Jacob∆

I’m just here for music and basketball. #TakeNote

[Jacob∆ @Live4GC]

All I want to do is be in the mountains and listen to good music

[Jacob∆ @Live4GC]

@madeon The album is so different, but very much Madeon! Thank you 🔥🔥

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

New record🥇

The Artemis II astronauts are now farther from Earth than humans have ever been! At 1:57 p.m. EDT, they broke the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970.

Their journey around the far side of the Moon today will take them a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

[Utah Mammoth @utahmammoth]

A new Ice Age dawns. Introducing Utah Mammoth.

#TusksUp

[Philadelphia Eagles @Eagles]

SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!

[Philadelphia Eagles @Eagles]

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY. GO BIRDS.

[ᵏᵗⁿ @killthenoise]

All of reality has turned into professional wrestling the sooner you can understand that rhe better

[Eli McCann @EliMcCann]

Utah Twitter, make this trend. The legislature has engaged in unbelievable deceptive practices to put this on our ballot and trick all of us into giving up our rights. Regardless of your political persuasions, let's all be as loud about this as possible. Vote no on amendment D.

[Eli McCann @EliMcCann]

Utah: this is the most important thing on our ballot this year. They are trying to trick us into giving up our rights. Wherever you are on the political spectrum, we must all band together to oppose our legislature.

[Eli McCann @EliMcCann]

A really wild thing is happening in Utah right now. Our state Constitution allows citizens, with incredible effort, to occasionally put a Measure on the ballot to vote in a law. In recent years, the majority of voters in our state have voted to legalize medical marijuana use,

[Jacob∆ @Live4GC]

@awonderland @jaredtinetti_ @BreakawayFest https://t.co/5LXZElXwu1

[Real Salt Lake @realsaltlake]

CHICHO ARANGO IS NOT HUMAN

[Jacob∆ @Live4GC]

@andyblarsen For me, just hearing that soundtrack on movie theater speakers was worth the price of admission.

[Dancing Astronaut @dancingastro]

Six years without Avicii.

We lost Tim Bergling on April 20, 2018 and dance music hasn’t been the same since.

1989 – Forever. ◢ ◤

(🎥: Grammis/YouTube)

[Jacob∆ @Live4GC]

@odesza Kusanagi

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

At a show on his Solo Tour, John Mayer confessed:

“I wait for most things to be over. I wait for this to be over to do the next thing and the next thing and the next thing and the next thing...”

To counter this tendency, he implemented a rule.

“Because I’ve realized, he said,

“Everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed: Done. Done. Done. The thing you hate that you have to do tomorrow will be over before you know it, and the thing you're looking forward to tomorrow will be over before you know it.”

“So I have a new rule in my life,” Mayer said, “and the rule is:

Never wish for less time.

Waiting for things to be over is just wishing for less time. Waiting for this to be over to get to the next thing—that's just wishing for less time.”

“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.'

I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out…”

Takeaway 1:

John's realization—that “everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed”—made me think of something that Dr. Anna Lembke writes about in her book Dopamine Nation:

“One of the most remarkable neuroscientific findings in the past century is that the brain processes pleasure and pain in the same place. Further, pleasure and pain work like opposite sides of a balance.”

“And one of the overriding rules governing this balance,” she said, “is that it wants to stay level…With any deviation from neutrality, the brain will work very hard to restore a level balance—what scientists call ‘homeostasis.’ … With any stimulus to one side, there will be a tip of an equal and opposite amount to the other side.”

Pain and pleasure, good days and bad days, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—everything leaves at the same speed.

Takeaway 2:

The brain’s tendency to think about the next thing is called “prospection.”

“Our brains were made for nexting,” the psychologist Daniel Gilbert writes in a chapter titled “Prospection” in his book Stumbling On Happiness.

“When researchers count the items that float along in the average person’s stream of consciousness, they find that about 12 percent of our daily thoughts are about the future.”

In other words, the average person spends 1 out of every 8 hours thinking about the next thing, “which is to say…each of us is a part-time resident of tomorrow.”

We are constantly nexting, Gilbert explains, because of “the illusion of foresight”—the illusion that “prospection can provide pleasure and prevent pain.”

The reality is that “the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope.”

The reality is that (whether through the prospectiscope or in the present) everything—pain and pleasure, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—leaves at the same speed.

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“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.' ... I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out...” — John Mayer

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[Jacob∆ @Live4GC]

@dancingastro @MartinGarrix Poison never gets old

[Jacob∆ @Live4GC]

@Inzo_Music Hard to choose a favorite song, but if had to it would be Floating. That drop at 2:20 caught me off guard in the best way possible.

[Real Salt Lake @realsaltlake]

2023 Goal of the Year:

[Dancing Astronaut @dancingastro]

i_o would’ve been 33 today.

Happy birthday, Garrett. 444ever. 🏴

[Jacob∆ @Live4GC]

@RiverBeatsDance Also @Inzo_Music https://t.co/0TwgekAKwM