hafiz.fifth

Introvert type.
Just wondering around.
Hafiz. ハフィズです.
日本語を勉強しています

[hafiz.fifth @halfreez]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Jyosua @Jyosua]

You don't need to do that. Just install a plugin like rikaikun or yomichan/yomitan. Then you get in-browser tooltips with definitions and kanji breakdowns when you hover over words in context.

Then yeah, just read stuff you wanna read.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Have more hobbies and fewer opinions. Learn an instrument. Plant a garden. Build something with your hands. Cook. Paint. Run. The happiest people I know spend less time debating life and more time actually living it.

[Johan @Adityapandeydev]

the saddest thing isn’t failure. it’s watching someone slowly stop believing in their own potential.

they stop speaking about their future with excitement. they become quieter. more careful. less hopeful. they slowly replace ambition with excuses that sound logical and without realizing it, they start living below their actual potential.

a lot of people don’t fail because they lack talent. they fail because doubt slowly drains the life out of them before they ever fully commit. they wait for certainty before action, not realizing confidence is usually built after you start moving, not before.

almost every extraordinary person once looked unrealistic in the beginning. they believed in something before there was proof. they kept building while other people laughed, questioned them, or told them to “be realistic.”

so stop overthinking every step of your future. most things become clearer through action anyway. protect your belief. keep showing up. because the people who change their lives are usually the ones who kept believing a little longer than everyone else.

[Johan @Adityapandeydev]

how to get anything you want out of life:

close your eyes. seriously. now breathe slower.

focus on your heartbeat, feel it and calm down.
now feel your shoulders relax. now relax your face, your jaw, your chest, your stomach. let yourself feel safe for a moment.

now ask yourself "What do i actually want?" i mean, do you really know what you want? what does your soul quietly ache for when nobody is watching? peace? freedom? love? strength? respect? money?

sit with it. now think about the version of you who already has it.

see him clearly. notice how calm he is. how he speaks. how he handles pressure. how he no longer doubts himself every moment. because that version of you was not created overnight. he was created through small decisions repeated for years. through discipline. through pain. through lonely nights nobody saw. through continuing to believe in himself even when nothing around him gave him a reason to.

and that is how people change. not through motivation but through identity. the moment you stop seeing yourself as weak, behind, broken or incapable. your entire life slowly starts changing.

write about your goals often. experiment more.
embrace uncertainty. build discipline. surround yourself with people who want more out of life too.
little by little. day by day. until one day you look around and realize. you became him.

[Unseen Japan @UnseenJapanSite]

Duolingo isn't a standalone tool for language learning. At most, it can help you nail pronunciation, plus a few hundred words and basic phrases. To go further, you need something else. Or just ditch Duolingo altogether.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

MENTAL MODELS THE SHARPEST MINDS USE DAILY:

1. First Principles Thinking (Elon Musk & Aristotle)
Break everything down to its most basic truth. Stop inheriting assumptions. Build your conclusions from the ground up rather than from what everyone else already believes.

2. Inversion — Charlie Munger
Instead of asking how to succeed ask how to avoid failing. Instead of asking how to be happy ask what is making you miserable. Thinking backwards reveals what forward thinking constantly misses.

3. Second Order Thinking — Howard Marks
Every decision has a consequence. Every consequence has another consequence. Most people see the first. The sharpest minds ask what happens after what happens next.

4. The Map Is Not The Territory — Alfred Korzybski
Your mental picture of reality is not reality itself. Every map leaves something out. The most dangerous person in any room is the one who has confused their model of the world with the actual world.

5. Occam's Razor — William of Ockham
When two explanations exist the simpler one is usually correct. Complexity is often just confusion wearing a sophisticated coat. Cut what is unnecessary before building anything further.

6. Circle of Competence — Warren Buffett
Know exactly what you understand deeply and what you only understand superficially. Operating inside your circle builds wealth and credibility. Operating outside it while pretending otherwise destroys both.

7. Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by ignorance. Most people are not plotting against you. They are simply not thinking about you at all.

8. The Overton Window — Joseph Overton
At any given moment only certain ideas are considered acceptable to discuss publicly. Understanding this window explains why certain conversations feel impossible even when the logic behind them is sound.

9. Skin in the Game — Nassim Taleb
Never take advice from someone who does not bear the consequences of being wrong. People think differently when they have something real to lose. Opinions are cheap. Stakes make them honest.

10. Compounding — Albert Einstein called it the eighth wonder
Not just money. Knowledge compounds. Reputation compounds. Habits compound. Skills compound. The returns are invisible for years then suddenly undeniable all at once.

11. Availability Heuristic — Daniel Kahneman
The human mind judges probability by how easily an example comes to mind. Whatever is most recent or most dramatic feels most likely. This is why fear is almost always disproportionate to actual risk.

12. The Pareto Principle — Vilfredo Pareto
80 percent of results come from 20 percent of efforts. In almost every area of life a small number of inputs produce the majority of outputs. Finding that 20 percent and protecting it is the entire game.

13. Regret Minimization Framework — Jeff Bezos
When facing a major decision imagine yourself at 80 looking back. Ask which choice you would regret more. Short term discomfort almost never survives that question intact.

14. Survivorship Bias — Abraham Wald
We study the winners and build theories from them while ignoring the equally important data of those who failed silently. The advice of successful people is incomplete without understanding everyone who followed the same path and disappeared.

