Fred

Dad of two 😄

[Fred @FredAlejandro_]

@champ59951097 @TheHooopCentral

[Napoleon Hill @napoleonmastery]

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.

[Napoleon Hill @napoleonmastery]

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMI­NATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

[Fred @FredAlejandro_]

First futures trade.

Just getting started. I know there's a learning curve, but I'm here to learn, stay disciplined, and improve one trade at a time.

Documenting the journey from day one.

#FuturesTrading #MNQ #TradingJourney #DayTrading #PropFirm

[Napoleon Hill @napoleonmastery]

He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.

[Ante D. Luvian @uncle_deluge]

I had this game on PC and for some reason I felt like I really needed to show my grandpa how cool it was. It was loading and I could tell he was impatient so I double clicked the icon again. And again. And again. It never opened. Eventually my dad came to use the computer and freaked out at me for having 25 different instances of Toy Story 2 running at the same time

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Focus beats intelligence.
Consistency beats intensity.
Action beats intention.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Part 2. Your child's brain cannot calm itself down. Not at 2, not even at 4. Until around age 6, the part of the brain that regulates emotion is too undeveloped to manage it alone. Children need to borrow a calm nervous system from the nearest adult.

There's a name for this: co-regulation. When a caregiver speaks steadily, moves slowly, or simply stays calm nearby, the child's nervous system starts to synchronize with theirs. Both heart rate and stress hormones adjust. The calm transfers through the body.

A slow, predictable screen can do something similar. When the pacing is unhurried and nothing unexpected happens, the child's parasympathetic nervous system, the branch responsible for slowing heart rate and promoting recovery, stays active. Rogers understood this long before most people designing for children began thinking about it. His quiet voice, his predictable routine, his transitions so slow they'd bore most adults: all of it was calibrating a child's nervous system at the same time it entertained them.

Fast content activates the opposite branch. Rapid cuts, sudden sounds, and unpredictable movement trigger the sympathetic nervous system, the body's stress and threat response system. The child's body prepares to react. The trouble is, that reaction doesn't stop when the screen does. The nervous system stays activated after the show ends, which is why children so often melt down right after watching high-stimulation content: the alarm turned on, and nothing turned it off.

A study from Texas Tech University, published in the Journal of Children and Media, found that preschoolers who watched Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood scored measurably higher on empathy and emotion recognition, but only in households where parents watched alongside them and talked through what was happening on screen. Left to watch alone, the children's scores didn't move.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[QuavoQuavo23 @ImQuavoQuavo]

I can't even explain to yall people theses times. This was before all the social media bullshit.

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

You wanna fucking win in life? Fall in love with losing, because most people are scared of it.

[FADE @FadeAwayMedia]

Scotty 2 Hotty and his son sharing the ring together is one of the coolest full circle moments in wrestling.

YOU ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO SEE IT.

[Napoleon Hill @napoleonmastery]

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

[Retro Bastard 🕹 @retromaniaZ]

This intro had kids ready to run through drywall.

[Napoleon Hill @napoleonmastery]

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

[Napoleon Hill @napoleonmastery]

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

"My dad was always very forgiving of my misbehavior. He'd just say, 'I know you can do better.' That was very powerful stuff — because I could do better. I knew it and he knew it. It's nice to have somebody have faith in you."

— Warren Buffett

[Computer ♥ Records @ComputerLove_]

24 year old Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls (1995)

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“Remembering that you’ll die one day is the best way to stop thinking you have something to lose.”

- Steve Jobs

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

“Wasting your time doubting whether you’re going to be successful is pointless.”

-Kobe Bryant

[Taytalktome. @talktometay]

Niggas could get they ass whooped inside a bar they dont make it like this no more 💀💀💀💀😂😂😂😂😂