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Time off from reality...

[ohshin @ohshinbhat]

i think everyone should watch hajime no ippo atleast once in their lives. it is way better than every self help book i've read or productivity video i've watched on yt

it shows how pursuit of greatness is really just becoming someone who can do hard things consistently

[𝓓𝓸𝓬_𝔃𝓮𝓮 ✧ @doc_zee7]

Me refusing to sleep because i didn't get enough time to feel like human after work

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

do this for just 3 years and i promise you’ll already start feeling like a billionaire.

if you’re coming from a humble background and want to build wealth, whether you’re a small business owner or an employee earning a salary or business profits, one of the best places to start is with two types of assets: money market mutual funds and the capital market.

but listen carefully;

one of the most important things you need to work on is your mind. people who come from poor or humble backgrounds always develop what is called a scarcity mentality.

work on your mindset, per se. you must understand that delayed gratification is essential for building wealth. many people say they want to become wealthy but cos of their background, they struggle with delayed gratification. they invest, sell for quick returns, make a little profit and that’s it. they never allow wealth to compound.

let me tell you a profound truth; wealth building is hard but it is also simple if you follow sound wealth principles, it has to do with consistency.

when i say consistency, i mean that every month you should budget a specific amount to put into your mutual funds and another amount to invest in stocks. choose a few quality companies and keep adding to your positions. you shouldn’t be concerned about price. what you should be thinking about is ownership. focus on quantity not short term price movements. there is a difference between focusing on price and focusing on ownership.

every month, when your salary arrives or your business profits, take an amount, no matter how small and consistently add to your treasury bills, mutual funds, and stock holdings. don’t do it cos you want to feel among or cos you made more money that month. put a structure in place and follow it consistently.

learn this early and execute, your future self will thank you in 3-5 years 👍

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

525,000 a year
10,000 a week
1,400 a day.

​These are the number of men that die by suicide.

​Happy Men's Mental Health Month.

​To every man reading this: you are not a burden, and you do not have to carry the weight of the world alone. Speaking up is real strength.

[Oyinloye Johnson @JohnsonOyinloye]

With everything that’s going on in our lives and around us , i just pray that we all find peace and understanding❤️😘

[Rave @RaveSwimmer303]

@Vicky I don’t think it’s prewritten. future probably exists as a probability field not as a fixed script until an action collapses it into a specific outcome.

[🎃🦄Baron Wanan🦄🎃⚙🩸 El afligido original 🩸⚙ @BaronBollito]

@mouseabolition Katara in short:

[Mhlongo da Herbalist 🍃 @Qokani]

Wise men spend their time perfecting their gardens so they don’t waste time chasing butterflies.

When butterflies see a beautiful garden, they can’t help but come closer. even if they ignore the garden, the man is still left with something beautiful he built for himself. 💪🏿❤️

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

I just walked out of church after great service , and I can’t shake this feeling… we’re wasting way too much of the little time we’ve been given. Not because we’re lazy, but because we’re distracted by things that don’t matter. We stress over money, opinions, validation, social media… we hold onto resentment, bitterness, anger, things people said years ago, and none of it serves any purpose in God’s kingdom. None of it is coming with you when this life is over.

[YH @Yemihazan]

You have won 70% in life if you have a supportive family.

[Yẹmí—Ìdàmú Ànọ́bí. @KR3Wmatic]

When I was an atheist, I remember being so annoyed by Christians and how happy they always were. I was mad that they weren't miserable and angry like me! I thought the Bible was fake, until I had an encounter with Jesus and I realized He was real and so was the Bible. Now I'm in Christ Jesus, and this joy I feel is so real, despite my circumstances. I rest and have peace in GOD! Christianity is not a religion, it's a personal relationship with God. You need the Holy spirit to understand. 🙏🏼

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

A student asked: "If sore throats are caused by a virus or bacteria, how come sleeping under the fan or drinking cold water gives it?"
I am surprised most people are not aware of the answer to this.

[ProfitableMan @ProfitableMan1]

Most Nigerians buy stocks based on tips, rumors or because the price looks cheap.

That is not investing. That is gambling.

Before you put a single naira into any Nigerian company, here is how to read their financial statement like an investor.

