This is one of the most mind-blowing things you’ll EVER see.
(And I swear to G-D if this post only gets a few thousand views on X, then X is simply not fit for purpose for anything. Because this is something everyone should see and be blown away by)
You’re watching a laser beam move in real time… at 2 billion frames per second.
Light only travels about 15 cm (6 inches) in each frame. That’s why you can actually see the beam crawl across the room, bounce off the mirrors, and come back.
Now watch carefully when the camera position changes…
The light going away from the camera suddenly looks slow.
The light coming toward the camera looks almost instant.
It looks like the speed of light is changing.
It’s not.
You’re seeing the finite speed of light itself. The camera is literally recording the PAST at different moments depending on how far the light has to travel to reach the sensor.
This isn’t CGI.
This isn’t a simulation.
This is a homemade camera filming actual photons.
Full credit, and huge respect, to @Alpha__Phoenix Alpha Phoenix Channel
A man who went to prison for talking people out of their money filmed himself doing it live, then sold the method as a course. 7 million people have watched him work.
The man is Jordan Belfort. The film about him made him famous. What almost nobody has done is watch the real one, on camera, running the actual technique on a real prospect for 22 minutes with no script and no edit.
And the way he does it is the reason to watch.
He barely talks about the product. The first minutes are almost entirely questions, and every answer gets used against the person later in his own words. He is not persuading. He is collecting.
Then the phrase the comments turned into a meme. He ends his key sentences with four words that make agreement feel like the neutral option and refusal feel like rudeness. Once you notice it, you cannot unhear it, and you will catch it in the next call you take.
One viewer broke the whole method into 9 steps in a comment. It got 12 thousand likes, which tells you people are studying this video like a manual.
Here is the uncomfortable part. Every technique in it is ordinary sales advice: listen, mirror, remove friction, set expectations. That is exactly what makes it worth studying. The tools were never the crime. The intent was.
Learn what is being done to you and it stops working on you. That is the only defense there is.
22 minutes. No script. It is in the video.
Hunter just being shamed into absolute nuclear oblivion, rising from the ashes, and then just triumphantly marching into the enemy’s camp like this with zero shits to give and nothing to lose is nothing short of remarkable.
Fun fact: Humans SHOULD NOT always stay at home, even if you have nothing to do. Because staying at home for too long makes the brain become dull and leads to overthinking. You'll have more negative emotions. Psychology calls this state mental rumination. Most of the time, people who stay at home long term are not physically lazy but mentally exhausted. You increasingly do not want to go out or see people. Even going to the supermarket downstairs to buy a bottle of water feels troublesome. You start to get used to being in a daze alone, scrolling through your phone and staying up late. Then you repeatedly struggle with yourself in an empty room. You think you're resting. But in fact, you're quietly draining the vitality of life. Your brain needs stimulation. Movement. Connection. Without it, your thoughts turn inward and spiral. The longer you isolate, the harder it becomes to break the pattern.
David Goggins spends 2 hours every night reorganizing his mind so the next morning can start with the thing he hates most.
"And people don't get that. Your mind has to always be clear."
"That's why I meditate two hours every single night."
"Because I refresh, I reorganize the garage, which is my mind every night."
"So then discipline's in there, organization, everything is in this right spot."
"Yes, I run every single morning."
"I'm up about 5, 5.30."
"So every morning starts with a run."
"And that's because that's the one thing I hate to do more than anything in the world."
"So that's like my cup of coffee."
Read it as one system. Two hours every night putting every thought back where it belongs, so that at 5 the next morning there is nothing left to negotiate: the mind is already in order, and the hardest thing of the day gets the clearest hour, before anything outside can reach it. He even calls the run his cup of coffee, the thing that sets the day. I think that is the part worth stealing: the morning he wants is built the evening before, and the clearest hour goes to the hardest thing, never to whatever shows up first.
- David Goggins (@davidgoggins) on Modern Wisdom (@ModernWisdomMe)
BREAKING: In an interview this morning Donald Trump was asked if his announcement that he intends to run for a third term means Barack Obama can run a third time too, and he got silent and frowned for several seconds, folded his arms across his chest, and said, “No.”
Hunter Biden on Trump: “We’re living under a dictatorship right now. It’s less Adolf Hitler because he’s not as concentrated as that. It’s more Idi Amin. It’s buffoonery, complete and utter incompetence. On top of a giant grift of the likes no one in the world has ever seen”
Wenn mir ein Klumpen Koks aus dem Gesicht fällt, klebe ich es mir auch immer auf die Stirn, damit ich es nachher nicht vergesse und ich es später noch mal konsumieren kann. #RobbieWilliams