DucDinh

[Electra @Electrarythm]

If you only have 10 minutes of a day and want to drastically improve your concentration and memory, try these exercises developed in the early 1900s by William Walker Atkinson in his book The Power of Concentration.

First exercise: The Sentence Drill

Read one short sentence from any book, then close it and try to write the sentence down word for word from memory. Once you can do that reliably, move up to two sentences. Then three. Then a small paragraph.

The first time you try it, you'll realize how loose your reading actually is. You'll get the gist, but you'll miss exact words, change "and" to "the," skip a comma, or swap the order.

This exercise forces you to actually see the words, not just glide over them. Your mind has to hold the exact shape of a sentence long enough to reproduce it.

Second exercise: Picture Recall

Place a picture on a table and study it for two minutes, every detail. Close your eyes and try to recall everything: foreground, middle ground, background, colors, shapes. Open your eyes and ruthlessly correct every mistake. Close them again and notice how much sharper your mental image has become. Practice until it matches the original exactly.

Third exercise: Hand Drill

Sit at a table with both fists clenched, backs of the hands down, thumbs folded over the fingers. Fix your gaze on one fist, then slowly extend the thumb, keeping your entire attention on that one tiny act as if nothing else in the world matters. Extend each finger one at a time. Then reverse it, closing them one by one back into the original fist. Switch hands. Do five rounds per hand, building to ten.

The act itself is trivial, anyone can move their fingers. What’s hard is keeping every fiber of your awareness on each individual movement without your mind sliding off somewhere else.

You'll catch yourself moving fingers on autopilot while thinking about something else. That's the exact moment the exercise is failing. Catch it and bring yourself back.

Do these three exercises every day. Within two weeks you'll feel a significant difference, as it strengthens your attention span, strengthens your will, and forces your mind to obey you, not the other way around.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

An unsuccessful woman still gets treated like a woman.

An uneducated woman still gets treated like a woman.

A broke woman still gets treated like a woman.

But an unsuccessful, uneducated, and broke man? He’s treated like an outcast. No pity, no passes.

Lock in, dude.

[DucDinh @ducdinhhuu]

@Philippe_Ano @gabriel_ofonime Thanks but this video seems Rebro display software. I rarely see anyone using Sketchup for MEP work.

[Naval @naval]

In 1971, money changed from a natural system (gold) to a socialist system (fiat).

Crypto is tech to replace socialist money with a free-market system.

Market systems are inherently competitive and as tech evolves, new monies will continue to emerge to challenge existing ones.

[qw @QwQiao]

brain says we go up - qe, tga, rate cut, everything that the macro bros r saying

but gut says it’s over - crypto is a self fulfilling asset class and the 4-yr prophecy must self-fulfill

frustrating situation

[Cobie @cobie]

When ppl claim this I always wonder how they think it happens, or have unrealistic expectations on how much $1bn actually is.

I joined crypto with $200. If I held my initial bitcoin since then and never traded, I would have ~$300k.

If, instead, from that moment I sold the top and bought the bottom of every crypto cycle on Bitcoin, and never paid any taxes, I would have ~$6m USD.

If I put my entire net worth into the Ethereum ICO and never touched it, today I would have ~$150m pre-tax.

While it was definitely possible to have made >$1bn with the opportunities in the market, these versions of reality would also require me to make no mistakes, and have no need to spend $ in real life, or take excessive risk via leverage.

In reality, I grew up in a working class family. I didn’t have a trust fund and I had to pay off my student loan myself. I had a job at Tescos while at high school. After university, I needed to pay rent and fund cost of living and eventually buy a place to live.

I worked at startups for relatively little $ salary, and while a couple have done okay, they still are illiquid and worth nothing until some exit.

Perhaps if I erase a couple of dumb mistakes and drawdowns, or if I had a lil more grind, then my answer would be different today. But it is easy to say this with perfect hindsight vision. It’s easy to see where you could have optimised better, and decisions you made look dumb when the past makes things so obvious.

The truth is I have always optimised for enjoying my life and not going to 0. I never felt like I had a safety net, so it was never possible for me to do anything in any other way. I would probably have less money if I had tried to add more risk or chased $ harder, because being all-in with your entire livelihood is a mental battle and I feel I only win that battle when the stakes are lower.

In writing this, maybe I do understand why CT folks believe this, because modern CT sees crypto as a late-stage lottery ticket farm, where the optimal strategy is to 5x leverage up your portfolio in a hope of catching a good 20% move and then leaving. Or, literally going all-in on the next coin they heard Ansem is buying. So perhaps to them, looking back at the charts, of course that’s what successful folks did.

In reality, I use leverage close to never (and typically to reduce risk rather than add risk — have used it to add risk maybe 3 times in the last 5 years, and maybe 15 times ever). I never go all-in on anything, have only ever done that on BTC and ETH before in the last decade. When I buy other things, I limit risk to tiny amounts, because I treat it as a 0 until proven otherwise (so, always <1% liquid portfolio). Liquid portfolio is also a smaller % of overall portfolio to future-proof against my own fuckups.

Obviously I made a lot of money, I have been here 12 years! CT doesn’t want to hear about “getting rich in a decade” though. I am happy with where I am and have never really cared or optimised for maximising $ earnings, but instead having a nice life that lets me enjoy the game we play together.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Leaving the gold standard has contributed to immense pain for a generation of Americans.

[James K. Filan 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @FilanLaw]

#XRPCommunity #SECGov v. #Ripple #XRP BREAKING: The parties have filed a Joint Dismissal of the Appeals. The case is over.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Simple, yet powerful, advice.

(h/t @charlesmiller_7)

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

The seeds of every great empire’s inevitable decline are embedded within the fruits of its successes.

A predictable cycle of borrowing and spending occurs that boosts a great power’s spending power over the short-term and makes it appear very strong. But its finances are in fact being weakened.

#principles #RayDalio #History #empire

[DucDinh @ducdinhhuu]

Thị trường Crypto cũng như vậy:
- Tại sao đa phần mọi người đều cười nhạo nó mỗi lần giá xuống, FUD từng ấy năm, bị chèn ép, nhưng nó vẫn cứ tiếp tục phát triển và tăng giá sau mỗi chu kỳ?

[DucDinh @ducdinhhuu]

It's over !
Kết thúc hơn 4 năm đầy chông gai với những sự không rõ ràng về pháp lý và chính quyền chèn ép cả thị trường cho sự đổi mới.
XRP cũng là một phần trong danh mục đầu tư Crypto của mình.

[James K. Filan 🇺🇸🇮🇪 @FilanLaw]

#XRPCommunity #SECGov v. #Ripple #XRP BREAKING: The @SECGov has filed the Settlement Agreement Letter.

https://t.co/eXuWjyQECc

[DucDinh @ducdinhhuu]

Tư duy của mình rất đơn giản:
- Tại sao nó bị kiện suốt hằng ấy năm, bị cả thị trường chê bai, FUD, nhưng vẫn còn tồn tại được trong Top 10 vẫn hằng ấy năm? Trong khi các dự án mới nổi hầu như đều không trụ được quá một chu kỳ.

[DucDinh @ducdinhhuu]

@kate_young_ju ONDO, pls

[𝐒 🌞 @Esoviz]

The Final Countdown

[Simply Bitcoin @SimplyBitcoin]

JUST IN: Amazing clip of @natbrunell on FOX with @cvpayne explaining how #Bitcoin is a bridge from chaos to hope 🔥

“For millennials and young people, Bitcoin really is the solution. It’s the tool for economic empowerment and it will eat into all the other asset classes that have made older generation, so wealthy.”

[DucDinh @ducdinhhuu]

@Moonchaser2020 Wow... bất ngờ khi biết chị cũng là người Việt.. chúc mừng chị nhé.

[DucDinh @ducdinhhuu]

Verifying my Twitter account for my #GalxeID gid:YcZkmHzdEvvS3AQ8bEY89J @Galxe

https://t.co/xmllP6rJOp

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

There's two types of people who trade crypto, people with money and people with trading experience. Every four years, they switch places.