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[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Your entire life will change when you learn to love what most people avoid. Wake up early. Focus. Move your body. Eat real foods. Obsess over one thing. Read old books. Be present. Listen intently. Change your mind. Have difficult conversations. The recipe for a good life.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[Hugo Clément @hugoclement]

Franchement c’est fort.
Arriver à faire rire une salle aux éclats dans une langue que tu ne maîtrisais pas quelques années auparavant, et avec une telle fluidité, ça représente un travail monstrueux.
Bravo @kevadamsss 👏

[ShawFCB @fcb_shaw]

C’est pour moi son but le plus beau cette saison.

[JeremyUnplugged @JeremyUnplugged]

Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors, criticized Israel for not “handling their business with the Palestinians diplomatically” after October 7, saying “instead Israel sought revenge.”

No, Coach Kerr—Israel acted to bring home 200 hostages taken and tortured by Hamas, and to dismantle terrorists who continuously threaten Israeli lives.

Yes, the same terrorists who murdered your father.

There is no diplomacy with jihadists.

Why can’t people understand this!?

[Sarah Abv @Sarahsa09309757]

Où était l’indignation lorsqu’un missile iranien a frappé la vieille ville de Jérusalem il y a à peine une semaine ?

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Despite the ballistic missiles, it was a pretty sweet weekend all in all in Tel Aviv 🇮🇱🏖️

[MessiXtra @MessiXtraHQ]

🇦🇷🗣️ Messi in the documentary about the reason for his smile when France equalised:

“I felt like football was telling me, this cup was not created for me to be its champion. I felt that the 2014 scenario would be repeated and I would be sad, but something inside me told me, ‘Wake up, you fool. This is no longer your dream. It has become the dream of the world.’ And indeed, I stood on my feet again and said, ‘Nothing will stop me.’ Realizing my dream this time”

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Iran is bombing children's playgrounds. I'm here at the UN now and they are silent.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Back to the Future Part II, 1989

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Steven Spielberg is known for arriving on set and deciding in the moment how to stage a scene - choosing shots and blocking actors on the fly, a crazy talent. This JURASSIC PARK clip shows it in action.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

How many times does an Iranian missile have to fall in the Old City of Jerusalem before people understand that the regime in Iran doesn’t care about Jerusalem or Palestinians?

They just want to kill Jews. And they’re willing to sacrifice both Iranians and Palestinians to do it.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

A very senior political source outlined Israel's five objectives in this war:

1. To act jointly with the United States to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
2. To permanently deny any future Iranian regime the ability to again close the strait—including through the development of alternative methods.
3. To dismantle Iran's weapons industry, with an emphasis on ballistic missile capabilities—this time targeting not just equipment but the factories that produce it.
4. To complete the destruction of Iran's nuclear program.
5. To create the conditions for regime change.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

WILD FOOTAGE 🔴

IDF soldiers in Tel Aviv cheer as an Iranian missile is intercepted overhead.

[Julien Bahloul @julienbahloul]

C'est littéralement le Hezbollah qui a entraîné le Liban dans la guerre en attaquant Israël depuis le Liban, pour soutenir l'Iran.

Comme il l'a fait le 8 octobre pour soutenir le Hamas.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Footage of the most beautiful interception from this war so far.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Radio communication between an American and Israeli pilot during ongoing strike operations in the skies over Iran.

“Please be safe out there… strike hard.”

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: Sirens in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem following missiles launched by the regime in Iran.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Celebrations in Tel Aviv.

The Ma’ale Eliyahu Yeshiva is celebrating the elimination of Khamenei against the backdrop of the IDF HQ, after hundreds of the students helped at Ichilov Hospital during Shabbat with the emergency transfer of patients. The hospital’s director came to express his gratitude.

[Julien Bahloul @julienbahloul]

Des les abris antimissiles du centre de Tel Aviv.

Ils ne nous briseront pas.