Louis Balcombe

[Louis Balcombe @LouisBalcombe]

@DBrozeLiveFree Absolutely spectacular work. I was having this conversation with my partner earlier today when we stumbled across this. I've shared it with most of my friends. The problem is... not many people are ready to absorb this information. Its actually quite scary for people to accept.

[Ickonic @ickonic]

True Positivity Is Waking Up From The Nightmare 💯

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind.
Too much sugar leads to a heavy body & too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.
Time spent undistracted & alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.
@naval

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Your goal in life must be to always move higher and higher up the food chain, where you alone control the direction of your enterprise and depend on no one.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Develop the habit of examining in depth your own emotional responses. You will end up slowly eliminating unnecessary reactions.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

The older I get, the more time I spend—as a percentage of each day—on crafting better questions. In my experience, going from 1x to 10x, from 10x to 100x, and from 100x to (when Lady Luck really smiles) 1000x returns in various areas has been a product of better questions. John Dewey’s dictum that “a problem well put is half-solved” applies.

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head.

If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.

Fortunately, this is a skill you can develop. No book can give you all of the answers, but this book can train you to ask better questions. Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that “The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.”

Substitute “master learner” for “novel,” and you have my philosophy of life.

Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

I often think of the below story introduced to me by Tara Brach:

"This is a story about a tiger named Mohini that was in captivity in a zoo, who was rescued from an animal sanctuary. Mohini had been confined to a 10-by-10-foot cage with a concrete floor for 5 or 10 years. They finally released her into this big pasture: With excitement and anticipation, they released Mohini into her new and expensive environment, but it was too late. The tiger immediately sought refuge in a corner of the compound, where she lived for the remainder of her life. She paced and paced in that corner until an area 10-by-10 feet was worn bare of grass. . . . Perhaps the biggest tragedy in our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns."

What past limitations—real or perceived—are you carrying as baggage? Where in your life are you pacing in a 10-by-10-foot patch of grass? Where are you afraid of getting sprayed with water, even though it’s never happened? Oftentimes, everything you want is a mere inch outside of your comfort zone. Test it.

[Michael Oxford - AKA The Santa Cruz Mountain Goat @SCMountainGoat]

Many people want to "Move On" from Covid, and I get it - I do too.

The thing is, We can't. There's no going back. We learned some things about Ordinary People, and we must discuss it.

Some people were scared, and some people were not. Those who were scared were willing to do to terrible things to those who were not.

Ordinary people called for the health insurance of other ordinary people to be canceled.

Ordinary people silenced some of the most highly trained and qualified physicians in the world, and other ordinary people championed the censorship.

Ordinary people were glad other ordinary people could not eat inside with them.

Ordinary people eagerly explained to other ordinary people that their child would not be receiving a life saving transplant due to their vaccination status.

Ordinary people cheered as Doctors, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, Radiologists, and many other Healthcare Workers were fired, when they were called hero's months before.

Ordinary people cheered as blue color state employees were fired, when they were called "Essential" months before.

Ordinary people were angry when The Supreme Court stepped in and saved the jobs of many unvaccinated workers in the private sector.

Ordinary people shunned family members, and un-friended life long friends.

Ordinary people were un-invited from trips and kicked out of groups, clubs, and communities.

Ordinary people kept ordinary student athletes from competing due to vaccination status.

Probably the worst of all, ordinary people were coerced into injecting themselves with an unknown substance, that they didn't want, all under false pretenses, many of which had terrible or deadly reactions.

The list goes on an on, and so do the crimes against humanity.

Ordinary people became monsters, all because of fear.

Are you ordinary?

Do you live in fear?

Did you become a monster?

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[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Men see the bigger picture.

Ultimately logical.

We don’t ignore your feelings.

We simply care about your survival more than we care about your feelings.

We love you from authority to keep you your best self.

If we prioritise how you “feel” - you always fuck up.

[Louis Balcombe @LouisBalcombe]

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[Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor]

Like him or hate him, he's bang on point here
- two minutes of serious reality:

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There are few things more revealing of an authoritarian mindset than wanting Google and Apple to use their monopoly power to act as internet overlords, dictating who can and can't be heard, what ideas are and are not permitted.

Yet that's our situation and so many seem grateful.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

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