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[fatz @fatz1505]

Unless you are getting paid to change someone's mind, then let them think whatever.@ArmaniTalks 💜

[Dr. Lee Warren @brainmindlife]

Your brain cannot tell the difference between a disaster that is happening and one you are only rehearsing.

That’s why worst-case-scenario thinking isn’t “just being prepared.” It is building a brain that learns how to stay afraid.

Neuroplasticity means you don’t live with the brain you were born with. You live with the brain you keep building.

Spend enough time in the spiral and your amygdala stays online while your frontal lobes, the part that actually solves problems, go quiet. Cortisol rises. Sleep drops. The thing you’re trying to avoid becomes more likely, not less.

Two thousand years ago Paul already knew the move: don’t be anxious about anything, but in everything, with prayer and thanksgiving, present your requests to God (Philippians 4:6-7).

Anxiety and gratitude turn opposite directions on the same volume knob. One goes up, the other goes down.
Next time the “what if this ends in disaster” thought shows up, try the other question: “What if it works out?”

Hit that follow button and we'll work together every day to connect neuroscience and scripture to help you thrive.

Save this for your next worst-case monent. Share it with someone whose brain is stuck in disaster mode.

And click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best seller, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery.

#neuroscience #selfbrainsurgery

[maya fisher-french @mayaonmoney]

You get an SMS. R14,500 you didn't spend. You call the number. It sounds legit. They say install this app to secure your phone. You do it.
Then they say don't answer any other calls. It's a security protocol. But it is not...
Stop, think, verify #BeforeYouClick

[Manifest_Lord @Manifest_Lord]

7 signs you're taking parenting too seriously...

And it may be making parenting harder than it needs to be... 👇 🧵

[fatz @fatz1505]

@Amahashi_ This post should have a million retweets 💯🔥 call it like it is.

[TheTruePath @The_Truepath]

HABITS I STOLE FROM PARENTS WHOSE KIDS ACTUALLY LISTEN THE FIRST TIME.

1. They stopped using "sweetie" and "honey".

[Jil Theo @theo_jil]

I'm 55.

If you're in your 30s or 40s, read this:

1. Marriage won’t fix loneliness. Neither will kids, money, or sex.

[M. Castells @shamol_coder]

THE MONTESSORI WAY TO HANDLE A CHILD WHO WON’T LISTEN WITHOUT RAISING YOUR VOICE ONCE.

1. Get physically close before you speak at all.

[Scott Brooks @scotti_brooks]

5 punishments that damage kids long-term.

They feel effective at 6.

They install a pattern that shows up at 26.

Here they are.

[Manifest_Lord @Manifest_Lord]

BOY MOMS WILL UNDERSTAND.

The chaos is not because he is a boy.

It is because of 4 structural gaps. Fill them.

The chaos drops 70%.

[Enisco @enisco]

@tim_cook Tim Cook �

[fatz @fatz1505]

@BStulberg 💯🙌🔥

[0x_Ito @0x_Ito]

Tony Robbins charges up to $1 million for a single speech. Decades ago, someone filmed him giving away the entire technique for free

This is skill arbitrage in its purest form - the gap between what you know and what someone else doesn't, sold directly

Robbins built an empire on exactly one gap: reading what makes a person say yes, and closing that gap in real time

By 1991, his company was already doing $50 million a year. Presidents, billionaires, hedge fund managers - Paul Tudor Jones among them - paid for private time with him

None of that came from a script. It came from a specific, teachable read: find what someone is already leaning toward, and anchor the offer to that feeling instead of fighting it

This footage catches him teaching the raw mechanics, not the stage show - no seminar lighting, no crowd, just the technique itself

That kind of footage doesn't usually survive.
Most of it stays inside $10,000-a-ticket seminars or rooms billed at six figures an hour

The skill was never secret. Access to watching it explained plainly was

[Ivanchet76🧠 @HumanoCuriosoXx]

El 90% de los cocineros caseros arruinan su comida incluso antes de servirla.

No porque no sepan cocinar, sino porque nadie les enseña estas reglas básicas de la cocina.

Aquí hay 7 errores que la mayoría de la gente comete:

[fatz @fatz1505]

@theironhokage 🙌💪

[City of Joburg @CityofJoburgZA]

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[fatz @fatz1505]

@OneWheelForward You so right its horrible living in fear, holding your breath, growing eyes behind your head, double checking doors,locks and windows everyday the stress South Africans go through😒 enjoy your freedom & new life !! It must be a breath of fresh air 🙌💜

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Charlie Munger literally explained how "Inversion Thinking" helped him become a billionaire:

1. He solves every problem backwards. Munger calls it inversion, and he uses it constantly. Most people ask how do I succeed at this. He asks the opposite: what would guarantee failure here, and then he simply avoids that. He says it works like algebra. Some problems you cannot solve forwards, but invert them and the answer falls out easily.

2. As a young weather forecaster, he asked how he could kill pilots. Stationed in the Air Corps ferry command, drawing weather maps alone in a hangar at night, he didn't ask how to forecast well. He asked: how would I most easily kill these pilots? He worked it through in reverse and found only two answers. Send them into icing their plane couldn't handle, or send them somewhere they'd run out of fuel before any airport was clear. He became fanatical about avoiding exactly those two things.

3. He points out that inversion could have saved Kobe Bryant. The two ways he found to kill a pilot, icing and getting caught out with nowhere to land, are flight risks a disciplined person simply refuses to take. If someone around Kobe had thought that way, Munger says, he'd still be here. It was so stupid, in his words, to die that way. The whole point of inversion is that the fatal error is usually obvious once you go looking for it on purpose.

4. His grandfather taught him the same trick as a boy. When Munger went swimming, his grandfather told him to swim as long as he wanted, but stay near the shore. It sounds simple enough to laugh at, but it's inversion in one sentence: don't optimize for the best swim, eliminate the way you drown. Munger insists the man was genuinely wise.

5. The military gave him a second trick: bracketing. In ROTC he was taught to fire mortar shells one long, one short, then correct to land the next one on target. He says he never fired a real shell in his life, but he has used that bracketing method to size decisions ever since. When he needs to know how big or small to make something, he brackets it high and low and closes in. Kapow.

6. His best inversion turned $125,000 into $600,000. As a young lawyer he had a client whose ranch land the Edison Company wanted an easement through. The client's famous, pompous appraiser valued it at $125,000, using the standard two-dimensional method: comparable sales, price per acre, acreage. Munger, who wasn't even an appraiser, saw the flaw. The land was hilly.

7. He forced the problem into three dimensions and the answer changed completely. Hilly land gets developed by lopping off the tops of hills and filling the valleys. The transmission towers would freeze the grade and make that impossible, doing enormous damage the flat, two-dimensional appraisal never captured. The old appraiser refused to change a thing, so Munger told his client to fire the twit, hired one who could think in three dimensions, and got $600,000 out of honest engineers who also thought that way.

8. The more due diligence someone does, the weaker a thinker they usually are. This is his sharpest line. Munger says endless analysis is often just a way of soothing an inner insecurity, and it doesn't actually work. The genuinely capable thinkers understand a situation fast and act. The armies of young lawyers billing by the hour to comb through every purchase order are, more often than not, papering over the fact that they can't see the answer.

9. You don't need certainty. You need to be about 96% sure. Munger is blunt that waiting for 100% is a mistake, because in most cases 96% is all you're ever entitled to, and the rest is wasted motion. The skill is knowing when you already have enough to act, and having the nerve to move on it.

10. He and Buffett closed a multibillion-dollar oil deal in about two days. When Occidental needed money fast to buy Anadarko, Munger didn't fly anywhere or run endless analytics. He and Buffett talked by phone, and after decades together, he says, one grunt speaks a volume. It was obvious: the Permian Basin is America's best oil, layer after layer with nothing comparable, and they'd get an 8% preferred dividend from a reputable operator plus upside. A no-brainer, he says, as long as you don't insist on making it hard.

[fatz @fatz1505]

@FitnessDr_ What about low blood pressure

[Fitness Doctor 🩺 @FitnessDr_]

High blood pressure is a symptom... Not the disease

[Nix @NixPret]

R4.45 billion. Gone.

The government’s pension fund invested in 15 companies which lost 100% of their money – Newsday https://t.co/8Q8pcFL7aw