging.

Keep them busy.

Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start.

Friedman told that story sixty years ago.

He meant it as a warning.

The system heard every word.

It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.'

In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents.

James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's.

In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure.

Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat.

Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first.

The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

[Manly Mentor @manly_mentor]

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Vultures eat anthrax, botulism, rabies, and cholera for breakfast.

Their stomach acid is among the most corrosive in the animal kingdom, with a pH around 1, low enough to dissolve the bones, hide, and pathogens of dead animals that would kill almost anything else.

A vulture eating a diseased carcass isn't a vector for disease, it's a terminus. The disease chain ends in the vulture's gut, and that's pretty hardcore.

When vulture populations crashed in India in the 1990s, rotting livestock carcasses sat where vultures used to clean them.

Feral dogs and rats took over the cleanup, both of which actually do spread rabies. Researchers later linked the vulture collapse to roughly 500,000 deaths in India over the following decade.

The same collapse is now underway in sub-Saharan Africa. Six of eleven African vulture species are threatened with extinction, primarily from poisoned poaching baits.

The animals nobody finds cute are doing more public health work than most of the species we actively protect.

[Kgoshi Ya Lebowa @Mothematiks]

Dont grow old my son, its a trap.

[Fr. Daniel☦️ @Fragbaza]

The demons work through thoughts. St. Anthony the Great—a man who spent decades in the desert face-to-face with demons—spoke of this directly: 'The demons have no power over us by themselves. They merely suggest thoughts to us—nothing more.' 
What was he thinking? He refers not to the thought itself, but to the first impulse—a spark. Have you ever noticed this? You are calm, and then suddenly, for no reason, a feeling of frustration toward a loved one arises. Or a heavy, unnecessary gloom descends like a fog; or you suddenly want to say something offensive, and the words are already on the tip of your tongue."

Abba Dorotheos of Gaza described Eight Generic Logismoi (tempting thoughts):

1. Gluttony (gastrimargia): Excessive focus on food/drink.

2. Lust (porneia): Sexual immorality or delusional thoughts.

3. Avarice (philargyria): Attachment to money/possessions.

4. Sadness (lype): Grief arising from unsatisfied desires.

5. Anger (orge): Malice or rage.

6. Acedia (akedia): Spiritual listlessness, the "noonday demon".

7. Vainglory (kenodoxia): Seeking human praise.

8. Pride (hyperephania): Self-exaltation and separation from God.

Eight doors and at each door someone is waiting for us when we open it. Abba Evagree spoke not of sins, but of thoughts, of the first movement, because sin does not begin when we have done evil, but the moment we held on to a thought, we accepted it, we began to consider it. Abba Dorotheos of Gaza explains it this way: In the beginning, a thought comes. This is not yet a sin. Then we start talking to him, this is already a danger. Then we agree, this is already a defeat.

Three steps. Every single time. No exceptions. And the amazing thing is that this is exactly what is described in the Gospel, in the story of Christ's temptations in the desert. The devil did not force Christ with force, but offered, throwing away the thought: Turn stones into bread because you are hungry - this is reasonable. Throw yourself down, angels will catch you, that will prove your faith.

Bow down and ye shall receive all the earthly kingdom of the world - this is effective. Every time - a reasonable argument, every time - logic, and every time Christ responded with the word of God. Not with your own reasonings, but with the Word. This is a lesson for each of us. But here arises the question that is more important than it seems: If the devils only throw our thoughts at us, then they do not know what is inside us, then they act blindly? Pay attention here, because the answer to this question explains a lot of things in your life..

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[Tyrone Muggsy Bogues @MuggsyBogues]

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[Manifest_Lord @Manifest_Lord]

"Jack Ma" was rejected by Harvard 10 times and failed 30 company interviews. He even applied a job at KFC with 29 others, and all of them were selected except him.

Finally, he created Alibaba and became the richest man in China with a $38 billion fortune.

Here is his Life's crazy inspirational story proving 'Persistence always Pays'
#Alibaba #JackMa @JackMa

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

I don’t care what you say about Jimi Wanjigi, he is spitting facts! These are things I’m paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn in B-school, secrets of the elite and ruling class.

Jacob Juma reincarnated. Don’t wait till he’s dead to start listening.

[Kgoshi Ya Lebowa @Mothematiks]

Chinese are living in 2070 by themselves while the rest of us are still in 1999.

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg shared mind-blowing new insights on AI.

I can't stop rewatching some of these clips.

5 key highlights you can't miss: