Daniel Winarto 🇮🇩

Just a biochemical soup with Godly soul.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A major 25-year study has crowned tennis as the most effective sport for extending lifespan.

According to the Copenhagen City Heart Study, which tracked over 8,500 adults for 25 years, recreational tennis players gained an average of 9.7 years of life expectancy. This is significantly more than any other physical activity examined.

For comparison, swimming added 3.4 years, jogging added 3.2 years, and traditional gym workouts added just 1.5 years. Supporting research involving 80,000 participants further confirmed that racket sports like tennis are linked to a 47 percent lower risk of death from any cause compared to a sedentary lifestyle.

What makes tennis such a powerful longevity booster is its unique blend of high-intensity interval training, multi-directional movement, balance, and grip strength, all wrapped in a highly social activity. The constant sprinting, quick directional changes, and brief recovery periods challenge both the aerobic and anaerobic systems. At the same time, playing with others provides mental stimulation and a strong sense of community.

[Schnohr, P., O'Keefe, J. H., Holtermann, A., Lavie, C. J., Lange, P., Jensen, G. B., & Marott, J. L. (2018). Various Leisure-Time Physical Activities Associated With Widely Different Life Expectancies: The Copenhagen City Heart Study. Mayo Clinic Proceedings]

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

You are replaceable at work, but you are NOT replaceable at home. A beautiful and poignant reflection that applies to all clinicians.

[Sean DeLaney @SeanDeLaney23]

This is probably one of the more important pages I have ever read. Carl Jung at 84, one year from his death.

"One cannot do more than live what one really is."

Jung is saying there is no level above being yourself. And being yourself might be the hardest thing of all. Because it means living in truth with what you actually are, including your tensions, contradictions, limitations, instincts, and complexity.

Too often people are trying to become more than themselves, when the people who seem most deeply satisfied in life have usually become more of themselves. More in tune with their own nature. More willing to live their life their way.

Jung believed most of our troubles come when we have lost contact with our guiding instincts... I think that's true. I'm still waiting to find someone deeply satisfied in life who is disconnected from themselves, abandoning their own nature, and living someone else’s script.

Acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the acid test of one’s whole outlook on life.

This page also says that suffering is unavoidable. This is necessary suffering. Life will bring pain and heartbreak. Uncertainty is unavoidable. Grief will show up at your door when you least expect it. Hard decisions will come.

But there is also unnecessary suffering, the suffering that comes from resisting what is happening, refusing what life is asking of you, or not living true to yourself.

That type of suffering seems to eat at your soul.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to Live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result - because avoidance is much worse.

Better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to perform an imitation of someone else’s life perfectly.

You can contort yourself, wear every mask, and distract yourself, but eventually you will need to answer, Am I really living life my way?

[Arthur Kwon Lee @badazn]

Weak father = Slutty daughter
Dominating mother = Mama’s boy
Narcissistic mother = Insecure son
Absent father = Self-hating children
Poor marriages = Unhappy Homes
Unhappy home = Unhappy society
Broken homes breed broken men,
and broken men burn the world.
Strong father = Confident daughter
Feminine mother = Masculine son
Loving parents = Secure children
Healthy marriage = peaceful home
Peaceful home = Strong society

[TOP G @menscoach1]

Divorce rates are high in this generation for one simple reason. People don't understand what marriage actually is. Social media made everyone believe there's always someone better out there, a richer man, a prettier woman, a more exciting life, but comparison kills loyalty.

People want weddings, not marriages. They'll spend months planning a ceremony and zero time learning how to communicate when things get hard. Nobody knows how to argue anymore.
They yell, they shut down, they run instead of learning how to fight for each other. Money pressure exposes weak foundations. Instead of building together, couples turn on each other, men stop leading, women stop respecting their men, temptation is everywhere. Now everyone uses therapy words to escape accountability. Everything is toxic, everything is trauma. Nothing is ever their fault.

There's no community pressure to stay married anymore. No elders saying work it out. Just friends saying leave. You deserve better. Kids became optional, sacrifice became outdated and vows became suggestions.

Marriage used to mean I'll suffer with you. Now it means I'll stay as long as I'm happy. And that's why divorce is high. Because people don't know how to suffer together.
They only know how to quit when excitement is no longer there.

We are in the trenches!!

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

No debt
Ideal weight
8 hours of sleep
Mental health on track
Right nutrition
Zero Alcohol

This was my peak

I was 8

[Mind and Glory 🎖 @mindandglory]

A wise man doesn’t react to disrespect. He removes access and lets absence deliver the message.

[Mohit Panchal @itsbookgains]

Is reading one page so difficult? No, it’s easy. But do you know why people don’t read? Because they think about finishing the whole book instead of just reading the next page. And how do you finish a book quickly? By reading for hours consistently. And who reads for hours? The one who has been reading consistently for years. How did they build that habit?They started with one page.

[Daniel Winarto 🇮🇩 @drdanielwinarto]

@TheArtidote 🤌🏻

[Noctara @rumilyrics]

The smartest are quiet. The happiest are private.

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

the book the lesson

[Noctara @rumilyrics]

Water has no effect on fake flowers. This changed my entire mindset about relationships.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Let me explain why eating a cow is the most vegan thing you can do, and I'm going to do it slowly, because this deserves savouring.

The vegan eats plants. Admirable goal: reduce harm, tread lightly, don't unnecessarily destroy life for sustenance. Genuinely noble in principle.

The problem is the execution. Because plants, as it turns out, are extraordinarily difficult for humans to extract nutrition from. We lack the multi-chambered stomach. We lack the microbial colonies that break down cellulose. We lack the enzymes that neutralise the defensive chemicals plants produce specifically to stop things from eating them. Oxalates, lectins, phytates, tannins, glucosinolates: the plant kingdom is not defenceless. It just fights differently.

So the committed vegan spends enormous energy trying to eat their way around a biological system that was never designed for them. They soak the legumes to reduce the phytates. They ferment the grains to reduce the lectins. They supplement the B12 their body can't get from plants. They combine proteins carefully because no single plant source is complete. They process, blend, extract, and fortify: and at the end of it, they're still working with a nutritional profile that requires a pharmacy aisle to fill the gaps.

Now enter the cow.

The cow has been solving this problem for 50 million years. It has four stomach chambers specifically designed to extract maximum nutrition from the plants humans can't eat. Its rumen is a fermentation vessel of extraordinary complexity: billions of microorganisms breaking down cellulose, neutralising antinutrients, converting inflammatory plant fats into stable saturated fats through a process called biohydrogenation.

The cow is doing, biologically, what the vegan food industry is trying to do industrially: except the cow does it without factories, without hexane washing, without methylcellulose binders, and without a carbon footprint that requires an offset scheme to paper over.

The cow eats the grass you couldn't eat. On the land you couldn't farm. With a digestive system you couldn't replicate. And it hands you, at the end of this process, the most bioavailable nutrition on the planet. Complete protein. Haem iron. Vitamin B12. Fat-soluble vitamins. Creatine. Carnosine. Zinc. Everything your body needs, in the form your body evolved to use.

You are not eating a cow instead of plants. You are eating a cow *because of* plants. The cow is the plants. The cow is just the plants run through the world's most sophisticated biological processor, upgraded by 50 million years of iterative evolution, available from your local butcher for about a fiver a kilo.

Second-hand veganism isn't a compromise. It's an upgrade.

The vegan eats plants directly, fighting the biology the whole way. The second-hand vegan outsources the plant-eating to a species that was literally built for it, and receives the benefits without the deficiencies.

One of us is working with the biology. The other is working against it. One of us needs supplements. The other does not.

The cow did not ask for your respect. But it has probably earned it.

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

The importance of reading in the AI era:

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Cicero, so that means...

[Your Best Version @YourPrimePath]

Adulting is realizing;

1. You will die, and most people won’t care after a while.
2. People use you until you’re no longer useful.
3. Most people secretly want you to fail.
4. One day you’ll wish you started today.
5. Most people fake happiness while dying inside.
6. No one is coming to save you.
7. You’ll be judged no matter what you do.
8. Your health is your greatest wealth.
9. Happiness is temporary—discipline is permanent.
10. Success takes longer than you think.
11. No one respects weakness, even if they sympathize.
12. Complaining changes nothing.
13. Not everyone you love will love you back.
14. Money won’t solve all your problems—but it solves most.
15. Social media lies to you every day.
16. You’re replaceable at your job.
17. Life is unfair—get used to it.
18. One day, you’ll run out of days.
19. Regret hurts more than failure.
20. Nobody cares about your excuses. Work harder

The earlier you understand this, the better and easier your life gets.

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

— Robert Frost

[Byl Holte @SirBylHolte]

QUESTION: If we live in the most medically-advanced, insurance-saturated era in human history...

...why did actor James Van Der Beek just die of colorectal cancer, bankrupted by the HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, at 48?!

He did everything “right”: paid premiums for decades,
followed screenings, fought back with every treatment money could buy.

But when the bills outran the coverage, he STILL ended up having to beg strangers online for help.

RESULT: A life cut HORRENDOUSLY SHORT despite paying into the “system” his whole adult life.

So why exactly am I supposed to fork over $200+ a month for Medicare Part B the second I turn 65?

In case I get sick with the flu?

In case I get something WORSE?

To delay the inevitable a little longer?

To me, James Van Der Beek is a cautionary tale.

You pay in forever, the doctors CONSPICUOUSLY never cure anything, the machine manages your decline, and when it finally says “no more,” you’re on your own anyway.

Yes, coverage can extend life and reduce suffering for thousands every day, but it's not a GUARANTEE.

It's a GAMBLE.

And sometimes you lose.

RIP Dawson.

Sorry the system failed you.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Re-read your favorite books.

[Yavanika Shah @yavanikashah]

July has fifa world cup, wimbledon, tour de france and f1 happening at the same time.

Wohooo. Excellent time for sports enthusiasts to leave their jobs. 🤣