The real blackpill is realizing most of your biological potential depends on key critical development periods:
- The health of your parents pre-insemination
- Prenatal first trimester (when organogenesis occurs)
- Infancy (0-2 years are the most plastic window in the entire human lifespan)
- Nutrient adequacy during the first 3-7 years
- Puberty (major wave of synaptic pruning and second major hormonal calibration window)
The older you get, the harder it is to change. We can use tools to change what we can but most structural development is fixed.
You are meant to accept this and control what you can. Your goal then becomes giving your kids the best competitive advantage they can get: Optimal development, which starts well before they are born.
Spend around 10–30 minutes a day visualizing a version of yourself that you are deliberately trying to build. Do it when your mind is already calm, especially in the evening or just before sleep, because the mind accepts imagery more easily when it is not being pulled in different directions.
The basic idea is simple. The brain treats repeated internal experience as something important. When a certain kind of situation is lived again and again in imagination, with enough detail and emotional weight, it starts to lose its “imagined” quality and becomes something your mind recognizes as familiar territory.
And what becomes familiar stops feeling impossible.
Old patterns weaken in this process not because you fight them directly, but because you stop feeding them the same mental rehearsal. At the same time, new patterns begin to stabilize because they are being repeatedly experienced internally before they ever exist externally.
Start by settling your body. Slow breathing. Less tension in the face, shoulders, stomach. You are not trying to force anything, you are just lowering internal noise.
Then choose one specific scene. Not an abstract goal. A moment. Something you can step into mentally.
If it is health, do not think “I want to be healthy,” instead see yourself moving through a normal day with physical ease, walking without effort, breathing clearly, feeling your body light and responsive.
If it is confidence or success, see yourself in a real situation where you would normally hesitate, but now you speak without that hesitation, you are steady, direct, and things unfold without internal resistance.
If it is discipline, see yourself already inside the routine, doing the work without negotiation, as if it is simply what you do.
Always stay in first person. Through your own eyes.
What is directly in front of you. What is under your feet. The texture of the environment. The light in the space. The small details your attention would normally skip.
Then sound. The way voices actually enter the space. The rhythm of your breathing. Any background noise that belongs to that environment.
Then physical sensation. The weight of your body. Temperature on the skin. The sense of movement. The way you occupy space when you are not resisting yourself.
Emotionally, you are not trying to force excitement. You are allowing a quieter set of states to appear. Relief that things are simple. A sense of “this is already how I operate.” A quiet internal stability that does not need justification.
You are not building a fantasy. You are rehearsing familiarity.
At the end, stop adding detail and just remain in the general felt sense of it for a short moment, as if your mind has already accepted it as normal.
Let that feeling continue lightly as you move into the rest of your day.
Repeat it often enough that the scene stops feeling like something you are trying to reach, and starts feeling like something your mind already knows how to do.
My intent here is to
1. Seek help or guidance for my situation
2. Only outline the logistics (not complaints)
3. Reaching out to anyone who has navigated this (path) diagnosis in India
Decade-long pattern of migraines, digestive stagnation, brain fog and breathing changes — worse in specific environments (and to certain things), better outdoors. So I realized it's more functional. (1/4)
Few challenges I've faced in my pursuit online
1. Accessibility and clear knowledge in whom to reach out
2. Accessibility wrt to money. Each consultation is at times 2/3 of my monthly pay. Before tests or supplements. Information exists but it's buried in guides and content.
“The depth of my consciousness causes me to suffer. Is it a blessing or a curse to feel everything so deeply?”
That question stopped Jordan Peterson cold during a live Q&A.
His answer was pure fire:
“You take more of the thing that poisons you until you turn it into a tonic that girdles the world around you.”
Chris Williamson called it “apocalyptic life advice” — and it honestly is.
A lot of us wish we could think less, worry less, feel less. But if you’re wired to see complexity and carry heavy thoughts, there’s no easy off-ramp. The only way out is through.
The pain is loud and obvious. The rewards are quieter and hidden.
But going straight through it — turning the poison into medicine — might be the most powerful move you can make.
If you’ve ever felt cursed by how deeply you feel or think, this one hits different.
Walk for 30'.
0–10' → cluttered thoughts, irritation, just scratching the surface.
10–20' → the noise starts to fade, you find a rhythm.
20–30' → Where the magic happens. That’s when you hit the nail !
Overthinking is actually unskillful thinking. Trying to "think less" in order to solve this is like inducing brain damage to not feel bad anymore. It's a terrible strategy. The fact that by having more quality (read: novel) thoughts you reduce the frequency of noise (read: repeating patterns) is just a byproduct.
@stirling_j a guess:
relationism is very demanding wrt the interactions being functional in tight situations.
relying on form, social dynamics, or misread shared affordances -
maybe on that day Ancelotti didn't trust his players ? in turn giving too much respect to Arsenal.
@stirling_j Would it be relationism if the primary reference in those micro situations is the player and the relationship amongst
Even if the approach is positional on the macro level