Andy MacCallum

#Yoga teacher | 200hr YTT x2 ‘18 & ‘25 follows 40 years working with/studying #DarkTetrad traits & behaviours #posttraumaticgrowth is healing ❤️‍🩹📚

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

‘It takes one to know one’. The Dark Tetrad personality traits served in childhood, the military, & police careers in two countries.

Counselling, Yoga & teaching over 15 years alchemised them through self-awareness, academic study, and choice-making. 2/…

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The Maxim of Impotent Rage: The more successful a man becomes, the greater the density of weak and pathetic men who will be obsessively consumed with him. Highly secure, successful, and confident men are never threatened by other men's accomplishments. But the Sneaky F**kers are driven into unhinged mad hysteria. It is the ultimate form of impotent projection. "Why is this a**hole successful whilst I languish in obscurity with my brilliance yet to be discovered"?"

My advice: Stop focusing on the success of others to fuel your cosmic envy-based hate. Build. Create. Innovate. If you become successful, you won't have to obsess about the success of others.

Have a great day! Off to the beach.

[Álvaro J @jota_snchez]

El MIT lleva décadas financiando a Nancy Kanwisher para demostrar una sola cosa:

Tu cerebro te engaña constantemente y puede construir la realidad que deseas.

7 lecciones de su obra.

1. Lo que "ves" no es el mundo.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper @AC360

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

@Geiger_Capital “He’s really good at explaining things ladies isn’t he…?” Why is she addressing only the ladies in the audience? An argument is null and void when its foundation is a victim narrative.

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

@cathynewman @Keir_Starmer @elonmusk You ought to choose stoicism over a toxic victim mindset: "Choose not to be harmed - and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been." Marcus Aurelius.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

To become more optimistic, start imagining your best possible self.

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

Bingo.

[Chamberlain's Ghost @RSA_Observer]

The Henry Nowak thing. If you watch the video, before Nowak complains of being unable to breathe and having been stabbed, the one police officer notes that "he has a mouthful of blood". Now when a person with a mouthful of blood starts complaining that they can't breathe and that they have been stabbed, alarm bells should be starting to go off. Then, a few moments later a policewoman requests an ambulance saying "His pupils aren't even reacting". By that point anyone with any bit of sense would surely have realised that there was a very serious problem. Now these same officers, apparently having been bereft of anything approaching basic common sense, are blaming their DEI training.

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

@GadSaad This reflects my experiences so accurately I want to frame it. I like the honey badger analogy. I think if I have any ADHD traits, one must be that I become an uber honey badger! 🕊️✌🏻 Tell me ‘no’ or exercise a dark personality trait and I’ll do it twice and take pictures.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Academia is arguably the staunchest manifestation of herd mentality. Most academics belong to a new species known as the Invertebrate Castrati. They are meek, cowardly, tepid, soft, conforming, etc. If another academic comes along who has a big and playful personality that otherwise violates the exemplar template of meekness, the sheep become vicious. If you become famous, they hate you. If you write hugely popular books, they hate you. If you exhibit a honey badger mindset, they hate you. They are the mean kids in high school bathing in impotent and envious rage. As the old maxim goes "Never are the battles so fierce as when the stakes are so low." Such is the pettiness of most academics who are stay-in-your-lane bean counters when they should be brash and bold intellectual NAVY seals.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Thomas Sowell describes how he taught students:

“I’d spend a great deal of time putting together a reading list, where I’d find the strongest argument on one side and then the best example of the opposing view.”

“I didn’t test students on which side they believed. I tested them on whether they understood the arguments on both sides.”

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Learn geography terms visually

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

Graham Hancock asks the big question: "Humans existed for 300,000 years with brains wired like ours, yet civilization only emerged around 12,000 years ago."

"Why didn't we do it sooner? Why did it take so long?"

This gap challenges everything we think we know about human history. For most of our existence we left almost no trace of advanced societies, then suddenly agriculture, monumental architecture, and complex cultures appeared in multiple places.

Hancock suggests maybe we’re missing a chapter, one hidden by time, catastrophe, or incomplete archaeology.

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

Consequences though… 🕊️🤍💀

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Bullseye

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.

If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:

1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

@grey4626 Oh man get well soon ☀️🌻🙏🏻

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

“Life is too short to worry about little things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.”

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

@feral_feed “Do it again…” classic stim #autism

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

@networkk453 @tolad_ @asemota With no remorse or regret as your epitaph.

[Andy MacCallum @andy_mac_88]

@tolad_ Looks like a reckless double-suicide attempt. Is nihilism cultural?