"Narcissists are very charming at first but gradually become very difficult to live with...demanding to be admired...They also see their partner as a trophy...they also keep an eye out in case someone better comes along, in which case they can easily drop their current partner."
Bartek has a good point here. I'd like the state what kind of fitness & S&C books I like reading...and usually they are not for Gen Pop consumption.
I like the weird and the hardcore stuff. Like shit written by Eastern European incels who train in a park with a tree branch and a rock, with a loaded AK47 propped up nearby extolling the virtues of living in a hut with no power and eating raw rabbit.
Shit written by an damaged, emotionally deranged idiot-savant who obsessively pours through research and writes in between bouts of Arkham Asylum and masturbation
80 year old former Soviet sport coaches who run their 50 year old training programs through Claude for English translation and Claude gets it slightly wrong and if you already know the material you get something out of it, but if you don't, it's confusing.
Going over old forum compilation stuff...example: Dogcrapp....Iron Addict...old T Nation shit that was written by someone who actually gave a shit about the topic instead of just doing it for money.
Bodybuilding books written in the 70s and 80s (90s) where it was a bizarre subculture that never typed the word "steroid" for posterity and detailed the dietary and training regimens of people who had to figure shit out for themselves by trial and error.
Isometrics are not better for tendon pain relief compared to normal, slow repetitions.
They may work better for some, but this is an individual thing.
Study: https://t.co/AoNqYn5Mof
Yes. It's a rejection of divine grace to dwell on the past. It's a good trick by the demons though. They convince you that, "You're doing the work," by agonizing over what has already been forgiven instead of moving forward.
The easiest way to filter for good advice:
1) person has what you want
2) person has more disadvantages than you
People skip the second part. They just filter for the first one. If someone grew up with a trust fund, his advice isn't going to work
Novak Djokovic just said being bored is the most creative state a child can be in.
His son is 10 and his daughter is 7.
He says when his son told him he was bored after a morning of ping pong, kayaking, and soccer, he sat him down for a conversation most parents avoid.
"It's okay to be bored sometimes. When you're bored, it doesn't mean that you have to instantly take a book or a screen. You need to also learn how to be with your thoughts."
Djokovic says boredom is when creativity finally shows up, and it's also when everything you have been suppressing through your phone comes to the surface.
Most parents are protecting their kids from the only state that grows them.
— Novak Djokavic (@DjokerNole) on Jay Shetty's (@jayshetty) podcast
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Always choose clean pain over dirty pain.
Clean pain is the pain of telling the truth. The pain of leaving. The pain of disappointing someone. The pain of starting. The pain of being bad at something new. The pain of saving money instead of buying the thing. The pain of going to bed while the party continues. The pain of facing the blank page.
Dirty pain is the pain of avoiding clean pain. The pain of staying too long. The pain of lying. The pain of living above your means. The pain of being known inaccurately. The pain of watching your life shrink around a fear you refuse to face. The pain of managing the consequences of cowardice.
Clean pain is often sharp and brief, dirty pain is dull and chronic.
Self-respect is paying the clean cost early.
People spend all day on instagram watching others take luxury vacations and doing renovations and lose their minds. Uninstall the apps and watch these mental problems disappear.
This is mostly why I’m anti-wearable/anti-data tracking, & also anti-tik tok/anti-ig. Do whatever it takes to preserve ur positive mindset, & remove the things that mess with it. Spend enough time on those apps & trackers & u will be convinced that u have PCOS, perimenopause, ur husband is cheating on u, & u can’t go to the gym because ur in ur luteal phase or whatever. It’s all driving u insane & making u miserable
It is an excellent book. I remember taking one thing from the book. It is essentially wrong to calculate the poverty lines & believe that they are real & that the poor people should "observe" them. Orwell shows how seemingly irrational behavior of splurging your money on the pay day is not irrational at all: it is the only way for a poor person to catch some glimpses of happiness and to feel human. Even if he starves afterwards.
Cicero called writing "the only true form of immortality".
...and the idea of getting into the
mind of long dead, or monumentally formidable people via their words (directed at YOU, the reader) has always freaked me out (in a good way).