Andromeda

Zeitgeist Observer. Just a ME. The war of worldviews, an exercise of power

[Andromeda @ForceLikeAF1s]

George Orwell:

“Who controls the past, controls the future: Who controls the present, controls the past”

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing”

[Andromeda @ForceLikeAF1s]

@solisolsoli Very nice

[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.

[katy moukakou @princessekateri]

“I don’t reflect too much.
I live now.
It’s always now”

🩵 David Hockney

1937 - 2026

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

[Pat Thomas @PatThomas1964]

David Hockney died today
just saw this billboard

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

When politicians say they want to seize/tax "wealth" but actually mean "shares in your own company that you yourself founded", the real point is making it impossible for anyone to actually control their own company for more than a decade.

They won't let you stay, either.

[arnav @arnav_kumar]

90% of good leadership is just building this culture.

Just remember this and you won't need leadership books.
Or leadership coaching.

[Dean von Aether † @dean16z]

“The Übermensch” — Friedrich Nietzsche

[MindBranches @MindBranches]

The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

@brivael https://t.co/yDU79NQGW9

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

They’re so mad.

[Jay 🕋☪️✈️ @jay_kobbe]

Dems will look you straight in the face and tell you this is evil while they advocate to steal more of your money to pay for hospice scams in California

[Shivon Zilis @shivon]

Little koalas on their favorite snuggle tree

[Edward @somefoundersalt]

SpaceX was an apex predator in a den of sheep, except all the sheep were senile and had arthritis and were retarded

[RAH-66 COMANCHE @rah_66_comanche]

I am filled with optimism at the fact that the world's first trillionaire was made not by hedge funds or market manipulation, but by building the infrastructure to take America to the stars.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many people are saying!

[RAY @3xcalibaneur]

To be clear, this is not true.

[Ambar @Ambar_SIFF_MRA]

How Feminists view the world

[Andromeda @ForceLikeAF1s]

@onionweigher Dentists for some reason