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[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

STRANGE FATHERHOOD ADVICE I GOT FROM AN OLDER DAD THAT ACTUALLY WORKS:

1. Never lecture your son when he's already feeling small.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Maturing as a parent is realizing parenting is more about controlling your own behavior than your child's.

Our children mirror us, never forget that.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

> Be Arnold Schwarzenegger
> Born in a tiny village in Austria.
> Father is the local police chief.
> Beats him regularly.
> Asks doctors if Arnold was switched at birth because he refuses to believe this kid is his.
> Arnold has one picture on his bedroom wall.
> Reg Park. Mr. Universe. Three times.
> A bodybuilder who became a movie star.
> Arnold points at the picture and tells his friends: that will be me.
> His friends laugh. His father laughs. The entire village laughs.
> Walks into a gym at 14. Never really leaves.
> Trains through winter without heat.
> Breaks into the gym on weekends when it's locked.
> Gets so obsessed his parents have him evaluated by a psychiatrist.
> The psychiatrist says he's fine.
> The psychiatrist has no idea.
> At 18, goes AWOL from the Austrian army to compete in his first bodybuilding competition.
> Could have been court-martialed.
> Competes anyway.
> Wins.
> Goes back and serves his punishment without complaint.
> Moves to Munich. Trains twice a day.
> Eats. Sleeps. Lifts. Repeat.
> Nothing else exists.
> 1966. Age 19.
> Becomes the youngest person ever to win the NABBA Mr. Universe.
> Flies to America for the first time to compete in the Mr. Universe amateur division.
> Loses.
> Sits in the crowd and watches the winner.
> Studies every inch of what he lacks.
> Goes back to Munich.
> Fixes it.
> Comes back and wins the professional division the following year.
> Moves to America with $20 in his pocket.
> Can barely speak English.
> Sleeps on the gym floor at Gold's Gym in Venice Beach.
> Wins Mr. Olympia.
> Wins it again.
> Wins it five more times.
> Seven Mr. Olympia titles total.
> Retires undefeated at 28.
> The greatest bodybuilder who ever lived.
> Could stop there. Doesn't.
> Wants to be a movie star.
> Every agent in Hollywood says the same thing.
> Your accent is too thick.
> Your name is unpronounceable.
> Your body is too big.
> Nobody will believe you as a leading man.
> Arnold writes down his goals anyway.
> Movie star. Millionaire. Governor.
> Becomes a millionaire first.
> Not from movies. From a bricklaying business he starts with a friend.
> Before Hollywood calls.
> Because he refuses to wait.
> Hollywood eventually calls.
> 1977. Pumping Iron.
> The documentary that makes him a cult figure overnight.
> Then Conan the Barbarian.
> Then The Terminator.
> The movie every studio passed on.
> The role every actor turned down.
> Arnold takes it.
> "I'll be back" becomes the most quoted movie line on earth.
> Becomes the highest paid actor in Hollywood history.
> At his peak earns $30 million per film.
> Could stop there.
> Doesn't.
> Remembers the list.
> Runs for Governor of California.
> Nobody takes it seriously.
> Wins by the largest margin in California history.
> Governs the sixth largest economy on the planet.
> A kid from a village with no hot water.
> Running 40 million people.
> Then it all falls apart.
> The affair comes out.
> He fathered a son with his housekeeper.
> Had hidden it for 14 years.
> His marriage to Maria Shriver ends.
> The press destroys him.
> His reputation crumbles overnight.
> He doesn't run from it.
> Stands up and says: this is my fault. Entirely.
> No excuses. No PR spin.
> Just accountability.
> Starts over at 65.
> Comes back to acting.
> Comes back to the gym.
> Posts his workouts on the internet every morning.
> Answers comments from strangers.
> Writes a book about everything he got wrong.
> Calls it his most important work.
> Still trains at 78 years old.
> Still has the picture of Reg Park somewhere.
> The village that laughed at him never produced anyone worth remembering.
> Arnold left and became. the most famous Austrian who ever lived.
> Mr. Olympia. Hollywood legend. Governor of California.
> Built an empire. Lost it. Built it again.
> Never blamed anyone but himself.
> Never stopped moving forward.

Arnold mastered reinvention so failure couldn't stop him.

Unbothered. Undefeated. Unchained.

Arnold is built different.

