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[Concerned citizen @ctzns_concerns]

@goodreads The Game of Life and how to play it

[Principal⭐️ @OkadikeOnyeisi]

Spiritually you can feel when people don't wish you well. Energy never lies.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

You don't need a PhD in a topic before you can start doing it. You don't need to watch 10 YouTube videos, 20 podcasts, and read 5 books before you start.

That only gets you stuck in a cycle of mental masturbation and feeling like you never know enough.

Most people should start learning only after they've started doing the thing.

[blue @bluewmist]

i don't know who needs to hear this but your ability to create the reality that you want is directly determined by your willingness to experience its opposite.

- saving money will have you feeling broke while it's actually making you rich.
- setting boundaries will have you feeling alone while you're creating new healthy relationships in your life.
- digging up your trauma will have you feeling broken while it's actually healing you.
- working out has you feeling weak while it's really making you strong.
- learning something new makes you feel dumb while it's making you more intelligent.

your ability to attain the thing that you want is directly correlated with how willing you are to experience its opposite. you have to be ok with being uncomfortable to truly achieve success!

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

Having no major health problem is a great luxury.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

This is partially true but there’s a lot more nuance and I worry messages like this romanticize grindslop. If you want to be excellent you absolutely need to push hard, but you also need to find genuine joy in the work. If it’s pain and suffering all the time you’re doing it wrong.

It’s also interesting these clips always show athletes and generally the people in the clips have never worked with athletes and are not athletes themselves. The best athletes absolutely push into pain and raise their tolerance for discomfort, but if they don’t do so thoughtfully they get injured and blow up their careers. I think the same is largely true in creative and knowledge work, tbh.

We glorify pain and suffering online but it turns out that having fun is the greatest competitive advantage there is. Intensity and joy can coexist, and in the best performers, they almost always do. Push hard, endure—absolutely. But also smile and have fun!

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

John Steinbeck's journal entry in the midst of writing of Grapes of Wrath. A few years later, he won the Pulitzer Prize for the book, and eventually a Nobel.

“Hard things are hard. Everyone faces resistance. Progress is non-linear.

So much of life comes down to showing up, putting yourself in the arena, and realizing that just because you get better doesn’t make it easier.

It takes years to develop a craft. You’ve got to be patient. You’ve got to stay in the game long enough to break through inevitable plateaus.

People long for the times when everything is clicking, but that’s not the norm. The norm is chipping away—brick by brick, sentence by sentence, note by note, pound by pound, breath by breath.

Keep going. Keep showing up.”

—The Way of Excellence (https://t.co/K0XWF7zMvS)

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“No intelligent person is interested in dominating others. His first interest is to know himself.”

― Osho

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Perhaps read this each morning…

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets, remember that the goal is not to have more information, but to have more understanding.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Concerned citizen @ctzns_concerns]

@oprydai oh how I wish

[ReadabookSA @ReadaBookSA]

Our #BookOfTheMonth for August 2026 is "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" by Carlo M. Cipolla.

​In this international bestselling satirical classic, economist Carlo Cipolla breaks down the unwritten rules of human irrationality with a blend of humour & mathematical precision.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"You can't know everything about everything, but you can be a piece of solving things."

Hear physics laureate Arthur McDonald speak about dealing with one's inner doubts.

Watch the full student session with the physics laureate here: https://t.co/4Or46Znfxk

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The fastest way to become articulate on a topic is to write until you're no longer confused.

[Concerned citizen @ctzns_concerns]

@DylanoA4 🤦😏

[English grammar @Englishgrr4u]

“Your brain vs this word — who wins?”

[Concerned citizen @ctzns_concerns]

@ObamaFoundation Happy belated birthday mkhulu

[Concerned citizen @ctzns_concerns]

@Njivas31 @Darkmatterh6nd Prince Vivo is the eldest, followed by Phiwokwakhe, Lothando, Fanyana, and Mantfombi.

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

Cabo Verde to the rest of the World: