T-MONK

[Wilbur Harrington VII @swordharrington]

There’s a music in the minds of the charismatic. It’s not looks. Not height. It’s life that makes a man look like he’s walking in a movie scene

Everyone feels it. Few understand it

He’s dancing, spiritually

No matter the circumstances

[Wilbur Harrington VII @swordharrington]

True luxury is community, health and leisure

All of which are antithetical to modern life

Instead they gave us “money” and status-striving to waste our lives pursuing

[Silentum 🦁 @xKhalifan]

STOP BLAMING YOURSELF FOR NOTHING

All your problems are fake. Everything happens for a reason. You’re at the right place at the right time. Live in the present moment. The now is the only thing that exists. Don’t rush. Reconsider your priorities. Use your energy wisely. Things will change tremendously. Enjoy the sunrise.

You hear everywhere about how people achieved great things at your age, and everyone automatically starts subconsciously comparing themselves. That makes you anxious, depressed, and hopeless.

The first mistake everyone makes is putting themselves into comparison, which is irrational in the first place.

Nobody is like you. There never was a person like you, and never will be. Your DNA is the code that belongs only to you. No one can replicate that. NEVER.

Even if you associate yourself with a certain skin color, nationality, or age group, it’s still nothing compared to the soul that you are.

Now do you realize how pointless it is to compare yourself with other people?

But if comparison is the only way that will make you sleep better, here are some examples of people who made it, even when they were considered late:

[Atlas @DentesLeo]

Reputation compounds like interests. Every interaction adds a data point to the story people tell about you. Sloppy work in one place bleeds into how they read everything else you do.

Build the story on purpose. Frame each win so it connects to the last one. Make the pattern so consistent that people can predict your quality before you deliver.

Do this long enough and opportunities start costing less to earn. Skip it and you rebuild trust from zero with every new room you walk into.

[T-MONK @Limitless828]

@siimland No Push Ups and Dips?

[alexei @alexeixbt]

to all men:

be private
accept the loneliness
fix your life

no one is coming to save you

the sooner you stop expecting rescue, the faster you become the kind of man life can't easily break

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

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[Max @MPfounder]

I'm convinced that a large portion of people's health problems stem from decades of forced suppression of our animalistic instincts.

If you watch a kid at the beach for eg, you'll notice that most of them are absolute furnaces of mitochondrial activity - they sprint into the water, explore every novelty all while smiling nonstop.
They're not concerned what people think, not concerned about money or any responsibilities. They radiate pure present energy, and probably feel more alive than the average adult nowadays does in an entire year.

But overtime, through the education systems and how modern life operates, they learn that the safest thing they can do is simply be quiet and sit still. That compliance is the way to go, not curiosity.
Then they get locked into screens, slumped over unnatural chairs and learn to be comfortable and passive. The body reads this as an inescapable stressor, activating sympathetic tone.

They LOSE their natural instincts as an animal to compete, not be afraid conflict when absolutely necessary, move freely, seek novelty, and fully experience being alive.

This manifests as androgen hormone suppression, compromised gut integrity and bacterial overgrowths, tanked cellular energy output from sympathetic overdrive slowing metabolism (cell danger response), dense fascia, and a dysregulated nervous system.

This can all happen still while eating the perfect diet, sleeping well etc.

The moment you realise that you're not even playing your own game in life, is the moment you can stop repeating the same patterns over and over, and become that kid at the beach again.

[VP @VibesPatrol]

Build the business. Write the book. Make the money. Get stronger. Master the craft. Become exceptional. Take it seriously. Very seriously. Then remember something most people forget. You were never supposed to carry it like a prison sentence. Somewhere along the way the game became a burden. The mission became an identity. The ambition became anxiety. You got so focused on winning that you forgot why you started playing.

Life has a strange sense of humour. The people who move furthest are often the ones who remain playful. Not careless. Playful. They throw themselves into the work without becoming crushed by it. They pursue greatness without worshipping outcomes. They understand something the rest of us occasionally lose sight of: This is all temporary. The victories. The failures. The praise. The embarrassment. None of it survives. So give everything you've got. Build something beautiful. Aim absurdly high. Care deeply. Then smile. You almost forgot it was all for fun.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Your intellect (wisdom) is the judge. Its job is to discriminate what serves you and what doesn't. Don't force it to judge 10,000 cases every day. Every notification. Every Reel. Every headline. Every argument. Every "unpopular opinion" requires attention. Attention is the fuel intellect uses. A constantly interrupted intellect becomes fatigued. That's why you feel exhausted and anxious all the time. This is why periods of silence are so important. Silence is rest for intellect. So take a pause. Slow down. And let yourself be bored.

