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[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

Quit porn and masturbation for 90 days and watch how you start randomly outperforming everyone

[Wealth Squad Chris @Chrissssjohnson]

30 year olds thinking it’s too late gonna wake up at 50 and realize they wasted another 20 years

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

THIS:

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

If you want to be powerful, educate yourself.

[Moosa @questmoosa]

If you're panicking about rapid hairloss and keep looking at the mirror to then take a picture of your hairline and scalp or you are constantly counting the hairs you have lost in the shower, stop doing that and get these 3 blood tests ASAP:

-Vitamin D (usually very low)

-Prolactin (usually very high because of chronic masturbation, poor diet and excessive sunflower oil/seed oil consumption)

-PTH (usually very high due to lack of calcium in the diet and lack of vitamin D/sunlight - causing soft tissue calcification, loss of facial bonemass and eventual scalp hairloss)

Humans naturally panic when they can't find a possible solution to a problem that causes them PAIN - this is reflected as social isolation, wearing hats as a coping mechanism to avoid the inescapable pain, constantly taking pictures of your scalp to remind yourself of the pain and how you need to find a solution urgently:

-3 bloodtests mentioned above

-daily scalp massages (linked below)

-keep your lower jaw FORWARD to decompress the scalp arteries and straighten your neck to reduce scalp tension- also exercise your neck (linked below)

You can now panic less as you have found the best solutions to your problem that causes you daily inescapable PAIN (humans are wired to avoid all types of pain, seek social approval, feel superior than others and be perceived as fertile/low stress as possible - classic human psychology - this is why you love your hair and want to keep it - beautiful hair is a sign of LOW stress, "high status" and signals healthy reproductive capacity to the opposite sex.

Loss of hair = loss of fertility and reproductive hormones due to elevated stress and catabolic hormones (PTH,prolactin,cortisol) - simple explanation.

This is why hairloss is associated with feelings of insecurity - insecurity is a state of STRESS!

You can regrow your hair - focus on the daily inputs, gather multiple perspectives and seek as much knowledge/awareness as remotely possible.

As your health and fertility improves, your catabolic hormones decrease, you will inevitably stop your hairloss and regrow beautiful thick luscious hair - no doubt about it - just be patient, less narrow minded on your hairloss reversal journey and focus on other things while you fight this battle - others will say it's only hair but you are determined to win this battle and you will win!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[True market Leader @TmarketL]

Life advice

[Dr Ola Brown @NaijaFlyingDr]

Asians get this concept like mad.

Lee Kuan Yew explains why young people in poorer countries shouldn't try to imitate the "soft life" that Western countries portray.

Working your way out of poverty is seriously hard work.

[AllesCode @loneangelx]

women dream of having boyfriends they don't have to fvck....lmfao...

[Anuja Jaisswal @AnujaJaiswalTOI]

It begins innocently. One short video while waiting for a cab. Another before dinner. A few more before sleep. Somewhere between swipe and scroll, 40 minutes disappear. Short-form videos are everywhere — on #InstagramReels, #YouTube Shorts and similar platforms. But a global review of nearly 98,000 people, published in Psychological Bulletin, suggests that heavy, compulsive use may be affecting how we focus and how we feel. #shortvideos #swipe #scroll #stress #anxiety
@timesofindia

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

🧅 The Onion Juice Hair Regrowth Shock That Stunned Scientists

A small but fascinating clinical trial from 2002 revealed something almost unbelievable. People struggling with patchy hair loss applied simple onion juice to their scalp—and the results turned heads. Hair regrowth began in as little as two weeks, and by eight weeks, many participants experienced full recovery.

[Dr Danish @operationdanish]

We now have evidence that gentle parenting doesn’t work.

Here’s an uncomfortable truth about parenting no one wants to say out loud:

The data is not kind to gentle parenting.

According to teenagers, strict curfews. strict bedtimes, screen limits, device drop off times, dedicated homework blocks, and sleepover restrictions IMPROVE higher relationship quality.

And yes, parenting difficulty goes up.

Of course it does. Leadership is harder than appeasement.

For the past decade we have been sold a watered down, Instagram friendly version of “gentle parenting” that often collapses into boundary avoidance, endless negotiation and emotional processing without enforcement. Parents terrified of saying no because they do not want to rupture connection.

But connection without authority is not connection. It is dependency.

When parents impose structure, the relationship improves.

Teenagers report better parent child relationship quality in homes with curfews and rules. Younger kids report better relationships in homes with screen limits and bedtimes. Even device drop off times correlate positively.

Why?

Because structure is not cruelty. Structure is love made visible.

A bedtime says: your brain matters more than your entertainment.

A screen limit says: your dopamine system is not fully developed and I will guard it until it is.

A curfew says: your safety matters more than your social standing.

That is not authoritarianism. That is caring.

Boundaries create friction. Friction creates growth. The parent absorbs the short term discomfort so the child does not pay the long term cost.

Children do not experience well calibrated limits as rejection. They experience them as stability. The human brain craves predictability. Predictability reduces anxiety. Reduced anxiety strengthens attachment.

That is why relationship quality goes up.

Notice something else in the data. The strongest effects are around time structure. Bedtime. Homework. Devices. Outside play. These are environmental constraints. They scaffold executive function.

The winning formula is not tyranny.

It is high warmth plus high structure.

The modern failure mode is high warmth plus low structure. That is just abdication of responsibility wrapped in empathy.

Children need leadership, not negotiation. They need adults who can tolerate their anger. They need boundaries that do not move every time emotions spike. They need someone whose prefrontal cortex is fully myelinated.

The harder path produces the stronger bond.

Because when a child feels that someone is strong enough to hold the line, they relax. And relaxed nervous systems build durable relationships.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Just do things…

[BowTiedPhys @BowTiedPhys]

Lay down. Close your eyes for 5 min. Assume you’re 90. Now open your eyes to realize you’re not and you have decades of an incredible life ahead of you.

The antidote to age neuroticism.

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

Asian Americans figured out the right approach to parenting, a big reason for their insane success & ascension into the American elite despite the odds stacked against them.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major life hack: Walk in nature.

Stanford study found that a 90-minute nature walk meaningfully reduced rumination and activity in the brain region associated with depression.