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Specialist in all things addiction and over-thinking. Is something keeping you awake at night? I’d love to help.

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@ClareCraigPath Ok for me too.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

A young man sees someone drive by in a Ferrari with a blonde.

He thinks: that guy has everything.

Jordan Peterson says look closer.

"The woman in the car is a prostitute with a cocaine addiction. Her life is one catastrophe after another."

"He's had to lie and cheat his way into this position. He's afraid everything's going to come crashing down on him."

"And that's what you're jealous of."

He spent 15 minutes explaining what we're actually built for:

"We view ourselves as built for pleasure. For consumption. For safety. For egotistical self-aggrandizement and fame."

"What are we actually built for? Maximal challenge."

"We're built to walk uphill. When you reach the pinnacle, you want to stop and appreciate the vision. But the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance."

"It's from the uphill climb that we derive our value."

This is why young men disappear into video games.

"That's all acted out in the video game. The active warrior moving uphill with sword in hand. That's dynamic. That's exciting."

"They have to act that out in their own life. Video games are not a substitute for life."

Start where you are. Even if it's embarrassing.

"Humility is starting where you are. If your life is a mess, you have to see that you're the person in that mess."

"Your first attempt to fix it might not be something you're particularly proud of."

"I saw this in my clinical practice. The first steps people had to take were pretty embarrassing. They'd think: really? That's all I can do?"

"Hey, man. Uphill is better than downhill."

Here's what most people don't understand about momentum:

"You accrue success exponentially. You accrue defeat exponentially too."

"Start going downhill, you go downhill faster and faster. Start going uphill, you go uphill faster and faster."

"Even if you have to start painfully small, it doesn't matter."

Everyone wants confidence. But self-esteem is a lie.

"Self-esteem doesn't even exist. It's a pathological concept altogether."

"You want confidence that's based in competence. Otherwise it's narcissistic."

"How do you develop that? You watch yourself exceed your limits."

"And then you think: there's something in me that can exceed my limits. That's your true self."

You want a goal you can never fully attain.

"Almost all the positive emotion we feel, especially the emotion that fills us with enthusiasm, is experienced in relationship to a goal."

"You want a horizon of ever-expanding possibility."

"People stake their soul on attaining an instrumental goal. Then they get there and think: now what?"

"The answer can't be: I'm going to live in the lap of luxury and never have to do anything."

"What do you want to be? A giant infant with a gold bottle? You never have to do anything but lay on your back and suck."

"No. You want to be an active warrior moving uphill with your sword in hand."

Now here's the dark part:

"You need to contemplate your own malevolence. Because you're not only who you are. You're who you could be. For better or worse."

"I think it's easier to understand who you could be if you were better once you deeply understand who you could be if you were worse."

"You think: I'm way deeper on the negative end than I thought. Much more closely aligned with the forces of hell than I presumed."

"That's easy to swallow factually. Not so easy to swallow emotionally. It's a bitter pill."

"I don't think you can contemplate the good without contemplating the evil first. It doesn't have the depth."

"Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom."

Many of his clients are too agreeable. They let everyone else win.

"They're resentful and don't know how to stand up for themselves. They're very compassionate by nature. If you're negotiating with them, they'll let you win."

"That's not good. You need to win too."

"You cannot negotiate unless you can say no. And it causes conflict to say no."

The solution sounds counterintuitive.

"You have to develop your inner monster a little bit. And that makes you a better person, not a worse person."

"It's weird. But that's just how it is."

On privilege and how to pay for it:

"Some cards are privilege. Maybe you're born intelligent. Symmetrical. Healthy. Into a culture where it's easier not to be deprived. Maybe your parents are rich."

"All of that is unearned."

"The way you pay for your privilege is with your virtue."

"You expiate and atone by doing your best to live the best possible life you can manage. To speak the truth. To treat people with respect. To put your house in order."

On envy:

"Don't be so sure your position in your room is so damn trivial. It might be your attitude towards it that's trivial."

"If you're in dire circumstances, look at how much opportunity you have to make things better."

"You don't even want it to be easy."

[LOCT @LOCT28490480]

I with you!

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

People are often in a state of disbelief when I tell them that, as a therapist, I want less pathologising, less diagnosing, less labelling, and less dependency on therapy.

The obsession with mental health is actually making people more unwell.

[Daniel Kerley @danielsjourney1]

Evening lads @MoSalah @liamdelap @ChrisEriksen8 @HarryMaguire93 @TrentAA @Harry_Styles @LukeTheNuke180 @Madders10 please take a moment to RT my new positive mental health video tonight please because someone somewhere may need it right now
❤️⬇️❤️

[Bev Turner @beverleyturner]

Oh you're f***ing kidding me?...... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[LOCT @LOCT28490480]

Ha, he should do stand up!

[Bean @Tap455Bean]

@juneslater17 You should do stand up young lady 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Bean @Tap455Bean]

@juneslater17 You should do stand up young lady 🤦🏼‍♂️

[LOCT @LOCT28490480]

@juneslater17 , you’re just just too funny for some folk, aren’t you? And too smart. It’s ok, he’ll probably never realise. :-)

[June Slater @juneslater17]

So I get this message on FB, a bloke thinks we have a lot in common. Wants to get to know me better, thinks I'm younger than 66, but he's not going to hold it against me. I'm not actually going to let him hold anything against no matter what shape it form it comes in.
He's looking for lurrv whereas I'm usually looking for me glasses.