15. Steel Manning — opposite of Straw Manning
Before disagreeing with any position build the strongest possible version of it. If you cannot argue the other side better than its average defender you do not yet understand it well enough to dismiss it.

16. The Feynman Technique — Richard Feynman
If you cannot explain something simply you do not understand it yet. Complexity is often a hiding place for confusion. Simplicity is the finish line of genuine mastery not the starting point of laziness.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The fittest young people in America are dying by suicide. Male college cross-country runners have the highest suicide rate of any sport. Suicide deaths among NCAA athletes have doubled over 20 years, and suicide is now their second leading cause of death after accidents.

A major 2024 medical review pulled together 218 studies on 14,170 patients with depression. Walking, jogging, yoga, strength training, and dance all worked. For mild and moderate cases, the effect was about the same as standard antidepressants. Vigorous workouts helped more than light ones.

None of that science is about willpower. Roughly 40 to 50 percent of someone's depression risk is in their genes, based on decades of twin studies in Sweden and the U.S. If a parent or sibling has had depression, your lifetime risk is two to three times higher than average. That piece of the disease is biology you cannot run off.

For severe depression, doctors do not prescribe exercise on its own. The main treatment guidelines in the U.S. and the UK treat exercise as something added on top of medication and therapy. In a 2025 study, researchers added regular supervised workouts to standard treatment for people with severe depression. The result was no extra improvement, because only 22 percent of patients managed to do the workouts. Severe depression destroys the energy needed to exercise in the first place.

The framing that depression "loves a soft body and an idle mind" has the cause and effect backwards. Depression itself drains the energy that exercise requires. The inactivity that results gets blamed for the disease, and the people most affected get shamed for being too sick to fix themselves. Exercise belongs in every depression treatment plan. Moralizing about soft bodies and idle minds does not, and it pushes the people who most need help further away.

[Kyle @zeroxkyle]

This is a must read for anyone looking to be an operator

There's another tangential principle that I like - at high speeds, going 80km/h vs 100km/h makes little difference to total time taken

It's how long you can go without stopping

https://t.co/XnH7ZNQXU4

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major life cheat code: Don’t romanticize potential. Measure yourself by what you consistently do, not by what you believe you could do one day.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

How to master any skill fast:

- stop studying
- outline a project
- start building it
- hit a roadblock
- figure out how to overcome it
- repeat 4 and 5 for the rest of your life

Most people don't get past 1, the rest spiral into complacency after 4.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The compliment your boss gave you yesterday made you slightly worse at your job. There's a switch in your brain that explains why.

Your nervous system has a plasticity gate. Two chemicals open it. Acetylcholine, released from a structure called the nucleus basalis. Norepinephrine, released from a structure called the locus coeruleus. Both fire when your brain detects a prediction error. Mike Merzenich proved the rule in the early 1990s at UCSF, and Andrew Huberman has spent multiple podcast episodes walking through what it means in practice.

Without those two chemicals, your cortex stays locked. You can hear the same feedback 100 times and not change.

A kind lie keeps the gate locked. Your boss says the deck is great when it isn't. No prediction error. No acetylcholine. No norepinephrine. No plasticity. You walk out certified correct, with the existing circuit reinforced. The praise didn't make you better. It cemented whatever was wrong.

An unkind truth opens the gate. Your anterior cingulate fires the error signal. Norepinephrine spikes within seconds. Acetylcholine spotlights the exact element that needs to change. Cortisol peaks 15 to 30 minutes later, drives memory consolidation, then clears. Acute stress, fully resolved.

That clean pulse is the upward node on the chart.

Chronic kind lies don't avoid stress. They convert acute stress into chronic stress. Acute cortisol consolidates memory. Chronic cortisol shrinks the hippocampus. A decade of "great job" on mediocre work is a slow brain injury.

Feedback cultures compound at the cellular level. Each unkind truth opens the gate, drops you one rung up the learning curve, then closes. Run that loop 200 times a year and you get measurable cortical thickening in the trained regions. Skip it and you get the lower curve. Same brain. Different chemistry.

The hack is mechanical. Ask for the unkind truth first. Acetylcholine releases in anticipation of novel information. The gate opens before you even hear the answer.

Your brain rewards you for being told you're wrong.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure.

[Rian Doris @RianSweetDoris]

In my early twenties in Ireland, I was convinced grinding at 100% was the secret to success.

16-hour days. Coffee. White-knuckling through everything. I'd brag about it to anyone who'd listen.

A few months in, the cracks emerged. My mind grew foggy. Every task took more effort. Still, I clung to the red line, terrified that easing up would cost me my edge.

Until one night, I collapsed into bed and couldn't get up the next morning. Energy flatlined. I couldn't work for weeks.

That's what the research calls crossing the allostatic load limit. The invisible line where your capacity breaks.

To avoid that, work at 80% instead of 100% every day. Going all out occasionally is fine. Living there isn't.

Sustainable effort beats an endless sprint.

Every time.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Drink water upon waking.

Drink water before & after meals.

Don't drink water while eating meals.

Drink water between meals instead of snacking.

Staying hydrated is an underrated tool for getting lean, improving brain function, and boosting energy.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard:

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

[MLC Japanese School @mlcjapanese]

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[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Things feel better in the morning.

Get some rest and don't dwell on it.