@ArsAlendi@melancoptimist Well said. I recently had a conversation about how normies would gatekeep useful impactful things that improves many metrics of their lives to have that sense of mystique.. and the reason for not sharing is because it'd break that aura about them which I find quite selfish tbh
POV of gamblers who has 0 clue about markets and only relies on their emotional compass to react
> BTC big down *panick screams*
> BTC big up *genius smirk*
Many such cases.
Every man who did something that looked impossible to the people around him just had will and nothing else. i know this sounds stupid and reductive but ive watched it enough times to stop doubting it. talent matters so much less than people think. intelligence matters less. money matters less. what matters is whether a man can hold one single decision inside himself long enough for it to start changing the things around him
Self-awareness is awareness of your feelings, impulses, motivations, and the truths they reveal about your inner state—not awareness of your thoughts and external standards. That is usually just reinforcement of egoic structures and programmed expectations.
The most frightening person i ever witnessed was a man who only wanted one thing. everybody around him had a hundred plans, a hundred projects they were going to start next month, and he had one, just one. and he never talked about it much, and that was the part that unnerved you, because when someone talks a lot about what they want, you can relax. talking is letting the pressure out, so it's harmless. but he was airtight.
Everything in him was moving toward one point, in silence. within a few years he was in a place no one else could reach, and everybody who had watched him stood there scattered and confused, with their mouths full of plans that never solidified into anything. i learned from watching him that the mouth is a leak. every time you say what you are going to do, you lose a piece of the will that would have done it
The secret to couragemaxx (which is the key to winmaxx + fulfillmentmaxx) is to have a tribe. This is especially true for men.
In no point in history people who thrived were true lone wolves. Tigers have claws, eagles have wings, people have tribes.
Digitalization of the world allows some true lone wolf behavior but it's always a losing game - you compound misery in small doses actually. Very dangerous.
When you look at all the old school baller businessmen, if they aren't truly lost/miserable souls but actually have both max fulfillment, happiness & winning - in 99% of the cases they either have close family and/or working relationships. They have a tribe.
The loneliest, most autist types who seem to suck at human relationships (like Elon) - even he has it. There are no lone wolves, that's usually a trauma-induced fantasy.
When you ask people about the most impactful things early (or even later) on their careers (and life), they'll often tell you about other people believing in them, helping them, some relationship, etc. It's always a secure relationship.
Without a safe, secure (on some level) home base & community (even if just one relationship, even if it's not with a living person or a person at all), why would your stressed out nervous system and gazillion-years-old unconscious mind, which have perfect data on what happens to people like you who are left alone (= death), why would your system ever predict you to actually win & succeed? Why would it even allow you to take any risks?
It simply won't. And people then beat themselves up again and again, thinking they have some courage deficit or aren't manly enough or something. In some cases that might be true depending on the context, which is no biggie, even Napoleon had times where he pu$$ied out ofc, that's human.
The secret to couragemax - which is THE key to thrive in this life and without it no matter who you become or what you do, life is stale and you fail on yourself - is to have a tribe. It is to have secure relationships. There's no thriving without it.
the degree of what it takes to spike someones Cortisol is perhaps the most effective marker to measure someones competence.
"It is characterized by a person's efforts, conscious or unconscious, to avoid dealing with a stressor in order to protect oneself from the difficulties the stressor presents."
protect oneself from the difficulties of the stressor present by avoidance is an inferior choice in comparison to just quite literally becoming more competent and lowering the difficulty level of certain problems and life itself.
raise your competence and ability to make difficult things not difficult anymore, face your fears in the eye, don't avoid them
Every single transformative technology appears as if it has the capability to end the world
Tech Tree unlocks all have
mind viruses attached
Drown out the noise
Focus on progress
If you run a full bottleneck analysis in your life and actually get to the bottom of the thing (no matter how many layers deep) - the last bottleneck/domino will always be an emotion you're resisting. That's it. That's how funny and wonderful the actual human condition is.
@hoeflatoor No I always do that. Add some sweet veggie like carrots and salt well. I quite love it actually.
Downside is bad breath but could be easily fixed with miswak + chewing mastic gum
The one universal trait amongst every single highly successful person I have come across is curiosity
They tend to have an insatiable thirst for knowledge and keep asking why until they boil down every concept down to the most fundamental principles
Every fact or information is like peeling back an onion where they continue to go one layer deeper until they can find the best answer to their questions
If there is any trait I would want my future children to replicate, that would be it. Deep curiosity about the world