[Max @MaxTorchbearer]

RECOVER FASTER THAN EVERYONE

Lose the day. Come back at night. Miss the gym. Go tomorrow. Waste a week. Win the next one. Get embarrassed. Stay visible. Get rejected. Try again. Fall behind. Move anyway. Stop turning every mistake into a new identity. Stop making failure mean more than it does. Stop disappearing every time life proves you’re still human. The men who win aren’t perfect. They just don’t stay gone.

The cheat code is simple.

Become impossible to keep down.

[Vishnu Ra ॐ @AskTheYoungOne]

I always say, forget believing in yourself, Trust in Knowing yourself. Belief means there is doubt, Knowing is the truth that removes all belief. In knowing, no external opinion can touch you.

Realizing that it is impossible for another human to truly know you well enough to form an actual real opinion is also helpful. :)

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Acting as if is the most direct way to change your life. You behave like the person you want to become before you have any proof you're them, and over time the behavior is what makes it real. Your subconscious adapts to what you keep doing, so when you keep acting like someone, it starts treating that someone as you.

You've got it backwards. You think once you feel confident you'll act confident, once you feel worthy you'll ask for more. But you can act like the confidence is already there and the confidence shows up after. You carry yourself like the person who already has it, and your inner picture starts shifting to match how you're moving.

A lot of people stay frozen because they're waiting for the fear to disappear first. It won't. The only thing that gets rid of it is doing the exact thing they keep putting off until it's gone. Acting as if is how you get out of that. You stop waiting to feel like it and just move the way that person would move, and the feeling shows up later.

This isn't about putting on an act for people. It's simpler than that. You pick the version of you that already has the life you want and ask one thing before you act, what would they do here, then you do that. The version of you that already has the money doesn't hesitate to say their price. The version that's already where you want to be doesn't go quiet when it's time to speak up. At first it feels fake, like a costume, and that's fine. That's just your old self-image getting contradicted, and it's supposed to feel uncomfortable.

You can't wait for the right time either. This isn't a reward you get once life gets better. It's the thing that makes life get better. You do it now, broke, scared, unproven, right in the middle of the life you're trying to leave, and let the new way of acting drag the new life toward you.

And give it long enough and it stops feeling like acting at all. One day you catch yourself moving like the new person without even trying, saying the price without flinching, walking away from things beneath you without the guilt. You don't turn into the person and then act like them. It happens the other way, you act like them first, and that's what turns you into them.

[Desiree Rugani @desireerugani]

Elon Musk acabou de provar que a propriedade na América é uma ficção legal.

Musk: “Você é tributado pelo que ganha, tributado pelo que compra e tributado pelo que possui.”

Pense no que o imposto predial realmente significa.

Você trabalhou por décadas. Pagou tudo integralmente. A escritura está em seu nome.

Pare de pagar à governo sua taxa anual. Veja-os tomarem e venderem para alguém que pagará.

Você nunca possuiu aquela casa. Você estava apenas alugando de uma entidade com a qual nunca assinou um contrato.

O imposto de renda conta a mesma verdade em uma embalagem mais suave.

O governo não toma uma porção dos seus ganhos. Eles decidem quanto do seu próprio trabalho você tem permissão para manter.

Isso não é semântica. É uma confissão de quem o sistema acredita que seu tempo pertence primeiro.

O imposto sobre vendas enterra-se no recibo. Duas pessoas trocam valor voluntariamente. Um terceiro que não contribuiu nada leva uma fatia simplesmente por permitir que isso aconteça.

Agora empilhe todos os três.

Tributado quando você cria. Tributado quando você gasta. Tributado quando você segura. Tributado novamente quando você morre e tenta passá-lo para seus filhos.

Em nenhum ponto desse ciclo o sistema reconhece sua produção como sua.

Porque o dinheiro não é uma abstração. É a vida humana cristalizada.

Todo dólar tributado é uma hora que você já viveu, já sangrou por ela, já se foi.

O Estado não está gerenciando uma economia. Está reivindicando domínio sobre o tempo que você nunca recuperará.

E gastando em sistemas que você nunca pediu e ativamente se opõe.

A instituição que extrai tudo isso não enfrenta nenhuma obrigação de desempenho. Um contratado que não entrega nada é demitido. Uma burocracia que queima trilhões recebe um aumento de orçamento no próximo ano fiscal.

A SpaceX paga impostos às agências que obstruem seus lançamentos. A Tesla financia os reguladores que redigem regras para proteger seus concorrentes.

Os construtores não estão subsidiando o governo. Eles estão financiando seu próprio atrito.