I will use Zenith Bank's 2025 report as a live example 👇

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. A baby owl can sit and starve to death right next to a pile of food. Put a stuffed owl next to it, like in the video, and suddenly it'll eat. An Austrian zoologist, Konrad Lorenz, won the 1973 Nobel Prize for figuring out why.

He showed that young birds aren't born knowing who their mom is. In the first few days of life, their brain takes a kind of mental photograph. Whatever they see moving around gets locked in as "parent." After that, only that figure can switch on their feeding instinct. He called it imprinting.

Owls have it worse than most birds. They're born blind, naked, and totally helpless. A baby barn owl needs feeding every two to three hours for weeks. It can't even keep itself warm until its feathers come in. And right around the time its eyes finally open, between days 15 and 20, its brain locks onto whoever's been taking care of it. Miss that window with the wrong face nearby, and the owl is wired wrong for life.

Even the begging is automatic. In the 1950s, a Dutch scientist named Niko Tinbergen ran experiments with baby seagulls. He found the chicks were pecking at a specific shape. A long thin thing with a colored spot was enough to trigger the full begging routine, even when it was just a painted wooden stick. Take the stick away and the whole sequence shuts down. The chick can be staring straight at food, but if there's no parent-shaped trigger, its body doesn't know how to swallow.

There's a tiny patch in the bird brain that runs this whole show. It's the same part that learns and stores faces. Researchers at Cambridge and labs in Japan have mapped it down to the chemistry. They've even found a hormone that, if you inject it in the right spot, can re-open the imprinting window after it closes.

That dummy owl in the video carries 40 years of conservation work behind it. In 1982 there were only 22 California condors left in the entire world. The San Diego Zoo started feeding hatchlings with hand puppets shaped like adult condors, hiding the human handler behind a curtain. The condor population is now 607. The Bronx Zoo did the same thing last spring with a baby king vulture. The Barn Owl Trust in the UK feeds orphaned owls through owl puppets while wearing camouflage hoods, because an owl raised by humans can never be released back into the wild. It'll fly toward people, beg from them, and starve.

The dummy is the only signal the chick's brain still accepts as "mom." Evolution carved a very specific lock into its brain, and only the right shape fits.

[Jay ⋆˙⟡ 🪐 @spectrumarvel]

The fact that Galactus had to turn off his own lights to see the betrayal is still unbelievable and incredible to me

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

[Kelvin O johnson @_OKJ__]

Reminds of the story of how the beautiful blue planet of Neptune was discovered about 200 years ago…

In the early 19th century, scientists and astronomers felt the solar system was settled…..ordered, mapped, and predictable. The known planets at that time moved in accordance with the laws laid down by Isaac Newton, and astronomers felt they had a firm grasp on our solar system.

But something was wrong. The orbit of Uranus….discovered decades earlier by William Herschel….behaved behave strangely. It wobbled, as if an unseen hand lurking in the darkness beyond it was pulling on it.

This small irregularity sparked Two young mathematicians, working independently…Urbain Le Verrier in France and John Couch Adams in England to set out to solve the mystery.

Using nothing but Newton’s equations and relentless calculation, they each proposed a very bold idea… that there must be an undiscovered planet disturbing Uranus. They didn’t just suggest its existence….they predicted where it should be in the sky,its size and mass.

In 1846, Le Verrier sent his calculations to Johann Gottfried Galle at the Berlin Observatory, urging him to look in a specific patch of the sky. On the night of September 23, Galle turned his telescope to that precise location. There, within a single degree of Le Verrier’s predictions, he found a faint, unmapped object. It wasn’t a star. It moved.

In that quiet moment, a new planet had been found….not by chance, but purely by mathematics.

The planet was named Neptune, after the Roman god of the sea which is a fitting title for its deep blue colour.

it was the first planet ever found through prediction and mathematics rather than direct observation. a triumph of human reason.

[MUHAMMAD ONYANGO @Moha001_Onyango]

Because light is invisible unless it hits something and reflects into your eyes. The reason why the earth looks bright is because sunlight hits air molecules, dust & water vapor making the sky appear light blue

There’s nothing in space to scatter light. So everything looks dark.

[Daniel @danielholkss]

I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point

Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home.

Nothing in that system is standing still.
The Moon is moving.
The Earth is moving.
Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here.
Adjust here.
Come back here.
And unlike nepa light, it infact works.

There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side.

I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything.

But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...

[Mustafa @oprydai]

i often think about this..