DeShaun “Bob” Piere 🜃

black man taking no losses/ hoop-lover 🏀 , nerd

[Complex @Complex]

Tom Holland reveals his go-to workout for when he’s short on time.

“I do a CrossFit workout called Cindy. It's five pull-ups, 10 push-ups, 15 squats, as many times as you can in 20 minutes.
I think my record is 27 rounds.”

[📸: @olivertrevena ]

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

A lot of people throw clothes away not because they've fallen apart but because they no longer like how the item looks. This is sometimes because they didn't pay enough attention to how the item might age when purchasing it.

Thus, let's talk about materials and how they age. 🧵

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Neuroscientists found a brain region that physically grows when you do things you don't want to do. It shrinks when you stop.

It's called the anterior midcingulate cortex. It's smaller in people who struggle to delay gratification. It gets bigger when obese people diet. It's larger in elite athletes. And in superagers, people in their 80s with the memory of 50 year olds, it refuses to atrophy.

Here's the detail almost everyone misses. Hard things you enjoy don't grow it. A runner who loves running gets nothing from a 10 mile run. The region only responds to resisted effort, the workout you wanted to skip, the task you kept putting off. The suck is the signal.

That's also why disciplined days feel identical. The aMCC doesn't care about novelty or intensity. It responds to repeated effort against your own resistance. Habit is the wrong word for what's happening. You're building tissue.

And it runs in reverse. Avoid enough hard things and the region weakens, which makes the next hard thing feel harder, which makes you avoid it more. Researchers studying aging brains found that where you sit on the apathy versus tenacity spectrum predicts how well your brain holds up over decades.

Some neuroscientists call the aMCC the seat of the will to live.

The days look the same because that's what the training looks like. The years look different because that's what the tissue does.

[Your Emotional Healing Coach @AfsaRosette]

Someone who genuinely likes you will always leave fingerprints of their care. They may not be able to give you everything but they’ll try to give you something. You’ll notice them being honest about their limitations & attempting to repair. They’ll make room where they can.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

one of the ugliest truths about life is that every choice kills another version of your life.

get married, and you’ll eventually miss the freedom you had alone. stay single, and there will be nights when you wonder what it would’ve been like to build a life with someone. have children, and you’ll miss parts of the life you had before them. don’t have children, and you may spend years wondering about the family you never created.

there is no perfect path and there is no decision that leaves you with everything.

the life you didn’t choose will always look better from a distance because you never had to pay its price.

stop searching for a choice you won’t regret , it doesn’t exist. choose your life, accept what it costs, and live with the consequences. buena suerte 👍

[Fitnesstime @_Fitness_Time]

4 Best exercises to improve your running stamina in 30 days.

[du @thedulab]

Thinking highly of yourself makes it so much easier to do things. Cold calling a business, asking strangers for what you want, any sort of action that requires an aggressive showcasing of boldness, etc

Completely human to acknowledge that it makes you nervous or kind of freaks you out. But pair that with a positive self image and you might think something like "well if this is scary for me, I wonder how it makes everyone else feel"

If someone as capable, intelligent, and qualified as you feels this way, it has to mean that 99% of the population won't even entertain the idea of doing a fraction of what you've been mulling over in your head. Daunting task suddenly turns into a source of energy. Now there's very little competition if any

Perhaps a bit of arrogance but rebrand it to confidence, self love, etc. Yes it's true that if you don't then who will? If you can't then who can? If you fail then how many didn't even try? Which means you just have to do it. Oh well, guess I'll just succeed. Not many other alternatives

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices, it's in romanticizing your life. A person always finds an untravelled path alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue isn't making the right choice. It's choosing and deciding which regret you'll live with. In life, we must choose our regret.

[m 🐺 @graywulf29]

İki gündür Tom Holland’ın uyguladığı programı deniyorum.
5 barfiks
10 şınav
15 squat
20dk boyunca ne kadar yapabilirsen.
7 setten sonra nefesim kesiliyor eleman 27 set yapabiliyormuş… çok hantallaşmışız ciğerleri açmamız lazım

[alexei @alexeixbt]

i dare you to be as delusional as possible for 30 days. compliment strangers. ask for things that feel out of your reach. take shot after shot after shot. you won’t hit them all, but you’ll hit a couple. but what you hit isn’t the point. it’s about rewiring what you see as possible. when you remove your self imposed limits, you realize they were never real to begin with. anything is possible my friend. but it’s up to you to pursue it.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

all roads lead you back to yourself, to the standards you ignored, the boundaries you softened, the intuition you doubted. life keeps repeating lessons until you finally listen and become a better version of yourself.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.”

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Tobey Maguire on the set of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 (2007)

[rosey🌹 @thechosenberg]

That means you did your 20s right

[Aporia @aporia9n]

Notice how they gravitate towards endurance sports that basically only require grind/discipline (marathons, cycling, lifting, Ironmans) vs skill-based ones (golf, tennis, sailing, etc)

They want a clean effort → outcome relationship. If you train consistently, your 10k time, deadlift or HYROX time will usually improve linearly.

Golf and tennis are much more psychologically tough. You can practise for years and suddenly play worse. Progress is nonlinear, technique-sensitive, and often exposed directly against another person. You can’t simply brute-force your way into feeling competent.

Same for the modern high-agency / ambitious professionals looking for achievement outside work. As their careers become increasingly nonlinear and probabilistic (working twice as hard won’t guarantee you the promotion, building twice as good a product won’t guarantee anyone buys it), they increasingly pick sports where progress is linear-ish, quantifiable and attributable to effort. Basically the meritocracy they thought their career would be.

[☁️ @nembuIa]

Peter Parker was right, man. You absolutely cannot do life alone.

[Aporia @aporia9n]

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.

A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.

The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.

And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.

It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

[Aporia @aporia9n]

This is why so many rich kids become obsessed with unusually hard hobbies (HYROX, Ironmans, ultramarathons, survival expeditions, extreme sports, Everest, etc.)

They’re not necessarily masochists. They need a result where observers, and more importantly themselves, can’t immediately say “yh but your dad…”

Money contaminates most conventional achievement because it can buy you the introductions, runway, education, safety net, first customers and endless second chances. Physical suffering is different. Your dad can hire the trainer, buy the bike and fly you business class to the race, but he still can’t run the last 30km of an ultra for you.

And then you get this funny achievement inflation. Once normal difficulty becomes accessible, you need increasingly absurd difficulty to produce the same clean proof of competence:

A 10k stops feeling exceptional → marathon → Ironman → 100km ultra → Marathon des Sables / UTMB → whatever is sufficiently painful and scarce to still mean something.

Same for mountains: Everest with oxygen → without oxygen → harder mountain → unsupported → faster, etc.

It’s especially funny because their normal life has usually been optimised to remove exactly the things they then seek recreationally: cold, danger, physical exhaustion, uncertainty, getting lost, carrying your own stuff, sleeping badly, not knowing whether you’ll make it. Generations of family wealth go into eliminating friction, then the descendants spend their weekends putting it back in.

And of course an entire luxury industry now exists to package the hardship nicely. Black Tomato sells a “Get Lost” experience starting around £20k per person where they privately transfer you somewhere remote, give you equipment and training, then make you navigate back to civilisation while an expedition team invisibly tracks you as a safety net.

Basically the final stage of wealth is paying a lot of money to recreate problems your grandparents spent their lives making sure you’d never have.