O código tributário tem 74 mil páginas. Não porque a economia exija isso. Porque a extração teve que ser enterrada em complexidade suficiente para que você parasse de perguntar para quem ele foi desenhado para proteger.

O passado pertencia às pessoas que tributavam o mundo.

O futuro pertence às pessoas que o constroem.

[Mr Melancholy @chakravartiiin]

Growing up for men in society is all about killing your inner child and turning into an emotionless Gollum so everyone around you can use you without any guilt. Your existence depends on your usefulness like a slave you don't have a right to exist if you're not useful.

Having hobbies, expectations, dreams and hopes may make one non conformist and lash out at society which is obviously not good. You have to be the perfect receiver for the pains of others if you try to rebel you'll be shamed into submission or ostracized from society

You kinda become the martyr for society's indulgences you pay for the mistakes & frivolity of others just because you are unlucky. You're born in a prison and you have to buy your way out of it.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Ten years before that line was written, the state of New York arrested the man who wrote it. The charge was obscenity. His crime was renting Madison Square Garden and filling it with healthy, muscular bodies.

His name was Bernarr Macfadden, and the words in that screenshot come from his 1915 book, Vitality Supreme. He was a sickly orphan from Missouri who changed his own first name from Bernard to Bernarr because he wanted it to sound like a lion's roar.

The 1905 arrest was only the start. New York's chief anti-vice crusader seized his posters, and the scandal sold 20,000 tickets. Two years later they got him again, this time for printing an article about a sexually transmitted disease. A jury convicted him and a judge gave him two years. President Taft pardoned him.

Macfadden drew the blueprint every fitness influencer still follows. He started Physical Culture magazine in 1899, ran the first bodybuilding contests in America, and printed readers' before-and-after photos decades before anyone called it content. By the late 1920s his magazines sold in the millions, and he was richer than William Randolph Hearst, the most powerful publisher in the country.

He was also sure he would live to 120. He walked barefoot through Central Park to soak up energy from the ground, slept on the floor, called bread the "Staff of Death," and took up parachuting at 81, dropping into the Hudson River every birthday. At 84 he jumped into the Seine in Paris.

In 1955 he caught jaundice. He had spent his whole life treating sickness by fasting, so he stopped eating. Fasting is close to the worst thing you can do for jaundice. A hotel manager found him unconscious. He died two days later at 87, 33 years short of the age he had promised himself.

Those words are 111 years old. Every gym selfie and body transformation post is running on an idea their author once went to jail to defend.

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

I’ve found that the Anna Karenina principle also applies to lying: all truth tellers feel the same freedom, all liars spiral into a bespoke hell because their twisted reality backfires in the exact way they tried to cheat it in the first place

[Justin C Scott @iamjustincscott]

You suffer because you try too hard to control. You cling to people, outcomes, ideas about yourself. You take it all so seriously and it makes you anxious and stressed. Release and let go. Live life the way you would hold sand. Not with a closed fist, but an open palm.

[Vacha @TVachaW]

Bring to mind the person you find most magically sexually attractive in the world.

Meditate for a moment on the fascination and beauty you see in them.

Imagine a world where every person, every object, every experience held that same fascination, beauty and magic for you.

This, I believe, is the world that a truly tantric practice is trying to unlock.

People imagine tantra as a practice designed to make sex more fascinating.

But really it is more like making everything that is not sex as fascinating and magical as sex is.

And the reason Buddhists adapted tantra to their system is that this process of re-enchantment and re-fascination with the world has an interesting effect on desire.

When everything we experience is equally fascinating, equally magical, equally beautiful, then we no longer crave any experience in particular.

In a world where everything is perfect already, nothing is desired in particular.

The beauty and magic that we sought from special experiences is now seen not to be inherent to those experiences but available in all things.

Because everything is special, nothing is special.

Specialness and desirability are seen as empty in that they are revealed as a mode of awareness rather than a property of the desired or special object.

It is partly why Tibetan Buddhists talk about how “emptiness is inseparable from bliss.”

Liberated from dependence on specific objects, experiences or people, bliss shines everywhere in all things.

[🦣Tanimal @Tanimal]

If your blanket is even 1 inch to short

You're gonna compensate by pulling your feet in

And that extremely minute change will force your body to adapt, making you physically shorter over time

So when you hear "be abundant " it doesn't mean to spend all of your money

It means BE open to new opportunities

INVITE high vibrations into your life and give them back

It means to reject frugality no matter the constraints you're under

Under no circumstances should you be making yourself smaller to make room for something else

If it doesn't fit comfortably with your full self, then it probably doesn't belong beside you