He's been droning on about companionship and walks in the country , romantic meals and other BS, and manages to send a photo of a packet of Viagra, I asked if he was drug dealer, no sense of humour, shocked and horrified at my suggestion.
He's posh and has a double barreled name including relevant relatives from the past.
He starts to tell me how he came from an important family, but I'd decided to take my nap by then and didn't read it properly, I thought he said imported and I said
Oh really maybe you wouldn't get in this country now, there's a bit of a queue
He said he'd just finished a 30 minute work out and said he had the body of a 40 year old, I said is that some sort of hostage situation..
Still no sense of humour he said he means for a 75 year old.
He re sent the Viagra photo
I said do you think this is some sort of prescription line?
He said he just wanted me to know he wouldn't be a disappointment in the bedroom.
I said the only thing that would disappoint me in the bedroom would be no WiFi!
He said women had never been disappointed in him, I said are you sure about that you said you'd been single 5 years!

He asked me what I was doing ..
I said well actually I've locked myself out on my balcony and I'm waiting for Dave to get back from The Co Op then he can let me in,
Otherwise this exchange would never have happened.
He was the on line equivalent of a lounge lizard inn cream lofers and crease proof slacks..
Jog on you daft old sod.

[LOCT @LOCT28490480]

#CashIsKing

[Matt Le Tissier ✝️ @mattletiss7]

This is so true and explains brilliantly why it is in all our interests to make the effort to use cash 💷

Why should we pay cash everywhere with banknotes instead of a card ?

- I have a £50 banknote in my pocket. Going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it.

The restaurant owner then uses the note to pay for the laundry.

The laundry owner then uses the note to pay the barber.

The barber will then use the note to pay for shopping.

After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain a £50 value, which has fulfilled its purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank has jumped dry from every cash payment transaction made.

BUT

IF I go to a restaurant and pay digitally via Card,

- the bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3%, so around £1.50

( and so will be the fee of £1.50 for each further payment transaction )

-for the owner re laundry or
- payments of the owner of the laundry shop,
- or payments of the barber etc.....

Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial £50 will exist at only £5, and the remaining £45 has become the property of the bank … thanks to all of the digital transactions and fees!

Use it or lose it folks…

Once it’s gone we won’t get it back!

Cash is king! #CashIsKing

[LOCT @LOCT28490480]

#CashisKing

[Matt Le Tissier ✝️ @mattletiss7]

This is so true and explains brilliantly why it is in all our interests to make the effort to use cash 💷

Why should we pay cash everywhere with banknotes instead of a card ?

- I have a £50 banknote in my pocket. Going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it.

The restaurant owner then uses the note to pay for the laundry.

The laundry owner then uses the note to pay the barber.

The barber will then use the note to pay for shopping.

After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain a £50 value, which has fulfilled its purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank has jumped dry from every cash payment transaction made.

BUT

IF I go to a restaurant and pay digitally via Card,

- the bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3%, so around £1.50

( and so will be the fee of £1.50 for each further payment transaction )

-for the owner re laundry or
- payments of the owner of the laundry shop,
- or payments of the barber etc.....

Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial £50 will exist at only £5, and the remaining £45 has become the property of the bank … thanks to all of the digital transactions and fees!

Use it or lose it folks…

Once it’s gone we won’t get it back!

Cash is king! #CashIsKing

[LOCT @LOCT28490480]

Yes @beverleyturner. Also, the ability to hide cash away is vital for anyone needing to flee an abusive, controlling relationship. If your spending is traceable, then so are you. This makes the risks especially prohibitive for some women and children.

[Bev Turner @beverleyturner]

I'm so proud to be part of the only media outlet that is shouting about our need to keep cash.

The poor, the elderly & those without bank accounts are all suffering from logistical issues re the demise of cash.
The rest of the media is silent!

But it is also a FUNDAMENTAL right of everyone to transact on our own, private terms.

Well done @GBNEWS!!

[Bev Turner @beverleyturner]

I'm so proud to be part of the only media outlet that is shouting about our need to keep cash.

The poor, the elderly & those without bank accounts are all suffering from logistical issues re the demise of cash.
The rest of the media is silent!

But it is also a FUNDAMENTAL right of everyone to transact on our own, private terms.

Well done @GBNEWS!!

[LOCT @LOCT28490480]

IVM is available for veterinary applications, but it’s also on the W.H.O list of essential medicines (as is Hydroxychloroquine, interestingly enough). Doesn’t the W.H.O concern itself with humans and it’s list of essential medicines have a long safety record? What are MSM saying?

[Matt Eifert @Eifert_Matt]

@ArOkTxNm1 @MdBreathe Ivermectin is not just a horse dewormer. It's an antiparasitic that has been in use for decades.

[lucy johnston @thelucyjohnston]

🚨Non-covid deaths “a catastrophe of equal proportion to pandemic”

XS deaths higher than pandemic year 2021 last yr

XS cancer deaths rising

“How high do the figures have to rise before govt investigates?”

⁦@carlheneghan⁩
⁦@ProfWishart⁩ https://t.co/6Tm52vUTHR

[Maggie Crossan @maggie_crossan]

@RobertLindsay I laughed myself silly over this programme at the time because it seemed too absurd for words, little realising how ahead of it's time it would turn out to be.

[Garry Porter @GarryPorter19]

@TheFreds not a word about it on MSM @BBCNews , @SkyNews , @itvnews ?? anything to say ?

[June Slater @juneslater17]

I don't want an end of life drug forcing on me, because suddenly I'm inconvenient .
3 years of end of life drugs used in 3 months..who decides this crap!

[Nicholas Veniamin @NickVeniamin]

BREAKING NEWS: 17,000 Physicians and Scientists declare that Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, Janssen, Astra Zeneca, and their enablers, withheld and willfully omitted safety information from patients and physicians which led to toxic death and should be immediately indicted for fraud.