[Future Stacked @FutureStacked]

🚨BREAKING: Nvidia will pay you $1,000 a month to host a mini AI data center at your house.

It looks like a regular AC unit sitting in your yard. Nobody walking past would know what is inside.

Inside sits 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Dell servers running at full capacity.

A startup called Span builds and installs them. They are backed by Nvidia directly. The whole unit bolts onto your home and you get paid for the power and Wi-Fi you supply.

Some estimates put the monthly payout around $1,000. That is rent money just for hosting a box you never touch.

Span says the units deploy significantly faster and cheaper than traditional data centers. That is exactly why Nvidia is backing the suburban rollout instead of waiting for more commercial land.

The AI boom needed more compute. It found it in the suburbs.

The grid is being rebuilt one backyard at a time. Save this.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

If I had my child to raise over again.

[Princess A @cessadelove1]

The most terrifying detail about Noah's Ark isn't the size of the flood. It is the design of the boat. If you look closely at the blueprints God gave Noah in Genesis 6, He was extremely specific. He gave the exact length, width, and height. He specified the type of wood and the pitch to seal it. But God left out one crucial component: no steering wheel, no sail, and no engine.

Think about how scary that is. Noah built a massive vessel to survive a global storm, but he had zero control over it or where it went. He couldn't steer away from rocks, turn into the waves, or aim for dry land. He was completely at the mercy of the water. The Ark was designed for floating, not navigation. Noah's job was to be the passenger, not the captain. God was the Captain.

This is your life right now. You are trying to put a steering wheel on a situation that God wants you to simply float on and allow Him to lead and take control.
This blessed me. I hope it blesses you too. 🙏🏾

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

A family had a bad experience in a restaurant and this situation could have gone so many different ways. These children will grow up and have successful lives because of wonderful parenting. #HIAW 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The two people you must make proud of you in your lifetime.

[Nairn David @nairndavid_]

You have to become so fit, and faithful, that people want a bit of it.

Show them Christ and show them optimal health.

That's how we change the world.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Kobe Bryant once said:

“I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Life hack: Get fit as fuck. Then be even more kind than you are fit.

The world will inevitably start working in your favor.

[Noctara @rumilyrics]

The best skill you can have is learning how to keep yourself in a good mood.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

My grandfather told me:

The worst decisions in life are made when you allow your head to talk you into something when your gut already said no.

I'll never forget that.

[Noctara @rumilyrics]

You are alive. You have a home. You have a bed. You have food. Be grateful.

[iAm-paquetta @guesswhoiiamm]

The universe guarantees you'll improve if you keep trying. The universe doesn’t reward talent, luck, or intelligence first , it rewards relentless consistency

[Ted Ryce @ted_ryce]

Most men can't:

• Do 5–10 pull-ups
• Stay under ~20% body fat
• Run a mile in under 8 minutes
• Bench press their bodyweight
• Squat their bodyweight for reps
• Do 20–30 push-ups without stopping
• Get up off the floor without using your hands
• Sprint hard for 10–15 seconds without pulling something

This isn’t elite fitness.

This is basic.

[Luke Falk @coachlukefalk]

Every training camp I had at Washington State University, Coach Leach would share the same story.
The story of two kids. The rich kid and the poor kid.

The rich kid has two choices. He can become spoiled, entitled, lazy, and expect everything to be handed to him because he has been given more. Or he can take every advantage of what he has been given—resources, coaching, opportunities—and use it to become even better.

The poor kid has two choices too. He can say, “I never had a chance. Nobody gave me anything. The world is against me.” He can feel sorry for himself and use it as an excuse. Or he can say, “I may not have what they have, but I am going to outwork everybody.” He can become tougher, more driven, and more relentless than everybody else.

It was a powerful message in a locker room full of people from different backgrounds, different families, and different life experiences. Some guys came from wealth. Some came from almost nothing. Some had every opportunity. Others had to fight for every inch.

But despite all of those differences, everybody still had the same choice.

You can take ownership and use what you have as fuel.

Or you can become victim-minded. You can look for excuses, blame your circumstances, become entitled, and convince yourself that because of what you have—or because of what you do not have—you cannot become what you want to be.

It is not about how you start. It is about what you choose to do with how you start.

The rich kid can waste what he has been given or use it to build something greater. The poor kid can use his circumstances as an excuse or as fuel.

In the end, greatness does not come from starting with more or less. It comes from which person inside of you that you choose to feed.

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