Cognoscere

[Cognoscere @FazelAli]

@d4thHand Whilst this is 💯 true, it takes humility, courage and deep self-awareness to face this. After all, you’re self-auditing and this can initially hurt your ego, but long term is truly empowering.

[Wɪsᴇᴍᴀɴ Dᴏᴇ @d4thHand]

women are merciless asf when it comes to this realm.

a lesson from the animal kingdom that illustrates this perfectly has stuck with me for years now.
when a young male lion, strong and healthy, approaches a pride and challenges the dominant male too soon (perhaps due to no coalition, poor timing, misread strength...) and is defeated, the pride leader doesn't just defeat him.
he takes it as a point to humiliate him, wound him, and make sure every lioness witnesses the exile.

and that primitively shows how ruthless nature is to those who miscalculate their place.

just like that, women operate with the same ancient, unforgiving instinct.

if you undervalue yourself, you will be punished with neglect and indifference and if you overvalue yourself, you are punished with mockery and ridicule.
both punishments are swift, precise, and completely avoidable.

hence, you must learn to see yourself clearly - not through the lens of your mother's praise, your ego's inflation, or your fear's deflation. you need to look at reality, i.e. your actions, your results, your discipline, your competence, and the respect you command in the world.

only then can you stop inflating or deflating what you bring to the table and face the truth as it actually is cus if you refuse to calibrate accurately, the world (and women esp.) will keep breaking you until you do.

as a man, you must know your value and own it without arrogance or apology, for that clarity is the difference between being respected… and being erased.

[Knowledge North @KnowledgeNorth]

@LBC @lewis_goodall @kthalps

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

Signs You Were Never Taught to Love Yourself.

1. You treat strangers with more patience than you treat yourself.

2. Resting feels like something you have to earn first.

3. You apologize for taking up space in rooms you were invited into.

4. Your inner voice says things you would never say to a friend.

5. You measure your worth by how useful you are to others.

6. Being chosen feels like a surprise every single time.

7. You give endlessly to people and feel guilty asking for anything back.

8. You chase people who are half present and ignore the ones who are fully there.

9. Kindness from others makes you suspicious, not grateful.

10. You tolerate treatment you would tell everyone else to walk away from.

11. Somewhere along the way you decided you were the problem.

12. You keep yourself small so nobody feels threatened by your size.

13. You have spent more time fixing others than understanding yourself.

14. The idea of someone truly knowing you is more terrifying than being alone.

15. You have never once celebrated yourself without immediately feeling ridiculous.

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

READING HABITS THAT ACTUALLY CHANGE YOUR LIFE:

1. Underline the line that stops you cold and sit with it before moving on.
2. Put the phone down and finish the page, the feed will still be empty when you return.
3. Pick up the book that intimidates you, that discomfort is the whole point.
4. Rewrite every big idea in your own words or your brain never truly owned it.
5. Return to the book that changed you once a year and meet a different version of yourself in it.
6. One book finished completely destroys ten books abandoned at chapter three.
7. One page before sleep is a better ritual than anything your screen is offering you right now.
8. Tell someone what you just read and discover exactly how much you actually understood.
9. Let a powerful book breathe before you rush to replace it with another one.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

It’s absolutely mind boggling how our society has normalized dropping our young kids off at daycare five days a week for eight plus hours a day, all so we can endure long commutes to jobs that mostly just cover the steep costs of that daycare, the car eating up gas and maintenance, and a house or apartment we’re barely awake in long enough to enjoy.

We’re stuck in this exhausting hamster wheelworking harder and longer just to afford a life we hardly ever get to live, trading precious family time, presence, and memories for a paycheck that often feels like it barely breaks even.

[Cognoscere @FazelAli]

@movies_and_mma @cmoncheeeeks 💯 you’ve hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately India has lost its own unique identity and mimics others instead.

[Gia Macool @GiaMMacool]

Women correct and nag men like they’re children constantly and I rarely hear a woman call that bad behavior out.

It’s wildly convenient how women ignore their own glaring double standards, then flip a man’s natural guidance and leadership into “control.”

One is “nurturing.” The other is suddenly “toxic”

The hypocrisy writes itself.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

One of man's deepest desires is not to be a burden on anyone and to earn his way. Burdening others brings him shame. He aspires to self-sufficiency so he can be one that gives rather than takes. He does not pursue independence out of vanity, he covets self-reliance out of honour.

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

😯😯😯

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

@PeterSchiff If you think that’s cult-like behavior, would you agree that being bearish from $0 to $126,000 over more than 10 years and saying you were right every 4 years would also be cult-like behavior?

[Cognoscere @FazelAli]

@Shadaya_Knight Straight up facts.

[𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 @Shadaya_Knight]

You’re not a man until your mother can’t manipulate you. Until then, you’re just a boy.

Your mother was your first test. If she can guilt you or weaponize “I brought you into this world” to control you… then every other woman will smell it on you.

Brutal truth: If you can’t draw the line with the woman who loves you most, you’ll never draw it with the woman who loves you least.

The day her tears stop being your boss is the day you stop being anyone’s puppet.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

FINDING A WIFE HAS BECOME DIFFICULT THESE DAYS

1. Women have extremely high expectations.
2. Social media has inflated their standards.
3. Body count and past trauma affect pair bonding ability.
4. They want a traditional man but behave in modern ways.
5. Feminism taught them to be independent until bills are due.
6. Good character is rare while looks and money are prioritized.
7. They want marriage benefits without marriage responsibilities.
8. Dating apps have given them unlimited options and zero loyalty.
9. They confuse lust and attention with actual love.

Finding a good wife today is genuinely difficult.
The pool of feminine, loyal, low-drama women has become very small.

Work on yourself so intensely that when you finally find one, she feels lucky to have you.

[Cognoscere @FazelAli]

@Yoda4ever Who’s singing this version of the BG song?

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

@PeterSchiff I am just waiting for your "Don't make the mistake" tweet. Then we will know the low is in.

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

Tough thing about bear market is that the bulls will appear correct for months, and the bears look like morons.

Then you get massive capitulations that quickly set new lows, and the process repeats.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

You live in a fake world where you have to game theory, leverage, and contingency plot with rationed trust and suppressed emotions, because trusting the wrong people is lethal so you're forced to play this fake and gay game even though you just want beauty, truth and to be real.

[Samrah @_Chemist1]

People with high STANDARDS gatekeep their personality. They don’t play about people treating them weirdly. They cut people off at the slightest sign of disrespect. They don’t tolerate disrespect, not even as a joke.

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

Bitcoin has entered the 3rd and final stage of the bear market.

This is because the guys who mocked the bears in stages 1-2 are now admitting price could go lower.

They were a bull in a bear market, and they will likely turn fully bearish in the bull market